IE can be configured to allow plugin installs by the current user, but if you meant on a totally locked down PC, then no.
I see this being useful -- plenty of companies or websites block FireFox. Banks are especially notorious about pushing IE -- they'll tell you to upgrade FireFox to Netscape 4.74.
It was only THIS MONTH that Bank of America began claiming FireFox Support. There are still sections of their website that block you if you use FireFox on Linux.
(Everything works, mind you... you just have to futz with User-Agent... and that tells them they have no Linux users.
Who says the war hasn't gone according to plan?? It'll take Iraq 3 decades to rebuild, and we're not leaving till that's DONE (or long term contracts are signed).
Every time I see the news reporting lost weapons, corruption, forged intelligence, and dead middle class idealistic kids I'm thinking of Bush and the neocons, "Bring em on".
I once saw a documentary about the amount of black box and white box testing which goes on with automated gambling machines in the state of Nevada. This is seriously methodical stuff, and the test plans are pretty much the same for any device.
It amazes me that these ticket systems, Ohio voting machines, etc. all do not follow that model.
It's almost as amazing that the state of Massachusetts contracts this out -- apparently without good specs for test requirements. Is the only point in outsourcing to get lower quality? Instead of farming the job to some random company with no track record, they should have given it to MIT in the FIRST PLACE. MIT has been working on secure open evoting systems since WAY before 2000... I'm sure they could handle this, and it would create local jobs to boot*.
*(An open system is nice that it's free, but we're not quite there where state agencies can support themselves. Look at Red Hat's successful model packaging and selling support. A free and open ticketing system could still drive a healthy development community around MIT, and cities all around would still want extensions and new features added. )
Your strongly worded reply indicates that's how you interpreted the OP - but I think the more likely reasonable approach would have been to NOT interpret this as "iPhone came BEFORE the Microsoft WinCE-based phone OSs".
I agree it was ambiguously worded, but I knew what he meant:
Microsoft does not NEED to invent -- invention is for "smaller" companies.
Microsoft need only watch the ground for innovation, like a hawk watches for mice.
This historically has meant "catch up" expenses, but Microsoft can afford this approach with little financial risk, thanks to their monopolies on Windows and Office file formats.
The problem with this is Microsoft is looking to enter new markets only because they see OTHER companies doing it. It's like invading territory without any plans to administer it afterwards... you can shove the idea down people's throats, but people will quietly disagree.
Microsoft's now bogged down in Zune and XB360 lands, with no REAL innovation, and apparently losses only supported by borrowing from the Desktop franchise. In another company, stockholders would sue for losses by management.
Apple innovates with the iPhone just fine. Sony innovates with the PS3 like Microsoft doesn't: free features in firmware updates... Sony -- a DRM "bad guy" with a lot of content, actually supporting DiVX;-), a format mostly known for pirated videos? (Is it snowing in Hell?)
That's splitting hairs on an irrelevant point. Who was first? Microsoft.
It doesn't matter if it was done in ActiveX, as a DLL, or as pat of the "kernel".
At the time it actually made sense to do it in ActiveX... it could be disabled if installations wanted to do so.
What made Ajax at the time useless was only Microsoft was supporting it... so some Intranets could take advantage of it, but not the wider web.
Once Mozilla supported it, things got better... except we had to wait for abstraction Javascript libraries, because neither version was compatible.
Not a big fan of Microsoft at all, but they get credit here. Of course, you could also point out it was an "obvious" enhancement, and a dying Netscape was ill-equipped to match the feature even if they wanted to.
>Jeezus, what bunch of hand-wringing whiny pussies conservatives have become.
You may be right, but in the time it took for you to make a reasoned and serious reply... this fellow's posted the same foolish 'logic' on 20 different websites using 60 different 'nyms. Since you're still typing, he won!
Sure, you might see some applications "soldering" he LED right into the housing... just like it's done with some CPU & motherboard applications.
If people want bulbs, though, they will get them. There's no monopoly on LED bulbs, and no builder conspiracy to require us to get non-servicable lights.
