More Stable, Works Better? Compared to what, the servers that I work with routinely have uptimes in excess of 6 monthes, one has an NT 4 box with an uptime of 2 years. I have never seen a server come down due to the video card, unless the actual card dies, because you use simple hardware with WHQL'd drivers.
Easier eh? I can hop onto the desktop of any Windows server and figure out the configuration and role of the server, I don't need any documentation of where Apache is installed, what MTA is in use, where the SA config file is, or a dozen other things I have to know or find out on the *nix boxes that I support.
I can also do most taskes via scripts, both on and off the server (assuming in the same network, you wouldn't see any of my clients with the RPC port open on the Firewall).
What you see as the best solution, others may not be the best for others. I have worked extensivly with both Windows and *nix in a datacenter and enterprise enviroments, I have learned that each has it's own uses, and both can either be very secure, or hacked overnight.
I don't buy the "prevents you from...working on the wrong...servers" argument. It's no harder to type the right name into a gui that connects to an administration daemon than it is to type the right name into a remote access daemon,
Depends on how you do it, many consultants custom create mmc enviroments for different networks that they connect to and in some cases different servers, in those you spefic which server you are connecting to. So it's quite easy to double click the wrong MMC, I have never done that, but I have heard others that have.
As for it being "easier"; yes, it's true, you can trade off system stability and resources for the minor convenience of not having to have your administration GUI installed on the systems allowed to access your server administratively;
Minor convenience, what happens when the NIC goes bad, or the seriel port if you are using that? Stability? Sure there is a minor chance that there could be an issue, but I have seen RAM issues creep up much more often the video issues. As far as ad-hoc administration, keep customer data on customer systems is a even better for security, VPN and RDP in, all the data stays on the client servers, but I also have that data at my finger tips when I log in.
Mostly because it's easier to log in via TS using a domain account, and it's simply easier to administrate the servers, it also prevents you from getting confused and working on the wrong customers servers over the Administrator's Tools (though that harder to do outside a managed hosting environment).
One of these days I will measure the how much RAM and CPU a server uses with the Winlogin screen up, how much an administrator type TS session takes, and figure out how much it would save. But since administrators ideally should be rarely connected, it shouldn't be that big of a deal.
I like TS because it allows me to segregate my work environments between clients.
And people complain that there is nothing new in Vista, phew... I mean if they manage to do all those things, and do them the right way like they seem to be decided to (for once...) it will be damn worth a new release...
The thing to remember is that people are idiots, unless they can see the changes, they are unlikely to believe that anything major happened, short of the new UI the average user is not going to see any changes despite there being a major reworking of the plumbing under the hood.
On the server side the changes are great because the plumbing changes often means that we are able to push the higher end servers a bit faster, and Monad will rock, a true CLI, though that means I will likely have to rewrite all my scripts.
Why not, is there any operation about them that'd REQUIRE a "true" GUI instead of command-line tools?
In the current versions, I don't believe so, but there are alot of complex tasks that an admin might do very rarely (ie not common enough to write a script), that just flow better using the GUI tools.
I also highly doubt that the GUI is wasting any significant amount of resources sitting at the login screen (you are practicing physical security, no logged in users unless they are currently working on the machine).
That being said, I can't think of the last time that I used the local console for anything other then network settings. I do most of my work via TS.
Airbus is only beating Boeing because they have government backing. Where Boeing Commerical Aircraft division has to fianace, get loans, and otherwise bet the company on new aircraft, Airbus just has to ask for government backed loans, program fails, no problem for Airbus. A program failing for Boeing could be the end of it's commerical division.
Sure the government could bail Boeing out, but that may or may not happen and Boeing would have to fail to find out. Whereas Airbus, as a company, knows that they are safe regardless of the risk they take.
I'm highly suspicious when I walk into a developer's office and see the two dozen ".NET" books on the shelf, the spines giving all appearances of never being violated.
You know it could be that the book uses the lay flat binding, that O'Reilly uses as standard. I have abused the crap out of my O'Reilly books with the spines of many looking like the day I bought them, the corners are another story. I love hardcover books because their spines don't wear out, nor do the corners start fold as easily.
