A company I worked for spent quite a long time trying to upgrade their servers to 2000 from NT4, but had to spend quite a nickel on training first, because apparantly AD is significantly different than just setting up a PDC and a couple of BDCs as you do in NT4, and if you do it wrong, there can be some significant issues where the whole domain can go down.
Switching software in ANY way offers some significant risks in terms of having to reinvest in training. The people who blame training for not switching, on the scale, more than likely are just lazy, and the idea of learning another windows release sounds easier than learning the "big scary UNIX clone".:)
You're so intent on focusing on the "real world", you miss the fact of the matter. Isn't IIS, by being targetted more, by being hacked more, regardless of the reason, de facto less secure? If I have a Yugo with a rag tying the door shut and both windows open, but I'm parked next to a porshe, I am de facto safer than the porshe in terms of getting my car stolen. If I'm running Linux/Mozilla/Evolution/Apache instead of Windows/IE/Outlook/IIS, regardless of the mathematical mumbojumbo people like to use to prove that even though the latter is hacked more in a day than the former is hacked in a week, it's still the safer solution, it's just a fuzzy security blanket. With a server on the internet, I'd sooner take Apache, or even better, "Bobs probably insecure webserver which tells the world it's apache but doesn't have any of the bugs of THAT server, just a bunch of it's own", for the same reason I'd use OS/2 or BeOS or something else obscure, even without a firewall, for a critical, "this absolutely cannot be hacked" server long before I chose the most secure versions of Windows or Linux. Sure, there could be huge bugs, but if you can find someone who knows about 'em, you've got someone who isn't going to be kept out, no matter which server you're using.:)
If this was KDE, someone would have already answered with this, but because it's Windows, everyone just nods with the rest of the flock, "Baa, baa, yes, there are hoops to jump through, baa."
Geez man, chill out. It's just a discussion board, and not a very good one at that. If it's bothering you that much, go have a beer and relax away from these poseurs!:P
True, dat. To be honest though, if it's as popular as people say, why not just fork it, and since he seems to be the only one who can work on it, according to many posts here, stop development of the gpl version to focus on something you can walk up to a company and sell? Seems to me like creating a market then jumping right in.:)
My hobbies include motorcycling, fishing, boating, and RC airplanes (among many others). You don't see me threatening to take down web pages because companies aren't paying me to ride my motorcycle, to fish, boat, or fly model airplanes. If it's a hobby, then fine; treat it like one. Don't give away software for free and then complain that for-profit businesses aren't voluntarily sending you money.
Seems to me that if you were running in races under the impression that you'd be given some sponsorship money, then didn't and had to starve to death for the summer, you'd probably sell your bike. Seems to me this is the same sort of thing...
Anyway, chalk it up to another gulliable guy who forgot that he had to put food on the table. Someday the majority of geeks'll have this figured out, hopefully.:/
Yes, a lot of things SHOULD work in a certain way, but right now, they DON'T. I've been running without swap for about a week now for a few reasons, on a dual boot win2k/gentoo linux box, and it IS faster than running with swap turned on. I must have enough ram to do what I want to do though, because I'm writing to you right now sans swap. The problem is that VMs aren't perfect, and neither are VM devs. In trying to ensure that there is an extra 10MB of disk cache available, they end up sending stuff to swap long before there's a legitimate need, completely negating, in my view, the point of that 10MB of disk cache in the first place.
And as for your other point, swap in Linux isn't allocated automatically, it's got it's own partition. If you run out of swap, and you've run out of memory, you're going to be just as toasted as if you ran out of RAM and had no swap, except a lot slower. Sure, you could have that extra swap both ways, but if you have more than enough ram(for example, if I decided to put 1Gb of RAM into this box -- my gentoo partition is only 1gb overall!!), it seems it would be a lot faster to hold everything in memory, and for a mobile user such as myself, it seems to me that forgoing the disk activity caused by swapping in and out would save battery power as well.
I don't think I can really make a judgement on whether this is ok or not, not being a processor designer and all. I think I'll leave this one up to the courts and save my outrage for when I'm grumpy about something completely different.:)
I'm not a huge fan of Bush, but I'll be enjoying his victory on election night just envisioning the enragement of the left.
Hey, it's just the next generations money he's squandering and sending off to foreign countries by the truckload, why should you worry about that? It's just a half trillion here, a half trillion there, nobodys going to miss it!
