At home and the office I use a Win2k Pro for pretty much everything. The applications that tie me into this envioroment: MS Office (I tried OpenOffice and wasn't up to snuff) including Outlook (for PIM purposes). MS Visio, Dreamweaver. Plus, drivers are easy to come by and support for almost any kind of hardware doesn't require an extensive hunt on the web.
Hibernation is pretty cool, also, and for games it is the way to go (unless you buy a console).
For my servers, tho, I use Solaris (on the Sparc boxes) and FreeBSD (on the Intel boxes) with the odd Linux box for experimental purposes.
Panama's only working telco used to be state run. A few years ago it was privatized. 49% of the stocks were sold to Cable and Wireless, who, in fact, runs the company. Amongst the provisions on the sales agreement, there was an exclusivity clause. C&W would have a monopoly supported by the goverment until the year 2003. Of course, one of the first measures C&W took was to raise the price of local and international calls. Voice over IP became huge then, dropping the costs of international calls from $2.00 a minute to about $0.10 (or even free, in the times of dialpad.com).
Of course, the company started putting pressure of the goverment to prosecute those who violated the rules and quite a few business were fined *a lot* (hundreds of thousands). But Voice ovcer IP is a bit hard to detect unless you have some sort of inside info (a couple of the busts were thanks to disgruntled employees, or so I'm told).
Everybody was expecting a measure like this for some years now. C&W is an ISP itself and was rumored to be blocking certain sites (not ports) to prevent VoIP.
What I'm wondering is, why did they wait until the time is almost up to seek this measures. In January 1st the monopoly will be officially over, and it will be pretty much a free for all.
This is PANAMA. Democratic rules don't really apply in this case.
Democracy has nothing to do with it, tho I kinda relate to your comment.
stealing bandwidth is much less than stealing from a store
Care to explain how? This is like saying that the theft of electricity or phone services is less serious than the theft of a watch from a department store.
Bandwith is not "air" like so many people believe. It takes work and money to build and maintain the infrastructure that allows communication to take place.
Just because telcos and ISPs are "faceless corporations" doesn't mean nobody is getting screwed when theft takes place.
I wish I could switch to Linux on my desktop. I just tried RH8 and it's sweet. Two things keep me from switching: MS Visio and that bloody Watchguard configuration software.
I'm even willing to give up my 4 year Outlook mail history (which I can always access using wine, anyway).
Do you also propose the cancellation of all astronomy research, and putting all the money into medicine?
Now, I'm all for finding the cure for diseases such as cancer, aids, diabetes, etc. But if we are going to invest more in drug research, we need to research a contraceptive method pretty quickly, or when we run out of room/resources we will wish we paid more attention to those "expansion into space programs".
Clueless admin are everywhere. With the advent of easy to install Linux distros (redhat, mandrake) there are people that simply do the default server install and that's it! Never mind shutting down insecure services or keeping up to date with security updates.
I've personally met a couple of these admins, who belive that locking down a box means simply install tcp wrappers for the telnet daemon. Makes me wonder if the even know about ssh.
The average Windows administrator in the study earned $68,500 a year, while Linux sys admins took home $71,400, and those with Solaris skills were paid $85,844. The Windows technicians, however, only managed an average of 10 machines each, while Linux or Solaris admins can generally handle several times that.
Is this because of the OS stability or because of the technician experience? Given the fact that Windows technician are easier to find and cheaper to hire, wouldn't hiring less (but more experienced) Windows techs level the costs a bit, even if they charge more?
Intel purchased Xircom and discontinued the Rex, but you can still get one (boxed) thru e-bay and Amazon z-shops. They have no warranty, tho but mine has proved to be quite reliable.
Dang right! For the moment I'm doing fine with my $45 REX 6000. Cheap enough I won't cry if I lose it, small enough I can carry it in any pocket along with my car keys/loose change/etc.
Sure, it's not color and it's somewhat slow. But it's more than enough to fit my needs.
The only downside, no sync with anything Linux. But that's ok because I have to use Outlook at the office, anyway.
