Thanks for responding, I figured it might be some sort of default, but Snake Oil is not a very endearing thing to call a cert, that's what had me wondering.:-)
excellent point. Paring back an install on Mandrake or Redhat is a pain in the ass. And yes I'm well aware of Mandrakes 70MB minimal install, but that's not a full featured desktop is it? I've been customizing Redhat Desktop installs since 5.0 and now I just give up and let it install all the crap. Sure put pine, exim,mutt, fetchmail and 20 other mail utilites I'll never use in the bse install. Meanwhile Kmail is all I have ever used for years.
That's why the reviewers raved over Corel's linux, it was desktop linux done right.
I use XP one of my machines and although its held up longer than any other MS desktop OS, I now at the 7 month mark am thinking about a reinstall. Explorer restarts every once in a while and dumps all of my systray programs. Its still very functional, but I can tell a few more random app install/uninstalls and I might start sliding down that slippery slope. Of course everyone see's those strange generic registry unloaded/driver failed errors, troubleshoots for a few hours, then realizes why bother? It seems to be running O.K.
I don't completely blame MS for this, but there is no doubting this type of problem is rampant for any power user who tries to push a MS operating system hard.
Of course the opposite is true as well. One of my clients runs just 98 and Office and never installed any other apps, and they almost never have any crashes.
But then again, what's the point of an OS if you can't install and uninstall whatever you want?
You've obviously never played sports. Maybe you object to the term "Flow State" but they had to give some sort of name to it. Ask any professional athlete and they'll tell you about being "in the zone". When I threw a no-hitter in high school I was definitely in the zone. You don't even see or hear anyone, you just execute. His descpition that "It's when you're functioning on auto-pilot, when everything clicks into place and goes right," is dead on.
I do believe this translates to online gaming as well. I play RTCW and have definitly had a few games where I ran on autopilot and just performed flawlessly.
So call him a quack and feel free to make fun of me, but there is truth to what he is talking about.
So did Taco et al actually get rich off the stock thing? I know unlike the general public they had to wait to sell the stock. On paper they were worth a boatload a while ago. So did they have to chance to sell before the stock tanked? If they did,they would certainly have plenty of cash to buy and run the site on their own. Just wondering.
How annoying, and no way I would order one.
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They only have inside pictures for the Amiga case. Well duh, big deal there are plenty of low profile commercial cases already out there. Nothing interesting to see there.
I was really disapointed that there were no photo galleries for the Atari and NES cases. I mean for all we know those are just mockups and there are no pc parts inside.
You also got to be kidding me with those systems specs. What brand of cpu is it? What speed is the Hard drive? What kind of Ram is that? What video card is in there and how much ram does it have? What type of warranty does it have?
There is no way I would drop $1,200 with so little info, especially via Paypal.
In this case "run linux" or more appropriatly, run an additional machine that runs linux would be in all likelyhood the right answer for this situation. Other options are probably way too expensive.
Unfortunatly this won't help him. The QOS packet service is designed primarily for audio/video applications and would require that every router he connected through strictly obeyed the 802.1p protocol. That is just not going ot happen.It also requires a heck of a lot more then just clicking that little check box on the XP client. You can just consider that an on/off switch, the real work is done at the server and endpoint router levels.
Have a look at this link for some futher explaination. http://infocenter.cramsession.com/techlibrary/geth tml.asp?ID=1674
"Sensationalist statements like that could be overzealous reporting, clever marketing, or both."
Possibly, but I don't recall any sites who are devoted to Microsoft "business" predicting MS's timely demise as a certainty. It simply makes no sense to say "Conventional wisdom has suggested for some time that none of the Linux distributions.....will survive long-term"
Their writer is a represetative for Linuxgram, who by their name alone is stating that their is and will be "linux business to write about".
If I was the editor(who apparently did not proofread this), that writer would be fired.
"Conventional wisdom has suggested for some time that none of the Linux distributions, perhaps not even Red Hat, will survive long-term and of course all of the successive business failures that have happened among the Linux set call into question the commercial viability of the open source model. "
Umm, what the fuck is she smoking. So I guess Redhat et al should just pack it up?
BTW if that's "conventional wisdom" what is Linuxgram going to do based on a business model that reports on these companies?
"Trouncing current cards is a big yawn, but if it can go toe-to-toe with the big boys in 3 or 4 months they'll have something"
Nice Logic. What are you some sort of Nvidia fanboy? So when the NV30 comes out(its more like 5 months away), is it O.K. for the ATI people say "yawn" big deal, put it up against our next card in 3 or 4 months.
Disrepect ATI all you want but don't act like a card that will crush the top of the line Nvidia for several months to come is just something to take for granted.
