Uhh, I'm a little confused here. Are you saying that Microsoft makes every mistake possible and are being sarcastic about the rest? Are you an active developer in the open source community with wise insight into the results? Please clarify.
Sounds like another stupid management decision. Someone was so anxious to impress the boss that they didn't bother asking the trainers for advice.
"Let's just make this as cheap as possible but at the same time sound effective to the everyday ignorant customer. Maybe then I'll get a promotion!"
The computer industry is crooked and MS leads the pack. Someday, like the auto industry there will be stiff regulations and committees with the power to discipline.
Since Gates sent out the letter pushing security, there have been a few patches. Only one of them (From what I can remember) wasn't credited to some security firm. Other companies are finding their code weaknesses and telling them. This is their plan???
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I would not think that by assuming a new ownership, they've died and gone away. They just got bought out by a much larger company that will have more resources to make their projects a reality. This is a good thing.
I agree that they dropped Windows 95 support too soon. If you look in the windowsupdate newsgroup, there's a posting in there by a MS guy. Apparently, they're definitely getting a lot of negative feedback on this matter and there's a good chance that 95 support will return within a month. It's in every companies best interest to keep their customers happy, so it wouldn't surprise me if they do bring it back. If they don't, it's another reason why I prefer to use Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS.
This arguement had nothing to do with FUD. If you listen to what you're saying, nothing is backed up by fact and you're spreading FUD about MS. Hypocrite. Maybe if you spent as much time on NT as you do on open source OSes, you wouldn't screw up your windows boxes and have to reinstall every once in a while. And where do you get off on calling me a newbie? I've been reading slashdot for ~4 years now which in my mind doesn't make me a newbie (Or a veteran for that matter). I hate MS business practices and think they are blowing smoke when they say that they're focusing more on security, but I don't blame them for admin incompetence. And when has MS blamed the users? Usually, they suck up the bad press and try to help their customers. When Nimda hit and compromised systems that never installed old patches, they offered free support! They tried to educate users on keeping up to date. And who the heck modded you insightful? All you spewed out was typical anti MS FUD that I see made on Slashdot by biased people. You don't like MS and don't like their products. Fine. Nothing justifies making claims that you can't back up.
Did your employer bother to install the patches that MS provides? Was IIS set up properly? Probably not. All software has bugs and as they are discovered, patches are released. It's up to a responsible and competent admin to ensure that servers are kept up to date and setup properly.
This is offtopic, but relevant to Slashdot and OSDN. It would appear that there's a new DNS server with no NS record responding to DNS queries. As a result, those with DNS servers setup securely are getting host not found errors. I temporarily disabled the cache poison detection so I could ask others if they're observing the same thing.
She purchased a laptop off ubid.com and was naive enough to send a $600 money order. When she told me that she bought a laptop overseas and all they accepted was a MO, I knew she was screwed. I wish so much that she had checked with me before sending money. She was suspicious, but ended up asking her father (Never touched a computer) instead of me. All I have is the source IPs of the emails sent and they trace back to 2 DSL ISPs in Romania. I contacted their NOC and they in turn contacted the Romanian authorities. We have also contacted the FBI and the National Fraud Information Center. Word of advice: Do not purchase anything outside of the US and Canada and avoid placing yourself in any situation where you're not covered. Paying by CC is usually the safest method because you can dispute the charge and have it reversed. Sellers, use paypal.
