You're obviously not interested in stuff like KDE & Gnome; there have been long periods where Debian lagged behind most other distros in its versions of those packages.
That said, Debian has worked very well for me on the two linux boxes I have at home and apt-get is a wonderful tool.
OK, first off, it's easy to set up a system account to only allow certain access. If you don't want them to log in, set the shell to/bin/false (or whatever). Similarly for POP3 etc.
Secondly, most of those systems have versions which can use LDAP and/or a database as authentication sources, freeing it from the OS.
Thirdly, you've just annoyed people who have access to these different systems as they now have to change their password in 3 (or more?) different places.
Ah, there's your problem; you let users disable AV software. AV software should be mandatory and it should immediately and automatically clean and/or quarantine all suspicious files without allowing anything less than and administrator to override it. Make it part of company IT policy and wave it in front of anyone who complains.
Like it or not, Windows systems need a solid antivirus policy in place; even if you filter at the firewall/mail gateway/web proxy, viruses will still find a way into your network.
Didn't have much problem with my scanner. Compiled the "scanner" driver, modprobe -a scanner, apt-get install xsane and away I went. I still boot into linux to do scanning, because I found xsane easier than the supplied software.
Geforce is a bit of a pain, it has to be said, especially as it breaks every time I do any kernel recompiles (even on the same version).
Apt isn't perfect; I've had a few SNAFU's with files moving between packages in KDE (file used to belong to one.deb, but moved to another for some reason) & apt-get install barfing until I forced some actions.
However, it has been very good and 99% of what I've done and installing packages has generally been apt-get install [pkg] & confirming the addition of the prerequisites.
The problem with (2) & (3) are that you are effectively censoring opinions. While I can understand your wish to get rid of trolls and timewasters, at what point does sensible control end and censorship start? What if a valid point was buried in 10 paragraphs of swearing & trolling?
Dunno about the Zen, but I got an iPod a couple of weeks ago.
I don't know if it's my setup (about 12GB of MP3s on a Samba share), but the software was diabolically bad at cataloging my collection & copying it to the iPod. Musicmatch locked up completely several times, leaving it "Not Responding" according to Task Manager under XP. It took about 2-3 hours to do the cataloging of the collection (I'm not sure as I had to keep restarting it and actually ended up leaving it running through the day while I was at work). Also, it seemed to be incredably slow at copying tracks to the iPod (about 15 minutes for 4 songs!).
In the end, I downloaded EphPod and used that to copy files to the iPod. Worked a heck of a lot better, getting a full list of MP3s in about 10-20 seconds (about the same as Winamp). Copying wasn't as fast as I'd hoped (about 1.5MB/sec; I'd have hoped for nearer 8, the limit of the 100Mbit/sec ethernet) but still OK.
However, the iPod itself is great; the lack of moving parts is a comfort as it prevents dust entering the system anywhere. The sound is excellent and the controls are good. The hold button is a fantastic idea, preventing the unit starting up when you don't want it and the headset controls are pretty good.
Depends what you want to serve up. Sure, it won't be much use for a fully featured e-commerce site, but for a small document server (e.g. for FAQs) I'm sure it'll do fine.
Bear in mind the first web servers in the early days of the web were probably running on something of a similar CPU power to a 386.
From another point of view, the swap area on Solaris is also used for kernel crash dumps, so you generally want it to be persistant across reboots.
From a PC perspective, it would require a motherboard redesign and the price differential between SDRAM & DDR isn't that great; you can probably get 256MB DDR dimms for the same price as 512MB SDRAM DIMMs and get a boost without (a) complex hardware and (b) the CPU overhead of swapping & associated load on I/O.
I'm sure some people still prefer to work with real, physical buttons rather than a touch screen. Also, you can get more detail on buttons when you don't have to rely on a 320x480 (or smaller) screen.
If you're using a calculator enough, it will be better to have one of these rather than a PDA masquerading as a calculator. Also, if all you need is a calculator, you might as well get one of these which will probably end up cheaper than a PDA.
