Do you know *how* MS became interested in DRM/IRM? Many of their own emails and edocuments were used against them in the federal anti-trust trial. They were determined that this would *never* happen to them again. So, they began researching technologies that would somehow make these documents unuseable (damage, delete, encrypt) or unviewable unless the user was authorized by them to view it.
Today we have Office 2003. It's just the begining. It came out of a need for corporate criminals to cover their illegal deeds, and now their selling it as a grand, new feature... only in America.
My Dad bought me one for Christmas the first year they came out. Sears sold them through their catalog. In January, on my birthday, he bought me the 1541 disk drive. I wrote my first program, dialed into my first network and played lots of games on the C-64. It was all very natural to me. Having it made me realize that I was different than other kids. I wasn't strong, I wasn't fast but I was smart, very smart.
Many years later, I look back on the C-64 with fond memories. I'm a college graduate now (phi beta kappa) from VT, and my career is centered around maintaining/developing computers and networks. Much of what I have learned about computers I attribute to the C-64.
We've had 9 ibooks go bad since April 2003. They all needed main board replacments. The LCDs got these awful lines or would just go black. I think it's a defect or design flaw, but Apple won't admit to it. These things are 14 to 18 months old... all of them require a $600 fix. It's the last time we'll buy *any* of their i-line crap as it is CHEAP!
Do you know *why* the IT Depts. require you to install svc. packs and anti-virus? Because they don't have time to clean up after all the unpatched, hacked MS machines... that's why. I know. I'm one of those pesky IT guys who is sometimes forced to help a stupid English major fix a 2000 system because it's a vendor supported product running svc pack one and the vendor says if it's upgraded to svc pack 2 it will break their product... cry me a river and get off your ass and write good code!!!
We bought several of their new Linux based XW workstations last summer and have been *very* satisfied with the hardware. It's top notch stuff that is very solid. It comes at a reasonable price too. We checked out Dell (the Walmart of PC makers) IBM and gateway as well, but *no* company had the quality, price and support for Linux down as well as HP has.
Most all laptop users want a small, light-weight, cool (even after running all day) and semi-powerful laptop that has a good battery life. G5's are great procs, but they are *far* from meeting the above requirments that *most all* laptop users want. They are too hot, use too much power and too big at present... give them a few years.
The G4 has a lot of life left when it comes to portable computing.
I know that DRM makes sense on protecting a company's assets, but it can be the carte blanche to the CEO's of the world to forgo legal business practices...
Ever heard *how* MS became interested in DRM? Many of their own corporate emails and documents were used against them in their federal antitrust trial. So, they decided to investiagte technologies that could expire documents and emails, prohibit printing, forwarding, etc... their efforts to erase evidence (the old paper trail) will come together fully in Office 2003.
Basically, MS will be their own largest customer of this technology... and for good reason... now that is wrong. And to make matters worse... their going to make money from it too. Ah, America.
Would anybody know why Powermac G5s are a better choice here?
They aren't a better choice. This is nothing but a *huge* waste of money by the CS Dept. Head who is a *classic* Mac fanatic that has been influenced by the Steve Jobs reality distortion field. The drinking of the poison koolaid is next on his list of things to do right after making x86 a forbidden platform in the dept.
Anyone know how much less expensive a cluster of AMD x86/64 machines would have been? How would the performance differ? If x86/64 is less expensive and performs on par (equal to or slightly less than) with a G5 cluster, then why not use that instead???
Simplistic responses to complex questions are stupid. Steve Jobs would have said Mac, instead of Linux and we all know that Mac addicts are a stupid, religious bunch of idiots, so don't make Linux addicts out to be like them as well.
Wait until a Linux distro gains significant market share... then we'll see how well it fairs against worms and viruses... sendmail anyone???
We have a 'Webmaster' who administers a Linux Web server that has been hacked several times. We even had a visit from the FBI once because the server was doing funky things to whitehouse.gov, etc.
Our 'Webmaster' is a Mac fanatic who's a college drop-out ( he was a sociology major with a.75 GPA). He hates anything from MS... that's why he *attempts* to run a Linux server. He is dangerous, very, very dangerous and will one day be fired.
It's people like this who don't *know* what the fuck they're doing that causes servers to be hacked (Windows or Linux or any platform).
Get yoself a pair o' needle nose plairs with ensulated handles and a good flash lite. I gots a pair, but dah ends of 'em ain't so sharp and pointy anymoe since I fused 'em once between a hot 220 and a metal box... they be kinda melted now, but I lived thru the sparks and cracklin noise, and we all know that that's all that matters in dah end.
I'm Director of Computer Svcs. for a large department (400 users) within a large state university, and this is why we don't spend money on Macs:
1. Apples cost more than comparable PCs.
2. Application support is spotty at best. For example, Quark just released a native version of Quark Express for OSX (more than 2 years *after* OSX came out). Bottom line here is that application developement companies are not going to spend R&D dollars on Macs... not enough users to justify the expense, and you can forget bug fixes.
