You'd have to be smoking some pretty good weed to go along with this.:P
Let's say on *nix there's a vulnerability that allows for remote ssh access. You can only get in as an unprivileged user, heck, you may even get/dev/null as your shell, but it lets you in. Do you rate down the remote access flaw because of *nix's "baked in " defenses? No! You fix the bug and update.
Just because your system is overall more secure doesn't mean that you don't blow the whistle on the flaws just as hard. It's called VIGILANCE.
Linux isn't all that different from Vista in one (very remote) regard, and that's the the whole thing of "the right distro for the right job".
Here we have a pretty simple philosophy - Mac OS X or Kubuntu for Desktops, FreeBSD or Mac OS X Server on servers. If Linux is required on the servers, then we use Gentoo.
Of course, if you're 'l33t' you can use the most powerful tool for every job. I *could* run FreeBSD or Gentoo on my own personal Desktop. Would I recommend anyone else do so?
Nope.:P
Actually, that's not true. When I first bring an employee on board, their experience with Linux will go like this (if they're unintiated): install Kubuntu on their desktop. ("Wow, that was easy!")
Install a few apps, Firefox namely if it isn't in there already (don't recall...), then pull up the Gentoo page, download the latest iso.
Now, install Gentoo on this box over here. Be sure to be meticulous about the instructions. Before you begin make sure you note what type of cpu you're using, vid card, sound card, etc. Call me when you're done. Not if you have problems, call me when you're DONE.
That usually buys me peace for a few days.:) When they're done however, they'll have an understanding of how Linux partitions work, a minor grasp on how make, works, and that there are reasons some things are easy, and some are just plain HARD.
Anyhoo....those are the extremes. Fedora is cool in that it sets up LVM2 by default for you, which is pretty sweet. The day FreeBSD gets LVM2 capabilities I will cry. That is the one thing I really wish FreeBSD had, and the reason I went ahead and bought a Coraid unit running debian for our storage arrays.:)
You've hit the nail on the head there. I simply won't pay Microsoft a dime. I don't want to shell out the cash for a PS3 either (reduce the pricetag, and perhaps we have a different story) so that leaves the Wii.
I'm hacked off at Sony too, but to be blunt, it seems like major titles go to MS and Sony, exlcusives and an occassional port go to Nintendo. Perhaps that will change.
If they would have pushed to 720p on the Wii, this would be a no-brainer, but it just feels silly to do 480p on an HDTV.:\ Nintendo has found a niche, I'll give them that, but I feel kinda caught out on this one.
I'm an ISP building out a new fiber ring in St. Louis. They tell me they want me to build it out IPv4, get my customers, THEN come back and ask for IPv6. ????
Rather than do it right the first time, they want me to go this route instead. W. T. F. ?
A quick correction to my above. They *are* in fact giving out IPv6 blocks free. I typo'ed v4 above. ARIN won't charge you, but you have to prove that you have some 65k customers.
Oh, and one more thing - they told me to get an allocation from my upstream provider.
I can't do that. Why? They can't get an IPv6 allocation because they're not big enough either. They would have to get one from THEIR upstream providerS (yes, plural), and one of those doesn't offer IPv6 allocations because...well, you figure it out.
ARIN wouldn't give us an allocation. In their rules, I have to be able to prove that we have a customer base large enough to use up a full/32 (of IPv6) addresses before we can get an allocation. So in order to get IPv6 block, we have to have enough customers to use up 2^16, or by IPv4 standards, a Class B block. WTF???? IPv4 allocations are handed out for free, but you can't get one unless you're a mega-conglomerate.
IPv6 adoption won't occur in the US unless ARIN comes up with a better policy.:(
Does GotMail still work? If so, use that. Just make sure to cron it so it runs in the background and you're not having to constantly wait for the process to complete.
It's odd no one seems to have picked up on the posibility of invisibility (or near-invisibility as it were). When light doesn't get refected back, our eyes can't see things. Am I right? In the dark it would be nearly impossible to tell an item of this material is there, other than by context (ie, light reflects from surrounding items, but not the item in question...)
