When it happens, they will still pat themselves on the back, helps their workers keep trying because if you don't you'll either be left with mopey, useless workers or people who quit.
...wait. You want workers who design crappy products to quit? That's a novel idea. Next you'll be suggesting that they replace those crappy workers with employees that are actually competent enough to design a good product...
Giffords was talking to a couple when the suspect ran up firing indiscriminately and then ran off, Michaels said.
Like TJIC says: "It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot 'indiscriminately'. Target only politicians and their staff, and leave regular citizens alone."
In other words they are charging for a service that should be free, because the phone and tower are *already sending* Texts to one another. It costs nothing for the company to append that Text to the outgoing packet. "When you think of it on a kilobyte level it costs us $1.09 per text message Kilobyte. The markup for costs is 7300%."
Wait...so if the packets back and forth between the tower and cell phone are 'free' because it's a required part of the cell protocol, how is charging $1.09 per text message a 7300% increase? 0 * 73.00 != 1.09.
By that math, aren't you implying that text messages actually cost $0.014931507? (0.014931507 * 73.00 == 1.09)
(Also, since I haven't had to do any math more advanced than balancing my checkbook since highschool over 10 years ago, I won't be the least embarrassed or surprised to find out that my math or formula is wrong.)
FTFA: Using her password, he accessed her Gmail account and learned she was having an affair.
He did not have authorization to access gmail's computer system using her credentials.
So what you're saying is that Google does not permit my wife to access my gmail account even though I've given her permission and the password? I think you're a bit off there. I have several clients that setup one gmail account and give all their office staff access to that account. Is that illegal according to you too?
Two other laws that might apply are the one that prohibits unauthorised access to a computer system, and the one that prohibits unauthorised wire-tapping.
Don't be a disingenuous ass. Having a room mate is clearly different than being married in the legal sense. There are special rights given to married couples. You share a credit rating, your lives are linked.
Again, don't be an ass.
Ha! I wish we shared a credit rating. When my wife and I got married, we had pretty much the same credit scores. She stayed home to raise the kids, and I went back to work. When I had to unexpectedly resign and spend the next two months searching for work, a few of the credit cards got behind. I spent months simply dumping money towards paying late fees. After about a year, we started making a dent, but the credit card companies weren't too happy. All the cards were in my name.
So fast forward a few years, we have everything paid off and I have a good job. (Hell--I have a job in this economy.) We both had been receiving credit card offers in the mail since about a week after everything was paid off. We both received offers for Discover cards with under 15% interest rates--so we both applied. I put down that I made about $40k/year. My wife put down that she made $0/year. I was approved for $1,000. She was approved for $2,500.
Also it helps you realize earlier if files are lost, which can be pretty important in some cases.
My maildir has all my mail sent and received since ~1995 in it.
It started out as a horrible PST file back in the day, but around 2000 I connected Outlook to my shiny new linux IMAP server and pushed my data into a Maildir. It's been that was ever since.
Saved myself a lot of money in upgrades from Exchange 5 or whatever it was to Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007/8/whatever and Exchange 2010.
During that time I've dumped hundreds of hours into troubleshooting Exchange issues for clients--especially during migrations--while I happily rsync my Maildir between mail servers...
Seriously, we have a great system for authentication via SSH. Public/Private keys work well. You have one password to remember and no one else gets it--even if they are hacked.
What about people like my father who collect scrap from their work (with employer approval?) He currently brings home removed cable and cut ends and throws them in a barrel.
Will he have to go get a special license just to sell the barrel of scrap copper he's been collecting?
Yeah--just you wait. My dad did the same thing. Damn copper thieves stole his barrels of copper about a year ago.
Not really, just because we're using Windows doesn't mean that we like it. But for a lot of us there's an app or service which isn't available on Linux and we haven't paid for Apple hardware so we'd have to go Hacintosh if we were going to use OSX.
Weird. When I found myself in that situation, I just ran Linux anyways. It's free after all. Then I fired up VMWare (free, later switched to KVM) and had a special little retarded area set aside for the one Windows application that I 'had' to have.
If it does, ask for boss for about $50k and start building a Windows infrastructure.
If those symbols don't scare you, you already know what you have to do...
In all seriousness though, the more you can integrate open source into your outfit, the better off you'll be. We use Linux in quite a few places, like:
OpenFiler for our NAS
Proxmox VE for most of our virtualization. When combined with OpenFiler on our NAS, we can instantly move VMs back and forth between VM hosts.
Ubuntu, Postfix, Spamassassin, and a few milters create a decent spam filtering gateway. It beats the crap out of anything we did in Exchange.
Another install of Ubuntu along with Shorewall makes for a great router/firewall. We used to use SonicWALL and were constantly telling customers "We have to buy a license for that" or even more frequently "It can't do that". In my opinion, Shorewall is a great balance between directly writing iptables rules and ease of configuration. Most people in IT can figure out how to open WinSCP, connect to the firewall, and then edit a text file whlie looking at the manual. If you need VPN access, just install OpenVPN, pptp, etc... Installing pptp is a bit of a pain, but it's much easier for the clients if they are running Windows at home. If all of that seems a bit daunting, try pfSense. They provide a great web interface and are pretty damn flexible. The only reason we don't use them is because we have some linux-specific management tools that don't work with the pfSense configuration system.
Yet another install of Ubuntu and Icinga let us monitor infrastructure for our larger 'small business' customers when they need it.
Most of our installs consist of a Windows Small Business Server or a Windows Standard server so we can join the workstations, create user accounts, and provide group policy for security and software installation. The rest is Linux.
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Or you learn how to troubleshoot the problems, and are willing to admit that Windows does many things better then Linux?
Name one? And 'Windows does a better job at making sure you are running Genuine Microsoft Software' doesn't count.
Mail server?
Postfix? Qmail? Exim? OpenXchange?
