I seem to remember an article a few months back about the ISS possibly going dark because the russians couldn't come up with the cash to foot their end of the bill, nor complete the modules there were supposed to on time.
Where do you think the Russians are getting the money to pay for their space program now...Cough US...cough.
Oh and the Russians killed a lot more astronauts during the cold war than they are willing to talk about. Lets not get sniggly over success ratios.
As the only sys admin in a company of 50 desktops and 4 Win2k Servers I can fully support the notion that patching is expensive...but not for the company...for ME!
Guess who gets to come in the office between 8 and 10pm to apply these patches to live servers...who has to wait if someone decides to work late. Who has to cross his fingers with every patch hoping that nothing else breaks...ME! And the only thing I get out of it is to be able to leave an hour or two early that friday...woot.
Sure some things I can and do install from remote, but almost every patch requires a reboot and you just never know when a Win2k system isn't going to boot properly and require you to drive in at 1am wearing your bath robe.
The three domains my company gets the most spam from are...
AOL.com
hotmail.com
Yahoo.com
Seems to me if these three companies would clean up their own free mail systems 80% of the spam problem would take care of itself. No need for federal legislation so far as I can see. Just enact policy and enforce it on your current users. Fine yourself when you fail to keep spam out.
Using a separate linux box as a print server for ONE computer, and ONE printer is about the same as buying a Ford Pinto to replace a broken headlight.
Linux is not the best solution for every problem.
In this case you should have gone to ebay and gotten the damn card.
Nothing ground breaking here. For a couple more bucks they could have gotten an LCD with a 15pin SVGA connector right on it and not even bothered with that composite signal.
I guess if you have a really small server room (or bedroom for most of us) this could make some sense if you need to do any work right on the machine.
A better investment might be a simple KVM if you plan to be in the room with the server ($79) or since he's using VNC anyway just not have a monitor!!! But what the hell do I know, I read/.
Whooo hooo! Huge upgrade to 400Mhz still leaves them behind Intel by 133Mhz! Makes me wanna rush right out and upgrade my system to below competition specs!
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In Europe they simply put a little picture of a bug where they wanted the stream to hit. Rest Rooms were much cleaner after that.
Seems a little over engineered here in the US.
I seem to remember an article a few months back about the ISS possibly going dark because the russians couldn't come up with the cash to foot their end of the bill, nor complete the modules there were supposed to on time.
Where do you think the Russians are getting the money to pay for their space program now...Cough US...cough.
Oh and the Russians killed a lot more astronauts during the cold war than they are willing to talk about. Lets not get sniggly over success ratios.
As the only sys admin in a company of 50 desktops and 4 Win2k Servers I can fully support the notion that patching is expensive...but not for the company...for ME!
Guess who gets to come in the office between 8 and 10pm to apply these patches to live servers...who has to wait if someone decides to work late. Who has to cross his fingers with every patch hoping that nothing else breaks...ME! And the only thing I get out of it is to be able to leave an hour or two early that friday...woot.
Sure some things I can and do install from remote, but almost every patch requires a reboot and you just never know when a Win2k system isn't going to boot properly and require you to drive in at 1am wearing your bath robe.
You can install for free VIA FTP. Of course you don't get the tech support nor some comercial packages SuSe can't give away for free.
The three domains my company gets the most spam from are...
AOL.com
hotmail.com
Yahoo.com
Seems to me if these three companies would clean up their own free mail systems 80% of the spam problem would take care of itself. No need for federal legislation so far as I can see. Just enact policy and enforce it on your current users. Fine yourself when you fail to keep spam out.
"petty, almost victimless crimes like these?"
Just because the "victim" is a multi-Billionaire doesn't mean there hasn't been a crime.
Hardware I can configure.
Hardware I can afford.
To not be reliant on one company for every aspect of my computer.
Using a separate linux box as a print server for ONE computer, and ONE printer is about the same as buying a Ford Pinto to replace a broken headlight. Linux is not the best solution for every problem. In this case you should have gone to ebay and gotten the damn card.
I've been running on my XP installed laptop for the last week and have had no problems what so ever booting back and forth.
Bug be gone!
Nothing ground breaking here. For a couple more bucks they could have gotten an LCD with a 15pin SVGA connector right on it and not even bothered with that composite signal.
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I guess if you have a really small server room (or bedroom for most of us) this could make some sense if you need to do any work right on the machine.
A better investment might be a simple KVM if you plan to be in the room with the server ($79) or since he's using VNC anyway just not have a monitor!!! But what the hell do I know, I read
Whooo hooo! Huge upgrade to 400Mhz still leaves them behind Intel by 133Mhz! Makes me wanna rush right out and upgrade my system to below competition specs!
Why did this get modded to +5 interesting?
/. people were more critical than that...or maybe they were just impressed that he can use HTML formatting and bullets?
I don't find it interesting to read someone's obviously biased opinion without supporting facts.
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Telstra is a government supported monopoly in AU. They really don't have another choice. At least, nothing comparable in price.