"So, I guess the answer to your question is "easily"."
Too bad it's not as "easy" are you are claiming.
City of Heroes/Villains BOTH make use of the right button. In another game I'm helping beta, I'm constantly using the left button to aim my attacks at the ever-moving target while smashing away on the right button to attack them.
Add in the fact that you, yourself, need to be moving around (to keep up with the thing you are attacking) and your 'holding the control key' or whatever quickly fall apart.
Go try and install something as simple as a calendar system in linux....you have to install ldap for authentication, a webserver for web access, the calendar software itself, the postgres database for data, etc. On windows you often just find a single app which does it all. For small to medium sized businesses, cobbling together doesn't make sense.
OOOOOOooorrr.. You could install the HORDE framework on an existing Apache server, install postgres OR mysql OR ldap OR (insert other DB here) for both authentication AND data (I happen to use mysql for the data, and let the IMAP server do the authentication), then put Kronolith into the HORDE install. BAM! Instant web-accessable calendar that all of your users can use ANYWHERE.
Of course, since we have all the tools in place for the web-accessable calendar, we might as well throw IMP in for web mail, and all the other horde modules to give you a complete package.
I've only ever set this up in a Gentoo install, so by default it takes longer than in windows or any other linux. I'd bet I could have what I described up and running in less than the time it takes to setup a Win2k/Win2k3 server and cost FAR less (with my time cost, less hardware cost, and FAR less software to license).
I've got this setup at several k-12 schools (with clam-av and spamassassin) and they *love* it.
Beat that, Microsoft, with your per-seat licenses (Which, while cheaper for schools, are still expensive!), your expensive software, and your higher hardware requirements!
I wish I had an internationally read web site in which to air my laundry about how NCSoft stripped me of the alias "TheHumanTarget" in City of Heroes, and how I had to go through the same inquiry process to find out why as the DM wouldn't tell me, so I could fish for sympathy from my userbase!
It's amazing to see how many people just don't "Get It" (TM)
Nat prevents unexpected incoming connections from hitting your internal machines. This is *exactly* what a "firewall" does.
When you open a port to a particular machine in your internal lan, you open THAT PORT, not every single port. If you, for example, open port 80 in order to run a web server, ALL OTHER TRAFFIC IS STILL BLOCKED! Strangly enough, JUST LIKE A FIREWALL.
The ONLY time you could "open up a huge hole" in your NAT Firewall would be to DMZ a machine, as I had previously mentioned to another moron, and in that case you deserve what you get.
There's nothing inherently more secure about NAT, it's just the way it's set up on most home routers. As a little experiment you can take a Windows box and put it in the "DMZ" of a normal home NAT box, which means that all ports and protocols get forwarded to it, just as if it was sitting on the public internet itself. It should end up getting owned by viruses and spyware just as quickly as if you plugged it into the modem, even though it's subject to NAT. The point being: the address translation isn't providing any security itself, its only because it's being applied selectively.
Of COURSE the Windows machine will get "owned" (as it were) if you TELL your FIREWALL/NAT device to forward all unexpected incoming connections to it!
Here. I've got one for you. Here's a condom. You can wear it while you have sex with whatever partners, but there is one particular partner for which I'm going to poke a hole in it for you.
I had two power supplies here that were dead (imagine that!) and they wouldn't take them back because I couldn't find the receipt. Even going by just the serial number, and the manu. date that goes along with it, they still had over 1 1/2 years warranty left.
I ended up throwing BOTH in the garbage; along with two others that had died while I was waiting for Antec to even reply ( They NEVER answered their support line phone, I left a message every time only to be ignored. It took me sending an email to their *complaint* email address before someone responded!)
Antec can take their power supplies and shove them where the sun don't shine. They are absoloutly the worse company I've ever dealt with (and I've had the displeasure of doing on site WARRNATY work for Packard Bell!!)
