Some PC manufacturers get away with selling PCs without MS Windows preinstalled.
You say that as if it's criminal/dishonest to sell a system with no OS. Sounds like you've bought into the Microsoft-think pretty hard. This is exactly the mindset they spent the 90's trying to instill in the general public.
Hard to believe someone would come on/. and spout this kinda crap.
That's EXACTLY the point. We force our users (and people sending to them) to change extensions so we can be relatively sure that the file was sent on purpose.
That doesn't mean we don't run client side virus scan. We just don't get as much crap coming through as we might otherwise.
As for the "yet" part of blocking...
When are we going to put the responsibility in the hands of the user and stop dumbing down the internet?
When the stupid end users stop downloading everything they can to infect thier PC's with spy/mal-ware. You are the EXCEPTION. "End User" is equivalent to a 4-letter word in our department. Every inch you give them is a mile they make you walk to fix their problems.
Sounds like you've never worked any kind of support job. People do stupid things that you tell them not to do. They will do them multiple times, after being told not to multiple times. Some of them are management, and therefore not generally subject to punishment for violating said rules. Everyone must have their pretty screen savers, fun animated cursors, and dressed up email "stationery".
Don't get me wrong, you sound like someone who is fairly educated in what not to do. As the MIS/IT/IS dept, we do these things in self defense. It's not you who has to answer to the CIO/CEO as to why we got nailed by the XXX worm/trojan/virus.
Make a stink. Talk to a manager. I have a friend who was a department manager at Wal-Mart, another who worked there for 6 yrs. The company line (as I was told) is that they will give you your money back if it's less than $100. Customer satisfaction is a big deal. Costs less to keep you happy than lose your business.
Sure, Joe-Wally-World might not be able to do it, but talk to his manager. You will get your money back.
Clothing will "breathe a certain amount. The cell casing is going to trap a lot of moisture in the cloth of your pocket. Depending on your particular physiology, this is likely due to skin irritation from blocking the sweat glands to a degree.
There are a lot of comments about heat and signal propogation across copper, but another consideration is crosstalk.
From what I've read, you have to plan carefully when laying out circuit boards to get the traces all the same length, and avoid crosstalk. High speed serialized optical interfaces do away with all those problems. Board design becomes dramatically simplified (potentially).
Yes, and the 8 years of Utopia Clinton Presidency got us so much advance in clean energy. I don't recall him doing anything other than pander to the enviornmental lobby.
You make accusations where there is no actual fact. How about we point some blame at Clinton for not proposing solutions for 8 years. Or even attempting to get Osama when he was offered on a plate (at least) twice.
All the same kind of shortcomings could be applied to either party or a given politican. The parent post was generally correct. When a nuclear plant is proposed, the tree huggers go up in flames. Too bad they don't go up in flames about the poor folks who live downwind of the coal-fired power plants. They get all kinds of radiation dumped on them, yet you never hear them ranting about it.
Check out the latest IPCop (www.ipcop.org). Comes default with bandwidth restriction & prioritization. There is at least one add-on that I've seen that allows per-user (by IP address) bandwidth restriction.
Web interface for administration. Updates are simple. Transparent proxy, IDS, custom firewall rules. Really impressed with it.
There are a zillion add-ons, well worth the look. 40 MB ISO image. Took me 20 minutes to get it up and running. I use it for the public access firewall at the hospital I work at. I'm still playing with setup and looking at what other cool stuff I can do with the add-on system.
Your logic is flawed. A local program is only as fast as the backend architecture - you aren't going to be entering 100 charts on a local database. Same applies to a web app.
I work in a hospital. We have a web app that we had built for our physicians to access patient data from anywhere. It is basically a screen scraper. What it isn't is pretty. What it is is quick and very functional. The physicians LOVE it. So do their staff, and ours.
The advice about avoiding a local app is GREAT advice. Version control is a total pain in the ass. Please do yourself a favor and stay away from browser lock-in on web apps(we have too many that require IE). Keep it simple & quick.
What do I know though? I'm just the network infrastructure guy....
...my relationship with my fiance, or our baby daughter...
Sounds like you got your priorities straight a bit late... 8-)
Good for you though. My group of friends online have been very good about my decline in gaming since my kids came along. They always make room for me on the few nights a week/month I'm able to play.
As my kids get older, I find I'm less interested in games. This coming from someone who has spent the last 20 yrs playing everything he could find. You will probably find that your kids are more interesting than the games. Maybe later when they get interested in computer games, I'll get back into gaming more so I can play with them.
