Ah...the classic Slashdot elitist finally has a face!
Slashdot is a website that aims to increase readership. Note that Linux as a whole still has a virtually invisible market share. It seems that zealots like you would prefer to keep it that way because for some reason you seem to be more entitled to it than those who don't have the unlimited time you apparently do to sit around and surf the net to research every available option and program.
I have frequented Slashdot for some time, and comments like yours are about as intolerable as the "BSD is dying," "How about a Beowulf cluster of...," and "Cowboy Neal does so and so."
Get off your high horse. This is the community as it is today. Why be bitter?
According to this article, you're halfway to your Masters Degree in Austrailia if you've got an MCSE. This vendor-specific course work is apparently being considered all over the country. The information you must possess, according to the proponents, is the equivalent of IT expertise.
It's clear you have no idea how the Navy or NMCI works.
Word attachment in e-mail are completely standard. KVMs are never considered. Who owns the KVM? Who owns the keyboard/mouse? EDS or the command? They can't touch.
There are VERY strict rules for NMCI. The only true solution is two completely separate networks.
Okay all - I work for the Naval Sea Systems Command and I can tell you the REAL goods.
We have been preparing for NMCI for years. Our original "AOR date," or Assumumption of Responsibilities, was Fall 2000. The contract award was delayed several times and finally awarded to EDS rather than the expected frontrunner, CSC. Rumor was that CSC was prepared to run with it. EDS had already disbanded their team.
NMCI has been nothing but heartache. The ISF, or Information Strike Force, a team EDS has assembled to lead the tranisition, is comprised of mostly freshfaced green sys admins who "basically" understand Windows 2000 and have decided to put 400,000 users, printers, mailboxes, etc, on TWO domains across the country. By my rough estimation, they may even run out of valid IDs for their active directory.
The ISF has been so unprepared they have pushed data inventory calls on us at the rate of once every few months. This has overwhelmed our staff and left us bankrupt energy wise. Most recently, the following two events have REALLY HAPPENED:
Upon reviewing our state of the art cat6 network, they told us they would "upgrade us" to cat5.
They told us they would replace our brand new Cisco switches, locked to the port by MAC, with older, less efficient models, because "our staff is trained on them."
The plan calls for swapping out subpar equipment in Commands who have less money and replacing it with better equipment poached from Command who have it, juggling resources but also leaving those command with less. The rumors are that they will simply NOT support a good portion of legacy apps. Also, word is that they intend to do everything from block ALL non-approved websites to lock the desktop to the wallpaper and screensaver -- with EDS LOGOS!!
The most elite support you can buy is "4 hours response time." Laptops will cost your outfit over $300 a month, and at the end of two years, it's taken away. Computers will cost over $190/mo. We could buy new equipment semi-anually for cheaper. Now they are forcing us to buy Windows 2000 licenses and migrate ourselves from NetWare 5.1.
This is a complete waste of money. Great idea on paper - absolutely deplorable and pathetic implementation. I'm embarrassed and frustrated as a taxpayer and eventually, I may quit on principle.
I've thought about going to the newspapers and sharing some of this information. As a citizen, I'm incredibly upset because it reeks of closed door deals. Your Navy is spending 6 -12 billion dollars on this, and it appears almost every command will need to stand up a second network just to function. How does that make you feel?
I wasn't trying to troll or start a flame war - Slashdot has grown, and CmdrTaco's journal entry yesterday shows that there are people who do this for a job. This gets 1.5 million hits a day - I certainly don't think it's out of line to ask that people either do a little bit of research, or at a minimum, get the names and facts straight before posting. Any given story could have 300,000+ reads, so, yeah, I think the Slashdot staff does OWE people, especially their advertisers, a little bit of accuracy.
Don't get me wrong, they do a great job overall, so, editors, don't feel you aren't usually appreciated, but the increasing number of poorly researched and/or incorrectly reported/linked stories is getting to me.
- The release is called Psyche.
- The final beta was called (null), with parens, not "null."
- The default theme, authored by Red Hat, is called Blue Curve. Blue Curve is offered in both Red Hat stock KDE 3 or Gnome 2.
- The release date was 9-30. Is this is a news site or what?
"Hello. My name is John and I'm having problems with my new PC. The AOL daemon (AOLd) keeps crashing. Anyone had this problem before? Thanks!! u r so cool if u can help!"
