A lawyer has to be a good bullshitter. A judge has to be good at seeing past the bullshit. Since they're clearly only electing republicans to the Supreme Court these days, how many of them can we expect to recognize bullshit better than a former bullshitter? I don't trust her opinions, but she can make a good judge if she wants to.
Windows 98 also had a stripped down but usable copy of IIS, which they removed in XP Home. My mom (known by some as Grandma) was pretty upset that she'd either have to buy XP Pro or use her Win98 laptop to test her.asp pages.
Fair use seems to allow it, if there are no usable backup copies. So if CD copy protection works as game publishers intend, I don't expect those same game publishers can successfully argue that Best Buy is willfully supporting copyright infringement.
7-Zip - Great. Abiword - Great. Loads very fast. CDex - Great. I even run this on wine. Unfortunately abandoned by author. Cygwin - Great. Lots of useful utilities. Dao-Setup - Never heard of it. Ditto - Ditto. Filezilla - Great. The only ftp client I use on Windows, waiting for the Linux port. Firefox - Great on Windows. On Linux, 1.5 beta is pretty good, but 1.0.x is just slow. Gimp - Great. Takes a long time to load though. Graphcalc - Never heard of it. GTK+ - Necessary for many other programs on this list. Keynote - Heard of it, but not sure what it is. Litestep Installer - Never heard of it. Open Office - Great, but slow to start. Using 2.0 development releases. Task Switch XP Pro - Never heard of it. Thunderbird - Great. The only email/news client I use. Tinn - Never heard of it. Virtuawin - Not sure what it is. VLC Media Player - Never tried it. Win Dir Stat - Never heard of it except the top post mentions it.
Add: Gaim - The only IM client I use. Putty - The only ssh client I use on Windows. Xming - Great X11 server for Windows, ported from cygwin. Notepad++, Programmer's Notepad, NoteTab, jEdit - all great editors. Each has some feature not found in the others. Mostly use Notepad++. SharpDevelop - Good VS.NET replacement, though I already have VS.NET. *VNC - I use TightVNC, but they're all pretty good. ClickOff - Free but not open source. Good for closing annoying repetitive dialogs. BurnCDCC - Also free but not open source. A great little CD burning utility. Small, simple, straightforward. Flashblock plugin for Firefox - Flash ads don't play unless I click them.
For under $1900 total we got a seemingly nice server with a 4x250gb 3ware sata raid 5, P4, 1gb ram, 3 year warranty to replace one with an aging $1100 2x250gb pata raid 0, celeron, 256mb ram, 1 year warranty. It seems like a pretty good server. I install Linux on it and use rsync to backup all our other servers, only copying changes and moving old files to a timestamped past folder before replacing or deleting them. The slocate job, which keeps an index of all filenames and paths, was enabled by default in cron.daily, and one day while searching for a file I realized I could just use that.
I used to have hourly backups, which were fast enough that nobody noticed, but decided to step it down to nightly after the original backup server lost two drives over two weeks. We're considering our offsite backup options.
I don't have any system in place for knowledge management, but when someone comes to me and says they can't find a file, I ssh to our backup server, which holds every revision of every file ever stored on all our file servers, and use the locate utility to find the file.
In recent years, I've never seen a Windows server crash, and the last time I saw a Linux server crash it was due to failed ram. They're both generally as stable as the hardware, drivers, and other software you use them with.
I have had much more patch downtime on Windows because it has to restart (usually minutes) while on Linux only the services usually need restarting (usually less than a second), but even then we install patches during off-hours, and most patches are really optional.
We run mostly Linux servers, but some server software (our ERP for instance) is only supported on Windows. In this case I suspect it'll run on Linux, but I'd rather run it on a configuration that's supported, tested, and recommended by the developer. So we bought a Windows server just to run this one piece of software, the most expensive server we've ever bought, but less than 1/10th as expensive as the software itself. In this case our decision of which operating system to use had nothing to do with which operating system was better.
It sounds like a hardware or driver problem. Too bad their vendors and support providers failed them. Such important servers need to work 24/7. Cost and OS are pretty much insignificant in this case. If by some fluke switching to Windows cures their instability, they just need to run with it, or incur more downtime costs. I've never encountered these hidden support costs they mention, or Linux instabilities on a server, and Windows fails me all the time (never unstable, but always unreliable), but clearly it's a different story with their hardware, applications, and support staff.
Hackers seem to have little trouble creating rootkits without access to the source. Maybe they do have access. I'm not sure. But people seem to have little trouble writing rootkit detectors either, once they've reverse engineered a rootkit to see how it works. But if one of Vista's DRM goals is to hinder reverse engineering, things could get a little more difficult, I don't know.
It links to a related article "Deep-sea monster caught on tape" which links to the video which they'll prevent you from viewing unless you're running IE6. Having barely skimmed through the 50kb or so of javascript that verifies your browser by dozens of methods, and generates urls to multiple scripts which it loads on the fly which it calls to finally generate the secret url to the video, I'm guessing their motive for blocking other browsers wasn't compatibility related.