They all run much better than Windows. I have yet to have postfix crash on me--or simply fail to deliver e-mail for bizarre reasons since I started using it in ~2004.
I've had three Exchange servers with issues this month. One was a corrupted message store. Another was a corrupt certificate services store that prevented Exchange from requesting a new certificate which apparently causes it to die instead of using the old one, and finally mysteriously disappearing e-mail. It wasn't entirely Exchange's fault. An incoming message to my client was being rejected as spam. Turns out the remote mail server wasn't sending NDRs--but it did helpfully uncover that Exchange doesn't log rejected messages. Funny how all the Linux mail servers log mail correctly. I can grep through mail.log and find received and rejected messages.
It's very helpful to know when a message is rejected--especially when Exchanges retarded content filter rejects messages as spam and you don't know why because it's proprietary and they have decided you don't really need to know.
Centralized authentication server?
Apparently you don't know that Linux supports Kerberos just like Windows. There's also Samba to help with Windows clients. There's RADIUS which Microsoft finally got around to updating in Windows 2008--but it still sucks. Let's not forget the 'one password everywhere' awesomeness that is an SSH key or GPG key.
DNS?
Yeah--that's what all the big DNS providers do--they run Windows. Because deploying a cluster of Linux DNS servers is sooo much more expensive than licensing a cluster of Windows DNS servers. Who supported AAAA records first? It wasn't Microsoft's DNS server.
File server?
How's the new SMB 2.0 working out for you? I don't have those problems with FTP, SSH+FTP, SCP, RSYNC, TFTP, SSHFS, NFS, on Linux. What else does Microsoft support? Uh...SMB and...uh...NFS sorta?
Use the correct tool for the problem. As far as that particular problem, that one might actually require a call to Microsoft as it sounds like a failure in the logging of the error (Unknown Error)
Yeah--good idea. Call Microsoft. You can either pay $x00 dollars per-incident, or you can get into their partner or enterprise programs and get free support--but the licensing and partner programs cost hundreds to thousands of dollars.
In Linux, I can usually look at the source for the error message and figure out what's going on--or Google. Strace is handy too. If it's C (I can't read C for crap), I can fall back to Google or call Canonical or call Red Hat, or call any one of the professional linux service shops throughout the US.
if it is a persistant problem then I would call them, if not, oh well. Though I am pretty sure you made up that error message, and I have seen forum posts like that.
Yeah it's made up. It's pretty similar to a real error message I've run into. Like: this one. This one was fun back in the day...
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I know I'll ace it, because I'll open Google in another window.
And that, of course, is the correct answer, in 2010.
Wrong.
It'll be more like this:
Question 1: You are digging through event logs trying to solve a problem and you find an error that says "ID: 1526 SOURCE: KERBEROS Description: An unknown error occurred while processing a login request. The error was: Access Denied"
You'll Google for that text and the best result you will get is a thread:
So I'm getting an error message that says 'An unknown...
With a reply: "My too, did you ever get it fixed?"
With another reply: "I had that problem a few months ago. If I remember correctly, I rebooted and it worked."
And another reply: "I tried that, it didn't work."
And another reply: "Can you tell me what's in your autoexec.bat?"
...."I ran into that problem yesterday too--rebooting didn't work for me, but I did go outside for a smoke and I came back and it was fixed."
..."Mee too. Rebooting didn't work, but I had a cheese pizza for lunch and it's fixed--but now I'm getting a new error that the SMTP service won't start".
..."I'm having that SMTP error too, did you ever find a fix?"
I hate dealing with retarded Windows issues and the retarded people who claim to be Windows admins. If you're good enough to be a competent Windows admin, you're either competent enough to realize there are better alternatives out there, or you are really good at wading through the piles of forum shit on Google.
(the part I can't easily display in Slashdot comments are the 17 inches of screen real-estate used up by each post because of advertisements and the posters sig showing their 'dream rig' along with the stats of their awesomely elite Windows box and a picture of a scantily-clad woman)
Seriously, you're going to say that there's a simple answer to millions of people with no opportunities in life outside of crime?
You're seriously going to say there's no alternative for people other than crime?
Get real. My wife and I fed our family last year for three months off what we planted in the ground ourselves. I didn't need to steal from anyone. (And if the food didn't grow, I still had a job. Lacking that, there's still charity and family and churches that help a lot of people down on their luck.)
We've locked up lots of minorities and lots of drug users, how's that working so far?
Don't get me started on that subject. Do we really need a paramilitary force to kick in doors and shoot dogs because someone allegedly had an ounce of pot? I'm not a drug-advocate by any means--but I stand by my principal of "Do whatever the hell you want as long as you aren't hurting someone else."
What I'm trying to point out is that the kind of country we have in the future depends on far more than just your well-educated kids. It requires millions and millions of well-educated kids.
It simply depends on people being free to exercise their right to life, liberty, and pursue happiness. I would be perfectly happy if I could work my butt off in my farm/garden every day to feed my family and sell off the excess to help pay for my children to be well educated so if they want to be the next Neal Armstrong or Bill Gates, they can. Or if they want to sit back and work on a farm, they can do that too.
That is what America offered to so many--personal freedom, personal responsibility, and the opportunity (not the right) to work hard and get rich.
Really--why can no liberal answer this question logically: Why can't I be free to purchase a small plot of land and kick back and live my life?
Why must they come in and demand tribute to the state, force my kids into their failing schools, tell me that I suddenly owe someone money for a service I didn't agree to (like Welfare) instead of charitably giving my money to whomever I want?
If you're in favor of a tax credit for people who educate their own children, I'm fine with that.
That was the whole point of my argument. Not that children shouldn't be educated. It should simply be the responsibility of the parent to pay for their children. You can still tax for school if the state finds it necessary--but let the parents choose where they receive their education instead of forcing them into under-preforming, under-staffed money sinks we call schools.
