Hansen's doing the right thing coming forth but I don't believe he's right either.
So I can tell you some facts. I know you haven't read any of what I am about to tell you in the newspaper, because newspapers literally don't report them. I can tell you that DDT is not a carcinogen and did not cause birds to die and should never have been banned. I can tell you that the people who banned it knew that it wasn't carcinogenic and banned it anyway. I can tell you that the DDT ban has caused the deaths of tens of millions of poor people, mostly children, whose deaths are directly attributable to a callous, technologically advanced western society that promoted the new cause of environmentalism by pushing a fantasy about a pesticide, and thus irrevocably harmed the third world. Banning DDT is one of the most disgraceful episodes in the twentieth century history of America. We knew better, and we did it anyway, and we let people around the world die and didn't give a damn.
I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it. I can tell you that the evidence for global warming is far weaker than its proponents would ever admit. I can tell you the percentage the US land area that is taken by urbanization, including cities and roads, is 5%. I can tell you that the Sahara desert is shrinking, and the total ice of Antarctica is increasing. I can tell you that a blue-ribbon panel in Science magazine concluded that there is no known technology that will enable us to halt the rise of carbon dioxide in the 21st century. Not wind, not solar, not even nuclear. The panel concluded a totally new technology-like nuclear fusion-was necessary, otherwise nothing could be done and in the meantime all efforts would be a waste of time. They said that when the UN IPCC reports stated alternative technologies existed that could control greenhouse gases, the UN was wrong.
Anybody who quotes that jackass Kos about the climate needs to have his head checked. The problem is we are not resposible for the current NATURAL warming period which began about 1900. It's fucking antural, get over it! Did you know that the Antarctic actually gains freaking gigatons of ice every year? Did you know we have more forest now than before?
Get your head out of the whole Rachel Carson 70's junk science and start doing a little research.
Chill out, fizteh. I try to limit myself to saying things on the Internet I would also say in real life. So he didn't read the FA. Doesn't mean you need to pop a blood vessel and hammer away angrily at your keyboard.
To be quite honest (and this is coming from a Microsoft hater), Microsoft's stuff does work albeit not as well as Linux. I trust my Exchange server since I've spent all of this time locking it down! Just because it's Microsoft doesn't call for blind hatred. Your blind hatred is why some of us are classifying you as the Hax0r in your parent's basement.
Once Dell makes it easy to buy a non-Microsoft os preloaded sans price of Windows (actually cheaper), I might believe it. Don't mislead yourselves into thinking Dell is going to shift away from the OS that has over 90% market share.
Just noticed something. You did know Mcafee is installed as a trial version on Dells, right? So what you're giving your clients is one of the worst, most annoying antivirus solutions out there and in 3 months, let me guess: they call you, right? So either your clients don't have a real centrally managed antivirus solution or they're SOHO clients and you won't tell them about Grisoft Free Edition.
Man, you have one hell of a chip on your shoulder. Santa didn't come this year? Anyway, I've disabled all of that Dell junk many times as a matter of course and the said machines worked fine before we stopped buying Dell junk in the first place. If you look around and open your eyes a bit, you'll see that other people have done that without any of the dire consequences you predict.
As far as the accusation of incompetence, you started this whole thing off with a negative attitude. Or did you forget your little insults about Linux and my age? Can't handle the same stuff you dish out, eh? So much for accusing me of "instant assumptions", right? Pot calling the kettle black, methinks.
I treat my employees well and we disable manufacturer installed crap all of the time and have excellent uptime, availability, and (more importantly) data retention.
Also, we have many developers running Linux as a workstation authenticating via LDAP. Try Linux again, you might be surprised.
As far as the spelling extension, I don't think I'm that bad and I will go ahead and lump that in with your reasoning about Dell machines breaking without all of the crap that comes from the factory running and slowing down the box.
is someone mentioning the point that the "Free(insert appname here)" and "Open(insert app name here)" Open Source naming standard is growing a bit (dare we say) stale?
Jesus christ, relax and get off your high horse, there Mr. Professional. I'm Director of IT at a good sized company and know what I'm talking about. The native Windows stuff works well enough for me as far as docking and power options go and I did forget to mention I would replace the trial version of Mcafee with Grisoft Free Edition or my licensed corporate Syamntec if for my company. However...I know better than to issue Dells for this company I work for. We run IBMs for developers (need dual boot with Suse or Redhat) and I started issuing Powerbooks to execs and salesguys about a year ago. Best ROI I've ever seen.
Anyway, it's very nice you trumpet your consulting/IT experience. I've got it too. And if you recommend Mcafee to your clients with their ActiveX crap, you're not making the informed decsions they pay you to make. Also, I'm 31.
First thing anybody should do when setting up a Dell is run MSCONFIG, go to Startup, and disable all. Then, reboot, get rid of the annoying warning reminding of what you just did (thank you Windows!), and uninstall MCafee and every frigging Dell app you can find on there.
Or install Linux or a BSD:)
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So I can tell you some facts. I know you haven't read any of what I am about to tell you in the newspaper, because newspapers literally don't report them. I can tell you that DDT is not a carcinogen and did not cause birds to die and should never have been banned. I can tell you that the people who banned it knew that it wasn't carcinogenic and banned it anyway. I can tell you that the DDT ban has caused the deaths of tens of millions of poor people, mostly children, whose deaths are directly attributable to a callous, technologically advanced western society that promoted the new cause of environmentalism by pushing a fantasy about a pesticide, and thus irrevocably harmed the third world. Banning DDT is one of the most disgraceful episodes in the twentieth century history of America. We knew better, and we did it anyway, and we let people around the world die and didn't give a damn.
