Maybe because you could support them when you had them but your plant got closed down and now you can't. Back when you had that job at the plant, incidentally, was when you bought your kids that X-box.
Maybe because you're Catholic or Muslim and don't believe in birth control.
Maybe your spouse was the primary source of income and died / left you / got mobilized and shipped off to Iraq / went to prison and now you have to support these kids.
At least, not primarily. There are more comprehensive programs for the "ultra poor". Food stamps are designed for the working poor: people who have jobs that don't pay them enough to live on. Essentially, it's a taxpayer subsidy of employers who refuse to pay their workers a liveable wage.
People on food stamps buying TVs and X-boxes is exactly the point of it: their employers don't have to pay them the actual wage the market demands, but they still have the income to buy stuff and keep the economy moving.
I haven't been involved in the Windows world for a while, but I thought that from win2k on SMB and NetBIOS were generally transported over TCP? So wouldn't limiting TCP also restrict SMB and NB?
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That's business for you. People wouldn't pay us to do useful things, but they'll pay us to clean up messes that never should have happened in the first place.
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A lot of us in the IT world owe our jobs in some way to spam: the company I work for wouldn't need a 4-person server staff if we didn't have to
manage spam filters and mitigate spam & virus damage for our POP clients
audit our mailing list clients to make sure they're not actually spamming
maintain our sendmail and bind clusters to prevent their use by spammers
etc. etc. etc.
Would anybody else be out of a job if it weren't for spam?
But if you're going to lose money, why not lose less money and give the customer a better product? They're losing more money to give the customer a worse product. What's the sense in that?
Which webmail/outlook replacement packages support those authentication packages?
horde or squirrelmail will for webmail. Evolution and thunderbird will for outlook "replacement". YP/NIS is just a different way of doing authentication; it's invisible to the clients -- all they know is they're being authenticated.
Mail server packages?
Courier, cyrus, even pop3d. Again, the application doesn't really even need to know it's on NIS.
FTP daemons?
All of them. And anyways don't use FTP; use scp.
t's not all fun and games. What distros set those up automatically as either a client or a server?
Setting up NIS / yp is part of the standard install for SuSE and RedHat.
How much extra time does it take to get that configured on the server side? On each client side?
I don't know, an hour total maybe?
Incidentally, you seem to be implying that Windows Active Directory works "out of the box" without taking time to install and configure it: it does not. You have to configure the server and the clients.
As someone (dijkstra? soustroup? one of those guys with a funny name) said, computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Knuth said in his lectures on theology that he was not the person to ask if you had problems getting lotus 123 working. Computers are very useful to computer scientists in that they can perform the algorithms computer scientists study.
Why don't we change the name of computer science to something more appropriate. Algorithmics? Computational theory? (that one still comes too close to the word "computer") Symbolic processing? (and that one may just be my Lisp background showing through.)
I don't know. But I'm both amazed and saddened by how many job postings I see saying something like "need a cold fusion developer. Bachelor's in CS required." That's idiotic.
Computer science is not programming, though programming is a skill that most computer scientists need to ahve. Ditto networking, hardware troubleshooting, etc. But that's also true of physicists and chemists. Computer scientists study efficient means of transforming sets of symbols and numbers. Why don't we just sever the imagined link between that discipline and writing the crappy string transformation routines that make up most of development today?
I want RAID now, it sounds like a good idea, esp. if I get one that had redundancy, is it expensive?
Well, RAID is not always redundant. The RAID talked about in this article isn't redundant. In fact, it's "less" redundant than a drive with 0 redundancy, since each drive is now sensitive to failures in the others. It's negative redundancy (in fact, RAID 0 is often called "not true RAID", since the "R" in RAID stands for "redundant".
And, yes, a good RAID controller is expensive and often not available for a PC chassis & mobo.
Well, WEP may stop an amateur wardriver but not a determined attacker: an attacker who can access the packets can certainly mount a known-plaintext attack and often a chosen-plaintext attack. Limiting access by MAC can reduce the possibility of chosen-plaintext attacks, and physically limiting transmission radius is a good way to lower the cyphertext's exposure and prolong known-plaintext brute force attacks. And obviously, if you're concerned about security, you're going to want to also encrypt whatever higher level protocols are being carried over the 802.11 signal.
Education is a profitable business. Why shouldn't it be?
For the same reason that medicine, government, and art shouldn't be and for 99% of Western history were not: there are some things that are too important to be left to individual profit motive.
