I'm recommending they all get Apple laptops next time they want to do a major computer upgrade.
Seems like a lot of people are telling others to upgrade to Apple computers... That is what I tell people as well, whenever I hear any complaining about viruses, worms, how to fix something or what they should upgrade to.
The guy got fired for the truth, was he lying? I wrote email to @stake and told them that their credibility was on the line. FWIW I think they are partially owned by Microsoft. Everyone that knows anything knows Microsoft makes the poorest quality software in the world. Strong people have strong opinions, the more passion you have for a subject the more vocal you are about your view.
What will you do? Are you all spineless? Will you write a letter to @stake and tell them how you feel?
In a conversation I had with a bank security auditor he said they were perfectly comfortable with Windows, it was a calculated risk and they think they can beat the odds. Not need for fancy things when they think the odds are in their favor...
(04/27/1993 04:37a 617 ANNOUNCE) SLS 1.02 is now available on tsx-11.mit.edu. It contains 99p9 source and image, and replacement boot disks a1.3 and a1.5. The new boot disks just fix a few of the custom install features. The network daemons are now not started until/if a NFS install is done. This should save some memory. Also, doinstall now prompts you to allow changing your IP address. A small error message on the tape install was also eliminated. Plus a number of other small items have been cleaned up. If anyone has any more suggestions for improvements, let me know. However, I will be away for the next 10 days, starting Wed.
This is the directory under which can be found the disks needed to install Slackware Linux 1.2.0. You will need at least one bootkernel disk, and one root-install disk. Look in the subdirectory that corresponds with the size of your boot media (1.2 meg or 1.44 meg). The README files in the "bootdisks" and "rootdisks" sub-directories will give you more detailed information to help you choose which disks are best suited to your hardware.
--- Good luck!
Patrick Volkerding volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com
(07/20/1995 01:47p 2,833 README) Red Hat Commercial Linux Mother's Day + 0.1 Release 1995
The contents of this CD-ROM are Copyright (C) 1995 Red Hat Software and others. Please see the individual copyright notices in each source package for distribution terms. The distribution terms of the tools copyrighted by Red Hat Software are as noted in the file COPYING.
MANY smaller companies that had NT 4.0 will NOT upgrade to w2k, too much money. The last place I worked for was 99% NT 4.0 and had NO plans to line bill gates pockets with more cash. In fact we were 2 years away from Linux on the desktop, then the company folded...
They only test current products for new holes. IIS 4 and IIS 5 were out when Nimda was running wild. We had one old server running IIS 3 WITHOUT ASP and we had a partial deployment of Nimda on it. I even re-installed IIS 3 from scratch with NO ASP and Nimda still infected it. There was NO mention of Nimda on IIS 3. It took us 2 days to switch that production system over to Apache.
Trying to play it safe with old versions of Microsoft software is still like playing Russian roulette with an old revolver!
The whole purpose behind TCPA/Palladium is to sell product. How do you think Microsoft will keep the Xbox a game console? They need to make it as proprietary as possible. Besides "Trusted Computing" is a Microsoft buzz word. Microsoft has buckets of money to protect the Xboxes future!
The motherboard manufacturers could have the economy model for home users that would only work with win9x or XP. The server, workstation or Linux versions would be priced much higher.. Now this would also work for Dell, say you have Dell servers and workstations and you have a server board failure, you would need to have an extra Server and Workstation since the motherboards have different BIOSes. The end result is companies have fewer choices while the VARs make more money. DUDE! Your Seagate IDE Server hard drive FAILED? We can send you one today, the replcemnet is $499! So you try to put a workstation drive in and it won't boot! You know capitalism, after all we are Greedy-American-Capitalistic-Pig-Dogs!
The next thing it will do it will allow poorly conceived business to stay afloat, like Net Appliance when all the hackers bought IOpeners and caused their business model to fail.
WTH are you talking about cache? Servers need RAM I/O. Do you even know how many times data is copied in memory before it actually goes out the ether port?
In w2k Task Mangler will fit in the 6 meg cache of the Itanium II and that is about it!
One manager from our southern office thought the Internet WAS AOL. He proceeded to argue with me on another occasion that us IT guys had made his CD-ROM drive READ-ONLY. Man the nerve of us guys in IT.