Actually, absentee ballots aren't even counted if there are less of them than the difference in votes between candidates.
Lets say that in voting precinct 911, John Doe gets 5382 votes, and George Doe gets 6853 votes. You'd have to have 1471 or more absentee ballots in that precinct before they'd even open the ballots. Basically, 1470 absentee ballots can't affect the outcome.
(This is my understanding from what I remember of the Florida idiocy 4 years ago, correct as necessary)
Majority by a slim margin. 53% to republicans, 47% to Democrats. NOT a big difference in the overall scheme of things.
If Kerry is elected, I am quite sure you will find that policy towards Microsoft will not change.
On top of this, it wouldn't matter who was in office. All MS's lawyers would have to do is file for an extension, claiming the difficulties of working out the DRM or something. Today's courts would merely rubber stamp it and say "Sure, take another year".
" the only dell products I would even consider buying are monitors: CRT, TFT, etc.. "
You might want to reconsider. We have a LOT of Dell flat-panel 21" monitors. Power supply? Same exact one that came with my laptop, and will now need replacing.
I think that either way the 2000 election went, Microsoft would have gotten the case dropped. Granted, the Republicans would have been more likely to drop it.
Of $4.7 million in political donations, 53% went to Republicans. By your reasoning that MS bought it's way out, it would seem that MS was hedging it's bets.
I decided to run a nice clean install of MDK 10.1. Backed up my home dir, blew it away. Clean install. Upon login, I copied my/`/evolution dir back. Crank up Evolution 2.0 and it politely refused to import my data. I re-set up my IMAP store (Exchange). Couldn't even add contacts. Contacts window stayed blank, not even the default Ximian contact. The backend processes for calendaring and such were all there and running.
Long story short, I did another clean install of 10.0 Official, put my data back, and it runs fine. I'll wait for 10.1 Official to try again.
Yes it hasn't been consistent historically. That's because the Catalyst 5000 line was a purchased product, using "Catalyst OS".
Nowadays, all switches are coming with IOS, unless you specify Cat OS (can only put Cat OS on the chassis switches)
Plus - it's not an apples to apples comparison to compare IOS on the 3600 (router) to IOS on a 3500 (switch). The functions are inherently different.
IOS is not hard once you learn a few basics. You can practially build the commands without ever looking at documentation. For that matter all the docs are freely available on Cisco's website.
I have never seen Alcatel's gear or the OS. From looking at the documentation, Alcatel's CLI is a knock-off of IOS. That would leave you using the web interface. Cisco has a web GUI as well. I wouldn't use it, but it's there.
Sounds like you don't do enough networking to even make an educated evaluation of hardware or operating system.
I used to work for them too. I feel much the same about their standards work.
3Com, by comparison, has some of the worst command-line stuff I've ever had to work with. Their hardware quality sucked. The last straw for them was the way they exited the Enterprise market. One of the local Universities had a 3Com ATM backbone. They had a problem where the whole set of backbone switches would crash, requiring a power cycle to recover. They called 3Com - 3Com support's answer was "Sorry, we don't support that anymore". So a very expensive support contract wasn't worth the paper it was written on.
Good luck getting big companies to trust you EVER again 3com...
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I think you've got things backward. Until recently, Conservatives were for LESS government. Lower taxes, reduced welfare, etc. Liberals want more regulation, more social programs, more taxes. Liberals are all about more government dependency by the general population.
Nowadays, the only people for less government are the Libertarians.
It might be worth noting that Michael Moore knew approximately a year in advance that Disney wouldn't distribute the film. Disney didn't make it secret to him that it wasn't the type of film they wanted their name on.
Moore took advantage of this by not getting a distributor, then generating a fuss in the press (who are more than willing to take whatever Moore says as gospel). Once he'd generated sufficient buzz, he got his distributor, and a whole lot of publicity.
I wouldn't hold up much hope on the interface then. Being released on a console platform first will inherently cripple the control options.
That's one reason I've NEVER liked consoles. The controls just **SUCK**. They're only good for simplistic stuff, unless you want to master the up-up-left-down-a-down-b combo crap. Too much work for something I'm supposed to enjoy.
I don't agree with your view of the GPL "encumbering" software. The GPL liberates it. It keeps it liberated.
My view of the BSD license is this: OK, I busted my ass on this great piece of software, you can steal it, change the name and sell it.