Have you every seen someone mess with a cat? Poke at it, prod at it harass it? Perhaps you're just playing, and the cat starts to get wound up...
Now someone else comes along, perhaps its owner, reaches down to pet it...cat bites owner.
Why? Misdirected aggression. Taking things out on whatever is near it just because it is so intensely focused on something troubling it, that it can only focus on that trouble.
Funny. The solution to misdirected aggression in a cat is to put the cat in a dark room, no lights, no noise. Nothing to further agitate it.
Seems we need to toss Darl in a dark room, no lights, no noise...
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Darl is a paranoid maniac.
Wait, how exactly is this news? We all already knew Darl was a paranoid maniac. kdawson, are you trolling for pageviews or something?;) Or maybe you're not kdawson at all. I think you're Taco masquerading as someone else trying to get all rich. Yeah yeah yea....aw crap, then men in black suits are at the front door. WTH did I put that tin foil........!!!!
Sure, and the answer is that I use FreeBSD and MacOS X Server on servers, and Linux and OSX on workstations.
FreeBSD is typically advanced enough as to be confusing to an end user for a Desktop system. Kubuntu Linux is the Desktop OS of choice for us on PC hardware. When we need to use Linux on a server, we use Gentoo. When putting a server at a customer site, we lobby hard for an OSX Server, if not, then it winds up being FreeBSD, but customers tend to pale when they realize that they get black screen and white text, since we don't install X11 usually.
Just a matter of taste really. I have no problem installing FreeBSD on someone's Desktop, but Kubuntu is quick, simple, and done well.
How large or small are we talking? 1-2 accountants? How scalable?
For example, we're a 4-5 person shop (given the month) and our accountant provides a web-interface for us to enter expenses and income, and that firm handles our bookkeeping, taxes, etc. The system he uses is contracted out from a developer. I don't recall the name though...point is, I know there is at least one solution.
Seriously. Let's say the perfect tool for the job is a 31.25 kg ball-pien hammer. You go to the hardware store, and they have that 31.25 kg ball-pien hammer, but in order to use it, you have to purchase a special glove with which to hold that hammer. The glove costs...$300? Per hand? If you buy the glove, it comes in a box. When you open the box, and go to put on the glove it has a slip of paper that blocks you putting your hand in the glove. It reads:
End User License Agreement By putting on this glove you agree to....blah..blah...blah....first born son....blah....pentagram....blah blah blah blahallyourbase....blah, blah blah.
On the shelf next to that glove is a 31 kg ball-pien hammer that can be used with the glove of your choice. You know, it might not be the PERFECT choice, or the BEST tool for the job, but sometimes it's not just the tool that you have to consider, but the work environment you create by choosing that tool.
Precisely. My company does Windows -> Linux/Mac migrations. I just did a small 2-machine shop yesterday, moved both machines to Kubuntu. Client's happy, I'm happy, and he didn't pay Microsoft to upgrade to Vista.:) He needed to reload, didn't have his Windows installer discs, and well...
The 90% market share isn't important. Get the small stuff first. Market share comes with time. I can tell you this much: anyone I've moved from Windows to mac has NOT wanted to go back. I have had an occassional user go from Linux to Mac, usually because product X needs commercial support, but is not available on Linux, but none have gone back to Windows. None.
Linux has and is succeeding. So is FreeBSD. All of my servers, sans a couple of Mac OpenDirectory servers, run FreeBSD. I interoperate with several other ISP's around here, 2 run FreeBSD, another runs on Linux.
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An NFL robot you say? Where on earth could you come up with such a crazy idea?
You'd have to be smoking some pretty good weed to go along with this. :P
/dev/null as your shell, but it lets you in. Do you rate down the remote access flaw because of *nix's "baked in " defenses? No! You fix the bug and update.
Let's say on *nix there's a vulnerability that allows for remote ssh access. You can only get in as an unprivileged user, heck, you may even get
Just because your system is overall more secure doesn't mean that you don't blow the whistle on the flaws just as hard. It's called VIGILANCE.