Then most of the time he would preface a stupid problem with "Either I am a COMPLETE IDIOT or you IT guys are screwing me up." That was cool, each time we used WinVNC to show him that he was his worst enemy. God do I LOVE to be a sys admin!
You are an IDIOT! Every thing that spews from your mouth/keyboard is wrong. You must be a troll here to sell us.net and say that the PC is the center of the universe and the world is flat.
Go home and do your homework. Small children who have few brain cells should NOT be allowed to post. If you are real good and do your homework mommy and daddy might increase your allowance...
How many of you have had to deal with the MAC address database getting corrupted on a switch? Now imagine having 500 cheap 4 port switches on your network. What this comes down to is management. For a small apartment/business/home these things are fine. If you are a buiness and you buy these you are on drugs.
386sx
486sx
Pentium 60/66
Pentium II with 1/2 speed cache after the PPro
Limiting the Celeron to single CPU use
Limiting the PIV to single CPU use
ATX spec with no standards for accessory wiring
NLX spec with the connectors on the swappable card
Non-Busmaster USB controllers
The PCI bus sucks, try adding two Platypus cards into your machine, then your SCSI drives WILL be faster. The PCI bus does not handle device contention very well. You could say that it does not play or share well with others...
Promise FasTrak 100 controllers running RAID 10 are very fast, IBM 75 GIG drives net a 150 GIG of data and is thousands less than a SCSI system. The performance is VERY GOOD.
Slashdot Mirror
you moron, sp2 is not out yet. pull your head out.
Seems like a lot of people are telling others to upgrade to Apple computers... That is what I tell people as well, whenever I hear any complaining about viruses, worms, how to fix something or what they should upgrade to.
a nickle, kid, go get yourself a real computer. Real Computer, not a toy computer or toy operating system.
The guy got fired for the truth, was he lying? I wrote email to @stake and told them that their credibility was on the line. FWIW I think they are partially owned by Microsoft. Everyone that knows anything knows Microsoft makes the poorest quality software in the world. Strong people have strong opinions, the more passion you have for a subject the more vocal you are about your view.
What will you do? Are you all spineless? Will you write a letter to @stake and tell them how you feel?
No, we are capitalists.
In a conversation I had with a bank security auditor he said they were perfectly comfortable with Windows, it was a calculated risk and they think they can beat the odds. Not need for fancy things when they think the odds are in their favor...
Here is a sample of the CD-ROM's I have:
(04/27/1993 04:37a 617 ANNOUNCE)
SLS 1.02 is now available on tsx-11.mit.edu.
It contains 99p9 source and image, and
replacement boot disks a1.3 and a1.5.
The new boot disks just fix a few of
the custom install features. The network
daemons are now not started until/if a
NFS install is done. This should save
some memory. Also, doinstall now prompts
you to allow changing your IP address.
A small error message on the tape install
was also eliminated. Plus a number of
other small items have been cleaned up.
If anyone has any more suggestions for
improvements, let me know. However,
I will be away for the next 10 days,
starting Wed.
Peter
(04/13/1994 03:38p 531 README)
INSTALLATION DISKS DIRECTORY
This is the directory under which can
be found the disks needed to install
Slackware Linux 1.2.0. You will need
at least one bootkernel disk, and one
root-install disk. Look in the subdirectory
that corresponds with the size of your
boot media (1.2 meg or 1.44 meg). The
README files in the "bootdisks" and
"rootdisks" sub-directories will give
you more detailed information to help
you choose which disks are best suited
to your hardware.
---
Good luck!
Patrick Volkerding
volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com
(07/20/1995 01:47p 2,833 README)
Red Hat Commercial Linux
Mother's Day + 0.1 Release 1995
The contents of this CD-ROM are Copyright
(C) 1995 Red Hat Software and others.
Please see the individual copyright notices
in each source package for distribution
terms. The distribution terms of the
tools copyrighted by Red Hat Software are
as noted in the file COPYING.
MANY smaller companies that had NT 4.0 will NOT upgrade to w2k, too much money. The last place I worked for was 99% NT 4.0 and had NO plans to line bill gates pockets with more cash. In fact we were 2 years away from Linux on the desktop, then the company folded...
