Watch the Screensavers for one week. I think they do a decent job of calling windows for what it is.
Today they mentioned some person who found 16 unpatched vulnerabilities in windows XP and based their 'poll' on whether people think they trust XP for security or something like that. (it's still up NOW if you wanna read it at thescreensavers.com)
The have good reviews of linux stuff and mac stuff.
Compared to the percentage of users using each of the alternative OS, they have more than the fair share of alternative OS coverage. Their favorite distro is Mandrake. Two of teh front line people are always touting their iBook/OSX computers and how cool they think they are.
Their tech news on other shows is often critical of Microsoft products. They've also reviewed the XBox in a seemingly fair method.
Check the ingredients list on a can of Coke in Canada - Sugar - not Corn Syrup or High Fructose corn syrup. They use real sugar. Compare side to side and you'll taste the difference.
Of course, the problem comes when you come back over the border :
"Anything to declare son?"
"Yeah, I got the backseat full of Coke"
"Excuse me?"
"Yeah, Coke - lots of it. I can't get it like this in the US so I come up here".
Actually, that last line usually goes "Yeah, Coca-Cola - lots of it.... " to save me too many problems.
Get ye to the Great White North. Revel in the coke that was - and still is.
I wonder how many of my cow-orkers were waiting for me to post this message - knowing me to be the guy to make the office REAL COKE run to canada.
-yack0
(Oh, and BTW, after all of what people called a fiasco of coke/new coke/coke II overall sales after it were UP. So it proved the theory that 'all publicity is good publicity')
I'd like to make the first half of this movie required viewing for our staff. Some people who don't necessarily 'get it' when it comes to Linux. It'd be most useful for sales weasel types to watch it.
The second half of things got a little too political and might not necessarily be watchable by weasily types;)
However, the first half should be a good watch so that people can understand what Linux and Open Source is all about.
instead of doing like MCSE and giving them fish, teach them how to fish.
"This is/etc - it's where most of the config files are. This is/usr/bin - it's where most user programs live This is/usr/sbin - it's where most superuser programs live
If you're interested in using a command and don't know how, use 'man command' and get them familiar with how to use commands. "
You've got two days - so some basic 'how to get info' and then examples of getting that info, would be good.
Possibly a run down of 'in Microsoft, you have IIS, in Unix there's apache, ftp, etc'. 'In MSFT, you have ipconfig/all - in unix we have ifconfig' some basic translations of basic stuff.
How about running through the 'Administrative tools/Common' menu in 2000 and showing them where all those toys live in *nix - or where they might be able to find them.
But make sure you teach them how to fish for themselves - I suppose MSFT has the help pages, but man pages are our best equivalent. Or homepages for the package in question where applicable.
My DSL provider has been, overall, very good. However, I recently experienced a 63 hour outage over the weekend. It seems that something happened on Friday afternoon that someone couldn't fix until they came in on Monday.
I got the run around from tech support, the telephone company repair number and never received an answer as to what was wrong.
I posted a two page later to the President of the phone company, the ISP (there is some wierd incestuous relationship between the ISP and indy telco - this aint Ma Bell), the person responsible for deciding on compensation for outage and the State PUC. That was on tuesday, I've yet to hear back from anyone on my letter, but I know they've had to have received the letters by now. I'm anxious to see what they have to say for themselve.s
recent layoffs have really pared down the ISP end of things and I think they just had nobody with a clue to work on things on the weekend. Since I'm a network admin, I'm on call 24/7/365, so I always need access. I was completely peeved about this and am waiting to see what happens.
I'm hoping I can soon find a way to get a wireless link to the town where I'm emplyed. We have roof access and if I can get radio line of sight, I'll be really happy.
Official press release is at:
http://www.state.me.us/mlte/MLTEcontractawardPR. ht ml
Nowhere does it state that Maine _is_ buying the laptops, but that a conditional award of contract has been approved, which means that if Maine keeps their finances together and doesn't cut the hell out of the project, little kiddies will have their laptops.
However, with a Governor on his way out due to term limits, they can afford to piss off Angus. It just doesn't matter if he doesn't like it, cause he won't be back after the next election.
