I was just looking around their site for Linux information, and that came up.
Over time, Red Carpet Enterprise will be tightly integrated into the Novell ZENworks(R) product line, leveraging Novell directory services and policies management functionality.
I'm very glad to hear that. I've worked with ZENworks in the past, and it's one of the most useful tools for administrating desktops. I can't even estimate the amount of time application distribution saves (from actually installation, to updates, to fixing broken installations, to making applications [locally] available to users no matter where they are).
I don't have a huge amount of network admin experience compared to some of the people here, but I've set up and managed 3 different networks: NT4 with about 10 workstations, Netware 5 with about 130 workstations, and 2000+ActiveDirectory with about 15 workstations. Netware 5 was, by far, the easiest to administrate network. Netware5 was at a school, so it was a more restricted environment, but was also very varied. The nice thing was teachers had a bit less restrictive setups, but basically every workstation in the school could be used for any purpose.
I tried to setup application distribution at a software company I worked at with ActiveDirectory. That was an exercise in futility. Now, I'm not a MSCE, and I've haven't had much formal training in administration, but within about two days, it had caused more headaches (apps not working properly due to missing files, access problems, etc) than it was worth, and we went back to the traditional machine-by-machine manual installation. Sure, it's only 15 machines, so it's not a big deal, but I was a developer, not an administrator. If a machine died, it would have been nicer to be able to put the basic image on, and have a fully operational machine again (like netware could do) - which takes about 5 minutes of my time. Perhaps I didn't give it enough time, or maybe I just didn't have it setup right, but I accomplished the same thing on Netware in 2 weeks (from scratch) with no previous netware experience.
I work on the NT4 network right now (it's been running for around 4 years), and as soon as I have time, I will be replacing it with linux, with the goal of replacing the workstations as well. I get angry every time I run across something I can't do without some 3rd party app, that I could do in about 2 minutes with a shell script.
I think I'll keep an eye on Netware, though. If I can get the power of Netware plus the flexibility of Linux, I will be very happy.
The light reaching your eyes is coming through the film and then traveling in a straight line from the film to your eyes.
Just think what someone using a computer will look like to anyone who can't see the keyboard (which will probably be everyone but the user or people peering over his/her shoulder). Sitting in front of a little box, wiggling their fingers in the air...
Ultimately, IBM will be footing the bill. One way or the other.
Actually, SCO's stockholders will likely be the ones to foot the bill. SCO has been doing nothing but spreading FUD about linux, directly to many of Red Hat's customers. They haven't proven anything yet (ie: won the court case), so how can they possibly tell customers they have to buy licences from SCO or face a lawsuit?
IANAL, but I would think that regardless of whether or not SCO wins their case against IBM, they did damage to Red Hat's reputation (as well as Linux as a whole). If they were to win, then yeah, fine, they could send their letters. But they've put the decision in the hands of the legal system.
SCO needs to learn you can't have your cake and eat it too.
At age 12, he started an auto detailing service. For $40 a pop, he'd pick up your car, drive it around the neighborhood on the sly and deliver a sparkling vehicle back to you.
I wonder if they did any fact checking for this article? Like, checking the fact that you need to be 16 to get a licence?
I'd wonder how successful this business was. Personally, I wouldn't give my car keys to a 12 year old. Maybe I'm just uptight?
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And besides, if people get sick of the excessive mastering trends of today, the record companies can just go back to the master tapes and re-re-master everything, and get everyone to buy all new cds.
Better watch your back.. those RIAA goons can be sneaky..
what in the hell are you talking about? Did you just hit reply without reading anything, or what?
If windows98 has DCOM (I dunno, does it?), then it's probably affected as well (considering that NT4 is affected). My point was that microsoft didn't even acknowledge Win98 as being affected (as opposed to saying it was affected, but not creating a patch because they don't support it anymore).
If it's not affected, then the whole parent thread is pointless in the first place.
One interesting thing that the security people mentioned, that the article doesn't, is that windows 98/windows 98se is vulnerable but Microsoft has not released a patch because they no longer support the product.
If this is true, Microsoft doesn't even acknowledge that it affects Windows98. It's one thing to not release a patch for an affected OS, it's quite another to not mention that it's affected.
While I agree that the "techs" should have some semblance of tech knowledge and vocabulary you always, always, always check the physical and easiest to fix problems first.