Mike
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I don't know about others, however I only recently began downloading a TV show from the internet. Why? Because it moved to Friday on UPN -- the same slot UPN uses to kill shows it doesn't want. For the last three weeks that it's been on UPN, it's been usurped by MLB each week (on both WPIX and WWOR). I simply had no other choice than to not watch, and I don't like that choice. It's one of the few TV shows I watch as it is and I don't want to give it up.
Not quite true. The gov does place a lot of taxes on phnoe service, such as the "Universal Service" fee GP was talking about. We do pay so people in the sticks can have phones instead of moving to civilization.
I'm not saying I agree with the tax, but why should people be forced into moving "to civilization" just to get a phone?
You going to make me worship whatever god you believe, and eat the same foods you like next?
His other hand will be "busy". Can't do that! Plus, taking his hand away from the mouse and over to the keyboard would require looking, taking his eyes away from his "research"!
Well, personally, I don't want to listen to the radio, ever. That's why I have an iPod. I used to listen to the radio for NPR shows, but with most of the "good stuff" from NPR being available as podcasts, well, my car radio stays on "Aux Input" all the time now, and I don't own another radio reciever at all.
My car stereos stay on AUX as well, but becuase I have an XM receiver hooked up. The only MP3 player I own is a 2+ year old Awia el-cheapo (well, at $80, it wasn't *cheap*) CD based MP3 player that I never use anymore.:)
I'd like to see that money go into some sort of account that has lots of interest yearly. Once done, I'd like to see the department get only that interest yearly. Do you have any idea how much interest would be had yearly on $5 million?
The reason your Epson's are still going is because you obviously don't give the print heads enough time to sit and crust over. Even outside of the August to December time frame you list, I'm sure you still send at least some work to those printers. The problem with the Epsons, for me, is how easy it is to get them clogged and how expensive some of their heads are. Otherwise, I've always liked the quality of the mid-high end inkjets from them.
As for the laser printers, you need something better than a cheap HP laserjet for handling thick card stock. We have a company up here that uses a Savin SLP35c and a SLP38c to print the paint can lables (rather thick) for their various paints/stains/coatings. The SLP38c has well over 200k copies on it (I think the counter flipped at least once or twice) and we still have not had to replace any of it's rollers. Developer/toner/fuser oil, on the other hand, is a different story.:)
Actually, I did read his message and I don't see where he implied what-so-ever that an inkjet could meet the volume of a laser -- that seemed to be a major point (if not THE point) of his message.
As for pricing, well, you get what you pay for. You can get a monochrome laser printer for ~$200. Not much more than a good inkjet.
As for color laser, well, the Samsung we have in here can be had for ~$600. Not too bad at all (especially if you are someone like my mother who spends many of her waking hours printing out photos of the grandchild and other family members for her scrapbooking)
I do repair work for Bantek (they farm out service work in various regions. We do the work for USBank through Bantek, if that makes any sense.).
All the calls we are sent to for lexmarks have needed pars (from pickup rollers to print heads -- especially the front display. Those things go bad if you LOOK at them wrong.). The *one* call I received for a HP was user error. They had the second tray set for legal paper but had letter in it. They simply had no idea that they needed to adjust anything despite the fact that every time they pushed the drawer in, the paper was pushed back by the upper roller.
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I beg to differ. SATA cables are FAR more usefull than AOL CD's.
"So, I guess the answer to your question is "easily"."
Too bad it's not as "easy" are you are claiming.
City of Heroes/Villains BOTH make use of the right button. In another game I'm helping beta, I'm constantly using the left button to aim my attacks at the ever-moving target while smashing away on the right button to attack them.
Add in the fact that you, yourself, need to be moving around (to keep up with the thing you are attacking) and your 'holding the control key' or whatever quickly fall apart.
Then again....KDE and Gnome come with media players and GAIM so they better watch out....
No, KDE doesn't. The distro packager puts the media player and GAIM into the "KDE" package for you.
