"your troops are getting shot at from a large apartment complex? They'll just call in the coordinates and turn the place into a parking lot with artillery or an air strike."
Guess you don't live in Iraq, right?
That's what WE do there.
Hasn't stopped the Iraqi insurgents now, has it?
Or do you think half a million dead Iraqis since 2003 were all killed by the "insurgents"?
And your POINTLESS reaction constitutes what? Humanity?
Now you know WHY I despise humans.
They're morons.
Such as for example the Slashdot "Slow Down, Cowboy!" bullshit when people are responding to messages a day later. How in hell is that going to impact the initial postings to the article in question? Why do I need to see this stupid message today?
I understand what you're trying to say by "FOSS software gets more intense testing." You mean, basically, that FOSS software gets looked at by a lot of developers and thus errors tend to be spotted.
But that isn't "intense testing".
In fact, one of my pet peeves with most of the Linux distros these days is the pathetic quality of their testing. I mean, they are letting really STUPID bugs slip through that should have been caught with even a minimal amount of testing.
As an example, Kubuntu shipped their install CDs with an installer that wouldn't let you exit the screen used for changing the mountpoints. I mean, how stupid was that? That CLEARLY showed that the install process was NOT tested AT ALL!
Novell shipped 10.1 with a bug in the update system that completely prevented updates from working. How stupid was that?
It IS true, however, as others here have commented, that COMMERCIAL testing sucks rocks, too. Look at the problems plaguing recent releases of QuickBooks 2006 AND QuickBooks 2007, Adobe Premiere, and other high-ticket, highly used commercial software.
The fact of the matter is that, industry-wide, OSS and commercial, software quality simply sucks.
It's systemic and it isn't being addressed by anybody, open source or commercial.
As Woody Allen summed up the human condition, which applies to the IT industry in spades, "Nothing works and nobody cares."
Oh, hell, I'll say some more just to piss off the Windows shills!
Microsoft crapware comes through again!
Just when you thought Bill's crew couldn't get ANY dumber than they are, they manage to "shock and awe" again!
Just so the OSS people don't feel left out, this is not QUITE on a par with a recent Thunderbird's ability to delete ALL email by incorrectly marking it as spam to deleted on the next compaction.
That was fixed easily in a few days and the workaround was trivial: do a search and replace with a text editor of the incorrect code in all your email.
This OneCare bug won't be if the argument has been going on since JANUARY!
Actually a recent version of Thunderbird would in fact hose your email.
Apparently a bug crept in that when Thunderbird's spam detector detected a certain kind of spam, it proceeded to mark ALL the mail in the mailbox for deletion on the next compaction.
For those people who compact on exit, that was seriously bad news.
However, the fix was also easy - since all mail is in text files rather than proprietary binary formats. You simply dumped the Thunderbird release with the bug and downgraded to the last release. Then you opened your mail in a text editor and did a search and replace of a single simple code in each email. Takes you a few minutes to fix.
And of course back up your email outside of your profile to be sure.
Compare that to the Outlook 2GB file limit bug - where you can't access your email or anything else in your PST file until you download a tool from Microsoft that chops off fifty MB from the file so you can open it again.
The US armed forces are discovering in Iraq that armed citizens are no joke. Go look at the "Baghdad sniper" video and how easy it is to pick off some US moron standing around with a sign on him saying, "I'm a moron! Shoot me!" - or any of a dozen checkpoint bomb videos where any number of US morons are standing around with signs on them saying, "I'm a moron! Blow me up!"
Yes, the Iraqis are armed with AK's, RPGs, and assorted other niceties not permitted by US law. (Not to mention having been trained by Saddam's military - or Iran's Revolutionary Guards, depending on which side the individual is on.)
I wonder WHY such weapons are not permitted by US law.
Which is not to say such weapons aren't available here.
As Bush and his crowd will likely discover one of these days.
I will be setting up my client's network to be hardened against crapware. Actually they're not too bad off now because there isn't a lot of Net surfing and they have a hardware firewall (albeit with a stupid default password). All they really need is the standard hardening methods, some decent antispyware, and a better AV than that crap Norton - which has already screwed itself up on at least two of their machines.