"I wonder how many Windows 95 machines are still running and in actual use"
A ton of win95 is out there. You seem to forget that >90% of businesses are small businesses and thus don't upgrade their machine very often. I even still come across plently of win 3.1 and DOS machines in law offices, doctor offices, accounting firms, and factory's.
There's nothing wrong with patting the linux kernel on the back, but lets not forget, there is also a bunch of Netware servers not to mention older Unix boxes that have been running since before linux even existed.
I'd be first in line to buy Windows if that happened. I can just picture rushing out a letter on my wordprocessor and then having some giant ad block my view. I'd have that drive wiped in seconds.
Re:Uhmm, sorry! Lot's of prior art here ;-)
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I love how ever time a patent comes out people yell prior art and give obvious examples as to why "it won't possibly hold up".
Fact is most of these "obvious" patents usually end up holding up. Do you really think with the Army of legal geniuses MS employs that they didn't think of what you just said? MS for the most part doesn't enter battles they will outright lose so easily.
So make fun of the patent if you want to, but if DRM OS's in fact do become the wave of the future, its endgame already for both your rights and OpenSource OS's as well.
While your post is still funny, I don't think the average Slashdot reader earn $83,200 a year. If they did we would have a hell of a lot more buying power and could change the landscape of the software industry overnight with the right coordination.
get a GF4MX for $73 or better yet a Radeon 8500 from Newegg for $99. Heck even a GF2Ti is only ~$60. Buy any one of those cards and you can play any game out there now. Even the older GF2 plays UT2003 well at 800x600 Medium detail. If you want to be a gamer you gotta spend money sometime.
"No doubt this means that the more childish among us will make us all look bad. Sigh"
Considering Microsoft has called the GPL a "Cancer" and attacks linux publicly whenever possible by telling outright lies, how can we ever look bad?
Microsoft is publicly out to destroy linux and whatever their motives, they have a lot of nerve to show up in the first place.
Feel free to pelt them with eggs, because that pales in comparison to their attempts to spread FUD and eventually make our OS illegal or impossible to use. Feel free to mod me down, but nothing I said is a lie.
There is not a lot of info out there for 802.1x yet. Some pointers for you if you already didn't know about them.
Microsoft has a howto for EAP-TLS W/ IAS server and AD, which is what I use at home w/ a Orinoco AP-500 and it works very well. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/techinfo/de ployment/wireless/default.asp
Funk software offers a EAP-TTLS solution as well here is their press release. http://www.funk.com/News&Events/8021x_pa rtner.asp
Finally in the free software world, freeradius offers experimental EAP-TLS as well.
BTW if you google there are a few articles out there that say 802.1x is insecure. These are outdated and WRONG. Current 8021.x solutions use Mutual authentication NOT one-way as alluded to in previous articles. I even emailed one of the authors of one of those articles and they agreed that the current solutions solve the problem.
"the Japanese kick Americans' butts when it comes to wireless cell phone technology and usage"
This of course would imply that being 24/7 connected to everyone and the internet is somehow a "good thing". Personally I think its a flaw. Don't get me wrong I think the idea of streaming video and web surfing is cool on a phone, its just that in the scheme of things I don't think this is some sort of great positive influence on society.
I guess your new to this whole computer security thing. If you don't understand the difference between how MS and redhat have reacted to security problems for the past 6 years, then I am not going to explain it to you.
"Out of curiosity, why does it matter if "they" spy on you"
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable SEARCHES and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Unless the Bill of Rights does not matter, it is illegal for the government to monitor all of its citizens "just in case" they may be breaking the law.
Piracy might have helped, but it was the oem lock in that made MS what it is today. Windows has been the default OS on 95% of computers sold since 1994. From roughly 1993 to 1998 we also had the huge computer boom where everyone bought their "first" PC's so they could get on the net.
So even if OS/2 was free at the time, just like linux is now, MS would still be the dominant player because of the OEM lock in. If there is one thing we all know by now, its that giving something away for free doesn't mean anyone is going to actually use it.
Re:So is profit a dirty word for building contract
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The point is in dealing with contractors, just like the auto mechanics, its bend over and take it. These are two industries where the consumer gets screwed over constantly and has little recourse. And yes, most people do just "deal with it". Now you may be a "great guy" and treats his customers well and gets the work done on time, doesn't overcharge etc. But most in your industry are not like that, no matter how many good guys you know. It's a shadey industry and mostly consumers just end up getting taken advantage of. So you'll just have to live with the fact that the general public has a little resentment towards you. Deal with it.