{rant mode}
:)
Go try and install something as simple as a calendar system in linux....you have to install ldap for authentication, a webserver for web access, the calendar software itself, the postgres database for data, etc. On windows you often just find a single app which does it all. For small to medium sized businesses, cobbling together doesn't make sense.
OOOOOOooorrr.. You could install the HORDE framework on an existing Apache server, install postgres OR mysql OR ldap OR (insert other DB here) for both authentication AND data (I happen to use mysql for the data, and let the IMAP server do the authentication), then put Kronolith into the HORDE install. BAM! Instant web-accessable calendar that all of your users can use ANYWHERE.
Of course, since we have all the tools in place for the web-accessable calendar, we might as well throw IMP in for web mail, and all the other horde modules to give you a complete package.
I've only ever set this up in a Gentoo install, so by default it takes longer than in windows or any other linux. I'd bet I could have what I described up and running in less than the time it takes to setup a Win2k/Win2k3 server and cost FAR less (with my time cost, less hardware cost, and FAR less software to license).
I've got this setup at several k-12 schools (with clam-av and spamassassin) and they *love* it.
Beat that, Microsoft, with your per-seat licenses (Which, while cheaper for schools, are still expensive!), your expensive software, and your higher hardware requirements!
I think I'm rambling now. I should get going...
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That's why I use Over/Underrated. Keep my posts away from you and people like you.
Mike
I wish I had an internationally read web site in which to air my laundry about how NCSoft stripped me of the alias "TheHumanTarget" in City of Heroes, and how I had to go through the same inquiry process to find out why as the DM wouldn't tell me, so I could fish for sympathy from my userbase!
You are an ass.
Name one technology they didn't "embrace and extend" when dealing with software?
Just one.
What if you are part of an orgy, though? :)
You really know how to suck the humor (no pun intended)(well, mayhapps a little) out of a joke!
It's amazing to see how many people just don't "Get It" (TM)
Nat prevents unexpected incoming connections from hitting your internal machines. This is *exactly* what a "firewall" does.
When you open a port to a particular machine in your internal lan, you open THAT PORT, not every single port. If you, for example, open port 80 in order to run a web server, ALL OTHER TRAFFIC IS STILL BLOCKED! Strangly enough, JUST LIKE A FIREWALL.
The ONLY time you could "open up a huge hole" in your NAT Firewall would be to DMZ a machine, as I had previously mentioned to another moron, and in that case you deserve what you get.
You, sir, are a moron.
There's nothing inherently more secure about NAT, it's just the way it's set up on most home routers. As a little experiment you can take a Windows box and put it in the "DMZ" of a normal home NAT box, which means that all ports and protocols get forwarded to it, just as if it was sitting on the public internet itself. It should end up getting owned by viruses and spyware just as quickly as if you plugged it into the modem, even though it's subject to NAT. The point being: the address translation isn't providing any security itself, its only because it's being applied selectively.
Of COURSE the Windows machine will get "owned" (as it were) if you TELL your FIREWALL/NAT device to forward all unexpected incoming connections to it!
Here. I've got one for you. Here's a condom. You can wear it while you have sex with whatever partners, but there is one particular partner for which I'm going to poke a hole in it for you.
Geez..
If you are going to do all this compiling, you might as well be using Gentoo so you don't HAVE to make a script.
"emerge gaim" to do initial install, "emerge -u gaim" to update (after a sync, of course, which *could* be set in a weekly cron job) in the future!
You obviously don't run Gentoo. :)
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No, it's just been negatively moderated.
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Antec can bite my ass.
I had two power supplies here that were dead (imagine that!) and they wouldn't take them back because I couldn't find the receipt. Even going by just the serial number, and the manu. date that goes along with it, they still had over 1 1/2 years warranty left.
I ended up throwing BOTH in the garbage; along with two others that had died while I was waiting for Antec to even reply ( They NEVER answered their support line phone, I left a message every time only to be ignored. It took me sending an email to their *complaint* email address before someone responded!)