WHAT?! You'd better go tell that to Hans Blix, because that cheeky bastard is going around telling everyone that it's probably an old shell from pre-gulf war Iraq.
Just run up to the UN, and go:
"Quickly! I'm toupsie from slashdot! Hans Blix may have dedicated ten years of his life to hunting these weapons, but I'm here to tell you that he doesn't know JACK! This was NOT an old shell!"
and they'll go "Wow! Thanks for this vital information! We have to ask you though, and this is just a formality, you understand, what your qualifications to be making this statement are -- the press is going to want to know. Have you spent time in Iraq?"
"well, no..."
"OK, have you been keeping up to date on the 900 page reports by the weapons inspectors over the past 10 years?"
"well no..."
"well, what is it which makes you qualified to make such a declaration?"
"well, I did stay at a holiday inn express last night!"
Bring a video camera. I want to see it when you get laughed out of the building.
Browser statistics and OS statistics are two different things. For one thing, mozilla for example is 99.9% compatible with anything on the web, which is just as good as any given version of IE, seeing as Microsoft has this horrible habit of breaking webpages with browser revisions(I worked for a school board in 2k, and IE6SP2 broke the Cisco Networking Academies curriculum. You can imagine our suprise when a few of the new labs we set up during the summer called up the helpdesk with a frantic "what the hell is wrong with our cisco??". )
with integrated tabbed browsing, popup blocking, spyware invunerability, greater speed and many other great features, in my view(and I'm not alone -- Many people I've met, after using mozilla or firebird for a week, swore by it. It's all we use in my household, and that's not by MY decision.:) ) the only people who still use IE are those who haven't gotten around to switching for whatever reason, or don't know about it yet.
The e-mail client is something else. Integration is for suckers.
Previous releases have clocked pretty close to opera 7, but the latest version boasts far greater compatibility with sites due to it's superior rendering engine.
besides -- I got gLinks for Linux in 500k. What's keeping opera so big?:P
K-meleon ( kmeleon.sourceforge.net ) includes a tabbed web browser. and a popup blocker, if you want to consider a setting in a config file a "popup blocker". It uses native API calls.
It's quite fast. 5.2Mhz today, but that's with a lot of stuff you don't nessessarily need to install, such as the opera/netscape bookmark plugins, mouse gestures, and a couple other nice plugins.
Also, you won't find an easier to customize web browser out there.:)
Like I said. Don't whine at me. I'm just the messenger. You can rationalize all day -- hell, you could convert me into thinking that all 290 million of them are great folks and I should invite them to my next barbeque -- and you'll have changed one mans opinion. Nice going, only 6.25 billion more to go.
The National Post is a hilarious rag. I read it every chance I get.
Why? Here's why:
Q:What are your opinions on the war in Iraq? A:We don't like the liberals. We should've gone.
Q:What are your opinions on adscam? A:Impeach the liberals. We don't like them.
Q:What can be done about the softwood lumber dispute? A:Vote out the liberals. They are to blame.
Q:Dainish forces have dropped a flag on a canadian island and it's causing a border dispute. What can we do? A:Crush Paul Martin. Stupid hippie.
Q:What's your favourite colour? A:not red.
Q:What do you want to be when you grow up? A:not liberal.
Q:Where were you the night of January 17, 1982? A:plotting the destruction of the liberal party!!!
So as you can see, with their unabashed biases, reading even the most mundane stories becomes fun!! Even worse is that some people think the Post is in the liberals pocket. You'd think they'd choose a different fundamental bias than "Liberals. Evil." if that were the case.
Anyway, I'm off to read the post. I want to read about how the moon landings were faked because the Liberals are evil.:D
Fuck politics. The reason americans are so universally dispised has nothing to do with oil, or bush, or any other simplification of american politics. The reason that americans are not respected abroad is that they're on the balance a bunch of loud, arrogant, ignorant pricks who'll be the first to complain that things aren't like they are in America.
That's just the way things are. Most folks don't watch the news, they only know americans from the way they present themselves. If you don't like things being the way they are, maybe you shouldn't let the loud, arrogant, ignorant pricks leave the country, because they ARE ruining it for the rest of you.
Don't like it? Don't bitch at me, because I'm just telling you the way things are.
Don't worry, the oil companies don't have to do anything sneaky. Most customers are completely illiterate, so they'll pull up to a super premium pump with their 1992 Ford Tempo, and fill 'er right up at 1.02/L, rather than pulling the two feet forward to the.840/L regular.
