Personally, i think the shortage is not of IT professionals, but of competent, well-trained ones. I have seen a number of programmers, developers and designers that don;t know anything but fake it real well, or the flip side which is those that know real well but are complete mercenaries and would screw over their employer or client in a heartbeat. I've dealt with both situations too often in the last year.
Telecommuting is one of those things that is heavily dependant on the company and the person. I telecommute where i work, I am basically the IT department. I find I ge t more work done at home, the simple reason being the distraction of other ppl constantly asking me questions is gone. When I am at the office, which is once every couple of weeks, i get bombarded with questions while i am there, when im at home the same questions are in an email, which makes things alot easier to control.
The big problem with telecommuting i've seen is staying focused, it's too easy to goof off if you don;t have anything obvious to do.
Internet service providers should be encouraged, though not required, to maintain detailed records of what their users are doing online
That statement makes me wonder if they actually researched real world issues. The amount of traffic passing through an ISP is huge. Monitoring it down to that level would be monumental and eat up resources in a major way. (Imagine trying to count the number of grains of sand and exactly where they fall in an hourglass).
As for running on more platforms, I can;t say which runs on more, but I think netBSD has the edge. Running on a Palm would be nice though, but any handheld that can run Windows CE can probably run NetBSD, so i think that area is covered.
Well one thing about the theory, I was watching a discovery special about lighting. And the researchers said what happens it a charge actually comes up from ground to meet the downard stroke and slowed it down so you could see it. If so how would the silicon fragments burn? I guess it may be expelled as the charge flies updward but that seems to pat to me. Sounds like they needed something quick so came up with this.
And we all have unreasonably high expectations of MS
Expecting a product that is very expensive (sometimes in the thousands of dollars) to work properly and to be fully tested is not an unreasonable expectation. I expect certain things yes, no one is perfect, but the fact that documentation is often hard to get or nonexistent coupled with the fact that tech support is not free is a problem.
There are bugs in NT, serious security ones that MS has known about that they can;t or won't fix because they would require major rewrites, they also don't mention these. That is something that there is no excuse for. Bug i expect, but evasiveness, unwillingness to not learn from mistakes and an attitude that your shooting their scared cow i shouldn;t have to deal with. Tat is my major issue with MS, that they release shoddy products and don;t seem to care or want to always fix them.
Really? I'm running a dual 133 system have been for some time. current uptime is 42 days (took it down when i did a make world and needed to reboot after kernel recompiling). Prior was 62 days (was down for same reason). What hardware are you running?
Ok here is a run-dwon on the difference between eing 18 and 21.
At 18 your area legal adult but not emancipated from you guradian/parent yet. If you do not live with your legal guardian or parent you become emancipated before 21, otherwise at 21 your are emancipated.
What does this mean? simply that until 21 if you live at home and get sued your parents are also able to be sued. If you have a criminal problem though the law sees you as responsible for your own actions. Aslo if you run away at 18 you can be pulled back home unless you've been out of your home for a year i think it is.
tax is the wrong word for this, what will happen is that ISP's have to pay for the calls made through them, this is not money going to the government.
The government has to allow this though. Odds aer it will cause rates to go up, most ISP's are not running in the black, or if they are it's not with a high profit margin.
Good points, but you're still comparing Linux of today to NT4, which is yesterday
Comparing current release OS's is the prudent thing to do, comparing a released software product with one in beta testing still is not. Complaining about this is imho a waste since running any betaware on a production server is foolishly taking extra risks. I never really had any stability problems with NT4, This is one of those things i've seen with NT. It depens on the apps heavily. I've had NT server, identical hardware-wise, 99% the same config-wise, one craps out regularly, needing a reboot every 24 hours to be safe, one needs a reboot once a month.
I;m glad they are fixing things in Windows 2000, but fora server I'll stick with either Solaris (on a Sparc) or FreeBSD. No i'm not a big linux advocate. I just use what i believe is best for my needs.
As for TCO, at least with NT4, it's TCO is higher just from the number of extra apps you needs to get to make it do everything a unix server can out of the box. I mean NT4 doesn't even have built-in multi-user mode, terminal server not withstanding. NT is OK on the desktop but that is where it belongs, it cannot be everyhting to everyone, nothing can.
I'm going to take Unix (in all it's incarnations) into account here as well. I've said it before, I don't think Windows is ready for the server environment. No matter what you say, there is alevel of control that you cannot have with NT that you need. Also that GUI makes things more difficult IMHO since you can't always see exactly what is going on. MS says NT is easier to use, requires less training, i think it's the opposite. Well here are some point's i'd like to note from the post:
While Linux has excelent hardware support for older legacy hardware (386, 486, etc). It is notorius for not having support for the latest hardware until long after it is out. Granted this is haging, but your argument swings both ways.
