Since you bring up ADP... I will also mention that their competitor Reynolds & Reynolds also uses Linux for their app servers. Between ADP and R&R you have the large majority of car dealerships in the USA having Linux in the business back-end.
Ask Adobe? I don't think Reader had write permission, but it had a vulnerability which the malware took advantage of to fuck up the system.
If your user account is a member of the administrators group (like 99% of the home users out there) then yes Adobe did have write permission to screw with Windows.
So, did you know about, for just one example, the bug in Microsoft Word that would let you run ANY program you wanted to, without regard to privileges, permissions or policies?
Is it a privilege escalation bug? If not I don't see the problem. The applications ran would have the exact same permissions as the user, which in our domain the users are regular domain users with no admin privs even on the local workstation.
Either that college's IT team did not know what they were doing w/ respect to AD + Group Policy, or they had made some concessions (probably due to some software that didn't like running with zero privs). I work at a hospital on the admin team, and we have 3000 users (approx) in AD, and we use Group Policy to control the user experience quite successfully.
I work for a non-profit organization, and MS practically gives software away to use. CALs are dirt cheap, and we get pretty much any version of any software dirt cheap from MS. We just upgraded to XP from 2000 (and ditched Novell for AD). Compared to migrations of the scale we did (we've got about 3000 users) that I've done with other organizations, the software cost was really, really low. Again, it was from gratuitous discounts from MS for being a non-profit org.
A friend of mine has had one for a year now with no probs. I've only had mine for 4 months, so hopefully I won't have a problem with mine. I try to keep my precision mousing surface meticulously clean though. cuts down on having to wipe dirt of he nylon pads.:)
The high-end market has shrunk for sure, but it's still fairly strong. It's just that there wasn't enough room for all the brands anymore. Asus and Gigabyte both still make some high dollar feature rich motherboards, and the folks buying those are gamers & people who build their own HD video editing workstations (or people who just have money burning a hole in their pocket...). A couple examples: Here's an Asus board,and also a Gigabyte board.
FYI - X11 is included in OS X as a rootless X server. There are plenty of apps available (compiled from source no less) using the Mac Ports collection (similar to BSD ports). I use Mac Ports on my Mac and it's great for grabbing an application I need from the rest of the *nix world that hasn't been re-worked as a native Mac OS app.
eVGA offers lifetime warranties on all their graphics cards, it's really the only reason to choose their products considering the poor quality and high prices.
Damn, I wish I had paid attention to that... oh well too late. I tossed it.
As for the 4850, don't hold your breath. Hardly any of the current integrated coolers can handle the heat, and apple doesn't design cases with high-heat graphics cards in mind.
SMC Fan Control FTW! My Mac runs quite cool, and I've still managed to keep it near-silent. The fans only needed small bump. Only time I hear anything is when I'm playing CoD4... then the fan on the x1900xt spins up.:/
I mostly use ATI under Windows & Mac. I try to go Intel integrated for Linux. That said, I've use ATI's binary driver under Linux with a degree of succecss.
One of my ATI cards is an x1900xt 512MB PCIe. It came as a build to order option in my Mac Pro Quad that I bought in April 2007. Under bootcamp in Windows XP it has been near flawless. And I'm not using Apple's supplied driver. I downloaded the driver from AMD's website that includes the ATI Control Center (mainly so I could overclock it). I've not had any lockups other than one time I pushed the clock rates pretty high. So long as I stay at stock or a reasonable overclock the card behaves itself. I play Call of Duty 4 mostly. I have popped in the Ubuntu Live CD a couple times on my Mac Pro and it drives the ATI card OK, but the resolution comes up at 1280x1024. That looks ugly on a 22" Widescreen whose native resolution is 1680x1050. That's the open source driver.
My other ATI card (x1600Pro) is in a PC that runs Gentoo. Once I got the Xorg config right, it didn't give me very many problems. I was using the binary driver, as it was able to get the resolution correct (unlike above). I rarely do any 3D under Linux, so can't really comment on 3D stability of the binary drivers of late. So far 2D is stable. This PC actually had an eVGA Nvidia card in it prior to the ATI card, but the Nvidia card crapped out right after the warranty expired(oh of course!). So I tried ATI because of the good luck with the one in the Mac.