I'll add something to that; a friend of mine had a baby last year and asked the midwife how to tie a cloth nappy (UK name for diaper); she didn't know. The grandparents couldn't remember either.
In short, cloth nappies are becoming much rarer, simply because people are forgetting how to tie them properly (i.e. in such a way as they don't fall off as soon as you lift the baby).
I've had the same. I get told I should be OK with something like a 16.5" collar, but I know I'm comfortable with 17.5" and nothing less. Took me a while to get that figured out, but I've been a lot more comfortable in shirts since.
After Enron, I'm sure they'll take any allegations of impropriety from any source and deal with it accordingly. As others have said, they're not overly interested in whether you own stock, rather whether there has been a breach of rules.
As the original poster specified, he was complaining that SCO had deliberately raised their stock price through fraudulent claims and I seriously doubt an investor in SCO would complain about that!
Something to bear in mind; those prices aren't that disimilar to what Sun are selling in the same arena. Admittedly, the v240 only scales up to two CPUs, but we're in the same ballpark.
$3,500 is for an entry level system, probably single CPU and 256/512MB of RAM and a single disk. To get it up to a quad CPU system will cost a fair bit; I've seen IBM price sheets and commonly the 2nd and subsequent CPUs cost about the same as the base system (i.e. you're probably looking at about $14k for four CPUs and you can add another significant amount for adding RAM). The prices are good, but I'll see the full price sheet and compare to similar systems before saying the prices are brilliant.
Hell, I've seen a load average of over 100 on a single CPU SPARCstation 20. That was painful.
Added to that, different versions of Unix seem to have a different method for calculating load average; HP-UX in particular usually has a higher load average.
The point is that there are works out there for which it is prohibitively expensive to try and track down who actually "owns" the copyright to ask for permission to republish/reprint. In the meantime, the few copies of that work still in existence are deteriorating (this is especially true of old films, made on film materials that have degraded badly over time).
Now, some of this work has historic interest and certain parties would like it preserved. Unfortunately, they can't track down owners for permission and the 75 year copyright makes it illegal to preserve it. If Eldred's proposal was accepted, then these works would be in the public domain and could be saved. If no-one pays the $1, it goes into the public domain.
There's nothing stopping Sun writing drivers for linux. They're just not allowed to use the SCO code as a basis for those drivers. It's a little unclear which they plan to do from those quotes.
On the other hand, it could be a case of marketing foot-in-mouth without clearing stuff with lawyers etc. *shrug*
I'm trying to get a job that would involve an hour trip in a train each way, and I'm thinking of getting a laptop for that, just to do some gaming and/or web work done on the train to ease the boredom. Just a thought at the moment, which may give way to an iPod and a book...:)
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That said, Debian has worked very well for me on the two linux boxes I have at home and apt-get is a wonderful tool.
Secondly, most of those systems have versions which can use LDAP and/or a database as authentication sources, freeing it from the OS.
Thirdly, you've just annoyed people who have access to these different systems as they now have to change their password in 3 (or more?) different places.
Like it or not, Windows systems need a solid antivirus policy in place; even if you filter at the firewall/mail gateway/web proxy, viruses will still find a way into your network.
Geforce is a bit of a pain, it has to be said, especially as it breaks every time I do any kernel recompiles (even on the same version).
However, it has been very good and 99% of what I've done and installing packages has generally been apt-get install [pkg] & confirming the addition of the prerequisites.
The problem with (2) & (3) are that you are effectively censoring opinions. While I can understand your wish to get rid of trolls and timewasters, at what point does sensible control end and censorship start? What if a valid point was buried in 10 paragraphs of swearing & trolling?
I don't know if it's my setup (about 12GB of MP3s on a Samba share), but the software was diabolically bad at cataloging my collection & copying it to the iPod. Musicmatch locked up completely several times, leaving it "Not Responding" according to Task Manager under XP. It took about 2-3 hours to do the cataloging of the collection (I'm not sure as I had to keep restarting it and actually ended up leaving it running through the day while I was at work). Also, it seemed to be incredably slow at copying tracks to the iPod (about 15 minutes for 4 songs!).
