Don't think of it in terms of a manager problem or similar realistic reasoning, frame it in the terms of sliding scales. For instance, I have taken to using the "Duke Nukem Forever" (DFM) time scale. Half Life 2 is still only at roughly -0.1 DFMs so it's really to early to guess. Doom 3 is roughly +0.2 DFMs from launch. See? In this way you have made the whole picture a lot less negative!
Due to the currently proliferation of gopher sites still left on the internet, this could be the death knell for Microsoft!!
Seriously, why is this even newsworthy? It's like bitching that the Titanic might need the watertight compartment partitions to extend a little higher than E-Deck in the future..
The show is excellent! You should definetely check it out if you can. If you have a windows boxen handy you can listen to BBC Radio 1 via RealOne Player with little to no trouble. It comes in quite clearly on my cable modem with little to no lag or breakup.
Check it out by clicking the listen live button, and selecting 'high-quality FM' (Don't bother with the enhanced crapola)
In this case, 'public institution' == state funded + grants
It all works out to the same thing though. As anyone can attest that's worked for the state, or a state-funded school, that translates to "never enough money to do anything correctly"
There probably was an oppurtunity to fight back there, but the bottom line was the bottom dollar. When it comes down to it, the governance committee (or exec. board if you prefer) always goes for the lowest risk with the smallest check. This holds true in any mid-size to mega-corp business. Ideology rarely figures into it.
When I worked as a SysAdmin for our local University, we received a letter from Microsoft that basically amounted to the same thing. "We're coming, we're auditing, be ready"
Now, we were mostly in compliance as far as we knew due to our large per-seat volume licensing through dynamic pooling, but we were pretty sure that we'd come up short in the end. Given that we weren't running any auditing software on the PCs it was difficult to impossible to know what was on every machine. So we called Microsoft and told them we needed time. They agreed to grant us two months, but then went on to specify exactly what software we were to use to perform the audting. We replied that we were going to choose our own that was less expensive, but were told that we must use this particular software, because they knew it to be honest and compatible with Access. (Like that should make a shit bit of difference) In the end we just bent over and took it rather than deal with the auditors showing up, and purchased this lame auditing software. It had to be deployed manually from machine to machine. Almost 2000 computers later, we had our audit. We wound up ponying up some pretty serious bucks for our machines. It slaughtered our entire budget for the next three quarters.
Point is: Microsoft probably didn't have the right to just announce that they were coming, but we knew that, as a public institution, we couldn't afford the battle to fight.
No one ever totaled up how much money we lost on that piece-of-shit software and in man-hours for manual deployment, but if you add it to the big fat check we wrote in the end to keep Microsoft off our campus, it was a hell of a lot of wasted grant money intended for student use.
You can pontificate for days on replacing Windows with *nix, or killing Office for StarOffice. God knows I went to the shared governance committee more than once trying to get them to see the light. In the end, however, everyone winds up signing a fat-check. Cynical perhaps, but a truism all the same
Security updates for RedHat boxen has never been a problem. Just an binary FTP away..
We even went so far as to install the apt package for our servers so we could always have the latest packages a la debian. Sure, I can see how it's not really *free* to su - and then apt-get dist-upgrade if you mean the man hours for me to type two lines...
Unless the bitch is about the kernel install, but how hard is it to download the rpm and type: rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.whatever.rpm?
I choose not to use the prepacked kernels, but for the lazy, it's hell of a *free* way to go!
While I think that trying to define what goes into.prn domain would open a can of worms, I still wouldn't mind seeing a seperate domain for adult material. Most of us are old enough to remember the fiasco that was the Meese Report, and I would surely like to avoid another waste of tax-dollars like that. That said, it sure would be nice to be able to browse to suse.com without accidently going to suse.org. This kind of typo domain squatting complete with "I'm barely legal" pop-ups of silicone and labia should hardly fall under the First Amendment. They are not making a profound statement for our times, nor are they offering a unique service at a realistic name. They are trying to annoy the user by catching us in a mistake and deluging our desktops with body parts that we didn't discuss in Biology, and promises of teens fellating horses. In reality this is blatant misdirection, and forcing imagery that wouldn't be allowed on a public TV network on us.
IMHO this is no different than seducing people into a Scientology clinic with blatant misdirection, and then trapping them for hours while they forcefeed Xenu BS down their throats. The entire/. community rallies against Scientology, but rails against this reform. It's hypocritical.
While sending the scat-mongers and necrophiles to another domain might initially be an affront to civil-liberties, on deeper consideration I ask you to consider this: surfing the web freely without the fear of 429 enlarged and color-corrected goatse.cx ripoffs popping up faster than you can kill them. Then, when you've recovered your lunch, imagine your child doing it.
We don't let XXX video stores complete with viewing booths and glory-holes into our suburbs. Why is our internet any different. Zoning is not necessarily a bad thing.
