He posts a screenshot of a subscription window, with checkboxes next to each folder, and complains he can't figure out how to subscribe to each folder. So he gives up on Linux.
Proper configuration, proper coding, logging, and timely patches cost hardly anything. Antivirus software attempts to substitute for user education, and sometimes slows down systems, reducing productivity. But some users never learn. IDS software warns you about threats that should have been blocked by proper configuration. Except that it's nice to find out when an employee brings their virus infected laptop in and connects to your network, maps network shares, etc. I always figured Snort was the best IDS out there, and free, but my experience is limited.
The expected return is simply the sum of (cost of threat)*probability for each threat blocked, not that estimating either cost or probability are easy. Both tend to increase with company size.
In dollar value, insider threats can be much larger than any virus, and often get the least attention. Some client-server solutions, where a client-side program connects directly to a database server, often with a hardcoded or easily retrievable password, tend to be easy to exploit. Every commercial ERP and POS system I've ever demoed or administered was built in this fashion. Getting a list of customers' credit card details is usually straightforward. I saw one written in COBOL that had a super secret hardcoded admin login which you could probably guess in 20 tries with no clues. Even if you can't find the login, you can probably query what you want with a custom report.
I've had just enough experience with support contracts (mostly with rotten, scheming ERP vendors) that having one doesn't help me sleep better at night. What I really care about is having stable software that's never beyond my ability to fix.
My experience with CentOS has been entirely positive. Downtime has been rare, brief, and almost always due to failed hardware. And being based on RHEL, it gets longterm updates, limited to bug fixes and the occasional backported feature, nothing that would break a setup. I've never had a time where I wished I could call up a support tech for help with it, because it always seems faster to research a problem than try to describe it over the phone to someone who's unfamiliar with my setup and try all the standard solutions on their list that I know won't work. If a support tech had to appear onsite, it'd mean we were down for days. I'd much rather just know what I'm doing. But if I had to run commercial software that demanded a specific distro like RHEL before they'd provide support, I'd obviously meet their demands.
"While Windows has always supported prioritization of CPU usage, it hasn't included the concept of I/O priority. Without I/O priority, background activities like search indexing, virus scanning, and disk defragmenting can severely impact the responsiveness of foreground operations."
I've been flamed in the past for saying that 2000/XP didn't support I/O prioritization. A couple idle priority processes could bring a system to its knees with file I/O.
Now I can go back and win an argument I had with another Linux user in 2005, who believed that NT has always supported I/O prioritization.
Third parties are just bad at math. Their efforts are not only futile, but counterproductive. If they participated in either of the two parties, their opinions would make a difference. On their own, their only power is marketing, slowly shifting the two parties from the outside rather than from the inside.
I wish they all had weapons. The war would be over in a day, with minimal civilian casualties. As it is now, the most hateful iraqis have most of the weapons, and they'll faithfully exterminate any normal people they're told are infidels.
I tend to avoid anything with a mail-in rebate. TigerDirect, for example, has a scary notice on their packing slips saying you can't return a product if you get the rebate. Some places don't honor rebates if you have a po box, and I've never seen any vendor that had a clear description of the meaning of "limit one rebate per household". Is that per product? Or is it one rebate from them in your lifetime for anything?
Windows volume licenses are upgrade licenses, even though they let you install fresh. You wouldn't survive a BSA audit with volume licensed Windows installed on no-OS machines.
With every distro I tried, with 3d acceleration enabled, xfree86 would eventually crash and get stuck in a restart loop: kernel: [drm:i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* space: 131056 wanted 131064 kernel: [drm:i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* lockup gdm[2560]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting:0
Dell published a bios update which supposedly fixed this problem on the Dimension 2400C, IIRC, but didn't release any updates for the 2400 (which I had). Almost a year later I found that x.org (but not xfree86) had a workaround for the problem, and switched to a development release of Ubuntu Hoary since they had just made x.org their default.
January 26, 2004 to be exact, just after the first time this story was posted, that I'm aware of. It was shortly after Microsoft started its Get the Facts campaign. I think it cost more than the Windows variant though. It wasn't as Linux compatible as one would like. There was a bios issue (according to devs) that made 3D acceleration slightly unstable in xfree86, though a workaround was eventually added to x.org. This was probably the only affected Dell model not to get a firmware update to fix the issue. They fixed it in the Dimension 2500C, but not the Dimension 2500 which mine was based on. I went though about a year of just having to avoid 3D, but it all works today.
