Actually, it is not a "long forgotten security thing". The concept of ensuring that you are giving your password to only the program responsible for accepting account logon information, is certainly a worthwhile pursuit. In fact, you can kind of do this in Linux with a kernel feature known as SAK. (secure authentication key perhaps?) Set up a key sequence, bind it, tell the kernel it is there, and voila, no login look-alike programs are going to steal your password. And in case you were just being sarcastic, sorry in advance...
from Windows to Linux on the corporate desktop is(anyone?):
There is no acceptable replacement as of yet for outlook/exchange. Give me something like exchange for my servers, and something like Outlook for clients(the latter exists) and we could be using Linux workstations in no time. Most of the slow/old hardware is gone, so the performance of X really isn't an issue anymore. And I am pretty happy with Mozilla lately. We already have everything else that 90%+ of office workers need in a day. Anyone have a solution to a lack of exchange/groupware?
there is a good chance I will stop using linux. Seriously, I have found very few distros that make as much sense to me as Slackware. There are some things I wish Slackware did differently, but I certainly am not looking to put Mandrake on my personal computer anytime soon. (or redhat, suse, turbo, etc...) This is of course my opinion, but if you want a system that you can get your head around, and really know what is going on when it comes to resolving problems, you simply can't beat Slackware. The absurd startup scripts in some of the distros I've seen lately make my head whirl with their complexity. With Slackware, the entire system is comprehensible. Everything. As best I can tell, the only thing that would make sense for a Slackware user like myself is to start using FreeBSD, as it makes a lot of sense too.
This is very good if you have the patience. Personally, I do this: "Oh yeah, they're here. Hold on just a minute." Put the phone on hold and walk away. Works like a charm.
I would pay more money for an AMD CPU than I would for an Intel CPU. It just happens to work out better for all of us that Intel CPUs aren't up to the task and cost more money. That being said, it is a shame a lot of people lost their jobs. And I stopped purchasing Gateways long before AMD CPUs were even an option. They don't fit well in a business environment.(no room for a cow on my desktop)
This is not the same as what the original poster has asked for, as it is not going to preserve long system uptimes. It basically reboots to the image that is in memory. This will flush all processes and their states. To truly swap kernels without any perceivable downtime and no loss of process data is a VERY difficult thing. Nonetheless I do remember a while back this was discussed and someone started a sourceforge project to this end. But I would say this is a long way off.;0)
It will be interesting indeed to see if your prediction for the future of Windows product activation holds true. Time most certainly will tell, but here is more along the lines of what I predict happening: people will download the "corporate" version of winxp from their favorite warez dump site and will not be required to activate. Problem solved... For the moment.
right up until he made the statement "...your unelected president." Get over it fucko. He is your president too. I for one am really glad we didn't have to find out what Gore would have proposed we do in this situation. Probably something along the lines of "forgive and forget"... In a word, WEAK.
Apple may not be using MHz to market, but their resellers certainly are. Just take a look at the cover of the latest MacWarehouse. I now know that the G4 is up to 867MHz, and a G4 can be had in dual 800 form. MHz is important to consumers, therefore Apple cannot simply ignore it and pretend the numbers are unimportant.
But the most powerful combination of all is our people. I am very confident in the talent, engineering excellence and global sales expertise in the combined company. I believe we will have the best management team in the industry, and I can assure you that it will be a team that blends the best of both companies.
I have to wonder if the 15,000 worker bees who will be out of a job due to this merger will be feeling appreciated for their talent, engineering excellence, and global sales blah, blah, blah...
Anyone here care to count to 15,000? I guarantee it will take you a while. That is a hell of a lot of people without a fucking job. Thanks a lot corporate America! God bless you!