The teabaggers are gonna be crying in their medicare and social security checks when their candidates get shut out by the rest of the GOP. Punks should have done the leg work and started an actual party like the Libertarians and the Greens.
Yeah--I'm not going to be holding my breath now that the Republicans are back in power. I give 'em 3 months before they start really screwing stuff up again.
I'm all for the libertarian party though. No--not the 'legalize pot' part, but the 'Hang congressmen from lamp posts' part.
You really can't tell me shit because I live in California and we get less taxes back for every dollar sent to the federal government than almost any other state. And I say that I want everyone's children educated. I don't even have any and I'm willing to help fund education.
Good for you. Why does your generosity have to come from the government taking your money by force, kicking it around a bureaucracy having a good chunk of it taken out to pay for the salary and retirement of those administrators, then passed down through different departments (all taking their administrative chunk) and finally ending up in the schools where very little actually goes towards the education of the children?
Wouldn't it simply be easier if you were so generous to donate the money to the parents of poor children so they could purchase supplies and books?
That's what I do every month.
That you aren't says more about you than it does about me. You can't see the value of an educated populace. You can't see the liability in a nation full of idiots. Your short-sightedness, luckily, is not catching.
That's where you're wrong. I do see a tremendous value in an educated populace. It's how we get there that differs. Like I said, I don't want my money filtered through huge bureaucracies leaving little left for the children. Get rid of the Department of Education. Make teachers compete so we're left with great teachers educating our children instead of union-protected morons.
Public school is not the bad idea. Using it for indoctrination instead of education is the problem. Using the curriculum for political grandstanding is the problem. And lack of parent involvement is how it got the way it is now.
Yes, moron parents are not involved in their children's education. But there are also 'administrative' issues that get in the way of education too. Take for example religion. I want my child to learn about all the religions in an unbiased fashion. That's forbidden in schools. Or in some cases, one religion is touched on briefly (like Islam) and nothing else. I want my kid to understand what it means when someone says to him "I'm a Christian" or "I'm a Mormon". Or even that he can have an intelligent discussion instead of sitting there going "Uh...I have no clue what you're talking about."
I'm not against education of one's own children and I even think one ought to get a tax break for doing it. But not understanding why your neighbor's children should be educated suggests that you ought to have paid a little more attention in school yourself. Or are you just trying to promote a little "gods and clods" mentality? Want to be sure there will be a slackjawed yokel to flip your burger?
There's always going to be someone to flip my burger. It's basic math. If flipping a burger requires no skill, and pretty much everyone on the face of the planet is capable of doing that job, there's a huge pool of applicants and a small pool of jobs. So the price drops.
On the other hand, if there's only a handful of people that can operate an MRI machine and thousands of positions available--you can pretty much name your price as an employee. That's why education is important. And let's be honest--I'd rather it were my kid that was racking in the millions instead of flipping burgers.
My last point is simple. Ever see that show about the Duggars and their ~19 kids? Would you be upset if they were all on welfare?
If you can't afford to have kids, you shouldn't do it. Unfortunately we have a system that coddles the dumb among us. I ran a 911 call once on a woman in her early 20s. She was a few weeks away from having her 8th kid. She blew a.21. Not sure if you know the scale, but I'm approximately 6 foot, 200 pounds and I have a beer once per month. If I suddenly drank enough to blow a.21, my hear
No, you're coming from a position of moral fairness, which is a fine viewpoint, but not the only valid one. I'm sure you can raise fine children, but did you ever consider that the children you refuse to help educate today can grow up to become criminals who prey on your hardworking and successful children? How do you suppose your children will thrive in a country where most voters are illiterate and bad at math anyway?
First off, I donate money every month to help educate children in third-world countries.
Second, you're telling me that the uneducated adults will be morally 'bad' and they will potentially attack my adult children. There's a simple answer for that. Whenever bad people attempt to destroy the life or liberty of someone else, that 'someone else' can shoot them dead in their tracks.
Let's be clear about this. There are shitty parents out there. If I were a worthless parent, I could give my children candy and soda every day. I could refuse to teach them at home and rely on public school only. I could refuse to give them educational toys to play with. Hell--I could refuse to get them anything at all, or I could get a TV and let them watch "The Simpsons" all day, every day and beat them when they get out of line.
There's nothing stopping me from being a shitty parent. It's certainly not the job of the government to take money from someone else to make up for the defects of a bad parent.
In my described situation of private schools, there would be nothing preventing a shitty parent from sending their kid to a crappy public school. You can't stop idiots from being idiots. Even by forcing them through public or private school.
But a good parent will move heaven and earth to have their kids educated correctly, brought up with good morals, taught their family history and religious beliefs, along with any political ideals.
You simply can't stop morons from being morons--all you can do is control your own actions and decide for yourself how to raise your own kids.
Because ignorance and freedom are mutually exclusive. One destroys the other, if you are against public schools, you are siding with ignorance.
Right--because it's impossible to be educated in a private school.
Is this the intelligence you received from public schools?
What's this? Don't like social studies either? There are fuck tons of places you can go and not give a shit about greater society. how does sending the US back to 1890 destroy it? I bet you were the guy who would bitch about how the rights of the 10 year olds in the coal mines were being infringed when child labor laws were passed.
So getting rid of public school suddenly makes everyone go back to the 1890s and puts kids in coal mines? You are a retard. You are proving my point that public education makes you stupid.
If you don't like the social safety nets and laws (that attempt) to ensure that everyone gets a fair chance at success, no matter your parents failures, go to Africa.
If you want social safety nets and a lack of personal responsibility, go to Europe.
There is no other nation that I can go to that acknowledges my freedoms.
Plus, we all used to have the same chance of success here. That was the 'American Dream'. Immigrants arrived, worked their butts off, and created wealth for themselves. Public schools require everyone to pay a tax that not everyone uses.