I'm sure anyone who does programming can agree with this.. I can't count the number of times I've spent adding tons and tons of debug information, trying to figure out why code isn't working, to eventually find out that I used a > instead a <, or misspelled a variable, or something along those lines.
They want to surf the web, safely, without people storing information about them forever.
Don't overlook the fact that a website can't store information about you unless you give it that information somehow. I personally like it a lot more when a website remembers my settings or preferences the next time I come back. I don't have to log into/. every time I come.
Where this breaks down though, is advertising. Advertisers that load banners off a central server could use this for tracking what sites you visit. If this is a big concern to you (despite the fact they don't actually know who you are, or anything about you besides your cookie id and the sites you visit..), then you can always block all the advertising servers. There are lists circulating of hosts files to change the IP's to 127.0.0.1 or something, and updated frequently.
Yeah sure, the average user probably will have a hard time doing that. But then the average user isn't as concerned about privacy. If they are, then they'll learn how to protect themselves.
Hell, I deal with 50+ people a day that don't want to fax their CC number to me, you think that they want their person information stored on a webserver tha is easily hacked?
What does this have to do with cookies? Even if you disable cookies, they can still store your information; they just don't know its you when you come back.
And what's to stop people from using other methods? Track your IP address along with your USER_AGENT string, and as long as that USER_AGENT comes from the same subnet, assume it's the same. Or go further and use Javascript to detect screen resolution, versions, etc. Use as much information as possible to make a 'fingerprint' of that browser.
Overall, I think this whole thing is a legal solution to a already-technologically-fixed problem that doesn't even exist in the first place.
When your main disk gets hosed by a virus, a clumsy user, or a system crash, that corruption is coppied to the other disc at light speeds... So what's the point? Offline backups are what is needed.
I haven't had the occasion (I was going to say 'oppertunity', but thats definately not the right word..) to test this out yet, but I set up a backup system about a month ago that I think is a great idea.
We just have a small office, running two servers. The only reason the second one is there is because our accounting software's database server makes the main server too slow, and since I had spare parts for a second system, it was easier to throw a second together instead of upgrading.
I have a script setup on the second server that rsyncs all the file shares from the main server every night, to a directory based on the weekday (one for Monday, Tuesday, etc). The backup folder is only available as read-only on the network. If the main server dies, then all the files are still there (or at least from midnight, if it happens in the middle of the day). If a virus infects it and corrupts half the data, then it's easy to roll back to the day before that happened. If someone accidentally erases a file (or saves over top, or whatever), they can still restore from the day before (they have up to a week, anyways).
Of course, we still have to do off-site backups, but for the most part, this is as much as we need.
Everyone I know that has digital cable from Comcast doesn't want to see ads, they want to see an interactive version of the TV Guide Channel.
The digital tv that Cogeco offers here (canada) is like that too, and I think it's an absolutely hideous interface. It's slow, it looks like it was designed by a programmer that knows how to use photoshop (but nothing about actual design), and it only shows the current half hour.
Roger's version (which isn't available where I live) is a lot better. Nice design, shows the next 3 half-hour segments at the same time, whatever channel you're watching is shown in a little window in the top corner, and you can see a summary without having to go to another screen.
Not to mention the cogeco interface is very 'flickery', it flickers on the screen a couple times everytime you switch views, and is often very slow to change between things. You can see the refresh as you scroll down the program list.
Sorry, this turned in to a bit of a rant, but I'm just utterly repulsed that something that bad could make it into customers houses. Hire a designer, do a couple focus groups with people using it and providing feedback, even go and look at your competitors' (Rogers, and sattelite tv companies) versions. I could have made a better interface, and I'm purely a programmer - photoshop scares me!
The US Constitution included the right to bear arms so that the people could rise up against an oppresive govenment.
This kind of seems silly to me (as a Canadian). First of all, I think it's pretty well established now that the democratic government works, and isn't oppressive. (I'm sure theres people that would argue that, but overall, we're much better off than, for example, countries that have dictatorships).
Second, it seems to me that one person with a sniper rifle is a lot more effective than a group of people with guns. Espessially when that group is a bunch of rednecks with pistols, going up against well-trained and well-funded police, SWAT teams, and the various military forces.
Really, all that right does is provide many households with a gun that ends up robbing a liquor store, or being stolen and then used to rob a liquor store.
Of course, I'm Canadian, so maybe I just don't understand, eh?
