Write a driver for Linux - preferably a useful driver that 14-17 year old demographic (Which pretty much covers every Linux user) will want to use. With every point kernel release, you'll be forced to update your driver, sometimes having to completely rewrite it to keep up with trivial (and seemingly useless) binary kernel interface changes, and at all times wondering if there even is a binary kernel interface.
Motivation to update your driver won't be a problem because every time a new kernel is released and your driver breaks, you'll get hundreds of reminders (death threats) from Gentoo users who just ran emerge '--universe -09* --funroll-loops' on their Mom's old E-Machines box, that you need to fix your driver.
"Our lab has a policy of burning the data at a low speed - 1x or 2x - since some IT guy decided it ensures the best chance of a successful write.
Your IT guy doesn't know what he is talking about. Burning discs at an ultra low speed will not necessarily make the quality of the burn better, and it may even make it worse. With DVDs you should burn at the speed the media is rated at. If that results in bad discs, you should bump the speed down to the next slowest speed. Once you reach a speed where the data is readable in other DVD drives, then you should probably just stick with that speed.
The CD burning software *should* be able to query the media/drive and get supported burning speeds for your drive/media combination, and it shouldn't let you select invalid speeds. I guess the burning software in OSX is deficient in that area.
"They spend so much time with the user interface, that the actually OS stuff (stable runtime environment, security, "revolutionary file system" gets put on the backburner."
While the filesystem did get tossed, everything else you mentioned is improved in Vista. Application ACLs (SELinux/AppArmour for the masses), UAC (people bitch about this, but it's a very useful security feature), and a better seperation of drivers from the kernel are all in Vista.
...whether technically it fits the classic/correct defenition of a computer 'virus'. It's malware. The parent was replying to a post that didn't even call it a virus, so I don't understand the point other than to try and minimize the issue.
If you go by strict definition, there are no "viruses" for computers any more for Windows or Mac.. There are worms, trojans, and hybrids of the two.
Nice semantic monkey dance you did there. In describing that Leap [not-a-real] virus, you also described pretty much every virus that spreads via email/IM on Widnows. By your logic, I guess those aren't real viruses either then?
Blaster/Nachi was what prompted us to finally deploy SUS. We had be contemplating it (read: procrastinating) for months. One rogue laptop infected the entire network (sans the servers, which were patched) with Blaster over the weekend. I managed to deploy a machine startup script on Monday morning that cleaned and patched 99% of the desktops within an hour, but the 1% of machines left were quickly taken over by Nachi, which caused enormous amounts of network traffic. I ended up sniffing them with ethereal and blocking their MAC addresses on our core router until we could get out and physically "restrain" the machines.
No, but having the card work at all is a make or break feature, as the nv driver does not work, *at all* (as of early this year) with my GeForce 7800GT.
The vesa driver works great though! Now excuse me. I'm going to go make some coffee while this window is rendered.
There is a difference between the Windows stack being "based on BSD code", and have left over fragments of code from their original NT4 stack. Even if the WIndows stack was completely based on BSD code, nobody give a shit besides fringe lunatics like you who think proprietary software is "evil".
In that FAQ you posted, the biggest issue is the lack of an official* msi installer and the lack of official* GPO support. With those two requirements met, all of the other issues could be managed easily.
Mozilla's lack of support for Active Directory integration has frustrated me for years. People have been requesting the said features for years, and the Mozilla developers have basically ignored them, or at best paid lip service to them. With all of the money they have it baffles me they would ignore these requests, as they would be sure to drive corporate adoption through the roof.
*No, for the vast majority of organizations, third party hacks are not acceptable in an environment with thousands of machines. The support for WIndows domain technologies needs to be native.
You did. I guess I am one of those rare Windows admins who use all of the tools that Windows provides. You forgot a really useful one: IPSEC. Though I've met a few online, I've yet to meet a Windows admin in "real life" that doesn't rely on tons of really expensive "front ends" to things that Windows allready has.
The part about the IT admins executing the attachments...as a $&%#$! domain admin...is familiar. I pestered my coworkers for the better part of two years before finally convincing them to stop logging onto their damn machines as domain admins. My next challenge...getting them to run their machines without local admin privs.
This is definitely different from roaming profiles, as it should require a lot less manual labor and know how, but it looks like this is something that could be easily implimented in Windows.
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Actually, it was just a little joke/troll. By the way it was modded, and your reply, it looks like I hit the bullseye.
Just my half-hearted attempt at observational comedy.
Write a driver for Linux - preferably a useful driver that 14-17 year old demographic (Which pretty much covers every Linux user) will want to use. With every point kernel release, you'll be forced to update your driver, sometimes having to completely rewrite it to keep up with trivial (and seemingly useless) binary kernel interface changes, and at all times wondering if there even is a binary kernel interface.
Motivation to update your driver won't be a problem because every time a new kernel is released and your driver breaks, you'll get hundreds of reminders (death threats) from Gentoo users who just ran emerge '--universe -09* --funroll-loops' on their Mom's old E-Machines box, that you need to fix your driver.
