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Agreed. This series gets better and better, and more intense with each book.. Personally, I'd rate it way above Tolkien. Tolkien was a great story creater, but he took too long to make things happen (which is the same problem I have with Robert Jordan).. while with Martin, every page has something truly exciting and interesting on it.
Waiting for the next book sucks..
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I love a song of ice and fire. Its the best series I have ever read, and I've read all three books over 5 times now. Its frustrating to see the release date of A Feast for Crows (book 4) keep being pushed back however.. now I think it is slated to be released in April 2004.. which is about the 10th time the release date has been pushed back.. Sigh. oh well, I love martin and am willing to wait for books of this quality.
What are you talking about? I don't think I have ever read a more incorrect statement. Even games just by sierra at that time were radically different in the plots, king's quest, space quest, quest for glory, police quest, leisure suit larry, robin hood:conquest of the longbow, conquests of camelot, codename:iceman, etc..
Those plots are some of the greatest story lines ever in games. Back then is when people actually put some thought into the story, and the end result of the game was worth it to millions of fans. Hence, even now people are trying to expand on those plots.
I am a network consultant, and there are still dozens of 3.2 servers in Omaha that I support. These servers are the most reliable you will ever see, with most of them have over 3 years of uptime without being downed once.. and the last time they were down was because a tape drive failed or another hardware component needed replacing. Netware 5.x/6.x isn't quite as stable, but I'd still but it up against an MS box any day of the week.. Its a shame that developers keep going away from it.
You put a Firewall in, and subsribe to a service like websense or cyberpatrol. This means thousands and thousands of dollars in licensing fees to use that product, and that you will pay lots more to use that ISP.
So this means that ISP's will have to pay for a boatload of Websense or Surfcontrol or something similar licenses? That sucks. That means Internet fees are going to go WAY up for people that are paying to use those ISPs.
I first started getting into BBS's when I was 11-12.. I got to love the Major BBS format, mainly because of a game called Galactic Empire. I would waste months at a time playing that game.. I was so sad when the BBS I played it on when down, I decided to start my own. Galaxy BBS, in omaha nebraska. I started it out with 4 lines, and within a year I was up to 12-lines. Those were the days..
Yes, it is 3 out of 6 now I think. He was going to write the fourth book occuring 20 years after the third, but he had a change of mind and decided to add an extra book because too much occured during that time. I cannot wait for it to be released.
Exactly. Not to mention that the vast majority of applications written for education use require a Win32 platform. Having a bank of computers in a lab to teach kids linux is fantastic, but moving the whole school over to it is a bit too much.
Thousands a month ? Thats alot of cash, if I were a company paying that, I would expect to be compensated pretty hefty financially if I ever did get 'hacked', or some malicious traffic did ever get by.
I'm curious as to what other companies are doing for IDS/IPS right now. I know I've spent the last few weeks setting up Cisco's IDS system for a bank, and its been a frustrating task because there is hardly any documentation on the VMS software that controls the whole system.. Its given me the impression that IDS, or at least Cisco's VMS solution, isn't too widely in use.
Yes, I am bitching because of that. I run both of my DNS servers on p200's right now, my mail server is on a p3-500, I'm looking for CHEAP hardware Raid.. If I wasn't trying to be cheap, then I wouldn't be looking at an IDE solution to this as all..and maybe we define hardware / software raid differently, to me hardware raid means that a card is taking care of the raid, not the OS.
Also, the board isn't that dumb, you can have only the secondary drive up on the secondary channel and it will still boot to that drive, The problem I had was simulating a drive failure on a RAID-5 setup. I created the array, installed the OS, took out a drive and it wouldn't boot. (I acutally tried this with all three drives, individually) I then replaced that drive with a new drive and tried to rebuild the array, no success.
I was looking for a good / cheap / solution. The built in highpoint raid controller on my motherboard is not it. RAID-5 doesn't even freaking work, and the mirror set rebuild is not to my liking. You should be able to bring the system up while it is rebuilding, but you can't and that sucks. Plain and simple.
I have a highpoint ide raid controller built into my motherboard, and I must say it sucks. If the mirror set breaks, you have to put a new drive in, go into the bios, and remirror the drive.. this process took over an hour with 120gb hd. This sucks, because I want this to run live on our free-bsd mail server, and I can't afford to be down for an hour while the thing rebuilds. Then I tried setting up a 3 drive raid-5 system, and the damn thing wouldn't even boot when I pulled a drive out. This made me angry.
Php-Nuke isn't that bad, it all depends on the speed of the database server you have connected to it. And its a great web portal.. I found it much easier to setup and use than slashcode.
I'll tell you you're full of crap. I have set up/and support quite a few groupwise, exchange, and freebsd mail systems... Well freebsd systems are quite easy and make the most sense in the majority of my client's situation's, Groupwise systems are still my favorite to setup and maintain. As to your bogus points:
---They dont have STABLE standards support (IMAP, POP3, iCal, etc...).