It's the way Windows just hoses ITSELF at random that irritates me most.
That IS the problem with Windows. There ARE NO good solutions because the underlying OS sucks rocks. On Linux, you can manipulate things very well so that things are rock solid. Not so on Windows.
However, my current service involves monitoring the event logs, backups, system status, SMART values, etc., which should make it easier for me to spot some things before they become more serious problems.
But when a POS software like Norton AV (which I will be recommending the client dump posthaste) hoses something, or when some other POS software like QuickBooks has to run in Administrator mode, there's not much you can do beforehand - except recommend the client dump it.
They're still on Windows for the same reason most idiots are still on Windows - lack of imagination.]
Not all clients listen to me when I tell them things would be much easier on Linux.
Actually, my current main client would switch to Linux in a heartbeat - IF it ran Adobe video editing software. He knows Windows is unreliable and insecure, but he can't switch because he needs employees who know Adobe software.
These FUCKS were do ANYTHING no matter HOW illegal it is to "get ahead in their careers."
And YOU don't see anything wrong with that?
What police department do YOU work for?
I knew an inmate at Leavenworth who was working on appealing his case. He was convicted on the basis of a search warrant which was served off-premises of the address the warrant was for, which was "issued" based on the cop's report of a "drug sale" which never happened, and on "lab results" of the drugs involved in said non-existent sale which the lab later denied ever having seen, and the warrant itself had a "judge's signature" that exactly matched the handwriting of the police officer involved.
Yeah, "it's people that screwed up", all right.
No. These guys are NOT "out there trying to catch bad guys". They ARE "bad guys" who go into law enforcement because it allows them to BE "bad guys" while convincing suckers like you that they are the "good guys."
There may be a handful of morons who go into law enforcement with the expectations you suggest. They learn quickly that that's not how the operation works, and if they want to get along, they go along.
I had an uncle in Bristol, Connecticut, who was a cop. He got fired for having knowledge of a burglary ring operating within the police department and not turning in the cops involved.
Take a look at the photos of the goons involved in that New York case where they shoved a broom handle up a guy's ass. If you've never seen SS Nazi goons before, that should solve your problem.
Go read up on the LA cops in that "nut squad" who ran around shooting unarmed "perps" and manufacturing evidence and lord knows what all else.
Don't bother dragging out that BULLSHIT about "a few bad apples" either. The barrel is rotten to the core and always has been, in every country in history.
Sibel Edmonds, while employed at the FBI as a translator, determined that the FBI employed spies for various Turkish organized crime groups as translators who concealed important evidence in FBI investigations.
She further discovered that "senior elected US officials" were implicated by these documents in direct involvement with organized crime groups in the Middle East and Turkey involved in drugs, arms smuggling, and the nuclear materials black market. These same people were involved with the outing of CIA covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson, apparently for the purpose of protecting these same organized crime groups which Plame's covert operation was investigating. (Marc Rich, the alleged "money man" for some of these organizations, was a client of "Scooter" Libby at one time.)
For these discoveries, she was fired and gagged by a direct order from the DoJ from ever discussing these matters with anyone not in the US Senate with a security clearance. So far, no one in the US Senate has had the balls to come forward and request the details.
When I was arrested by the FBI, I was presented with a document they requested me to sign before interrogation. The document expressly stated that I would waive all rights to an attorney before questioning. I pointed this out to the agent. He said, "No, it doesn't mean that." I pointed out that I could read and understand English perfectly well, and there was no caveat whatsoever anywhere on that paper that said anything other than that I waived all rights to an attorney.
I refused to sign. They stomped off. My Miranda rights were secured.
Anybody who thinks the FBI adheres to ANY form of "rule of law" is living in a dream world.
Such people need to look at the Federal court decisions that ruled that the FBI engaged in YEARS of illegal "black bag" jobs and other illegal operations against the American Indian Movement.