What's even funnier however is that the link at the bottom of the page is supposed to go to the Maine Learning Technology Endowment, but due to stupidity on the webmasters part, it has a bad \ and goes NOWHERE!
http://www.state.me.us\mlte
Certainly indicates the need for better webmaster training of people in state government though, doesn't it? How about iBooks for all State webmasters.... (there are some really really sad web sites in the state of Maine official web pages - each department is responsible for their own - makes for some bad bad bad sites).
Good luck to us getting those laptops in a downturned economy with budget surplus all gone and deficits looming.
Wait a couple days until we here in Maine announce that the grant that's helping fund a lot of the infrastructure and networking bits (and server things) is from Microsoft. They haven't said it outright, but suspicions are that the additional support software and hardware will be donated by the gates foundation.
The Gates Foundation recently donated a bunch of hardware to a library we worked with. We toyd with the idea of removing NT5 (win2k) from the servers and replacing it with linux, but decided that we should wait until they get to hate their servers more, then we'll save them. (and still get to bill it out hourly anyway).
Just watch... the MS (Gates foundation) grant is coming soon....
This is reminscent of some stuff I initially heard about on an NPR episode of 'Lost and Found Sound' which was a feature they were running in the last year or so.
Stephen McGreevy, a professor at some college, IIRC, in California has been listening to Aurora Borealis' for years and has actually made recordings of some of the things he's heard and made CD's for retail sale. He also sells receivers to people so they can listen to the earth as well.
Linksys won't tell ya about it though and they have no idea about it. I'm not surprised that OS X _has_ a tftp server/client setup, but having only had my iBook for 6 days, the wireless for 4 days and the linksys for 3 days, I didn't get round to finding it. Didn't get up to OS X.1 til yesterday as I was waiting for my RAM upgrade which I got 1 day ago;)
The linksys BEFW11S4, the antennae are detachable. You can put another antenna on it with no problem whatsoever. Just need the right end and crimp set for your antenna cable!
It's funny they mention Linksys in the blurb here and 'how good they work'. Ever try and upgrade a Linksys device from your Mac? You CAN'T DO IT! Well, there are no instructions for it at linksys. There is no little tftp program on their site for Mac's to do it. They don't support Mac. (note the period). In an email I received this morning from Linksys they flat out told me that.
While linksys is cheap, they won't support anything but windows users. That's all their is to it.
Cheap hardware with no support - take your chances and hope someone on your LAN has a Windows box when you need an upgrade to your linksys (like to make the linksys work with your airport card;)
I went over to validator.w3.org and keyed in msn.com's URL.
Not surprised that there are errors in their source code. For being a comapny that's done all this for standards purposes:
"All of our development work for the new MSN.com is...W3C standard" Bob Visse - MSN Marketing weasel.
Surprised by MS? Nope. Expected that their reasons are Bogus? Yep.
Really, I suppose it's a question of semantics. The so called 'Greenhouse effect' is what allow us to have rich tropical rainforest, sprawling temperate forests, rich lush grasslands, et al. If the earth did not act as a greenhouse, we'd all be some other kind of life form, if a life form at all. For anyone to say that 'there is no greenhouse effect' is really not seeing the picture. Of course, when most people think 'greenhouse effect' they immediately associate that with 'global warming'. They are not necessarily the same thing. Global Warming indicates the idea that the earth, as a whole, is getting warmer, i.e. the temperature in this little greenhouse of ours is going up. No big deal, it might be, it might not. The bottom line is that the temperature of the earth is not constant, on a geologic scale. To deny that fact is plain stupidity.
The real question that we should focus on is "are our actions in the last 2, 3, or 4 centuries or so (more so after industrialism) contributing to Global Warming in a negative way and is this bad?"
That's just too much of a question to bother with trying to figure out right now in this little response. The point of my response is as follows:
- the greenhouse effect is what makes life possible, shielded atmospheric conditions which allow for our water cycle as we know it and temperatures allowing the kind of abundant plant growth that we already have
- Global warming is often wrongly associated with the Greenhouse effect - while they can be intermingled, one should not think of both as the same thing. They work together, but are different things.
- The question to focus on is not 'is there a greenhouse effect' it's more a question of 'are we breaking the earth?'