I'd like to put an HD 4850 in my Mac, but ATI doesn't make one for Mac yet. The HD 3870 is the highest I can go, and even then it's priced at $215 @ OWC (higher than the PC only equivalents).
FUD? I had an eVGA 8800GTS that for some reason always detected as a mobile chipset when I'd use Nvidia's driver chooser on their website. I always thought that was weird... then one day the card burned up. The same day I read about the mobile chipset failures. Coincidence? Maybe... All I know is I'm a happy owner of an ATI card right now that has given me zero problems so far. Granted I don't use it under Linux. It's been flawless under XP though.
I keep seeing people bash ATI for bad drivers, and it was VERY true in the past... but I've had a couple ATI cards over the last year or so that really have broken the track record for me personally. I've even got one of them overclocked and not had any trouble out of it other than when I push the clocks too far. At stock speed the thing has absolutely never hiccuped and I've yet to have any lockups/blue screens. Maybe some of you people haven't tried an ATI card in a few years?
The average joe shouldn't be upgrading his kernel really.
Joe Sixpack will be upgrading his kernel on Ubuntu, he just won't know it. The updater throws kernel updates in with everything else. Joe sixpack won't bother to look through the list, he will accept all updates, enter his password, and away it goes!
I have a Netopia 3387WG-ENT that I love. The ENT in the model name denoting the fact that it comes with the enterprise firmware (no GUI interface, telnet only). And the WG denoting it has wireless built in as well. I have VPN set up on it so that I can connect to my home LAN from wherever I am at on the road. And it doesn't cost nearly as much as a Cisco SOHO router. The 3387WG-ENT currently costs only 117.99$ at Newegg (though when I bought mine they were about $200. Nice price drop.). Here's the Newegg link.
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Since you bring up ADP... I will also mention that their competitor Reynolds & Reynolds also uses Linux for their app servers. Between ADP and R&R you have the large majority of car dealerships in the USA having Linux in the business back-end.
Ask Adobe? I don't think Reader had write permission, but it had a vulnerability which the malware took advantage of to fuck up the system.
If your user account is a member of the administrators group (like 99% of the home users out there) then yes Adobe did have write permission to screw with Windows.
Is it a privilege escalation bug? If not I don't see the problem. The applications ran would have the exact same permissions as the user, which in our domain the users are regular domain users with no admin privs even on the local workstation.
Either that college's IT team did not know what they were doing w/ respect to AD + Group Policy, or they had made some concessions (probably due to some software that didn't like running with zero privs). I work at a hospital on the admin team, and we have 3000 users (approx) in AD, and we use Group Policy to control the user experience quite successfully.
Appears to be /.'ed already. :(
I work for a non-profit organization, and MS practically gives software away to use. CALs are dirt cheap, and we get pretty much any version of any software dirt cheap from MS. We just upgraded to XP from 2000 (and ditched Novell for AD). Compared to migrations of the scale we did (we've got about 3000 users) that I've done with other organizations, the software cost was really, really low. Again, it was from gratuitous discounts from MS for being a non-profit org.
A friend of mine has had one for a year now with no probs. I've only had mine for 4 months, so hopefully I won't have a problem with mine. I try to keep my precision mousing surface meticulously clean though. cuts down on having to wipe dirt of he nylon pads. :)
Logitec G5 FTW! (I own one and I love it.)
The high-end market has shrunk for sure, but it's still fairly strong. It's just that there wasn't enough room for all the brands anymore. Asus and Gigabyte both still make some high dollar feature rich motherboards, and the folks buying those are gamers & people who build their own HD video editing workstations (or people who just have money burning a hole in their pocket...). A couple examples: Here's an Asus board, and also a Gigabyte board.
