I am aware of the word Berliner which is a Pfannkuchen (that's with an 'n') somewhere else in Germany. I am from the Cologne area and, yes, we have Berliners there, too. It's like a donut, deep fried yeast dough. JFK could have said "Ich bin ein Hamburger" and he could have meant that he is either from Hamburg or that he is a hamburger. Whoopie.
Anyway, JFK didn't do anything wrong and, yes, if you wanted you could have understood it in a way that he was some kind of pastry. It just isn't really funny.
And Berliner is a perfectly godd word for a citizen of Berlin. Then there are Kölner (citizens of Cologne), Münchener (citizens of Munic), Hamburger (citizens of Hamburg), etc. etc. You get the drift.
Okay, I have very flexible work hours plus the company is reimbursing me for broadband access at home. Those two things should be treated as seperate issues.
I am a Senior UNIX Sys Admin (7 years of full-time experience) and I am making a little more than $100k a year. My employer is a private university so I think I have it very good.
Diesels are very popular in European countries like Germany. The idea of making your own Diesel fuel has been around for decades there and in order to being able to enforce tax collection on Diesel fuel, official Diesel fuel is dyed. I forgot what color it is but a cop could have a quick look and see if you paid tax on your fuel or not.
I believe this is being done in many US states also.
I had the same issue with modified passwords on my G4 server running MacOS X Server 10.3. I thought I was hacked and talked to Apple's tech support to get this resolved. In the end I realized that my passwords got changed everytime I used niload in order to add a user account via the command line.
Until today I still have to figure out how to create accounts without using the GUI.
If you can't afford Sun equipment and the involved costs, geez, just don't but it. We are a Sun only shop and will not change anything we've done. Sure, our yearly maintenance bills are in the five digits but, so what? It's the cost of doing business well.
Ugh. Have you used both OSs (MacOS X and Solaris). MacOS X is a decent OS but nos heavy duty enough as Solaris is. I've used both and MacOS X Server has not earned my trust, yet.
Institutions that have a technical support contract with Sun get the OS upgrades for free. I assume that this will not change. The change to a subscription model just is similar to being required to get a support contract in order to eligible to run Solaris. This will bite only the small businesses and home users. And we all know that Sun doesn't really care about those that much.
Or Gimp being able to use multiple monitors by using several windows and not just one window?
At least Adobe's Photoshop has been offering this feature for many many releases already.
That leaves us with script-fu. Again, Photoshop has been scriptable for ages now. It's just a different language that is used in Gimp. The concept is not even the slightest new.
On the Mac, as on Windows, the text window is an orphan. On linux, like all unixoid systems, the text/CLI approach is well developed, and is the best way to do most tasks. On OSX, although it is a kind of unix, most of the system only works from the GUI. This is a real disappointment, and relegates it to the "toy" classification for many purposes.
Huh? I assume you have found the Terminal application and used it? I am a Sun/Solaris admin and I just replaced my good old Blade 100 with a G5 and nothing really changed for me. There are only four apps that I run constantly from the GUI: Terminal, Mozilla, Mail, and Acrobat. Everything else is done from the command line. You might want to check it out. Almost everything in OSX can be done from the command line. If you need some help to find your way around, check out the "OS X for UNIX geeks" book from O'Reilly.
Have you looked into Time Warner's new offering, the Explorer 8000 from Scientific Atlanta? It takes OnDemand one step further and offers Tivo-like capabilities for a fraction of the price (plus you get two tuners in one box).
We've been using it for a couple of months now and we love it (despite the software glitches in the firmware that can be annoying sometimes).
I used to work for an ISP and one of my group's daily tasks was handling spam complaints. I am not going to give you the name of this company except this: it is well known for not being very responsive to complaints.
The main reason why ISPs allow spam houses is simple: money. Many ISPs are dying all around the world and all of them would bend backwards to keep and attract as many paying clients as possible. ISPs usually charges for bandwidth, collocation, extra services etc. When it came to spammers, we introduced a new metric: number of complaints per month. A certain number was included in the basic package. If that threshold was exceeded we had the right to charge extra per complaint. If it happened multiple months in a row we were able to *think* about cutting the client lose. Of course, that never happened.
My group (the techies) used to bitch a lot about this or that client because we always get complaints. We passed these on to senior management. What happened? Nothing. They could violate our AUP left and right but as long they were one of the few *paying* customers we were supposed to be happy. In the end they paid our salaries, right?. We had our shared smtp servers blacklisted for a while. That still was not enough for someone in charge to change policies.
The entire spam/network abuse was brought up in one of the company wide meetings (by one of the techies in the Q&A session; it was not part of the agenda, of course). The CEO just passed it on to one of the lawyers in charge because he had no idea what this was all about. The lawyer just brushed it off saying that it is not a big deal. Everything was under control and people should just hit the delete key. Plus, we were supposed to see this issue in relation to how much revenue those clients were creating. I am not kidding you.
Oh, some people here say that they don't understand that ISPs sign up spammers at all because it will earn them bad reputation. This is not quite correct. Every ISP that does not directly deal with end users at home is not afraid and simply does not care. Why? The quality of the other services make up for that little nuisance. This is what a CTO or CIO would think: "If I needed an OC-3 to my site and that one ISP is the cheapest to get this done, hell I would sign up with them. Are they known to be friendly to spammers? Who cares, I need connectivity. As long as spam is not controlled, all the blacklist services are voluntarily only, and most people don't really utilize blacklists I will not suffer any harm by using them. Bad reputation is just something for geeks. We need to keep our costs down."
