Nowhere does it mention terrorist groups. It mentions that Paypal facilitated the transfer of funds linked to illegal activities -- in this case, gambling.
Do the states enacting these (IMO, bogus) new laws have any idea of the amount of economic damage they could cause? Every place I've worked has used some sort of firewall or VPN technology. Billions of dollars' worth of financial communications and transactions take place over such connections every day. Replacing them or removing them entirely is not an option. Will corporations be overlooked when it comes time to enforce these laws, making them just another tool home-user ISPs can use to enforce Terms Of Service clauses? Or will life become infinitely more complicated for everyone?
the 6bone network was a TEST NETWORK, if you didn't fully expect this TEST NETWORK to go away after a while, you are just plain delusional.
Here's the relevant text, snipped from the TOP of the memo (i.e. you didn't even have to read MUCH of it.)
The 6bone was established in 1996 by the IETF as an IPv6 Testbed network to enable various IPv6 testing as well as to assist in the transitioning of IPv6 into the Internet. It operates under the IPv6 address allocation 3FFE::/16 from RFC 2471. As IPv6 is beginning its production deployment it is appropriate to plan for the phaseout of the 6bone.
So, please, please, PLEASE stop complaining about something that was supposed to be going away from the very beginning!!!
In a typical small firm it is wise to use all the same apps. Doesnt' make sence to have your graphic guys on OSX, your engineers on UNIX and your cad guys on MS.
Tell that to the mechanical engineer trying to do NC programming and cutter path visualization in AutoCAD on a cheap, slow PC, simply because that's what the wire designer uses. (Hint: nobody, at least in the aerospace industry, uses AutoCAD for the really important shit.) Hell, most really high-end CAD stuff (with the exception of Pro/Engineer) only started being available on the PC in the past couple of years, and is still full of the bugs and quirkiness inherent in new software. This doesn't even begin to take into account the needs of smaller engineering contract firms, which are all over the place and whose engineers need 3 or 4 different high-end CAD packages (or equally expensive translator packages) to deal with whatever format their customer sends them.
It's unwise to make blanket statements like the one you just made. I've worked at small engineering contracting firms (as well as larger ones) and to suggest that everyone use the same platform and software simply because it simplifies your job is pretty much asking for your own pink slip.
Clearly, there's no significant need for 64-bit x86-compatible processors, because they've been available for purchase now for several years.
Can you please explain to those of us who clearly don't know any better why certain PC applications are "dying" for 64-bit processors? Hint: they won't magically become faster.
This is so UNBELIEVABLY fucked up. America is the ONLY country where it's people are made to look like racist bigot asshole for having pride in where we come from.
n.b.: This is only true if you're a straight white male.
Well, the first paragraph was. Then you went and said this BS:
My God! Where is the 380-400 Billion we spend a year on the Military Industrial Complex going? Why did we have to kill 79 American's during the Gulf War cause of friendly fire? Why does it seem every other day another Black Hawk or Offspree goes down - in non-combat situations!?!
I work at Sikorsky Aircraft. If a helicopter "went down every other day", I'm sure the company would no longer be in business. There are thousands of Black Hawk helicopters in service and one is lost every couple of years, normally due to pilot error.
Finally, lets have a national agenda to get to Mars. Once we do, we'll suddenly realize were killing our own planet burning fossil fuel's and dumping toxin's into the environment with no consideration of future generations.
Now, I have absolutely no idea how to follow this train of thought: how will a Mars mission suddenly change everyone's mind about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gases and industrial waste?
Please explain to me how the war in Iraq has anything at all to do with an economy that only appears to be failing because of a massive shedding of fake Internet jobs in 2001-2002.
The economy IMO is back to where it should be, after the excesses of the late 90s. Nobody needs a department full of pot-smoking Dreamweaver "experts" anymore.
And ten years later at the next high school reunion, everyone will feel sorry for you since and your class mates (while poorer) had time to live their life (have family, friends, and kids) while you worked all your free time away at Microsoft.
