I really have to disagree, even if the system (*nix with X) seems completely unresponsive to the user it's usually still talking on the network. Several times I've had to ssh into my workstation and kill X, KDE or whatever was making it freeze. The only time you're really screwed is when you see Kernel Panic. It is possible to completely freeze a linux machine, it's also fairly hard to do. Just because X froze and your keyboard and mouse don't work doesn't mean the machine is completely dead. Where as a BSOD in Windows is the end of the road.
To the IT professionals: How much faith do you put in these sorts of publications and their 'bake offs'?
Absolutely none, I rely solely on product packaging.
Seriously though, I hold the belief that all sales and marketing folk are born liars and will never change. I purchase solely on word of mouth (from people I trust) and my past experience with a particular brand/manufacturer. I am the person that advertisers hate because I sit in front of the TV and explain to my wife exactly which mind fucts the advertiser is utilizing. Sales and Marketing (S&M how ironic) folk are beneath lawyers, politicians and criminals in my book.
Although I love a conspiracy theory as much as the next guy. I also get giddy when I see any large corporation in trouble, I have schadenfreude in a bad way:) I think the following scenario is more likely. Since we all read that Ken lost a couple of months ago right here on/., we can safely assume we weren't the only ones who knew in advance that Ken lost. Since marketing/television whores^H^H^H^H^H^Hexecs are all the same, and that they all know each other (think frat boys/sorority girls) I'm sure that news spread through their pathetic little community like wild fire as soon as the episode finished taping. Some FedEx marketing "genius" came up with what I consider a contrived and useless advertisement for yet another worthless company whom I can blame for giving my skip 30 secs finger an RMI.
I'm also really bummed out that Ken sold out to the man. I was holding out hope that he was a Linux zealot, or at least an OS X fanatic. I'll bet he beats encarta, but I'd take wikipedia any day of the week over him.
Charles Babbage Augustin Louis Cauchy Albert Einstein Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier Carl Friedrich Gauss David Hilbert Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Pierre-Simon Laplace Andrei Andreyevich Markov Sir Isaac Newton Blaise Pascal Carle David Tolm Runge George Gabriel Stokes Alan Mathison Turing Johannes Kepler Pierre de Fermat Leonardo Fibonacci Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Caroline Herschel John Nash Sir Walter Raleigh et al
Off of their "Intelectual Property"? What would the world be like if Marie Curie was in the closed source camp? Stephen Hawking would like to patent all of his ideas, any objections? Software is an extension of math and art, meant to be shared with the world. If the Pythagorian theorom was not worthy of a patent I really don't think that there is much justification for a patent of IsNot. A closed source world would be on without textbooks, museums, concerts or theaters.
I guess we now know why microsoft was holding all of that cash.
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While I fully agree with you, I have to disagree with one point, that last mile is a marathon:) I rolled my own solution using Gentoo. OpenLDAP + Samba + Courier IMAP + Kerberos + DHCP + DNS + SSL, and it was a bear. A fun, interesting and challenging bear, but still a bear. There is a ton of configuration in many different places, I can't tell you how many hours were spent in newsgroups, mailing lists, source, and especially the LDAP schemas getting the damned thing to work. Now that it's working I love it, but it was a long road.
On the other hand I am one person and I was the only one working on this, and I have no doubt that SuSE / Novell can easily pull off this feat and if they need help I'm available (wink wink nudge nudge). The process really needs to be bug free though, any screwups here and all of the sudden people can't login to the domain, no mail, my home directory is gone, etc.
The other really frustrating thing I found is the lack of LDAP support in just about everything Windows. A certain windows email client will search LDAP sort of, but unless you're speaking Microsofts own LDAP the support is at about 60% at best. Even with Microsofts objectClasses, attributeTypes and names Outlook still wont read some fields. Thunderbird and Evolution do a way better job on that front. Nothing will edit LDAP records though, and that's a bummer. JXplorer to the rescue.
Because I enjoy pissing people like you off:) I'm trying to move, and my family and I will be moving from this God forsaken hell hole soon. Believe me, I hate it here more than you hate having people like me here.
