you can run oracle reliably on anything, INCLUDING debian, GNU/Linux based. you might not be able to "pass the buck" with debian, but you sure as hell can run it reliably
it takes just as many nerds to support 100 Linux boxes as 100 Windows boxes, yet Linux boxes are cheaper and can support more users. The organization is better off while the IT department is unscathed and unchallenged.
of course, that has been proved untrue (1:10 for windows and 1:40 for linux? something like that)
that guy is full of shit, the only reasons mac aren't more popular is their insane price tag (yes, they are far cheaper NOW than they were 10 years ago) and apple's lack of marketing. there's no conspiracy there, just plain mismanagement (or lack of money to do the Right Thing), but slapped with innacuracies. zealotry at its best
another piece of software from our big friend d.j.bernstein? tell you what, there is no way in hell that thing gets anywhere near my machine. djbdns sucks enough as it is
and why shouldnt his bathroom trip be a worthy news item? he is, after all, your God (slashdot's) , everything he does is Right and should be revered as such!:)
the problem with that line is one of reputation. much like the "no one ever got fired for choosing IBM/CISCO/WHATEVER" line. if you buy a noname brand and it goes belly up, you'll surely get fired. if yuo buy a cisco and it goes belly up, you can always blame it on cisco and STILL get away with it.
actually no, read the article it says "..a year after...", back one year there was no big fuss over all these licensing fees issues
but you can bet that sco will get brutally ass-raped if they even try to touch mr ellison's jewels. he's got a big enough ego to go mad about it, and the cash to sue sco into oblivion
i can just see it now. all of your recorded shows starts with a notice asking you if you want to check a central database for copyrighted work. once you click yes you then get a few bluescreens
oh and windows is hardly free, even for embedded devices (no tag price, but im sure it's higher than whatever sco is charging)
don't get me wrong. i've been using linux for a year as my main desktop, and whenever i touch a windows box i get lost due to the lack of my favorite applications (tcpdump!)
but kde/linux still has a LOT to do to even come to match with windows. like being able to run more than 3 applications (what is it with even the simplest apps taking 10 megs of memory? including "tray" icons), printing (admitedly not kde specific, but i STILL can't print anything on linux), and god-awful latency on anything less recent than a p4 3ghz (right now im using a pII 333 with 320 megs of ram, takes 5 seconds to switch tabs in firebird. and that's WITH a preempt kernel)
i got that, i actually have about 20 servers running freebsd, i was refeering to the ease of administration (apt-get etc) and the quality of the packages. installing a new apache is always a huge hassle. and many packages are so screwed in *bsd they won't even run (like mysql on dec 3000 alpha running netbsd wont even compile)
and i was refeering to kernel 2.6 to see how it compares in high load vs freebsd. as it stands i have a dual P4 1.7ghz XEON running 2.4.18 vs a dual pIII xeon 800 on freebsd, and they do about the same amount of job. something is WHACKED. i know the application sucks, but the p4 should be doing a LOT more than it is now
bah, i'd take a freebsd KERNEL based debian any day ! especially for servers.
seems to me like freebsd performs much admirably in high load environment, but it's such a pain to use (and yes, i'm eager to try 2.6 in a production environment see how it compares!)
it is MOSTLY eyecandy. i can think of a few times where i needed translucent windows (monitoring multiple servers with a couple different applications). i didn't have it, i did without, it would have been much easier with it tho
granted, those cases are rare and far between, but eh... geeks love eyecandy, leave it to them:P (i'm not one of those that'll be installing this, my computer is slow enough as it is!)
get dragon naturally speaking (voice recognition) and a text to speech proggy, combined with one of those bots. hook it all up to your phone line, i bet you can seriously annoy the telemarketers having them talk to eliza!
thanks god for canada... we rarely ever get any kind of marketing calls here:P
that's been done before. i remember a few years ago (5-6 years) some company had a lense to see through clothes.. i think it was insanely priced tho, but eh... nothing stops a voyeur i guess
i know some sony model can. and probably a lot of others. but you have to open them to remove one of the light filter in it (sorry, can't remember which one)
but then, why would one want to PEEK under woman's clothes.... when you can have the real thing?
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you can run oracle reliably on anything, INCLUDING debian, GNU/Linux based. you might not be able to "pass the buck" with debian, but you sure as hell can run it reliably
of course, that has been proved untrue (1:10 for windows and 1:40 for linux? something like that)
that guy is full of shit, the only reasons mac aren't more popular is their insane price tag (yes, they are far cheaper NOW than they were 10 years ago) and apple's lack of marketing. there's no conspiracy there, just plain mismanagement (or lack of money to do the Right Thing), but slapped with innacuracies. zealotry at its best
i know, i just don't care to provide clickable links.
:)
beside, i DID get first post didn't i?
funny how the lastest cryptogram treats of exactly the same subject, i just received it an hour ago
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram.html
eh it caught you too ? :)
KDE, Gnome, good for beginners, bloatware (15 megs for the simplest app? no fuckin way!)