From where I'm sitting, it costs about the same for Bell or Rogers.
I've been using smaller ISPs for DSL, and they're a lot better. Bell Nexxia owns the DSL network. Sympatico 'rents' the lines/bandwidth from Nexxia to provide high-speed internet. The problem with Sympatico is that they rent a certain amount of bandwidth for a geographical area (well, really, per-CO switchbox), and if they happen to have 300 subscribers in that area, they all have to share that limited amount of bandwidth, which is why it is often very slow.
The smaller ISPs will actually purchase 1.2mbit of bandwidth (or whatever plan you have) per customer. If they have 10 customers in that area, they get 12mbit of bandwidth (in reality, they probably maintain a ratio, but the effect is the same). As number of users increases, they get more bandwidth. As a result, my DSL is a lot faster than a friend of mine's who lives in the same building but is on Sympatico.
I suspect that if you measured the activity of new Internet users, you would see them clicking on the 468x60 ads at the same pace as the new Google/adsense ads.
This is OT from what you were talking about (which I agree with), but I actually find google's ads to be effective at times. When looking for some product when I don't know a specific brand (ie, looking for a product that lets me connect rs232 to ethernet), the adwords are often very useful, as you're going to get right to a business that's selling them, and dont have to try and skim past the results that are about building it yourself, or using them in something unrelated, or whatever. There's lots of examples of other situations, but that's one I can think of recently where I actually used an ad.
Of course, the ads that link to some generic search page about whatever you're looking for (ie, searching the term on amazon.com's search) are useless. I don't know why google allows those, they really detract from the usefulness of the ads. Considering google is a search engine, it seems silly they redirect you away to some other search engine that often doesn't find anything.
Now, all this said, I have clicked on banner ads probably 5 times in my whole life. doubleclick.net etc resolves to 0.0.0.0 on my system, and popups are mostly blocked. I'm sure there are other people like me as well.
Well, they do not have to be convicted right away. Maybe somebody will ask what the hell they were doing there first
No. Lock them up and throw away the key. In fact, screw that.. anyone have a stake, rope and some matches handy?
If you acess the data, you're doing something illegal. Just like if you have MP3's you're obviously depraving record companies of profits. Or a smart card reader, you're obviously stealing tv.
No e-mail account - Well most people I know don't use the account of their provider, most have webmail accounts instead, because they can access them at university/work, and they can keep them if they move ISP.
I personally think it's quite dumb to use ISP email accounts. It's a lock-in thing that prevents you from moving ISPs. At work (which is not anything to do with computers), they used to use dial-up, and used the ISP email account. About two years ago we got DSL, and a domain, and we're still paying $5/mo for the old ISP to forward that account to our domain mail. Lots of people still send to it, some people still have business cards with it, and I still run across the ocasional document that has the old letterhead with it printed on it.
A couple years ago, maybe email was not that big a deal. Today, we couldn't live without it. Using an email address that doesn't have stability (say the ISP folds..) would be like renting a phone number that could change at any time.
No web space - Seriously, how many people are bothered about that?
Agreed. There are lots of free providers, and if you're going to put up anything besides a quick place to post some files/pictures/whatever, get a domain. It's not expensive, and it's so much nicer than a long-ass url that has a tilde in it.
do firewalls protect your IP identity or are they useless for that?
No, firewalls just block connections in (or out) of your network. That said, if you're using NAT through a firewall with the rest of your office (not that you should be using kazaa at work...), then it can be tracked to your office, but not a specific user in the office.
A lot of noise has been made (in the techie world, at least) about the desire of several copyright holders to enforce anti-piracy laws by taking matters into their own hands;...
To extend this question a bit: If these hacks are made legal, what happens when a legitimate file gets deleted? So far there have been a lot of false positives from the RIAA, so it is likely any sorts of programs that delete infringing files will also delete legitimate ones.
To parallel the above question, if a police officer with a concealed weapon is using it off-duty, or in any non law-enforcement context, they would be in serious trouble. Would the same thing happen to the RIAA/MPAA for deleteing legitimate files, or would they just be considered "casualties of war"?
Anyone who allows a machine to go more than 30 days without a reboot is asking for trouble.
I disagree. While 500 days is quite a few, there's no problem as long as you're diligent. Set up a script to do backups to another system on a regular basis (daily, weekly). I do incremental backups every workday at midnight using rsync. Which means if you mogrify a file, you have up to a week to get back an old copy. I used to have this go to a tape drive, and the tapes just had to be swapped out weekly. Now I just ocasionally archive to CD.
