We thought the same thing until we had two periods this year with no cell service for a minimum of three days each. One was due to storms and flooding, the other was due to wind storms. Because we live a bit outside of our metro area, we were among the last to have cell service restored. We had relatives that had no way of contacting us to see if we were OK. No cell, no cable modem, no dial up because we didn't have a landline. Landlines were still working BTW, this was verified by a few people in town we talked to later on.
So now, we pay $16.00/month for a landline, if only for the added security of being able to call 911 if we need to, and to be able to let our family know everything is OK. Landlines still have a place in this world, sometimes it takes an emergency to remember what that is.
How long do you think it'll take before and ISP gets broken into, records get stolen, and very public names get exposed doing things on the internet that they may not be proud of?
Sure, if you're using off the shelf SATA drives in a USB enclosure attached to a server, but enterprise class? A decent attached storage array will start at $1700.00 per terabyte, (based on a 4.5 TB Polyell 3U SATA unit), then add in the cost of racks, rackspace, bandwidth, power, cooling, new networking equipment, admins to manage it, tape units for offsite backups, etc...the costs are much higher than $300.00 per TB.
His actions had nothing to do with the religion of the people at Waco or Ruby Ridge. Read the letter and the interview afterwards. I think they explain his motivations very well. Read This book.
His association with white supremacist groups was because he identified with their anti government stance, money, and assistance.
Timothy McVeigh was not religious, he was an agnostic. His actions were retaliation against the US Government for the actions they took at Waco and Ruby Ridge.
I've been waiting for the Series 3 after a year of dealing with my FREE HD DVR from Comcast. The Microsoft software on it is horrid. It's slow, unresponsive, and featureless compared to my Tivo Series 2. The IR Blaster to change channels? Here's something odd, after Comcast updated the software on the non dvr motorola boxes to the Microsoft software, it would take up to 5 seconds to change a channel using the motorola remote. The IR Blaster does it on about 1. The biggest drawback is that I can't put my Comcast DVR on my network and share recordings around the house, or pause in one room and resume in another. I also can't use it to play back my kids DVD's from a fileshare like I can with my Series 2 Tivo's. Sure, the Cable companies will LEASE you a HDDVR with no upfront charge, but in this case you really get what you pay for.
While they're pissed off about the current situation in the Middle East, the jihadist teachings that Hezbollah and Al Quaeda represent started off in 1928 with the Muslim Brotherhood. They were responding the the ban of the Caliphate and the attempted modernization of Turkey by starting a movement that was based in Wahhabist beliefs. Their response not only was Anti-Zionist, but also was against non fundamentalist Muslims. The terrorism your seeing really doesn't have anything to do with resources, it has to do with mixing religion with politics.
KDE does it with a right click on the desktop > display. You can change your resolution and refresh rate there. You still have to restart X doing it this way though. The XrandR applet will make the changes on the fly, just like in windows though.
1. No fecking media support! I get XMMS inform me on first attempt at playing an MP3 that it won't because of licensing conflict. Wtf? Codecs for avi's and DVDs were a simular story; all had to be downloaded via yum (bloody excellent tool!). Seriously; not good, but fixed in the end.
MP3 is not a completely free format, RedHat just chooses to stick with free software, same goes for DVD playback. Windows isn't much different, with no support for Divx, Xvid, CSS's DVD's, or Ogg/Theora files without finding and downloading codecs.
2. Why the hell do I have to install a new kernel? Why? I've never had to on Windows - why is Linux different? Is it so buggy? I installed with a factory version something ending 054. Now I have something ending 122 I believe. I did it ok, but that's not the point I'm making; were there really 68 cock-ups so great in the kernel build from release-time until that now they had to re-release 68 times? I'm guessing probablly not, but still.
You've most likely installed patches for your Windows kernel, you just didn't realize it was a kernel patch when you did it.
3. Point 2 also breaks my nvidia drivers. I don't want to re-compile new drivers everytime there's a new 'patch'. For the love of god, why?!
This I wholeheartedly agree with, I hate this, and wish that there was some mechanism to deal with this. Some distros that have precompiled binaries for Nvidia drivers will do it with thier kernel update, but RedHat doesn't, since the NVidia driver isn't completely free.
4. X-Windows. What a mess. Why do I have to tell it my x & y refresh rates for my monitor? Windows just 'knows'. Many more things here I feel that X-Windows should just 'know' - the number of buttons on my USB mouse for-instance. If Windows can do it, there's no reason why Linux can't. Also, X-Windows 'feels' slower than Windows. I'm sure there's good reasons for this, but I don't care; Windows is snappier.