Nobody is complaining about performance. The reason I'm doing this research is mostly for my own educational purposes, but if I can increase the performance for relatively little costs, great! I picked this server because it's our only high end server. So much money was put into buying a "server in a box" and I'd like to get a better understanding of everything involved. While I'm on the topic of self education, last night I started reading the PC Guide. I would appreciate suggestions on additional reading material that can help me understand PC architecture, performance, etc.. For those interested in security, I also downloaded the Rainbow Series and the CCITSE v2.1 for later. <Big Grin>
In my original post I was thinking giga"byte" when I picked the NIC (My bad). I could wait for the 10 gigabit NICs to be released or I could team up several 100baseT NICs as another reader suggested (Thanks!). I should have thought of that, but nobody's perfect. I also forgot that the NIC(s) needs a slot. I would have to place it on the 64-bit 33Mhz bus which would further decrease the overall STR from the original plan. I double checked the specs on the Mobo. The server has 3 PCI buses, not 2 (Again, my bad). There's the 64-bit 66Mhz bus with 2 PCI slots, a 64-bit 33Mhz bus with 5 PCI slots, and a 32-bit 33Mhz bus with 1 PCI slot. It's got 2 P3 800 Xeons and 1.5 GB of memory. It's running NT4 (SP6a and post patches)and SQL 7 (SP3 and post patches).
I'm extremely green in the database arena. In fact, it was just a month or so ago that I learned Access. Don't laugh! Again, suggested reading material is appreciated. I'm sure we all have an area in computers that we ignored completely until it was forced into our lives. My stronger areas and the focus of my career path are networking and security (System, network, physical, etc.).
In regards to the software our company runs, please don't bash MS. It won't help me learn anything I don't already know. I don't agree with their business practices and think that open source is the way all software should be for the good of mankind and progress. On the other hand, I did NT4 server support for Microsoft (Under one of their outsourcers) and prior to that, Windows 2000 Professional support. I have a firm belief that they're great products if you know how to use them properly. The same goes for XP (I flunking HATE 95/98/ME). When it comes to vulnerabilities and exploits, the only flaw is the administrator that doesn't install patches and doesn't understand why a properly configured firewall is a good idea. There's not many worms or hackers that exploit unannounced vulnerabilities.
I believe he was just trying to make the point that some people take it upon themselves to continue their education via self study. Why pay big bucks for a class when you can buy a book written by an expert in the field.
Is a CCIE and CISSP enough or would a BS make all the difference in the world? Most grads I talked to don't have a good understanding of computers unless it's also their hobby which leads me to believe that a BS is just to get your foot in the door when you have no real talent.
I too would love to get it on a DVD set. It would definitely be a really long movie without the day long breaks between episodes. How many episodes were there in the series?
The SNES version had a much better replay value because the game didn't have a "cheap factor." What I mean is that in the SNES version, the speed of the characters and their abilities remained consistent. In the N64 version, the characters would always manage to keep up with you no matter how good you were. If you fell behind though, they would all slow down until you caught up. This kind of cheap gameplay left and possible replay value to just battle mode. They did the same thing with Excitebike 64. I can't stand racing in these games as a result. I'm scarred for life unless software engineers end the cheapness.
This is the most unbiased opinion and one of the most valid I've seen.
Bashing Apple might make people feel better, but companies exist to make money and 99% of the people out there get confused when they have 2 mouse buttons. I'm sure that many of you have done tech support for Company XYZ and see where I'm coming from.
It annoys me that people get a hair up their butt about the hardware it supports. Since when has it been impossible to upgrade to a different HD, video card, etc.? It would be my best guess that Apple still had to write device drivers for MOST existing hardware. I haven't been keeping up on all the details lately, but it seems very reasonable to assume.
Some of you need to get a life. It seems that a lot of people that bash other OSes either don't know enough to see the advantages of that OS or they feel special when they use *nix. Do you need to prove how smart you are or what? That's certainly why I used to bash MS back in the day.
FYI, I am an avid Macintosh/RedHat/FreeBSD user that does outsourced NT networking support for MS. As an active Mac evangelist you can imagine my previous opinion of MS, but since my first day I've gained a LOT of respect for their NT and 2000 OSes. I still prefer a Macintosh for home use, Windows NT/2000 for work, and *nix for geeking out.
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Uhh, I'm a little confused here. Are you saying that Microsoft makes every mistake possible and are being sarcastic about the rest? Are you an active developer in the open source community with wise insight into the results? Please clarify.