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Thanks for responding, I figured it might be some sort of default, but Snake Oil is not a very endearing thing to call a cert, that's what had me wondering. :-)
excellent point. Paring back an install on Mandrake or Redhat is a pain in the ass. And yes I'm well aware of Mandrakes 70MB minimal install, but that's not a full featured desktop is it? I've been customizing Redhat Desktop installs since 5.0 and now I just give up and let it install all the crap. Sure put pine, exim,mutt, fetchmail and 20 other mail utilites I'll never use in the bse install. Meanwhile Kmail is all I have ever used for years.
That's why the reviewers raved over Corel's linux, it was desktop linux done right.
An https connection and a certificate which says:
.slashdot.org
Issued by Snake Oil CA
Issuer:
E = ca@snakeoil.dom
CN = Snake Oil CA
OU = Certificate Authority
O = Snake Oil, Ltd
L = Snake Town
S = Snake Desert
C = XY
Subject:
E = brian@tangent.org
CN =
OU = Slashdot
O = Slashdot
L = Nowhere
S = Denial
C = US
Umm, yea sure I'll trust that.
I use XP one of my machines and although its held up longer than any other MS desktop OS, I now at the 7 month mark am thinking about a reinstall. Explorer restarts every once in a while and dumps all of my systray programs. Its still very functional, but I can tell a few more random app install/uninstalls and I might start sliding down that slippery slope. Of course everyone see's those strange generic registry unloaded/driver failed errors, troubleshoots for a few hours, then realizes why bother? It seems to be running O.K.
I don't completely blame MS for this, but there is no doubting this type of problem is rampant for any power user who tries to push a MS operating system hard.
Of course the opposite is true as well. One of my clients runs just 98 and Office and never installed any other apps, and they almost never have any crashes.
But then again, what's the point of an OS if you can't install and uninstall whatever you want?
You've obviously never played sports. Maybe you object to the term "Flow State" but they had to give some sort of name to it. Ask any professional athlete and they'll tell you about being "in the zone". When I threw a no-hitter in high school I was definitely in the zone. You don't even see or hear anyone, you just execute. His descpition that "It's when you're functioning on auto-pilot, when everything clicks into place and goes right," is dead on.
I do believe this translates to online gaming as well. I play RTCW and have definitly had a few games where I ran on autopilot and just performed flawlessly.
So call him a quack and feel free to make fun of me, but there is truth to what he is talking about.
So did Taco et al actually get rich off the stock thing? I know unlike the general public they had to wait to sell the stock. On paper they were worth a boatload a while ago. So did they have to chance to sell before the stock tanked? If they did,they would certainly have plenty of cash to buy and run the site on their own. Just wondering.
They only have inside pictures for the Amiga case. Well duh, big deal there are plenty of low profile commercial cases already out there. Nothing interesting to see there.
I was really disapointed that there were no photo galleries for the Atari and NES cases. I mean for all we know those are just mockups and there are no pc parts inside.
You also got to be kidding me with those systems specs. What brand of cpu is it? What speed is the Hard drive? What kind of Ram is that? What video card is in there and how much ram does it have? What type of warranty does it have?
There is no way I would drop $1,200 with so little info, especially via Paypal.
That's funny on so many levels I don't know where to begin.
I forgot to add-
In this case "run linux" or more appropriatly, run an additional machine that runs linux would be in all likelyhood the right answer for this situation. Other options are probably way too expensive.
Unfortunatly this won't help him. The QOS packet service is designed primarily for audio/video applications and would require that every router he connected through strictly obeyed the 802.1p protocol. That is just not going ot happen.It also requires a heck of a lot more then just clicking that little check box on the XP client. You can just consider that an on/off switch, the real work is done at the server and endpoint router levels.
h tml.asp?ID=1674
Have a look at this link for some futher explaination. http://infocenter.cramsession.com/techlibrary/get
"Sensationalist statements like that could be overzealous reporting, clever marketing, or both."
Possibly, but I don't recall any sites who are devoted to Microsoft "business" predicting MS's timely demise as a certainty. It simply makes no sense to say "Conventional wisdom has suggested for some time that none of the Linux distributions.....will survive long-term"
Their writer is a represetative for Linuxgram, who by their name alone is stating that their is and will be "linux business to write about".
If I was the editor(who apparently did not proofread this), that writer would be fired.
"Conventional wisdom has suggested for some time that none of the Linux distributions, perhaps not even Red Hat, will survive long-term and of course all of the successive business failures that have happened among the Linux set call into question the commercial viability of the open source model. "
Umm, what the fuck is she smoking. So I guess Redhat et al should just pack it up?
BTW if that's "conventional wisdom" what is Linuxgram going to do based on a business model that reports on these companies?
"Trouncing current cards is a big yawn, but if it can go toe-to-toe with the big boys in 3 or 4 months they'll have something"
Nice Logic. What are you some sort of Nvidia fanboy?