Could you clue a brother in why you were running 2003 on a PII?
Why not? The computer is a hand me down, most Windows consultants have MSDN subscriptions or the Action Pack, and generally answer surveys and such that net them another copy of copies a year. I have about 5 NFR copies in a drawer at home.
I run ISA Server 2004 using Windows 2003, on a Athlon XP.
Oh so now you want things to be added to the OS? I thought that this was slashdot that doesn't believe that IE should be part of the OS, make up your freaking mind.
Personally I think thats a good thing, the only thing that change from one release to another that the user should see, is hardware support. Most of the rest should be in parts that the user doesn't normally see.
The SEC would ask the DOJ and FBI to investigate the matter. The FBI and DOJ can investigate, and possibly prosecute it without blowing the case that ended up with the agents accidentally tapping the phone line of the CEO.
Also why do you assume that the CEO is doing anything wrong, he simply makes a hypothetical case (one which I doubt would happen because I would hope that the agents have more of a moral fiber then that) that the CEO is overheard by agents that tapped the wrong phone line. He could be overheard simply talking to an engineer, and some VP at the company in preparing the announcement of the launch of the product.
Agreed, I have been a big fan of application aware firewalls for a long time. There is no way that a simple firewall can protect a server and a network, when it's the applications that are allowed internet access that are getting compromised.
An application firewall is the answer IMO, it's all about defense in depth.
Free market can work both ways, just because someone makes something doesn't mean they have to sell it to you.
North Carolina wrote a law that, in the spirit it was written (according to a poster in the comments here), that they simply can't comply with. They are telling the state they they can't comply, and they would rather not have the business if they choose to stick to that law.
My business is one of he few experts in the country on the products we work on, and seamless solutions that we have been able to write extending the product. We have been approached to bid on certain projects, some of the governments have asked for assine amounts of information about our business just to bid on the contracts. We have told some of the governments that we couldn't comply, because the time and record keeping didn't make it worth it, a couple that have really wanted our services have come back with a new RFQ without those requirements.
My personal computer was on for nearly a year, if it weren't for a hurricanee caused power outage it would still be running. My server are the same way, 300 days uptime, no sweat. The computer is full useable.
Generally you get to see your benefit package before you begin working for the company. You can also work out different benefits packages once you get above entry level, though a company healthplan is generally cheaper because you can get it deducted before taxes, so there is less taxable income, thus less taxes.
And with NHS you are still paying for 100% of your healthcare cost, or at least what the government deems to be your portion via taxes.
The thing that people forget, is that government programs may seem free because you don't directly get the bill, but in the end they still cost you money because you are paying for it with your taxes.
I would rather have a choice via insurance, then to have to deal with the government. Anything that the government gets itself invovled it, it generally mucks it up.
With exceptions of specialist hospitals, such as ones that only treat children, any hospital worth it's salt has an ER, at least in this state. If Canada or the UK threw the amount of money needed to take the wait times down to reasonable levels (no person should have to deal with the pain for more then a week), they would see such a sharp incline in spending that it would make the government accounts choke.
Medicare fraud sucks, but it's something to deal with, but it's there for those that need the care, whether old, or simply those that can't pay. Also most states have health plans for the low income, in particular children.
Would I rather be in a system where fraud can happen, but is punished when found, or be on my couch, in pain waiting for a doctor? Personally when you are in pain, the only thing that matters is removing it. Something is wrong when your citizens have to fly to other countries to get needed surgeries.
I believe it was linked here on/., but there was a report out by a major university, that looked at which news programs were the most unbiased, one way or the other. Of course, O'Windbag wasn't on that list, but one of the programs on Foxnews was, the Fox Report with Shepard Smith.
Not only was it on that list, but according to their methodology, it was the most balanced national news program.
The 64 bit requirement is for upcoming server releases. In particular Release 2 of the yet unnamed Longhorn Server (Server 2003 hasn't had it's R2 released yet), and some future server applications like Exchange 12.