(Yes, I'm working a shit job to get through college. Got a problem with that?)
Has long become, my freind. Corporations are now more human than human. They have more rights than us, immortality, a whole slew of resources and legal rights you and I could never dream of having.
Next in the news: Microsoft on why it hates the WWF. "We wanted to sell "endangered species solutions" to governments who wanted to protect endangered species, but then those uppity World Wildlife Foundation pricks went in and did the job for free!"
Oh, cry me a river. If all these businesses are being dominated by a couple projects done by volunteers, maybe their time has come? You know, nothing in the market says you're entitled to a paycheque if you're not making something someone wants to buy.
Before you call anyone an nvidiot, you should check to make sure they're not using a Trident Cyberblade XP al1 16MB video chip. I'm agnostic through the use of a universally inferior graphics chipset.:P
The fact remains that both lied. Only an utter fool would proclaim to the world "don't trust these guys! They're cheating and liars! Go with these guys! They're honest!!" while knowing full well that both companies have cheated and lied on benchmarks in the past. Any way you slice it, advocating ATI as some more honest alternative to the lying/cheating Nvidia is pure ignorance. In fact, I'd consider it MORE ignorant that you hold such a stance after knowing all the facts. Seriously. WTF?
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched on that one. Remember how UT2k3 was supposed to bog down anything less than the absolute top of the line? Well suprise suprise, a 1Ghz machine with a G2MX200 will run it just fine at a reasonable resolution. How can such blasphemy happen?
People need to buy the games for the makers to make money. All the nice graphics and great reviews in the world won't sell a game if it needs the absolute latest video hardware to run. Ergo, prepare for HL2 to run on very reasonable hardware. I wouldn't be too suprised to see D3 running reasonably on modest hardware as well, but being a hardware driven game, I can't really make promises there.
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A company I worked for spent quite a long time trying to upgrade their servers to 2000 from NT4, but had to spend quite a nickel on training first, because apparantly AD is significantly different than just setting up a PDC and a couple of BDCs as you do in NT4, and if you do it wrong, there can be some significant issues where the whole domain can go down.
:)
Switching software in ANY way offers some significant risks in terms of having to reinvest in training. The people who blame training for not switching, on the scale, more than likely are just lazy, and the idea of learning another windows release sounds easier than learning the "big scary UNIX clone".
You're so intent on focusing on the "real world", you miss the fact of the matter. Isn't IIS, by being targetted more, by being hacked more, regardless of the reason, de facto less secure? If I have a Yugo with a rag tying the door shut and both windows open, but I'm parked next to a porshe, I am de facto safer than the porshe in terms of getting my car stolen. If I'm running Linux/Mozilla/Evolution/Apache instead of Windows/IE/Outlook/IIS, regardless of the mathematical mumbojumbo people like to use to prove that even though the latter is hacked more in a day than the former is hacked in a week, it's still the safer solution, it's just a fuzzy security blanket. With a server on the internet, I'd sooner take Apache, or even better, "Bobs probably insecure webserver which tells the world it's apache but doesn't have any of the bugs of THAT server, just a bunch of it's own", for the same reason I'd use OS/2 or BeOS or something else obscure, even without a firewall, for a critical, "this absolutely cannot be hacked" server long before I chose the most secure versions of Windows or Linux. Sure, there could be huge bugs, but if you can find someone who knows about 'em, you've got someone who isn't going to be kept out, no matter which server you're using. :)
:)
But hey, correct me if I'm wrong. It happens.
What? Porn(images at least) seem to work just fine in links. It has svgalib and xll versions in the same binary. :)
Pinky and the Brain look on at thousands of protestors: "People without jobs, Pinky. People without jobs."
That was THE best line in a TV show. Ever.
If this was KDE, someone would have already answered with this, but because it's Windows, everyone just nods with the rest of the flock, "Baa, baa, yes, there are hoops to jump through, baa."
:P
Geez man, chill out. It's just a discussion board, and not a very good one at that. If it's bothering you that much, go have a beer and relax away from these poseurs!
True, dat. To be honest though, if it's as popular as people say, why not just fork it, and since he seems to be the only one who can work on it, according to many posts here, stop development of the gpl version to focus on something you can walk up to a company and sell? Seems to me like creating a market then jumping right in. :)
AAAAAHHHHH! Urban Leigons! Run away!! RUN AWAY!!! The countless armies of the city approach to smite us all with their might!!!