Now if I could just get the Cable and DSL guys to quit capping the upload speeds...
Linux isn't all that different from Vista in one (very remote) regard, and that's the the whole thing of "the right distro for the right job".
:P
:) When they're done however, they'll have an understanding of how Linux partitions work, a minor grasp on how make, works, and that there are reasons some things are easy, and some are just plain HARD.
:)
Here we have a pretty simple philosophy - Mac OS X or Kubuntu for Desktops, FreeBSD or Mac OS X Server on servers. If Linux is required on the servers, then we use Gentoo.
Of course, if you're 'l33t' you can use the most powerful tool for every job. I *could* run FreeBSD or Gentoo on my own personal Desktop. Would I recommend anyone else do so?
Nope.
Actually, that's not true. When I first bring an employee on board, their experience with Linux will go like this (if they're unintiated): install Kubuntu on their desktop. ("Wow, that was easy!")
Install a few apps, Firefox namely if it isn't in there already (don't recall...), then pull up the Gentoo page, download the latest iso.
Now, install Gentoo on this box over here. Be sure to be meticulous about the instructions. Before you begin make sure you note what type of cpu you're using, vid card, sound card, etc. Call me when you're done. Not if you have problems, call me when you're DONE.
That usually buys me peace for a few days.
Anyhoo....those are the extremes. Fedora is cool in that it sets up LVM2 by default for you, which is pretty sweet. The day FreeBSD gets LVM2 capabilities I will cry. That is the one thing I really wish FreeBSD had, and the reason I went ahead and bought a Coraid unit running debian for our storage arrays.
You've hit the nail on the head there. I simply won't pay Microsoft a dime. I don't want to shell out the cash for a PS3 either (reduce the pricetag, and perhaps we have a different story) so that leaves the Wii.
:\ Nintendo has found a niche, I'll give them that, but I feel kinda caught out on this one.
I'm hacked off at Sony too, but to be blunt, it seems like major titles go to MS and Sony, exlcusives and an occassional port go to Nintendo. Perhaps that will change.
If they would have pushed to 720p on the Wii, this would be a no-brainer, but it just feels silly to do 480p on an HDTV.
I'm an ISP building out a new fiber ring in St. Louis. They tell me they want me to build it out IPv4, get my customers, THEN come back and ask for IPv6. ????
Rather than do it right the first time, they want me to go this route instead. W. T. F. ?
A quick correction to my above. They *are* in fact giving out IPv6 blocks free. I typo'ed v4 above. ARIN won't charge you, but you have to prove that you have some 65k customers.
This I just can't do.
That was a typo - IPv6 blocks are free. IPv4 on the other hand gets expensive quickly.
Oh, and one more thing - they told me to get an allocation from my upstream provider.
I can't do that. Why? They can't get an IPv6 allocation because they're not big enough either. They would have to get one from THEIR upstream providerS (yes, plural), and one of those doesn't offer IPv6 allocations because...well, you figure it out.
ARIN wouldn't give us an allocation. In their rules, I have to be able to prove that we have a customer base large enough to use up a full /32 (of IPv6) addresses before we can get an allocation. So in order to get IPv6 block, we have to have enough customers to use up 2^16, or by IPv4 standards, a Class B block. WTF???? IPv4 allocations are handed out for free, but you can't get one unless you're a mega-conglomerate.
:(
IPv6 adoption won't occur in the US unless ARIN comes up with a better policy.
Meh, if Capcom has anything to say about it, we'll still have US Agent walking around...
Dupe, and posting buttons appear busted?
Does GotMail still work? If so, use that. Just make sure to cron it so it runs in the background and you're not having to constantly wait for the process to complete.
It's odd no one seems to have picked up on the posibility of invisibility (or near-invisibility as it were). When light doesn't get refected back, our eyes can't see things. Am I right? In the dark it would be nearly impossible to tell an item of this material is there, other than by context (ie, light reflects from surrounding items, but not the item in question...)