I am running my own mail server at home. My filter list is growing by one or two lines every couple of days. It is not fun but it is the only way to keep spammers away.
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And you are so not part of the target group of customers for this product. You should better look at the PowerMac line for your uses.
I am aware of the word Berliner which is a Pfannkuchen (that's with an 'n') somewhere else in Germany. I am from the Cologne area and, yes, we have Berliners there, too. It's like a donut, deep fried yeast dough. JFK could have said "Ich bin ein Hamburger" and he could have meant that he is either from Hamburg or that he is a hamburger. Whoopie. Anyway, JFK didn't do anything wrong and, yes, if you wanted you could have understood it in a way that he was some kind of pastry. It just isn't really funny.
No, that is not true. I am German and where I come from you always prefix it with 'ein' or 'eine'. Again, "Ich bin ein Berliner" is 100% correct.
And Berliner is a perfectly godd word for a citizen of Berlin. Then there are Kölner (citizens of Cologne), Münchener (citizens of Munic), Hamburger (citizens of Hamburg), etc. etc. You get the drift.
Okay, I have very flexible work hours plus the company is reimbursing me for broadband access at home. Those two things should be treated as seperate issues.
I am a Senior UNIX Sys Admin (7 years of full-time experience) and I am making a little more than $100k a year. My employer is a private university so I think I have it very good.
Am I the only one who hates the style the articles on OSNews are written? They are very close to cheese.
I believe this is being done in many US states also.
Before Panther I always used nidump and niload to add accounts. I am a newbie to MacOS X. I'll have a look at niutil.
Until today I still have to figure out how to create accounts without using the GUI.
If you can't afford Sun equipment and the involved costs, geez, just don't but it. We are a Sun only shop and will not change anything we've done. Sure, our yearly maintenance bills are in the five digits but, so what? It's the cost of doing business well.
Ugh. Have you used both OSs (MacOS X and Solaris). MacOS X is a decent OS but nos heavy duty enough as Solaris is. I've used both and MacOS X Server has not earned my trust, yet.
Institutions that have a technical support contract with Sun get the OS upgrades for free. I assume that this will not change. The change to a subscription model just is similar to being required to get a support contract in order to eligible to run Solaris. This will bite only the small businesses and home users. And we all know that Sun doesn't really care about those that much.
At least Adobe's Photoshop has been offering this feature for many many releases already.
That leaves us with script-fu. Again, Photoshop has been scriptable for ages now. It's just a different language that is used in Gimp. The concept is not even the slightest new.
Huh? I assume you have found the Terminal application and used it? I am a Sun/Solaris admin and I just replaced my good old Blade 100 with a G5 and nothing really changed for me. There are only four apps that I run constantly from the GUI: Terminal, Mozilla, Mail, and Acrobat. Everything else is done from the command line. You might want to check it out. Almost everything in OSX can be done from the command line. If you need some help to find your way around, check out the "OS X for UNIX geeks" book from O'Reilly.
We've been using it for a couple of months now and we love it (despite the software glitches in the firmware that can be annoying sometimes).
I used to work for an ISP and one of my group's daily tasks was handling spam complaints. I am not going to give you the name of this company except this: it is well known for not being very responsive to complaints. The main reason why ISPs allow spam houses is simple: money. Many ISPs are dying all around the world and all of them would bend backwards to keep and attract as many paying clients as possible. ISPs usually charges for bandwidth, collocation, extra services etc. When it came to spammers, we introduced a new metric: number of complaints per month. A certain number was included in the basic package. If that threshold was exceeded we had the right to charge extra per complaint. If it happened multiple months in a row we were able to *think* about cutting the client lose. Of course, that never happened. My group (the techies) used to bitch a lot about this or that client because we always get complaints. We passed these on to senior management. What happened? Nothing. They could violate our AUP left and right but as long they were one of the few *paying* customers we were supposed to be happy. In the end they paid our salaries, right?. We had our shared smtp servers blacklisted for a while. That still was not enough for someone in charge to change policies. The entire spam/network abuse was brought up in one of the company wide meetings (by one of the techies in the Q&A session; it was not part of the agenda, of course). The CEO just passed it on to one of the lawyers in charge because he had no idea what this was all about. The lawyer just brushed it off saying that it is not a big deal. Everything was under control and people should just hit the delete key. Plus, we were supposed to see this issue in relation to how much revenue those clients were creating. I am not kidding you. Oh, some people here say that they don't understand that ISPs sign up spammers at all because it will earn them bad reputation. This is not quite correct. Every ISP that does not directly deal with end users at home is not afraid and simply does not care. Why? The quality of the other services make up for that little nuisance. This is what a CTO or CIO would think: "If I needed an OC-3 to my site and that one ISP is the cheapest to get this done, hell I would sign up with them. Are they known to be friendly to spammers? Who cares, I need connectivity. As long as spam is not controlled, all the blacklist services are voluntarily only, and most people don't really utilize blacklists I will not suffer any harm by using them. Bad reputation is just something for geeks. We need to keep our costs down." I am running my own mail server at home. My filter list is growing by one or two lines every couple of days. It is not fun but it is the only way to keep spammers away.