The cost of manfacturing LEDs in a bulb fashion is cheap -- not much different than regular incandescents. The big holdup and cost is it takes too damn many bulbs to accomplish the lumens.
You'll probably always need more than 1 LED to make a bulb, simply because the LEDs are very 'directional' instead of 'point' lights. But today's LEDs are weak and expensive, so instead of getting by with say 8 LEDs, you need like 50-100 for a omnidirectional light.
I have a few of these in spotlight form. The $8 20 LED ones make great desk and reading lamps (or killer nightlights if you want to keep another room lit at night). The ones that compare to regular bulbs are $35-$100 and at that price, I'm not willing to get one even as a test.
Another technology to watch is CCFL -- Compact Cold Fluorescent Lighting. Right now it's mostly used in PC cases by the LAN party kids, but it's starting to be used in bulbs.
Did the OP have the package caching-nameserver installed? If so, that packages whole point is to change the bind configuration into doing just caching.
I PAY REDHAT GOOD MONEY FOR THIS!
I don't need you implying that they can't prevent my mistakes, or read my mind.
(joking, but look at all the "if this were Microsoft.." people skimming right OVER this fact. You saw it, I saw it, and that should be enough to shut them up... and never mind the bad practices by the submitter. He installed the WRONG PACKAGE, folks!).
You nailed the demographic, but these are EXACTLY the group that should not be running their OWN exposed servers. This would be true for any server, but "double" so for DNS.
DNS hosting is cheap, and the expenses are unpredictable (unlike the commotion raised when you have "Windows IT" people whining about "what they pay Redhat for". UNIX does what you ask. If you want 10 meters of rope, tie it to a beam and stick your head in... it will let you.
Automatic updates are FINE for the desktop, in shops like you describe.
>You know, not everyone has non-production servers. Every server we have IS production. And if you are paying for Red Hat Enterprise, you expect Red Hat to have tested these updates themselves. If this was a Microsoft error, Slashdot would be all over Microsoft for allowing this to happen.
You are wrong; stop whining. You're just painting yourself as misinformed.
1) The updates WERE tested. 2) The admin installed "caching-nameserver", then configured his install to act far outside the default. 3) He allows automatic updates straight into production. So do you it seems. Good luck with that! RHEL documentation says to not do this, but you're a bigshot "paying" for something different. I suggest you get a sidekick, and stick to the Windows side of your "enterprise". 4) He didn't revert his.conf file, as is usually needed when some new line is added to a server.conf. This is SO NORMAL you'd have to be a n00b to get bitten!
Your MS comparison is apples and oranges. If this guy did TEN MINUTES worth of testing he'd realize something's up, and he could revert the rpm package. How many MS updates prohibit uninstall? Quite a few!
In Windows, you can't diff the before & after config, since Windows admins would rather be blind to what they're installing, since that's the norm and it's accepted.
I'm sorry, this isn't a bug. You just don't understand servers I guess. Let me explain:
When you customize a server's configuration file, you save the.conf file somewhere safe. You might even copy it to another system.
When you roll out updates, it is ROUTINE for the new software to backup the old conf file and install a new one. This is completely standard.
If you've done ANY customizing in your conf file, you don't want to lose it: you diff the.rpmsave vs the new, and copy in the old settings (or copy the old file over the new, if there are no major additions to the conf). In UNIX, you keep your config just like in Windows you reboot for everything. It's part of the process.
Even a 1st year novice admin knows this! And my statements here fall WELL SHORT of what some people are suggesting (a pair of upgrade-test servers that soak the release before you go live*).
I'm sorry, but "alexs" is a DUMMY. He does not know "best practices". He compounds his mistake by complaining and pointing blams on/. If alexs/. handle can be associated with his real name, someday he will be embarrassed by this when a job interviewer brings up this episode.
(BTW, if it were a Microsoft product, you'd have NO WAY of auditing the changes.. so you could never get by without more testing than I outlined here).
I used to be chained to a desktop. I got rid of the desktop, and got a laptop.