So when the NV30 comes out(its more like 5 months away), is it O.K. for the ATI people say "yawn" big deal, put it up against our next card in 3 or 4 months.
Disrepect ATI all you want but don't act like a card that will crush the top of the line Nvidia for several months to come is just something to take for granted.
"I wonder how many Windows 95 machines are still running and in actual use"
A ton of win95 is out there. You seem to forget that >90% of businesses are small businesses and thus don't upgrade their machine very often. I even still come across plently of win 3.1 and DOS machines in law offices, doctor offices, accounting firms, and factory's.
There's nothing wrong with patting the linux kernel on the back, but lets not forget, there is also a bunch of Netware servers not to mention older Unix boxes that have been running since before linux even existed.
I'd be first in line to buy Windows if that happened. I can just picture rushing out a letter on my wordprocessor and then having some giant ad block my view. I'd have that drive wiped in seconds.
I love how ever time a patent comes out people yell prior art and give obvious examples as to why "it won't possibly hold up".
Fact is most of these "obvious" patents usually end up holding up. Do you really think with the Army of legal geniuses MS employs that they didn't think of what you just said? MS for the most part doesn't enter battles they will outright lose so easily.
So make fun of the patent if you want to, but if DRM OS's in fact do become the wave of the future, its endgame already for both your rights and OpenSource OS's as well.
"Chicken Little ain't got nothing on me"
While your post is still funny, I don't think the average Slashdot reader earn $83,200 a year. If they did we would have a hell of a lot more buying power and could change the landscape of the software industry overnight with the right coordination.
get a GF4MX for $73 or better yet a Radeon 8500 from Newegg for $99. Heck even a GF2Ti is only ~$60. Buy any one of those cards and you can play any game out there now. Even the older GF2 plays UT2003 well at 800x600 Medium detail.
If you want to be a gamer you gotta spend money sometime.
"No doubt this means that the more childish among us will make us all look bad. Sigh"
Considering Microsoft has called the GPL a "Cancer" and attacks linux publicly whenever possible by telling outright lies, how can we ever look bad?
Microsoft is publicly out to destroy linux and whatever their motives, they have a lot of nerve to show up in the first place.
Feel free to pelt them with eggs, because that pales in comparison to their attempts to spread FUD and eventually make our OS illegal or impossible to use. Feel free to mod me down, but nothing I said is a lie.
There is not a lot of info out there for 802.1x yet. Some pointers for you if you already didn't know about them.
e ployment/wireless/default.asp
a rtner.asp
Microsoft has a howto for EAP-TLS W/ IAS server and AD, which is what I use at home w/ a Orinoco AP-500 and it works very well. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/techinfo/d
Funk software offers a EAP-TTLS solution as well here is their press release.
http://www.funk.com/News&Events/8021x_p
Finally in the free software world, freeradius offers experimental EAP-TLS as well.
BTW if you google there are a few articles out there that say 802.1x is insecure. These are outdated and WRONG. Current 8021.x solutions use Mutual authentication NOT one-way as alluded to in previous articles. I even emailed one of the authors of one of those articles and they agreed that the current solutions solve the problem.
"the Japanese kick Americans' butts when it comes to wireless cell phone technology and usage"
This of course would imply that being 24/7 connected to everyone and the internet is somehow a "good thing". Personally I think its a flaw. Don't get me wrong I think the idea of streaming video and web surfing is cool on a phone, its just that in the scheme of things I don't think this is some sort of great positive influence on society.
I guess your new to this whole computer security thing. If you don't understand the difference between how MS and redhat have reacted to security problems for the past 6 years, then I am not going to explain it to you.
"Out of curiosity, why does it matter if "they" spy on you"
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable SEARCHES and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Unless the Bill of Rights does not matter, it is illegal for the government to monitor all of its citizens "just in case" they may be breaking the law.
Piracy might have helped, but it was the oem lock in that made MS what it is today. Windows has been the default OS on 95% of computers sold since 1994. From roughly 1993 to 1998 we also had the huge computer boom where everyone bought their "first" PC's so they could get on the net.
So even if OS/2 was free at the time, just like linux is now, MS would still be the dominant player because of the OEM lock in. If there is one thing we all know by now, its that giving something away for free doesn't mean anyone is going to actually use it.
The point is in dealing with contractors, just like the auto mechanics, its bend over and take it. These are two industries where the consumer gets screwed over constantly and has little recourse. And yes, most people do just "deal with it". Now you may be a "great guy" and treats his customers well and gets the work done on time, doesn't overcharge etc. But most in your industry are not like that, no matter how many good guys you know. It's a shadey industry and mostly consumers just end up getting taken advantage of. So you'll just have to live with the fact that the general public has a little resentment towards you. Deal with it.