Antec can take their power supplies and shove them where the sun don't shine. They are absoloutly the worse company I've ever dealt with (and I've had the displeasure of doing on site WARRNATY work for Packard Bell!!)
Mike
I don't know about others, however I only recently began downloading a TV show from the internet. Why? Because it moved to Friday on UPN -- the same slot UPN uses to kill shows it doesn't want. For the last three weeks that it's been on UPN, it's been usurped by MLB each week (on both WPIX and WWOR). I simply had no other choice than to not watch, and I don't like that choice. It's one of the few TV shows I watch as it is and I don't want to give it up.
If my math is correct, that's $243,333-ish yearly, if you were to be paid $10k for every 15 days.
Works for me!
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Not quite true. The gov does place a lot of taxes on phnoe service, such as the "Universal Service" fee GP was talking about. We do pay so people in the sticks can have phones instead of moving to civilization.
I'm not saying I agree with the tax, but why should people be forced into moving "to civilization" just to get a phone?
You going to make me worship whatever god you believe, and eat the same foods you like next?
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His other hand will be "busy". Can't do that! Plus, taking his hand away from the mouse and over to the keyboard would require looking, taking his eyes away from his "research"!
I have the National 800 plan from USCellular. Unlimited incoming minutes (so long as I'm not roaming).
I don't know what USCC's policy is for refunding minutes when not on such a plan, though.
Mike
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Well, personally, I don't want to listen to the radio, ever. That's why I have an iPod. I used to listen to the radio for NPR shows, but with most of the "good stuff" from NPR being available as podcasts, well, my car radio stays on "Aux Input" all the time now, and I don't own another radio reciever at all.
:)
My car stereos stay on AUX as well, but becuase I have an XM receiver hooked up. The only MP3 player I own is a 2+ year old Awia el-cheapo (well, at $80, it wasn't *cheap*) CD based MP3 player that I never use anymore.
Mike
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Actually yes, you can be the only one. The damned "teaser" stated it was specifically for scanning in sheet music.
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I'd like to see that money go into some sort of account that has lots of interest yearly. Once done, I'd like to see the department get only that interest yearly. Do you have any idea how much interest would be had yearly on $5 million?
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The reason your Epson's are still going is because you obviously don't give the print heads enough time to sit and crust over. Even outside of the August to December time frame you list, I'm sure you still send at least some work to those printers. The problem with the Epsons, for me, is how easy it is to get them clogged and how expensive some of their heads are. Otherwise, I've always liked the quality of the mid-high end inkjets from them.
:)
As for the laser printers, you need something better than a cheap HP laserjet for handling thick card stock. We have a company up here that uses a Savin SLP35c and a SLP38c to print the paint can lables (rather thick) for their various paints/stains/coatings. The SLP38c has well over 200k copies on it (I think the counter flipped at least once or twice) and we still have not had to replace any of it's rollers. Developer/toner/fuser oil, on the other hand, is a different story.
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Actually, I did read his message and I don't see where he implied what-so-ever that an inkjet could meet the volume of a laser -- that seemed to be a major point (if not THE point) of his message.
As for pricing, well, you get what you pay for. You can get a monochrome laser printer for ~$200. Not much more than a good inkjet.
As for color laser, well, the Samsung we have in here can be had for ~$600. Not too bad at all (especially if you are someone like my mother who spends many of her waking hours printing out photos of the grandchild and other family members for her scrapbooking)
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I do repair work for Bantek (they farm out service work in various regions. We do the work for USBank through Bantek, if that makes any sense.).
All the calls we are sent to for lexmarks have needed pars (from pickup rollers to print heads -- especially the front display. Those things go bad if you LOOK at them wrong.). The *one* call I received for a HP was user error. They had the second tray set for legal paper but had letter in it. They simply had no idea that they needed to adjust anything despite the fact that every time they pushed the drawer in, the paper was pushed back by the upper roller.
Some people.
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