Id rather be an xenophobe than someone that condones bullying, mutilation, and sanctioned slaughter.
You don't see the point i'm trying to make. I'm not saying the rest of the world isn't messed up, just that the US is messed up as well. You have got so used to your type of messed up that you don't even see it anymore.
Bullying - Ever tried talking to a US border official? Or a US policeman? Regardless of the situation it comes down to threats pretty quickly. Sanctioned slaughter - What's the death penalty? What about all the people the police have shot in slightly dodgy circumstances?
And I'm fucking tired with the death penalty in your country, you're DMCA notices to the whole world, your human-violation rights in your outside US prisons, your pseudo-freedom-of-speech, and a lot of other bulshit.
And the way they double tax their own citizens when they try to better themselves by working outside their borders. And the way they get involved and mess around in every international and many national disputes everywhere. And the crazy way they try to force their export regulations on companies all over the world. And don't even get me started on their excessive eating whilst large amounts of the world are starving.
The US is about as messed up as the rest of the world. Paiute is an ignorant xenophobe.
"I am a one trick pony who cannot learn to do things in other operating systems because my ego gets in the way."
Go elsewhere to seek advice. I'd suggest stackoverflow.com
The thing is UNIX guys get used to computers doing what they are told. It's hard to get used to windows doing 97% of what it's told on a good day and way less on a bad day. Many people will deny it but windows is still flaky and not well suited to complex automation.
Why would you switch to Windows - an inferior, security ridden, and an OS which can't stay up longer than a month?! It's a hobbyist OS at best and doesn't survive in a real commercial environment.
WMI is always broken on a handful of systems in a large user base. No matter how much effort you expend trying to fix it, some will always be broken. WMI is only a 100% solution if your user base is small. We have a 10,000 system user base and we never got below 3% of systems with a WMI failure, reguardless of how much time we put into fixing them. We gave up and have climbed to 7%. We now use cmd scripts primarily with Altiris, BixFix, AutoIT filling in with what cmd can't do, which is a lot. We still can't crack that 3% fail rate but, many will fix themselves on retry and we spend a whole lot less time fixing them. Still requires a lot of hours in remote desktop though.:/
WMI automation could work if you kept all windows machines totally identical, reinstalled at the first sign of flaky behavior, and tightly controlled all data that gets onto these machines. Yeah, I know it's not practical in most environments.
"From now on it is not your job to do things. It is your job to make sure everyone else can do their jobs."
Just an unwanted observation, but star programmers who don't "make sure everyone else can do their jobs." by using the systems and applications they developed are either not start programmers, or are working for idiots.
His boss just gave someone with no network management experience a network manager job. It's a fair bet he is working for idiots.
Or just use PF and get the rules you want not what pfsense thinks you want. The last time I used pfsense I gave up because pf alone is more flexible and pf on OpenBSD has the best security going.
Actually it can't. It can only transport digital data, analog data can't be reduced to digital without loss.
I'm not sure what you mean by "analog data," but for signals, you certainly can encode it digitally without loss, depending on your bandwidth and the noise floor of your analog system.
That is to say, given a high-quality AD/DA converter and a sufficiently high resolution (sampling rate and quantization), you can encode and decode an analog signal and get a result indistinguishable from the original within the tolerances of your gear.
Encoding analog to digital always gives an approximation of the real data, this is what you are refering to as 'indistinguishable'. It's not a copy of the real data, it's just close enough to look like a copy. For encoding sound intended for human ears it doesn't really matter, for encoding something else the difference may matter. There may be many things in the universe that can't be accurately described by a finite length string of ones and zeros, the obvious example being pi.
Anyone mention Fon (www.fon.com) yet? Its not really open to just anyone, but I think it is somewhat interesting. It sort of brings the "open to anyone" concept to "don't rape my internet".
That sounds like an interesting idea as long as it VPNs to a server somewhere and people connected though this never get my IP address.
ISPs already install a bunch of crap on your machine when you sign up unless you watch the guy like a hawk and make sure hee doesn't install anything. I don't think they'd have an issue doing this.