Give you an example. I use NetDisco. Amazing package for switch management written by Max Baker. Max is a BSD user, and has licensed NetDisco using the BSD license. Someone popped up on the netdisco users mailing list asking about the license (they had missed it in the documentation). He works for a company that sells network security/management software. We've never heard anything from him again. How much do you want to bet that Max's code shows up in their product, and he gets nothing (however you want to define that, contribution back to the project or monetary) for his efforts.
I realize someone could do the same thing with GPL'd software, but at least you have the legal protection if you need it.
Terabyte storage shouldn't be that hard to arrange nowadays. From newegg.com:
5 x WD 250 GB SATA 7200 rpm ($170 ea) 5 x Kingwin KF-72 drive tray ($13 ea) Adaptec 2810SA 8 channel SATA RAID card ($499 ouch) Lian-Ling Case w/6 external 5.25" bays (CDR+drives) ($111) 400W CoolMax CX-400B power supply (zillion choices here, just picked one) ($38)
$1565, add the motherboard/processor combo of your choice, add RAM and a small boot drive (setup the 5 big drives as a big RAID), and whatever incidentals you need to finish it out (I'm lazy and didn't want to spend the time).
You could probably finish out this storage server for something like $2K or so using AMD proc/mb (don't need top of the line to share a big array). 5 drives gets you a useable 1 TB. 8 channel controller gives you the ability to enlarge the array at a later date if you wish (of course you had better be willing to re-encode or backup your data to do this).
Point is, it's doable for what I consider to be a reasonable price, if I was doing DVD archival. Should be fast as hell too...
Would it not be more accurate to say "the extra garbage they don't take out of the fuel"? US deisel standards are a bit behind the European ones (from what I've read). You can get much cleaner deisel in some places in the US, but they're hard to find. Seems like we get low-sulphur deisel in 2006, IIRC.
If you're determined to reduce some of those emissions, use biodeisel. You actually raise some nitrous emissions, but any BioD you use is net zero carbon added to the atmosphere.
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/. and spout this kinda crap.
Some PC manufacturers get away with selling PCs without MS Windows preinstalled.
You say that as if it's criminal/dishonest to sell a system with no OS. Sounds like you've bought into the Microsoft-think pretty hard. This is exactly the mindset they spent the 90's trying to instill in the general public.
Hard to believe someone would come on
I invented an artificial noise generator for my bicycle when I was a kid. I need to patent the card in the wheel spokes device....
That's EXACTLY the point. We force our users (and people sending to them) to change extensions so we can be relatively sure that the file was sent on purpose.
That doesn't mean we don't run client side virus scan. We just don't get as much crap coming through as we might otherwise.
As for the "yet" part of blocking... When are we going to put the responsibility in the hands of the user and stop dumbing down the internet?
When the stupid end users stop downloading everything they can to infect thier PC's with spy/mal-ware. You are the EXCEPTION. "End User" is equivalent to a 4-letter word in our department. Every inch you give them is a mile they make you walk to fix their problems.
Sounds like you've never worked any kind of support job. People do stupid things that you tell them not to do. They will do them multiple times, after being told not to multiple times. Some of them are management, and therefore not generally subject to punishment for violating said rules. Everyone must have their pretty screen savers, fun animated cursors, and dressed up email "stationery".
Don't get me wrong, you sound like someone who is fairly educated in what not to do. As the MIS/IT/IS dept, we do these things in self defense. It's not you who has to answer to the CIO/CEO as to why we got nailed by the XXX worm/trojan/virus.
My 2cents...
Make a stink. Talk to a manager. I have a friend who was a department manager at Wal-Mart, another who worked there for 6 yrs. The company line (as I was told) is that they will give you your money back if it's less than $100. Customer satisfaction is a big deal. Costs less to keep you happy than lose your business.
Sure, Joe-Wally-World might not be able to do it, but talk to his manager. You will get your money back.
Clothing will "breathe a certain amount. The cell casing is going to trap a lot of moisture in the cloth of your pocket. Depending on your particular physiology, this is likely due to skin irritation from blocking the sweat glands to a degree.
Just a guess...
There are a lot of comments about heat and signal propogation across copper, but another consideration is crosstalk.
From what I've read, you have to plan carefully when laying out circuit boards to get the traces all the same length, and avoid crosstalk. High speed serialized optical interfaces do away with all those problems. Board design becomes dramatically simplified (potentially).