Take the military for example. If Canada decided they didn't like us and decided to attack, our military would defend the country--they would help protect everyone. It's not like they would exclude the wealthy, the poor, the invalid, the blacks, etc... Everyone pays, everyone gets their protection. That isn't true with schools (and a lot of other programs--like welfare). Everyone pays, only those with children get service. That's hardly 'uniform'.
No. Public schools are not so a taxpayers child can have an education, they are so that the public can have an education.
Also, those private schools are not their to teach, they exist to make money. As such, they would raise the tuition by $800 dollars to keep the proletarians out. When faced with a rising demand, you should raise prices before supply because it is cheaper.
I love the liberal idea of how business works. It's so fucked up.
Did WalMart raise it's prices by $500 so the proletariat can't eat? No. If they did, WinCo would still be cheap as hell and WalMart would lose business. There would be cheap enough schools for everyone. Granted, you might not be buying the 'top notch' teachers that Bill Gates would be buying--but you're not getting that today either. And believe me, public school teachers aren't somehow magically exempt from desiring to earn money. Look at what they get for a yearly salary, then realize they get the summer off, and then look at their retirement plan. Much better than my private sector plan which amounts to "you better save--oh, and the Social Security tax you've been paying will return much less than what you put in. Good luck.".
Don't pretend like you give a fuck. Who do you think will be hurt but a lack of public education? The Walton families children? Shit no, they go to private school anyway. The Burrito stand guy? Fuck yes. He can't afford that, and because he can't, his kids suffer. The cycle of poverty either continues, or Burrito-kun has to rent them to a child pornographer or rob banks to pay for it....
Dear God--how ever did we make it in this country? Were your great, great, great grandparents rented out as sex slaves so they could pay for their education? That must be it.
I can understand back in the 1700s that education was only available to those considered 'well off'. But in this day and age, it's very difficult to prevent someone from educating themselves. I can get an internet connection for about $25/mo. It's not super
You never need to figure out what's there based on what isn't there? Perhaps you dig ditches?
What can I say--no one steals computers from our office.
Oh look, that again. When I get arrested for rape and murder is the government kidnapping me? When they fry my ass for it, are they murdering me? No, they are called different things for a reason: they are different things. Taxes are not theft, they are taxes.
What a comparison. Well, let's see if I can break it down for you. Keeping a murder or rapist off the street is a 'public good'. The government protecting the rights that all it's citizens have--specifically the right 'to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'.
The government is (supposed to be) there to protect our individual rights and to provide for the defense of our nation (or individual states).
So please tell me what individual right they are protecting by taking money from person A (you or I) and giving it to the unaccountable, government-staffed, education system (sorta person B)?
Then leave the country where there are no services and no taxes. Try Somalia, a purely-capitalist libertarian wonderland.
It's funny how socialists say that I should leave this country. There are approximately 192 countries on Earth. There are exactly zero that are based on the principals of liberty and freedom like the United States.
So why do I have to leave the last free nation on the Earth so you can destroy it? Once America is gone, that's it. No more freedom. Instead, why don't you move to one of the other 191 countries that are more in line with your socialist, communist, or marxist views? If you don't like the freedom and personal responsibility we have (had) in America--if you want to tax others to pay for your personal failures to educate yourself and your family, go to Europe.
You are only able to say that because the privilaged life you were brought up in, what with public education (the reason you are able to write it),
Mom and Dad taught me to read and write.
police protection (the reason gangs haven't ransacked you house and murdered you
When second count, the police are minutes away. Thank God my family is armed enough to chase off this hypothetical roving gang.
But now you want to pull the ladder up so the younger generation can't have it.
No, that's the liberal and capitalist way. Do you think a 5% tax-hike would hurt WalMart? Maybe a bit, but they'd survive. Or do you think the hike would hurt the small 'mom and pop' clothing store on the corner? Do you think requiring employers to carry health insurance for every employee will hurt McDonalds or the guy on the corner with burrito stand?
There's an easy solution to the education problem.
Tell people exactly how much of their taxes go to schools...say $800/yr. If you do nothing, that tax money goes to public schools. On the other hand, if you find a private school that you want to send your kids to, you fill out a form and that money gets diverted to the private school.
As parents become able to send kids to private schools due to the $800 credit they have towards schooling, certain private schools will develop reputations of being better than others. The good ones will get more student enrollment and be able to pay for better teachers.
Good public school teachers will move to private schools and get paid good wages.
Bad public school teachers will be forced to improve their skills or find other jobs.
It can even be phased in gradually. The first year, 10% of the $800 can go towards private schools, the rest goes to public schools. Every year, bump it up by another 10%. After 10 years, all the money can be used for private schooling. Only the most retarded and unadaptable teachers wouldn't be able to get other jobs over that period.
Logic is a third of math (the other two are number theory and set theory, you would no that if you weren't so uneducated), if you cannot understand anything beyond 'x+2=3, solve for x', you cannot be expected to have much higher level reasoning either.
Right--and if you recall, I didn't say I didn't know math--I said I didn't like it. Algebra is boring to me, and I have no interest to continue in the field. I also don't use it. At all. In my job, Algebra is not needed. The most I ever need to do is basic math. Because of that, my skills are rusty. And rather than be bothered to learn a lot of advanced math when I don't need it to 'bring home the bacon', I would rather hire a tutor who knows that stuff to teach my children.
Math is not the end-all, be-all of reasoning. Your argument that not knowing much beyond 'x+2=3, solve for x' means I can't reason is retarded. While I have no clue (for example) about dealing with imaginary numbers (it's merely a term I've heard used in advanced math classes), that doesn't preclude me from being able to reason that I don't want the government stealing my money (or yours for that matter) to pay for my kids (or anyone elses) to go to school. I can take care of it myself.
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When it happens, they will still pat themselves on the back, helps their workers keep trying because if you don't you'll either be left with mopey, useless workers or people who quit.
Giffords was talking to a couple when the suspect ran up firing indiscriminately and then ran off, Michaels said.