Sounds like another stupid management decision. Someone was so anxious to impress the boss that they didn't bother asking the trainers for advice.
"Let's just make this as cheap as possible but at the same time sound effective to the everyday ignorant customer. Maybe then I'll get a promotion!"
The computer industry is crooked and MS leads the pack. Someday, like the auto industry there will be stiff regulations and committees with the power to discipline.
Since Gates sent out the letter pushing security, there have been a few patches. Only one of them (From what I can remember) wasn't credited to some security firm. Other companies are finding their code weaknesses and telling them. This is their plan???
I would not think that by assuming a new ownership, they've died and gone away. They just got bought out by a much larger company that will have more resources to make their projects a reality. This is a good thing.
I agree that they dropped Windows 95 support too soon. If you look in the windowsupdate newsgroup, there's a posting in there by a MS guy. Apparently, they're definitely getting a lot of negative feedback on this matter and there's a good chance that 95 support will return within a month. It's in every companies best interest to keep their customers happy, so it wouldn't surprise me if they do bring it back. If they don't, it's another reason why I prefer to use Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS.
Ack, I meant to say interesting, not insightful.
This arguement had nothing to do with FUD. If you listen to what you're saying, nothing is backed up by fact and you're spreading FUD about MS. Hypocrite. Maybe if you spent as much time on NT as you do on open source OSes, you wouldn't screw up your windows boxes and have to reinstall every once in a while. And where do you get off on calling me a newbie? I've been reading slashdot for ~4 years now which in my mind doesn't make me a newbie (Or a veteran for that matter). I hate MS business practices and think they are blowing smoke when they say that they're focusing more on security, but I don't blame them for admin incompetence. And when has MS blamed the users? Usually, they suck up the bad press and try to help their customers. When Nimda hit and compromised systems that never installed old patches, they offered free support! They tried to educate users on keeping up to date. And who the heck modded you insightful? All you spewed out was typical anti MS FUD that I see made on Slashdot by biased people. You don't like MS and don't like their products. Fine. Nothing justifies making claims that you can't back up.
Did your employer bother to install the patches that MS provides? Was IIS set up properly? Probably not. All software has bugs and as they are discovered, patches are released. It's up to a responsible and competent admin to ensure that servers are kept up to date and setup properly.
This is offtopic, but relevant to Slashdot and OSDN. It would appear that there's a new DNS server with no NS record responding to DNS queries. As a result, those with DNS servers setup securely are getting host not found errors. I temporarily disabled the cache poison detection so I could ask others if they're observing the same thing.
Starship Troopers definitely popped into my mind. A bunch of gorillas. ;)
-Lucas
She purchased a laptop off ubid.com and was naive enough to send a $600 money order. When she told me that she bought a laptop overseas and all they accepted was a MO, I knew she was screwed. I wish so much that she had checked with me before sending money. She was suspicious, but ended up asking her father (Never touched a computer) instead of me. All I have is the source IPs of the emails sent and they trace back to 2 DSL ISPs in Romania. I contacted their NOC and they in turn contacted the Romanian authorities. We have also contacted the FBI and the National Fraud Information Center. Word of advice: Do not purchase anything outside of the US and Canada and avoid placing yourself in any situation where you're not covered. Paying by CC is usually the safest method because you can dispute the charge and have it reversed. Sellers, use paypal.
How rude.
How many years have they been together? Just curious...
Looks like we made the same disgusting face when we got to the "you get what you pay for" comment.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm not a troll. I just despise how some people rant at the mention of MS. Hence the last paragraph.