Plato pointed out fairly persuasively in several dialogues that in cases like those (medicine, government, education, art, etc.) the consumer is in precisely the *worst* position to choose between conflicting medical advice, different courses of education, and different art. The pre-Industrial west solved this problem by making sure none of those trades were run primarily for profit -- in fact, they weren't "trades" at all (and before you go knocking pre-industrial medicine, remember that Galen successfully performed brain surgery in the second century AD). Physicians, scholars and artists were for the most part itenerant; those that got wealthy got that way through a single patron rather than through payments from individual consumers because it was well-recognized that society benefitted from having better medicine, education and art than the common tastes were willing to pay for.
You must be some kind of idiot if you can't get hardware to install properly in Windows.
Yeah, I guess I am an idiot, because I can't. However, since the question at hand is "which platform will idiots have an easier time installing?" maybe my idiotic experience is relevant. I cannot properly install hardware on Windows XP. I can properly install hardware on SuSE. I can also properly install it on Gentoo though that has involved some messing about with stuff. Maybe there was more messing about I could have done in Windows XP, but I don't know and I didn't know where to look.
Off the shelf eMachines box with whatever piece-of-crap video card it came with. I installed Windows XP: the screen was stuck at 640x480 until I found the card's manufacturer's site (emachines.com didn't help) and downloaded a driver. I installed SuSE: I could set the resolution up to 1280x1024 without having to do anything.
I don't think your average user has the time to download drivers and configure them. So, I know Windows XP isn't ready for *this* desktop, at least.
In two and a half years I have never seen that on my browser. Am I doing something right? Wrong? Unusual? This is through all the versions of moz including firebird, firefox, firebat, watermonkey, etc., on Windows, SuSE and Gentoo (Windowmaker in the case of both Linuces).
That's very strange that a problem would be common enough that 4 slashdotters instantly told me about it, yet I've never had it using the same softwaer.
expecting something to just "plug in and work" becuase " the manufacturer said so " tells me alot about the kind of user you are. if they gave you a cd with drivers, then you probably need to install drivers.
If you'll re-read my rant, you'll see I did. After Windows failed to find drivers for the hardware, I added the device through "Add/Remove Devices" and grabbed the.INF file off the CD. When I did that, the device worked briefly, then failed, then my wifi receiver's driver disappeared, then the whole system froze up.
OK, I went to a Windows box and now I'm viewing it in IE. It doesn't look any different. What "overlaps incorrectly" in moz? I don't see any difference.
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Maybe because you could support them when you had them but your plant got closed down and now you can't. Back when you had that job at the plant, incidentally, was when you bought your kids that X-box.
Maybe because you're Catholic or Muslim and don't believe in birth control.
Maybe your spouse was the primary source of income and died / left you / got mobilized and shipped off to Iraq / went to prison and now you have to support these kids.
At least, not primarily. There are more comprehensive programs for the "ultra poor". Food stamps are designed for the working poor: people who have jobs that don't pay them enough to live on. Essentially, it's a taxpayer subsidy of employers who refuse to pay their workers a liveable wage.
People on food stamps buying TVs and X-boxes is exactly the point of it: their employers don't have to pay them the actual wage the market demands, but they still have the income to buy stuff and keep the economy moving.
I haven't been involved in the Windows world for a while, but I thought that from win2k on SMB and NetBIOS were generally transported over TCP? So wouldn't limiting TCP also restrict SMB and NB?
That's business for you. People wouldn't pay us to do useful things, but they'll pay us to clean up messes that never should have happened in the first place.
A lot of us in the IT world owe our jobs in some way to spam: the company I work for wouldn't need a 4-person server staff if we didn't have to
Would anybody else be out of a job if it weren't for spam?
OTOH, every complex project that doesn't use lisp is doomed to end up implementing it in the process.
Ummm.... something tells me Paul Graham would agree with that. Read his Lisp books some time.
Now they're just marking every article "IT" to piss off the color-scheme whiners...
Annoyingly enough, the "it" subdomain sticks with you if you click on any link in the sidebar that doesn't specify another section.
But if you're going to lose money, why not lose less money and give the customer a better product? They're losing more money to give the customer a worse product. What's the sense in that?
- Microsoft took an existing product, and made changes to it (to make it less capable).
- These changes cost money to make, meaning the XP Starter Edition cost Microsoft more to produce than XP Home or XP Pro.
- Microsoft is selling the product that cost them more to make, for significantly less.
Can somebody tell me how this makes business sense?horde or squirrelmail will for webmail. Evolution and thunderbird will for outlook "replacement". YP/NIS is just a different way of doing authentication; it's invisible to the clients -- all they know is they're being authenticated.
Courier, cyrus, even pop3d. Again, the application doesn't really even need to know it's on NIS.
All of them. And anyways don't use FTP; use scp.
Setting up NIS / yp is part of the standard install for SuSE and RedHat.
I don't know, an hour total maybe?