3. Apple service and support is lacking. Dell will dispatch a technician with parts to do next business day repair (for 3 years) on our PCs. They'll also cover laptop damage due to drops and liquid spills. Apple does neither and requires me to buy Apple Care (an additional $250-$350) just to get more than 90 Days of phone support after buying a $3,000 laptop. Bottom line, Apple simply cannot compete.
In conclusion, Apples are expenisive machines w/o quality application support and they have the absolute worst support for dollars spent in the business.
Apple routinely screws it's customers far more than MS does. In fact they not only screw their customers on the OS but the hardware too! You get it both ways.
Anyone on board with OSX from the begining has had to pay a yearly $129 for bug fixes and features that were in OS9 but not OSX because they were not ready. YEARLY! And the first 2 incarnations were worse than Windows 2k/xp release candidates. OSX should not have even been released till atleast 10.2.
Truer words have never been posted. Apple cheats you on SW, HW and service and support... no wonder they have less and less market share. People aren't stupid, unless their part of the True Beliver Cult that follows Steve Jobs around.
> One of the downsides to having just one type of OS is that it makes you very vulnerable to this sort of thing.
Everyone says that, but does it really?
Yes. If every human being had genes that invited diseases like down syndrome or sickle cell anemia then those disorders would be much more common. It's really that simple.
NT/2000/XP have the same genetic code (code base). Unless that code is somehow an anomally (different) then it's an easy target. Measures such as host-based FWs (Zone Alarm) can be bolted on to the system to prevent it from coming in contact with untrusted systemd that might contain the disease, but these measures don't protect againts trusted systems that have the disease (similar to catching a cold from your brother or sister).
The answer really is diversification. OS X, Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc.
That's why we kicked German and Japanese ass during WW2. We don't complicate matters, we just get the job done. Adding unnecessary letters to words is a waste of time. Why bother?
Linux is a kernel, not a computer operating system with GUIs for adding printers and configuring PDAs. Those that think differently know not of what they speak and should shut the hell up.
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Do you know *how* MS became interested in DRM/IRM? Many of their own emails and edocuments were used against them in the federal anti-trust trial. They were determined that this would *never* happen to them again. So, they began researching technologies that would somehow make these documents unuseable (damage, delete, encrypt) or unviewable unless the user was authorized by them to view it.
Today we have Office 2003. It's just the begining. It came out of a need for corporate criminals to cover their illegal deeds, and now their selling it as a grand, new feature... only in America.
My Dad bought me one for Christmas the first year they came out. Sears sold them through their catalog. In January, on my birthday, he bought me the 1541 disk drive. I wrote my first program, dialed into my first network and played lots of games on the C-64. It was all very natural to me. Having it made me realize that I was different than other kids. I wasn't strong, I wasn't fast but I was smart, very smart.
Many years later, I look back on the C-64 with fond memories. I'm a college graduate now (phi beta kappa) from VT, and my career is centered around maintaining/developing computers and networks. Much of what I have learned about computers I attribute to the C-64.
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Buy a Dell laptop with "Complete Care"... it covers drops and drink spills. Can't be beat.
We've had 9 ibooks go bad since April 2003. They all needed main board replacments. The LCDs got these awful lines or would just go black. I think it's a defect or design flaw, but Apple won't admit to it. These things are 14 to 18 months old... all of them require a $600 fix. It's the last time we'll buy *any* of their i-line crap as it is CHEAP!
Do you know *why* the IT Depts. require you to install svc. packs and anti-virus? Because they don't have time to clean up after all the unpatched, hacked MS machines... that's why. I know. I'm one of those pesky IT guys who is sometimes forced to help a stupid English major fix a 2000 system because it's a vendor supported product running svc pack one and the vendor says if it's upgraded to svc pack 2 it will break their product... cry me a river and get off your ass and write good code!!!
We bought several of their new Linux based XW workstations last summer and have been *very* satisfied with the hardware. It's top notch stuff that is very solid. It comes at a reasonable price too. We checked out Dell (the Walmart of PC makers) IBM and gateway as well, but *no* company had the quality, price and support for Linux down as well as HP has.
Most all laptop users want a small, light-weight, cool (even after running all day) and semi-powerful laptop that has a good battery life. G5's are great procs, but they are *far* from meeting the above requirments that *most all* laptop users want. They are too hot, use too much power and too big at present... give them a few years.
The G4 has a lot of life left when it comes to portable computing.
I know that DRM makes sense on protecting a company's assets, but it can be the carte blanche to the CEO's of the world to forgo legal business practices...
Ever heard *how* MS became interested in DRM? Many of their own corporate emails and documents were used against them in their federal antitrust trial. So, they decided to investiagte technologies that could expire documents and emails, prohibit printing, forwarding, etc... their efforts to erase evidence (the old paper trail) will come together fully in Office 2003.