*Actually, yes they DO have STABLE standards support (POP3, IMAP) I use them EVERY SINGLE FREAKING DAY. In fact, I have over 20 clients right now running pop3 on groupwise, without any problems. Its just as stable as my freebsd mail servers.
---- They still havent integrated GW's user/password database into Novell's famed eDirectory/NDS database.
*You Admin them through the same utility! What do you call integration?
---Very little administrative control over the mailboxes
*Give me one example of "administrative control over the mailboxes" that exchange, sendmail, or whatever has over the mailboxes that groupwise does not.
--- Poor backup solution (you MUST shutdown the email system to get a reliable backup). No, the GWTSA's dont cut it (based on my personal experiences, and statements from senior techs at Novell)...
*Bah. Buy an open file agent for your backup software!! Even without an open file agent, I have restored groupwise post office's succesfully using both arcserve and backup exec. But yes, you should buy the open file agent to ensure you get a proper backup. (and yes, this same problem happens in exchange. With this agent, backups are extremely reliable.
--- Novell has POOR support for automated administration and report generation out of GroupWise - GWCheck just does not cut it...
* What kind of report are you looking for? I get the GWIA logs mailed to me ever night from over 20 of my groupwise clients, those logs tell me every internet mail transaction that took place. What more do you want?
I'll tell you, I've dealt with alot of email/messaging solutions. Of all of them, groupwise, and Novell products in general, are by FAR the easiest to Administrator. Novell products are the best available right now, and its a damn shame that most software packages are writing there stuff geared towered nt/2000 servers instead of Novell.
Workstation backups plain and simply do not work. The best answer to this situation is to get a file server, create a home directory on the server for each user. Then, redirect the MyDocuments directory of each user to point to the home directory on the server. Most of the users will be completely unaware of the change, as they will be saving to the same default location the majority of the time.. and their information will be backed up.
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Agreed. This series gets better and better, and more intense with each book.. Personally, I'd rate it way above Tolkien. Tolkien was a great story creater, but he took too long to make things happen (which is the same problem I have with Robert Jordan).. while with Martin, every page has something truly exciting and interesting on it.
I love a song of ice and fire. Its the best series I have ever read, and I've read all three books over 5 times now. Its frustrating to see the release date of A Feast for Crows (book 4) keep being pushed back however.. now I think it is slated to be released in April 2004.. which is about the 10th time the release date has been pushed back.. Sigh. oh well, I love martin and am willing to wait for books of this quality.
yeah. my bad, misread the first post.
What are you talking about? I don't think I have ever read a more incorrect statement. Even games just by sierra at that time were radically different in the plots, king's quest, space quest, quest for glory, police quest, leisure suit larry, robin hood:conquest of the longbow, conquests of camelot, codename:iceman, etc..
Those plots are some of the greatest story lines ever in games. Back then is when people actually put some thought into the story, and the end result of the game was worth it to millions of fans. Hence, even now people are trying to expand on those plots.
Its just as easy to monitor when a DSL line goes down as it is to monitor when a frame or point-to-point line goes down. (nagios)
Don't confuse good customer service with technology.
I am a network consultant, and there are still dozens of 3.2 servers in Omaha that I support. These servers are the most reliable you will ever see, with most of them have over 3 years of uptime without being downed once.. and the last time they were down was because a tape drive failed or another hardware component needed replacing. Netware 5.x/6.x isn't quite as stable, but I'd still but it up against an MS box any day of the week.. Its a shame that developers keep going away from it.
AD still is lightyears behind NDS. Look to Novell if you want to see impressive Directory services working with LDAP.
You put a Firewall in, and subsribe to a service like websense or cyberpatrol. This means thousands and thousands of dollars in licensing fees to use that product, and that you will pay lots more to use that ISP.
So this means that ISP's will have to pay for a boatload of Websense or Surfcontrol or something similar licenses? That sucks. That means Internet fees are going to go WAY up for people that are paying to use those ISPs.
I first started getting into BBS's when I was 11-12.. I got to love the Major BBS format, mainly because of a game called Galactic Empire. I would waste months at a time playing that game.. I was so sad when the BBS I played it on when down, I decided to start my own. Galaxy BBS, in omaha nebraska. I started it out with 4 lines, and within a year I was up to 12-lines. Those were the days..
I don't know. I think you lose your right to have a valid opinion when you own a mac. :)
I read about this over a week ago on SA.
Tomorrow there will most likey be a thread letting us know that LOTR is going to be made into a movie.
Yes, it is 3 out of 6 now I think. He was going to write the fourth book occuring 20 years after the third, but he had a change of mind and decided to add an extra book because too much occured during that time. I cannot wait for it to be released.
I agree. A song of Fire and Ice is plain and simply the greatest and most interesting story I have ever read.