I never liked ntbackup, though maybe it's gotten better in recent years. We had a scheduled ntbackup on our main Windows 2000 server which automagically stopped happening about a month ago, while still logging success. I'm pretty sure it was a permissions sort of issue but I still don't know exactly how or why it just stopped working on that day. I don't remember changing anything. This isn't the first time it's unexpectedly failed us. In the past xcopy has worked fine for copying unopened files, but we've never before tried to move so much with it.
I never got to see that, but I was thinking it all morning. Just trying to xcopy 200gb of files from point A (cifs share) to point B (usb hard drive) is damn near impossible. There's a limitless number of ways in which Windows can fail to do something as simple as copy a bunch of files. Insufficient resources. Out of memory. Intermittent drive errors, in this case acknowledged as Windows problems by the MS knowledge base, not hardware problems. Windows fills up a write buffer (though write caching was disabled), dumps the data, and logs that it dumped the data. Sure, copying files between two points would work almost every time if I was only copying 200mb, but 200gb means 1000x the opportunity for errors, resource leaks, memory leaks, etc. The entire copy took 3 days, rather than just a few hours, because every few gb Windows would fail with a different error than with all the previous failures, except that "out of memory" and "insufficient resources" each happened more than twice. Luckily most of our servers run Linux, so I don't have to deal with that sort of crap most days.
If you're cheap, you can get the cheapest new system you can find, rip out the cd drive to free up an ide channel, find a way to safely mount four 250gb drives in it (I'd recommend the 250gb seagate 7200.8 for longevity, but that's just me) to make a raid 5, install a floppy drive, and use the floppy drive to do a net install of debian. Then set up samba for windows file sharing. That 750gb of redundant raid 5 storage will set you back between $500 and $900, depending on if you already have a system in mind to use for the job. Or you can get a good server with a similar setup for around $1500 or $1800, depending on if it needs to be fast.
Or you can just delete the ISO's and TV episodes, if they're not worth the extra cost and you're never going to use/watch them again anyway.
Whatever drives you get, make sure you research their quality first, especially if you don't care for the extra cost of a redundant raid and/or backups.
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The average football punter isn't in the NFL.
A lawyer has to be a good bullshitter. A judge has to be good at seeing past the bullshit. Since they're clearly only electing republicans to the Supreme Court these days, how many of them can we expect to recognize bullshit better than a former bullshitter? I don't trust her opinions, but she can make a good judge if she wants to.
Windows 98 also had a stripped down but usable copy of IIS, which they removed in XP Home. My mom (known by some as Grandma) was pretty upset that she'd either have to buy XP Pro or use her Win98 laptop to test her .asp pages.
That was a great movie.
Fair use seems to allow it, if there are no usable backup copies. So if CD copy protection works as game publishers intend, I don't expect those same game publishers can successfully argue that Best Buy is willfully supporting copyright infringement.
I barely touch Windows at home anymore, but:
7-Zip - Great.
Abiword - Great. Loads very fast.
CDex - Great. I even run this on wine. Unfortunately abandoned by author.
Cygwin - Great. Lots of useful utilities.
Dao-Setup - Never heard of it.
Ditto - Ditto.
Filezilla - Great. The only ftp client I use on Windows, waiting for the Linux port.
Firefox - Great on Windows. On Linux, 1.5 beta is pretty good, but 1.0.x is just slow.
Gimp - Great. Takes a long time to load though.
Graphcalc - Never heard of it.
GTK+ - Necessary for many other programs on this list.
Keynote - Heard of it, but not sure what it is.
Litestep Installer - Never heard of it.
Open Office - Great, but slow to start. Using 2.0 development releases.
Task Switch XP Pro - Never heard of it.
Thunderbird - Great. The only email/news client I use.
Tinn - Never heard of it.
Virtuawin - Not sure what it is.
VLC Media Player - Never tried it.
Win Dir Stat - Never heard of it except the top post mentions it.
Add:
Gaim - The only IM client I use.
Putty - The only ssh client I use on Windows.
Xming - Great X11 server for Windows, ported from cygwin.
Notepad++, Programmer's Notepad, NoteTab, jEdit - all great editors. Each has some feature not found in the others. Mostly use Notepad++.
SharpDevelop - Good VS.NET replacement, though I already have VS.NET.
*VNC - I use TightVNC, but they're all pretty good.
ClickOff - Free but not open source. Good for closing annoying repetitive dialogs.
BurnCDCC - Also free but not open source. A great little CD burning utility. Small, simple, straightforward.
Flashblock plugin for Firefox - Flash ads don't play unless I click them.
P2P users are more likely to listen to a lot of music which means they're more likely to be teens and thus are more likely to shoplift.
For under $1900 total we got a seemingly nice server with a 4x250gb 3ware sata raid 5, P4, 1gb ram, 3 year warranty to replace one with an aging $1100 2x250gb pata raid 0, celeron, 256mb ram, 1 year warranty. It seems like a pretty good server. I install Linux on it and use rsync to backup all our other servers, only copying changes and moving old files to a timestamped past folder before replacing or deleting them. The slocate job, which keeps an index of all filenames and paths, was enabled by default in cron.daily, and one day while searching for a file I realized I could just use that.