As far as disks dying, RAID1 helps, and is very cheap now and available on many mobo's. With an older server, maybe you don't have this, but maybe if it's a concern, its time to upgrade. Bigger servers often have RAID arrays already.
If you're making any major system changes - ie, the way things boot - then be sure to test it out. Be sure it boots after you make the change and are sitting right in front of it. I'll also assume you're not going to be making changes like this on a mission-critical production server, and actually testing them out on another system first. If you have a production server that you make major changes to without testing, I think it's obvious that you're asking for a disaster.
I was talking more about top40/pop/rock/hiphop etc music. As far as that, for the most part I listen to a wide range of stuff that's either on the radio now, has been on the radio in the last year or two, or is soon to be on the radio. I just like to listen on CD's so I can choose, and don't have to put up with the repetative nature of radio. I have enough CD's that it takes me at least a few days to start repeating.
I'm not even going to go into the fact that any good techno album is a mix and should be listened to from beginning to end to get its mood, as well as appreciate the track selection and mixing
House music is totally different. A mix is by a DJ, and you could compare a 60-minute DJ mix to a regular 3 minute song, really. I have a few mix CDs, and yeah, I listen to them all the way through for the most part (ie, I don't put them on random)
However, I also have house CD's with single tracks by various artists (not mixed), and those I listen to on random.
As far as the medical profession goes, sure there are many doctors who think that using thick jargon makes them sound smart--and therefore trustworthy. It's a bad strategy.
There's a lot of people who do this in the tech industry too. An even better example is on tv and in movies. How many times have you heard someone in a TV show try to explain something technical -- and to most people, it sounds that way -- and just think to yourself that it makes absolutely no sense?
"A worm got in the operating system, I'll have to defrag the cpu and realign the raid partition"
Of course, being a/. reader, you can see right away that it's complete crap (and that, btw, was actually hard to write.. I had to really put effort into making it make no sense).
1) We have single-source logons for all users, even if they migrate workstations.
And why wasn't this a standard feature before? Designing a network that doesn't have this is just dumb - but often necessary, back in NT (and even 2000, to an extent) days. But really, that's due to lack of openness.. you use microsoft's domain authentication, and if your mail server doesn't happen to be exchange, you have to have a second authentication system.
2) Users can access their apps and data from anywhere on the network, even offsite.
VPN is nothing new. Accessing apps remotely is neat, but any terminal server will let you do this as well (and not just windows terminal server).
3) Ping times have halved.
I don't see how.NET could affect ping times. Using modern hardware helps - ie, use 10/100 switches instead of old 10mbit hubs.
4) You wouldn't believe our uptime, sometimes we go for weeks without rebooting.
Wow.. Weeks without rebooting! This really makes me laugh. Windows is the only platform that actually requires regular reboots. Most systems only require a reboot to upgrade hardware or kernels. I regularly go for a year without rebooting. Actually the last two times I rebooted were due to 1) faulty power outlet. 2) switching to another UPS.
It's kind of funny to see the look on MSCE's faces when you upgrade an email server and only have a downtime of 15 seconds, without interupting any other services running on that machine.
5) The TCO is 1/10th of what it was and we've been able to reduce our IT staff
I'll bite.. did you mean "had to reduce our IT staff because the cost of the software meant we couldn't pay salaries"
(maybe this is the real reason the/. readership hates.NET?).
..Or maybe it's because people are sick of MS hyping old ideas as revelations.
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Nice.. The first time I've actually laughed at a comment with that word in it since .. well, ever. :p
I thought it was "Where do you want to go today?"
I was just looking around their site for Linux information, and that came up.
I'm very glad to hear that. I've worked with ZENworks in the past, and it's one of the most useful tools for administrating desktops. I can't even estimate the amount of time application distribution saves (from actually installation, to updates, to fixing broken installations, to making applications [locally] available to users no matter where they are).I don't have a huge amount of network admin experience compared to some of the people here, but I've set up and managed 3 different networks: NT4 with about 10 workstations, Netware 5 with about 130 workstations, and 2000+ActiveDirectory with about 15 workstations. Netware 5 was, by far, the easiest to administrate network. Netware5 was at a school, so it was a more restricted environment, but was also very varied. The nice thing was teachers had a bit less restrictive setups, but basically every workstation in the school could be used for any purpose.