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Don't think of it in terms of a manager problem or similar realistic reasoning, frame it in the terms of sliding scales. For instance, I have taken to using the "Duke Nukem Forever" (DFM) time scale. Half Life 2 is still only at roughly -0.1 DFMs so it's really to early to guess. Doom 3 is roughly +0.2 DFMs from launch. See? In this way you have made the whole picture a lot less negative!
Due to the currently proliferation of gopher sites still left on the internet, this could be the death knell for Microsoft!!
Seriously, why is this even newsworthy? It's like bitching that the Titanic might need the watertight compartment partitions to extend a little higher than E-Deck in the future..
The show is excellent! You should definetely check it out if you can. If you have a windows boxen handy you can listen to BBC Radio 1 via RealOne Player with little to no trouble. It comes in quite clearly on my cable modem with little to no lag or breakup.
Check it out by clicking the listen live button, and selecting 'high-quality FM' (Don't bother with the enhanced crapola)
why the heck can't they also scan for other violations/problems like code red?
They can, and I do. Here you go:
Cisco Code Red Blocking
In this case, 'public institution' == state funded + grants
It all works out to the same thing though. As anyone can attest that's worked for the state, or a state-funded school, that translates to "never enough money to do anything correctly"
There probably was an oppurtunity to fight back there, but the bottom line was the bottom dollar. When it comes down to it, the governance committee (or exec. board if you prefer) always goes for the lowest risk with the smallest check. This holds true in any mid-size to mega-corp business. Ideology rarely figures into it.
When I worked as a SysAdmin for our local University, we received a letter from Microsoft that basically amounted to the same thing. "We're coming, we're auditing, be ready"
Now, we were mostly in compliance as far as we knew due to our large per-seat volume licensing through dynamic pooling, but we were pretty sure that we'd come up short in the end. Given that we weren't running any auditing software on the PCs it was difficult to impossible to know what was on every machine. So we called Microsoft and told them we needed time. They agreed to grant us two months, but then went on to specify exactly what software we were to use to perform the audting. We replied that we were going to choose our own that was less expensive, but were told that we must use this particular software, because they knew it to be honest and compatible with Access. (Like that should make a shit bit of difference) In the end we just bent over and took it rather than deal with the auditors showing up, and purchased this lame auditing software. It had to be deployed manually from machine to machine. Almost 2000 computers later, we had our audit. We wound up ponying up some pretty serious bucks for our machines. It slaughtered our entire budget for the next three quarters.
Point is: Microsoft probably didn't have the right to just announce that they were coming, but we knew that, as a public institution, we couldn't afford the battle to fight.
No one ever totaled up how much money we lost on that piece-of-shit software and in man-hours for manual deployment, but if you add it to the big fat check we wrote in the end to keep Microsoft off our campus, it was a hell of a lot of wasted grant money intended for student use.
You can pontificate for days on replacing Windows with *nix, or killing Office for StarOffice. God knows I went to the shared governance committee more than once trying to get them to see the light. In the end, however, everyone winds up signing a fat-check.
Cynical perhaps, but a truism all the same
Security updates for RedHat boxen has never been a problem. Just an binary FTP away..
We even went so far as to install the apt package for our servers so we could always have the latest packages a la debian. Sure, I can see how it's not really *free* to su - and then apt-get dist-upgrade if you mean the man hours for me to type two lines...
Unless the bitch is about the kernel install, but how hard is it to download the rpm and type: rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.whatever.rpm?
I choose not to use the prepacked kernels, but for the lazy, it's hell of a *free* way to go!
Yep, I've been running KDE3 quite happily on my Gentoo box for about a week and a half now. Very sweet.
While I think that trying to define what goes into .prn domain would open a can of worms, I still wouldn't mind seeing a seperate domain for adult material. Most of us are old enough to remember the fiasco that was the Meese Report, and I would surely like to avoid another waste of tax-dollars like that. That said, it sure would be nice to be able to browse to suse.com without accidently going to suse.org. This kind of typo domain squatting complete with "I'm barely legal" pop-ups of silicone and labia should hardly fall under the First Amendment. They are not making a profound statement for our times, nor are they offering a unique service at a realistic name. They are trying to annoy the user by catching us in a mistake and deluging our desktops with body parts that we didn't discuss in Biology, and promises of teens fellating horses. In reality this is blatant misdirection, and forcing imagery that wouldn't be allowed on a public TV network on us.
/. community rallies against Scientology, but rails against this reform. It's hypocritical.
IMHO this is no different than seducing people into a Scientology clinic with blatant misdirection, and then trapping them for hours while they forcefeed Xenu BS down their throats. The entire
While sending the scat-mongers and necrophiles to another domain might initially be an affront to civil-liberties, on deeper consideration I ask you to consider this: surfing the web freely without the fear of 429 enlarged and color-corrected goatse.cx ripoffs popping up faster than you can kill them. Then, when you've recovered your lunch, imagine your child doing it.
We don't let XXX video stores complete with viewing booths and glory-holes into our suburbs. Why is our internet any different. Zoning is not necessarily a bad thing.