Such people need to look back at the 1960's when the FBI printed up posters of Abbie Hoffman and other activists of Jewish background accusing them of being Jews who were racist against blacks and had these posters plastered all over black neighborhoods in Harlem and elsewhere.
Such people need to look at the case of the Federal prison inmate who was beaten to death in the Oklahoma City transit center by two Bureau of Prisons correctional officers. The Oklahoma coroner had to get a court order to be allowed in to investigate the case. The FBI was called. One of the agents took the bloodstained garments of the prisoner, threw them in the trunk of his car and drove around with them, destroying their value as evidence, until he eventually complained to his supervisor that they were stinking up his car.
The FBI are the scum of the earth. The only lower scum are Bureau of Prisons correctional personnel. In fact, this is being detrimental to the reputation of earth scum to put these people on the same level.
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orbiting brain lasers don't actually work?
Despite their being based on open source?
Heh, let's test them out on...what's under their orbit now?
Kansas?
Well, if we fry Kansas, the world may not hear of it for years.
"your troops are getting shot at from a large apartment complex? They'll just call in the coordinates and turn the place into a parking lot with artillery or an air strike."
Guess you don't live in Iraq, right?
That's what WE do there.
Hasn't stopped the Iraqi insurgents now, has it?
Or do you think half a million dead Iraqis since 2003 were all killed by the "insurgents"?
Dream on.
And your POINTLESS reaction constitutes what? Humanity?
Now you know WHY I despise humans.
They're morons.
Such as for example the Slashdot "Slow Down, Cowboy!" bullshit when people are responding to messages a day later. How in hell is that going to impact the initial postings to the article in question? Why do I need to see this stupid message today?
Morons.
This is one company that KNOWS enough NOT to use IE, no matter what version. They all use Firefox.
And I didn't even have to tell them.
It ain't my problem.
Try moving tons of AD objects with the GUI - you'll switch to the command line - which is what those CLI tools are FOR.
And they're ridiculous - not to mention I've been told some of them don't work properly...
Reminds me of the line in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen".
Q: Who in Gods name makes automatic rifles?
A: Damned unsporting! Probably Belgian!
I'm still wondering when Tony Blair will become self-aware...
Meanwhile, the Transhuman Party plans to run the following slate in 2008:
1) For President of the United States: Vladimir Putin.
2) For Vice-President of the United States: George Galloway.
3) For Secretary of State: Segolene Royal.
4) For UN Ambassador: Angelina Jolie.
5) For Secretary of Defense: Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
6) For Department of Homeland Security: Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden.
7) For Director of the FBI: Leonard Peltier.
8) For Director of the CIA: Ray McGovern.
9) For Director of the NSA: Wayne Madsen.
More announcements as they are decided.
I understand what you're trying to say by "FOSS software gets more intense testing." You mean, basically, that FOSS software gets looked at by a lot of developers and thus errors tend to be spotted.
But that isn't "intense testing".
In fact, one of my pet peeves with most of the Linux distros these days is the pathetic quality of their testing. I mean, they are letting really STUPID bugs slip through that should have been caught with even a minimal amount of testing.
As an example, Kubuntu shipped their install CDs with an installer that wouldn't let you exit the screen used for changing the mountpoints. I mean, how stupid was that? That CLEARLY showed that the install process was NOT tested AT ALL!
Novell shipped 10.1 with a bug in the update system that completely prevented updates from working. How stupid was that?
It IS true, however, as others here have commented, that COMMERCIAL testing sucks rocks, too. Look at the problems plaguing recent releases of QuickBooks 2006 AND QuickBooks 2007, Adobe Premiere, and other high-ticket, highly used commercial software.
The fact of the matter is that, industry-wide, OSS and commercial, software quality simply sucks.
It's systemic and it isn't being addressed by anybody, open source or commercial.
As Woody Allen summed up the human condition, which applies to the IT industry in spades, "Nothing works and nobody cares."
'Nuff said!
Oh, hell, I'll say some more just to piss off the Windows shills!
Microsoft crapware comes through again!
Just when you thought Bill's crew couldn't get ANY dumber than they are, they manage to "shock and awe" again!