The used to lay the conduit, cap up both ends, then send a burst of air through the conduit with an attachment at the front of the fiber. This would push the fiber through the conduit and it would stop when it hit the other end.
No shit, that's what they called in, at least in Colorado, in 1994/1995.
Whatever software you have - there's a hole in it. Somewhere. Somehow. It's just a code that hasn't been beat on enough to find it. While some software may be 'better' out of the box, it may not necessarily be completely secure.
Word is that one county in Florida had misprinted ballots which counted votes for Gore as Votes for Buchanan/Independent - so those votes might even have to be recast.
Regardless, the popular vote count won't matter too much, since 25 states electorates are not legally bound to follow their state, that leaves a ton of electoral votes that could be against what the news agencies are predicting.
This election won't be won until December when the electoral college votes.
Did you even READ the article you posted?! You said:
"'...Now if only someone would be doing the same thing in the northeast.' Tell me again why I moved out of Austin?"
Neither the person who sent it in, nor the person who approved it apparantly read the article.
From that article I quote:
"At the same time, American Broadband -- based in Burlington, Massachusetts, and founded in October 1999 -- is planning a similar service starting in Rhode Island, and eventually crossing 2 to 3 million homes in the Eastern United States. "
"Winfirst is not without direct competitors. Princeton, New Jersey's RCN has been building a network concentrated in Northeastern United States that offers a combination of phone, Internet and cable service. The company also plans to build a competing cable network in San Diego. "
Another fine example of Slashdot's journalistic abilities.
Well, I beg to differ. I've had to reboot Win2k after changing ips. What I have said about Win2k is my personal experience with it compared with what the Win zealouts espouse as positive changes for it, which are not entirely true.
I have never had to reboot linux after changing ip's.
Why do I want to run 7 copies of Q3A? I dont even want to run one copy.
Dell - who cares what they think. I got the hardware, installed what I want on it.
And btw, a wonderful degeneration of things by suggesting that I'm pulling this out of my ass. No, I haven't.
> Ah, but you forget something: most, if not all,
> of the IIS holes are already documented.
I highly doubt that all the holes in IIS are documented. We just haven't found them all yet. I'd bet that we continue to see more bugs from both IIS and Apache, that's the inherent nature of things.
> There is ONE service pack for Win2K.
So, for any and all Win2k bugs, there's only one fix? How long did holes stay open then while people waited for that SP? And how many holes are currently open waiting for the next SP? To count the patches in this manner is apples and bushels. Apples for linux cause each patch is counted, where as with windows, the SP is simply a bushel of oranges - all different size oranges - and you dont know how many oranges are there. It's not an equal measure.
(and you STILL have to reboot after a service pack!:)
> Also, regarding changes to NT, haven't you seen
> 2000 yet?
Yes, I still have to reboot it if I'm changing seemingly simple tcp/ip settings. Change from DHCP to static? reboot. Change from one workgroup to the next? reboot. lather, rinse, reboot.
We've recently received some new puters in the office. All Dells. They all had windows on em. There's 9 of em in the webbie room and 12 in the programming room. All the ones in the programming room had windows removed and Linux installed. Even with that difference in numbers (9 win2k to 12 linux), I'm willing to bet that the webbies have rebooted more than the programmers. (hmm.. would be an interesting thing to try and track:)
Yes, Win2k doesn't crash as much, according to the webbies, so that's good. I take that as a good sign. And of course, workstations vs. servers would be a little unfair.
GRanted, this conversation we're having has little to do with IIS vs. apache, but more so the *nix vs. Windows NT (core NT - inc. 2000) stability.
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There are many many many ways to hook up antennae to SOME network cards. Some wireless cards do not have the ability to do it easily.
Check out a search for 'wireless antenna' or '802.11b antenna'.
That's 'unencumbered' - not unhindered.
Watch the Screensavers for one week. I think they do a decent job of calling windows for what it is.
Today they mentioned some person who found 16 unpatched vulnerabilities in windows XP and based their 'poll' on whether people think they trust XP for security or something like that. (it's still up NOW if you wanna read it at thescreensavers.com)
The have good reviews of linux stuff and mac stuff.