In my original post I was thinking giga"byte" when I picked the NIC (My bad). I could wait for the 10 gigabit NICs to be released or I could team up several 100baseT NICs as another reader suggested (Thanks!). I should have thought of that, but nobody's perfect. I also forgot that the NIC(s) needs a slot. I would have to place it on the 64-bit 33Mhz bus which would further decrease the overall STR from the original plan. I double checked the specs on the Mobo. The server has 3 PCI buses, not 2 (Again, my bad). There's the 64-bit 66Mhz bus with 2 PCI slots, a 64-bit 33Mhz bus with 5 PCI slots, and a 32-bit 33Mhz bus with 1 PCI slot. It's got 2 P3 800 Xeons and 1.5 GB of memory. It's running NT4 (SP6a and post patches)and SQL 7 (SP3 and post patches).
I'm extremely green in the database arena. In fact, it was just a month or so ago that I learned Access. Don't laugh! Again, suggested reading material is appreciated. I'm sure we all have an area in computers that we ignored completely until it was forced into our lives. My stronger areas and the focus of my career path are networking and security (System, network, physical, etc.).
In regards to the software our company runs, please don't bash MS. It won't help me learn anything I don't already know. I don't agree with their business practices and think that open source is the way all software should be for the good of mankind and progress. On the other hand, I did NT4 server support for Microsoft (Under one of their outsourcers) and prior to that, Windows 2000 Professional support. I have a firm belief that they're great products if you know how to use them properly. The same goes for XP (I flunking HATE 95/98/ME). When it comes to vulnerabilities and exploits, the only flaw is the administrator that doesn't install patches and doesn't understand why a properly configured firewall is a good idea. There's not many worms or hackers that exploit unannounced vulnerabilities.
I forgot to divide by 8! Change of plan: Wait for the 10 gigabit NICs to be released to the public. I guess I could place it on the 64-bit 33 Mhz bus.
I believe he was just trying to make the point that some people take it upon themselves to continue their education via self study. Why pay big bucks for a class when you can buy a book written by an expert in the field.
What I was implying is that I find it hard to believe that a CISSP would have a hard time finding a job.
It sounds like you claim to have certs you don't even have. Do me a favor and figure out what the CISSP is.
Is a CCIE and CISSP enough or would a BS make all the difference in the world? Most grads I talked to don't have a good understanding of computers unless it's also their hobby which leads me to believe that a BS is just to get your foot in the door when you have no real talent.
I too would love to get it on a DVD set. It would definitely be a really long movie without the day long breaks between episodes. How many episodes were there in the series?
Thanks a lot!
The SNES version had a much better replay value because the game didn't have a "cheap factor." What I mean is that in the SNES version, the speed of the characters and their abilities remained consistent. In the N64 version, the characters would always manage to keep up with you no matter how good you were. If you fell behind though, they would all slow down until you caught up. This kind of cheap gameplay left and possible replay value to just battle mode. They did the same thing with Excitebike 64. I can't stand racing in these games as a result. I'm scarred for life unless software engineers end the cheapness.
This is the most unbiased opinion and one of the most valid I've seen.
Bashing Apple might make people feel better, but companies exist to make money and 99% of the people out there get confused when they have 2 mouse buttons. I'm sure that many of you have done tech support for Company XYZ and see where I'm coming from.
It annoys me that people get a hair up their butt about the hardware it supports. Since when has it been impossible to upgrade to a different HD, video card, etc.? It would be my best guess that Apple still had to write device drivers for MOST existing hardware. I haven't been keeping up on all the details lately, but it seems very reasonable to assume.
Some of you need to get a life. It seems that a lot of people that bash other OSes either don't know enough to see the advantages of that OS or they feel special when they use *nix. Do you need to prove how smart you are or what? That's certainly why I used to bash MS back in the day.
FYI, I am an avid Macintosh/RedHat/FreeBSD user that does outsourced NT networking support for MS. As an active Mac evangelist you can imagine my previous opinion of MS, but since my first day I've gained a LOT of respect for their NT and 2000 OSes. I still prefer a Macintosh for home use, Windows NT/2000 for work, and *nix for geeking out.
Sosume
-Lucas