I need it to, if someone finds one to print I need it at work as well. :-)
The poor sap with the MSCE that did not patch is server/servers will probably get FIRED.
I agree, but for a different reason.
They only test current products for new holes. IIS 4 and IIS 5 were out when Nimda was running wild. We had one old server running IIS 3 WITHOUT ASP and we had a partial deployment of Nimda on it. I even re-installed IIS 3 from scratch with NO ASP and Nimda still infected it. There was NO mention of Nimda on IIS 3. It took us 2 days to switch that production system over to Apache.
Trying to play it safe with old versions of Microsoft software is still like playing Russian roulette with an old revolver!
"create a network-intensive application that installs and runs the same way on all distributions of Linux"
Oh, so you do not use rsh/rlogin or X11? Do you really understand how UNIX works or are you faking it?
I would say you are falking it, or you are a MS Troll.
The whole purpose behind TCPA/Palladium is to sell product. How do you think Microsoft will keep the Xbox a game console? They need to make it as proprietary as possible. Besides "Trusted Computing" is a Microsoft buzz word. Microsoft has buckets of money to protect the Xboxes future!
The motherboard manufacturers could have the economy model for home users that would only work with win9x or XP. The server, workstation or Linux versions would be priced much higher.. Now this would also work for Dell, say you have Dell servers and workstations and you have a server board failure, you would need to have an extra Server and Workstation since the motherboards have different BIOSes. The end result is companies have fewer choices while the VARs make more money. DUDE! Your Seagate IDE Server hard drive FAILED? We can send you one today, the replcemnet is $499! So you try to put a workstation drive in and it won't boot! You know capitalism, after all we are Greedy-American-Capitalistic-Pig-Dogs!
The next thing it will do it will allow poorly conceived business to stay afloat, like Net Appliance when all the hackers bought IOpeners and caused their business model to fail.
WTH are you talking about cache? Servers need RAM I/O. Do you even know how many times data is copied in memory before it actually goes out the ether port?
In w2k Task Mangler will fit in the 6 meg cache of the Itanium II and that is about it!
The Itanium is unusable. Have you ever seen one production system with it? I have not.
Itanium II is now out and is said to be OK. For the price of an Itanium II system you could buy a car/house/small country.
Most people who use AOL do not know what AOL is.
One manager from our southern office thought the Internet WAS AOL. He proceeded to argue with me on another occasion that us IT guys had made his CD-ROM drive READ-ONLY. Man the nerve of us guys in IT.
Then most of the time he would preface a stupid problem with "Either I am a COMPLETE IDIOT or you IT guys are screwing me up." That was cool, each time we used WinVNC to show him that he was his worst enemy. God do I LOVE to be a sys admin!
You are going to train someone on how to use a word processor in a windowing environment? I bet you are the guy to train your dog to eat new dog food.
If they can't use a different word processor maybe they should not be using a computer.
Darwinism, survival of the fittest, some are not fit thus they should not survive..
You are an IDIOT! Every thing that spews from your mouth/keyboard is wrong. You must be a troll here to sell us .net and say that the PC is the center of the universe and the world is flat.
Go home and do your homework. Small children who have few brain cells should NOT be allowed to post. If you are real good and do your homework mommy and daddy might increase your allowance...
How many of you have had to deal with the MAC address database getting corrupted on a switch? Now imagine having 500 cheap 4 port switches on your network. What this comes down to is management. For a small apartment/business/home these things are fine. If you are a buiness and you buy these you are on drugs.
Just say no to drugs...
The PCI bus was developed by Intel, lets see:
386sx
486sx
Pentium 60/66
Pentium II with 1/2 speed cache after the PPro
Limiting the Celeron to single CPU use
Limiting the PIV to single CPU use
ATX spec with no standards for accessory wiring
NLX spec with the connectors on the swappable card
Non-Busmaster USB controllers
The PCI bus sucks, try adding two Platypus cards into your machine, then your SCSI drives WILL be faster. The PCI bus does not handle device contention very well. You could say that it does not play or share well with others...
Promise FasTrak 100 controllers running RAID 10 are very fast, IBM 75 GIG drives net a 150 GIG of data and is thousands less than a SCSI system. The performance is VERY GOOD.