Like TJIC says: "It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot 'indiscriminately'. Target only politicians and their staff, and leave regular citizens alone."
In other words they are charging for a service that should be free, because the phone and tower are *already sending* Texts to one another. It costs nothing for the company to append that Text to the outgoing packet. "When you think of it on a kilobyte level it costs us $1.09 per text message Kilobyte. The markup for costs is 7300%."
Wait...so if the packets back and forth between the tower and cell phone are 'free' because it's a required part of the cell protocol, how is charging $1.09 per text message a 7300% increase? 0 * 73.00 != 1.09.
By that math, aren't you implying that text messages actually cost $0.014931507? (0.014931507 * 73.00 == 1.09)
(Also, since I haven't had to do any math more advanced than balancing my checkbook since highschool over 10 years ago, I won't be the least embarrassed or surprised to find out that my math or formula is wrong.)
I truly don't understand your confusion.
Too much coding, not enough coffee.
I thought you were arguing that Google didn't give him permission to access the account.
Disregard my previous ramblings.
Linux really IS communist!
Already there are communal hallways and television sets.
Stop this sinister sharing before we get communal toothbrushes!
This just in: Sarah Palin can see GNU/Linux from Alaska!
FTFA: Using her password, he accessed her Gmail account and learned she was having an affair.
He did not have authorization to access gmail's computer system using her credentials.
So what you're saying is that Google does not permit my wife to access my gmail account even though I've given her permission and the password? I think you're a bit off there. I have several clients that setup one gmail account and give all their office staff access to that account. Is that illegal according to you too?
Two other laws that might apply are the one that prohibits unauthorised access to a computer system, and the one that prohibits unauthorised wire-tapping.
It was authorized. By him. It's his computer.
Don't be a disingenuous ass. Having a room mate is clearly different than being married in the legal sense. There are special rights given to married couples. You share a credit rating, your lives are linked. Again, don't be an ass.
Ha! I wish we shared a credit rating. When my wife and I got married, we had pretty much the same credit scores. She stayed home to raise the kids, and I went back to work. When I had to unexpectedly resign and spend the next two months searching for work, a few of the credit cards got behind. I spent months simply dumping money towards paying late fees. After about a year, we started making a dent, but the credit card companies weren't too happy. All the cards were in my name.
So fast forward a few years, we have everything paid off and I have a good job. (Hell--I have a job in this economy.) We both had been receiving credit card offers in the mail since about a week after everything was paid off. We both received offers for Discover cards with under 15% interest rates--so we both applied. I put down that I made about $40k/year. My wife put down that she made $0/year. I was approved for $1,000. She was approved for $2,500.
You don't share credit scores when married.
Also it helps you realize earlier if files are lost, which can be pretty important in some cases.
My maildir has all my mail sent and received since ~1995 in it.
It started out as a horrible PST file back in the day, but around 2000 I connected Outlook to my shiny new linux IMAP server and pushed my data into a Maildir. It's been that was ever since.
Saved myself a lot of money in upgrades from Exchange 5 or whatever it was to Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007/8/whatever and Exchange 2010.
During that time I've dumped hundreds of hours into troubleshooting Exchange issues for clients--especially during migrations--while I happily rsync my Maildir between mail servers...
Seriously, we have a great system for authentication via SSH. Public/Private keys work well. You have one password to remember and no one else gets it--even if they are hacked.
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I sure as hell don't want to work cheek-by-jowl
If you're lucky it'll be 'jowl'.
What about people like my father who collect scrap from their work (with employer approval?) He currently brings home removed cable and cut ends and throws them in a barrel.
Will he have to go get a special license just to sell the barrel of scrap copper he's been collecting?
Yeah--just you wait. My dad did the same thing. Damn copper thieves stole his barrels of copper about a year ago.
Not really, just because we're using Windows doesn't mean that we like it. But for a lot of us there's an app or service which isn't available on Linux and we haven't paid for Apple hardware so we'd have to go Hacintosh if we were going to use OSX.
Weird. When I found myself in that situation, I just ran Linux anyways. It's free after all. Then I fired up VMWare (free, later switched to KVM) and had a special little retarded area set aside for the one Windows application that I 'had' to have.
Does this mash of symbols scare you?
root@tycho:~#
If it does, ask for boss for about $50k and start building a Windows infrastructure.
If those symbols don't scare you, you already know what you have to do...
In all seriousness though, the more you can integrate open source into your outfit, the better off you'll be. We use Linux in quite a few places, like:
OpenFiler for our NAS
Proxmox VE for most of our virtualization. When combined with OpenFiler on our NAS, we can instantly move VMs back and forth between VM hosts.
Ubuntu, Postfix, Spamassassin, and a few milters create a decent spam filtering gateway. It beats the crap out of anything we did in Exchange.
Another install of Ubuntu along with Shorewall makes for a great router/firewall. We used to use SonicWALL and were constantly telling customers "We have to buy a license for that" or even more frequently "It can't do that". In my opinion, Shorewall is a great balance between directly writing iptables rules and ease of configuration. Most people in IT can figure out how to open WinSCP, connect to the firewall, and then edit a text file whlie looking at the manual. If you need VPN access, just install OpenVPN, pptp, etc... Installing pptp is a bit of a pain, but it's much easier for the clients if they are running Windows at home. If all of that seems a bit daunting, try pfSense. They provide a great web interface and are pretty damn flexible. The only reason we don't use them is because we have some linux-specific management tools that don't work with the pfSense configuration system.
Yet another install of Ubuntu and Icinga let us monitor infrastructure for our larger 'small business' customers when they need it.
Most of our installs consist of a Windows Small Business Server or a Windows Standard server so we can join the workstations, create user accounts, and provide group policy for security and software installation. The rest is Linux.
Or you learn how to troubleshoot the problems, and are willing to admit that Windows does many things better then Linux?