I tried to setup application distribution at a software company I worked at with ActiveDirectory. That was an exercise in futility. Now, I'm not a MSCE, and I've haven't had much formal training in administration, but within about two days, it had caused more headaches (apps not working properly due to missing files, access problems, etc) than it was worth, and we went back to the traditional machine-by-machine manual installation. Sure, it's only 15 machines, so it's not a big deal, but I was a developer, not an administrator. If a machine died, it would have been nicer to be able to put the basic image on, and have a fully operational machine again (like netware could do) - which takes about 5 minutes of my time. Perhaps I didn't give it enough time, or maybe I just didn't have it setup right, but I accomplished the same thing on Netware in 2 weeks (from scratch) with no previous netware experience.
I work on the NT4 network right now (it's been running for around 4 years), and as soon as I have time, I will be replacing it with linux, with the goal of replacing the workstations as well. I get angry every time I run across something I can't do without some 3rd party app, that I could do in about 2 minutes with a shell script.
I think I'll keep an eye on Netware, though. If I can get the power of Netware plus the flexibility of Linux, I will be very happy.
Just think what someone using a computer will look like to anyone who can't see the keyboard (which will probably be everyone but the user or people peering over his/her shoulder). Sitting in front of a little box, wiggling their fingers in the air...
Actually, SCO's stockholders will likely be the ones to foot the bill. SCO has been doing nothing but spreading FUD about linux, directly to many of Red Hat's customers. They haven't proven anything yet (ie: won the court case), so how can they possibly tell customers they have to buy licences from SCO or face a lawsuit?
IANAL, but I would think that regardless of whether or not SCO wins their case against IBM, they did damage to Red Hat's reputation (as well as Linux as a whole). If they were to win, then yeah, fine, they could send their letters. But they've put the decision in the hands of the legal system.
SCO needs to learn you can't have your cake and eat it too.
I'd wonder how successful this business was. Personally, I wouldn't give my car keys to a 12 year old. Maybe I'm just uptight?
Better watch your back.. those RIAA goons can be sneaky..
If windows98 has DCOM (I dunno, does it?), then it's probably affected as well (considering that NT4 is affected). My point was that microsoft didn't even acknowledge Win98 as being affected (as opposed to saying it was affected, but not creating a patch because they don't support it anymore).
If it's not affected, then the whole parent thread is pointless in the first place.
If this is true, Microsoft doesn't even acknowledge that it affects Windows98. It's one thing to not release a patch for an affected OS, it's quite another to not mention that it's affected.
I'm sure anyone who does programming can agree with this.. I can't count the number of times I've spent adding tons and tons of debug information, trying to figure out why code isn't working, to eventually find out that I used a > instead a <, or misspelled a variable, or something along those lines.
You're new to tech/user support, I see...
This should have been at least 90% insightful..
Don't overlook the fact that a website can't store information about you unless you give it that information somehow. I personally like it a lot more when a website remembers my settings or preferences the next time I come back. I don't have to log into /. every time I come.
Where this breaks down though, is advertising. Advertisers that load banners off a central server could use this for tracking what sites you visit. If this is a big concern to you (despite the fact they don't actually know who you are, or anything about you besides your cookie id and the sites you visit..), then you can always block all the advertising servers. There are lists circulating of hosts files to change the IP's to 127.0.0.1 or something, and updated frequently.
Yeah sure, the average user probably will have a hard time doing that. But then the average user isn't as concerned about privacy. If they are, then they'll learn how to protect themselves.
Hell, I deal with 50+ people a day that don't want to fax their CC number to me, you think that they want their person information stored on a webserver tha is easily hacked?
What does this have to do with cookies? Even if you disable cookies, they can still store your information; they just don't know its you when you come back.
And what's to stop people from using other methods? Track your IP address along with your USER_AGENT string, and as long as that USER_AGENT comes from the same subnet, assume it's the same. Or go further and use Javascript to detect screen resolution, versions, etc. Use as much information as possible to make a 'fingerprint' of that browser.
Overall, I think this whole thing is a legal solution to a already-technologically-fixed problem that doesn't even exist in the first place.