Basically, MS will be their own largest customer of this technology... and for good reason... now that is wrong. And to make matters worse... their going to make money from it too. Ah, America.
Would anybody know why Powermac G5s are a better choice here?
They aren't a better choice. This is nothing but a *huge* waste of money by the CS Dept. Head who is a *classic* Mac fanatic that has been influenced by the Steve Jobs reality distortion field. The drinking of the poison koolaid is next on his list of things to do right after making x86 a forbidden platform in the dept.
Do you know where they are going to put all these machines???
Anyone know how much less expensive a cluster of AMD x86/64 machines would have been? How would the performance differ? If x86/64 is less expensive and performs on par (equal to or slightly less than) with a G5 cluster, then why not use that instead???
Apple must have given a *big* discount...
How does one check 30,000 student PCs? There are universitys with that many undergrads you know.
There is a flaw in your thinking. If you don't trust Windows Update, then why do you trust MS enough to buy their product in the first place???
Simplistic responses to complex questions are stupid. Steve Jobs would have said Mac, instead of Linux and we all know that Mac addicts are a stupid, religious bunch of idiots, so don't make Linux addicts out to be like them as well.
Wait until a Linux distro gains significant market share... then we'll see how well it fairs against worms and viruses... sendmail anyone???
Right on man!!!
.75 GPA). He hates anything from MS... that's why he *attempts* to run a Linux server. He is dangerous, very, very dangerous and will one day be fired.
We have a 'Webmaster' who administers a Linux Web server that has been hacked several times. We even had a visit from the FBI once because the server was doing funky things to whitehouse.gov, etc.
Our 'Webmaster' is a Mac fanatic who's a college drop-out ( he was a sociology major with a
It's people like this who don't *know* what the fuck they're doing that causes servers to be hacked (Windows or Linux or any platform).
This was not written by a script kiddie.
Probably a dumb question, but I'll ask it anyway:
What programming language was this written in?
Get yoself a pair o' needle nose plairs with ensulated handles and a good flash lite. I gots a pair, but dah ends of 'em ain't so sharp and pointy anymoe since I fused 'em once between a hot 220 and a metal box... they be kinda melted now, but I lived thru the sparks and cracklin noise, and we all know that that's all that matters in dah end.
Long story short: Hire a LICENSED ELECTRICIAN!!!
I'm Director of Computer Svcs. for a large department (400 users) within a large state university, and this is why we don't spend money on Macs:
1. Apples cost more than comparable PCs.
2. Application support is spotty at best. For example, Quark just released a native version of Quark Express for OSX (more than 2 years *after* OSX came out). Bottom line here is that application developement companies are not going to spend R&D dollars on Macs... not enough users to justify the expense, and you can forget bug fixes.
3. Apple service and support is lacking. Dell will dispatch a technician with parts to do next business day repair (for 3 years) on our PCs. They'll also cover laptop damage due to drops and liquid spills. Apple does neither and requires me to buy Apple Care (an additional $250-$350) just to get more than 90 Days of phone support after buying a $3,000 laptop. Bottom line, Apple simply cannot compete.
In conclusion, Apples are expenisive machines w/o quality application support and they have the absolute worst support for dollars spent in the business.
That's been my experience.
Apple routinely screws it's customers far more than MS does. In fact they not only screw their customers on the OS but the hardware too! You get it both ways.
Anyone on board with OSX from the begining has had to pay a yearly $129 for bug fixes and features that were in OS9 but not OSX because they were not ready. YEARLY! And the first 2 incarnations were worse than Windows 2k/xp release candidates. OSX should not have even been released till atleast 10.2.
Truer words have never been posted. Apple cheats you on SW, HW and service and support... no wonder they have less and less market share. People aren't stupid, unless their part of the True Beliver Cult that follows Steve Jobs around.
> One of the downsides to having just one type of OS is that it makes you very vulnerable to this sort of thing.
Everyone says that, but does it really?
Yes. If every human being had genes that invited diseases like down syndrome or sickle cell anemia then those disorders would be much more common. It's really that simple.
NT/2000/XP have the same genetic code (code base). Unless that code is somehow an anomally (different) then it's an easy target. Measures such as host-based FWs (Zone Alarm) can be bolted on to the system to prevent it from coming in contact with untrusted systemd that might contain the disease, but these measures don't protect againts trusted systems that have the disease (similar to catching a cold from your brother or sister).
The answer really is diversification. OS X, Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc.
You have backups, right??? You can reformat a hdd and reinstall the OS, right??? If yes to the above two questiones, then you should not be 'scared'
That's why we kicked German and Japanese ass during WW2. We don't complicate matters, we just get the job done. Adding unnecessary letters to words is a waste of time. Why bother?
Linux is a kernel, not a computer operating system with GUIs for adding printers and configuring PDAs. Those that think differently know not of what they speak and should shut the hell up.
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