Point taken, but why should i always need to spend large amounts of money for a new server if it doesn't require it? Spending thousands on a developmental server is a little much to me. Also the hardware issue is moot imho as i think you should always get the best hardware you can for the job.
NT4 isn't a games os. Officially NT5 isn't a games OS either, but it supports the latest DirectX7, and assuming that games aren't HARD-CODED to not install in an NT system, and you have valid drivers, you can play games on Win2000 with no problem. They seem to run faster and are SO much more stable than they are in Win98. Windows98 is a joke.
NT5 is dead, windows2000 is being marketing towards home users in one aspect i thought. Many home users play games, it had better support gaming or that's shooting yourself in the foot. Also you can use DX6 on NT just MS doesn;t officialy support it.
5. Using the wrong Pagefile size >NT being so brain-dead that it won't let you set a pagefile of 0 bytes. Hey you with 256 Megs of Ram, don't you know you need a pagefile ! ???
This is important. setting a pagefile of 0 is foolish imho though. You should have this set to twice your physical ram minimum imho, then again a nice thing about most Unices is that unless your doing something very memory heavy (like running netscape under X) you shouldn't even have to worry about your RAM if you have 128 megs.
I'm glad that Microsoft has made some changes that were long needed, I still think it has a way to go before it is a true server os on the level that the various unices are. I'm leery of GUI's because im the type that like a command line and I am an admitted control freak to a level.
Good point, especially when you try and deal with dialects or regional meanings. I'm sicilian and the italian spoke in sicily is a different beast from the one spoke in the mainland Italy.
They'd have to go with the "norm" of the language like what is used in spelling dictionaries and school texts i guess.
I can see it now some really silly looking english sentences translated from spanish or italian.
I see this as Sendmail, Inc. realizing that their market on Unix systems is starting to evaporate.
No this is a move to make some money in the enterprise now. Sendmail is doing fine, i use it because i prefer it. As do some use qmail or exim for example.
Their act is fine. One thing sendmail has going for it is the guy who wrote the RFC for SMTP as developed sendmail. How many Unix admins are going to want to pay for sendmail when they can use a book and some time to figure it out? They know they can make more money going for NT, simple economics. Making blanket and/or inflammatory statements that something is dead or on it's way out because they ported it to NT or you don't like it is foolish.
The constitution is suppsoed to be a living document that can be changed with the times. Honestly, i think most of the designers of the Constitution would look on with horror at the proliferation of guns. Truth is, people use guns to kill people. The argument that people kill people is only part of it. Someone with their hands on a 9mm pistol can kill alot more people alot faster and easier than with a knife. Look at the recent church killing in texas, he bought his gun at a flea market, which means no waiting period or checks. Guns are dangerous in any hands, and shouldn't be held by most people, the responsibility is too great. Training should be mandatory, the type of training that martial artists go through where by the time they can hurt someone badly they don't want to beause they have learned not too. As for the idead that some farmer with a hunting rifle could take on the US Military, that's laughable. If the military wanted to they could rather effectively control this nation as a military state, resistance aside. What gets me is that some people care more about their stupid gun than about the lives of people. Ok I'm done ranting...
Also the fact that you win an auction makes it feel better for some. Think about it, you not only bought something but you had to compete for it. And the fact that you outbid anyone else means you either a) had the stronger will b) are wealthier c) were the only serious bidder.
those are three great ways to rationalize it. Our society is increasingly competitive, this feeds off that.
basically "useless" people are what "we" are supposed to be like.
That is a rather arrogant view to take. The construction worker who built where you live, now are they useless? Does what they do have no meaning? Lawyers impact the world heavily. Most US lawmakers are lawyers, and even though you may not like them what they do affects millions of ppl, thet's pretty significant. journalists heavily shape how the majority views the world that is also significant.
No one person is more or less meaningful in this world. To think that is so is eliteist and very narrow-minded. Jesus was a carpenter, and he influenced the entire western civilization (I don't care if your religious or not, the man did heavily influence how we live today.) Geek is a label, just like normal, jock, propellerhead, etc. Labels only exist to sterotype and restrict. Stop labeling and thinking that because you play with computers that your superior. You know the guy who built my house did something alot more meaningful and lasting than anything I will most likely ever create. Why? Because everyday I'm reminded of it when i look at my home. Because when I live somewhere else another person will live here. that is meaningful. All people have meaning eveything we do effects countless others we will never know. Remeber that, we are all connected in some ways.
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Personally, i think the shortage is not of IT professionals, but of competent, well-trained ones. I have seen a number of programmers, developers and designers that don;t know anything but fake it real well, or the flip side which is those that know real well but are complete mercenaries and would screw over their employer or client in a heartbeat. I've dealt with both situations too often in the last year.