Compared to the percentage of users using each of the alternative OS, they have more than the fair share of alternative OS coverage. Their favorite distro is Mandrake. Two of teh front line people are always touting their iBook/OSX computers and how cool they think they are.
Their tech news on other shows is often critical of Microsoft products. They've also reviewed the XBox in a seemingly fair method.
Watch the station and judge for yourself.
yack0
You don't get to Canada much eh?
Check the ingredients list on a can of Coke in Canada - Sugar - not Corn Syrup or High Fructose corn syrup. They use real sugar. Compare side to side and you'll taste the difference.
Of course, the problem comes when you come back over the border :
"Anything to declare son?"
"Yeah, I got the backseat full of Coke"
"Excuse me?"
"Yeah, Coke - lots of it. I can't get it like this in the US so I come up here".
Actually, that last line usually goes "Yeah, Coca-Cola - lots of it.... " to save me too many problems.
Get ye to the Great White North. Revel in the coke that was - and still is.
I wonder how many of my cow-orkers were waiting for me to post this message - knowing me to be the guy to make the office REAL COKE run to canada.
-yack0
(Oh, and BTW, after all of what people called a fiasco of coke/new coke/coke II overall sales after it were UP. So it proved the theory that 'all publicity is good publicity')
I'd like to make the first half of this movie required viewing for our staff. Some people who don't necessarily 'get it' when it comes to Linux. It'd be most useful for sales weasel types to watch it.
;)
The second half of things got a little too political and might not necessarily be watchable by weasily types
However, the first half should be a good watch so that people can understand what Linux and Open Source is all about.
j
instead of doing like MCSE and giving them fish, teach them how to fish.
/etc - it's where most of the config files are. /usr/bin - it's where most user programs live /usr/sbin - it's where most superuser programs live
/all - in unix we have ifconfig' some basic translations of basic stuff.
"This is
This is
This is
If you're interested in using a command and don't know how, use 'man command' and get them familiar with how to use commands. "
You've got two days - so some basic 'how to get info' and then examples of getting that info, would be good.
Possibly a run down of 'in Microsoft, you have IIS, in Unix there's apache, ftp, etc'. 'In MSFT, you have ipconfig
How about running through the 'Administrative tools/Common' menu in 2000 and showing them where all those toys live in *nix - or where they might be able to find them.
But make sure you teach them how to fish for themselves - I suppose MSFT has the help pages, but man pages are our best equivalent. Or homepages for the package in question where applicable.
Good luck!
Wrigley Field?
Hrm, I thought twas 1060 West Addison? At least that's what they say in the Blues Brothers movie.
j
My DSL provider has been, overall, very good. However, I recently experienced a 63 hour outage over the weekend. It seems that something happened on Friday afternoon that someone couldn't fix until they came in on Monday.
I got the run around from tech support, the telephone company repair number and never received an answer as to what was wrong.
I posted a two page later to the President of the phone company, the ISP (there is some wierd incestuous relationship between the ISP and indy telco - this aint Ma Bell), the person responsible for deciding on compensation for outage and the State PUC. That was on tuesday, I've yet to hear back from anyone on my letter, but I know they've had to have received the letters by now. I'm anxious to see what they have to say for themselve.s
recent layoffs have really pared down the ISP end of things and I think they just had nobody with a clue to work on things on the weekend. Since I'm a network admin, I'm on call 24/7/365, so I always need access. I was completely peeved about this and am waiting to see what happens.
I'm hoping I can soon find a way to get a wireless link to the town where I'm emplyed. We have roof access and if I can get radio line of sight, I'll be really happy.
Good luck to you.
Official press release is at:. ht ml
http://www.state.me.us/mlte/MLTEcontractawardPR
Nowhere does it state that Maine _is_ buying the laptops, but that a conditional award of contract has been approved, which means that if Maine keeps their finances together and doesn't cut the hell out of the project, little kiddies will have their laptops.
However, with a Governor on his way out due to term limits, they can afford to piss off Angus. It just doesn't matter if he doesn't like it, cause he won't be back after the next election.
What's even funnier however is that the link at the bottom of the page is supposed to go to the Maine Learning Technology Endowment, but due to stupidity on the webmasters part, it has a bad \ and goes NOWHERE!
http://www.state.me.us\mlte
Certainly indicates the need for better webmaster training of people in state government though, doesn't it? How about iBooks for all State webmasters.... (there are some really really sad web sites in the state of Maine official web pages - each department is responsible for their own - makes for some bad bad bad sites).