There is no talk of requiring 64 bit extensions on any of the consumer products, though it's reported to be supported out of the box.
Most descent companies are ready with device drivers with each new release, only a small few companies and legacy products do the companies not release new drivers for. Besides I think that a 64 bit and 32 bit driver will likely be required to get your drivers WHQL'd for Vista. I have the DDK I can dig through the docs.
Also if history is any indicator, people are likely just buy new devices, HP saw a boon of new printer sales with ME because the driver disk that came with their old printers didn't work. Even though they could download it, for many it's just easier to them just to buy another one, a better one.
Vista is going to have native x64 support in release, if these companies don't write the drivers, at least for products that are currently shipping they are going to lose customers, people are much more likely to get new $10 doo hickies, then they are to return a $1,000 computer.
Time Warner is currently laying it's own fiber network, they are concentrating on businesses (who are much more likely to pay the installation fees, and the higher costs of introductory service) first, then consumers.
I am in an area that is being wired by both Verizon and Brighthouse for fiber.
CmdrTaco,
I wanted to suggest a mod to ease your transistion to your new name. It's a mod written by a friend of mine sick of the usual, "Who's this?" when talking to alts.
It prefixes all you chat converations with [$Selectedname]:
It's called Incognito, it was on curse-gaming, but they haven't been up for a while, it's on our wiki, but I don't want to link that on/., but I assume that you can e-mail me or something if you are intrested.
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Examples please, I haven't used Express, since I am an MSDN subscriber. I have been using 2005 since it was released and am very happy with it.
You can download them for free here. You can also get SQL 2005 Express Edition on the same page.
Easier eh? I can hop onto the desktop of any Windows server and figure out the configuration and role of the server, I don't need any documentation of where Apache is installed, what MTA is in use, where the SA config file is, or a dozen other things I have to know or find out on the *nix boxes that I support.
I can also do most taskes via scripts, both on and off the server (assuming in the same network, you wouldn't see any of my clients with the RPC port open on the Firewall).
What you see as the best solution, others may not be the best for others. I have worked extensivly with both Windows and *nix in a datacenter and enterprise enviroments, I have learned that each has it's own uses, and both can either be very secure, or hacked overnight.
Depends on how you do it, many consultants custom create mmc enviroments for different networks that they connect to and in some cases different servers, in those you spefic which server you are connecting to. So it's quite easy to double click the wrong MMC, I have never done that, but I have heard others that have.
As for it being "easier"; yes, it's true, you can trade off system stability and resources for the minor convenience of not having to have your administration GUI installed on the systems allowed to access your server administratively;
Minor convenience, what happens when the NIC goes bad, or the seriel port if you are using that? Stability? Sure there is a minor chance that there could be an issue, but I have seen RAM issues creep up much more often the video issues. As far as ad-hoc administration, keep customer data on customer systems is a even better for security, VPN and RDP in, all the data stays on the client servers, but I also have that data at my finger tips when I log in.
One of these days I will measure the how much RAM and CPU a server uses with the Winlogin screen up, how much an administrator type TS session takes, and figure out how much it would save. But since administrators ideally should be rarely connected, it shouldn't be that big of a deal.
I like TS because it allows me to segregate my work environments between clients.
The thing to remember is that people are idiots, unless they can see the changes, they are unlikely to believe that anything major happened, short of the new UI the average user is not going to see any changes despite there being a major reworking of the plumbing under the hood.
On the server side the changes are great because the plumbing changes often means that we are able to push the higher end servers a bit faster, and Monad will rock, a true CLI, though that means I will likely have to rewrite all my scripts.
In the current versions, I don't believe so, but there are alot of complex tasks that an admin might do very rarely (ie not common enough to write a script), that just flow better using the GUI tools.
I also highly doubt that the GUI is wasting any significant amount of resources sitting at the login screen (you are practicing physical security, no logged in users unless they are currently working on the machine).
That being said, I can't think of the last time that I used the local console for anything other then network settings. I do most of my work via TS.
Sure the government could bail Boeing out, but that may or may not happen and Boeing would have to fail to find out. Whereas Airbus, as a company, knows that they are safe regardless of the risk they take.