And twenty years later, when everyone's got a family, yours will be more well-off because you've got a much better job. What exactly is your point? Do "good enough" work, get a mediocre, low-paying job, and be a wage slave for the rest of your life?
No offense, but if I were an engineer with a $15,000 Sun workstation, I would laugh at the idea of a $1400 homebuilt PC replacing my workstation. Then I would probably punch you in the face for suggesting something so stupid. People seem to have absolutely no idea of the massive learning curve (even if short) Linux would have for a user moving from Solaris. All the customized menus on the Sun box for CAD applications would need to be recreated on the Linux side. You couldn't just give them KDE or GNOME and be done with it; any competent admin would replicate their environment completely and exactly in order to minimize the amount of utterly wasted time spent learning and re-learning new ways of doing things in Linux.
The poster of this article claims eventually all user workstations will be replaced with Linux boxes (in his fantasy world at any rate.) So, let's say he has 200 highly-paid CAD engineers whose workstations might be replaced. Let's figure it will take them each one week (40 hours) to re-learn everything on the Linux side, which IMO is not unrealistic at all assuming he simply plops a new Linux box down on their desk one day. So, when all is said and done, his "cheaper" solution will have cost the company 8000 man-hours in wasted labor. Let's say each engineer or developer makes $40 an hour (again, not unrealistic.)
So, that's $320,000 out the door on top of hardware costs, which I am sure will be more than you quoted because you can't do CAD on a machine with the kind of parts you listed (hint: a $60 video card will not work for CAD. Don't even attempt it. No, AutoCAD does not count. Real pro-level CAD cards cost more than the PC you specced out.) A truly realistic figure for a PC capable of being used by engineers would cost closer to $4000, especially if you want someone else to do hardware support (trust me, with 200 or more users, this is what you want.)
Then there's the countless hours (hundreds, perhaps thousands) spent porting any custom applications and simulation software you may have to Linux.
Then there's the Sun machines you'll still have to keep around for the applications which don't run on Linux.
Then there's the two or three full-time sysadmins you will need to hire to at least oversee this tremendous effort (there's no way in hell I'd trust anything like this to an amateur who read about Linux and thought, hey, it would be awesome to switch everyone over to that at work.)
Then, unless you hire sysadmins permanently for this, there's the 40 more hours you'll be working every week as one.
Remember when everyone and their dog was building their own MP3 portable? I was still in college.
It's time to move on and find something else to build from scratch. Nobody's gonna be impressed by a bunch of machinery and duct tape that doesn't quite fit in your pocket and only holds about 8 hours worth of music. And it's gonna end up costing you a lot of money and (more importantly) time.
Got postfix installed and (what appears to be) working in about 2 hours, with zero previous experience.
A little bit of configuration and some prodding to get it to compile (thanks for telling me I needed berkeley db, and where to get it, install docs...) and I can send and receive mail to/from all of my domains without an issue. I'm still not sure about the ones I relay for, but the local ones are all fine.
Just a little note for anyone thinking of doing the same; it's not really that difficult.
So I'm planning on getting rid of it once and for all. Can someone point me toward a very simple drop-in replacement for this bloated old pile of shit that doesn't take a day to set up?
I'd like something I can have up and running and doing EVERYTHING my sendmail config does in a few hours, at most.
Does something like this even exist, or am I stuck wasting a day either reinstalling sendmail or installing some other bloated, shitty, difficult-to-configure MTA?
Seriously. I don't think I've ever used an info,.ps,.doc, or.html manual page on Linux, BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, or IRIX. Every system utility still has man pages. My outright, adamant refusal to use GNU "info" hasn't gotten me into trouble yet.
- A.P.
Is this a troll? Or are you on crack?
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I hate to be frank, but your solution is equal parts ambitious, elaborate, expensive, unreliable, slow, kludgey, and stupid, with an extra helping of stupid.
