Actually I think a new Mercedes would be obsoleted by your perpetual motion machine. I also think that because you have not realized this, you are obviously not smart enough to invent such a machine, which is why you want a Mercedes instead of a real car (the new SL500 is the possible exception of course).
At the last place I worked there was one *NIX admin (me) who was responsible for 15 HP-UX machines, a couple of Sun boxen, one lone AIX machine, and about 10 Linux boxen, I was also the webmaster and one of the NT/2K admins. There were 4 dedicated NT/2K admins for about 25 machines and they were always busy working on the machines. If it wasn't exchange dying or the DNS crapping out on us it was some wierd WINS issue or a virus. These guys were very talented admins too, not the MCSE tripe that comes out of the pipe now. Linux TCO is much much lower, I've been preaching this for a long time. I'm not saying that *NIX is perfect or never has a problem, but it is much rarer and the problems are usually easier to fix than the self corruption that goes along with Windows.
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Not for me, there is no bigger waste of CPU cycles than SETI. Any computer I ever find running SETI@home gets a severe beating and a quick download of D.net. If you want to burn those unused cycles do it on something that matters.
I WAS an HP customer, and I don't want, nor will I ever want,.NET. HP is in serious trouble, they aren't selling anything, they aren't innovating, and they think this will provide a boost to the seriously broken company. Prostitute yourself to Microsoft and sue people who find holes in your software, now there is a business model for the 21st century.
Can I have a job?;) I'm surrounded by Windows boxen. My only savior is the gentoo and FreeBSD machines that I have tucked away under my desk silently running the whole company.
We have these horribly fake looking metal palm trees all around my house. The first time you look at it you have to do a double take. They're so strange looking that the birds will fly around them. I'd rather look at the triangle antenna.
I'm not necessarily against a single signon, I think for such a system to work you need a technology that uniquiely (sp?) identifies you and only you, such as an RSA token that generates a number along with an access code that only you know.
I completely agree with your points about Microsoft, they are definately a force to be reckoned with, and the open source comminities, the Linux community specifically, need to recognize that and take action. Blind zealotism that simply says "Microsoft sucks, Linux rox!" will never win the war, that's the Al Quiada way. Guerilla war is the way to win, small battles against specific targets, that is the way Apache did it, and is continuing to do it.
We can take Microsoft down, and I think that Open Source software will eventually level the battle field a bit, but it's not through zit faced teen age nerds screaming that Microsoft sucks because I can't pirate XP. Open source, no DRM, easier to learn/use/install/play/create/innovate, those are the keys, and Linux is getting there.
No, absolutely not. I think it would be cool to have my own signon server that validates me to the rest of the world. If I want to login to my mail account I login to my personal Plan 9 server, it authenticates me and passes that authentication securely to my mail server.
I'm just wondering, not that I completely disagree with you, but do you actually thing that Passport integration with XP is a good thing? Do you trust Microsoft enough to give them the key to all of your personal information? What will you say when Passport becomes a pay-per-use technology? I dont like Microsoft, because I dont trust them, they have never earned that. I also dont like the blind/. bashing of the zealot crowd it doesn't help anything. But this is a really bad idea, especially with all of the DRM crap that Microsoft is wanting to put in their products. If you think it's a good idea I would really like to hear why.
1) No one cares about me 2) Steal my credit cards they're maxed out anyways 3) I probably wouldn't mind if you changed my investments you probably would make more money that I do in the stock market 4) All of my email is mailing lists and spam, I have no friends 5) You could probably accumulate more karma on/. that I can 6) Sneak preview of my bank account $0.02 (which I'm giving away here right now) 7) My social security number has been reused more times than the sayings "going forward" and "at the end of the day" combined 8) All passwords are hackable by the NSA anyways 9) At some point all information will be decrypted 10) You can have my body, but you cant take my mind
This whole thing has really reminded me of the days when I would stick the Spyhunter 5.25 diskette in my XT and boot the computer to play, I never had to worry about the things that came later, himem, emm386, ad infinitum. There was something that I really enjoyed about that, just sticking a disk in, booting and playing a game. I really think this might be a great way for game companies to weane themselves from M$, press the game onto a small bootable linux cd with some fairly recent nVidia drivers (other cards too) and viola you can play. I wouldn't mind sacrificing uptime to play games if all I had to do was boot a cd. Sometimes it's fun getting the games working under winex, but most of the time I'd rather just plug and play. Gentoo is very cool for doing this, game makers take notice.
Amen brotha, my dual P3-550 still runs FreeBSD fine, and the 1.2GHz TBird I bought a few months ago runs Windows for my wife. No real need for the latest and greatest, maybe when someone comes out with a cool game (there hasn't been one since Half Life) I'll upgrade.
