It scales like ass. It's slow. It has dependency issues. You have to disable commonly available services in large installations to avoid issues. But the 1000 GPO limit is just the icing on the cake.
Otherwise, explain why a large organization - perhaps the largest in the US - was compelled to split its AD installation into four illogical geographical domains without transitive trusts, due to scalability issues? So, now, you can't add people from a location in the western US to their correct OU in another region.
Yeah, didn't think you could. But yeah, it's scalable, right.
AD does not scale well up into the million object range and beyond.
Just trust me on this one. It's intended for the average case, not the huge-ass case. You find limitations on the number of GPOs. You find problems with everything when you start in with huge numbers.
That said, if all you care about is Windows, AD is the easiest of all the options.
It was a buggy mess that was only meaningfully amended by a couple years of volunteer work by people outside of Atari/Troika, but the Python scripting was probably a plus in terms of determining the nature of bugs and fixing them.
My beef with the article isn't that it is outdated. It's that the grammar is so horrible. It's not unreadable but it's like reading a bad book report.
The Pythagorean Theorem was 2nd grade math in 1975. i.e. 6-7 year olds.
Yeah, I was there.
It did actually come in useful once. I used to work at an awning shop...measure the drop, then the out, then figure out the hypotenuse via Pythagoras, for the correct amount of fabric.
ever worked for a large firm (before or after) to compare your experiences at MS with?
I have worked for at least five and the experience is pretty much the same everywhere, except for one that was a wholly family-owned private bank (despite being rather large by the standards of the day).
I tend to chalk up the issues I have with large organizations due to the soulless nature of publically owned companies. If they have an owning management, that controls the fate of the organizations, their focus is less on internecine warfare between executives. The focus is more on doing business, which requires having and keeping quality employees, which requires loyalty and attention to their development. This kind of attitude spreads downward from the management and infects the whole organization. In both cases.
You are right. But if the business of that geeky person gets big enough, he'll be stomped on by the content industries through whatever means they can. He'll be forced to insert in the same DRM or be basically forced out of existence.
Then my mom has either a crippled or unsupported PVR. The second is preferable, I think.
A lot of times insurance companies pay off claims because they evaluate that wiggling out of the responsibility by using the terms of the policy is unlikely to work. Not because they couldn't find a reading of the policy terms that favors them.
An insurer has a responsibility to defend their insureds vigorously - it's one of the tenets that gets hammered into your head. After conducting that vigorous defense it is hard to say you aren't paying.
Generally negligence is excluded. This means that if you consciously or unconsciously lied, they can deny coverage.
Simplified, negligence is when you do something wrong. Gross negligence is *knowingly* doing something wrong.
Umbrella liability is not a license to be an asshole. It's frankly not worth it in my view. It makes you a target since you now have deep pockets. First thing a lawyer is going to want to know is the policy limits on the target of a lawsuit. If he/she hears about an umbrella policy, they'll be gunning for the whole amount.
The commercial PVR was a great way to improve the lives of nongeeks. It was something that did a useful function that people would have difficulty figuring out themselves.
With this DRM crap, it removes most of the value added. If you can't store the video to your liking, the PVR becomes pretty much useless. I'm not talking about people who can make their own PVR out of the parts. I'm talking about my mother here.
I sense the rapid penetration of these devices will end right about...now.
Listen, your post is well written and i'm glad you own a passport unlike 80% of us (or whatever). I do too. I've listened to anti-US tirades in bars, and the opposite. It depends on where you are and the person.
Despite all that, your post sets up a straw man, and also discounts the lust for power.
Your mistake is that you blame your own country for these issues and that isn't so. The problem isn't a US problem. The problem is human nature. No one is going to sit down and be killed or held hostage by external forces when they can do something about it, and there will always be external forces that will want to exert power over significant reaches of (or the entire) world.
Moreover, someone like OBL isn't motivated precisely by envy of the US, though that is there in terms of the power we can wield. One almost gets the impression you think desire of money is the only motivator for humankind. His attack on the US was motivated by the needs of local politics and establishing his bonafides as an enemy of the imperialist oppressor that shows up in Arab schoolbooks as the supporter of the Zionists. It was a piece of a plan to provoke revolution in his home country, more than anything else. He exploited a weakness that the Saudis have in their own ideology. He probably has Pan-Arab ambitions like a modern day Nasser, also. This is lust for power.
Explain to me exactly how anything except fighting and killing are going to get rid of a ready-made foe like that? (taking him and his minions collectively)
Leaving that aside for now, the fact that little people get ground into the dust by exercise of the power of a nation like the US. Truth - and in retrospect the Allende situation perhaps wasn't the Communist revolution that it seemed to be to people like Kissinger. Gotta love that 20/20 hindsight.