Damn, you mean I'm not the only person who does this? That freakin' program is so unbelievably annoying, that I won't even let users install it themselves because they'll definitely screw it up. I always make sure I install that piece of crap before giving out a new machine. That way I won't have to worry about the host of other BS that program tries to pimp on you over time. (real download, WTF is that anyway?) Let us not forget Gator, or Webshots, or that stupid ass WeatherBug that people seem to love so much. Gator, now there's a program that gives Real a run for its money. All of this usually accompanies AIM, Yahoo pager, chat, and anything else you can think of that constantly wants to be using up your system's precious memory in windows... Ugh! Thank God for Linux on my own machine!
City governments have to interact with state and federal governments. They are not exempt from compatibility just because they are not a corporation. In my experience, many state and federal agencies use Corel for their office packages, Groupwise for their e-mail systems, and a smattering of specialized software needed for their special purposes. Most of the clients are Win98 and the server backends could be damn near anything. Personally I would have chosen a somewhat more robust environment, but I did not make these decisions. So yes, they are somewhat unique with their clients, but not entirely. And they are very concerned with keeping things uniform, ie interchangeable document formats.
Been a while since we had a new kernel.
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Ouch! What are these people thinking? It comes with Netscape 4.7 pre-installed. I thought this was supposed to be a web pad, not a lack of all the web's cool features pad. Good grief, they would have been much better off installing the latest mozilla build than Netscape 4.7.
Not everyone who would like to has that option. I don't understand why this is. Why would even an,at best, socialist democracy-like country such as France want to inhibit the growth of their companies? Or perhaps they are trying to protect them from a relentless US market... Or perhaps Mandrake made this decision all by themselves? Don't know...
This seems like a much more sound strategy. Give MS a little bit of their own medicine. Why don't we do some "embrace and extend" of our own here? This sounds like a viable alternative technology to the ".NET infrastructure". Why have I never heard of this before? Is anyone besides xns.org trying to promote this thing? This could be the perfect opportunity to really do something unique.
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The article also mainly discusses Win2000 on SERVERS. WinXP for servers simply doesn't exist yet.
Actually, it is not a "long forgotten security thing". The concept of ensuring that you are giving your password to only the program responsible for accepting account logon information, is certainly a worthwhile pursuit. In fact, you can kind of do this in Linux with a kernel feature known as SAK. (secure authentication key perhaps?) Set up a key sequence, bind it, tell the kernel it is there, and voila, no login look-alike programs are going to steal your password. And in case you were just being sarcastic, sorry in advance...
from Windows to Linux on the corporate desktop is(anyone?):
There is no acceptable replacement as of yet for outlook/exchange. Give me something like exchange for my servers, and something like Outlook for clients(the latter exists) and we could be using Linux workstations in no time. Most of the slow/old hardware is gone, so the performance of X really isn't an issue anymore. And I am pretty happy with Mozilla lately. We already have everything else that 90%+ of office workers need in a day. Anyone have a solution to a lack of exchange/groupware?
Sometimes they are tricky and you have to use noscripts also. Just a little tip...
there is a good chance I will stop using linux. Seriously, I have found very few distros that make as much sense to me as Slackware. There are some things I wish Slackware did differently, but I certainly am not looking to put Mandrake on my personal computer anytime soon. (or redhat, suse, turbo, etc...) This is of course my opinion, but if you want a system that you can get your head around, and really know what is going on when it comes to resolving problems, you simply can't beat Slackware. The absurd startup scripts in some of the distros I've seen lately make my head whirl with their complexity. With Slackware, the entire system is comprehensible. Everything. As best I can tell, the only thing that would make sense for a Slackware user like myself is to start using FreeBSD, as it makes a lot of sense too.
This is very good if you have the patience. Personally, I do this: "Oh yeah, they're here. Hold on just a minute." Put the phone on hold and walk away. Works like a charm.