I used to have hourly backups, which were fast enough that nobody noticed, but decided to step it down to nightly after the original backup server lost two drives over two weeks. We're considering our offsite backup options.
If they want to stick with their own GPL2 fork, they can still keep it locked up.
I wonder how many times they'll be able to repost this and still be modded funny.
I don't have any system in place for knowledge management, but when someone comes to me and says they can't find a file, I ssh to our backup server, which holds every revision of every file ever stored on all our file servers, and use the locate utility to find the file.
In recent years, I've never seen a Windows server crash, and the last time I saw a Linux server crash it was due to failed ram. They're both generally as stable as the hardware, drivers, and other software you use them with.
I have had much more patch downtime on Windows because it has to restart (usually minutes) while on Linux only the services usually need restarting (usually less than a second), but even then we install patches during off-hours, and most patches are really optional.
We run mostly Linux servers, but some server software (our ERP for instance) is only supported on Windows. In this case I suspect it'll run on Linux, but I'd rather run it on a configuration that's supported, tested, and recommended by the developer. So we bought a Windows server just to run this one piece of software, the most expensive server we've ever bought, but less than 1/10th as expensive as the software itself. In this case our decision of which operating system to use had nothing to do with which operating system was better.
It sounds like a hardware or driver problem. Too bad their vendors and support providers failed them. Such important servers need to work 24/7. Cost and OS are pretty much insignificant in this case. If by some fluke switching to Windows cures their instability, they just need to run with it, or incur more downtime costs. I've never encountered these hidden support costs they mention, or Linux instabilities on a server, and Windows fails me all the time (never unstable, but always unreliable), but clearly it's a different story with their hardware, applications, and support staff.
Hackers seem to have little trouble creating rootkits without access to the source. Maybe they do have access. I'm not sure. But people seem to have little trouble writing rootkit detectors either, once they've reverse engineered a rootkit to see how it works. But if one of Vista's DRM goals is to hinder reverse engineering, things could get a little more difficult, I don't know.
Rebuilding is pretty disk intensive. It can push a second drive that's near failure over the edge.
It links to a related article "Deep-sea monster caught on tape" which links to the video which they'll prevent you from viewing unless you're running IE6. Having barely skimmed through the 50kb or so of javascript that verifies your browser by dozens of methods, and generates urls to multiple scripts which it loads on the fly which it calls to finally generate the secret url to the video, I'm guessing their motive for blocking other browsers wasn't compatibility related.
RIAA beaten by 13 year old girl.
The original text says "libre", which is free as in freedom, as opposed to "gratis".
I never liked ntbackup, though maybe it's gotten better in recent years. We had a scheduled ntbackup on our main Windows 2000 server which automagically stopped happening about a month ago, while still logging success. I'm pretty sure it was a permissions sort of issue but I still don't know exactly how or why it just stopped working on that day. I don't remember changing anything. This isn't the first time it's unexpectedly failed us. In the past xcopy has worked fine for copying unopened files, but we've never before tried to move so much with it.
I never got to see that, but I was thinking it all morning. Just trying to xcopy 200gb of files from point A (cifs share) to point B (usb hard drive) is damn near impossible. There's a limitless number of ways in which Windows can fail to do something as simple as copy a bunch of files. Insufficient resources. Out of memory. Intermittent drive errors, in this case acknowledged as Windows problems by the MS knowledge base, not hardware problems. Windows fills up a write buffer (though write caching was disabled), dumps the data, and logs that it dumped the data. Sure, copying files between two points would work almost every time if I was only copying 200mb, but 200gb means 1000x the opportunity for errors, resource leaks, memory leaks, etc. The entire copy took 3 days, rather than just a few hours, because every few gb Windows would fail with a different error than with all the previous failures, except that "out of memory" and "insufficient resources" each happened more than twice. Luckily most of our servers run Linux, so I don't have to deal with that sort of crap most days.
They reimaged my machine shortly thereafter. :(
That's awful. Better set a bios password after the next install.
It seems unlikely that anyone would train dolphins with live ammo.
KDElibs has already been ported as far as I can tell.
o r+win32
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDElibs+f
South Korea To Build Front-line Combat Robot.
Some people think "North" when they hear about Korean military stuff.
If you're cheap, you can get the cheapest new system you can find, rip out the cd drive to free up an ide channel, find a way to safely mount four 250gb drives in it (I'd recommend the 250gb seagate 7200.8 for longevity, but that's just me) to make a raid 5, install a floppy drive, and use the floppy drive to do a net install of debian. Then set up samba for windows file sharing. That 750gb of redundant raid 5 storage will set you back between $500 and $900, depending on if you already have a system in mind to use for the job. Or you can get a good server with a similar setup for around $1500 or $1800, depending on if it needs to be fast.
Or you can just delete the ISO's and TV episodes, if they're not worth the extra cost and you're never going to use/watch them again anyway.
Whatever drives you get, make sure you research their quality first, especially if you don't care for the extra cost of a redundant raid and/or backups.