The point is that even today, the Allende thing had a meaningful realpolitik objective that we can discern. It might have been a bullshit reason. We'll never know now, though, because all anyone has is conjecture about the future actions of an Allende regime. There was a real force in the world that plotted our demise via proxy. We had lost a lot of fights against that force in the recent past (or were about to, in Southeast Asia). Those fights resounded far more strongly in importance then than they truly had. Yet, though the events in Southeast Asia were somehow unimportant to us (though they were very important to the inhabitants thereof who suffered from privation and extermination, depending on geography and timeframe), they certainly did their part to assure that the Iranians, sensing our weakness, felt few qualms about kidnapping the occupants of our embassy in 1979. Note that they didn't take over our embassy because of Mossadegh or hatred of the Shah. They took over our embassy because they could. What was Jimmy Carter going to do about it? (one can hear the laughs from the back of the audience)
The lesson to draw: Carter's 'niceness' and perceived weakness was the cause of those hostages enduring a year plus in captivity. Reagan got them out simply because they feared his reprisal should they remain captive. Fear for your own survival is a far better motivator than some abstract moral sense. In fact, the abstract moral sense barely registers in comparison.
When you recount our supposed 'evil' without giving it contextual backing, you are bashing your own country. This is why I call people like you anti-American. You'd rather see your own country humbled because of some misplaced humanitarian notion that doesn't work in the real world. That's a seditious attitude whether you understand that - or not.
The only measure of a nation at war is that you survived. I point to Dresden or Hamburg or Tokyo or even Hiroshima/Nagasaki. If the war had turned the other way, we might talk about war crimes trials for these wanton killings of civilians, rather than for concentration camps. Both the Soviets and the Germans raped, pillaged and murdered the
We're the most powerful nation on Earth, that is why.
The fact that the rest of the world educates their peon masses to hate the US is not really our problem. Being nice to people that hate you doesn't make them like you: I challenge you to come up with a scenario where this has happened, ever.
The thing that makes those that hate you stop fighting you, and ultimately like you, is grinding their nation into dust through warfare.
Most people using the browser have no use for those URLs. Being vulnerable to an exploit twice due to a feature most people don't need is positively Microsoft-ish.
Back in the mid-90s there was an incident at a computer show (I believe Comdex) where Ballmer himself was walking around with a floppy disk that had an application on it that crashed OS/2 machines, and basically knocking them down personally as he walked by.
How this made Microsoft products any more stable, I have no idea. Welcome to the world of marketing. This was in response to IBM marketing OS/2 as "Crash-proof".
My point is that Ballmer is not beyond doing something nasty to competitors' systems in the name of marketing.
That said, it does have healthy clustering support. That was the only thing that made Domino tolerable for us as a mail server.
They really have to do something about all the panics and task shutdowns that Domino suffers, no matter what the equipment. There's something screwy in there somewhere - something with buffer handling or whatever, pointers getting mangled. It's probably bad databases ultimately but, after you run Lotus' consistency checks nightly on close to a terabyte of databases (spread over 10 servers) you'd expect valid data, right?
The need for something like Cassetica's NotesMedic to restart your client after a crash is kind of lame too. That should have been fixed ages ago.
I have to say that Exchange is better, sadly. I hate Exchange, but it suffers from none of these issues.
WOW has a limited lifespan - the next MMORPG that comes out will draw off significant numbers of users.
I already got bored with it, after only about 6 months. The endgame experience once you hit 60 is kind of repetitive with the same old, same old instances, reminds me a lot of Diablo 2 doing Act 5 runs constantly to get drops. After weeks or months of that - *yawn*.
They can release content as fast as they can write it, any kind of new game will trounce their ass in the short term.
I already did the MUD thing. The lack of socialization is the problem for me. All the guys in female toons is kind of distressing too, it defeats the purpose. Like World of Trannies or something. Oh, the inconsistent (or total lack thereof) backstory and monotony of the higher level experience also don't help.
I question a lot of the design decisions.
I think i'm done with MMORPGs after that, though, so even if someone comes up with a "NEW! BETTER!" one, i'm going to be unwilling to even try it because of the length of time required to find out if it sucks or not.
I found a package called Dosbox which is sufficiently good that it plays UW like a charm in fullscreen mode on XP. Been playing that the last couple days. Now, that was fun.
Draft Richard Garriott to do another 3d fantasy game!
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Look really good in that situation, don't they?
It scales like ass. It's slow. It has dependency issues. You have to disable commonly available services in large installations to avoid issues. But the 1000 GPO limit is just the icing on the cake.
Otherwise, explain why a large organization - perhaps the largest in the US - was compelled to split its AD installation into four illogical geographical domains without transitive trusts, due to scalability issues? So, now, you can't add people from a location in the western US to their correct OU in another region.
Yeah, didn't think you could. But yeah, it's scalable, right.
AD does not scale well up into the million object range and beyond.