When I traveled, I didn't like the laptop so much If you're on call and have to lug a laptop, it's annoying. Sometimes you don't end up using it but you have to keep it around anyway..
Then I got a Nokia N800 and keyboard... These mid-size ultraportables are nice if you need to do less than an hour's work.
For something in-between, these Asus systems seem real nice. Only reason I've held off is because the Nokia's working for me at the moment, and also with these things being so NEW it was obvious there would be some revision/model churn fairly quick.
You don't need a laptop case for some of the Asus.. just toss it in a standard backpack. It'll even fit in your pocket (if you wear cargo pants).
Xandros? I used it, and installed it for like 5 people.
That was, of course, WAYY back when it was "Corel Linux", an innovative desktop for sure (and yes, they fell behind because they forked KDE... but man it was SO COOL being able to resize your display rez without restarting X... yes, Linux was THAT bad back then).
The other distros were all neat back when Red Hat was IGNORING the desktop. They still are, but Ubuntu has steamrolled and consolidated this space... and deservedly so!
NY Times won't block articles (require registration) from an IP address, not until they've seen XX articles read that day from your IP. Bug you could always google "NY Times register inconvenience" and use "bug me not" to get in.
NY Times is one of the world's best newspapers - I for one won't complain about their links (not unless it's replaced with a free NY Times syndicate feed ). Thanks for sharing.:-)
Whatever, this is a good move. I may be wrong about the local heating, there may be other dangers, or none at all. I'd prefer the facts came from a properly conducted study then the mouth of a solar power evangelist with passion but no facts supported by evidence.
How 'bad' would solar have to be to halt it? Would it need to be 50% as bad as fossil fuel? 75%? Twice as bad?
I'd be more inclined to agree with your points - it's sound reasoning - except you are NOT applying it to ALL energy types, just the punk upstart. That's not sound.
Given the huge expense of solar, we're not in danger of blanketing the SouthWest with solar panels anytime soon (although if we found more oil there, there's NO such hesitation in plastering it in oil wells).
The science on solar right now is that it is among the safest and cleanest, period. It's NOT "new" by any stretch. If that's too good to be true, it can be studied while building new plants. There are plenty of economic brakes on solar right now to keep it from becoming a major portion of the grid.
Like everything else the Bush administration does, this is designed to keep oil prices high. Right down to post 9-11 fights on better CAFE fuel standards, and fighting FOR tax credits on Hummers (which exceeded Prius tax credits by 40X!). I swear the only reason that devil hasn't threatened Dubai or Saudi Arabia with war is because he plans to RETIRE there.
I think it is like an ostrich with his head in the sand. Except the ostrich is "Dubya", and the sand that he has his head in is really his ass. Judging by these and other events, he likes the view in there.
No, you are SO wrong... The SAND is the ASS of the American people. The head of the "ostrich" is a giant rubber fist, which Dubya covered WITH sand.. and itching powder.... planted lovingly in the voter's ass.
Oh, and the sand came free courtesy of the Dubai government (or did he pay for it with loans from the Chinese government? It's SO hard to keep track of Dubya's puppet strings...).
The only part of 'profile' that matters is the separate queues. That will be gone... web GUI tricks won't affect the Netflix shipping department.
I DON'T think Netflix would have done this if Walmart was still alive in their DVD rental business.
Last I checked Blockbuster's online store worked poorly in FireFox... and if the stores are any indication, probably all of their movies default to "full screen" (pan and scan).
My favorite is GreenCine.com... but they only ship from the west coast, and movie turnover is VERY slow.
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IE can be configured to allow plugin installs by the current user, but if you meant on a totally locked down PC, then no.
I see this being useful -- plenty of companies or websites block FireFox. Banks are especially notorious about pushing IE -- they'll tell you to upgrade FireFox to Netscape 4.74.
It was only THIS MONTH that Bank of America began claiming FireFox Support. There are still sections of their website that block you if you use FireFox on Linux.