Name one? And 'Windows does a better job at making sure you are running Genuine Microsoft Software' doesn't count.
Mail server?
Postfix? Qmail? Exim? OpenXchange?
They all run much better than Windows. I have yet to have postfix crash on me--or simply fail to deliver e-mail for bizarre reasons since I started using it in ~2004.
I've had three Exchange servers with issues this month. One was a corrupted message store. Another was a corrupt certificate services store that prevented Exchange from requesting a new certificate which apparently causes it to die instead of using the old one, and finally mysteriously disappearing e-mail. It wasn't entirely Exchange's fault. An incoming message to my client was being rejected as spam. Turns out the remote mail server wasn't sending NDRs--but it did helpfully uncover that Exchange doesn't log rejected messages. Funny how all the Linux mail servers log mail correctly. I can grep through mail.log and find received and rejected messages.
It's very helpful to know when a message is rejected--especially when Exchanges retarded content filter rejects messages as spam and you don't know why because it's proprietary and they have decided you don't really need to know.
Centralized authentication server?
Apparently you don't know that Linux supports Kerberos just like Windows. There's also Samba to help with Windows clients. There's RADIUS which Microsoft finally got around to updating in Windows 2008--but it still sucks. Let's not forget the 'one password everywhere' awesomeness that is an SSH key or GPG key.
DNS?
Yeah--that's what all the big DNS providers do--they run Windows. Because deploying a cluster of Linux DNS servers is sooo much more expensive than licensing a cluster of Windows DNS servers. Who supported AAAA records first? It wasn't Microsoft's DNS server.
File server?
How's the new SMB 2.0 working out for you? I don't have those problems with FTP, SSH+FTP, SCP, RSYNC, TFTP, SSHFS, NFS, on Linux. What else does Microsoft support? Uh...SMB and...uh...NFS sorta?
Use the correct tool for the problem. As far as that particular problem, that one might actually require a call to Microsoft as it sounds like a failure in the logging of the error (Unknown Error)
Yeah--good idea. Call Microsoft. You can either pay $x00 dollars per-incident, or you can get into their partner or enterprise programs and get free support--but the licensing and partner programs cost hundreds to thousands of dollars.
In Linux, I can usually look at the source for the error message and figure out what's going on--or Google. Strace is handy too. If it's C (I can't read C for crap), I can fall back to Google or call Canonical or call Red Hat, or call any one of the professional linux service shops throughout the US.
if it is a persistant problem then I would call them, if not, oh well. Though I am pretty sure you made up that error message, and I have seen forum posts like that.
Yeah it's made up. It's pretty similar to a real error message I've run into. Like: this one. This one was fun back in the day...
I know I'll ace it, because I'll open Google in another window.
And that, of course, is the correct answer, in 2010.
Wrong.
...."I ran into that problem yesterday too--rebooting didn't work for me, but I did go outside for a smoke and I came back and it was fixed."
..."Mee too. Rebooting didn't work, but I had a cheese pizza for lunch and it's fixed--but now I'm getting a new error that the SMTP service won't start".
..."I'm having that SMTP error too, did you ever find a fix?"
It'll be more like this:
Question 1: You are digging through event logs trying to solve a problem and you find an error that says "ID: 1526 SOURCE: KERBEROS Description: An unknown error occurred while processing a login request. The error was: Access Denied"
You'll Google for that text and the best result you will get is a thread:
So I'm getting an error message that says 'An unknown...
With a reply: "My too, did you ever get it fixed?"
With another reply: "I had that problem a few months ago. If I remember correctly, I rebooted and it worked."
And another reply: "I tried that, it didn't work."
And another reply: "Can you tell me what's in your autoexec.bat?"
I hate dealing with retarded Windows issues and the retarded people who claim to be Windows admins. If you're good enough to be a competent Windows admin, you're either competent enough to realize there are better alternatives out there, or you are really good at wading through the piles of forum shit on Google.
(the part I can't easily display in Slashdot comments are the 17 inches of screen real-estate used up by each post because of advertisements and the posters sig showing their 'dream rig' along with the stats of their awesomely elite Windows box and a picture of a scantily-clad woman)
Seriously, you're going to say that there's a simple answer to millions of people with no opportunities in life outside of crime?
You're seriously going to say there's no alternative for people other than crime?
Get real. My wife and I fed our family last year for three months off what we planted in the ground ourselves. I didn't need to steal from anyone. (And if the food didn't grow, I still had a job. Lacking that, there's still charity and family and churches that help a lot of people down on their luck.)
We've locked up lots of minorities and lots of drug users, how's that working so far?
Don't get me started on that subject. Do we really need a paramilitary force to kick in doors and shoot dogs because someone allegedly had an ounce of pot? I'm not a drug-advocate by any means--but I stand by my principal of "Do whatever the hell you want as long as you aren't hurting someone else."
What I'm trying to point out is that the kind of country we have in the future depends on far more than just your well-educated kids. It requires millions and millions of well-educated kids.
It simply depends on people being free to exercise their right to life, liberty, and pursue happiness. I would be perfectly happy if I could work my butt off in my farm/garden every day to feed my family and sell off the excess to help pay for my children to be well educated so if they want to be the next Neal Armstrong or Bill Gates, they can. Or if they want to sit back and work on a farm, they can do that too.
That is what America offered to so many--personal freedom, personal responsibility, and the opportunity (not the right) to work hard and get rich.
Really--why can no liberal answer this question logically: Why can't I be free to purchase a small plot of land and kick back and live my life?
Why must they come in and demand tribute to the state, force my kids into their failing schools, tell me that I suddenly owe someone money for a service I didn't agree to (like Welfare) instead of charitably giving my money to whomever I want?
Are we truly free people or not?
If you're in favor of a tax credit for people who educate their own children, I'm fine with that.