Just trust me on this one. It's intended for the average case, not the huge-ass case. You find limitations on the number of GPOs. You find problems with everything when you start in with huge numbers.
That said, if all you care about is Windows, AD is the easiest of all the options.
TOEE from 2003 uses Python scripting.
It was a buggy mess that was only meaningfully amended by a couple years of volunteer work by people outside of Atari/Troika, but the Python scripting was probably a plus in terms of determining the nature of bugs and fixing them.
My beef with the article isn't that it is outdated. It's that the grammar is so horrible. It's not unreadable but it's like reading a bad book report.
Nah, they just treated it as a given.
Proofs for the theorem came much later, at least 8th grade.
The Pythagorean Theorem was 2nd grade math in 1975. i.e. 6-7 year olds.
Yeah, I was there.
It did actually come in useful once. I used to work at an awning shop...measure the drop, then the out, then figure out the hypotenuse via Pythagoras, for the correct amount of fabric.
The owner of the shop was a former math teacher.
ever worked for a large firm (before or after) to compare your experiences at MS with?
I have worked for at least five and the experience is pretty much the same everywhere, except for one that was a wholly family-owned private bank (despite being rather large by the standards of the day).
I tend to chalk up the issues I have with large organizations due to the soulless nature of publically owned companies. If they have an owning management, that controls the fate of the organizations, their focus is less on internecine warfare between executives. The focus is more on doing business, which requires having and keeping quality employees, which requires loyalty and attention to their development. This kind of attitude spreads downward from the management and infects the whole organization. In both cases.
You are right. But if the business of that geeky person gets big enough, he'll be stomped on by the content industries through whatever means they can. He'll be forced to insert in the same DRM or be basically forced out of existence.
Then my mom has either a crippled or unsupported PVR. The second is preferable, I think.
A lot of times insurance companies pay off claims because they evaluate that wiggling out of the responsibility by using the terms of the policy is unlikely to work. Not because they couldn't find a reading of the policy terms that favors them.
An insurer has a responsibility to defend their insureds vigorously - it's one of the tenets that gets hammered into your head. After conducting that vigorous defense it is hard to say you aren't paying.
Generally negligence is excluded. This means that if you consciously or unconsciously lied, they can deny coverage.
Simplified, negligence is when you do something wrong. Gross negligence is *knowingly* doing something wrong.
Umbrella liability is not a license to be an asshole. It's frankly not worth it in my view. It makes you a target since you now have deep pockets. First thing a lawyer is going to want to know is the policy limits on the target of a lawsuit. If he/she hears about an umbrella policy, they'll be gunning for the whole amount.
The commercial PVR was a great way to improve the lives of nongeeks. It was something that did a useful function that people would have difficulty figuring out themselves.
With this DRM crap, it removes most of the value added. If you can't store the video to your liking, the PVR becomes pretty much useless. I'm not talking about people who can make their own PVR out of the parts. I'm talking about my mother here.
I sense the rapid penetration of these devices will end right about...now.
Brings a whole new meaning to the UT spooge gun.
Listen, your post is well written and i'm glad you own a passport unlike 80% of us (or whatever). I do too. I've listened to anti-US tirades in bars, and the opposite. It depends on where you are and the person.
Despite all that, your post sets up a straw man, and also discounts the lust for power.
Your mistake is that you blame your own country for these issues and that isn't so. The problem isn't a US problem. The problem is human nature. No one is going to sit down and be killed or held hostage by external forces when they can do something about it, and there will always be external forces that will want to exert power over significant reaches of (or the entire) world.
Moreover, someone like OBL isn't motivated precisely by envy of the US, though that is there in terms of the power we can wield. One almost gets the impression you think desire of money is the only motivator for humankind. His attack on the US was motivated by the needs of local politics and establishing his bonafides as an enemy of the imperialist oppressor that shows up in Arab schoolbooks as the supporter of the Zionists. It was a piece of a plan to provoke revolution in his home country, more than anything else. He exploited a weakness that the Saudis have in their own ideology. He probably has Pan-Arab ambitions like a modern day Nasser, also. This is lust for power.
Explain to me exactly how anything except fighting and killing are going to get rid of a ready-made foe like that? (taking him and his minions collectively)
Leaving that aside for now, the fact that little people get ground into the dust by exercise of the power of a nation like the US. Truth - and in retrospect the Allende situation perhaps wasn't the Communist revolution that it seemed to be to people like Kissinger. Gotta love that 20/20 hindsight.