IANAEE (I Am Not An Electrical Engineer)
Yes, and the 8 years of Utopia Clinton Presidency got us so much advance in clean energy. I don't recall him doing anything other than pander to the enviornmental lobby.
You make accusations where there is no actual fact. How about we point some blame at Clinton for not proposing solutions for 8 years. Or even attempting to get Osama when he was offered on a plate (at least) twice.
All the same kind of shortcomings could be applied to either party or a given politican. The parent post was generally correct. When a nuclear plant is proposed, the tree huggers go up in flames. Too bad they don't go up in flames about the poor folks who live downwind of the coal-fired power plants. They get all kinds of radiation dumped on them, yet you never hear them ranting about it.
Check out the latest IPCop (www.ipcop.org). Comes default with bandwidth restriction & prioritization. There is at least one add-on that I've seen that allows per-user (by IP address) bandwidth restriction.
Web interface for administration. Updates are simple. Transparent proxy, IDS, custom firewall rules. Really impressed with it.
There are a zillion add-ons, well worth the look. 40 MB ISO image. Took me 20 minutes to get it up and running. I use it for the public access firewall at the hospital I work at. I'm still playing with setup and looking at what other cool stuff I can do with the add-on system.
Your logic is flawed. A local program is only as fast as the backend architecture - you aren't going to be entering 100 charts on a local database. Same applies to a web app.
I work in a hospital. We have a web app that we had built for our physicians to access patient data from anywhere. It is basically a screen scraper. What it isn't is pretty. What it is is quick and very functional. The physicians LOVE it. So do their staff, and ours.
The advice about avoiding a local app is GREAT advice. Version control is a total pain in the ass. Please do yourself a favor and stay away from browser lock-in on web apps(we have too many that require IE). Keep it simple & quick.
What do I know though? I'm just the network infrastructure guy....
...my relationship with my fiance, or our baby daughter...
Sounds like you got your priorities straight a bit late... 8-)
Good for you though. My group of friends online have been very good about my decline in gaming since my kids came along. They always make room for me on the few nights a week/month I'm able to play.
As my kids get older, I find I'm less interested in games. This coming from someone who has spent the last 20 yrs playing everything he could find. You will probably find that your kids are more interesting than the games. Maybe later when they get interested in computer games, I'll get back into gaming more so I can play with them.
--Rico
Actually, absentee ballots aren't even counted if there are less of them than the difference in votes between candidates.
Lets say that in voting precinct 911, John Doe gets 5382 votes, and George Doe gets 6853 votes. You'd have to have 1471 or more absentee ballots in that precinct before they'd even open the ballots. Basically, 1470 absentee ballots can't affect the outcome.
(This is my understanding from what I remember of the Florida idiocy 4 years ago, correct as necessary)
Majority by a slim margin. 53% to republicans, 47% to Democrats. NOT a big difference in the overall scheme of things.
If Kerry is elected, I am quite sure you will find that policy towards Microsoft will not change.
On top of this, it wouldn't matter who was in office. All MS's lawyers would have to do is file for an extension, claiming the difficulties of working out the DRM or something. Today's courts would merely rubber stamp it and say "Sure, take another year".
" the only dell products I would even consider buying are monitors: CRT, TFT, etc.. "
You might want to reconsider. We have a LOT of Dell flat-panel 21" monitors. Power supply? Same exact one that came with my laptop, and will now need replacing.
I think that either way the 2000 election went, Microsoft would have gotten the case dropped. Granted, the Republicans would have been more likely to drop it. Of $4.7 million in political donations, 53% went to Republicans. By your reasoning that MS bought it's way out, it would seem that MS was hedging it's bets.
I decided to run a nice clean install of MDK 10.1. Backed up my home dir, blew it away. Clean install. Upon login, I copied my /`/evolution dir back. Crank up Evolution 2.0 and it politely refused to import my data. I re-set up my IMAP store (Exchange). Couldn't even add contacts. Contacts window stayed blank, not even the default Ximian contact. The backend processes for calendaring and such were all there and running.
Long story short, I did another clean install of 10.0 Official, put my data back, and it runs fine. I'll wait for 10.1 Official to try again.
Cisco IOS is great.
Yes it hasn't been consistent historically. That's because the Catalyst 5000 line was a purchased product, using "Catalyst OS".