"Re-H-Mu-Di" and "De-Mu-Di" are both audio oriented. They are hacks of the words "Red Hat Multimeia Distribution" and "Debian Multimedia Distribution."
I can't believe the growing ridiculousness of this website.
First off, what terrible research. You should have linked to the actual website, where'd you see that there actually is AOL for Linux coming our way.
Secondly, rather than let the uncompromising, closed-minded crowd continue to hate LindowsOS because it appears to be stylish amongst the l33t, you should have posted an actual story (submitted and rejected) that would be truly informational about LindowsOS, like this story.
This is turning into selective and irresponsible technology reporting.
The DOD even just put an expiration date on LDAP use. There's LDAPS now, a secure version. NOTHING new should implement LDAP if it's not internal - it should use LDAPS.
I hope more projects are started with the aim to put Linux in the hands of college students - they're usually BUYING their first computer and they have the time, energy, and friends who understand computers to be adventurous.
Minidiscs never caught on because they use a lossy compression algorhythm. MP3 is already lossy, by putting them onto an MD, you are seriously crippling the audio quality by doubly compressing and compensating for silence samples in the data. If you insist on using portable players to transfer your MP3s in anything but MP3 format, DAT is the way to go - it's a perfect reproduction.
Of course, your best bet is to avoid MP3s, which pretty much destroy the sound anyway - you should go with ogg-vorbis (still lossy, but less so), or even better shn (shorten) format, a lossless compression scheme.
Isn't it kind of naive to assume that technology won't become easier to use, cheaper to use, and generally more believable as time goes on?
I mean, won't shows like some of the cheaper, less-watched shows on the WB or TBS move to a digital realm in the not-too-distant future when it's practical -- you'll only have to pay some animators and storywriters and maybe a director, not actors, staff, caterers, background actors; you won't have to flex around the laws to have kids working, you won't have to hire part-time teachers for the child actors, you won't have crazy schedules because of people, you'll just have animators, who I might add, can be replaced anytime - they won't have pesky contracts or tough agents to deal with.
I think you misunderstood me. I was commenting on the fact that better hardware isn't always adopted because the average user doesn't care about performance or true quality, they care about price and misleading numbers like CPU megahertz.
Sun and Mac make great hardware - why do people shy away from it? They don't want to make the financial commitment to it, they feel as though they get more for their buck with Intel.
I hope x86-64 is huge, but if it's too expensive, I bet you'll see it fall by the wayside, or worse, into the hands of that loud arrogant Linux minority who extoll the benefits of what they think is better, but is only truly better by their crazy standards.
It would be nice if good hardware was actually adopted into the mainstream, but Mac and Sun are living proof that people want CHEAP hardware.
Let's all pray this is a good median.
In fairness, something can be secure at release and less secure as time elapses due to new attacks, new software, etc.
In that sense, "more secure" doesn't imply "more security" as much as "secure by more current standards."
Uh...I don't think it works that way. If someone makes a car that doesn't function properly, you don't sue Henry Ford and family for inventing a crappy product, you sue the auto manufacturer who made that car. If you want follow through on something like this, you'd have better luck chasing the site that called the popunder(up)s or even your own ISP before getting the patent holder. Inventing something doesn't implying encouraging its use.
This debate leads us all in circles. The fact is - we all would like to see, in an ideal world, Microsoft crumble and an alternative come to power to provide us all equality, choice, perhaps even standardization.
But the fact is, until that happens, Windows is the platform of choice. If there ever is a "modular Windows," it will create HAVOC for developers. Ever heard of "dependency hell?" Imagine that on Windows! Imagine users, like your grandmother, getting errors like "Cannot install this nifty 50 dollar software package - missing required.dll file."
Modular Windows is not the answer - limiting the dirty business practices (and probably more user friendly open source software) is.
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Ah...the classic Slashdot elitist finally has a face!
Slashdot is a website that aims to increase readership. Note that Linux as a whole still has a virtually invisible market share. It seems that zealots like you would prefer to keep it that way because for some reason you seem to be more entitled to it than those who don't have the unlimited time you apparently do to sit around and surf the net to research every available option and program.
I have frequented Slashdot for some time, and comments like yours are about as intolerable as the "BSD is dying," "How about a Beowulf cluster of...," and "Cowboy Neal does so and so."