Telecommuting is one of those things that is heavily dependant on the company and the person. I telecommute where i work, I am basically the IT department. I find I ge t more work done at home, the simple reason being the distraction of other ppl constantly asking me questions is gone. When I am at the office, which is once every couple of weeks, i get bombarded with questions while i am there, when im at home the same questions are in an email, which makes things alot easier to control.
The big problem with telecommuting i've seen is staying focused, it's too easy to goof off if you don;t have anything obvious to do.
Internet service providers should be encouraged, though not required, to maintain detailed records of what their users are doing online
That statement makes me wonder if they actually researched real world issues. The amount of traffic passing through an ISP is huge. Monitoring it down to that level would be monumental and eat up resources in a major way. (Imagine trying to count the number of grains of sand and exactly where they fall in an hourglass).
You can do this though. Using samba file sharing this can be done. I've seen this done using FreeBSD.
If you want to see what netbsd can run on go here: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/
As for running on more platforms, I can;t say which runs on more, but I think netBSD has the edge. Running on a Palm would be nice though, but any handheld that can run Windows CE can probably run NetBSD, so i think that area is covered.
It's freebsd on the front-end, solaris on the back end.
It's better to just disable it in /et/rc.conf for FreeBSD. As for relaying, sendmail 8.9.x diasllows relaying by default.
Well one thing about the theory, I was watching a discovery special about lighting. And the researchers said what happens it a charge actually comes up from ground to meet the downard stroke and slowed it down so you could see it. If so how would the silicon fragments burn? I guess it may be expelled as the charge flies updward but that seems to pat to me. Sounds like they needed something quick so came up with this.
rm -rf * / won;t blow away the kernel though, may mess up a bunch of other things though. The wonders of chflag and schg
And we all have unreasonably high expectations of MS
Expecting a product that is very expensive (sometimes in the thousands of dollars) to work properly and to be fully tested is not an unreasonable expectation. I expect certain things yes, no one is perfect, but the fact that documentation is often hard to get or nonexistent coupled with the fact that tech support is not free is a problem.
There are bugs in NT, serious security ones that MS has known about that they can;t or won't fix because they would require major rewrites, they also don't mention these. That is something that there is no excuse for.
Bug i expect, but evasiveness, unwillingness to not learn from mistakes and an attitude that your shooting their scared cow i shouldn;t have to deal with. Tat is my major issue with MS, that they release shoddy products and don;t seem to care or want to always fix them.
Really? I'm running a dual 133 system have been for some time. current uptime is 42 days (took it down when i did a make world and needed to reboot after kernel recompiling). Prior was 62 days (was down for same reason). What hardware are you running?
good point, maybe the creators stick with what they knew at first?
Ok here is a run-dwon on the difference between eing 18 and 21.
At 18 your area legal adult but not emancipated from you guradian/parent yet. If you do not live with your legal guardian or parent you become emancipated before 21, otherwise at 21 your are emancipated.
What does this mean? simply that until 21 if you live at home and get sued your parents are also able to be sued. If you have a criminal problem though the law sees you as responsible for your own actions. Aslo if you run away at 18 you can be pulled back home unless you've been out of your home for a year i think it is.
And yes the US laws are convuluted.
That is what i said..it's partially privatized, it's also one of the few gov't agencies that makes a profit..
tax is the wrong word for this, what will happen is that ISP's have to pay for the calls made through them, this is not money going to the government.
The government has to allow this though. Odds aer it will cause rates to go up, most ISP's are not running in the black, or if they are it's not with a high profit margin.
The US Post office is partially priovatized so technically it is both a gov't entity and a commercial venture.
Good points, but you're still comparing Linux of today to NT4, which is yesterday
Comparing current release OS's is the prudent thing to do, comparing a released software product with one in beta testing still is not. Complaining about this is imho a waste since running any betaware on a production server is foolishly taking extra risks.
I never really had any stability problems with NT4, This is one of those things i've seen with NT. It depens on the apps heavily. I've had NT server, identical hardware-wise, 99% the same config-wise, one craps out regularly, needing a reboot every 24 hours to be safe, one needs a reboot once a month.
I;m glad they are fixing things in Windows 2000, but fora server I'll stick with either Solaris (on a Sparc) or FreeBSD. No i'm not a big linux advocate. I just use what i believe is best for my needs.
As for TCO, at least with NT4, it's TCO is higher just from the number of extra apps you needs to get to make it do everything a unix server can out of the box. I mean NT4 doesn't even have built-in multi-user mode, terminal server not withstanding. NT is OK on the desktop but that is where it belongs, it cannot be everyhting to everyone, nothing can.
There was also Alternative Nation which predated 120 minutes
I'm going to take Unix (in all it's incarnations) into account here as well. I've said it before, I don't think Windows is ready for the server environment. No matter what you say, there is alevel of control that you cannot have with NT that you need. Also that GUI makes things more difficult IMHO since you can't always see exactly what is going on. MS says NT is easier to use, requires less training, i think it's the opposite. Well here are some point's i'd like to note from the post:
While Linux has excelent hardware support for older legacy hardware (386, 486, etc). It is notorius for not having support for the latest hardware until long after it is out. Granted this is haging, but your argument swings both ways.