Just so the OSS people don't feel left out, this is not QUITE on a par with a recent Thunderbird's ability to delete ALL email by incorrectly marking it as spam to deleted on the next compaction.
That was fixed easily in a few days and the workaround was trivial: do a search and replace with a text editor of the incorrect code in all your email.
This OneCare bug won't be if the argument has been going on since JANUARY!
Way to go, Bill, you DICKWEED!
Actually a recent version of Thunderbird would in fact hose your email.
Apparently a bug crept in that when Thunderbird's spam detector detected a certain kind of spam, it proceeded to mark ALL the mail in the mailbox for deletion on the next compaction.
For those people who compact on exit, that was seriously bad news.
However, the fix was also easy - since all mail is in text files rather than proprietary binary formats. You simply dumped the Thunderbird release with the bug and downgraded to the last release. Then you opened your mail in a text editor and did a search and replace of a single simple code in each email. Takes you a few minutes to fix.
And of course back up your email outside of your profile to be sure.
Compare that to the Outlook 2GB file limit bug - where you can't access your email or anything else in your PST file until you download a tool from Microsoft that chops off fifty MB from the file so you can open it again.
Just brilliant, that one.
Way to go, Bill - you MORON!
Yeah, right.
You've obviously never had a client lose his PST file, right?
You have no idea how the thought of losing their last thousand emails affects some people.
Especially when those emails contain the email addies - and purchase orders - of every customer of that client.
No, stupid, they don't go out of business.
What they do is lose money proportional to the crapware they're running.
Whether they stay in business despite that depends on other factors.
Moron.
The US armed forces are discovering in Iraq that armed citizens are no joke. Go look at the "Baghdad sniper" video and how easy it is to pick off some US moron standing around with a sign on him saying, "I'm a moron! Shoot me!" - or any of a dozen checkpoint bomb videos where any number of US morons are standing around with signs on them saying, "I'm a moron! Blow me up!"
Yes, the Iraqis are armed with AK's, RPGs, and assorted other niceties not permitted by US law. (Not to mention having been trained by Saddam's military - or Iran's Revolutionary Guards, depending on which side the individual is on.)
I wonder WHY such weapons are not permitted by US law.
Which is not to say such weapons aren't available here.
As Bush and his crowd will likely discover one of these days.
Don't need the trains to run on time - just one train.
The one headed for Parliament...
Yup.
Time to blow up Parliament...
Anybody got a train with several thousand pounds of fertilizer and some nitroglycerine?
I will be setting up my client's network to be hardened against crapware. Actually they're not too bad off now because there isn't a lot of Net surfing and they have a hardware firewall (albeit with a stupid default password). All they really need is the standard hardening methods, some decent antispyware, and a better AV than that crap Norton - which has already screwed itself up on at least two of their machines.
It's the way Windows just hoses ITSELF at random that irritates me most.
You CANNOT "sort out" problems on Windows.
That IS the problem with Windows. There ARE NO good solutions because the underlying OS sucks rocks. On Linux, you can manipulate things very well so that things are rock solid. Not so on Windows.
However, my current service involves monitoring the event logs, backups, system status, SMART values, etc., which should make it easier for me to spot some things before they become more serious problems.
But when a POS software like Norton AV (which I will be recommending the client dump posthaste) hoses something, or when some other POS software like QuickBooks has to run in Administrator mode, there's not much you can do beforehand - except recommend the client dump it.
They're still on Windows for the same reason most idiots are still on Windows - lack of imagination.]
Not all clients listen to me when I tell them things would be much easier on Linux.
Actually, my current main client would switch to Linux in a heartbeat - IF it ran Adobe video editing software. He knows Windows is unreliable and insecure, but he can't switch because he needs employees who know Adobe software.
Compared to what?
Almost anything...
Just as an example, try moving AD objects using the command line tools provided.
Ridiculous.
Or maybe Bill doesn't give a shit about being compatible with anything or anybody who isn't paying him money?
"AD is one of the good things MS has done, imo"
As long as Samba 4 doesn't do AD LIKE Microsoft has done it, i.e., ridiculously complicated horseshit...