Get off your high horse. This is the community as it is today. Why be bitter?
According to this article, you're halfway to your Masters Degree in Austrailia if you've got an MCSE. This vendor-specific course work is apparently being considered all over the country. The information you must possess, according to the proponents, is the equivalent of IT expertise.
In-ter-esting.
Hmmm...another issue about Microsoft licensing. It seems to me that Microsoft has more interest in sneaky business than making a good product.
The more I am sold on the value and ease of Windows, the less and less I want to patronize this company.
It's clear you have no idea how the Navy or NMCI works.
Word attachment in e-mail are completely standard.
KVMs are never considered. Who owns the KVM? Who owns the keyboard/mouse? EDS or the command? They can't touch.
There are VERY strict rules for NMCI. The only true solution is two completely separate networks.
Okay all - I work for the Naval Sea Systems Command and I can tell you the REAL goods.
We have been preparing for NMCI for years. Our original "AOR date," or Assumumption of Responsibilities, was Fall 2000. The contract award was delayed several times and finally awarded to EDS rather than the expected frontrunner, CSC. Rumor was that CSC was prepared to run with it. EDS had already disbanded their team.
NMCI has been nothing but heartache. The ISF, or Information Strike Force, a team EDS has assembled to lead the tranisition, is comprised of mostly freshfaced green sys admins who "basically" understand Windows 2000 and have decided to put 400,000 users, printers, mailboxes, etc, on TWO domains across the country. By my rough estimation, they may even run out of valid IDs for their active directory.
The ISF has been so unprepared they have pushed data inventory calls on us at the rate of once every few months. This has overwhelmed our staff and left us bankrupt energy wise. Most recently, the following two events have REALLY HAPPENED:
Upon reviewing our state of the art cat6 network, they told us they would "upgrade us" to cat5.
They told us they would replace our brand new Cisco switches, locked to the port by MAC, with older, less efficient models, because "our staff is trained on them."
The plan calls for swapping out subpar equipment in Commands who have less money and replacing it with better equipment poached from Command who have it, juggling resources but also leaving those command with less. The rumors are that they will simply NOT support a good portion of legacy apps. Also, word is that they intend to do everything from block ALL non-approved websites to lock the desktop to the wallpaper and screensaver -- with EDS LOGOS!!
The most elite support you can buy is "4 hours response time." Laptops will cost your outfit over $300 a month, and at the end of two years, it's taken away. Computers will cost over $190/mo. We could buy new equipment semi-anually for cheaper. Now they are forcing us to buy Windows 2000 licenses and migrate ourselves from NetWare 5.1.
This is a complete waste of money. Great idea on paper - absolutely deplorable and pathetic implementation. I'm embarrassed and frustrated as a taxpayer and eventually, I may quit on principle.
I've thought about going to the newspapers and sharing some of this information. As a citizen, I'm incredibly upset because it reeks of closed door deals. Your Navy is spending 6 -12 billion dollars on this, and it appears almost every command will need to stand up a second network just to function. How does that make you feel?
Interesting that such an "informative" post would be posted by Anonymous Coward.
I seriously doubt the credibility of any post where the poster is too much of a coward to attach their name to it!
I wasn't trying to troll or start a flame war - Slashdot has grown, and CmdrTaco's journal entry yesterday shows that there are people who do this for a job. This gets 1.5 million hits a day - I certainly don't think it's out of line to ask that people either do a little bit of research, or at a minimum, get the names and facts straight before posting. Any given story could have 300,000+ reads, so, yeah, I think the Slashdot staff does OWE people, especially their advertisers, a little bit of accuracy.
Don't get me wrong, they do a great job overall, so, editors, don't feel you aren't usually appreciated, but the increasing number of poorly researched and/or incorrectly reported/linked stories is getting to me.
I cannot even believe this is Slashdot anymore!
- The release is called Psyche.
- The final beta was called (null), with parens, not "null."
- The default theme, authored by Red Hat, is called Blue Curve. Blue Curve is offered in both Red Hat stock KDE 3 or Gnome 2.
- The release date was 9-30. Is this is a news site or what?
Psssh....Maybe you didn't see the article on l33t-speak last week. At least Eugenia tries to spell correctly.
U r so l4me cuz the kidz all spell this way now. i 3 all the short w0rds and wuz happy 2 c psyche stuff b4 the rel34s3!