I haven't had the occasion (I was going to say 'oppertunity', but thats definately not the right word..) to test this out yet, but I set up a backup system about a month ago that I think is a great idea. We just have a small office, running two servers. The only reason the second one is there is because our accounting software's database server makes the main server too slow, and since I had spare parts for a second system, it was easier to throw a second together instead of upgrading.
I have a script setup on the second server that rsyncs all the file shares from the main server every night, to a directory based on the weekday (one for Monday, Tuesday, etc). The backup folder is only available as read-only on the network. If the main server dies, then all the files are still there (or at least from midnight, if it happens in the middle of the day). If a virus infects it and corrupts half the data, then it's easy to roll back to the day before that happened. If someone accidentally erases a file (or saves over top, or whatever), they can still restore from the day before (they have up to a week, anyways).
Of course, we still have to do off-site backups, but for the most part, this is as much as we need.
The digital tv that Cogeco offers here (canada) is like that too, and I think it's an absolutely hideous interface. It's slow, it looks like it was designed by a programmer that knows how to use photoshop (but nothing about actual design), and it only shows the current half hour.
Roger's version (which isn't available where I live) is a lot better. Nice design, shows the next 3 half-hour segments at the same time, whatever channel you're watching is shown in a little window in the top corner, and you can see a summary without having to go to another screen.
Not to mention the cogeco interface is very 'flickery', it flickers on the screen a couple times everytime you switch views, and is often very slow to change between things. You can see the refresh as you scroll down the program list.
Sorry, this turned in to a bit of a rant, but I'm just utterly repulsed that something that bad could make it into customers houses. Hire a designer, do a couple focus groups with people using it and providing feedback, even go and look at your competitors' (Rogers, and sattelite tv companies) versions. I could have made a better interface, and I'm purely a programmer - photoshop scares me!
This kind of seems silly to me (as a Canadian). First of all, I think it's pretty well established now that the democratic government works, and isn't oppressive. (I'm sure theres people that would argue that, but overall, we're much better off than, for example, countries that have dictatorships).
Second, it seems to me that one person with a sniper rifle is a lot more effective than a group of people with guns. Espessially when that group is a bunch of rednecks with pistols, going up against well-trained and well-funded police, SWAT teams, and the various military forces.
Really, all that right does is provide many households with a gun that ends up robbing a liquor store, or being stolen and then used to rob a liquor store.
Of course, I'm Canadian, so maybe I just don't understand, eh?
I've been using smaller ISPs for DSL, and they're a lot better. Bell Nexxia owns the DSL network. Sympatico 'rents' the lines/bandwidth from Nexxia to provide high-speed internet. The problem with Sympatico is that they rent a certain amount of bandwidth for a geographical area (well, really, per-CO switchbox), and if they happen to have 300 subscribers in that area, they all have to share that limited amount of bandwidth, which is why it is often very slow.
The smaller ISPs will actually purchase 1.2mbit of bandwidth (or whatever plan you have) per customer. If they have 10 customers in that area, they get 12mbit of bandwidth (in reality, they probably maintain a ratio, but the effect is the same). As number of users increases, they get more bandwidth. As a result, my DSL is a lot faster than a friend of mine's who lives in the same building but is on Sympatico.
This is OT from what you were talking about (which I agree with), but I actually find google's ads to be effective at times. When looking for some product when I don't know a specific brand (ie, looking for a product that lets me connect rs232 to ethernet), the adwords are often very useful, as you're going to get right to a business that's selling them, and dont have to try and skim past the results that are about building it yourself, or using them in something unrelated, or whatever. There's lots of examples of other situations, but that's one I can think of recently where I actually used an ad.
Of course, the ads that link to some generic search page about whatever you're looking for (ie, searching the term on amazon.com's search) are useless. I don't know why google allows those, they really detract from the usefulness of the ads. Considering google is a search engine, it seems silly they redirect you away to some other search engine that often doesn't find anything.
Now, all this said, I have clicked on banner ads probably 5 times in my whole life. doubleclick.net etc resolves to 0.0.0.0 on my system, and popups are mostly blocked. I'm sure there are other people like me as well.
No. Lock them up and throw away the key. In fact, screw that.. anyone have a stake, rope and some matches handy?
If you acess the data, you're doing something illegal. Just like if you have MP3's you're obviously depraving record companies of profits. Or a smart card reader, you're obviously stealing tv.
Hail DMCA!