Incidentally, you seem to be implying that Windows Active Directory works "out of the box" without taking time to install and configure it: it does not. You have to configure the server and the clients.
Wow, you think somebody would have come up with a solution for this by now...
As someone (dijkstra? soustroup? one of those guys with a funny name) said, computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Knuth said in his lectures on theology that he was not the person to ask if you had problems getting lotus 123 working. Computers are very useful to computer scientists in that they can perform the algorithms computer scientists study.
Why don't we change the name of computer science to something more appropriate. Algorithmics? Computational theory? (that one still comes too close to the word "computer") Symbolic processing? (and that one may just be my Lisp background showing through.)
I don't know. But I'm both amazed and saddened by how many job postings I see saying something like "need a cold fusion developer. Bachelor's in CS required." That's idiotic.
Computer science is not programming, though programming is a skill that most computer scientists need to ahve. Ditto networking, hardware troubleshooting, etc. But that's also true of physicists and chemists. Computer scientists study efficient means of transforming sets of symbols and numbers. Why don't we just sever the imagined link between that discipline and writing the crappy string transformation routines that make up most of development today?
Neither does SuSE. What's your point?
Why? Windows doesn't have a fully graphical installer and never has. That hasn't kept it from dominating the desktop market.
A querystring, maybe? <a href="foo.php?bar=baz&qxt=fred">This is a link that passes two variables</a>
Maybe that's not what you mean, though.
Well, RAID is not always redundant. The RAID talked about in this article isn't redundant. In fact, it's "less" redundant than a drive with 0 redundancy, since each drive is now sensitive to failures in the others. It's negative redundancy (in fact, RAID 0 is often called "not true RAID", since the "R" in RAID stands for "redundant".
And, yes, a good RAID controller is expensive and often not available for a PC chassis & mobo.
Or 7 in Lisp.
Well, WEP may stop an amateur wardriver but not a determined attacker: an attacker who can access the packets can certainly mount a known-plaintext attack and often a chosen-plaintext attack. Limiting access by MAC can reduce the possibility of chosen-plaintext attacks, and physically limiting transmission radius is a good way to lower the cyphertext's exposure and prolong known-plaintext brute force attacks. And obviously, if you're concerned about security, you're going to want to also encrypt whatever higher level protocols are being carried over the 802.11 signal.
For the same reason that medicine, government, and art shouldn't be and for 99% of Western history were not: there are some things that are too important to be left to individual profit motive.
Plato pointed out fairly persuasively in several dialogues that in cases like those (medicine, government, education, art, etc.) the consumer is in precisely the *worst* position to choose between conflicting medical advice, different courses of education, and different art. The pre-Industrial west solved this problem by making sure none of those trades were run primarily for profit -- in fact, they weren't "trades" at all (and before you go knocking pre-industrial medicine, remember that Galen successfully performed brain surgery in the second century AD). Physicians, scholars and artists were for the most part itenerant; those that got wealthy got that way through a single patron rather than through payments from individual consumers because it was well-recognized that society benefitted from having better medicine, education and art than the common tastes were willing to pay for.
Yeah, I guess I am an idiot, because I can't. However, since the question at hand is "which platform will idiots have an easier time installing?" maybe my idiotic experience is relevant. I cannot properly install hardware on Windows XP. I can properly install hardware on SuSE. I can also properly install it on Gentoo though that has involved some messing about with stuff. Maybe there was more messing about I could have done in Windows XP, but I don't know and I didn't know where to look.
Off the shelf eMachines box with whatever piece-of-crap video card it came with. I installed Windows XP: the screen was stuck at 640x480 until I found the card's manufacturer's site (emachines.com didn't help) and downloaded a driver. I installed SuSE: I could set the resolution up to 1280x1024 without having to do anything.
I don't think your average user has the time to download drivers and configure them. So, I know Windows XP isn't ready for *this* desktop, at least.
In two and a half years I have never seen that on my browser. Am I doing something right? Wrong? Unusual? This is through all the versions of moz including firebird, firefox, firebat, watermonkey, etc., on Windows, SuSE and Gentoo (Windowmaker in the case of both Linuces).
That's very strange that a problem would be common enough that 4 slashdotters instantly told me about it, yet I've never had it using the same softwaer.
If you'll re-read my rant, you'll see I did. After Windows failed to find drivers for the hardware, I added the device through "Add/Remove Devices" and grabbed the .INF file off the CD. When I did that, the device worked briefly, then failed, then my wifi receiver's driver disappeared, then the whole system froze up.
OK, I went to a Windows box and now I'm viewing it in IE. It doesn't look any different. What "overlaps incorrectly" in moz? I don't see any difference.