Imagine this in the future, grom Ask Slashdot:
"Hello. My name is John and I'm having problems with my new PC. The AOL daemon (AOLd) keeps crashing. Anyone had this problem before? Thanks!! u r so cool if u can help!"
Yes -
"Re-H-Mu-Di" and "De-Mu-Di" are both audio oriented. They are hacks of the words "Red Hat Multimeia Distribution" and "Debian Multimedia Distribution."
I can't believe the growing ridiculousness of this website.
First off, what terrible research. You should have linked to the actual website, where'd you see that there actually is AOL for Linux coming our way.
Secondly, rather than let the uncompromising, closed-minded crowd continue to hate LindowsOS because it appears to be stylish amongst the l33t, you should have posted an actual story (submitted and rejected) that would be truly informational about LindowsOS, like this story.
This is turning into selective and irresponsible technology reporting.
The DOD even just put an expiration date on LDAP use. There's LDAPS now, a secure version. NOTHING new should implement LDAP if it's not internal - it should use LDAPS.
Are we sure Eve Brecker uses these words unconsciously? I'd like to see that.
People who do things without thinking while they're awake are doing it SUBconsciously.
Big difference.
I hope more projects are started with the aim to put Linux in the hands of college students - they're usually BUYING their first computer and they have the time, energy, and friends who understand computers to be adventurous.
Block *.microsoft.com
or even
Block windowsupdate.microsoft.com
We do it - there's no tunneling, there's no autoupdating...it works.
Minidiscs never caught on because they use a lossy compression algorhythm. MP3 is already lossy, by putting them onto an MD, you are seriously crippling the audio quality by doubly compressing and compensating for silence samples in the data. If you insist on using portable players to transfer your MP3s in anything but MP3 format, DAT is the way to go - it's a perfect reproduction.
Of course, your best bet is to avoid MP3s, which pretty much destroy the sound anyway - you should go with ogg-vorbis (still lossy, but less so), or even better shn (shorten) format, a lossless compression scheme.
Isn't it kind of naive to assume that technology won't become easier to use, cheaper to use, and generally more believable as time goes on?
I mean, won't shows like some of the cheaper, less-watched shows on the WB or TBS move to a digital realm in the not-too-distant future when it's practical -- you'll only have to pay some animators and storywriters and maybe a director, not actors, staff, caterers, background actors; you won't have to flex around the laws to have kids working, you won't have to hire part-time teachers for the child actors, you won't have crazy schedules because of people, you'll just have animators, who I might add, can be replaced anytime - they won't have pesky contracts or tough agents to deal with.
Sun and Mac make great hardware - why do people shy away from it? They don't want to make the financial commitment to it, they feel as though they get more for their buck with Intel. I hope x86-64 is huge, but if it's too expensive, I bet you'll see it fall by the wayside, or worse, into the hands of that loud arrogant Linux minority who extoll the benefits of what they think is better, but is only truly better by their crazy standards.
It would be nice if good hardware was actually adopted into the mainstream, but Mac and Sun are living proof that people want CHEAP hardware. Let's all pray this is a good median.
What the hell is slasdot.org ? Maybe if you actually used the proper URL you wouldn't have been censored by clit=1!
Why would Theo want to serve on the FreeBSD core team? He writes OpenBSD!
In fairness, something can be secure at release and less secure as time elapses due to new attacks, new software, etc. In that sense, "more secure" doesn't imply "more security" as much as "secure by more current standards."
Uh...I don't think it works that way. If someone makes a car that doesn't function properly, you don't sue Henry Ford and family for inventing a crappy product, you sue the auto manufacturer who made that car. If you want follow through on something like this, you'd have better luck chasing the site that called the popunder(up)s or even your own ISP before getting the patent holder. Inventing something doesn't implying encouraging its use.
This debate leads us all in circles. The fact is - we all would like to see, in an ideal world, Microsoft crumble and an alternative come to power to provide us all equality, choice, perhaps even standardization. .dll file."
But the fact is, until that happens, Windows is the platform of choice. If there ever is a "modular Windows," it will create HAVOC for developers.
Ever heard of "dependency hell?" Imagine that on Windows!
Imagine users, like your grandmother, getting errors like "Cannot install this nifty 50 dollar software package - missing required
Modular Windows is not the answer - limiting the dirty business practices (and probably more user friendly open source software) is.