My BMI is about 20-21, not in the greatest shape, but I'm no fat bastard either. I am in fairly good shape, my blood pressure is normal, cholesteral is fine. I have asthma, which might have something to do with it. All of my doctors have told me that body temp is just an average, and I'm below average, for whatever reason.
I live in Irvine, CA. Not quite as humid as Florida, but definately as hot, especially with the drought we've been going through. Firestorm 2004 is going to be pretty bad BTW. I'm from Washington state, my normal body temperature is about 97.5, at 98.6 I feel like I have a very bad fever. The A/C is on in my car at all times, my house is never warmer than 74 and my office is between 70 and 72, and I have an A/C return pointed directly at me and I'm still usually hot.
The ambient temperature in his office was 85 degrees F? I'm breaking a sweat at 72F. When the A/C turns off in our office over the weekend the ambient climbs to about 85 and all of my servers fans are on overdrive. I wonder if that had anything to do with the power consumption in this test, I'm curious to see what the diference is at a more normal operating temperature, say 69 degrees F.
News for nerds? How? I come to/. to get away from the idiocy of the rest of the world and I'm greeted with an obviously left leaning article quoting one of the worst of the worst when it comes to politicians. Before the flames begin, I have not, nor will I vote for Bush. I will not be voting for Kerry either. This is bullcrap, it's worse than the tech support articles and the hey look it's a new geek store that OSDN has some interest in selling articles combined.
Yeah, the point is that Netscape fixed the bug without having the media hype. Microsoft is continually caught with their pants down because they refuse/can't fix critical bugs before the sh*t hits the fan. If Netscape with their small market share proactively fixed the bug, why can't Microsoft with their billions of dollars? I personally think it's because they're too busy using Paint to draw sketches for their comercials.
Microsoft's other problem is the atrocity that is Windows update, but that is another issue entirely. I agree with the populace that it is the users responsibility to update, but it should be a joyfull (for the most part) thing like emerge -vu world, apt-get upgrade or up2date instead of the pain that is Windows Update.
If we ran our households like the Fed runs itself our TV's would be one large seamless black border. Along with our lights, microwaves, computers, et al.
Quotes like "Who could ever need more than 64k of RAM?", or "The CD-ROM will never take off, the technology is too expensive. (A quote I heard from one of the managers at the local computer shop I used to go to)" how about "A 1GB hard drive? I'll never need that much space." Seem to come to mind when I read posts like this. Yeah, its probably marketing hype now, but in 5 years, what about 10? Just because we can't do it now doesn't mean that we should stop progress.
I for one would like to welcome our new ZFS overlords.
Why do we always have so much sympathy for criminal scum in this society, and none for the victims?
Beacuse the victim usually turns around and sues anyone they can find that might have had any impact on the crime/accident/whatever. Turning our entire society into one of victims. Being a victim in this country is better than winning the lottery, you find some bottom feeding attorney and a willing judge (of which most are) and you've won the jackpot.
IMHO 90% of the "victims" are people who refuse to acknoledge that they F'd up and deserve what they got. Yeah I was going 90 on a wet road with bald tires, but who the hell decided to put a median there. If they can't win a lawsuit they go and cry infront of govt. and get some stupid ass Brady bill law passed or some new tax and we all have to pay once again.
People are tired of paying for other peoples mistakes, that is why we loathe the victim. Just my $0.02.
Is there an ASCII representation of a coffee spew all over ones keyboard and monitors?
I've been in IT for 15 years and if there is one thing for certain, it is that there are no professionals. The only "Professionals" are MCSE's who got suckered by M$ hype. Everyone else is just a geek, although the ego's of some CCIE's and CCNA's I know could use some taming, but they're just plain crazy.
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I really have to disagree, even if the system (*nix with X) seems completely unresponsive to the user it's usually still talking on the network. Several times I've had to ssh into my workstation and kill X, KDE or whatever was making it freeze. The only time you're really screwed is when you see Kernel Panic. It is possible to completely freeze a linux machine, it's also fairly hard to do. Just because X froze and your keyboard and mouse don't work doesn't mean the machine is completely dead. Where as a BSOD in Windows is the end of the road.