I personally think it's quite dumb to use ISP email accounts. It's a lock-in thing that prevents you from moving ISPs. At work (which is not anything to do with computers), they used to use dial-up, and used the ISP email account. About two years ago we got DSL, and a domain, and we're still paying $5/mo for the old ISP to forward that account to our domain mail. Lots of people still send to it, some people still have business cards with it, and I still run across the ocasional document that has the old letterhead with it printed on it.
A couple years ago, maybe email was not that big a deal. Today, we couldn't live without it. Using an email address that doesn't have stability (say the ISP folds..) would be like renting a phone number that could change at any time.
No web space - Seriously, how many people are bothered about that?
Agreed. There are lots of free providers, and if you're going to put up anything besides a quick place to post some files/pictures/whatever, get a domain. It's not expensive, and it's so much nicer than a long-ass url that has a tilde in it.
No, firewalls just block connections in (or out) of your network. That said, if you're using NAT through a firewall with the rest of your office (not that you should be using kazaa at work...), then it can be tracked to your office, but not a specific user in the office.
To extend this question a bit: If these hacks are made legal, what happens when a legitimate file gets deleted? So far there have been a lot of false positives from the RIAA, so it is likely any sorts of programs that delete infringing files will also delete legitimate ones.
To parallel the above question, if a police officer with a concealed weapon is using it off-duty, or in any non law-enforcement context, they would be in serious trouble. Would the same thing happen to the RIAA/MPAA for deleteing legitimate files, or would they just be considered "casualties of war"?
I disagree. While 500 days is quite a few, there's no problem as long as you're diligent. Set up a script to do backups to another system on a regular basis (daily, weekly). I do incremental backups every workday at midnight using rsync. Which means if you mogrify a file, you have up to a week to get back an old copy. I used to have this go to a tape drive, and the tapes just had to be swapped out weekly. Now I just ocasionally archive to CD.
As far as disks dying, RAID1 helps, and is very cheap now and available on many mobo's. With an older server, maybe you don't have this, but maybe if it's a concern, its time to upgrade. Bigger servers often have RAID arrays already.
If you're making any major system changes - ie, the way things boot - then be sure to test it out. Be sure it boots after you make the change and are sitting right in front of it. I'll also assume you're not going to be making changes like this on a mission-critical production server, and actually testing them out on another system first. If you have a production server that you make major changes to without testing, I think it's obvious that you're asking for a disaster.
I'm not even going to go into the fact that any good techno album is a mix and should be listened to from beginning to end to get its mood, as well as appreciate the track selection and mixing
House music is totally different. A mix is by a DJ, and you could compare a 60-minute DJ mix to a regular 3 minute song, really. I have a few mix CDs, and yeah, I listen to them all the way through for the most part (ie, I don't put them on random)
However, I also have house CD's with single tracks by various artists (not mixed), and those I listen to on random.
There's a lot of people who do this in the tech industry too. An even better example is on tv and in movies. How many times have you heard someone in a TV show try to explain something technical -- and to most people, it sounds that way -- and just think to yourself that it makes absolutely no sense?
Of course, being aAnd why wasn't this a standard feature before? Designing a network that doesn't have this is just dumb - but often necessary, back in NT (and even 2000, to an extent) days. But really, that's due to lack of openness .. you use microsoft's domain authentication, and if your mail server doesn't happen to be exchange, you have to have a second authentication system.
2) Users can access their apps and data from anywhere on the network, even offsite.
VPN is nothing new. Accessing apps remotely is neat, but any terminal server will let you do this as well (and not just windows terminal server).
3) Ping times have halved.
I don't see how .NET could affect ping times. Using modern hardware helps - ie, use 10/100 switches instead of old 10mbit hubs.
4) You wouldn't believe our uptime, sometimes we go for weeks without rebooting.
Wow.. Weeks without rebooting! This really makes me laugh. Windows is the only platform that actually requires regular reboots. Most systems only require a reboot to upgrade hardware or kernels. I regularly go for a year without rebooting. Actually the last two times I rebooted were due to 1) faulty power outlet. 2) switching to another UPS.
It's kind of funny to see the look on MSCE's faces when you upgrade an email server and only have a downtime of 15 seconds, without interupting any other services running on that machine.
5) The TCO is 1/10th of what it was and we've been able to reduce our IT staff
I'll bite .. did you mean "had to reduce our IT staff because the cost of the software meant we couldn't pay salaries"
(maybe this is the real reason the /. readership hates .NET?).