There are a lot of things infuriating about Notes (especially the 5.x and early 6.x revisions). I still don't like the fact that the configuration files are all binary databases (this drives me INSANE when I have to administer things). I can see having the mail/calendar/contacts stuff in database format... but why does one need to delete names.nsf (local address book) to solve a routing issue?
However, if you're looking for an Enterprise-class groupware product that includes support for Mac, your options are severely limited. I know of only one (Lotus) that can scale to a company of 250,000+ people.
I dare that coward asshat who modded me troll to come out from under his/her rock and prove the honesty of that mod.
I guess that person never heard of the "Software Assurance" program from Microsoft that forces upgrades every two years (with the alternative being a highly-inflated upgrade price whenever one is eventually required to upgrade). Everything else I said comes directly from my decades of personal experience in administering Microsoft and Unix/Linux (as well as Mac) networks.
I've got karma to burn. But leave your bullshit agendas out of the moderation (that goes both ways).
I can, too, can vouch for the Sun ONE Directory Server. I use it to handle authorization for various websites (which also use the Sun ONE applet server) as well as the email security for a couple of start-ups. Postfix and Courier work very well with it.
While going the W2K3 route would be easy and very functional, one has to take into account the cost of the eventual [forced] upgrades. A company of 100 folks probably isn't turning a wild profit in terms of real money, and what money there is will undoubtedly get funneled into R&D or advertising or SomethingOtherThanITInfrastructure. This is where the long-term cost savings on a "cobbled" solution will pay off handsomely.
I kind of agree with you regarding worse-before-better. However, I don't see how things can get much worse without some long-lasting harm coming to the nation.
What I foresee is a repeat of the late 70s, where a national hangover from an unpopular elective war and the implosion of a thoroughly corrupt administration drains the national morale. I only hope that the American voters don't get further lulled into seeing some insane nationalist as a savior again, since that is what got us into our current mess in the first place.
Folks are tired of all the bullshit that's been going on the past 5 years. There is nobody to blame except the party which has made a big deal about how they are in complete control. All of the spin trying to place blame elsewhere merely gets them in deeper. It's political quicksand, and nobody is interested in throwing a rope.
Thanks for the clarification. I'm hit with the RBOT. Unfortunately, my company is partnered with Symantec so there's nothing at all I can do to change the antivirus our Windoze users run.
The executable in this particular instance is "wintbp.exe". I thought at first it might be a randomly-named executable, but all 100+ systems I'm manually disinfecting at the moment have the same executable. It tries to connect to other systems via port 445, aka the "Magic Windoze Port"(tm).
Apparently all it's doing is rebooting systems, but I haven't done any kind of a postmortem so don't know. I haven't detected any other connection attempts either inside or outside.
Manual disinfection means disconnecting your NIC and then using regedit to delete this value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr ent Version\Run\wintbp.exe
You must then reboot the machine to disable the executable which is:
Well, for the $100 or so I spend on a PC's 3-year warranty, it costs me twice that much in time and materials to replace the funky HDD.
I had a laptop with a borked CPU fan exhibit some rather odd behavior just two months ago (the system basically became unusable). Having the technician come out and effect the replacement was worth every stinking penny of that $100.
Chances are you probably won't need it. However, when you do, you'll recoup your costs many times over. For that reason it's cheap insurance (unless you've got a bunch of spare time to crawl through hardware failures).
No shit...! Thanks for the link. I've got a truck-load of hardware to unload so I'll definitely take this into consideration (gee, and right around review-time too...!).
Don't forget that as a corporation you can take a tax write-off on the value of the equipment. We amortize our equipment in 3 year cycles. For some stuff (such as your 400mhz server, where the OS and application load doesn't change) you can just let it go until it dies. But for stuff such as user PCs, the 3 year cycle is a good idea.
Don't forget to add in the extended warranty, which is totally cheap insurance should anything die in those 3 years... That's saved me a major headache many times already.
The irony of the whole matter is that CHRISTIANITY ITSELF has evolved.
First there were the original teachings of Christ.
Then there were the interpretations from the Apostles as those teachings were made to fit around certain circumstances.
Then there have been 17 (?) revisions to the Bible, with some books being removed or heavily edited (what does the word "version" in the term King James Version mean to the fundies who look to that tome as the undisputable Word of God?).
Christianity itself is an evolution of Judaism, where this malcontent fellow named Jesus from a scrub-town called Nazareth told the Pharisees they were full of shit and gave God back to individual people (for which he was promptly eliminated, creating the grandest political backfire in Human history).
The irony of this whole issue is palpable and delicious to those of us who enjoy proper humor noir.