Windows isn't very good at picking your optimal refresh rate though. It simply gives you a nice and safe 60Hz, and leaves it at that. The slowness you feel is more likely an issue with Gnome over X-Windows. Try a KDE based distro, I think you'll agree.
5. Lack of decent file-browser. The best I've come across is Nautilus in a mode that resembles Windows Explorer. It'll do for now, but as far as I'm aware, offers no context-sensitive menus for applications (like the Winamp "Play in Winamp" right-click menu on folders.
Try a KDE based distro. Konqueror is the cats meow of file browsers. I find myself missing is uber functionality when I'm in Windows. It really does kick ass for the poweruser.
Actually, I think that's largely it. In all, Linux has, and is continuing to be great fun to play with. So many cool tools - yum being one of them. I'll stick to Linux @ home; it can only get better, but I'd be interested to know what people think of the above points - any suggestions maybe? I want this to work after all...
I would highly recommend trying the lasest beta from Mepis. I think you'll be much happier. Go here: Link, hit one of the mirrors, go to the 'testing' directory, and grab SimplyMEPIS_6.0-beta5_i386.iso. It's a live CD with a nice installer that you can run from there.
The big difference between the way it's implemented in Vista, and on my KDE desktop, is my KDE desktop isn't completely locked up by the process. I was typing an email last night when I was cut off in mid sentence by the Vista implementation. THAT'S why it sucks. At least in KDE all I get is a password prompt that I can leave in the background if I need to. OSX works the same way I think. I also think that asking for a password instead of just clicking OK is a better way to do it as well, I can just see the first round of viruses finding a way around clicking OK. At least with a password there's some sort of credential involved. You'd think that with the nifty password strength dialouge you see with setting up a user account, that some user education could be added in as well.
I don't mind having to authorize the process, I applaud it. But completely interrupting what the user is doing is a sure way to make people want to learn how to disable it.
A few weeks back I was in Office Depot and overheard a staff member telling a woman to buy a Linksys wireless router because:
"Linksys is the company that invented networking and wrote all the specs for the wireless stuff"
Now, I don't expect that everyone should know WHY a certain brand of anything is better than it's competitors, but spreading misinformation just to sound like you know what you're talking about and sell something?
Nope. For that it needs to support my 1GB mini-sd card so I can carry around MP3's for my commute like my Cingular 2125 does. It's not the most featureful music player since it's really a phone, but it works and keeps me from lugging around multiple devices. You'd think that with the wheel on the side the Blackberry would be perfectly suited for this task and do it as well as it does email. Oh well. They're decent phones, fantastic for email, and suck at most anything else.
Just like the root account, accounts with full system privaleges via sudo are only as secure as the number of people that have that accounts password. Don't get me wrong, I love sudo, it keeps me from having to su to install software, edit files, or update the system, so it's very convenient. But saying that enabling root access by adding a password enables a 'huge security hole' is just a bad case of hyperbole.
1) You can educate users as much as you want about how to avoid viruses, they'll still get them if they really try. They're users after all. 2) The number of viruses that actually are that serious a threat are next to zero. Have you ever bothered to look at the release files to see what the daily updates actually cover? If you did, did you bother checking what they were and the criticallity of the viruses listed? Do you know how many viruses are listed in the readme for the latest McAfee DAT? 3) Anyone that relies soley on a single AV solution is a fool anyway. Virus protection should be layered on any network and is on mine. AV software on the desktop should be the last stop. We use postfix+spamassassin+amavisd to scan mail before it hits our mail server. Our firewall scans anything incoming before it gets to the desktop. Our desktop software is only there as a last bastion and does it's job well, because there's not much that gets there. None of the systems are perfect on their own, as a team, they work very well.
So do I feel safe? Yes, I haven't had a virus issue inside my network for years. I see shitloads of them getting cleaned when I look at my logfiles though. Does it bother me that I wait a three or four days to deploy DAT files? Not at all, because it's not the only way I protect my users.
This is exactly why I force all my clients to update their DAT's from MY server, not McAfee's, and I push the updates out, the clients never pull them. Along with that, I always wait three to four days before pushing the updates out. Even if you don't use the full McAfee Epolicy Orchestrator, you can still configure the clients to point to an ftp server on your network for updates. Just like with MS patches, it's simply prudent to wait a few days just in case there's any issues like this that may arise.
I'm not excusing McAfee here, but there are ways that we, as admins can minimize the risk to our users and our network.
Unless your home theater room is in the basement on the north side of your house, and your kids room is on the upper floor on the south side. There's enough separation that only the loudest explosions are noticable in that area of the house.