I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it. I can tell you that the evidence for global warming is far weaker than its proponents would ever admit. I can tell you the percentage the US land area that is taken by urbanization, including cities and roads, is 5%. I can tell you that the Sahara desert is shrinking, and the total ice of Antarctica is increasing. I can tell you that a blue-ribbon panel in Science magazine concluded that there is no known technology that will enable us to halt the rise of carbon dioxide in the 21st century. Not wind, not solar, not even nuclear. The panel concluded a totally new technology-like nuclear fusion-was necessary, otherwise nothing could be done and in the meantime all efforts would be a waste of time. They said that when the UN IPCC reports stated alternative technologies existed that could control greenhouse gases, the UN was wrong.
That was one of the most rambling posts I've ever tried to read. Pimping a blog or something? Get to the point already.
Are you high right now?
Anybody who quotes that jackass Kos about the climate needs to have his head checked. The problem is we are not resposible for the current NATURAL warming period which began about 1900. It's fucking antural, get over it! Did you know that the Antarctic actually gains freaking gigatons of ice every year? Did you know we have more forest now than before?
Get your head out of the whole Rachel Carson 70's junk science and start doing a little research.
Post some links, man! Good stuff...
You forgot to mention that the current global warming trend is natural, ahs been going on since about 1850, and isn't caused by humans.
Chill out, fizteh. I try to limit myself to saying things on the Internet I would also say in real life. So he didn't read the FA. Doesn't mean you need to pop a blood vessel and hammer away angrily at your keyboard.
and that's all Steve Gibson does. If I read one more blurb about how great it is that he can code in assembly...
To be quite honest (and this is coming from a Microsoft hater), Microsoft's stuff does work albeit not as well as Linux. I trust my Exchange server since I've spent all of this time locking it down! Just because it's Microsoft doesn't call for blind hatred. Your blind hatred is why some of us are classifying you as the Hax0r in your parent's basement.
From the blatant advertisement dept
or kernel patches? Because Linux is a damned kernel and Redhat/Suse/whatever's patches for say curl, wget, apache, etc are not OS level patches.
I used a vbsscript and a GPO for actions upond logout. Asking because it's hard to find good Windows admin advice, especially for a *Nix guy at heart.
How'd you distribute it across Active directory?
What language did you write that in? Unintelligible. Take a basic English course.
It almost scares me when I see myself nodding and agreeing with Troed about this global warming nonsense.
No, it won't. I wish it would. They will never shift away entirely.
Once Dell makes it easy to buy a non-Microsoft os preloaded sans price of Windows (actually cheaper), I might believe it. Don't mislead yourselves into thinking Dell is going to shift away from the OS that has over 90% market share.
Just noticed something. You did know Mcafee is installed as a trial version on Dells, right? So what you're giving your clients is one of the worst, most annoying antivirus solutions out there and in 3 months, let me guess: they call you, right? So either your clients don't have a real centrally managed antivirus solution or they're SOHO clients and you won't tell them about Grisoft Free Edition.
Man, you have one hell of a chip on your shoulder. Santa didn't come this year? Anyway, I've disabled all of that Dell junk many times as a matter of course and the said machines worked fine before we stopped buying Dell junk in the first place. If you look around and open your eyes a bit, you'll see that other people have done that without any of the dire consequences you predict.
As far as the accusation of incompetence, you started this whole thing off with a negative attitude. Or did you forget your little insults about Linux and my age? Can't handle the same stuff you dish out, eh? So much for accusing me of "instant assumptions", right? Pot calling the kettle black, methinks.
I treat my employees well and we disable manufacturer installed crap all of the time and have excellent uptime, availability, and (more importantly) data retention.
Also, we have many developers running Linux as a workstation authenticating via LDAP. Try Linux again, you might be surprised.
As far as the spelling extension, I don't think I'm that bad and I will go ahead and lump that in with your reasoning about Dell machines breaking without all of the crap that comes from the factory running and slowing down the box.
You're wrong. Hope you're man enough to open your mind a bit and dump the science of the 70's and read a bit.
is someone mentioning the point that the "Free(insert appname here)" and "Open(insert app name here)" Open Source naming standard is growing a bit (dare we say) stale?
Jesus christ, relax and get off your high horse, there Mr. Professional. I'm Director of IT at a good sized company and know what I'm talking about. The native Windows stuff works well enough for me as far as docking and power options go and I did forget to mention I would replace the trial version of Mcafee with Grisoft Free Edition or my licensed corporate Syamntec if for my company. However...I know better than to issue Dells for this company I work for. We run IBMs for developers (need dual boot with Suse or Redhat) and I started issuing Powerbooks to execs and salesguys about a year ago. Best ROI I've ever seen.
Anyway, it's very nice you trumpet your consulting/IT experience. I've got it too. And if you recommend Mcafee to your clients with their ActiveX crap, you're not making the informed decsions they pay you to make. Also, I'm 31.
First thing anybody should do when setting up a Dell is run MSCONFIG, go to Startup, and disable all. Then, reboot, get rid of the annoying warning reminding of what you just did (thank you Windows!), and uninstall MCafee and every frigging Dell app you can find on there. :)
Or install Linux or a BSD
Xfree86 continues their self-imposed slide into obscurity.
"Those familiar with my anti-copyright stance"
Come again? Exactly how many fans of your blog do you think there are on Slashdot?