Actually, more than the baby bells can lay. Independant telcos can lay lines too. We have three Independant telco's on each side of our city, and both of them have a LOAD of fiber in the ground.
I'm still running a 2.0 kernel on a production Slackware 2.3 machine. The reason for that is that I'm afriad of breaking the antique software package on the system by upgrading, but it seems I will have to do something soon since OpenSSH will no longer compile on the machine, and I don't feel like leaving it open to the world.
What about eye injury? Yeah, I know we have redundant eyes and all. I don't know a whole lot about this technology, but what about the laser eye surgery that inproves your vision? Would something like this make enough of a change to mess up the scanner? But then again, like you said, just go and have the master updated. So I guess its not that big of a problem.
Oh, except for the fact that (atleast around here) most of the banks are very vulnerable to social engineering.:-)
Btw: The first thing that came to mind when I saw this was Minority Report. *gets fake eyeballs and steals a bunch of money*:-d
IIRC, Redhat charges for "Priority" updates. Alot of the time when I run up2date, if I'm not ahead of the crowd, or a week behind, I get a message saying that the server is busy. Paying $60/month/machine gives you "priority" access to these, meaning you never have to wait if the network is busy. Plus they offer a nice web based control panel that lets you update all your machines from one page. Quite nifty. Unfortunately my boss doesn't want to spend the money to do it. Maybe I'll tell him that we need to move to solaris.:-d
Whats more scary is that you can be arrested just for having that information! Did these people actually hack a satelite/feed? What is this, fscking Minority Report?
Uhm, this wont be abused! How about this example: I buy something from Hotmail, thus prior business is established. Suddenly, NBC, Comcast, and every other little thing MS has itself dug into starts calling me. Ick ick ick.. I don't like it.
Or is their a check in place to stop this from happening?
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Hrmm... I'm going to apply for a patent to having sex on a swing. I'm surprised its not already.. oh fsck.. the secrets out!
And what if they are trying to dig into Microsoft's Server market? IIRC (And I'm obviously not an MS user), the most basic license you can get for a stand alone Win2k Advanced Server is $1200~. Personally I would take Solaris over Windows anyday.. but I'm a technical person.. but when you talk about servers you are talking to geeks. Well, unless its an MS Server... then anyone can point and click! (And forget to patch their SQL server).:-d
As a former business man I agree to some point. Taking risks is part of a business. On the other hand, I lost a load of money when my business failed, so I am now more cautious when it comes to financial decisions. I definately agree that Redhat is focused on the Server market. I run Redhat on my production servers and I've never had a problem with any of them. I don't run Advanced Server (I don't think it has anything the base version doesn't have that I would actually use, plus my company doesn't like paying for software), but I expect its probably a great distro.
If IBM came out with their own Linux distro, I would definately give it a try. I generally dislike closed source software running on my production servers, and have often had arguments with my boss over it. On the other hand. If IBM's distro had closed source tools (SMIT), I think I would be much more open to trying it out than if some other no name company came out with closed source components built into its distro. Lets face it, IBM has been in the game a LONG time, and IMHO a distro from IBM would probably have more desirable features than not.
I'd agree with this. I recently talked to a Radio Station about buying some new workstations from me. They had no complaints about running 20 machines with the same windows key. I strongly urged them not to, but they don't want to pay the fee.
Sprint needs to let these people know how to do that then. More importantly, they need to get the point across that customers "NEED" to do this. For example, when a customer signs up give them a piece of paper explaining how to do it, leave a blank so they can write the password down, and explain that the paper needs to be protected, or someone can steal their e-mail. If I give a child a loaded gun, and don't tell him not to pull the trigger, IT WILL BE MY FAULT. (I hate to use that comparison, but I think it gets the point across) Just my opinion.
How about a kernel panic. Linux isn't 100%. I'd trust BSD* more than Linux. And if we are going to play that game, I'd probalby trust Solaris more than all of them. Just my 2 cents.
I agree with this! I work for an ISP, and when we come across a user that we cannot contact to notify of problems, we simple disconnect them untill they can prove they have resolved the problem. Its worked wonders. We see so much less virus activity trying to hit our mail servers, and we've had alot less complains about people having a virus or worm.
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Yeah, except then RIAA will blame poor sales in universities on music piracy. :-)
385 Text editors? That means we have VARIETY! :-) It all depends on your perspective.
Amen to that!
what stunt doubles are for?
Isn't that what CGI is for?
Your not paranoid enough. I always assume that the g-men are reading my e-mail. Plus they read minds ya know!
Actually, more than the baby bells can lay. Independant telcos can lay lines too. We have three Independant telco's on each side of our city, and both of them have a LOAD of fiber in the ground.