Buy a single SCSI RAID card with three channels, three 36GB U160 drives (10 or 15K, doesn't really matter), and set up a hardware RAID 0 stripe. You'll save money and be able to edit any amount of video you want. Hell, buy a SINGLE 72 gig 10K drive and a high-quality single-channel SCSI controller. You'll save even more money.
This is the best way to do this. You've at least proven there's at least one other way to do it.
Thanks for reminding everyone that Windows 98 is a 5-year-old legacy operating system. I think it's unfair to expect Microsoft to support something this ancient. Upgrade or keep using what you've got, people; don't expect Microsoft to continue caring about your old junk.
I feel so much safer knowing that terrorists will no longer be able to launch egg payloads several hundred feet into the air. This will surely bring about a swift end to their evil, terroristy machinations.
Absolutely none of the shit we've done since 9/11/01 has made me feel any safer, but some of it has made me look sillier. I had to take my fucking shoes off twice this weekend on my trip to Vegas. My only hope is that a terrorist doesn't try and smuggle explosives in his grundle or asshole. Drop your drawers for safety, folks!
Oh well. Bush has secured his role in history as a one-term president, albeit a dangerous one. All this extra stupid bullshit is punishment once he figured that out, I think.
Take me back to the days of presidential blowjobs; this terrorist dog-and-pony show and Iraq dickwaving is getting tiresome. I sorta miss all the rights I used to have, too. I think I'll go shoot some dangerous model rockets at airplanes and skyscrapers now.
Why not just use one of *several* NT password recovery disks? They work on XP, as well. I've used this one to bust into several Win2k Pro machines we'd forgotten the password for.
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Sir, did you read the article?
Nowhere does it mention terrorist groups. It mentions that Paypal facilitated the transfer of funds linked to illegal activities -- in this case, gambling.
Nice troll.
- A.P.
Do the states enacting these (IMO, bogus) new laws have any idea of the amount of economic damage they could cause? Every place I've worked has used some sort of firewall or VPN technology. Billions of dollars' worth of financial communications and transactions take place over such connections every day. Replacing them or removing them entirely is not an option. Will corporations be overlooked when it comes time to enforce these laws, making them just another tool home-user ISPs can use to enforce Terms Of Service clauses? Or will life become infinitely more complicated for everyone?
- A.P.
the 6bone network was a TEST NETWORK, if you didn't fully expect this TEST NETWORK to go away after a while, you are just plain delusional.
Here's the relevant text, snipped from the TOP of the memo (i.e. you didn't even have to read MUCH of it.)
The 6bone was established in 1996 by the IETF as an IPv6 Testbed network to enable various IPv6 testing as well as to assist in the transitioning of IPv6 into the Internet. It operates under the IPv6 address allocation 3FFE::/16 from RFC 2471. As IPv6 is beginning its production deployment it is appropriate to plan for the phaseout of the 6bone.
So, please, please, PLEASE stop complaining about something that was supposed to be going away from the very beginning!!!
- A.P.
In a typical small firm it is wise to use all the same apps. Doesnt' make sence to have your graphic guys on OSX, your engineers on UNIX and your cad guys on MS.
Tell that to the mechanical engineer trying to do NC programming and cutter path visualization in AutoCAD on a cheap, slow PC, simply because that's what the wire designer uses. (Hint: nobody, at least in the aerospace industry, uses AutoCAD for the really important shit.) Hell, most really high-end CAD stuff (with the exception of Pro/Engineer) only started being available on the PC in the past couple of years, and is still full of the bugs and quirkiness inherent in new software. This doesn't even begin to take into account the needs of smaller engineering contract firms, which are all over the place and whose engineers need 3 or 4 different high-end CAD packages (or equally expensive translator packages) to deal with whatever format their customer sends them.
It's unwise to make blanket statements like the one you just made. I've worked at small engineering contracting firms (as well as larger ones) and to suggest that everyone use the same platform and software simply because it simplifies your job is pretty much asking for your own pink slip.
- A.P.
Clearly, there's no significant need for 64-bit x86-compatible processors, because they've been available for purchase now for several years.