:\
Fluxbox. configurability, useability, and damn nasty memory leaks i never could track down
Blackbox, nice, small, clean, easy to use. but lacking on-top windows
countless other WMs: unuseable, bloated, ugly, etc..
bleh,
i have yet to find a WM that fits all of my needs. for now i'm using blackbox
another piece of software from our big friend d.j.bernstein? tell you what, there is no way in hell that thing gets anywhere near my machine. djbdns sucks enough as it is
not likely, cameras are not the end-all be all. and if the camera bothers the kids enough, trust me they WILL destroy/render it useless.
ever seen what a sheet of chewed paper can do to picture quality? *grin*
and why shouldnt his bathroom trip be a worthy news item? he is, after all, your God (slashdot's) , everything he does is Right and should be revered as such! :)
the problem with that line is one of reputation. much like the "no one ever got fired for choosing IBM/CISCO/WHATEVER" line. if you buy a noname brand and it goes belly up, you'll surely get fired. if yuo buy a cisco and it goes belly up, you can always blame it on cisco and STILL get away with it.
it doesn't make senes. but that's how it goes!
actually no, read the article it says "..a year after...", back one year there was no big fuss over all these licensing fees issues
but you can bet that sco will get brutally ass-raped if they even try to touch mr ellison's jewels. he's got a big enough ego to go mad about it, and the cash to sue sco into oblivion
i can just see it now. all of your recorded shows starts with a notice asking you if you want to check a central database for copyrighted work. once you click yes you then get a few bluescreens
oh and windows is hardly free, even for embedded devices (no tag price, but im sure it's higher than whatever sco is charging)
don't get me wrong. i've been using linux for a year as my main desktop, and whenever i touch a windows box i get lost due to the lack of my favorite applications (tcpdump!)
but kde/linux still has a LOT to do to even come to match with windows. like being able to run more than 3 applications (what is it with even the simplest apps taking 10 megs of memory? including "tray" icons), printing (admitedly not kde specific, but i STILL can't print anything on linux), and god-awful latency on anything less recent than a p4 3ghz (right now im using a pII 333 with 320 megs of ram, takes 5 seconds to switch tabs in firebird. and that's WITH a preempt kernel)
there are ways around engraving. i know someone that printed counterfeited 20$ bills when he was younger.
true he eventually got caught, but he DID get complimented on the quality of his bills. i'm not sure on the exact technique he used tho
the MX would still be pointing to a valid mail server. the string in EHLO is garbage, honest!
you want to do it on the IP address (eg, what's in the SRC header of the ip packets). not the EHLO/HELO garbage.
my mail server (courier-mta) will even do MX lookup on the @domain to see if it's properly configured and reject it if it's not.
i got that, i actually have about 20 servers running freebsd, i was refeering to the ease of administration (apt-get etc) and the quality of the packages. installing a new apache is always a huge hassle. and many packages are so screwed in *bsd they won't even run (like mysql on dec 3000 alpha running netbsd wont even compile)
and i was refeering to kernel 2.6 to see how it compares in high load vs freebsd. as it stands i have a dual P4 1.7ghz XEON running 2.4.18 vs a dual pIII xeon 800 on freebsd, and they do about the same amount of job. something is WHACKED. i know the application sucks, but the p4 should be doing a LOT more than it is now
bah, i'd take a freebsd KERNEL based debian any day ! especially for servers.
seems to me like freebsd performs much admirably in high load environment, but it's such a pain to use (and yes, i'm eager to try 2.6 in a production environment see how it compares!)
it is MOSTLY eyecandy. i can think of a few times where i needed translucent windows (monitoring multiple servers with a couple different applications). i didn't have it, i did without, it would have been much easier with it tho
:P (i'm not one of those that'll be installing this, my computer is slow enough as it is!)
granted, those cases are rare and far between, but eh...
geeks love eyecandy, leave it to them
here we do have a few of our classes directly assigned to us, and some others are rented from the upstream. long assigned to us tho :P
:P
offtopic, how would i go about getting those ip rerouted (if we ever decided to move to another upstream), the "portable" ones i mean
get dragon naturally speaking (voice recognition) and a text to speech proggy, combined with one of those bots. hook it all up to your phone line, i bet you can seriously annoy the telemarketers having them talk to eliza!
:P
thanks god for canada... we rarely ever get any kind of marketing calls here
actually is doesn't run on linux "out-of-the-box". if you read the thread, it needs wineX
too bad
you forgot a few things
- it works SOOOO much better
- the documentation is clearly, concise and complete
hu ho.. NOT
that's been done before. i remember a few years ago (5-6 years) some company had a lense to see through clothes.. i think it was insanely priced tho, but eh... nothing stops a voyeur i guess
i know some sony model can. and probably a lot of others. but you have to open them to remove one of the light filter in it (sorry, can't remember which one)
but then, why would one want to PEEK under woman's clothes.... when you can have the real thing?