FYI - X11 is included in OS X as a rootless X server. There are plenty of apps available (compiled from source no less) using the Mac Ports collection (similar to BSD ports). I use Mac Ports on my Mac and it's great for grabbing an application I need from the rest of the *nix world that hasn't been re-worked as a native Mac OS app.
Actually, from what I've heard, Intel designs their mainboards, but farms out manufacture of them to Foxconn.
Damn, I wish I had paid attention to that... oh well too late. I tossed it.
SMC Fan Control FTW! My Mac runs quite cool, and I've still managed to keep it near-silent. The fans only needed small bump. Only time I hear anything is when I'm playing CoD4... then the fan on the x1900xt spins up. :/
I mostly use ATI under Windows & Mac. I try to go Intel integrated for Linux. That said, I've use ATI's binary driver under Linux with a degree of succecss.
One of my ATI cards is an x1900xt 512MB PCIe. It came as a build to order option in my Mac Pro Quad that I bought in April 2007. Under bootcamp in Windows XP it has been near flawless. And I'm not using Apple's supplied driver. I downloaded the driver from AMD's website that includes the ATI Control Center (mainly so I could overclock it). I've not had any lockups other than one time I pushed the clock rates pretty high. So long as I stay at stock or a reasonable overclock the card behaves itself. I play Call of Duty 4 mostly. I have popped in the Ubuntu Live CD a couple times on my Mac Pro and it drives the ATI card OK, but the resolution comes up at 1280x1024. That looks ugly on a 22" Widescreen whose native resolution is 1680x1050. That's the open source driver.
My other ATI card (x1600Pro) is in a PC that runs Gentoo. Once I got the Xorg config right, it didn't give me very many problems. I was using the binary driver, as it was able to get the resolution correct (unlike above). I rarely do any 3D under Linux, so can't really comment on 3D stability of the binary drivers of late. So far 2D is stable. This PC actually had an eVGA Nvidia card in it prior to the ATI card, but the Nvidia card crapped out right after the warranty expired(oh of course!). So I tried ATI because of the good luck with the one in the Mac.
I'd like to put an HD 4850 in my Mac, but ATI doesn't make one for Mac yet. The HD 3870 is the highest I can go, and even then it's priced at $215 @ OWC (higher than the PC only equivalents).
FUD? I had an eVGA 8800GTS that for some reason always detected as a mobile chipset when I'd use Nvidia's driver chooser on their website. I always thought that was weird... then one day the card burned up. The same day I read about the mobile chipset failures. Coincidence? Maybe... All I know is I'm a happy owner of an ATI card right now that has given me zero problems so far. Granted I don't use it under Linux. It's been flawless under XP though.
I keep seeing people bash ATI for bad drivers, and it was VERY true in the past... but I've had a couple ATI cards over the last year or so that really have broken the track record for me personally. I've even got one of them overclocked and not had any trouble out of it other than when I push the clocks too far. At stock speed the thing has absolutely never hiccuped and I've yet to have any lockups/blue screens. Maybe some of you people haven't tried an ATI card in a few years?
Love that game! :)
Also loved the original DOS version years ago.
I thought the exact same thing - Dell has Apple-envy....
I second that suggestion to use Nano. Nano is great! :)
Episode 18, "Home Soil" See this page:
Nice Star Trek NG reference. :)
Joe Sixpack will be upgrading his kernel on Ubuntu, he just won't know it. The updater throws kernel updates in with everything else. Joe sixpack won't bother to look through the list, he will accept all updates, enter his password, and away it goes!
More surprising would be how long it took Apple to sue.
I have a Netopia 3387WG-ENT that I love. The ENT in the model name denoting the fact that it comes with the enterprise firmware (no GUI interface, telnet only). And the WG denoting it has wireless built in as well. I have VPN set up on it so that I can connect to my home LAN from wherever I am at on the road. And it doesn't cost nearly as much as a Cisco SOHO router. The 3387WG-ENT currently costs only 117.99$ at Newegg (though when I bought mine they were about $200. Nice price drop.). Here's the Newegg link.
All the more reason to use time machine it seems. ;)