Well yeah, but what are husbands for?
Absolutely none, I rely solely on product packaging.
Seriously though, I hold the belief that all sales and marketing folk are born liars and will never change. I purchase solely on word of mouth (from people I trust) and my past experience with a particular brand/manufacturer. I am the person that advertisers hate because I sit in front of the TV and explain to my wife exactly which mind fucts the advertiser is utilizing. Sales and Marketing (S&M how ironic) folk are beneath lawyers, politicians and criminals in my book.
Although I love a conspiracy theory as much as the next guy. I also get giddy when I see any large corporation in trouble, I have schadenfreude in a bad way :) I think the following scenario is more likely. Since we all read that Ken lost a couple of months ago right here on /., we can safely assume we weren't the only ones who knew in advance that Ken lost. Since marketing/television whores^H^H^H^H^H^Hexecs are all the same, and that they all know each other (think frat boys/sorority girls) I'm sure that news spread through their pathetic little community like wild fire as soon as the episode finished taping. Some FedEx marketing "genius" came up with what I consider a contrived and useless advertisement for yet another worthless company whom I can blame for giving my skip 30 secs finger an RMI.
I'm also really bummed out that Ken sold out to the man. I was holding out hope that he was a Linux zealot, or at least an OS X fanatic. I'll bet he beats encarta, but I'd take wikipedia any day of the week over him.
Charles Babbage
Augustin Louis Cauchy
Albert Einstein
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Carl Friedrich Gauss
David Hilbert
Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Andrei Andreyevich Markov
Sir Isaac Newton
Blaise Pascal
Carle David Tolm Runge
George Gabriel Stokes
Alan Mathison Turing
Johannes Kepler
Pierre de Fermat
Leonardo Fibonacci
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Caroline Herschel
John Nash
Sir Walter Raleigh
et al
Off of their "Intelectual Property"? What would the world be like if Marie Curie was in the closed source camp? Stephen Hawking would like to patent all of his ideas, any objections? Software is an extension of math and art, meant to be shared with the world. If the Pythagorian theorom was not worthy of a patent I really don't think that there is much justification for a patent of IsNot. A closed source world would be on without textbooks, museums, concerts or theaters.
I like the export to xml feature so that I can xslt out all of the cruft and insert the data where it belongs, in PostgreSQL.
I was in the beta program too, it's called BitTorrent.
I guess we now know why microsoft was holding all of that cash.
While I fully agree with you, I have to disagree with one point, that last mile is a marathon :) I rolled my own solution using Gentoo. OpenLDAP + Samba + Courier IMAP + Kerberos + DHCP + DNS + SSL, and it was a bear. A fun, interesting and challenging bear, but still a bear. There is a ton of configuration in many different places, I can't tell you how many hours were spent in newsgroups, mailing lists, source, and especially the LDAP schemas getting the damned thing to work. Now that it's working I love it, but it was a long road.
On the other hand I am one person and I was the only one working on this, and I have no doubt that SuSE / Novell can easily pull off this feat and if they need help I'm available (wink wink nudge nudge). The process really needs to be bug free though, any screwups here and all of the sudden people can't login to the domain, no mail, my home directory is gone, etc.
The other really frustrating thing I found is the lack of LDAP support in just about everything Windows. A certain windows email client will search LDAP sort of, but unless you're speaking Microsofts own LDAP the support is at about 60% at best. Even with Microsofts objectClasses, attributeTypes and names Outlook still wont read some fields. Thunderbird and Evolution do a way better job on that front. Nothing will edit LDAP records though, and that's a bummer. JXplorer to the rescue.
Because I enjoy pissing people like you off :) I'm trying to move, and my family and I will be moving from this God forsaken hell hole soon. Believe me, I hate it here more than you hate having people like me here.
My BMI is about 20-21, not in the greatest shape, but I'm no fat bastard either. I am in fairly good shape, my blood pressure is normal, cholesteral is fine. I have asthma, which might have something to do with it. All of my doctors have told me that body temp is just an average, and I'm below average, for whatever reason.