The address of the site that points to this!? research.microsoft.com, is that where the 50 bil goes, into finding where the first smily came from? Holy crap, I now know why Windows is the steaming pile of horse excrement that it is.
Put it on vibrate and set a keylock code. The default is probably not there, or it is something stupid like 1 2 3 4 5 (The code on my luggage:). Then forget the code, it's a good way to make a phone useless.
With the rapid advancement of OSS Office systems and this as a ball and chain to MS Office I can see Apple dropping MSO in the future. Why put up with this crap when OpenOffice, StarOffice, and KOffice do just about everything MSO does? I hope M$ and Intel go for this, AMD too, I'll start my own damned chip company if I have too, I'm not putting up with this and there are a lot of people that will back me up. This just bolsters the argument for completely open software, especially on the operating system side to me. Go for it Microsoft, hopefully the terrorists will have better aim next time and go for Redmond because you are jacking with their stenography and pirated software:) We'll have to leave it up to the right wing wackos to go after the IRS though;)
Actually I agree with you, I voted for Bush. I have written letters to my congress people, I live in the Socalist Republic of California so it doesn't matter, but I am active. I donate to the National Taxpayers Union, and was a registered Libertarian until I decided to go independant. I consider myself moderately politically active, and reasonably well informed. My problem with the US is that the system IMHO is fundamentally broken in that Congress has too much power. From what I can tell the founding fathers were much more concerned that there would never be a "king" than they were with career politicians that choose to ignore the constitution when it gets in their way. Both donkeys and elephants are guilty of this equally and in my view congress should be evicted and replaced with people who care about this country and not about getting re-elected. One two year term would be fine with me, and dont give me that crap about nothing getting done, how about this, dont take 15 breaks a year and see how much you get done.
I agree with you about Florida, all of the whiners that can't accept that Bush won the state are flat out wrong and always will be, the numbers are there now and you can't argue with that.
Call me many things, but dont call me un-informed or not involved, because I am both. We live in a broked society, unfortuneately there is no fix, that's why duct tape was invented.
Except we dont live in a Democracy, it's a Republic. Our vote doesn't really count, it's another false sense that we are given, an emotional Ambien designed to keep us in the deep slumber of ignorance that we're all in.
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Actually I think a new Mercedes would be obsoleted by your perpetual motion machine. I also think that because you have not realized this, you are obviously not smart enough to invent such a machine, which is why you want a Mercedes instead of a real car (the new SL500 is the possible exception of course).
At the last place I worked there was one *NIX admin (me) who was responsible for 15 HP-UX machines, a couple of Sun boxen, one lone AIX machine, and about 10 Linux boxen, I was also the webmaster and one of the NT/2K admins. There were 4 dedicated NT/2K admins for about 25 machines and they were always busy working on the machines. If it wasn't exchange dying or the DNS crapping out on us it was some wierd WINS issue or a virus. These guys were very talented admins too, not the MCSE tripe that comes out of the pipe now. Linux TCO is much much lower, I've been preaching this for a long time. I'm not saying that *NIX is perfect or never has a problem, but it is much rarer and the problems are usually easier to fix than the self corruption that goes along with Windows.
5. Imagine a beowulf cluster of drinking birds!
Not for me, there is no bigger waste of CPU cycles than SETI. Any computer I ever find running SETI@home gets a severe beating and a quick download of D.net. If you want to burn those unused cycles do it on something that matters.
How much would I get if I blew up the building that housed hotmail.com?
I WAS an HP customer, and I don't want, nor will I ever want, .NET. HP is in serious trouble, they aren't selling anything, they aren't innovating, and they think this will provide a boost to the seriously broken company. Prostitute yourself to Microsoft and sue people who find holes in your software, now there is a business model for the 21st century.
Can I have a job? ;) I'm surrounded by Windows boxen. My only savior is the gentoo and FreeBSD machines that I have tucked away under my desk silently running the whole company.
I'm still fielding questions about power buttons, dirty mice, and saving documents. I'll be around for a long long long time.
We have these horribly fake looking metal palm trees all around my house. The first time you look at it you have to do a double take. They're so strange looking that the birds will fly around them. I'd rather look at the triangle antenna.
I'm not necessarily against a single signon, I think for such a system to work you need a technology that uniquiely (sp?) identifies you and only you, such as an RSA token that generates a number along with an access code that only you know.
I completely agree with your points about Microsoft, they are definately a force to be reckoned with, and the open source comminities, the Linux community specifically, need to recognize that and take action. Blind zealotism that simply says "Microsoft sucks, Linux rox!" will never win the war, that's the Al Quiada way. Guerilla war is the way to win, small battles against specific targets, that is the way Apache did it, and is continuing to do it.