Exactly. Not to mention that the vast majority of applications written for education use require a Win32 platform. Having a bank of computers in a lab to teach kids linux is fantastic, but moving the whole school over to it is a bit too much.
I managed to get a free copy of freebsd thanks to my status as a journalist
Wow, I must have jounalist status as well, since I also got a free copy of freebsd. (hmm.. maybe thats why they call it "free"bsd)
I thought SCO was bought by Caldera last year, so is this Caldera that might be cashing in on the patents?
Thousands a month ? Thats alot of cash, if I were a company paying that, I would expect to be compensated pretty hefty financially if I ever did get 'hacked', or some malicious traffic did ever get by.
I'm curious as to what other companies are doing for IDS/IPS right now. I know I've spent the last few weeks setting up Cisco's IDS system for a bank, and its been a frustrating task because there is hardly any documentation on the VMS software that controls the whole system.. Its given me the impression that IDS, or at least Cisco's VMS solution, isn't too widely in use.
Is there a raid device that does not require a driver? Or does that particular card just pass more functions then most?
Yes, I am bitching because of that. I run both of my DNS servers on p200's right now, my mail server is on a p3-500, I'm looking for CHEAP hardware Raid.. If I wasn't trying to be cheap, then I wouldn't be looking at an IDE solution to this as all. .and maybe we define hardware / software raid differently, to me hardware raid means that a card is taking care of the raid, not the OS.
Also, the board isn't that dumb, you can have only the secondary drive up on the secondary channel and it will still boot to that drive, The problem I had was simulating a drive failure on a RAID-5 setup. I created the array, installed the OS, took out a drive and it wouldn't boot. (I acutally tried this with all three drives, individually) I then replaced that drive with a new drive and tried to rebuild the array, no success.
I was looking for a good / cheap / solution. The built in highpoint raid controller on my motherboard is not it. RAID-5 doesn't even freaking work, and the mirror set rebuild is not to my liking. You should be able to bring the system up while it is rebuilding, but you can't and that sucks. Plain and simple.
I have a highpoint ide raid controller built into my motherboard, and I must say it sucks. If the mirror set breaks, you have to put a new drive in, go into the bios, and remirror the drive.. this process took over an hour with 120gb hd. This sucks, because I want this to run live on our free-bsd mail server, and I can't afford to be down for an hour while the thing rebuilds. Then I tried setting up a 3 drive raid-5 system, and the damn thing wouldn't even boot when I pulled a drive out. This made me angry.
Actually, they push the self-install option pretty hard here in Nebraska.
Php-Nuke isn't that bad, it all depends on the speed of the database server you have connected to it. And its a great web portal.. I found it much easier to setup and use than slashcode.
I'll tell you you're full of crap. I have set up/and support quite a few groupwise, exchange, and freebsd mail systems... Well freebsd systems are quite easy and make the most sense in the majority of my client's situation's, Groupwise systems are still my favorite to setup and maintain. As to your bogus points:
---They dont have STABLE standards support (IMAP, POP3, iCal, etc...).
*Actually, yes they DO have STABLE standards support (POP3, IMAP) I use them EVERY SINGLE FREAKING DAY. In fact, I have over 20 clients right now running pop3 on groupwise, without any problems. Its just as stable as my freebsd mail servers.
---- They still havent integrated GW's user/password database into Novell's famed eDirectory/NDS database.
*You Admin them through the same utility! What do you call integration?
---Very little administrative control over the mailboxes
*Give me one example of "administrative control over the mailboxes" that exchange, sendmail, or whatever has over the mailboxes that groupwise does not.
--- Poor backup solution (you MUST shutdown the email system to get a reliable backup). No, the GWTSA's dont cut it (based on my personal experiences, and statements from senior techs at Novell)...
*Bah. Buy an open file agent for your backup software!! Even without an open file agent, I have restored groupwise post office's succesfully using both arcserve and backup exec. But yes, you should buy the open file agent to ensure you get a proper backup. (and yes, this same problem happens in exchange. With this agent, backups are extremely reliable.
--- Novell has POOR support for automated administration and report generation out of GroupWise - GWCheck just does not cut it...
* What kind of report are you looking for? I get the GWIA logs mailed to me ever night from over 20 of my groupwise clients, those logs tell me every internet mail transaction that took place. What more do you want?
I'll tell you, I've dealt with alot of email/messaging solutions. Of all of them, groupwise, and Novell products in general, are by FAR the easiest to Administrator. Novell products are the best available right now, and its a damn shame that most software packages are writing there stuff geared towered nt/2000 servers instead of Novell.
Workstation backups plain and simply do not work. The best answer to this situation is to get a file server, create a home directory on the server for each user. Then, redirect the MyDocuments directory of each user to point to the home directory on the server. Most of the users will be completely unaware of the change, as they will be saving to the same default location the majority of the time.. and their information will be backed up.