Can you please explain to those of us who clearly don't know any better why certain PC applications are "dying" for 64-bit processors? Hint: they won't magically become faster.
- A.P.
Who's voting for Bush in 2004?
- A.P.
...does this mean that Cisco's products will now start to suck total ass, or does it mean that Linksys's products will now stop sucking total ass?
The mind boggles.
- A.P.
How much longer until they finally get around to fixing the 4000-characters cut-n-paste bug that's been around for THREE YEARS?
- A.P.
This is so UNBELIEVABLY fucked up. America is the ONLY country where it's people are made to look like racist bigot asshole for having pride in where we come from.
n.b.: This is only true if you're a straight white male.
- A.P.
Clearly, this article write-up needs more buzzwords.
Does anyone know if this customer-based web-enabled bluetooth solution set new paradigms for the 21st century?
- A.P.
Well, the first paragraph was. Then you went and said this BS:
My God! Where is the 380-400 Billion we spend a year on the Military Industrial Complex going? Why did we have to kill 79 American's during the Gulf War cause of friendly fire? Why does it seem every other day another Black Hawk or Offspree goes down - in non-combat situations!?!
I work at Sikorsky Aircraft. If a helicopter "went down every other day", I'm sure the company would no longer be in business. There are thousands of Black Hawk helicopters in service and one is lost every couple of years, normally due to pilot error.
Finally, lets have a national agenda to get to Mars. Once we do, we'll suddenly realize were killing our own planet burning fossil fuel's and dumping toxin's into the environment with no consideration of future generations.
Now, I have absolutely no idea how to follow this train of thought: how will a Mars mission suddenly change everyone's mind about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gases and industrial waste?
- A.P.
Please explain to me how the war in Iraq has anything at all to do with an economy that only appears to be failing because of a massive shedding of fake Internet jobs in 2001-2002.
The economy IMO is back to where it should be, after the excesses of the late 90s. Nobody needs a department full of pot-smoking Dreamweaver "experts" anymore.
- A.P.
And ten years later at the next high school reunion, everyone will feel sorry for you since and your class mates (while poorer) had time to live their life (have family, friends, and kids) while you worked all your free time away at Microsoft.
And twenty years later, when everyone's got a family, yours will be more well-off because you've got a much better job. What exactly is your point? Do "good enough" work, get a mediocre, low-paying job, and be a wage slave for the rest of your life?
There's a road worth following.
- A.P.
No offense, but if I were an engineer with a $15,000 Sun workstation, I would laugh at the idea of a $1400 homebuilt PC replacing my workstation. Then I would probably punch you in the face for suggesting something so stupid. People seem to have absolutely no idea of the massive learning curve (even if short) Linux would have for a user moving from Solaris. All the customized menus on the Sun box for CAD applications would need to be recreated on the Linux side. You couldn't just give them KDE or GNOME and be done with it; any competent admin would replicate their environment completely and exactly in order to minimize the amount of utterly wasted time spent learning and re-learning new ways of doing things in Linux.
The poster of this article claims eventually all user workstations will be replaced with Linux boxes (in his fantasy world at any rate.) So, let's say he has 200 highly-paid CAD engineers whose workstations might be replaced. Let's figure it will take them each one week (40 hours) to re-learn everything on the Linux side, which IMO is not unrealistic at all assuming he simply plops a new Linux box down on their desk one day. So, when all is said and done, his "cheaper" solution will have cost the company 8000 man-hours in wasted labor. Let's say each engineer or developer makes $40 an hour (again, not unrealistic.)
So, that's $320,000 out the door on top of hardware costs, which I am sure will be more than you quoted because you can't do CAD on a machine with the kind of parts you listed (hint: a $60 video card will not work for CAD. Don't even attempt it. No, AutoCAD does not count. Real pro-level CAD cards cost more than the PC you specced out.) A truly realistic figure for a PC capable of being used by engineers would cost closer to $4000, especially if you want someone else to do hardware support (trust me, with 200 or more users, this is what you want.)