We can take Microsoft down, and I think that Open Source software will eventually level the battle field a bit, but it's not through zit faced teen age nerds screaming that Microsoft sucks because I can't pirate XP. Open source, no DRM, easier to learn/use/install/play/create/innovate, those are the keys, and Linux is getting there.
Just my $0.02
No, absolutely not. I think it would be cool to have my own signon server that validates me to the rest of the world. If I want to login to my mail account I login to my personal Plan 9 server, it authenticates me and passes that authentication securely to my mail server.
I'm just wondering, not that I completely disagree with you, but do you actually thing that Passport integration with XP is a good thing? Do you trust Microsoft enough to give them the key to all of your personal information? What will you say when Passport becomes a pay-per-use technology? I dont like Microsoft, because I dont trust them, they have never earned that. I also dont like the blind /. bashing of the zealot crowd it doesn't help anything. But this is a really bad idea, especially with all of the DRM crap that Microsoft is wanting to put in their products. If you think it's a good idea I would really like to hear why.
Plan 10: Blank Passwords.
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Why Plan 10? Heres why...
1) No one cares about me
2) Steal my credit cards they're maxed out anyways
3) I probably wouldn't mind if you changed my investments you probably would make more money that I do in the stock market
4) All of my email is mailing lists and spam, I have no friends
5) You could probably accumulate more karma on
6) Sneak preview of my bank account $0.02 (which I'm giving away here right now)
7) My social security number has been reused more times than the sayings "going forward" and "at the end of the day" combined
8) All passwords are hackable by the NSA anyways
9) At some point all information will be decrypted
10) You can have my body, but you cant take my mind
This whole thing has really reminded me of the days when I would stick the Spyhunter 5.25 diskette in my XT and boot the computer to play, I never had to worry about the things that came later, himem, emm386, ad infinitum. There was something that I really enjoyed about that, just sticking a disk in, booting and playing a game. I really think this might be a great way for game companies to weane themselves from M$, press the game onto a small bootable linux cd with some fairly recent nVidia drivers (other cards too) and viola you can play. I wouldn't mind sacrificing uptime to play games if all I had to do was boot a cd. Sometimes it's fun getting the games working under winex, but most of the time I'd rather just plug and play. Gentoo is very cool for doing this, game makers take notice.
Amen brotha, my dual P3-550 still runs FreeBSD fine, and the 1.2GHz TBird I bought a few months ago runs Windows for my wife. No real need for the latest and greatest, maybe when someone comes out with a cool game (there hasn't been one since Half Life) I'll upgrade.
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The address of the site that points to this!? research.microsoft.com, is that where the 50 bil goes, into finding where the first smily came from? Holy crap, I now know why Windows is the steaming pile of horse excrement that it is.
Put it on vibrate and set a keylock code. The default is probably not there, or it is something stupid like 1 2 3 4 5 (The code on my luggage :). Then forget the code, it's a good way to make a phone useless.
With the rapid advancement of OSS Office systems and this as a ball and chain to MS Office I can see Apple dropping MSO in the future. Why put up with this crap when OpenOffice, StarOffice, and KOffice do just about everything MSO does? I hope M$ and Intel go for this, AMD too, I'll start my own damned chip company if I have too, I'm not putting up with this and there are a lot of people that will back me up. This just bolsters the argument for completely open software, especially on the operating system side to me. Go for it Microsoft, hopefully the terrorists will have better aim next time and go for Redmond because you are jacking with their stenography and pirated software :) We'll have to leave it up to the right wing wackos to go after the IRS though ;)
/me raises a pint of Murph's and salutes Xiph.org. May MP3 die a fast, utterly shamefull and painfull death.
Actually I agree with you, I voted for Bush. I have written letters to my congress people, I live in the Socalist Republic of California so it doesn't matter, but I am active. I donate to the National Taxpayers Union, and was a registered Libertarian until I decided to go independant. I consider myself moderately politically active, and reasonably well informed. My problem with the US is that the system IMHO is fundamentally broken in that Congress has too much power. From what I can tell the founding fathers were much more concerned that there would never be a "king" than they were with career politicians that choose to ignore the constitution when it gets in their way. Both donkeys and elephants are guilty of this equally and in my view congress should be evicted and replaced with people who care about this country and not about getting re-elected. One two year term would be fine with me, and dont give me that crap about nothing getting done, how about this, dont take 15 breaks a year and see how much you get done.
I agree with you about Florida, all of the whiners that can't accept that Bush won the state are flat out wrong and always will be, the numbers are there now and you can't argue with that.
Call me many things, but dont call me un-informed or not involved, because I am both. We live in a broked society, unfortuneately there is no fix, that's why duct tape was invented.
Except we dont live in a Democracy, it's a Republic. Our vote doesn't really count, it's another false sense that we are given, an emotional Ambien designed to keep us in the deep slumber of ignorance that we're all in.