In the end, I downloaded EphPod and used that to copy files to the iPod. Worked a heck of a lot better, getting a full list of MP3s in about 10-20 seconds (about the same as Winamp). Copying wasn't as fast as I'd hoped (about 1.5MB/sec; I'd have hoped for nearer 8, the limit of the 100Mbit/sec ethernet) but still OK.
However, the iPod itself is great; the lack of moving parts is a comfort as it prevents dust entering the system anywhere. The sound is excellent and the controls are good. The hold button is a fantastic idea, preventing the unit starting up when you don't want it and the headset controls are pretty good.
Bear in mind the first web servers in the early days of the web were probably running on something of a similar CPU power to a 386.
From a PC perspective, it would require a motherboard redesign and the price differential between SDRAM & DDR isn't that great; you can probably get 256MB DDR dimms for the same price as 512MB SDRAM DIMMs and get a boost without (a) complex hardware and (b) the CPU overhead of swapping & associated load on I/O.
If you're using a calculator enough, it will be better to have one of these rather than a PDA masquerading as a calculator. Also, if all you need is a calculator, you might as well get one of these which will probably end up cheaper than a PDA.
Yup, we're trialling them where I work, probably using Tarantella as a hook into Terminal Server for Legacy (i.e. Windows) apps.
In short, cloth nappies are becoming much rarer, simply because people are forgetting how to tie them properly (i.e. in such a way as they don't fall off as soon as you lift the baby).
I've had the same. I get told I should be OK with something like a 16.5" collar, but I know I'm comfortable with 17.5" and nothing less. Took me a while to get that figured out, but I've been a lot more comfortable in shirts since.
As the original poster specified, he was complaining that SCO had deliberately raised their stock price through fraudulent claims and I seriously doubt an investor in SCO would complain about that!
Hrm, according to other sources, the relase date for the pda/watch is delayed until 30th September.
I'd be surprised if they were selling a 4-CPU system for $3,500, but we'll see...
$3,500 is for an entry level system, probably single CPU and 256/512MB of RAM and a single disk. To get it up to a quad CPU system will cost a fair bit; I've seen IBM price sheets and commonly the 2nd and subsequent CPUs cost about the same as the base system (i.e. you're probably looking at about $14k for four CPUs and you can add another significant amount for adding RAM). The prices are good, but I'll see the full price sheet and compare to similar systems before saying the prices are brilliant.
I think that "major brand" could be Apple, if they ever add .ogg support to the iPod. It would be the start of a movement towards the better format.
Added to that, different versions of Unix seem to have a different method for calculating load average; HP-UX in particular usually has a higher load average.
The point is that there are works out there for which it is prohibitively expensive to try and track down who actually "owns" the copyright to ask for permission to republish/reprint. In the meantime, the few copies of that work still in existence are deteriorating (this is especially true of old films, made on film materials that have degraded badly over time).
Now, some of this work has historic interest and certain parties would like it preserved. Unfortunately, they can't track down owners for permission and the 75 year copyright makes it illegal to preserve it. If Eldred's proposal was accepted, then these works would be in the public domain and could be saved. If no-one pays the $1, it goes into the public domain.
On the other hand, it could be a case of marketing foot-in-mouth without clearing stuff with lawyers etc. *shrug*
Er, "The new system, using lower-priced advanced servers and personal computers". That doesn't suggest S/390 or AS/400 to me.
BTW, the mention of "large systems" suggests mainframes to me, so potentially no-one's lost on this as it was probably IBM mainframes.
I'm trying to get a job that would involve an hour trip in a train each way, and I'm thinking of getting a laptop for that, just to do some gaming and/or web work done on the train to ease the boredom. Just a thought at the moment, which may give way to an iPod and a book... :)