:) )
(Urban legends, dude.
My hobbies include motorcycling, fishing, boating, and RC airplanes (among many others). You don't see me threatening to take down web pages because companies aren't paying me to ride my motorcycle, to fish, boat, or fly model airplanes. If it's a hobby, then fine; treat it like one. Don't give away software for free and then complain that for-profit businesses aren't voluntarily sending you money.
:/
Seems to me that if you were running in races under the impression that you'd be given some sponsorship money, then didn't and had to starve to death for the summer, you'd probably sell your bike. Seems to me this is the same sort of thing...
Anyway, chalk it up to another gulliable guy who forgot that he had to put food on the table. Someday the majority of geeks'll have this figured out, hopefully.
This one will give you 12GB.
Yes, a lot of things SHOULD work in a certain way, but right now, they DON'T. I've been running without swap for about a week now for a few reasons, on a dual boot win2k/gentoo linux box, and it IS faster than running with swap turned on. I must have enough ram to do what I want to do though, because I'm writing to you right now sans swap. The problem is that VMs aren't perfect, and neither are VM devs. In trying to ensure that there is an extra 10MB of disk cache available, they end up sending stuff to swap long before there's a legitimate need, completely negating, in my view, the point of that 10MB of disk cache in the first place.
And as for your other point, swap in Linux isn't allocated automatically, it's got it's own partition. If you run out of swap, and you've run out of memory, you're going to be just as toasted as if you ran out of RAM and had no swap, except a lot slower. Sure, you could have that extra swap both ways, but if you have more than enough ram(for example, if I decided to put 1Gb of RAM into this box -- my gentoo partition is only 1gb overall!!), it seems it would be a lot faster to hold everything in memory, and for a mobile user such as myself, it seems to me that forgoing the disk activity caused by swapping in and out would save battery power as well.
I don't think I can really make a judgement on whether this is ok or not, not being a processor designer and all. I think I'll leave this one up to the courts and save my outrage for when I'm grumpy about something completely different. :)
I'm not a huge fan of Bush, but I'll be enjoying his victory on election night just envisioning the enragement of the left.
Hey, it's just the next generations money he's squandering and sending off to foreign countries by the truckload, why should you worry about that? It's just a half trillion here, a half trillion there, nobodys going to miss it!
WHAT?! You'd better go tell that to Hans Blix, because that cheeky bastard is going around telling everyone that it's probably an old shell from pre-gulf war Iraq.
Just run up to the UN, and go:
"Quickly! I'm toupsie from slashdot! Hans Blix may have dedicated ten years of his life to hunting these weapons, but I'm here to tell you that he doesn't know JACK! This was NOT an old shell!"
and they'll go "Wow! Thanks for this vital information! We have to ask you though, and this is just a formality, you understand, what your qualifications to be making this statement are -- the press is going to want to know. Have you spent time in Iraq?"
"well, no..."
"OK, have you been keeping up to date on the 900 page reports by the weapons inspectors over the past 10 years?"
"well no..."
"well, what is it which makes you qualified to make such a declaration?"
"well, I did stay at a holiday inn express last night!"
Bring a video camera. I want to see it when you get laughed out of the building.
Browser statistics and OS statistics are two different things. For one thing, mozilla for example is 99.9% compatible with anything on the web, which is just as good as any given version of IE, seeing as Microsoft has this horrible habit of breaking webpages with browser revisions(I worked for a school board in 2k, and IE6SP2 broke the Cisco Networking Academies curriculum. You can imagine our suprise when a few of the new labs we set up during the summer called up the helpdesk with a frantic "what the hell is wrong with our cisco??". )
:) ) the only people who still use IE are those who haven't gotten around to switching for whatever reason, or don't know about it yet.
with integrated tabbed browsing, popup blocking, spyware invunerability, greater speed and many other great features, in my view(and I'm not alone -- Many people I've met, after using mozilla or firebird for a week, swore by it. It's all we use in my household, and that's not by MY decision.
Don't bother to let a little thing like the facts get in your way! GO ANTI-x86!!
(really. Ignore those extra registers on the a64. They're just for show....or something......really.)
The e-mail client is something else. Integration is for suckers.
:P
Previous releases have clocked pretty close to opera 7, but the latest version boasts far greater compatibility with sites due to it's superior rendering engine.
besides -- I got gLinks for Linux in 500k. What's keeping opera so big?