If you make the CRV smaller (only carrying humans, which are featherweight compared to cargo) then you can bring the fuel tanks internal to the craft. The STS needs that huge tank to lift its bulky ass (plus any cargo) up to orbital speed/height. A reusable CRV might be able to get by on four solid reusable rockets and a smaller internal tank for the 2nd stage lifting, orbital maneuvering, and reentry.
The acceleration from four STS solid boosters might be a tad uncomfortable for the occupants, though. I'm not doing any relative weight/thrust comparisons, so perhaps two would be sufficient to get a CRV up to enough speed to gain orbit with a nominal internal 2nd burn.
Hey idiot. Put away your blowup doll for a bit and read the original post. Truly read it, and comprehend it.
Drivers typically come in modules added into the kernel (if not outright compiled in). I just got through compiling a kernel a few hours ago that specifically included drivers for the NICs I was using. That means if MS releases an MS-Linux such as the grandparent posited, they would be required by the GPL to release their additional driver code.
Other than that, it was a nice little rant you had going there.
I loaded Ubuntu on a machine here at work (it's our "electronic receptionist") because the machine wouldn't be heavily used and I could afford to horse around. I found the installation and configuration to be brainless and painless. I had the system up and running in two days, complete with the "receptionist" program (Apache running a local version of our Corporate website with a big "Please Sign In" on the front page).
The thing is an old PII-400 with 256mb RAM and it's solid as hell. If the machine goes down, BIOS reboots as soon as power is applied. Using the desktop manager I set the "guest" user to login automagically and fire up the brower set to the internal home page. It took me longer to configure the IPTables script than it did to configure Ubuntu once I got it all loaded.
The entirety of that abomination known as "Bewitched" was nothing but a continuous product-placement movietisement. Even my wife (who does marketing for a living) got sick of it.
I feel like I shelled out $20 for my wife and I to sit through 90 minutes of bullshit subliminal ploys to purchase products I normally avoid.
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There are a lot of things infuriating about Notes (especially the 5.x and early 6.x revisions). I still don't like the fact that the configuration files are all binary databases (this drives me INSANE when I have to administer things). I can see having the mail/calendar/contacts stuff in database format... but why does one need to delete names.nsf (local address book) to solve a routing issue?
However, if you're looking for an Enterprise-class groupware product that includes support for Mac, your options are severely limited. I know of only one (Lotus) that can scale to a company of 250,000+ people.
It was just a suggestion. YMMV.
For groupware functionality, IBM does release an OSX version of Lotus Notes.
It works OK in our mostly-PC environment.
Troll?
I dare that coward asshat who modded me troll to come out from under his/her rock and prove the honesty of that mod.
I guess that person never heard of the "Software Assurance" program from Microsoft that forces upgrades every two years (with the alternative being a highly-inflated upgrade price whenever one is eventually required to upgrade). Everything else I said comes directly from my decades of personal experience in administering Microsoft and Unix/Linux (as well as Mac) networks.
I've got karma to burn. But leave your bullshit agendas out of the moderation (that goes both ways).
I can, too, can vouch for the Sun ONE Directory Server. I use it to handle authorization for various websites (which also use the Sun ONE applet server) as well as the email security for a couple of start-ups. Postfix and Courier work very well with it.
I one day hope to test the scalability...
Cost is definitely a major factor here.
While going the W2K3 route would be easy and very functional, one has to take into account the cost of the eventual [forced] upgrades. A company of 100 folks probably isn't turning a wild profit in terms of real money, and what money there is will undoubtedly get funneled into R&D or advertising or SomethingOtherThanITInfrastructure. This is where the long-term cost savings on a "cobbled" solution will pay off handsomely.
The decision is best made right now.
Wow.. have you always been such a nihilist?
I kind of agree with you regarding worse-before-better. However, I don't see how things can get much worse without some long-lasting harm coming to the nation.
What I foresee is a repeat of the late 70s, where a national hangover from an unpopular elective war and the implosion of a thoroughly corrupt administration drains the national morale. I only hope that the American voters don't get further lulled into seeing some insane nationalist as a savior again, since that is what got us into our current mess in the first place.
You're on.
Folks are tired of all the bullshit that's been going on the past 5 years. There is nobody to blame except the party which has made a big deal about how they are in complete control. All of the spin trying to place blame elsewhere merely gets them in deeper. It's political quicksand, and nobody is interested in throwing a rope.
There is another election in 2006. This one is Congressional. Depending on the outcome of that one, Dubya may not have another two years.
There is plenty of evidence for impeachment, but only a few Congress-critters who don't have their own asses also hanging in the wind of corruption.
oh yeah...
I remember being a kid and listening to this album over and over and over again on my father's 4-channel system (while tripping out on the cover art).
My father still has that old Sansui quadrophonic setup (and the original speakers).
Come to think of it, he might still have this vinyl sitting in the middle of his "Kingston Trio" collection...