I've seen worse though. In 2005 I bought a Linspire system that had an entirely unsupported (at the time) via unichrome video chipset, so 3D acceleration wasn't even a possibility. But at that price, I figured something had to be wrong with it and chose to accept the risk anyway.
I'm not sure what it is with Linux PC sellers shipping systems with linux-incompatible hardware. I also bought a no-OS IBM NetVista that would randomly freeze unless I booted Linux with the noapic kernel option.
I've seen a number of cases where the WGA Notifications update flags an install as pirated, while the Microsoft Genuine Advantage diagnostics tool identifies the same install as genuine. They released a buggy update, no doubt about that. Sometimes revalidating and reinstalling the update made the false accusations go away.
People like you make companies think my resume is exaggerated. I really have programmed in over 20 languages, and dabbled in almost every field of CS imaginable, since I started programming 15 years ago at age 9. I have to condense my resume and omit a lot of the cool parts.
should we, as society, allow such organizations to exist? Society is formed by people, who allow such organizations to exist by purchasing their products. Even if they're wrong to support Microsoft, it's their freedom. To take the decision out of the hands of consumers would be to deny them market freedom. Imagine saying "No, we won't let you buy from that company, because we've decided they're too dishonest and profit driven."
Investors who are willing to risk their own money decide which start-ups to invest in. Consumers decide which company will ultimately be successful, and a successful investor will try to identify those companies.
Slashdot Mirror
Between slashdot, digg, and google news, I must have seen a dozen reports already.
He posts a screenshot of a subscription window, with checkboxes next to each folder, and complains he can't figure out how to subscribe to each folder. So he gives up on Linux.
Proper configuration, proper coding, logging, and timely patches cost hardly anything.
Antivirus software attempts to substitute for user education, and sometimes slows down systems, reducing productivity. But some users never learn.
IDS software warns you about threats that should have been blocked by proper configuration. Except that it's nice to find out when an employee brings their virus infected laptop in and connects to your network, maps network shares, etc. I always figured Snort was the best IDS out there, and free, but my experience is limited.
The expected return is simply the sum of (cost of threat)*probability for each threat blocked, not that estimating either cost or probability are easy. Both tend to increase with company size.
In dollar value, insider threats can be much larger than any virus, and often get the least attention. Some client-server solutions, where a client-side program connects directly to a database server, often with a hardcoded or easily retrievable password, tend to be easy to exploit. Every commercial ERP and POS system I've ever demoed or administered was built in this fashion. Getting a list of customers' credit card details is usually straightforward. I saw one written in COBOL that had a super secret hardcoded admin login which you could probably guess in 20 tries with no clues. Even if you can't find the login, you can probably query what you want with a custom report.
I've had just enough experience with support contracts (mostly with rotten, scheming ERP vendors) that having one doesn't help me sleep better at night. What I really care about is having stable software that's never beyond my ability to fix.
My experience with CentOS has been entirely positive. Downtime has been rare, brief, and almost always due to failed hardware. And being based on RHEL, it gets longterm updates, limited to bug fixes and the occasional backported feature, nothing that would break a setup. I've never had a time where I wished I could call up a support tech for help with it, because it always seems faster to research a problem than try to describe it over the phone to someone who's unfamiliar with my setup and try all the standard solutions on their list that I know won't work. If a support tech had to appear onsite, it'd mean we were down for days. I'd much rather just know what I'm doing. But if I had to run commercial software that demanded a specific distro like RHEL before they'd provide support, I'd obviously meet their demands.
"While Windows has always supported prioritization of CPU usage, it hasn't included the concept of I/O priority. Without I/O priority, background activities like search indexing, virus scanning, and disk defragmenting can severely impact the responsiveness of foreground operations."
I've been flamed in the past for saying that 2000/XP didn't support I/O prioritization. A couple idle priority processes could bring a system to its knees with file I/O.
Now I can go back and win an argument I had with another Linux user in 2005, who believed that NT has always supported I/O prioritization.
They thought of that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM-Mark
I'm not sure if HD-DVD has a similar feature, or if this is Blu-ray only.
Obviously, the player wasn't as defective as it was designed to be.
MSFT stock has gained 4.1% since 3 weeks ago.
Nevermind. I missed the "try to log in" part.