You know it could be that the book uses the lay flat binding, that O'Reilly uses as standard. I have abused the crap out of my O'Reilly books with the spines of many looking like the day I bought them, the corners are another story. I love hardcover books because their spines don't wear out, nor do the corners start fold as easily.
Why not? The computer is a hand me down, most Windows consultants have MSDN subscriptions or the Action Pack, and generally answer surveys and such that net them another copy of copies a year. I have about 5 NFR copies in a drawer at home.
I run ISA Server 2004 using Windows 2003, on a Athlon XP.
I play with Linux and Windows equally.
Personally I think thats a good thing, the only thing that change from one release to another that the user should see, is hardware support. Most of the rest should be in parts that the user doesn't normally see.
Also why do you assume that the CEO is doing anything wrong, he simply makes a hypothetical case (one which I doubt would happen because I would hope that the agents have more of a moral fiber then that) that the CEO is overheard by agents that tapped the wrong phone line. He could be overheard simply talking to an engineer, and some VP at the company in preparing the announcement of the launch of the product.
An application firewall is the answer IMO, it's all about defense in depth.
North Carolina wrote a law that, in the spirit it was written (according to a poster in the comments here), that they simply can't comply with. They are telling the state they they can't comply, and they would rather not have the business if they choose to stick to that law.
My business is one of he few experts in the country on the products we work on, and seamless solutions that we have been able to write extending the product. We have been approached to bid on certain projects, some of the governments have asked for assine amounts of information about our business just to bid on the contracts. We have told some of the governments that we couldn't comply, because the time and record keeping didn't make it worth it, a couple that have really wanted our services have come back with a new RFQ without those requirements.
My personal computer was on for nearly a year, if it weren't for a hurricanee caused power outage it would still be running. My server are the same way, 300 days uptime, no sweat. The computer is full useable.
Generally you get to see your benefit package before you begin working for the company. You can also work out different benefits packages once you get above entry level, though a company healthplan is generally cheaper because you can get it deducted before taxes, so there is less taxable income, thus less taxes.
The thing that people forget, is that government programs may seem free because you don't directly get the bill, but in the end they still cost you money because you are paying for it with your taxes.
I would rather have a choice via insurance, then to have to deal with the government. Anything that the government gets itself invovled it, it generally mucks it up.
Medicare fraud sucks, but it's something to deal with, but it's there for those that need the care, whether old, or simply those that can't pay. Also most states have health plans for the low income, in particular children.
Would I rather be in a system where fraud can happen, but is punished when found, or be on my couch, in pain waiting for a doctor? Personally when you are in pain, the only thing that matters is removing it. Something is wrong when your citizens have to fly to other countries to get needed surgeries.
Not only was it on that list, but according to their methodology, it was the most balanced national news program.
There is no talk of requiring 64 bit extensions on any of the consumer products, though it's reported to be supported out of the box.
Most descent companies are ready with device drivers with each new release, only a small few companies and legacy products do the companies not release new drivers for. Besides I think that a 64 bit and 32 bit driver will likely be required to get your drivers WHQL'd for Vista. I have the DDK I can dig through the docs.
Also if history is any indicator, people are likely just buy new devices, HP saw a boon of new printer sales with ME because the driver disk that came with their old printers didn't work. Even though they could download it, for many it's just easier to them just to buy another one, a better one.
Vista is going to have native x64 support in release, if these companies don't write the drivers, at least for products that are currently shipping they are going to lose customers, people are much more likely to get new $10 doo hickies, then they are to return a $1,000 computer.
I am in an area that is being wired by both Verizon and Brighthouse for fiber.
If Apple could do those things it would. And same with just about any business.
I know for a fact that SQL Server can handle 18 million records easily, it's the transactions per a day that kills a server.
It prefixes all you chat converations with [$Selectedname]:
It's called Incognito, it was on curse-gaming, but they haven't been up for a while, it's on our wiki, but I don't want to link that on /., but I assume that you can e-mail me or something if you are intrested.