I would pay more money for an AMD CPU than I would for an Intel CPU. It just happens to work out better for all of us that Intel CPUs aren't up to the task and cost more money. That being said, it is a shame a lot of people lost their jobs. And I stopped purchasing Gateways long before AMD CPUs were even an option. They don't fit well in a business environment.(no room for a cow on my desktop)
This is not the same as what the original poster has asked for, as it is not going to preserve long system uptimes. It basically reboots to the image that is in memory. This will flush all processes and their states. To truly swap kernels without any perceivable downtime and no loss of process data is a VERY difficult thing. Nonetheless I do remember a while back this was discussed and someone started a sourceforge project to this end. But I would say this is a long way off. ;0)
It will be interesting indeed to see if your prediction for the future of Windows product activation holds true. Time most certainly will tell, but here is more along the lines of what I predict happening: people will download the "corporate" version of winxp from their favorite warez dump site and will not be required to activate. Problem solved... For the moment.
No, this is not possible. Far too difficult of a project.
Does this mean that if one person installs webshots and gator on their PC that I will have to deal with it on mine? I don't like that idea...
All your C drives are belong to us.
right up until he made the statement "...your unelected president." Get over it fucko. He is your president too. I for one am really glad we didn't have to find out what Gore would have proposed we do in this situation. Probably something along the lines of "forgive and forget"... In a word, WEAK.
Apple may not be using MHz to market, but their resellers certainly are. Just take a look at the cover of the latest MacWarehouse. I now know that the G4 is up to 867MHz, and a G4 can be had in dual 800 form. MHz is important to consumers, therefore Apple cannot simply ignore it and pretend the numbers are unimportant.
I have to wonder if the 15,000 worker bees who will be out of a job due to this merger will be feeling appreciated for their talent, engineering excellence, and global sales blah, blah, blah...
Anyone here care to count to 15,000? I guarantee it will take you a while. That is a hell of a lot of people without a fucking job. Thanks a lot corporate America! God bless you!
Arbeit macht Frei?
Ouch.
Fishing usually set me free.
Damn, you mean I'm not the only person who does this? That freakin' program is so unbelievably annoying, that I won't even let users install it themselves because they'll definitely screw it up. I always make sure I install that piece of crap before giving out a new machine. That way I won't have to worry about the host of other BS that program tries to pimp on you over time. (real download, WTF is that anyway?) Let us not forget Gator, or Webshots, or that stupid ass WeatherBug that people seem to love so much. Gator, now there's a program that gives Real a run for its money. All of this usually accompanies AIM, Yahoo pager, chat, and anything else you can think of that constantly wants to be using up your system's precious memory in windows... Ugh! Thank God for Linux on my own machine!
How can I tell at a glance how many people are interested in a story or not anymore? Seriously, the front page seems weird without the numbers.
City governments have to interact with state and federal governments. They are not exempt from compatibility just because they are not a corporation. In my experience, many state and federal agencies use Corel for their office packages, Groupwise for their e-mail systems, and a smattering of specialized software needed for their special purposes. Most of the clients are Win98 and the server backends could be damn near anything. Personally I would have chosen a somewhat more robust environment, but I did not make these decisions. So yes, they are somewhat unique with their clients, but not entirely. And they are very concerned with keeping things uniform, ie interchangeable document formats.
This early in the morning!
This was covered in Cringely's article. They don't want to start acting like the bad guys.
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Ouch! What are these people thinking? It comes with Netscape 4.7 pre-installed. I thought this was supposed to be a web pad, not a lack of all the web's cool features pad. Good grief, they would have been much better off installing the latest mozilla build than Netscape 4.7.
Not everyone who would like to has that option. I don't understand why this is. Why would even an,at best, socialist democracy-like country such as France want to inhibit the growth of their companies? Or perhaps they are trying to protect them from a relentless US market... Or perhaps Mandrake made this decision all by themselves? Don't know...
This seems like a much more sound strategy. Give MS a little bit of their own medicine. Why don't we do some "embrace and extend" of our own here? This sounds like a viable alternative technology to the ".NET infrastructure". Why have I never heard of this before? Is anyone besides xns.org trying to promote this thing? This could be the perfect opportunity to really do something unique.