Looks alright in Firefox on Linux, at least the front page. It's almost all Flash though.
Joe Public voted for a militaristic extremist twice in a raw because he's afraid of gay marriage and abortion.
b lican_Party_(United_States)i ted_States)#Current_factions
It's a two party system, until we get around to fixing it. But there are many types of democrats and many types of republicans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factions_in_the_Repu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Un
Third parties are just bad at math. Their efforts are not only futile, but counterproductive. If they participated in either of the two parties, their opinions would make a difference. On their own, their only power is marketing, slowly shifting the two parties from the outside rather than from the inside.
Mod parent up.
Saying the 2nd amendment is about government sponsored militia is like saying the 1st amendment is about government sponsored speech.
I wish they all had weapons. The war would be over in a day, with minimal civilian casualties. As it is now, the most hateful iraqis have most of the weapons, and they'll faithfully exterminate any normal people they're told are infidels.
You're not breaking Godwin's law at all.
Godwin's law applies to nazis and Hitler. Nazism is a combination of both fascism and racism. Not all fascists are nazis.
Besides, we're talking about the real thing here. Out government officials have embraced a number of fascist ideals.
Forget Godwin's law for moment. These people are the real deal.
I tend to avoid anything with a mail-in rebate. TigerDirect, for example, has a scary notice on their packing slips saying you can't return a product if you get the rebate. Some places don't honor rebates if you have a po box, and I've never seen any vendor that had a clear description of the meaning of "limit one rebate per household". Is that per product? Or is it one rebate from them in your lifetime for anything?
Windows volume licenses are upgrade licenses, even though they let you install fresh. You wouldn't survive a BSA audit with volume licensed Windows installed on no-OS machines.
There have been problems with some models.
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I bought one the first time this story appeared.
With every distro I tried, with 3d acceleration enabled, xfree86 would eventually crash and get stuck in a restart loop:
kernel: [drm:i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* space: 131056 wanted 131064
kernel: [drm:i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* lockup
gdm[2560]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting
Dell published a bios update which supposedly fixed this problem on the Dimension 2400C, IIRC, but didn't release any updates for the 2400 (which I had). Almost a year later I found that x.org (but not xfree86) had a workaround for the problem, and switched to a development release of Ubuntu Hoary since they had just made x.org their default.
January 26, 2004 to be exact, just after the first time this story was posted, that I'm aware of. It was shortly after Microsoft started its Get the Facts campaign. I think it cost more than the Windows variant though. It wasn't as Linux compatible as one would like. There was a bios issue (according to devs) that made 3D acceleration slightly unstable in xfree86, though a workaround was eventually added to x.org. This was probably the only affected Dell model not to get a firmware update to fix the issue. They fixed it in the Dimension 2500C, but not the Dimension 2500 which mine was based on. I went though about a year of just having to avoid 3D, but it all works today.
I've seen worse though. In 2005 I bought a Linspire system that had an entirely unsupported (at the time) via unichrome video chipset, so 3D acceleration wasn't even a possibility. But at that price, I figured something had to be wrong with it and chose to accept the risk anyway.
I'm not sure what it is with Linux PC sellers shipping systems with linux-incompatible hardware. I also bought a no-OS IBM NetVista that would randomly freeze unless I booted Linux with the noapic kernel option.
I've seen a number of cases where the WGA Notifications update flags an install as pirated, while the Microsoft Genuine Advantage diagnostics tool identifies the same install as genuine. They released a buggy update, no doubt about that. Sometimes revalidating and reinstalling the update made the false accusations go away.
I suppose that didn't come out quite right. Sorry if I offended anyone with my self loving comment. And I really haven't been looking for work.
People like you make companies think my resume is exaggerated. I really have programmed in over 20 languages, and dabbled in almost every field of CS imaginable, since I started programming 15 years ago at age 9. I have to condense my resume and omit a lot of the cool parts.
should we, as society, allow such organizations to exist?
Society is formed by people, who allow such organizations to exist by purchasing their products. Even if they're wrong to support Microsoft, it's their freedom. To take the decision out of the hands of consumers would be to deny them market freedom. Imagine saying "No, we won't let you buy from that company, because we've decided they're too dishonest and profit driven."
Investors who are willing to risk their own money decide which start-ups to invest in. Consumers decide which company will ultimately be successful, and a successful investor will try to identify those companies.
Money is not always so rare.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-inflation