Not exactly unusual. I don't have the numbers to prove or refute your opinion, but it seems to me, an awful lot of pornographic websites are "barely legal high school lolita" kind of sites. While those are not exactly child porn, they are trying to tap into that market while remaining on the right side of the law.
I haven't been to a porn shop in a couple of years, so this could be an internet only phenomenon.
Tier 1 ISPs (such as the one where I used to work) had a set of rules for peering with other ISPs. In this kind of peering, costs are split between the interested parties. If you can't meet their criteria for peering, and you still want to peer with them, you have to become a transit customer. In essence, a downstream ISP.
This criteria is usually about the kind of connection, the networks injected via BGP, etc.
Perhaps said ISPs in Africa simply don't meet this requierements. It happens in a lot of countries in different continents, not just Africa, and I know this for a fact.
1) Windows has tab completion. It's just not turned on by default. (Do help cmd from the shell in Win 2K (at least) to get a description of it. You can also configure the completion char to something other than tab..)
Sweet Jesus, man! The one feature I miss the most from my unix shell is tab completion. You just made my day!
No offense to the AC or his mother intended. I think it's great she's using some form of Linux on her desktop. But I'm sure nobody was expecting hyyx response. I wasn't, at least.
The details are still being worked out, but basically what they plan to do is have Wesley use his Time Traveler abilities to move through space and time to the NX-01
Jeesh... I stopped watching ST a couple of years back... time traveler abilities??? Is this show mutating into The X-Men?
Yes, I know what day is today, so mod me clueless if it's only an april fools.
I'm not a thief. I'm a customer. When you treat me like a thief, I won't be your customer.
Years ago (back in the 80's) I read an article in Reader's Digest written by a man that complained about how stores were treating their customers like criminals: making them check their bags at the entrance and later on with anti-shoplifting measures. He was saying something to the effect of never again going into such a store. Today, he would have a very difficult time finding one he could still go to.
Just as nowadays we are completely used to those detectors they put at the door and the tabs that stain clothes when removed, we might grow used to copy protection in our cds if we don't take action now. The next generation will take these measures for granted.
BTW, anti-shoplifting measures are a good thing (imo) as long as they are not intrusive to the customer.
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If I'm an employer, I can do it all day long, and thus the product is legal.
As I understand, it's illegal to monitor other people (inc your employees) unless you give them a warning that you are doing so, or might be doing so. Correct me if I'm wrong, please.
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*sniff... sniff*
I R is good jedi!
Take that, silly weasel!
*sniff... sniff*
Well, if nothing else, that penguin looks real cute.
At home and the office I use a Win2k Pro for pretty much everything. The applications that tie me into this envioroment: MS Office (I tried OpenOffice and wasn't up to snuff) including Outlook (for PIM purposes). MS Visio, Dreamweaver. Plus, drivers are easy to come by and support for almost any kind of hardware doesn't require an extensive hunt on the web.
Hibernation is pretty cool, also, and for games it is the way to go (unless you buy a console).
For my servers, tho, I use Solaris (on the Sparc boxes) and FreeBSD (on the Intel boxes) with the odd Linux box for experimental purposes.
Panama's only working telco used to be state run. A few years ago it was privatized. 49% of the stocks were sold to Cable and Wireless, who, in fact, runs the company. Amongst the provisions on the sales agreement, there was an exclusivity clause. C&W would have a monopoly supported by the goverment until the year 2003. Of course, one of the first measures C&W took was to raise the price of local and international calls. Voice over IP became huge then, dropping the costs of international calls from $2.00 a minute to about $0.10 (or even free, in the times of dialpad.com).
Of course, the company started putting pressure of the goverment to prosecute those who violated the rules and quite a few business were fined *a lot* (hundreds of thousands). But Voice ovcer IP is a bit hard to detect unless you have some sort of inside info (a couple of the busts were thanks to disgruntled employees, or so I'm told).
Everybody was expecting a measure like this for some years now. C&W is an ISP itself and was rumored to be blocking certain sites (not ports) to prevent VoIP.
What I'm wondering is, why did they wait until the time is almost up to seek this measures. In January 1st the monopoly will be officially over, and it will be pretty much a free for all.
Democracy has nothing to do with it, tho I kinda relate to your comment.
