in house vs boxed.
boxed - won't do everything you want, ever. it also has no possible chance to be modified to do what you want exactly, since it'll be closed source. it also won't be much cheaper. it's only advantage is it's done here and now.
in house - you must simply hire a decent programmer/team, or you can end up with lemons.
oh i c, because you can only buy these new guns that solves all our problems.
what about the "classic" weapons out there. i'm sure all the crazies and crims are going to burn their old weapons and rush out to buy these new ones.
i can tell you all right now, that every organisation out there has atleast one linux server out there off the books serving an internal website, or doing something of that nature. after all if you think theres a way to count linux servers out there your talking out your arse.
imo which is based on talking with many fellow sysadmins and my own experience, linux HAS won the server market from ms. the only people holding on are MS zealots. MS office and accounting packages like myob are all thats saving ms on the desktop, it's certainly not them having a better product thats doing it.
tough shit thats what capitalism is all about, finding news ways to compete and make money. i will shed no tear for multi million dollar media empires who want to monoplise everything to death to suit their bottom lines.
"Whenever I am called out to do virus disaster recovery"
i certainly don't hope your paid to do this because your ignorance is astounding.
many viruses sole purpose is to log key strokes and copy files. so it IS a privacy issue.
"always for people who have an antivirus solution"
you have to keep your definitions updated for it to work.
"Set up your mail client so it won't auto-infect you by receiving mail" this never works.
"Don't install warez. Don't be so freakin' naive and gullible." this is the normal mode of people in the world, that also is not any kind of solution.
your an idiot, 100,0000's of poeple die in africa from AIDS and you come on here and say it's not terminal. crawl back into your middle america, white nobody hole.
that just doesn't fly at all. show me some evidence they have ever used technology in attacks in the past.
fact is if they wanted to disrupt telecomms all they would do is blow it up an exchange, all the error report hiding in the world won't stop that.
sorry i was reffering to the terrorists. what the hell are they going to use error reports for? so they know whats not broken and go blow that up? it sounds like hystrics to me. those reports need to be publicly accessable. covering them up under the excuse terrorists might use it was thin 12 months ago. from now on i am not paying taxes because a terrorist might be employed in a government job and he'll use that money to finance his evil schemes. thats about how thin it is.
all you idiots are missing the situation, and so has the poster. if both isp's were running linux or windows it wouldn't have made any difference, one was poor service the other was better. the systems they were running had nil to do with this. All you windows fan boys need to just live with the fact that linux is a free and more stable platform with a multitude of great apps to choose from. DEAL WITH IT!
to all the morons out there saying concerntrate on features rather then speed - ITS A DESKTOP ITS SUPPOSED TO HAVE NICE FEATURES TO MAKE LIFE EASIER
if i want the ultimate in speed i'll use pine for email and lynx for web, but i dont' want that speed i want nice menus and easy to navigate stuff. THATS why i've been using KDE rather then gnome, it makes my life easier.
I'm going to check out gnome 2.8 but it's looks like they might finally be on a par with kde in useablity.
I just quit my job(IT) for an IT position that's 3x my current pay, work from home with no end user support required.
not only that but i am beating the work off with a stick i have as much as i can handle.
thats because i don't program in crummy java or do windows NT sysadmin crap.
learn some real computer skills people, and you won't have trouble finding a job or getting outsourced.
if anyone thinks they have the right to delete my data for any fucking reason then they are a moron. this guy shows his true form by these actions. i bet what ever he is writing is probably over priced and a piece of crap.
here's a clue to the fuckwit - write decent software and come up with a decent key scheme.
i have always said the reason that IT sucks it the lack of unions.
you NEED a large body to stick up for the workers, employers aren't go to do it, if it wasn't for unions we would still be in the days of children working down coal mines and being paid 1 cent a day. that mentality has not left the world, and until IT groups form a union things will continue to get worse in the IT sector.
the people who need to pull their finger out is ISC, they are the organisation in the best position to be initating the spam solution.
think about it, and anti spam solution is going to involve DNS - what the leading DNS server? BIND. IF ISC and sendmail org got together they would have more clout on this issue then MS and be a hell of a lot more trust worthy.
i won't care, it will just compel me to push forward with plans to change desktops.
as have as patents go it don't care, my desktops and servers are all freebsd, the last mega corp to go after a bsd went down in flames and no one has been dumb enough to challenge since.
if you want a fast desktop which is completely usless and painful to do anything in just go the whole hog and use twm.
the rest of us who want our desktops to be useful and a pleasure to use will stick to kde
so are they selling a product like glass ware? in which case i only want to pay the 10c is costs to produce the cd and it's case. OR are they selling content in which case the cd and the case is irrelivant in the pricing? they can't have it both ways just to suit his arguements.
link plz ahha i have to read this.
problems with this are just jumping out at me.
1. word is a monster. 1500kbit adsl would bearly cut it
2. privacy what guantees do i have that they aren't logging what i type so the feds can come arrest me when i type up a document on how to make a bomb - thats my business not theirs.
3. again privacy, if i'm a smaller competing company how do i know MS isn't stealing my ideas as i type them? don't be fools it happens.
4. what if my connection drops out? i won't be able to save what i have on my screen?