Watch the guy? I've never had anyone from an ISP configuring my computer. They ship me a box, and either they or I plug it in. I configure all my equipment,
Regarding Google - actually, yes, there is implied consent. robots.txt and nofollow links can easily be added to any website, to tell Googlebot and others to go away. And they will - or then they probably would be wandering into (c) infringing - or at least some form of illegal use of resources (for trawling the site).
Surely consent is opt in, not opt out. Robots.txt only forbids things, not allows them.
It's understood the web is public but I could place text under any copyright on my server. Why does google get a magic right to redistribute it without my permission?
Some one is paranoid.. not everyone who says something good about a MS product isn't working for MS. He could just be a big fan...
Read what you just typed.
Lots of people here have experienced every windows release since 3.1. Windows has been behind the state of the art, insecure, and lacking stability on every single release. It's never been secure enough to connect to any public network even with good firewalls in the way.
All in all, I'm actually pretty optimistic it'll be a pretty great Windows release. I think with Win7, they've ironed out a lot of crap in the Vista underpinnings and are spending a lot less time fixing and more time implementing new things.
Have at it.
You would be quite optimistic since you are a MS marketer. The rest of us have seen plenty of MS releases each and every one dangerously insecure and well behind the state of the art.
And, this is why I will not be using cloud services for anything of value (meaning "anything ever"). It is bad enough that I have to rely on email from someone else.
Why do you have to reply on email from anyone else? It's not too hard to setup a mail server for yourself.
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Id rather be an xenophobe than someone that condones bullying, mutilation, and sanctioned slaughter.
You don't see the point i'm trying to make. I'm not saying the rest of the world isn't messed up, just that the US is messed up as well. You have got so used to your type of messed up that you don't even see it anymore.
Bullying - Ever tried talking to a US border official? Or a US policeman? Regardless of the situation it comes down to threats pretty quickly.
Sanctioned slaughter - What's the death penalty? What about all the people the police have shot in slightly dodgy circumstances?
And I'm fucking tired with the death penalty in your country, you're DMCA notices to the whole world, your human-violation rights in your outside US prisons, your pseudo-freedom-of-speech, and a lot of other bulshit.
And the way they double tax their own citizens when they try to better themselves by working outside their borders. And the way they get involved and mess around in every international and many national disputes everywhere. And the crazy way they try to force their export regulations on companies all over the world. And don't even get me started on their excessive eating whilst large amounts of the world are starving.
The US is about as messed up as the rest of the world. Paiute is an ignorant xenophobe.
The fact is this should be none of the readers concern here. Leave these internal domestic matters to the Turks or whoever else.
We don't all live in the same 'here'.
10. Random API failures or APIs that don't behave to spec. ...
11. Interference from virus scanners.
SnarfQuest is right. Automation will break often and in weird ways, it's going to require constant maintenance.
"I am a one trick pony who cannot learn to do things in other operating systems because my ego gets in the way."
Go elsewhere to seek advice. I'd suggest stackoverflow.com
The thing is UNIX guys get used to computers doing what they are told. It's hard to get used to windows doing 97% of what it's told on a good day and way less on a bad day. Many people will deny it but windows is still flaky and not well suited to complex automation.
Why would you switch to Windows - an inferior, security ridden, and an OS which can't stay up longer than a month?!
It's a hobbyist OS at best and doesn't survive in a real commercial environment.
FTFY
Wait. People actually use Experts Exchange?
I thought that site was an attempt at trolling google searches.
WMI is always broken on a handful of systems in a large user base. No matter how much effort you expend trying to fix it, some will always be broken. WMI is only a 100% solution if your user base is small. We have a 10,000 system user base and we never got below 3% of systems with a WMI failure, reguardless of how much time we put into fixing them. We gave up and have climbed to 7%. We now use cmd scripts primarily with Altiris, BixFix, AutoIT filling in with what cmd can't do, which is a lot. We still can't crack that 3% fail rate but, many will fix themselves on retry and we spend a whole lot less time fixing them. Still requires a lot of hours in remote desktop though. :/
WMI automation could work if you kept all windows machines totally identical, reinstalled at the first sign of flaky behavior, and tightly controlled all data that gets onto these machines. Yeah, I know it's not practical in most environments.
Dont:
Windows Automation
Do:
Hire a windows guy to do it for you and keep him around to do it manually when windows starts acting non-deterministically.