Bandwith is not "air" like so many people believe. It takes work and money to build and maintain the infrastructure that allows communication to take place.
Just because telcos and ISPs are "faceless corporations" doesn't mean nobody is getting screwed when theft takes place.
I wish I could switch to Linux on my desktop. I just tried RH8 and it's sweet. Two things keep me from switching: MS Visio and that bloody Watchguard configuration software.
I'm even willing to give up my 4 year Outlook mail history (which I can always access using wine, anyway).
Duke? Duke Nukem??? Is that you??
Doesn't UPS (I think) make an avionics box that's WinNT based?
Clueless admin are everywhere. With the advent of easy to install Linux distros (redhat, mandrake) there are people that simply do the default server install and that's it! Never mind shutting down insecure services or keeping up to date with security updates.
I've personally met a couple of these admins, who belive that locking down a box means simply install tcp wrappers for the telnet daemon. Makes me wonder if the even know about ssh.
Intel purchased Xircom and discontinued the Rex, but you can still get one (boxed) thru e-bay and Amazon z-shops. They have no warranty, tho but mine has proved to be quite reliable.
Dang right! For the moment I'm doing fine with my $45 REX 6000. Cheap enough I won't cry if I lose it, small enough I can carry it in any pocket along with my car keys/loose change/etc.
Sure, it's not color and it's somewhat slow. But it's more than enough to fit my needs.
The only downside, no sync with anything Linux. But that's ok because I have to use Outlook at the office, anyway.
Uh? Sierra? Thanks to Ultima V I learned my first two words of english: "Name" and "Job".
Yes indeed. But the crashes are going to be much nastier than a simple kernel panic.
Not exactly unusual. I don't have the numbers to prove or refute your opinion, but it seems to me, an awful lot of pornographic websites are "barely legal high school lolita" kind of sites. While those are not exactly child porn, they are trying to tap into that market while remaining on the right side of the law.
I haven't been to a porn shop in a couple of years, so this could be an internet only phenomenon.
Tier 1 ISPs (such as the one where I used to work) had a set of rules for peering with other ISPs. In this kind of peering, costs are split between the interested parties. If you can't meet their criteria for peering, and you still want to peer with them, you have to become a transit customer. In essence, a downstream ISP.
This criteria is usually about the kind of connection, the networks injected via BGP, etc.
Perhaps said ISPs in Africa simply don't meet this requierements. It happens in a lot of countries in different continents, not just Africa, and I know this for a fact.
Sweet Jesus, man! The one feature I miss the most from my unix shell is tab completion. You just made my day!
SOMEBODY MOD THIS GUY UP!!!!
No offense to the AC or his mother intended. I think it's great she's using some form of Linux on her desktop. But I'm sure nobody was expecting hyyx response. I wasn't, at least.
Didn't Sony buy Squaresoft after the went broke with the FF movie? If so, it's more than just mutually beneficial.
Ooh... I'll start sending you my unwanted email, then... When you send me the $50.00, I'll stop. What was your email, again?
LOL!!! I spat my coke all over the place!!! Lawmakers never cease to amuse me...
Drink coke, dammit. It sure beats snorting it...
Jeesh... I stopped watching ST a couple of years back... time traveler abilities??? Is this show mutating into The X-Men?
Yes, I know what day is today, so mod me clueless if it's only an april fools.
Years ago (back in the 80's) I read an article in Reader's Digest written by a man that complained about how stores were treating their customers like criminals: making them check their bags at the entrance and later on with anti-shoplifting measures. He was saying something to the effect of never again going into such a store. Today, he would have a very difficult time finding one he could still go to.
Just as nowadays we are completely used to those detectors they put at the door and the tabs that stain clothes when removed, we might grow used to copy protection in our cds if we don't take action now. The next generation will take these measures for granted.
BTW, anti-shoplifting measures are a good thing (imo) as long as they are not intrusive to the customer.
If I'm an employer, I can do it all day long, and thus the product is legal.
As I understand, it's illegal to monitor other people (inc your employees) unless you give them a warning that you are doing so, or might be doing so. Correct me if I'm wrong, please.