K-meleon ( kmeleon.sourceforge.net ) includes a tabbed web browser. and a popup blocker, if you want to consider a setting in a config file a "popup blocker". It uses native API calls.
:)
It's quite fast. 5.2Mhz today, but that's with a lot of stuff you don't nessessarily need to install, such as the opera/netscape bookmark plugins, mouse gestures, and a couple other nice plugins.
Also, you won't find an easier to customize web browser out there.
Like I said. Don't whine at me. I'm just the messenger. You can rationalize all day -- hell, you could convert me into thinking that all 290 million of them are great folks and I should invite them to my next barbeque -- and you'll have changed one mans opinion. Nice going, only 6.25 billion more to go.
The National Post is a hilarious rag. I read it every chance I get.
:D
Why? Here's why:
Q:What are your opinions on the war in Iraq?
A:We don't like the liberals. We should've gone.
Q:What are your opinions on adscam?
A:Impeach the liberals. We don't like them.
Q:What can be done about the softwood lumber dispute?
A:Vote out the liberals. They are to blame.
Q:Dainish forces have dropped a flag on a canadian island and it's causing a border dispute. What can we do?
A:Crush Paul Martin. Stupid hippie.
Q:What's your favourite colour?
A:not red.
Q:What do you want to be when you grow up?
A:not liberal.
Q:Where were you the night of January 17, 1982?
A:plotting the destruction of the liberal party!!!
So as you can see, with their unabashed biases, reading even the most mundane stories becomes fun!! Even worse is that some people think the Post is in the liberals pocket. You'd think they'd choose a different fundamental bias than "Liberals. Evil." if that were the case.
Anyway, I'm off to read the post. I want to read about how the moon landings were faked because the Liberals are evil.
Fuck politics. The reason americans are so universally dispised has nothing to do with oil, or bush, or any other simplification of american politics. The reason that americans are not respected abroad is that they're on the balance a bunch of loud, arrogant, ignorant pricks who'll be the first to complain that things aren't like they are in America.
That's just the way things are. Most folks don't watch the news, they only know americans from the way they present themselves. If you don't like things being the way they are, maybe you shouldn't let the loud, arrogant, ignorant pricks leave the country, because they ARE ruining it for the rest of you.
Don't like it? Don't bitch at me, because I'm just telling you the way things are.
Don't worry, the oil companies don't have to do anything sneaky. Most customers are completely illiterate, so they'll pull up to a super premium pump with their 1992 Ford Tempo, and fill 'er right up at 1.02/L, rather than pulling the two feet forward to the .840/L regular.
(Yes, I'm working a shit job to get through college. Got a problem with that?)
Quickly becoming?
Has long become, my freind. Corporations are now more human than human. They have more rights than us, immortality, a whole slew of resources and legal rights you and I could never dream of having.
Next in the news: Microsoft on why it hates the WWF. "We wanted to sell "endangered species solutions" to governments who wanted to protect endangered species, but then those uppity World Wildlife Foundation pricks went in and did the job for free!"
Oh, cry me a river. If all these businesses are being dominated by a couple projects done by volunteers, maybe their time has come? You know, nothing in the market says you're entitled to a paycheque if you're not making something someone wants to buy.
Before you call anyone an nvidiot, you should check to make sure they're not using a Trident Cyberblade XP al1 16MB video chip. I'm agnostic through the use of a universally inferior graphics chipset. :P
The fact remains that both lied. Only an utter fool would proclaim to the world "don't trust these guys! They're cheating and liars! Go with these guys! They're honest!!" while knowing full well that both companies have cheated and lied on benchmarks in the past. Any way you slice it, advocating ATI as some more honest alternative to the lying/cheating Nvidia is pure ignorance. In fact, I'd consider it MORE ignorant that you hold such a stance after knowing all the facts. Seriously. WTF?
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched on that one. Remember how UT2k3 was supposed to bog down anything less than the absolute top of the line? Well suprise suprise, a 1Ghz machine with a G2MX200 will run it just fine at a reasonable resolution. How can such blasphemy happen?
People need to buy the games for the makers to make money. All the nice graphics and great reviews in the world won't sell a game if it needs the absolute latest video hardware to run. Ergo, prepare for HL2 to run on very reasonable hardware. I wouldn't be too suprised to see D3 running reasonably on modest hardware as well, but being a hardware driven game, I can't really make promises there.