(Everything works, mind you... you just have to futz with User-Agent... and that tells them they have no Linux users.
Logan's Run had this concept.
Runner!
Who says the war hasn't gone according to plan?? It'll take Iraq 3 decades to rebuild, and we're not leaving till that's DONE (or long term contracts are signed).
Every time I see the news reporting lost weapons, corruption, forged intelligence, and dead middle class idealistic kids I'm thinking of Bush and the neocons, "Bring em on".
I once saw a documentary about the amount of black box and white box testing which goes on with automated gambling machines in the state of Nevada. This is seriously methodical stuff, and the test plans are pretty much the same for any device.
It amazes me that these ticket systems, Ohio voting machines, etc. all do not follow that model.
It's almost as amazing that the state of Massachusetts contracts this out -- apparently without good specs for test requirements. Is the only point in outsourcing to get lower quality? Instead of farming the job to some random company with no track record, they should have given it to MIT in the FIRST PLACE. MIT has been working on secure open evoting systems since WAY before 2000... I'm sure they could handle this, and it would create local jobs to boot*.
*(An open system is nice that it's free, but we're not quite there where state agencies can support themselves. Look at Red Hat's successful model packaging and selling support. A free and open ticketing system could still drive a healthy development community around MIT, and cities all around would still want extensions and new features added. )
Hint: People are deliberately signing up for MoveOn lists, then flagging it as spam.
This is not news - it's a pretty well-known competitive dirty trick.
Your strongly worded reply indicates that's how you interpreted the OP - but I think the more likely reasonable approach would have been to NOT interpret this as "iPhone came BEFORE the Microsoft WinCE-based phone OSs".
I agree it was ambiguously worded, but I knew what he meant:
Microsoft does not NEED to invent -- invention is for "smaller" companies.
Microsoft need only watch the ground for innovation, like a hawk watches for mice.
This historically has meant "catch up" expenses, but Microsoft can afford this approach with little financial risk, thanks to their monopolies on Windows and Office file formats.
The problem with this is Microsoft is looking to enter new markets only because they see OTHER companies doing it. It's like invading territory without any plans to administer it afterwards... you can shove the idea down people's throats, but people will quietly disagree.
Microsoft's now bogged down in Zune and XB360 lands, with no REAL innovation, and apparently losses only supported by borrowing from the Desktop franchise. In another company, stockholders would sue for losses by management.
Apple innovates with the iPhone just fine. ;-), a format mostly known for pirated videos? (Is it snowing in Hell?)
Sony innovates with the PS3 like Microsoft doesn't: free features in firmware updates... Sony -- a DRM "bad guy" with a lot of content, actually supporting DiVX
>While they can certainly fire him for insubordination, I'm not exactly sure what he could really be charged with.
This is City Hall...
That's splitting hairs on an irrelevant point.
Who was first? Microsoft.
It doesn't matter if it was done in ActiveX, as a DLL, or as pat of the "kernel".
At the time it actually made sense to do it in ActiveX... it could be disabled if installations wanted to do so.
What made Ajax at the time useless was only Microsoft was supporting it... so some Intranets could take advantage of it, but not the wider web.
Once Mozilla supported it, things got better... except we had to wait for abstraction Javascript libraries, because neither version was compatible.
Not a big fan of Microsoft at all, but they get credit here. Of course, you could also point out it was an "obvious" enhancement, and a dying Netscape was ill-equipped to match the feature even if they wanted to.
>Jeezus, what bunch of hand-wringing whiny pussies conservatives have become.
You may be right, but in the time it took for you to make a reasoned and serious reply... this fellow's posted the same foolish 'logic' on 20 different websites using 60 different 'nyms. Since you're still typing, he won!
Yep exactly. "Cathode" was in my head, but not what was typed.
Still, neat stuff!
Sure, you might see some applications "soldering" he LED right into the housing... just like it's done with some CPU & motherboard applications.
If people want bulbs, though, they will get them. There's no monopoly on LED bulbs, and no builder conspiracy to require us to get non-servicable lights.
