This can vary depending on your disks and other hardware, but to check the temperature of a hard disk I can type "smartctl -a/dev/hda | grep Temperature". If I were to parse that, I could make a cron job to notify me when a disk gets too hot. Disk temperature is your greatest concern, right? A broken AC is not the only way to fry a disk.
The problems you describe have nothing to do with the quality of Linux. Manufacturers, not Microsoft, write the drivers for all that hardware. Many of them don't write Linux drivers, and even refuse to provide the specs necessary to write Linux drivers. BTW: All my hardware works perfectly in Linux, as do my favorite Windows games.
What would Microsoft do without it? Not much I bet.
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Last time, the main site was slashdotted before any of the mirrors could grab a copy. This is a little reminder for those who gave up. It's on at least a couple of the mirrors this time around.
1) Release 100mb download, with stated goal of reaching a million downloads. 2) Post link on slashdot _before_ the download has been mirrored. 3) Watch in horror as tens of thousands of users try to download from the main server because it's not on the mirrors because the mirrors can't reach the main server.
My cellphone from Motorola advertised 250 hours on standby. After the first full charge, it died within 10 hours, on standby. Now, after over 6 months use, it comes very close to lasting half as long as promised, when charged for 3 nights in a row.
Such inflated specs are about as misleading as hard disk MTBF ratings.
There's a simple solution to that. You just change all the server admin passwords, unplug their workstation from the ethernet switch, and when they ask what's going on, tell them to clean their desk.
Do you folks have any advice when it comes to dealing vendors who release software that is unusuable and can't provide an acceptable resolution?
Just tarnish their name with a slashdot article.
I personally don't run virus scanners because of the problems they create. We have Symantec Antivirus 8 at work, but we've removed it from our slower systems and opted for more preventative measures.
Virus scanners do like 1000 times the scanning necessary to be _reasonably_ sure that your system is virus-free. While useful when they actually stop something, overall the cure is worse than the disease. A human just has to check the task manager and run msconfig to spot 90% of the malware out there.
Parents, teachers, and nosey bystanders worry too much. Kids know the difference between game violence and real violence, and use games as a safe outlet for their frustrations. Every day, thousands of innocent little children are tricked into clicking goatse links in web forums. A violent game isn't going to do any harm, nor is a rated R movie. Chances are they know what violence is, they know what profanity is, and they've more than once practiced both without having learned it from games or the media.
Those are the only ads I click on, and it's never to buy something. Most advertisements are paid per click. If I'm won't be clicking them anyways, there's no loss to them if I block the ads.
Microsoft might just release it as an API, without releasing an easy to use client of their own. That way they don't promote piracy, but they can reduce the bandwidth needed for software updates and assist adware producers in delivering full motion full screen ads to unsuspecting users.
My first distro was RedHat 6, which I hardly touched after I installed it. I didn't really start getting into Linux until I tried Slackware, which taught me a lot about how it all works, like how to do stuff from the command line, how to configure everything, how to install software from source, and other important things like that.
Some things are hard to learn unless I force myself, but afterwards I'm usually glad I did. It's not enough that something like a command line is available. It has to be all I have before I'll really learn it. Anything with a steep learning curve can't be learned a bit at a time as you need it.
I use Ubuntu now, but despite its aim for user friendliness I still need to use bash from time to time, or log in as root without starting X. Server administration would also be hard without command line experience.
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This can vary depending on your disks and other hardware, but to check the temperature of a hard disk I can type "smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep Temperature". If I were to parse that, I could make a cron job to notify me when a disk gets too hot. Disk temperature is your greatest concern, right? A broken AC is not the only way to fry a disk.
The problems you describe have nothing to do with the quality of Linux. Manufacturers, not Microsoft, write the drivers for all that hardware. Many of them don't write Linux drivers, and even refuse to provide the specs necessary to write Linux drivers. BTW: All my hardware works perfectly in Linux, as do my favorite Windows games.
What would Microsoft do without it? Not much I bet.
Last time, the main site was slashdotted before any of the mirrors could grab a copy. This is a little reminder for those who gave up. It's on at least a couple of the mirrors this time around.
1) Release 100mb download, with stated goal of reaching a million downloads.
2) Post link on slashdot _before_ the download has been mirrored.
3) Watch in horror as tens of thousands of users try to download from the main server because it's not on the mirrors because the mirrors can't reach the main server.
My cellphone from Motorola advertised 250 hours on standby. After the first full charge, it died within 10 hours, on standby. Now, after over 6 months use, it comes very close to lasting half as long as promised, when charged for 3 nights in a row.
Such inflated specs are about as misleading as hard disk MTBF ratings.
There's a simple solution to that. You just change all the server admin passwords, unplug their workstation from the ethernet switch, and when they ask what's going on, tell them to clean their desk.
Do you folks have any advice when it comes to dealing vendors who release software that is unusuable and can't provide an acceptable resolution?
Just tarnish their name with a slashdot article.
I personally don't run virus scanners because of the problems they create. We have Symantec Antivirus 8 at work, but we've removed it from our slower systems and opted for more preventative measures.
Virus scanners do like 1000 times the scanning necessary to be _reasonably_ sure that your system is virus-free. While useful when they actually stop something, overall the cure is worse than the disease. A human just has to check the task manager and run msconfig to spot 90% of the malware out there.
Parents, teachers, and nosey bystanders worry too much. Kids know the difference between game violence and real violence, and use games as a safe outlet for their frustrations. Every day, thousands of innocent little children are tricked into clicking goatse links in web forums. A violent game isn't going to do any harm, nor is a rated R movie. Chances are they know what violence is, they know what profanity is, and they've more than once practiced both without having learned it from games or the media.
Poor fellow.
I'm a subscriber, but I still see about half the ads.
Those are the only ads I click on, and it's never to buy something. Most advertisements are paid per click. If I'm won't be clicking them anyways, there's no loss to them if I block the ads.
By default they only try to block the fucking stupid popups and popunders that only serve to breed consumer resentment for the advertising sponsors.
It rejected the XP Home OEM key that came with my eMachine, purchased from CostCo.
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I tried to keep the definitions short.
programmer => hacker
criminal hacker => cracker
criminal non-hacker => script kiddie
No doubt about it.
I've been buying gigabit ethernet cards for $25 each. They're not as bad as the first generation. Beyond $100 or so you might be wasting your money.
Microsoft might just release it as an API, without releasing an easy to use client of their own. That way they don't promote piracy, but they can reduce the bandwidth needed for software updates and assist adware producers in delivering full motion full screen ads to unsuspecting users.
If you undercut the guys charging $30, you might get enough customers to fill your day.
So the rate of files being archived was multiplied by 128?
So exactly what free software have you had to compete with?
Who doesn't have 4 bosses these days?
My first distro was RedHat 6, which I hardly touched after I installed it. I didn't really start getting into Linux until I tried Slackware, which taught me a lot about how it all works, like how to do stuff from the command line, how to configure everything, how to install software from source, and other important things like that.
Some things are hard to learn unless I force myself, but afterwards I'm usually glad I did. It's not enough that something like a command line is available. It has to be all I have before I'll really learn it. Anything with a steep learning curve can't be learned a bit at a time as you need it.
I use Ubuntu now, but despite its aim for user friendliness I still need to use bash from time to time, or log in as root without starting X. Server administration would also be hard without command line experience.