I live in Irvine, CA. Not quite as humid as Florida, but definately as hot, especially with the drought we've been going through. Firestorm 2004 is going to be pretty bad BTW. I'm from Washington state, my normal body temperature is about 97.5, at 98.6 I feel like I have a very bad fever. The A/C is on in my car at all times, my house is never warmer than 74 and my office is between 70 and 72, and I have an A/C return pointed directly at me and I'm still usually hot.
The ambient temperature in his office was 85 degrees F? I'm breaking a sweat at 72F. When the A/C turns off in our office over the weekend the ambient climbs to about 85 and all of my servers fans are on overdrive. I wonder if that had anything to do with the power consumption in this test, I'm curious to see what the diference is at a more normal operating temperature, say 69 degrees F.
You forgot Porn.
News for nerds? How? I come to /. to get away from the idiocy of the rest of the world and I'm greeted with an obviously left leaning article quoting one of the worst of the worst when it comes to politicians. Before the flames begin, I have not, nor will I vote for Bush. I will not be voting for Kerry either. This is bullcrap, it's worse than the tech support articles and the hey look it's a new geek store that OSDN has some interest in selling articles combined.
rm -Rf politics.slashdot.org
Thanks.
Yeah, the point is that Netscape fixed the bug without having the media hype. Microsoft is continually caught with their pants down because they refuse/can't fix critical bugs before the sh*t hits the fan. If Netscape with their small market share proactively fixed the bug, why can't Microsoft with their billions of dollars? I personally think it's because they're too busy using Paint to draw sketches for their comercials.
Microsoft's other problem is the atrocity that is Windows update, but that is another issue entirely. I agree with the populace that it is the users responsibility to update, but it should be a joyfull (for the most part) thing like emerge -vu world, apt-get upgrade or up2date instead of the pain that is Windows Update.
If we ran our households like the Fed runs itself our TV's would be one large seamless black border. Along with our lights, microwaves, computers, et al.
No no no, it's the other way around. You should always use Diebold ATMs in the hope that you get someone elses money :)
Quotes like "Who could ever need more than 64k of RAM?", or "The CD-ROM will never take off, the technology is too expensive. (A quote I heard from one of the managers at the local computer shop I used to go to)" how about "A 1GB hard drive? I'll never need that much space." Seem to come to mind when I read posts like this. Yeah, its probably marketing hype now, but in 5 years, what about 10? Just because we can't do it now doesn't mean that we should stop progress.
I for one would like to welcome our new ZFS overlords.
Why do we always have so much sympathy for criminal scum in this society, and none for the victims?
Beacuse the victim usually turns around and sues anyone they can find that might have had any impact on the crime/accident/whatever. Turning our entire society into one of victims. Being a victim in this country is better than winning the lottery, you find some bottom feeding attorney and a willing judge (of which most are) and you've won the jackpot.
IMHO 90% of the "victims" are people who refuse to acknoledge that they F'd up and deserve what they got. Yeah I was going 90 on a wet road with bald tires, but who the hell decided to put a median there. If they can't win a lawsuit they go and cry infront of govt. and get some stupid ass Brady bill law passed or some new tax and we all have to pay once again.
People are tired of paying for other peoples mistakes, that is why we loathe the victim. Just my $0.02.
The produce section?? Carrots perhaps?? Wait, you've never been to that scary "other side" of the supermarket, have you?
Professionals
Is there an ASCII representation of a coffee spew all over ones keyboard and monitors?
I've been in IT for 15 years and if there is one thing for certain, it is that there are no professionals. The only "Professionals" are MCSE's who got suckered by M$ hype. Everyone else is just a geek, although the ego's of some CCIE's and CCNA's I know could use some taming, but they're just plain crazy.
Or emerge -vu world for us Gentoo freaks out there.
Yes, i is for idiot, a synonym for consumer.
That there is an IPv6 Article right after a Doom 3 article. All we need now is a Duke Nukem article and the trifecta will be complete.