The cost of manfacturing LEDs in a bulb fashion is cheap -- not much different than regular incandescents. The big holdup and cost is it takes too damn many bulbs to accomplish the lumens.
You'll probably always need more than 1 LED to make a bulb, simply because the LEDs are very 'directional' instead of 'point' lights. But today's LEDs are weak and expensive, so instead of getting by with say 8 LEDs, you need like 50-100 for a omnidirectional light.
I have a few of these in spotlight form. The $8 20 LED ones make great desk and reading lamps (or killer nightlights if you want to keep another room lit at night). The ones that compare to regular bulbs are $35-$100 and at that price, I'm not willing to get one even as a test.
Another technology to watch is CCFL -- Compact Cold Fluorescent Lighting. Right now it's mostly used in PC cases by the LAN party kids, but it's starting to be used in bulbs.
Is that you, Josh?
hahaha watch the cornhole, luser.
Someone really needs to do a comparison about the testing rigors applied to LV gambling machines, vs. voting machines.
The voting machines have it WAY too easy!
Did the OP have the package caching-nameserver installed? If so, that packages whole point is to change the bind configuration into doing just caching.
I PAY REDHAT GOOD MONEY FOR THIS!
I don't need you implying that they can't prevent my mistakes, or read my mind.
(joking, but look at all the "if this were Microsoft.." people skimming right OVER this fact. You saw it, I saw it, and that should be enough to shut them up... and never mind the bad practices by the submitter. He installed the WRONG PACKAGE, folks!).
You nailed the demographic, but these are EXACTLY the group that should not be running their OWN exposed servers.
This would be true for any server, but "double" so for DNS.
DNS hosting is cheap, and the expenses are unpredictable (unlike the commotion raised when you have "Windows IT" people whining about "what they pay Redhat for". UNIX does what you ask. If you want 10 meters of rope, tie it to a beam and stick your head in... it will let you.
Automatic updates are FINE for the desktop, in shops like you describe.
>You know, not everyone has non-production servers. Every server we have IS production. And if you are paying for Red Hat Enterprise, you expect Red Hat to have tested these updates themselves. If this was a Microsoft error, Slashdot would be all over Microsoft for allowing this to happen.
You are wrong; stop whining. You're just painting yourself as misinformed.
1) The updates WERE tested. .conf file, as is usually needed when some new line is added to a server .conf. This is SO NORMAL you'd have to be a n00b to get bitten!
2) The admin installed "caching-nameserver", then configured his install to act far outside the default.
3) He allows automatic updates straight into production. So do you it seems. Good luck with that! RHEL documentation says to not do this, but you're a bigshot "paying" for something different. I suggest you get a sidekick, and stick to the Windows side of your "enterprise".
4) He didn't revert his
Your MS comparison is apples and oranges. If this guy did TEN MINUTES worth of testing he'd realize something's up, and he could revert the rpm package. How many MS updates prohibit uninstall? Quite a few!
In Windows, you can't diff the before & after config, since Windows admins would rather be blind to what they're installing, since that's the norm and it's accepted.
I'm sorry, this isn't a bug. You just don't understand servers I guess. Let me explain:
When you customize a server's configuration file, you save the .conf file somewhere safe.
You might even copy it to another system.
When you roll out updates, it is ROUTINE for the new software to backup the old conf file and install a new one.
This is completely standard.
If you've done ANY customizing in your conf file, you don't want to lose it: you diff the .rpmsave vs the new, and copy in the old settings (or copy the old file over the new, if there are no major additions to the conf). In UNIX, you keep your config just like in Windows you reboot for everything. It's part of the process.
Even a 1st year novice admin knows this! And my statements here fall WELL SHORT of what some people are suggesting (a pair of upgrade-test servers that soak the release before you go live*).
I'm sorry, but "alexs" is a DUMMY. He does not know "best practices". He compounds his mistake by complaining and pointing blams on /. /. handle can be associated with his real name, someday he will be embarrassed by this when a job interviewer brings up this episode.