Check this link for what Symantec is calling the "Zotob.E" variant (which is exactly what's happening with me).
Thanks for the clarification. I'm hit with the RBOT. Unfortunately, my company is partnered with Symantec so there's nothing at all I can do to change the antivirus our Windoze users run.
The executable in this particular instance is "wintbp.exe". I thought at first it might be a randomly-named executable, but all 100+ systems I'm manually disinfecting at the moment have the same executable. It tries to connect to other systems via port 445, aka the "Magic Windoze Port"(tm).
Apparently all it's doing is rebooting systems, but I haven't done any kind of a postmortem so don't know. I haven't detected any other connection attempts either inside or outside.
Manual disinfection means disconnecting your NIC and then using regedit to delete this value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur
You must then reboot the machine to disable the executable which is:
C:\%systemroot%\System32\wintbp.exe.
Good luck. I'm glad my own systems are Linux....
Well, for the $100 or so I spend on a PC's 3-year warranty, it costs me twice that much in time and materials to replace the funky HDD.
I had a laptop with a borked CPU fan exhibit some rather odd behavior just two months ago (the system basically became unusable). Having the technician come out and effect the replacement was worth every stinking penny of that $100.
Chances are you probably won't need it. However, when you do, you'll recoup your costs many times over. For that reason it's cheap insurance (unless you've got a bunch of spare time to crawl through hardware failures).
No shit...! Thanks for the link. I've got a truck-load of hardware to unload so I'll definitely take this into consideration (gee, and right around review-time too...!).
Thanks again.
Don't forget that as a corporation you can take a tax write-off on the value of the equipment. We amortize our equipment in 3 year cycles. For some stuff (such as your 400mhz server, where the OS and application load doesn't change) you can just let it go until it dies. But for stuff such as user PCs, the 3 year cycle is a good idea.
Don't forget to add in the extended warranty, which is totally cheap insurance should anything die in those 3 years... That's saved me a major headache many times already.
The irony of the whole matter is that CHRISTIANITY ITSELF has evolved.
First there were the original teachings of Christ.
Then there were the interpretations from the Apostles as those teachings were made to fit around certain circumstances.
Then there have been 17 (?) revisions to the Bible, with some books being removed or heavily edited (what does the word "version" in the term King James Version mean to the fundies who look to that tome as the undisputable Word of God?).
Christianity itself is an evolution of Judaism, where this malcontent fellow named Jesus from a scrub-town called Nazareth told the Pharisees they were full of shit and gave God back to individual people (for which he was promptly eliminated, creating the grandest political backfire in Human history).
The irony of this whole issue is palpable and delicious to those of us who enjoy proper humor noir.
British, you twit...
If you make the CRV smaller (only carrying humans, which are featherweight compared to cargo) then you can bring the fuel tanks internal to the craft. The STS needs that huge tank to lift its bulky ass (plus any cargo) up to orbital speed/height. A reusable CRV might be able to get by on four solid reusable rockets and a smaller internal tank for the 2nd stage lifting, orbital maneuvering, and reentry.
The acceleration from four STS solid boosters might be a tad uncomfortable for the occupants, though. I'm not doing any relative weight/thrust comparisons, so perhaps two would be sufficient to get a CRV up to enough speed to gain orbit with a nominal internal 2nd burn.
Where I work we have in excess of 350k employees...
It's not that unusual.
Yeah, they're called "days".
Hey idiot. Put away your blowup doll for a bit and read the original post. Truly read it, and comprehend it.
Drivers typically come in modules added into the kernel (if not outright compiled in). I just got through compiling a kernel a few hours ago that specifically included drivers for the NICs I was using. That means if MS releases an MS-Linux such as the grandparent posited, they would be required by the GPL to release their additional driver code.
Other than that, it was a nice little rant you had going there.
*cough*GPL*cough*you dipshit*cough*
I loaded Ubuntu on a machine here at work (it's our "electronic receptionist") because the machine wouldn't be heavily used and I could afford to horse around. I found the installation and configuration to be brainless and painless. I had the system up and running in two days, complete with the "receptionist" program (Apache running a local version of our Corporate website with a big "Please Sign In" on the front page).
The thing is an old PII-400 with 256mb RAM and it's solid as hell. If the machine goes down, BIOS reboots as soon as power is applied. Using the desktop manager I set the "guest" user to login automagically and fire up the brower set to the internal home page. It took me longer to configure the IPTables script than it did to configure Ubuntu once I got it all loaded.
Given this, I'd recommend Ubuntu for a beginner.
The entirety of that abomination known as "Bewitched" was nothing but a continuous product-placement movietisement. Even my wife (who does marketing for a living) got sick of it.
I feel like I shelled out $20 for my wife and I to sit through 90 minutes of bullshit subliminal ploys to purchase products I normally avoid.