Are you sure? I bet they have licensed code they can compile and sell but not distribute the source. I bet they also have some GPL code in many of their products that someone has lifted.
I say that some of the $40 billion in profit should go toward an audit of MS code. Now we will see how clean they are...
Tell your friends you do not work for free anymore. Bill has enough money to have a tech support line answer those questions. Tell your friends that if a Windows machine is too hard to use they can buy a Mac. The Mac Mini is $499, so the too expensive bit will not work anymore.
I finally upgraded my Windows 2000 box at home, I bought a Mac Mini...
Do you want your daughter to be a hooker just because they make a lot of money? Enron executives also made a lot of money and look where it got them...
Why put off your style gene for 3-4 years when you can get a sexy, fast, stable new MAC? Why pay MS TAX again in a few years? In China they don't pay MS TAX. Why should you?
This has been happening for a long time by Microsoft. NT 3.x had the print drivers running in ring. Then in NT 4.0 they put video drivers in ring. Lets see, does that make a reliable OS? Could AT&T sell a single license of UNIX for telephone switches if several processes ran in ring0? Tather than this 3D BS I want a stable OS. What part does Microsoft NOT get.
"Where Do you Want to Go Today?" Anywhere but Redmond
My computer illerterate family needs a stable OS just for simple stuff. Man, I wish Apple would port OS X to the Intel platform! I would be willing to pay the same price I pay for Windows XP Pro for it. Wait they do, it is called the MAC Mini...
I have also put my money where my mouth is. Ordered a mini and have been a MS-DOS/windows guy since 1988. I work as a Network Administrator and I do not like working for Bill for free, i.e. fixing friends and relatives PC's because they are just users.
Are you saying that you trust Microsoft to create a virtual emulated environment for your servers to run and not crash? It was a neat idea when Microsoft did not own the company, but now... Would you bet your career on Virtual Server 2005? Hardware is cheap and for every virtual server you have to pay Microsoft server TAX!
Windows NT 3.5 for MIPS processors Windows NT 3.51 for Power PC processors Windows NT 4.0 for Alpha processors Windows XP for the Itanium processor
Why? No one would write any software for these NEW NON-Intel compatible hardware platforms. Not even MS Office. Yes there was one version of Office for a RISC platform, Office 4.2 for the Alpha.
They own an unlimited backbone. Rural WISP's and Free WIFI hotspots are a single T1, Fractional or have lots of AP running off one T1. You get what you pay for when you get free. If Verizon sold UNIX they would want a cease and desist on every distribution of Linux and BSD!
If we decide to not pay for 2 years of software maintenance on one of our ProEngineer seats it is cheaper to buy the software again. Once other company would not allow you to put your software on maintenance unless EVERY seat was also on maintenance.
So, that spreadsheet from 5 years ago.... Do you really want to call it up? You have not paid 4 years of maintenance on the Publishing software, 5 years on Office suite and 4 years on your OS. Total is $10x48 + $10x60 + $10x48 = $1,560 for opening and printing one spreadsheet!
You will be fucked, resistance is futile. You are a troll and will have a virus, malware or buffer overflow before the years end. You are such a moron that you will just think it is time to re-install windows...
A while back I thought it was quite ironic that one of the inventors of Ethernet would be proclaiming the death of it.
I cannot recall if he was always saying the Internet would die or that Ethernet would die... I think it would be great to have Jumbo Frames, but that would no longer be Ethernet!
I had a buddy that ran his own WISP and he said most all did not use any encryption because of the CPU overhead and the loss of bandwidth. In Corporate America I cannot believe they approve of standard MAC filtering, WEP and SSID broadcast turned off. WEP is so bad I cannot recommend it to anyone for anything.
WPA and a long password are the way to go. 16 characters of mixed case with one number and one special character should be 99.9999 percent effective.
From this suit MS will start suing drug dealers for infringing upon their business model. The legal and illegal drug dealers will have to start paying MS 10% of their gross income.
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Cisco Unity and Call Manager have their own faults, most blatant one is running on windows 2000. Our Cisco systems phone switch has been up less that a year and has had two viruses already.
A windows machine that runs a mission critical telephone system is just not smart. Kinda like wearing a kick me sign.
Viruses came in from unpatched laptops and attacked the unpatched PBX. Some patches we can get from MS and some must come from Cisco.
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You have a server and want redundant connections, you need 1000tx with Ethernet frames and 1000tx with Jumbo frames and you want to load balance both interfaces. Therefore, you need two dual port network cards. If you have a busy remote boot network for your Unix machines, you can have two interfaces, one for pseudo disk I/O and the other for the production network.
BTW we are buying Intel NICs because they have good teaming and are very well supported by Cisco and others.
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Are you sure? I bet they have licensed code they can compile and sell but not distribute the source. I bet they also have some GPL code in many of their products that someone has lifted.
I say that some of the $40 billion in profit should go toward an audit of MS code. Now we will see how clean they are...
Tell your friends you do not work for free anymore. Bill has enough money to have a tech support line answer those questions. Tell your friends that if a Windows machine is too hard to use they can buy a Mac. The Mac Mini is $499, so the too expensive bit will not work anymore.