No, that's not "Bob", that's "Rob" - as in Enderle...
"just trying to get ahead in their careers"
Exactly.
These FUCKS were do ANYTHING no matter HOW illegal it is to "get ahead in their careers."
And YOU don't see anything wrong with that?
What police department do YOU work for?
I knew an inmate at Leavenworth who was working on appealing his case. He was convicted on the basis of a search warrant which was served off-premises of the address the warrant was for, which was "issued" based on the cop's report of a "drug sale" which never happened, and on "lab results" of the drugs involved in said non-existent sale which the lab later denied ever having seen, and the warrant itself had a "judge's signature" that exactly matched the handwriting of the police officer involved.
Yeah, "it's people that screwed up", all right.
No. These guys are NOT "out there trying to catch bad guys". They ARE "bad guys" who go into law enforcement because it allows them to BE "bad guys" while convincing suckers like you that they are the "good guys."
There may be a handful of morons who go into law enforcement with the expectations you suggest. They learn quickly that that's not how the operation works, and if they want to get along, they go along.
I had an uncle in Bristol, Connecticut, who was a cop. He got fired for having knowledge of a burglary ring operating within the police department and not turning in the cops involved.
Take a look at the photos of the goons involved in that New York case where they shoved a broom handle up a guy's ass. If you've never seen SS Nazi goons before, that should solve your problem.
Go read up on the LA cops in that "nut squad" who ran around shooting unarmed "perps" and manufacturing evidence and lord knows what all else.
Don't bother dragging out that BULLSHIT about "a few bad apples" either. The barrel is rotten to the core and always has been, in every country in history.
"Insightful", my ass...
Sibel Edmonds, while employed at the FBI as a translator, determined that the FBI employed spies for various Turkish organized crime groups as translators who concealed important evidence in FBI investigations.
She further discovered that "senior elected US officials" were implicated by these documents in direct involvement with organized crime groups in the Middle East and Turkey involved in drugs, arms smuggling, and the nuclear materials black market. These same people were involved with the outing of CIA covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson, apparently for the purpose of protecting these same organized crime groups which Plame's covert operation was investigating. (Marc Rich, the alleged "money man" for some of these organizations, was a client of "Scooter" Libby at one time.)
For these discoveries, she was fired and gagged by a direct order from the DoJ from ever discussing these matters with anyone not in the US Senate with a security clearance. So far, no one in the US Senate has had the balls to come forward and request the details.
When I was arrested by the FBI, I was presented with a document they requested me to sign before interrogation. The document expressly stated that I would waive all rights to an attorney before questioning. I pointed this out to the agent. He said, "No, it doesn't mean that." I pointed out that I could read and understand English perfectly well, and there was no caveat whatsoever anywhere on that paper that said anything other than that I waived all rights to an attorney.
I refused to sign. They stomped off. My Miranda rights were secured.
Anybody who thinks the FBI adheres to ANY form of "rule of law" is living in a dream world.
Such people need to look at the Federal court decisions that ruled that the FBI engaged in YEARS of illegal "black bag" jobs and other illegal operations against the American Indian Movement.
Such people need to look back at the 1960's when the FBI printed up posters of Abbie Hoffman and other activists of Jewish background accusing them of being Jews who were racist against blacks and had these posters plastered all over black neighborhoods in Harlem and elsewhere.
Such people need to look at the case of the Federal prison inmate who was beaten to death in the Oklahoma City transit center by two Bureau of Prisons correctional officers. The Oklahoma coroner had to get a court order to be allowed in to investigate the case. The FBI was called. One of the agents took the bloodstained garments of the prisoner, threw them in the trunk of his car and drove around with them, destroying their value as evidence, until he eventually complained to his supervisor that they were stinking up his car.
The FBI are the scum of the earth. The only lower scum are Bureau of Prisons correctional personnel. In fact, this is being detrimental to the reputation of earth scum to put these people on the same level.
They HAVE a vacuum cleaner.
It's called Bill Gates.
It vacuums money out of people's pockets.