Point taken, but why should i always need to spend large amounts of money for a new server if it doesn't require it? Spending thousands on a developmental server is a little much to me. Also the hardware issue is moot imho as i think you should always get the best hardware you can for the job.
NT4 isn't a games os. Officially NT5 isn't a games OS either, but it supports the latest DirectX7, and assuming that games aren't HARD-CODED to not install in an NT system, and you have valid drivers, you can play games on Win2000 with no problem. They seem to run faster and are SO much more stable than they are in Win98. Windows98 is a joke.
NT5 is dead, windows2000 is being marketing towards home users in one aspect i thought. Many home users play games, it had better support gaming or that's shooting yourself in the foot. Also you can use DX6 on NT just MS doesn;t officialy support it.
5. Using the wrong Pagefile size >NT being so brain-dead that it won't let you set a pagefile of 0 bytes. Hey you with 256 Megs of Ram, don't you know you need a pagefile !
???
This is important. setting a pagefile of 0 is foolish imho though. You should have this set to twice your physical ram minimum imho, then again a nice thing about most Unices is that unless your doing something very memory heavy (like running netscape under X) you shouldn't even have to worry about your RAM if you have 128 megs.
I'm glad that Microsoft has made some changes that were long needed, I still think it has a way to go before it is a true server os on the level that the various unices are. I'm leery of GUI's because im the type that like a command line and I am an admitted control freak to a level.
Good point, especially when you try and deal with dialects or regional meanings. I'm sicilian and the italian spoke in sicily is a different beast from the one spoke in the mainland Italy.
They'd have to go with the "norm" of the language like what is used in spelling dictionaries and school texts i guess.
I can see it now some really silly looking english sentences translated from spanish or italian.
I see this as Sendmail, Inc. realizing that their market on Unix systems is starting to evaporate.
No this is a move to make some money in the enterprise now. Sendmail is doing fine, i use it because i prefer it. As do some use qmail or exim for example.
Their act is fine. One thing sendmail has going for it is the guy who wrote the RFC for SMTP as developed sendmail. How many Unix admins are going to want to pay for sendmail when they can use a book and some time to figure it out? They know they can make more money going for NT, simple economics. Making blanket and/or inflammatory statements that something is dead or on it's way out because they ported it to NT or you don't like it is foolish.
The constitution is suppsoed to be a living document that can be changed with the times. Honestly, i think most of the designers of the Constitution would look on with horror at the proliferation of guns. Truth is, people use guns to kill people.
The argument that people kill people is only part of it. Someone with their hands on a 9mm pistol can kill alot more people alot faster and easier than with a knife.
Look at the recent church killing in texas, he bought his gun at a flea market, which means no waiting period or checks. Guns are dangerous in any hands, and shouldn't be held by most people, the responsibility is too great. Training should be mandatory, the type of training that martial artists go through where by the time they can hurt someone badly they don't want to beause they have learned not too.
As for the idead that some farmer with a hunting rifle could take on the US Military, that's laughable. If the military wanted to they could rather effectively control this nation as a military state, resistance aside.
What gets me is that some people care more about their stupid gun than about the lives of people.
Ok I'm done ranting...
Also the fact that you win an auction makes it feel better for some. Think about it, you not only bought something but you had to compete for it. And the fact that you outbid anyone else means you either a) had the stronger will b) are wealthier c) were the only serious bidder.
those are three great ways to rationalize it. Our society is increasingly competitive, this feeds off that.
basically "useless" people are what "we" are supposed to be like.
That is a rather arrogant view to take. The construction worker who built where you live, now are they useless? Does what they do have no meaning? Lawyers impact the world heavily. Most US lawmakers are lawyers, and even though you may not like them what they do affects millions of ppl, thet's pretty significant. journalists heavily shape how the majority views the world that is also significant.
No one person is more or less meaningful in this world. To think that is so is eliteist and very narrow-minded. Jesus was a carpenter, and he influenced the entire western civilization (I don't care if your religious or not, the man did heavily influence how we live today.) Geek is a label, just like normal, jock, propellerhead, etc. Labels only exist to sterotype and restrict. Stop labeling and thinking that because you play with computers that your superior. You know the guy who built my house did something alot more meaningful and lasting than anything I will most likely ever create. Why? Because everyday I'm reminded of it when i look at my home. Because when I live somewhere else another person will live here. that is meaningful. All people have meaning eveything we do effects countless others we will never know. Remeber that, we are all connected in some ways.
Yes it's solaris on the back end, i think they were focusin on the web aspects though. Note the title of the article..