I finally upgraded my Windows 2000 box at home, I bought a Mac Mini...
$80 for Appleworks? Dude! Appleworks comes free on the new $499 Mac Mini...
Do you want your daughter to be a hooker just because they make a lot of money? Enron executives also made a lot of money and look where it got them...
Dual core 64 bit laptop...
If you want style...
Buy a F*CKING MAC! The PC has NO style.
Why put off your style gene for 3-4 years when you can get a sexy, fast, stable new MAC? Why pay MS TAX again in a few years? In China they don't pay MS TAX. Why should you?
This has been happening for a long time by Microsoft. NT 3.x had the print drivers running in ring. Then in NT 4.0 they put video drivers in ring. Lets see, does that make a reliable OS? Could AT&T sell a single license of UNIX for telephone switches if several processes ran in ring0? Tather than this 3D BS I want a stable OS. What part does Microsoft NOT get.
"Where Do you Want to Go Today?" Anywhere but Redmond
My computer illerterate family needs a stable OS just for simple stuff. Man, I wish Apple would port OS X to the Intel platform! I would be willing to pay the same price I pay for Windows XP Pro for it. Wait they do, it is called the MAC Mini...
I have also put my money where my mouth is. Ordered a mini and have been a MS-DOS/windows guy since 1988. I work as a Network Administrator and I do not like working for Bill for free, i.e. fixing friends and relatives PC's because they are just users.
I ordered one and the Mini will be here before the Shuffle will be...
Windows NT 4.0 ran on 16 megs of RAM. I have seen installs that were only using 12 megs of ram while running.
The Frying pan into the FIRE! YIKES!
Are you saying that you trust Microsoft to create a virtual emulated environment for your servers to run and not crash? It was a neat idea when Microsoft did not own the company, but now... Would you bet your career on Virtual Server 2005? Hardware is cheap and for every virtual server you have to pay Microsoft server TAX!
You need Windows XP, 5GIG of RAM and PAE in the boot.ini, you can do this today without the beta 64 bit os.
Versions of Windows that have failed utterly:
Windows NT 3.5 for MIPS processors
Windows NT 3.51 for Power PC processors
Windows NT 4.0 for Alpha processors
Windows XP for the Itanium processor
Why? No one would write any software for these NEW NON-Intel compatible hardware platforms. Not even MS Office. Yes there was one version of Office for a RISC platform, Office 4.2 for the Alpha.
They own an unlimited backbone. Rural WISP's and Free WIFI hotspots are a single T1, Fractional or have lots of AP running off one T1. You get what you pay for when you get free. If Verizon sold UNIX they would want a cease and desist on every distribution of Linux and BSD!
I want it on a tee shirt. Do you think I will get thrown in jail for buying the code printed on a shirt?
Yes it can.
If we decide to not pay for 2 years of software maintenance on one of our ProEngineer seats it is cheaper to buy the software again. Once other company would not allow you to put your software on maintenance unless EVERY seat was also on maintenance.
So, that spreadsheet from 5 years ago.... Do you really want to call it up? You have not paid 4 years of maintenance on the Publishing software, 5 years on Office suite and 4 years on your OS. Total is $10x48 + $10x60 + $10x48 = $1,560 for opening and printing one spreadsheet!
He must think that we are mindless drones!
Yes, it allowed acces to his bank account, social security number and credit cards....
They called it ease of use... I call it ease of abuse!
You will be fucked, resistance is futile. You are a troll and will have a virus, malware or buffer overflow before the years end. You are such a moron that you will just think it is time to re-install windows...
Fuck You Moron!
A while back I thought it was quite ironic that one of the inventors of Ethernet would be proclaiming the death of it.
I cannot recall if he was always saying the Internet would die or that Ethernet would die... I think it would be great to have Jumbo Frames, but that would no longer be Ethernet!
I had a buddy that ran his own WISP and he said most all did not use any encryption because of the CPU overhead and the loss of bandwidth. In Corporate America I cannot believe they approve of standard MAC filtering, WEP and SSID broadcast turned off. WEP is so bad I cannot recommend it to anyone for anything.
WPA and a long password are the way to go. 16 characters of mixed case with one number and one special character should be 99.9999 percent effective.
From this suit MS will start suing drug dealers for infringing upon their business model. The legal and illegal drug dealers will have to start paying MS 10% of their gross income.
Cisco Unity and Call Manager have their own faults, most blatant one is running on windows 2000. Our Cisco systems phone switch has been up less that a year and has had two viruses already.
A windows machine that runs a mission critical telephone system is just not smart. Kinda like wearing a kick me sign.
Viruses came in from unpatched laptops and attacked the unpatched PBX. Some patches we can get from MS and some must come from Cisco.
You have a server and want redundant connections, you need 1000tx with Ethernet frames and 1000tx with Jumbo frames and you want to load balance both interfaces. Therefore, you need two dual port network cards. If you have a busy remote boot network for your Unix machines, you can have two interfaces, one for pseudo disk I/O and the other for the production network.
BTW we are buying Intel NICs because they have good teaming and are very well supported by Cisco and others.
hey, clue: raid cards turn off disk cache for reliable disk transactions...