That was the whole point of my argument. Not that children shouldn't be educated. It should simply be the responsibility of the parent to pay for their children. You can still tax for school if the state finds it necessary--but let the parents choose where they receive their education instead of forcing them into under-preforming, under-staffed money sinks we call schools.
The teabaggers are gonna be crying in their medicare and social security checks when their candidates get shut out by the rest of the GOP. Punks should have done the leg work and started an actual party like the Libertarians and the Greens.
Yeah--I'm not going to be holding my breath now that the Republicans are back in power. I give 'em 3 months before they start really screwing stuff up again.
I'm all for the libertarian party though. No--not the 'legalize pot' part, but the 'Hang congressmen from lamp posts' part.
You really can't tell me shit because I live in California and we get less taxes back for every dollar sent to the federal government than almost any other state. And I say that I want everyone's children educated. I don't even have any and I'm willing to help fund education.
Good for you. Why does your generosity have to come from the government taking your money by force, kicking it around a bureaucracy having a good chunk of it taken out to pay for the salary and retirement of those administrators, then passed down through different departments (all taking their administrative chunk) and finally ending up in the schools where very little actually goes towards the education of the children?
Wouldn't it simply be easier if you were so generous to donate the money to the parents of poor children so they could purchase supplies and books?
That's what I do every month.
That you aren't says more about you than it does about me. You can't see the value of an educated populace. You can't see the liability in a nation full of idiots. Your short-sightedness, luckily, is not catching.
That's where you're wrong. I do see a tremendous value in an educated populace. It's how we get there that differs. Like I said, I don't want my money filtered through huge bureaucracies leaving little left for the children. Get rid of the Department of Education. Make teachers compete so we're left with great teachers educating our children instead of union-protected morons.
Public school is not the bad idea. Using it for indoctrination instead of education is the problem. Using the curriculum for political grandstanding is the problem. And lack of parent involvement is how it got the way it is now.
Yes, moron parents are not involved in their children's education. But there are also 'administrative' issues that get in the way of education too. Take for example religion. I want my child to learn about all the religions in an unbiased fashion. That's forbidden in schools. Or in some cases, one religion is touched on briefly (like Islam) and nothing else. I want my kid to understand what it means when someone says to him "I'm a Christian" or "I'm a Mormon". Or even that he can have an intelligent discussion instead of sitting there going "Uh...I have no clue what you're talking about."
I'm not against education of one's own children and I even think one ought to get a tax break for doing it. But not understanding why your neighbor's children should be educated suggests that you ought to have paid a little more attention in school yourself. Or are you just trying to promote a little "gods and clods" mentality? Want to be sure there will be a slackjawed yokel to flip your burger?
There's always going to be someone to flip my burger. It's basic math. If flipping a burger requires no skill, and pretty much everyone on the face of the planet is capable of doing that job, there's a huge pool of applicants and a small pool of jobs. So the price drops.
.21. Not sure if you know the scale, but I'm approximately 6 foot, 200 pounds and I have a beer once per month. If I suddenly drank enough to blow a .21, my hear
On the other hand, if there's only a handful of people that can operate an MRI machine and thousands of positions available--you can pretty much name your price as an employee. That's why education is important. And let's be honest--I'd rather it were my kid that was racking in the millions instead of flipping burgers.
My last point is simple. Ever see that show about the Duggars and their ~19 kids? Would you be upset if they were all on welfare?
If you can't afford to have kids, you shouldn't do it. Unfortunately we have a system that coddles the dumb among us. I ran a 911 call once on a woman in her early 20s. She was a few weeks away from having her 8th kid. She blew a
No, you're coming from a position of moral fairness, which is a fine viewpoint, but not the only valid one. I'm sure you can raise fine children, but did you ever consider that the children you refuse to help educate today can grow up to become criminals who prey on your hardworking and successful children? How do you suppose your children will thrive in a country where most voters are illiterate and bad at math anyway?
First off, I donate money every month to help educate children in third-world countries.
Second, you're telling me that the uneducated adults will be morally 'bad' and they will potentially attack my adult children. There's a simple answer for that. Whenever bad people attempt to destroy the life or liberty of someone else, that 'someone else' can shoot them dead in their tracks.
Let's be clear about this. There are shitty parents out there. If I were a worthless parent, I could give my children candy and soda every day. I could refuse to teach them at home and rely on public school only. I could refuse to give them educational toys to play with. Hell--I could refuse to get them anything at all, or I could get a TV and let them watch "The Simpsons" all day, every day and beat them when they get out of line.
There's nothing stopping me from being a shitty parent. It's certainly not the job of the government to take money from someone else to make up for the defects of a bad parent.
In my described situation of private schools, there would be nothing preventing a shitty parent from sending their kid to a crappy public school. You can't stop idiots from being idiots. Even by forcing them through public or private school.
But a good parent will move heaven and earth to have their kids educated correctly, brought up with good morals, taught their family history and religious beliefs, along with any political ideals.
You simply can't stop morons from being morons--all you can do is control your own actions and decide for yourself how to raise your own kids.
Because ignorance and freedom are mutually exclusive. One destroys the other, if you are against public schools, you are siding with ignorance.
Right--because it's impossible to be educated in a private school.
Is this the intelligence you received from public schools?
What's this? Don't like social studies either? There are fuck tons of places you can go and not give a shit about greater society. how does sending the US back to 1890 destroy it? I bet you were the guy who would bitch about how the rights of the 10 year olds in the coal mines were being infringed when child labor laws were passed.
So getting rid of public school suddenly makes everyone go back to the 1890s and puts kids in coal mines? You are a retard. You are proving my point that public education makes you stupid.
If you don't like the social safety nets and laws (that attempt) to ensure that everyone gets a fair chance at success, no matter your parents failures, go to Africa.
If you want social safety nets and a lack of personal responsibility, go to Europe.
There is no other nation that I can go to that acknowledges my freedoms.
Plus, we all used to have the same chance of success here. That was the 'American Dream'. Immigrants arrived, worked their butts off, and created wealth for themselves. Public schools require everyone to pay a tax that not everyone uses.