I'm still running a 2.0 kernel on a production Slackware 2.3 machine. The reason for that is that I'm afriad of breaking the antique software package on the system by upgrading, but it seems I will have to do something soon since OpenSSH will no longer compile on the machine, and I don't feel like leaving it open to the world.
What about eye injury? Yeah, I know we have redundant eyes and all. I don't know a whole lot about this technology, but what about the laser eye surgery that inproves your vision? Would something like this make enough of a change to mess up the scanner? But then again, like you said, just go and have the master updated. So I guess its not that big of a problem.
:-)
:-d
Oh, except for the fact that (atleast around here) most of the banks are very vulnerable to social engineering.
Btw: The first thing that came to mind when I saw this was Minority Report. *gets fake eyeballs and steals a bunch of money*
No no no no.. they are collecting info so they can blackmail other companies out of business, or buy them out. :-d
IIRC, Redhat charges for "Priority" updates. Alot of the time when I run up2date, if I'm not ahead of the crowd, or a week behind, I get a message saying that the server is busy. Paying $60/month/machine gives you "priority" access to these, meaning you never have to wait if the network is busy. Plus they offer a nice web based control panel that lets you update all your machines from one page. Quite nifty. Unfortunately my boss doesn't want to spend the money to do it. Maybe I'll tell him that we need to move to solaris. :-d
Whats more scary is that you can be arrested just for having that information! Did these people actually hack a satelite/feed? What is this, fscking Minority Report?
Uhm, this wont be abused! How about this example: I buy something from Hotmail, thus prior business is established. Suddenly, NBC, Comcast, and every other little thing MS has itself dug into starts calling me. Ick ick ick.. I don't like it.
Or is their a check in place to stop this from happening?
Hrmm... I'm going to apply for a patent to having sex on a swing. I'm surprised its not already.. oh fsck.. the secrets out!
"AOL, So easy, no wonder its #1!"
:-)
I rest my case.
And what if they are trying to dig into Microsoft's Server market? IIRC (And I'm obviously not an MS user), the most basic license you can get for a stand alone Win2k Advanced Server is $1200~. Personally I would take Solaris over Windows anyday.. but I'm a technical person.. but when you talk about servers you are talking to geeks. Well, unless its an MS Server... then anyone can point and click! (And forget to patch their SQL server). :-d
I'm curious about trying this again. I used BeOS a few years. I was not impressed at all. But I'm seriously going to consider trying it again!
As a former business man I agree to some point. Taking risks is part of a business. On the other hand, I lost a load of money when my business failed, so I am now more cautious when it comes to financial decisions. I definately agree that Redhat is focused on the Server market. I run Redhat on my production servers and I've never had a problem with any of them. I don't run Advanced Server (I don't think it has anything the base version doesn't have that I would actually use, plus my company doesn't like paying for software), but I expect its probably a great distro.
If IBM came out with their own Linux distro, I would definately give it a try. I generally dislike closed source software running on my production servers, and have often had arguments with my boss over it. On the other hand. If IBM's distro had closed source tools (SMIT), I think I would be much more open to trying it out than if some other no name company came out with closed source components built into its distro. Lets face it, IBM has been in the game a LONG time, and IMHO a distro from IBM would probably have more desirable features than not.
Well hot damn! Thats reason enough for me to stop using mozilla and switch right back over to IE5!
I'd agree with this. I recently talked to a Radio Station about buying some new workstations from me. They had no complaints about running 20 machines with the same windows key. I strongly urged them not to, but they don't want to pay the fee.
I remember my neoghbor putting a hole in the garage roof misfiring one of these when we were little.
Sprint needs to let these people know how to do that then. More importantly, they need to get the point across that customers "NEED" to do this. For example, when a customer signs up give them a piece of paper explaining how to do it, leave a blank so they can write the password down, and explain that the paper needs to be protected, or someone can steal their e-mail. If I give a child a loaded gun, and don't tell him not to pull the trigger, IT WILL BE MY FAULT. (I hate to use that comparison, but I think it gets the point across) Just my opinion.
I'm soooooo glad I don't have to deal with Java. :-)
How about a kernel panic. Linux isn't 100%. I'd trust BSD* more than Linux. And if we are going to play that game, I'd probalby trust Solaris more than all of them. Just my 2 cents.
I agree with this! I work for an ISP, and when we come across a user that we cannot contact to notify of problems, we simple disconnect them untill they can prove they have resolved the problem. Its worked wonders. We see so much less virus activity trying to hit our mail servers, and we've had alot less complains about people having a virus or worm.