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in house vs boxed. boxed - won't do everything you want, ever. it also has no possible chance to be modified to do what you want exactly, since it'll be closed source. it also won't be much cheaper. it's only advantage is it's done here and now. in house - you must simply hire a decent programmer/team, or you can end up with lemons.
oh i c, because you can only buy these new guns that solves all our problems. what about the "classic" weapons out there. i'm sure all the crazies and crims are going to burn their old weapons and rush out to buy these new ones.
i can tell you all right now, that every organisation out there has atleast one linux server out there off the books serving an internal website, or doing something of that nature. after all if you think theres a way to count linux servers out there your talking out your arse. imo which is based on talking with many fellow sysadmins and my own experience, linux HAS won the server market from ms. the only people holding on are MS zealots. MS office and accounting packages like myob are all thats saving ms on the desktop, it's certainly not them having a better product thats doing it.
fuck joesix pack. he is just a peon to be used to do my bidding via my supieror intellect.
tough shit thats what capitalism is all about, finding news ways to compete and make money. i will shed no tear for multi million dollar media empires who want to monoplise everything to death to suit their bottom lines.
"Whenever I am called out to do virus disaster recovery" i certainly don't hope your paid to do this because your ignorance is astounding. many viruses sole purpose is to log key strokes and copy files. so it IS a privacy issue. "always for people who have an antivirus solution" you have to keep your definitions updated for it to work. "Set up your mail client so it won't auto-infect you by receiving mail" this never works. "Don't install warez. Don't be so freakin' naive and gullible." this is the normal mode of people in the world, that also is not any kind of solution.
access is also popular because it's easy. can you see the trend?
sounds like you want freebsd, it does all of the above except the hotpulgg and even that can be configured manually
gentoo users do seem to be on the whole annoying and always saying "what about gentoo"
same as openbsd users tend to be wankers.
your an idiot, 100,0000's of poeple die in africa from AIDS and you come on here and say it's not terminal. crawl back into your middle america, white nobody hole.
that just doesn't fly at all. show me some evidence they have ever used technology in attacks in the past. fact is if they wanted to disrupt telecomms all they would do is blow it up an exchange, all the error report hiding in the world won't stop that.
sorry i was reffering to the terrorists. what the hell are they going to use error reports for? so they know whats not broken and go blow that up? it sounds like hystrics to me. those reports need to be publicly accessable. covering them up under the excuse terrorists might use it was thin 12 months ago. from now on i am not paying taxes because a terrorist might be employed in a government job and he'll use that money to finance his evil schemes. thats about how thin it is.
what are they going to use it for?
all you idiots are missing the situation, and so has the poster.
if both isp's were running linux or windows it wouldn't have made any difference, one was poor service the other was better. the systems they were running had nil to do with this.
All you windows fan boys need to just live with the fact that linux is a free and more stable platform with a multitude of great apps to choose from.
DEAL WITH IT!
the moron never once mentions ghosting which is the most important aspect of lcd's for games. what a retard..
to all the morons out there saying concerntrate on features rather then speed - ITS A DESKTOP ITS SUPPOSED TO HAVE NICE FEATURES TO MAKE LIFE EASIER if i want the ultimate in speed i'll use pine for email and lynx for web, but i dont' want that speed i want nice menus and easy to navigate stuff. THATS why i've been using KDE rather then gnome, it makes my life easier. I'm going to check out gnome 2.8 but it's looks like they might finally be on a par with kde in useablity.
I just quit my job(IT) for an IT position that's 3x my current pay, work from home with no end user support required. not only that but i am beating the work off with a stick i have as much as i can handle. thats because i don't program in crummy java or do windows NT sysadmin crap. learn some real computer skills people, and you won't have trouble finding a job or getting outsourced.
if anyone thinks they have the right to delete my data for any fucking reason then they are a moron. this guy shows his true form by these actions. i bet what ever he is writing is probably over priced and a piece of crap. here's a clue to the fuckwit - write decent software and come up with a decent key scheme.
i have always said the reason that IT sucks it the lack of unions. you NEED a large body to stick up for the workers, employers aren't go to do it, if it wasn't for unions we would still be in the days of children working down coal mines and being paid 1 cent a day. that mentality has not left the world, and until IT groups form a union things will continue to get worse in the IT sector.
the people who need to pull their finger out is ISC, they are the organisation in the best position to be initating the spam solution. think about it, and anti spam solution is going to involve DNS - what the leading DNS server? BIND. IF ISC and sendmail org got together they would have more clout on this issue then MS and be a hell of a lot more trust worthy.
i won't care, it will just compel me to push forward with plans to change desktops. as have as patents go it don't care, my desktops and servers are all freebsd, the last mega corp to go after a bsd went down in flames and no one has been dumb enough to challenge since.
if you want a fast desktop which is completely usless and painful to do anything in just go the whole hog and use twm. the rest of us who want our desktops to be useful and a pleasure to use will stick to kde
so are they selling a product like glass ware? in which case i only want to pay the 10c is costs to produce the cd and it's case. OR are they selling content in which case the cd and the case is irrelivant in the pricing? they can't have it both ways just to suit his arguements.
so what is the medium was serial? tcp/ip is what makes the internet.
link plz ahha i have to read this. problems with this are just jumping out at me. 1. word is a monster. 1500kbit adsl would bearly cut it 2. privacy what guantees do i have that they aren't logging what i type so the feds can come arrest me when i type up a document on how to make a bomb - thats my business not theirs. 3. again privacy, if i'm a smaller competing company how do i know MS isn't stealing my ideas as i type them? don't be fools it happens. 4. what if my connection drops out? i won't be able to save what i have on my screen?