Good luck to us getting those laptops in a downturned economy with budget surplus all gone and deficits looming.
j
Wait a couple days until we here in Maine announce that the grant that's helping fund a lot of the infrastructure and networking bits (and server things) is from Microsoft. They haven't said it outright, but suspicions are that the additional support software and hardware will be donated by the gates foundation.
The Gates Foundation recently donated a bunch of hardware to a library we worked with. We toyd with the idea of removing NT5 (win2k) from the servers and replacing it with linux, but decided that we should wait until they get to hate their servers more, then we'll save them. (and still get to bill it out hourly anyway).
Just watch... the MS (Gates foundation) grant is coming soon....
Stephen McGreevy, a professor at some college, IIRC, in California has been listening to Aurora Borealis' for years and has actually made recordings of some of the things he's heard and made CD's for retail sale. He also sells receivers to people so they can listen to the earth as well.
Related links:
His home page for VLF radio
The page he wants people to bookmark , cause his current provider bites.
His second CD
The VLF receiver page
Linksys won't tell ya about it though and they have no idea about it. I'm not surprised that OS X _has_ a tftp server/client setup, but having only had my iBook for 6 days, the wireless for 4 days and the linksys for 3 days, I didn't get round to finding it. Didn't get up to OS X.1 til yesterday as I was waiting for my RAM upgrade which I got 1 day ago ;)
Still, thanks for the notice.
The linksys BEFW11S4, the antennae are detachable. You can put another antenna on it with no problem whatsoever. Just need the right end and crimp set for your antenna cable!
It's funny they mention Linksys in the blurb here and 'how good they work'. Ever try and upgrade a Linksys device from your Mac? You CAN'T DO IT! Well, there are no instructions for it at linksys. There is no little tftp program on their site for Mac's to do it. They don't support Mac. (note the period). In an email I received this morning from Linksys they flat out told me that.
;)
While linksys is cheap, they won't support anything but windows users. That's all their is to it.
Cheap hardware with no support - take your chances and hope someone on your LAN has a Windows box when you need an upgrade to your linksys (like to make the linksys work with your airport card
j
I went over to validator.w3.org and keyed in msn.com's URL.
Not surprised that there are errors in their source code. For being a comapny that's done all this for standards purposes:
"All of our development work for the new MSN.com is...W3C standard" Bob Visse - MSN Marketing weasel.
Surprised by MS? Nope. Expected that their reasons are Bogus? Yep.
Blah.
Really, I suppose it's a question of semantics. The so called 'Greenhouse effect' is what allow us to have rich tropical rainforest, sprawling temperate forests, rich lush grasslands, et al. If the earth did not act as a greenhouse, we'd all be some other kind of life form, if a life form at all. For anyone to say that 'there is no greenhouse effect' is really not seeing the picture. Of course, when most people think 'greenhouse effect' they immediately associate that with 'global warming'. They are not necessarily the same thing. Global Warming indicates the idea that the earth, as a whole, is getting warmer, i.e. the temperature in this little greenhouse of ours is going up. No big deal, it might be, it might not. The bottom line is that the temperature of the earth is not constant, on a geologic scale. To deny that fact is plain stupidity.
The real question that we should focus on is "are our actions in the last 2, 3, or 4 centuries or so (more so after industrialism) contributing to Global Warming in a negative way and is this bad?"
That's just too much of a question to bother with trying to figure out right now in this little response. The point of my response is as follows:
- the greenhouse effect is what makes life possible, shielded atmospheric conditions which allow for our water cycle as we know it and temperatures allowing the kind of abundant plant growth that we already have
- Global warming is often wrongly associated with the Greenhouse effect - while they can be intermingled, one should not think of both as the same thing. They work together, but are different things.
- The question to focus on is not 'is there a greenhouse effect' it's more a question of 'are we breaking the earth?'
of all things, a 'blow job'.
The used to lay the conduit, cap up both ends, then send a burst of air through the conduit with an attachment at the front of the fiber. This would push the fiber through the conduit and it would stop when it hit the other end.