If alexs
(BTW, if it were a Microsoft product, you'd have NO WAY of auditing the changes.. so you could never get by without more testing than I outlined here).
You could Google for all the companies feeding at the Iraq war trough.
Just pick one.
I used to be chained to a desktop.
I got rid of the desktop, and got a laptop.
When I traveled, I didn't like the laptop so much
If you're on call and have to lug a laptop, it's annoying.
Sometimes you don't end up using it but you have to keep it around anyway..
Then I got a Nokia N800 and keyboard...
These mid-size ultraportables are nice if you need to do less than an hour's work.
For something in-between, these Asus systems seem real nice. Only reason I've held off is because the Nokia's working for me at the moment, and also with these things being so NEW it was obvious there would be some revision/model churn fairly quick.
You don't need a laptop case for some of the Asus.. just toss it in a standard backpack. It'll even fit in your pocket (if you wear cargo pants).
Xandros? I used it, and installed it for like 5 people.
That was, of course, WAYY back when it was "Corel Linux", an innovative desktop for sure (and yes, they fell behind because they forked KDE... but man it was SO COOL being able to resize your display rez without restarting X... yes, Linux was THAT bad back then).
The other distros were all neat back when Red Hat was IGNORING the desktop. They still are, but Ubuntu has steamrolled and consolidated this space... and deservedly so!
Sorry, it doesn't look that way for MOST of us.
NY Times won't block articles (require registration) from an IP address, not until they've seen XX articles read that day from your IP. Bug you could always google "NY Times register inconvenience" and use "bug me not" to get in.
NY Times is one of the world's best newspapers - I for one won't complain about their links (not unless it's replaced with a free NY Times syndicate feed ). Thanks for sharing. :-)
Whatever, this is a good move. I may be wrong about the local heating, there may be other dangers, or none at all. I'd prefer the facts came from a properly conducted study then the mouth of a solar power evangelist with passion but no facts supported by evidence.
How 'bad' would solar have to be to halt it? Would it need to be 50% as bad as fossil fuel? 75%? Twice as bad?
I'd be more inclined to agree with your points - it's sound reasoning - except you are NOT applying it to ALL energy types, just the punk upstart. That's not sound.
Given the huge expense of solar, we're not in danger of blanketing the SouthWest with solar panels anytime soon (although if we found more oil there, there's NO such hesitation in plastering it in oil wells).
The science on solar right now is that it is among the safest and cleanest, period. It's NOT "new" by any stretch. If that's too good to be true, it can be studied while building new plants. There are plenty of economic brakes on solar right now to keep it from becoming a major portion of the grid.
Like everything else the Bush administration does, this is designed to keep oil prices high. Right down to post 9-11 fights on better CAFE fuel standards, and fighting FOR tax credits on Hummers (which exceeded Prius tax credits by 40X!). I swear the only reason that devil hasn't threatened Dubai or Saudi Arabia with war is because he plans to RETIRE there.
I think it is like an ostrich with his head in the sand. Except the ostrich is "Dubya", and the sand that he has his head in is really his ass. Judging by these and other events, he likes the view in there.
No, you are SO wrong...
The SAND is the ASS of the American people.
The head of the "ostrich" is a giant rubber fist, which Dubya covered WITH sand.. and itching powder.... planted lovingly in the voter's ass.
Oh, and the sand came free courtesy of the Dubai government (or did he pay for it with loans from the Chinese government? It's SO hard to keep track of Dubya's puppet strings...).
No. It's more like, your neighbor blasted music so loud you could hear it... and you danced to it etc. without "paying" an entertainment fee.
The only part of 'profile' that matters is the separate queues. That will be gone... web GUI tricks won't affect the Netflix shipping department.
I DON'T think Netflix would have done this if Walmart was still alive in their DVD rental business.
Last I checked Blockbuster's online store worked poorly in FireFox... and if the stores are any indication, probably all of their movies default to "full screen" (pan and scan).
My favorite is GreenCine.com... but they only ship from the west coast, and movie turnover is VERY slow.