Proper automation just doesn't work on windows, it's too flaky. At best you might get 98% automation and 2% some guy cleaning up random failures.
Hp procurve switches ? Locking up like it's crazy on the slightest electrical fluctuation , pos hardware.
Seriously?? I've never seen that and I do get power fluctuations every now and then.
"From now on it is not your job to do things. It is your job to make sure everyone else can do their jobs."
Just an unwanted observation, but star programmers who don't "make sure everyone else can do their jobs." by using the systems and applications they developed are either not start programmers, or are working for idiots.
His boss just gave someone with no network management experience a network manager job. It's a fair bet he is working for idiots.
deploy pfSense, the rest is all junk
Or just use PF and get the rules you want not what pfsense thinks you want. The last time I used pfsense I gave up because pf alone is more flexible and pf on OpenBSD has the best security going.
I'm not sure what you mean by "analog data," but for signals, you certainly can encode it digitally without loss, depending on your bandwidth and the noise floor of your analog system.
That is to say, given a high-quality AD/DA converter and a sufficiently high resolution (sampling rate and quantization), you can encode and decode an analog signal and get a result indistinguishable from the original within the tolerances of your gear.
Encoding analog to digital always gives an approximation of the real data, this is what you are refering to as 'indistinguishable'. It's not a copy of the real data, it's just close enough to look like a copy. For encoding sound intended for human ears it doesn't really matter, for encoding something else the difference may matter. There may be many things in the universe that can't be accurately described by a finite length string of ones and zeros, the obvious example being pi.
IP can transport _anything_
Actually it can't. It can only transport digital data, analog data can't be reduced to digital without loss.
They gave you a network manager position when you don't know ANY networking? Who is running this company? A 5 year old child?
Send me the name of your company, I have feng shui consulting to sell them...
Anyone mention Fon (www.fon.com) yet? Its not really open to just anyone, but I think it is somewhat interesting. It sort of brings the "open to anyone" concept to "don't rape my internet".
That sounds like an interesting idea as long as it VPNs to a server somewhere and people connected though this never get my IP address.
Any idea? I didn't see this on their website.
It's crazy to share your connection with anyone you don't trust. When they mess up the bad people will come after you.
For most people that means don't share your connection.
The trains are not 'coming off the rails' to state that is an outright lie.
FireFox is the exception. FF on XP uses it's own SSL libs that support SNI. My server config days will get so much easier when XP dies.
If XP dies. It's going to be a very long death.
ISPs already install a bunch of crap on your machine when you sign up unless you watch the guy like a hawk and make sure hee doesn't install anything. I don't think they'd have an issue doing this.
Watch the guy? I've never had anyone from an ISP configuring my computer. They ship me a box, and either they or I plug it in. I configure all my equipment,
Regarding Google - actually, yes, there is implied consent. robots.txt and nofollow links can easily be added to any website, to tell Googlebot and others to go away. And they will - or then they probably would be wandering into (c) infringing - or at least some form of illegal use of resources (for trawling the site).
Surely consent is opt in, not opt out. Robots.txt only forbids things, not allows them.
It's understood the web is public but I could place text under any copyright on my server. Why does google get a magic right to redistribute it without my permission?
Some one is paranoid.. not everyone who says something good about a MS product isn't working for MS. He could just be a big fan...
Read what you just typed.
Lots of people here have experienced every windows release since 3.1. Windows has been behind the state of the art, insecure, and lacking stability on every single release. It's never been secure enough to connect to any public network even with good firewalls in the way.
All in all, I'm actually pretty optimistic it'll be a pretty great Windows release. I think with Win7, they've ironed out a lot of crap in the Vista underpinnings and are spending a lot less time fixing and more time implementing new things.
Have at it.
You would be quite optimistic since you are a MS marketer. The rest of us have seen plenty of MS releases each and every one dangerously insecure and well behind the state of the art.
And, this is why I will not be using cloud services for anything of value (meaning "anything ever"). It is bad enough that I have to rely on email from someone else.
Why do you have to reply on email from anyone else? It's not too hard to setup a mail server for yourself.
Don't use the smaller cloud providers, rely on those that are too big to fail.
There is no such thing as 'too big to fail'.