Plus I'm lucky, my kid can sleep through most anything.;-)
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We thought the same thing until we had two periods this year with no cell service for a minimum of three days each. One was due to storms and flooding, the other was due to wind storms. Because we live a bit outside of our metro area, we were among the last to have cell service restored. We had relatives that had no way of contacting us to see if we were OK. No cell, no cable modem, no dial up because we didn't have a landline. Landlines were still working BTW, this was verified by a few people in town we talked to later on. So now, we pay $16.00/month for a landline, if only for the added security of being able to call 911 if we need to, and to be able to let our family know everything is OK. Landlines still have a place in this world, sometimes it takes an emergency to remember what that is.
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How long do you think it'll take before and ISP gets broken into, records get stolen, and very public names get exposed doing things on the internet that they may not be proud of?
Sure, if you're using off the shelf SATA drives in a USB enclosure attached to a server, but enterprise class? A decent attached storage array will start at $1700.00 per terabyte, (based on a 4.5 TB Polyell 3U SATA unit), then add in the cost of racks, rackspace, bandwidth, power, cooling, new networking equipment, admins to manage it, tape units for offsite backups, etc...the costs are much higher than $300.00 per TB.
Posting to remove moderations. One accidentally ended up on the wrong choice, and I can't change it.
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His actions had nothing to do with the religion of the people at Waco or Ruby Ridge. Read the letter and the interview afterwards. I think they explain his motivations very well. Read This book.
His association with white supremacist groups was because he identified with their anti government stance, money, and assistance.
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My 65 year old mother uses hers just fine. She thinks the marco buttons on the top are the best feature.
Agreed, I would have like to have been to change my selection. I should be able to moderate, verify my choices, then submit my moderations.
Posting to remove my inadvertant redundant to this poster when it should have been insightful.
I would think that the way they've redefined the word "Advantage", as in "Windows Genuine Advantage" would be a bigger worry.
But that's just me...
Washington is one. Minors are not allowed in bars, taverns, or the lounge area of restaurants.
I've been waiting for the Series 3 after a year of dealing with my FREE HD DVR from Comcast. The Microsoft software on it is horrid. It's slow, unresponsive, and featureless compared to my Tivo Series 2. The IR Blaster to change channels? Here's something odd, after Comcast updated the software on the non dvr motorola boxes to the Microsoft software, it would take up to 5 seconds to change a channel using the motorola remote. The IR Blaster does it on about 1. The biggest drawback is that I can't put my Comcast DVR on my network and share recordings around the house, or pause in one room and resume in another. I also can't use it to play back my kids DVD's from a fileshare like I can with my Series 2 Tivo's. Sure, the Cable companies will LEASE you a HDDVR with no upfront charge, but in this case you really get what you pay for.
While they're pissed off about the current situation in the Middle East, the jihadist teachings that Hezbollah and Al Quaeda represent started off in 1928 with the Muslim Brotherhood. They were responding the the ban of the Caliphate and the attempted modernization of Turkey by starting a movement that was based in Wahhabist beliefs. Their response not only was Anti-Zionist, but also was against non fundamentalist Muslims. The terrorism your seeing really doesn't have anything to do with resources, it has to do with mixing religion with politics.
Carry on luggage is a needed for anyone that flys with children, or maybe you'd prefer sitting next to a stinky diaper for a few hours at a time?
KDE does it with a right click on the desktop > display. You can change your resolution and refresh rate there. You still have to restart X doing it this way though. The XrandR applet will make the changes on the fly, just like in windows though.
MP3 is not a completely free format, RedHat just chooses to stick with free software, same goes for DVD playback. Windows isn't much different, with no support for Divx, Xvid, CSS's DVD's, or Ogg/Theora files without finding and downloading codecs.
2. Why the hell do I have to install a new kernel? Why? I've never had to on Windows - why is Linux different? Is it so buggy? I installed with a factory version something ending 054. Now I have something ending 122 I believe. I did it ok, but that's not the point I'm making; were there really 68 cock-ups so great in the kernel build from release-time until that now they had to re-release 68 times? I'm guessing probablly not, but still.
You've most likely installed patches for your Windows kernel, you just didn't realize it was a kernel patch when you did it.
3. Point 2 also breaks my nvidia drivers. I don't want to re-compile new drivers everytime there's a new 'patch'. For the love of god, why?!
This I wholeheartedly agree with, I hate this, and wish that there was some mechanism to deal with this. Some distros that have precompiled binaries for Nvidia drivers will do it with thier kernel update, but RedHat doesn't, since the NVidia driver isn't completely free.
4. X-Windows. What a mess. Why do I have to tell it my x & y refresh rates for my monitor? Windows just 'knows'. Many more things here I feel that X-Windows should just 'know' - the number of buttons on my USB mouse for-instance. If Windows can do it, there's no reason why Linux can't. Also, X-Windows 'feels' slower than Windows. I'm sure there's good reasons for this, but I don't care; Windows is snappier.