No shit, that's what they called in, at least in Colorado, in 1994/1995.
Aren't you glad you know that now!?
Whatever software you have - there's a hole in it. Somewhere. Somehow. It's just a code that hasn't been beat on enough to find it. While some software may be 'better' out of the box, it may not necessarily be completely secure.
I always wondered where catholics came from - there's a whole field of catholic inventors...
;)
Word is that one county in Florida had misprinted ballots which counted votes for Gore as Votes for Buchanan/Independent - so those votes might even have to be recast.
Regardless, the popular vote count won't matter too much, since 25 states electorates are not legally bound to follow their state, that leaves a ton of electoral votes that could be against what the news agencies are predicting.
This election won't be won until December when the electoral college votes.
The superintendents CV:
/ schoolplan00.htm
http://www.manhattan.k12.ca.us/jdavis.html
http://www.manhattan.k12.ca.us/schoolsites/mchs
We can only assume the addresses are intended to be @manhattan.k12.ca.us, not manhattan.k12.com, which bounces.
We might assume Jerry Davis' email to be
jdavis@manhattan.k12.ca.us or
gdavis@manhattan.k12.ca.us
but since the gdavis bounced, I vote for jdavis.
Have fun.
Did you even READ the article you posted?! You said:
"'...Now if only someone would be doing the same thing in the northeast.' Tell me again why I moved out of Austin?"
Neither the person who sent it in, nor the person who approved it apparantly read the article.
From that article I quote:
"At the same time, American Broadband -- based in Burlington, Massachusetts, and founded in October 1999 -- is planning a similar service starting in Rhode Island, and eventually crossing 2 to 3 million homes in the Eastern United States. "
"Winfirst is not without direct competitors. Princeton, New Jersey's RCN has been building a network concentrated in Northeastern United States that offers a combination of phone, Internet and cable service. The company also plans to build a competing cable network in San Diego. "
Another fine example of Slashdot's journalistic abilities.
*sigh*
yacko
ok.. so let's put blue text on a blue background. It's even better than the infamous black text on dark blue background.
fscking morons.
Well, I beg to differ. I've had to reboot Win2k after changing ips. What I have said about Win2k is my personal experience with it compared with what the Win zealouts espouse as positive changes for it, which are not entirely true.
I have never had to reboot linux after changing ip's.
Why do I want to run 7 copies of Q3A? I dont even want to run one copy.
Dell - who cares what they think. I got the hardware, installed what I want on it.
And btw, a wonderful degeneration of things by suggesting that I'm pulling this out of my ass. No, I haven't.
> Ah, but you forget something: most, if not all,
:)
:)
> of the IIS holes are already documented.
I highly doubt that all the holes in IIS are documented. We just haven't found them all yet. I'd bet that we continue to see more bugs from both IIS and Apache, that's the inherent nature of things.
> There is ONE service pack for Win2K.
So, for any and all Win2k bugs, there's only one fix? How long did holes stay open then while people waited for that SP? And how many holes are currently open waiting for the next SP? To count the patches in this manner is apples and bushels. Apples for linux cause each patch is counted, where as with windows, the SP is simply a bushel of oranges - all different size oranges - and you dont know how many oranges are there. It's not an equal measure.
(and you STILL have to reboot after a service pack!
> Also, regarding changes to NT, haven't you seen
> 2000 yet?
Yes, I still have to reboot it if I'm changing seemingly simple tcp/ip settings. Change from DHCP to static? reboot. Change from one workgroup to the next? reboot. lather, rinse, reboot.
We've recently received some new puters in the office. All Dells. They all had windows on em. There's 9 of em in the webbie room and 12 in the programming room. All the ones in the programming room had windows removed and Linux installed. Even with that difference in numbers (9 win2k to 12 linux), I'm willing to bet that the webbies have rebooted more than the programmers. (hmm.. would be an interesting thing to try and track
Yes, Win2k doesn't crash as much, according to the webbies, so that's good. I take that as a good sign. And of course, workstations vs. servers would be a little unfair.
GRanted, this conversation we're having has little to do with IIS vs. apache, but more so the *nix vs. Windows NT (core NT - inc. 2000) stability.