Yes MS in their infinite wisdom has decided to disable activation of OEM (dell, compaq, toshiba, gateway, etc) codes.
It is annoying at best, but when some asshole (in india or paki) asks me how many PCs I have this installed on, I really get pissed. F U 2 will be my parting sentiment from this day forward.
OK. I agree It's total BS. Anyone here remember win98 1st ed phone home info disclosure (on connect to windows update)? Oh and they forgot to disclose that in the EULA too.
Same tricks, different year.
However it's not like Redhat's Up2date doesn't phone home daily too. Oh and doesn't it NOT allow you to automagically install patches unless you have current support agreement (which you could rotate between servers if you had one).
I only happen to know because a certain software vendor likes to use RHEL (maybe they're just rolling back prices like walmart).
I guess that's within the rules (but they're still scumbags)?
~128 to 256 KB is the typical CAP for "home" DSL or cable. I have a 768 KB symmetrical (static IP, commercial TOS) connection and it usually tests (throughput) right about there, sometimes the latency is an issue though (that's a problem for VOIP).
Last time I checked, you get no SLA (Service Level Agreement) with consumer DSL or cable Internet accounts. To the best of my knowledge you get no SLA with commercial DSL or cable accounts either (at least I don't and don't know of anyone who does). You have to buck up and pay for T or Frame or OC lines before you get an SLA.
Yes they oversell their capacity. Some places it isn't too bad (my connection), sometimes it becomes as slow as dial-up. I'd vote with my dollars appropriately.
This is one of the reasons I preach minimum privilege needed to get the job done. While it is cumbersome to live up to this under windows, in a corporate network is MUST be done.
I only allow local admin with a demonstrated NEED.
Yet I shake my head in amazement when wanna be admin lamerz perform their normal daily tasks (like read their email) logged in as a domain admin.
Even better, after failure of the spammer to yield after a fair warning, back in the day (90's) it was far more effective to retaliate with a program such as "Up Yours". That program was quite famously used for crashing the white house email server back in Clinton's time.
I've been running Fedora Core 5 x86 AMD 64 on my laptop since March 20th IIRC?
Looks good to me. I'm a little bummed they removed the right click option for terminal shell and it seems that whenever I do a view details of the boot process my video is hosed once the desktop comes up (ATI 200M).
The add/remove programs only seems to work when connected to the web.
Install was smooth and easy, better driver support than windows XP Pro 64-bit edition (thanks for nothing HP, broadcom, ATI & conexant).
The cause of terrorism is religious zealots. They're all the same.
That goes for whatever side of the coin you happen to be viewing. All are a bunch of total fools if you ask me.
From some a@@Hole who promises you 17 or WTF ever virgins if you complete some stupid suicide mission.
to
Some Frat Boy who burned his brains out on bourbon & coke and says that he's doing God's will (most people who think they talk to God are viewed to be either insane or a pope).
I got Karma to burn so I'm free to say (to the off topic a@@holes who don't like my sig) that your fascist (jack booted) leader has been responsible for the deaths of more Iraqis than Sadam (Insane) who is currently on trial for such.
Tell me oh fascist dipsticks why we shouldn't send Arbusto to the Hague for trial?
Or we just impeach him then throw him and his crew in jail for perjury (I believe that today that fact is so well established that even you fool ditto heads cannot ignore it) here in the good ol' US of A?
IMHO our founding fathers would tar, feather & ride this asshat and his crew out on a rail if they were around today.
Oh come on. Like most of it isn't wide open to begin with (Vonage) or run by known lapdogs to the Govmint (Skype). The only way it could be more readily (and easily) monitored (and data mined) would be if it was run by the NSA's favorite lapdog..... drum roll please...... AT&T.
Determine what realistic level of downtime you can accept.
Realistically I'd say 10 hours a day (working hours) is good for you.
Tons of time for updates, reboots, recovery from F-ups due to updates, patches, etc (done during off hours).
With a possible/probable downtime of 8 hours or so during working hours during those 10 working hours over a year. Likely due to unintended consequences from updates, patches, hardware failures, etc.
These requirements are Dramatically different from the 24/7/365 that you started with, which would be appropriate for a large hospital and require a ton of $$$$.
Default permissions on exchange Public folders used to be equiv to full control. Change to Full for exchange admin, modify, etc as appropriate (not sure about defaults on current release of exchange). Remember least permission/privilege needed to get the job done is the goal.
I was going to moderate this thread, but I just had to post this.
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Yes MS in their infinite wisdom has decided to disable activation of OEM (dell, compaq, toshiba, gateway, etc) codes.
It is annoying at best, but when some asshole (in india or paki) asks me how many PCs I have this installed on, I really get pissed. F U 2 will be my parting sentiment from this day forward.
OK. I agree It's total BS. Anyone here remember win98 1st ed phone home info disclosure (on connect to windows update)? Oh and they forgot to disclose that in the EULA too.
Same tricks, different year.
However it's not like Redhat's Up2date doesn't phone home daily too. Oh and doesn't it NOT allow you to automagically install patches unless you have current support agreement (which you could rotate between servers if you had one).
I only happen to know because a certain software vendor likes to use RHEL (maybe they're just rolling back prices like walmart).
I guess that's within the rules (but they're still scumbags)?
I run Fedora.
EULAs?????
It would appear they aren't worth the electrons required to display them.
I'd like to call BS on the gas mileage guesstimate sticker from when I bought my truck new.