Windows isn't very good at picking your optimal refresh rate though. It simply gives you a nice and safe 60Hz, and leaves it at that. The slowness you feel is more likely an issue with Gnome over X-Windows. Try a KDE based distro, I think you'll agree.
5. Lack of decent file-browser. The best I've come across is Nautilus in a mode that resembles Windows Explorer. It'll do for now, but as far as I'm aware, offers no context-sensitive menus for applications (like the Winamp "Play in Winamp" right-click menu on folders.
Try a KDE based distro. Konqueror is the cats meow of file browsers. I find myself missing is uber functionality when I'm in Windows. It really does kick ass for the poweruser.
Actually, I think that's largely it. In all, Linux has, and is continuing to be great fun to play with. So many cool tools - yum being one of them. I'll stick to Linux @ home; it can only get better, but I'd be interested to know what people think of the above points - any suggestions maybe? I want this to work after all...
I would highly recommend trying the lasest beta from Mepis. I think you'll be much happier. Go here: Link, hit one of the mirrors, go to the 'testing' directory, and grab SimplyMEPIS_6.0-beta5_i386.iso. It's a live CD with a nice installer that you can run from there.
The big difference between the way it's implemented in Vista, and on my KDE desktop, is my KDE desktop isn't completely locked up by the process. I was typing an email last night when I was cut off in mid sentence by the Vista implementation. THAT'S why it sucks. At least in KDE all I get is a password prompt that I can leave in the background if I need to. OSX works the same way I think. I also think that asking for a password instead of just clicking OK is a better way to do it as well, I can just see the first round of viruses finding a way around clicking OK. At least with a password there's some sort of credential involved. You'd think that with the nifty password strength dialouge you see with setting up a user account, that some user education could be added in as well.
I don't mind having to authorize the process, I applaud it. But completely interrupting what the user is doing is a sure way to make people want to learn how to disable it.
"Linksys is the company that invented networking and wrote all the specs for the wireless stuff"
Now, I don't expect that everyone should know WHY a certain brand of anything is better than it's competitors, but spreading misinformation just to sound like you know what you're talking about and sell something?
Nope. For that it needs to support my 1GB mini-sd card so I can carry around MP3's for my commute like my Cingular 2125 does. It's not the most featureful music player since it's really a phone, but it works and keeps me from lugging around multiple devices. You'd think that with the wheel on the side the Blackberry would be perfectly suited for this task and do it as well as it does email. Oh well. They're decent phones, fantastic for email, and suck at most anything else.
Just like the root account, accounts with full system privaleges via sudo are only as secure as the number of people that have that accounts password. Don't get me wrong, I love sudo, it keeps me from having to su to install software, edit files, or update the system, so it's very convenient. But saying that enabling root access by adding a password enables a 'huge security hole' is just a bad case of hyperbole.
1) You can educate users as much as you want about how to avoid viruses, they'll still get them if they really try. They're users after all.
2) The number of viruses that actually are that serious a threat are next to zero. Have you ever bothered to look at the release files to see what the daily updates actually cover? If you did, did you bother checking what they were and the criticallity of the viruses listed? Do you know how many viruses are listed in the readme for the latest McAfee DAT?
3) Anyone that relies soley on a single AV solution is a fool anyway. Virus protection should be layered on any network and is on mine. AV software on the desktop should be the last stop. We use postfix+spamassassin+amavisd to scan mail before it hits our mail server. Our firewall scans anything incoming before it gets to the desktop. Our desktop software is only there as a last bastion and does it's job well, because there's not much that gets there. None of the systems are perfect on their own, as a team, they work very well.
So do I feel safe? Yes, I haven't had a virus issue inside my network for years. I see shitloads of them getting cleaned when I look at my logfiles though. Does it bother me that I wait a three or four days to deploy DAT files? Not at all, because it's not the only way I protect my users.
This is exactly why I force all my clients to update their DAT's from MY server, not McAfee's, and I push the updates out, the clients never pull them. Along with that, I always wait three to four days before pushing the updates out. Even if you don't use the full McAfee Epolicy Orchestrator, you can still configure the clients to point to an ftp server on your network for updates. Just like with MS patches, it's simply prudent to wait a few days just in case there's any issues like this that may arise.
I'm not excusing McAfee here, but there are ways that we, as admins can minimize the risk to our users and our network.
I like the selective quoting, it lets you make the point you want to make.
Unless your home theater room is in the basement on the north side of your house, and your kids room is on the upper floor on the south side. There's enough separation that only the loudest explosions are noticable in that area of the house. Plus I'm lucky, my kid can sleep through most anything. ;-)