Then there's the countless hours (hundreds, perhaps thousands) spent porting any custom applications and simulation software you may have to Linux.
Then there's the Sun machines you'll still have to keep around for the applications which don't run on Linux.
Then there's the two or three full-time sysadmins you will need to hire to at least oversee this tremendous effort (there's no way in hell I'd trust anything like this to an amateur who read about Linux and thought, hey, it would be awesome to switch everyone over to that at work.)
Then, unless you hire sysadmins permanently for this, there's the 40 more hours you'll be working every week as one.
Enjoy your Linux boxes!!
- A.P.
Remember when everyone and their dog was building their own MP3 portable? I was still in college.
It's time to move on and find something else to build from scratch. Nobody's gonna be impressed by a bunch of machinery and duct tape that doesn't quite fit in your pocket and only holds about 8 hours worth of music. And it's gonna end up costing you a lot of money and (more importantly) time.
- A.P.
Got postfix installed and (what appears to be) working in about 2 hours, with zero previous experience.
A little bit of configuration and some prodding to get it to compile (thanks for telling me I needed berkeley db, and where to get it, install docs...) and I can send and receive mail to/from all of my domains without an issue. I'm still not sure about the ones I relay for, but the local ones are all fine.
Just a little note for anyone thinking of doing the same; it's not really that difficult.
- A.P.
So I'm planning on getting rid of it once and for all. Can someone point me toward a very simple drop-in replacement for this bloated old pile of shit that doesn't take a day to set up?
I'd like something I can have up and running and doing EVERYTHING my sendmail config does in a few hours, at most.
Does something like this even exist, or am I stuck wasting a day either reinstalling sendmail or installing some other bloated, shitty, difficult-to-configure MTA?
- A.P.
Seriously. I don't think I've ever used an info, .ps, .doc, or .html manual page on Linux, BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, or IRIX. Every system utility still has man pages. My outright, adamant refusal to use GNU "info" hasn't gotten me into trouble yet.
- A.P.
I hate to be frank, but your solution is equal parts ambitious, elaborate, expensive, unreliable, slow, kludgey, and stupid, with an extra helping of stupid.
Buy a single SCSI RAID card with three channels, three 36GB U160 drives (10 or 15K, doesn't really matter), and set up a hardware RAID 0 stripe. You'll save money and be able to edit any amount of video you want. Hell, buy a SINGLE 72 gig 10K drive and a high-quality single-channel SCSI controller. You'll save even more money.
This is the best way to do this. You've at least proven there's at least one other way to do it.
- A.P.
...you'd be getting them.
Thanks for reminding everyone that Windows 98 is a 5-year-old legacy operating system. I think it's unfair to expect Microsoft to support something this ancient. Upgrade or keep using what you've got, people; don't expect Microsoft to continue caring about your old junk.
- A.P.
...they are also making an UltraSPARC server blade.
- A.P.
I feel so much safer knowing that terrorists will no longer be able to launch egg payloads several hundred feet into the air. This will surely bring about a swift end to their evil, terroristy machinations.
Absolutely none of the shit we've done since 9/11/01 has made me feel any safer, but some of it has made me look sillier. I had to take my fucking shoes off twice this weekend on my trip to Vegas. My only hope is that a terrorist doesn't try and smuggle explosives in his grundle or asshole. Drop your drawers for safety, folks!
Oh well. Bush has secured his role in history as a one-term president, albeit a dangerous one. All this extra stupid bullshit is punishment once he figured that out, I think.
Take me back to the days of presidential blowjobs; this terrorist dog-and-pony show and Iraq dickwaving is getting tiresome. I sorta miss all the rights I used to have, too. I think I'll go shoot some dangerous model rockets at airplanes and skyscrapers now.
- A.P.
Show your support for the fourth reich with this lovely blue sticker. I've got one!
- A.P.
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Why not just use one of *several* NT password recovery disks? They work on XP, as well. I've used this one to bust into several Win2k Pro machines we'd forgotten the password for.
- A.P.