Take the military for example. If Canada decided they didn't like us and decided to attack, our military would defend the country--they would help protect everyone. It's not like they would exclude the wealthy, the poor, the invalid, the blacks, etc... Everyone pays, everyone gets their protection. That isn't true with schools (and a lot of other programs--like welfare). Everyone pays, only those with children get service. That's hardly 'uniform'.
No. Public schools are not so a taxpayers child can have an education, they are so that the public can have an education. Also, those private schools are not their to teach, they exist to make money. As such, they would raise the tuition by $800 dollars to keep the proletarians out. When faced with a rising demand, you should raise prices before supply because it is cheaper.
I love the liberal idea of how business works. It's so fucked up.
Did WalMart raise it's prices by $500 so the proletariat can't eat? No. If they did, WinCo would still be cheap as hell and WalMart would lose business. There would be cheap enough schools for everyone. Granted, you might not be buying the 'top notch' teachers that Bill Gates would be buying--but you're not getting that today either. And believe me, public school teachers aren't somehow magically exempt from desiring to earn money. Look at what they get for a yearly salary, then realize they get the summer off, and then look at their retirement plan. Much better than my private sector plan which amounts to "you better save--oh, and the Social Security tax you've been paying will return much less than what you put in. Good luck.".
Don't pretend like you give a fuck. Who do you think will be hurt but a lack of public education? The Walton families children? Shit no, they go to private school anyway. The Burrito stand guy? Fuck yes. He can't afford that, and because he can't, his kids suffer. The cycle of poverty either continues, or Burrito-kun has to rent them to a child pornographer or rob banks to pay for it....
Dear God--how ever did we make it in this country? Were your great, great, great grandparents rented out as sex slaves so they could pay for their education? That must be it.
I can understand back in the 1700s that education was only available to those considered 'well off'. But in this day and age, it's very difficult to prevent someone from educating themselves. I can get an internet connection for about $25/mo. It's not super
You never need to figure out what's there based on what isn't there? Perhaps you dig ditches?
What can I say--no one steals computers from our office.
Oh look, that again. When I get arrested for rape and murder is the government kidnapping me? When they fry my ass for it, are they murdering me? No, they are called different things for a reason: they are different things. Taxes are not theft, they are taxes.
What a comparison. Well, let's see if I can break it down for you. Keeping a murder or rapist off the street is a 'public good'. The government protecting the rights that all it's citizens have--specifically the right 'to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'.
The government is (supposed to be) there to protect our individual rights and to provide for the defense of our nation (or individual states).
So please tell me what individual right they are protecting by taking money from person A (you or I) and giving it to the unaccountable, government-staffed, education system (sorta person B)?
Then leave the country where there are no services and no taxes. Try Somalia, a purely-capitalist libertarian wonderland.
It's funny how socialists say that I should leave this country. There are approximately 192 countries on Earth. There are exactly zero that are based on the principals of liberty and freedom like the United States.
So why do I have to leave the last free nation on the Earth so you can destroy it? Once America is gone, that's it. No more freedom. Instead, why don't you move to one of the other 191 countries that are more in line with your socialist, communist, or marxist views? If you don't like the freedom and personal responsibility we have (had) in America--if you want to tax others to pay for your personal failures to educate yourself and your family, go to Europe.
You are only able to say that because the privilaged life you were brought up in, what with public education (the reason you are able to write it),
Mom and Dad taught me to read and write.
police protection (the reason gangs haven't ransacked you house and murdered you
When second count, the police are minutes away. Thank God my family is armed enough to chase off this hypothetical roving gang.
But now you want to pull the ladder up so the younger generation can't have it.
No, that's the liberal and capitalist way. Do you think a 5% tax-hike would hurt WalMart? Maybe a bit, but they'd survive. Or do you think the hike would hurt the small 'mom and pop' clothing store on the corner? Do you think requiring employers to carry health insurance for every employee will hurt McDonalds or the guy on the corner with burrito stand?
There's an easy solution to the education problem.
Tell people exactly how much of their taxes go to schools...say $800/yr. If you do nothing, that tax money goes to public schools. On the other hand, if you find a private school that you want to send your kids to, you fill out a form and that money gets diverted to the private school.
As parents become able to send kids to private schools due to the $800 credit they have towards schooling, certain private schools will develop reputations of being better than others. The good ones will get more student enrollment and be able to pay for better teachers.
Good public school teachers will move to private schools and get paid good wages.
Bad public school teachers will be forced to improve their skills or find other jobs.
It can even be phased in gradually. The first year, 10% of the $800 can go towards private schools, the rest goes to public schools. Every year, bump it up by another 10%. After 10 years, all the money can be used for private schooling. Only the most retarded and unadaptable teachers wouldn't be able to get other jobs over that period.
Anyways--this post is turning epic.
Logic is a third of math (the other two are number theory and set theory, you would no that if you weren't so uneducated), if you cannot understand anything beyond 'x+2=3, solve for x', you cannot be expected to have much higher level reasoning either.
Right--and if you recall, I didn't say I didn't know math--I said I didn't like it. Algebra is boring to me, and I have no interest to continue in the field. I also don't use it. At all. In my job, Algebra is not needed. The most I ever need to do is basic math. Because of that, my skills are rusty. And rather than be bothered to learn a lot of advanced math when I don't need it to 'bring home the bacon', I would rather hire a tutor who knows that stuff to teach my children.
Math is not the end-all, be-all of reasoning. Your argument that not knowing much beyond 'x+2=3, solve for x' means I can't reason is retarded. While I have no clue (for example) about dealing with imaginary numbers (it's merely a term I've heard used in advanced math classes), that doesn't preclude me from being able to reason that I don't want the government stealing my money (or yours for that matter) to pay for my kids (or anyone elses) to go to school. I can take care of it myself.