Nowadays, all switches are coming with IOS, unless you specify Cat OS (can only put Cat OS on the chassis switches)
Plus - it's not an apples to apples comparison to compare IOS on the 3600 (router) to IOS on a 3500 (switch). The functions are inherently different.
IOS is not hard once you learn a few basics. You can practially build the commands without ever looking at documentation. For that matter all the docs are freely available on Cisco's website.
I have never seen Alcatel's gear or the OS. From looking at the documentation, Alcatel's CLI is a knock-off of IOS. That would leave you using the web interface. Cisco has a web GUI as well. I wouldn't use it, but it's there.
Sounds like you don't do enough networking to even make an educated evaluation of hardware or operating system.
I used to work for them too. I feel much the same about their standards work.
3Com, by comparison, has some of the worst command-line stuff I've ever had to work with. Their hardware quality sucked. The last straw for them was the way they exited the Enterprise market. One of the local Universities had a 3Com ATM backbone. They had a problem where the whole set of backbone switches would crash, requiring a power cycle to recover. They called 3Com - 3Com support's answer was "Sorry, we don't support that anymore". So a very expensive support contract wasn't worth the paper it was written on.
Good luck getting big companies to trust you EVER again 3com...
I think you've got things backward. Until recently, Conservatives were for LESS government. Lower taxes, reduced welfare, etc. Liberals want more regulation, more social programs, more taxes. Liberals are all about more government dependency by the general population.
Nowadays, the only people for less government are the Libertarians.
It might be worth noting that Michael Moore knew approximately a year in advance that Disney wouldn't distribute the film. Disney didn't make it secret to him that it wasn't the type of film they wanted their name on.
Moore took advantage of this by not getting a distributor, then generating a fuss in the press (who are more than willing to take whatever Moore says as gospel). Once he'd generated sufficient buzz, he got his distributor, and a whole lot of publicity.
That's not censorship - that's business.
I wouldn't hold up much hope on the interface then. Being released on a console platform first will inherently cripple the control options.
That's one reason I've NEVER liked consoles. The controls just **SUCK**. They're only good for simplistic stuff, unless you want to master the up-up-left-down-a-down-b combo crap. Too much work for something I'm supposed to enjoy.
My 2 cents anyway.
I don't agree with your view of the GPL "encumbering" software. The GPL liberates it. It keeps it liberated.
My view of the BSD license is this: OK, I busted my ass on this great piece of software, you can steal it, change the name and sell it.
Give you an example. I use NetDisco. Amazing package for switch management written by Max Baker. Max is a BSD user, and has licensed NetDisco using the BSD license. Someone popped up on the netdisco users mailing list asking about the license (they had missed it in the documentation). He works for a company that sells network security/management software. We've never heard anything from him again. How much do you want to bet that Max's code shows up in their product, and he gets nothing (however you want to define that, contribution back to the project or monetary) for his efforts.
I realize someone could do the same thing with GPL'd software, but at least you have the legal protection if you need it.
Somehow referring to your "body parts" as the "short answer" doesn't seem very flattering for you.
Terabyte storage shouldn't be that hard to arrange nowadays. From newegg.com:
5 x WD 250 GB SATA 7200 rpm ($170 ea)
5 x Kingwin KF-72 drive tray ($13 ea)
Adaptec 2810SA 8 channel SATA RAID card ($499 ouch)
Lian-Ling Case w/6 external 5.25" bays (CDR+drives) ($111)
400W CoolMax CX-400B power supply (zillion choices here, just picked one) ($38)
$1565, add the motherboard/processor combo of your choice, add RAM and a small boot drive (setup the 5 big drives as a big RAID), and whatever incidentals you need to finish it out (I'm lazy and didn't want to spend the time).
You could probably finish out this storage server for something like $2K or so using AMD proc/mb (don't need top of the line to share a big array). 5 drives gets you a useable 1 TB. 8 channel controller gives you the ability to enlarge the array at a later date if you wish (of course you had better be willing to re-encode or backup your data to do this).
Point is, it's doable for what I consider to be a reasonable price, if I was doing DVD archival. Should be fast as hell too...
Would it not be more accurate to say "the extra garbage they don't take out of the fuel"? US deisel standards are a bit behind the European ones (from what I've read). You can get much cleaner deisel in some places in the US, but they're hard to find. Seems like we get low-sulphur deisel in 2006, IIRC.
If you're determined to reduce some of those emissions, use biodeisel. You actually raise some nitrous emissions, but any BioD you use is net zero carbon added to the atmosphere.