Please name some of those trivial ways.**
**that don't involve booting to alternate media - that's cheating
"Our lab has a policy of burning the data at a low speed - 1x or 2x - since some IT guy decided it ensures the best chance of a successful write.
Your IT guy doesn't know what he is talking about. Burning discs at an ultra low speed will not necessarily make the quality of the burn better, and it may even make it worse. With DVDs you should burn at the speed the media is rated at. If that results in bad discs, you should bump the speed down to the next slowest speed. Once you reach a speed where the data is readable in other DVD drives, then you should probably just stick with that speed.
The CD burning software *should* be able to query the media/drive and get supported burning speeds for your drive/media combination, and it shouldn't let you select invalid speeds. I guess the burning software in OSX is deficient in that area.
"They spend so much time with the user interface, that the actually OS stuff (stable runtime environment, security, "revolutionary file system" gets put on the backburner."
While the filesystem did get tossed, everything else you mentioned is improved in Vista. Application ACLs (SELinux/AppArmour for the masses), UAC (people bitch about this, but it's a very useful security feature), and a better seperation of drivers from the kernel are all in Vista.
...whether technically it fits the classic/correct defenition of a computer 'virus'. It's malware. The parent was replying to a post that didn't even call it a virus, so I don't understand the point other than to try and minimize the issue.
If you go by strict definition, there are no "viruses" for computers any more for Windows or Mac.. There are worms, trojans, and hybrids of the two.
Nice semantic monkey dance you did there. In describing that Leap [not-a-real] virus, you also described pretty much every virus that spreads via email/IM on Widnows. By your logic, I guess those aren't real viruses either then?
I bet the owners of thedailywtf.com are saying "wtf?" right about now.
Blaster/Nachi was what prompted us to finally deploy SUS. We had be contemplating it (read: procrastinating) for months. One rogue laptop infected the entire network (sans the servers, which were patched) with Blaster over the weekend. I managed to deploy a machine startup script on Monday morning that cleaned and patched 99% of the desktops within an hour, but the 1% of machines left were quickly taken over by Nachi, which caused enormous amounts of network traffic. I ended up sniffing them with ethereal and blocking their MAC addresses on our core router until we could get out and physically "restrain" the machines.
Sorry, but besides the fact that it's illegal and unethical, it would probably only make things worse anyway.
The Nachi worm that tried to fix Blaster worm infected PCs back in 2003. Unfortunately, the "cure" was worse than the disease.
How "secure" Vista is is irrelevant, as the same users who click on everything they are told to will be using it.
No, but having the card work at all is a make or break feature, as the nv driver does not work, *at all* (as of early this year) with my GeForce 7800GT.
The vesa driver works great though! Now excuse me. I'm going to go make some coffee while this window is rendered.
Chill out dude. Without your submissions, Slashdot wouldn't be able to bring us so many dupes. I'm sure your submission will be approved soon.
On another note, my recent submission was rejected. I guess the release of another firewall based on another firewall based on FreeBSD is more newsworthy than a FreeBSD based desktop OS getting corporate backing.
There is a difference between the Windows stack being "based on BSD code", and have left over fragments of code from their original NT4 stack. Even if the WIndows stack was completely based on BSD code, nobody give a shit besides fringe lunatics like you who think proprietary software is "evil".
In that FAQ you posted, the biggest issue is the lack of an official* msi installer and the lack of official* GPO support. With those two requirements met, all of the other issues could be managed easily.
Mozilla's lack of support for Active Directory integration has frustrated me for years. People have been requesting the said features for years, and the Mozilla developers have basically ignored them, or at best paid lip service to them. With all of the money they have it baffles me they would ignore these requests, as they would be sure to drive corporate adoption through the roof.
*No, for the vast majority of organizations, third party hacks are not acceptable in an environment with thousands of machines. The support for WIndows domain technologies needs to be native.
"he said that it was HARD TO MAKE A FREEBSD BASED LIVECD."
Which is incorrect.
(meanngless text here to get around the lameness filter triggered by quoting your all caps post)
"Not sure I got my point across..."
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You did. I guess I am one of those rare Windows admins who use all of the tools that Windows provides. You forgot a really useful one: IPSEC. Though I've met a few online, I've yet to meet a Windows admin in "real life" that doesn't rely on tons of really expensive "front ends" to things that Windows allready has.
The part about the IT admins executing the attachments...as a $&%#$! domain admin...is familiar. I pestered my coworkers for the better part of two years before finally convincing them to stop logging onto their damn machines as domain admins. My next challenge...getting them to run their machines without local admin privs.
One step at a time I guess.
Nope.
By default, an account with a blank password cannot be used with "runas".
I know. My cousin is a UO alum.
It was a joke and you didn't get it.
Well if you threw a brick at a duck, then your`brother must be really bad.
Or are you an Oregon State alum?
with...
*ducks*
I bet you're a blast a parties.
"Those who count in unary."
I bet that was the joke and the GP is laughing at us all right now.
This is definitely different from roaming profiles, as it should require a lot less manual labor and know how, but it looks like this is something that could be easily implimented in Windows.
"There are 11 types of people in the world: those who can count in binary, and those who can't.
So what is the third type? Those who think they can?