The point is that even today, the Allende thing had a meaningful realpolitik objective that we can discern. It might have been a bullshit reason. We'll never know now, though, because all anyone has is conjecture about the future actions of an Allende regime. There was a real force in the world that plotted our demise via proxy. We had lost a lot of fights against that force in the recent past (or were about to, in Southeast Asia). Those fights resounded far more strongly in importance then than they truly had. Yet, though the events in Southeast Asia were somehow unimportant to us (though they were very important to the inhabitants thereof who suffered from privation and extermination, depending on geography and timeframe), they certainly did their part to assure that the Iranians, sensing our weakness, felt few qualms about kidnapping the occupants of our embassy in 1979. Note that they didn't take over our embassy because of Mossadegh or hatred of the Shah. They took over our embassy because they could. What was Jimmy Carter going to do about it? (one can hear the laughs from the back of the audience)
The lesson to draw: Carter's 'niceness' and perceived weakness was the cause of those hostages enduring a year plus in captivity. Reagan got them out simply because they feared his reprisal should they remain captive. Fear for your own survival is a far better motivator than some abstract moral sense. In fact, the abstract moral sense barely registers in comparison.
When you recount our supposed 'evil' without giving it contextual backing, you are bashing your own country. This is why I call people like you anti-American. You'd rather see your own country humbled because of some misplaced humanitarian notion that doesn't work in the real world. That's a seditious attitude whether you understand that - or not.
The only measure of a nation at war is that you survived. I point to Dresden or Hamburg or Tokyo or even Hiroshima/Nagasaki. If the war had turned the other way, we might talk about war crimes trials for these wanton killings of civilians, rather than for concentration camps. Both the Soviets and the Germans raped, pillaged and murdered the
We're the most powerful nation on Earth, that is why.
The fact that the rest of the world educates their peon masses to hate the US is not really our problem. Being nice to people that hate you doesn't make them like you: I challenge you to come up with a scenario where this has happened, ever.
The thing that makes those that hate you stop fighting you, and ultimately like you, is grinding their nation into dust through warfare.
Most people using the browser have no use for those URLs. Being vulnerable to an exploit twice due to a feature most people don't need is positively Microsoft-ish.
What makes you think that it wasn't back then, too?
They made it work in spite of all of the above, not because they weren't there.
Back in the mid-90s there was an incident at a computer show (I believe Comdex) where Ballmer himself was walking around with a floppy disk that had an application on it that crashed OS/2 machines, and basically knocking them down personally as he walked by.
How this made Microsoft products any more stable, I have no idea. Welcome to the world of marketing. This was in response to IBM marketing OS/2 as "Crash-proof".
My point is that Ballmer is not beyond doing something nasty to competitors' systems in the name of marketing.
That said, it does have healthy clustering support. That was the only thing that made Domino tolerable for us as a mail server.
They really have to do something about all the panics and task shutdowns that Domino suffers, no matter what the equipment. There's something screwy in there somewhere - something with buffer handling or whatever, pointers getting mangled. It's probably bad databases ultimately but, after you run Lotus' consistency checks nightly on close to a terabyte of databases (spread over 10 servers) you'd expect valid data, right?
The need for something like Cassetica's NotesMedic to restart your client after a crash is kind of lame too. That should have been fixed ages ago.
I have to say that Exchange is better, sadly. I hate Exchange, but it suffers from none of these issues.
Hmm, always liked Starlin's Dreadstar back in the 80s for that. The stories were pretty good, at least the first 28 issues or so.
WOW has a limited lifespan - the next MMORPG that comes out will draw off significant numbers of users.
I already got bored with it, after only about 6 months. The endgame experience once you hit 60 is kind of repetitive with the same old, same old instances, reminds me a lot of Diablo 2 doing Act 5 runs constantly to get drops. After weeks or months of that - *yawn*.
They can release content as fast as they can write it, any kind of new game will trounce their ass in the short term.
Great, and I get stuck with the domain name ;-)
Oh well, at least the web board is always up.
Intense lack of desire to play any more MMORPGs.
I already did the MUD thing. The lack of socialization is the problem for me. All the guys in female toons is kind of distressing too, it defeats the purpose. Like World of Trannies or something. Oh, the inconsistent (or total lack thereof) backstory and monotony of the higher level experience also don't help.
I question a lot of the design decisions.
I think i'm done with MMORPGs after that, though, so even if someone comes up with a "NEW! BETTER!" one, i'm going to be unwilling to even try it because of the length of time required to find out if it sucks or not.
I found a package called Dosbox which is sufficiently good that it plays UW like a charm in fullscreen mode on XP. Been playing that the last couple days. Now, that was fun.
Draft Richard Garriott to do another 3d fantasy game!
Ad hominem.
What happens if you want to play it 15 years later?
I can still play Ultima Underworld (the original). Will you be able to say the same about HL2?
Great game btw, UU.
I bought Doom 3. I bought Half-life, UT 2k, 2k4, DN3D, etc etc ad nauseam. I like FPS games.
I did not buy HL2. Why? Steam.
I might relent when the price is $10. Let's see if the game is still playable by then, given the dependence on an internet connection.