~128 to 256 KB is the typical CAP for "home" DSL or cable. I have a 768 KB symmetrical (static IP, commercial TOS) connection and it usually tests (throughput) right about there, sometimes the latency is an issue though (that's a problem for VOIP).
Last time I checked, you get no SLA (Service Level Agreement) with consumer DSL or cable Internet accounts. To the best of my knowledge you get no SLA with commercial DSL or cable accounts either (at least I don't and don't know of anyone who does). You have to buck up and pay for T or Frame or OC lines before you get an SLA.
Yes they oversell their capacity. Some places it isn't too bad (my connection), sometimes it becomes as slow as dial-up. I'd vote with my dollars appropriately.
This is one of the reasons I preach minimum privilege needed to get the job done. While it is cumbersome to live up to this under windows, in a corporate network is MUST be done.
I only allow local admin with a demonstrated NEED.
Yet I shake my head in amazement when wanna be admin lamerz perform their normal daily tasks (like read their email) logged in as a domain admin.
It's not like the HP laptop I'm typing this on wasn't made/assembled/shipped from China too.
Agreed very dumb.
Even better, after failure of the spammer to yield after a fair warning, back in the day (90's) it was far more effective to retaliate with a program such as "Up Yours". That program was quite famously used for crashing the white house email server back in Clinton's time.
If you want to get the attention of the newbies this seems to be penned for, mention porn.
But that would probably result in an email DDOS of me too's.
Release notes.... Naw too much like reading the instructions. Just joking.
I added a launcher on the toolbar (even better IMHO) right next to the terminal service client (which I use to manage windows servers).
I've been running Fedora Core 5 x86 AMD 64 on my laptop since March 20th IIRC?
Looks good to me. I'm a little bummed they removed the right click option for terminal shell and it seems that whenever I do a view details of the boot process my video is hosed once the desktop comes up (ATI 200M).
The add/remove programs only seems to work when connected to the web.
Install was smooth and easy, better driver support than windows XP Pro 64-bit edition (thanks for nothing HP, broadcom, ATI & conexant).
You sir are an idiot.
The cause of terrorism is religious zealots. They're all the same.
That goes for whatever side of the coin you happen to be viewing. All are a bunch of total fools if you ask me.
From some a@@Hole who promises you 17 or WTF ever virgins if you complete some stupid suicide mission.
to
Some Frat Boy who burned his brains out on bourbon & coke and says that he's doing God's will (most people who think they talk to God are viewed to be either insane or a pope).
I got Karma to burn so I'm free to say (to the off topic a@@holes who don't like my sig) that your fascist (jack booted) leader has been responsible for the deaths of more Iraqis than Sadam (Insane) who is currently on trial for such.
Tell me oh fascist dipsticks why we shouldn't send Arbusto to the Hague for trial?
Or we just impeach him then throw him and his crew in jail for perjury (I believe that today that fact is so well established that even you fool ditto heads cannot ignore it) here in the good ol' US of A?
IMHO our founding fathers would tar, feather & ride this asshat and his crew out on a rail if they were around today.
Oh come on. Like most of it isn't wide open to begin with (Vonage) or run by known lapdogs to the Govmint (Skype). The only way it could be more readily (and easily) monitored (and data mined) would be if it was run by the NSA's favorite lapdog ..... drum roll please ...... AT&T.
I have a pal who's a paper OCP or whatever he is.
From what I've seen, he doesn't know shit except how to babble techno jargon.
I've sent him a couple of jobs (simple database w/ web front end).
He never got even got a single prototype working. He always silently gave up after floundering around for a few weeks.
I've tried to impress upon him the ability to actually DO IT. I don't know that he has ever even run a play database server.
He just keeps buying and reading more books. Waste of time IMHO.
I'd vote for them just to spite the corporatists.
AAArrrrrrr I mean the Corpocracy Party...
Aaarrrrrr I mean the Republicans & Democrats.
But that would break all my bookmarks/favorites!
Solitaire requires no bandwidth that's why.
When the time comes:
Determine what realistic level of downtime you can accept.
Realistically I'd say 10 hours a day (working hours) is good for you.
Tons of time for updates, reboots, recovery from F-ups due to updates, patches, etc (done during off hours).
With a possible/probable downtime of 8 hours or so during working hours during those 10 working hours over a year. Likely due to unintended consequences from updates, patches, hardware failures, etc.
These requirements are Dramatically different from the 24/7/365 that you started with, which would be appropriate for a large hospital and require a ton of $$$$.
I learned a long time ago to admit that it is possible to do X, but Y is the proper way to do it. If you want X, get someone else to do it.
I have seen this very same thing on several occasions in fortune 500 companies. Often it is the result of corporate nepotism.
Default permissions on exchange Public folders used to be equiv to full control. Change to Full for exchange admin, modify, etc as appropriate (not sure about defaults on current release of exchange). Remember least permission/privilege needed to get the job done is the goal.
I was going to moderate this thread, but I just had to post this.
I remember hearing years ago that, someone had used Bill's CC to order a truckload of viagra to be delivered to his house.
I worked as a chemist in a Bay Area refinery at the time this was implemented.
Building the "units" that created MTBE from raw materials at the refineries cost billions.
This was >10 years ago. At the time urban areas of CA were the only ones mandated oxygenates. IIRC.
MTBE was not mandated as "the" oxygenate to use. There were others. Among them EtOH (ethanol).
That these idiots allowed MTBE to even be an option was stooopid.