As Lance said just about every freakin' Voltron episode:
"Wouldya look at the size of that thing?!? It's HUGE!"
I can take that Ro-beast just fine all by myself!
--Hunk
You have to know where I'm going with this, right?
:)
It'll be HUGE in the tentacle pr0n market!
Actually, I was wondering that myself. Got out of bed, and a post I put up as a joke got modded up...insightful. Weird.
Have you every seen someone mess with a cat? Poke at it, prod at it harass it? Perhaps you're just playing, and the cat starts to get wound up...
Now someone else comes along, perhaps its owner, reaches down to pet it...cat bites owner.
Why? Misdirected aggression. Taking things out on whatever is near it just because it is so intensely focused on something troubling it, that it can only focus on that trouble.
Funny. The solution to misdirected aggression in a cat is to put the cat in a dark room, no lights, no noise. Nothing to further agitate it.
Seems we need to toss Darl in a dark room, no lights, no noise...
...or.....
;) Or maybe you're not kdawson at all. I think you're Taco masquerading as someone else trying to get all rich. Yeah yeah yea....aw crap, then men in black suits are at the front door. WTH did I put that tin foil........!!!!
Darl is a paranoid maniac.
Wait, how exactly is this news? We all already knew Darl was a paranoid maniac. kdawson, are you trolling for pageviews or something?
Sure, and the answer is that I use FreeBSD and MacOS X Server on servers, and Linux and OSX on workstations.
FreeBSD is typically advanced enough as to be confusing to an end user for a Desktop system. Kubuntu Linux is the Desktop OS of choice for us on PC hardware. When we need to use Linux on a server, we use Gentoo. When putting a server at a customer site, we lobby hard for an OSX Server, if not, then it winds up being FreeBSD, but customers tend to pale when they realize that they get black screen and white text, since we don't install X11 usually.
Just a matter of taste really. I have no problem installing FreeBSD on someone's Desktop, but Kubuntu is quick, simple, and done well.
Given that they're all still customers, I think I can reasonably assume that hasn't happened. :)
How large or small are we talking? 1-2 accountants? How scalable?
For example, we're a 4-5 person shop (given the month) and our accountant provides a web-interface for us to enter expenses and income, and that firm handles our bookkeeping, taxes, etc. The system he uses is contracted out from a developer. I don't recall the name though...point is, I know there is at least one solution.
"the Job"
:)
....blah..blah...blah....first born son....blah....pentagram....blah blah blah blahallyourbase....blah, blah blah.
The best tool for "the Job" is "the Mac".
j/k
Seriously. Let's say the perfect tool for the job is a 31.25 kg ball-pien hammer. You go to the hardware store, and they have that 31.25 kg ball-pien hammer, but in order to use it, you have to purchase a special glove with which to hold that hammer. The glove costs...$300? Per hand? If you buy the glove, it comes in a box. When you open the box, and go to put on the glove it has a slip of paper that blocks you putting your hand in the glove. It reads:
End User License Agreement
By putting on this glove you agree to
On the shelf next to that glove is a 31 kg ball-pien hammer that can be used with the glove of your choice. You know, it might not be the PERFECT choice, or the BEST tool for the job, but sometimes it's not just the tool that you have to consider, but the work environment you create by choosing that tool.
Precisely. My company does Windows -> Linux/Mac migrations. I just did a small 2-machine shop yesterday, moved both machines to Kubuntu. Client's happy, I'm happy, and he didn't pay Microsoft to upgrade to Vista. :) He needed to reload, didn't have his Windows installer discs, and well...
:P
The 90% market share isn't important. Get the small stuff first. Market share comes with time. I can tell you this much: anyone I've moved from Windows to mac has NOT wanted to go back. I have had an occassional user go from Linux to Mac, usually because product X needs commercial support, but is not available on Linux, but none have gone back to Windows. None.
Linux has and is succeeding. So is FreeBSD. All of my servers, sans a couple of Mac OpenDirectory servers, run FreeBSD. I interoperate with several other ISP's around here, 2 run FreeBSD, another runs on Linux.
Yup, it's failing.