flamebait, but here goes.
i can personally remember 50 or so mildly overclocked systems i've built that were rock-solid: they'd prime95 or 3dmark all week with no problems.
what's this "Create new Google Group" option? It's not going to automatically put in the RFC: it's going to CREATE A GULF BETWEEN USENET AND GOOGLE GROUPS. at the moment, GG is a nice interface to Usenet for web users.
It is now going to be a competitor. Read that again until you get it - this is a BIG, BIG change.
athlon 2500? dual channel ram? if this is an nforce2 board, then bear in mind a lot of early bioses misreported temperature. bios flash to the latest version and check before you panic: up to 15 degree drops seen on some MSI boards.
ric
what's wrong with point one? you try and connect a laptop that's not 0wned by us and we'll can you: *nothing* connects to our LAN that we haven't built. it could have *anything* on it! c'mon, this is standard practice, for crying out loud!
MOD machines do have USB ports. however, they're either welded, sealed, or physically locked shut. as are any other ports and the case itself. the whole lot is physically alarmed, and regularly inspected.
this kind of thing just makes me want to scream.
just map "my documents" to a network share via their profile - and that's it. all data available to users on any workstation, and it's BACKED UP EVERY NIGHT. they can't sit on it, drop it down the crapper or let their dog eat it. i'm presuming they're not working on anything important? what if you had a client ask to see something legally important, and you had to say "sorry, but joe sixpack's taken that document away, he might be back in next week"?
they're not that cheap, and they're no good for quick retrieval. in the UK, 40/80DLT tapes go for around 60UKP each, as opposed to a 120GB HDD for the same money. apples and oranges, of course, but it's a myth tapes are cheap.
i'd say your cheapest option is a *lot* of hard disks - either in a large tower with a lot of IDE cards or as a SAN. big storage done properly is *expensive* though.
a decent install of any 32bit MS OS should be just as capable of uptime. the only stuff that brings ours down are security patches that force a reboot: otherwise we've had years of uptime.
any admin worth their salt looking after windows machines will have all preferences hooked up to roaming profiles. this is UTTERLY TRIVIAL TO DO AND IS DONE BY EVERYONE who knows what they're doing. the end. move along. there may be reasons to slag off MS, but this isn't one of them.
i *utterly* agree with you, but if you do this, you'll have users moaning because they can't just hook any machine up: they need you to add them to the domain, create a user account, and lock the machine down. people won't voluntarily let you do this to their personal machines - you'd have to force them.
i still think this is the way to go, though: "if you want access to our network and the internet via it, you've got to jump through some hoops for the general good".
...i own a domain name. i use it for email forwarding to whatever account i happen to be using, so that i can keep the same email address. this is going to break that, isn't it? i'm just a little guy who doesn't run his own smtp server (i'd have a job: my ISP blocks that anyway...)
no, it's still dumb. getting IP blacklisted is annoying to the customer but this is PRECISELY WHY IT'S A DETERRENT to the ISPs. they're spam-tolerant, they get blacklisted, their customers get annoyed and leave - the ISP suffers.
try routing your network when you've got a whole world of random IPs to look after - how are you going to subnet that?
you don't OWN your IP. your ISP doesn't own it. ARIN lets them use it.
it's still the *dumbest idea* i've heard this year, and i read ask slashdot *every day*!
you can read a broadsheet newspaper from 18 inches away - because it's very high res. a 21" monitor at 1024x768 is a bit too in-your-face - but at 1600x1280 is much better. My NEC 21" would be nicer still at even higher resolutions, but it doesn't support it. I don't get this - I can buy a laptop with a 15" 1900xwhatever display, but I can't easily buy a desktop 17" with the same resolution.
Life will be even nicer if your OS handles high res properly - windows isn't too great at this unless your eyes are good!
* because you're on a DNSBL. your upstream probably is RFC-ignorant
* because of all those frigging trojans that zipped up attachments of infectious exes. also, it stops people mailing things in password-protected zip files.
* because it's not instant messenger. your email systems could probably do with tweaking, as well
* because they're FREE, FFS
* because people are either idiots or want to attempt to get around spam filters.
I know "Ask Slashdot" is normally full of stupid posts, but this takes the biscuit.
USE GROUP POLICIES. if you don't know how, ask an admin who knows their job. This is bloody obvious, and just far too easy for linux zealots to start jumping up and down and adding nothing of use to the argument.
Any admin worth their salt knows how to do this, and does it already where appropriate.
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...but prefer the "be nice to me, and you'll get a new machine before the rest of the office" approach.
flamebait, but here goes.
i can personally remember 50 or so mildly overclocked systems i've built that were rock-solid: they'd prime95 or 3dmark all week with no problems.
It is now going to be a competitor. Read that again until you get it - this is a BIG, BIG change.
...and you're *sure* it's good, then try 3dmark2003...
...the general opinion here's that the company's taking the piss - if you're going to ignore that, then don't read the rest of this thread.
athlon 2500? dual channel ram? if this is an nforce2 board, then bear in mind a lot of early bioses misreported temperature. bios flash to the latest version and check before you panic: up to 15 degree drops seen on some MSI boards. ric
...and you don't necessarily have the right to bring that machine in to your place of work. depends on the TOCs you signed...
what's wrong with point one? you try and connect a laptop that's not 0wned by us and we'll can you: *nothing* connects to our LAN that we haven't built. it could have *anything* on it! c'mon, this is standard practice, for crying out loud!
MOD machines do have USB ports. however, they're either welded, sealed, or physically locked shut. as are any other ports and the case itself. the whole lot is physically alarmed, and regularly inspected.
this kind of thing just makes me want to scream.
just map "my documents" to a network share via their profile - and that's it.
all data available to users on any workstation, and it's BACKED UP EVERY NIGHT. they can't sit on it, drop it down the crapper or let their dog eat it. i'm presuming they're not working on anything important? what if you had a client ask to see something legally important, and you had to say "sorry, but joe sixpack's taken that document away, he might be back in next week"?
are you *seriously* saying guns should be permitted on aircraft? even charlton heston would balk at that, surely?
they're not that cheap, and they're no good for quick retrieval. in the UK, 40/80DLT tapes go for around 60UKP each, as opposed to a 120GB HDD for the same money. apples and oranges, of course, but it's a myth tapes are cheap.
i'd say your cheapest option is a *lot* of hard disks - either in a large tower with a lot of IDE cards or as a SAN. big storage done properly is *expensive* though.
i *know* this, AC. i admin several. i was just pointing out that 30 days uptime was *nothing* to any OS, rather than being a /. troll.
a decent install of any 32bit MS OS should be just as capable of uptime. the only stuff that brings ours down are security patches that force a reboot: otherwise we've had years of uptime.
move along now
DVDShrink. No other.
ugh, you go from full quality DV to archive in lossy MP2?
any admin worth their salt looking after windows machines will have all preferences hooked up to roaming profiles. this is UTTERLY TRIVIAL TO DO AND IS DONE BY EVERYONE who knows what they're doing. the end. move along. there may be reasons to slag off MS, but this isn't one of them.
...they're down to under 500UKP now. www.zebra.com et al sell them...
i *utterly* agree with you, but if you do this, you'll have users moaning because they can't just hook any machine up: they need you to add them to the domain, create a user account, and lock the machine down. people won't voluntarily let you do this to their personal machines - you'd have to force them.
i still think this is the way to go, though: "if you want access to our network and the internet via it, you've got to jump through some hoops for the general good".
...i own a domain name. i use it for email forwarding to whatever account i happen to be using, so that i can keep the same email address. this is going to break that, isn't it? i'm just a little guy who doesn't run his own smtp server (i'd have a job: my ISP blocks that anyway...)
no, it's still dumb. getting IP blacklisted is annoying to the customer but this is PRECISELY WHY IT'S A DETERRENT to the ISPs. they're spam-tolerant, they get blacklisted, their customers get annoyed and leave - the ISP suffers.
try routing your network when you've got a whole world of random IPs to look after - how are you going to subnet that?
you don't OWN your IP. your ISP doesn't own it. ARIN lets them use it.
it's still the *dumbest idea* i've heard this year, and i read ask slashdot *every day*!
you can read a broadsheet newspaper from 18 inches away - because it's very high res. a 21" monitor at 1024x768 is a bit too in-your-face - but at 1600x1280 is much better. My NEC 21" would be nicer still at even higher resolutions, but it doesn't support it. I don't get this - I can buy a laptop with a 15" 1900xwhatever display, but I can't easily buy a desktop 17" with the same resolution.
Life will be even nicer if your OS handles high res properly - windows isn't too great at this unless your eyes are good!
* because you're on a DNSBL. your upstream probably is RFC-ignorant
* because of all those frigging trojans that zipped up attachments of infectious exes. also, it stops people mailing things in password-protected zip files.
* because it's not instant messenger. your email systems could probably do with tweaking, as well
* because they're FREE, FFS
* because people are either idiots or want to attempt to get around spam filters.
that wasn't so hard.
I know "Ask Slashdot" is normally full of stupid posts, but this takes the biscuit.
USE GROUP POLICIES. if you don't know how, ask an admin who knows their job. This is bloody obvious, and just far too easy for linux zealots to start jumping up and down and adding nothing of use to the argument.
Any admin worth their salt knows how to do this, and does it already where appropriate.