I'd say they're a monopoly, but Linux is coming ahead quite fast. Linux is easily been usable... Choice. Isnt that what unmakes a monopoly?
Anyways, I have solid facts why I dont like windows stuff on my servers, not knee-jerk reactions that fail scrutiny. After all, I have to answer to my boss if ol' MS marketing squadron comes into town, and Im invited to those "meetings".
>>>Administrator ability to log in as another user, without their password, using their environment.
Nope. That one is intentionally NOT in there. Go have a look at OpenVMS, the software from yesteryear that MS built NT. There was supposed to be a form of audit logs that you must either reset their password OR take Control Rights of. Either way, the user is tipped off that admin/root was playing in their acct.
>>>Ability to easily assign a printer or share you've set up as administrator to all other users of the machine/domain... and don't even mention group policies (what a cluster fuck).
It's not that hard. Check the permissions of the local device/directory is. Then control who has access to the share. It's no harder than user/group/everybody along with the NSA patches on Linux.
>>>Ability to easily assign drive mappings/printers dependant on what groups a users belongs to (again don't EVEN say you can do thit with group policies).
Simply done with logon scripts, as the AC said. He IS right, you know..
And if you're going to get pissed off at MS, at least do so with the right reasons. First, there's no way to configure a server decently over a modem line. MS already created edit.com, which is a usable editor. Why not have a SYNC program in/winnt/etc that lets you see, a list of txt configs that control the system? You could back up the configs and know you have a hardcopy of the conf's. Once you're done editing these files, you could re-run the sync program and have it re-populate the registry.
Next bitch is about MS not patching critical software. Here at my work, we were hit with 2 nasty viruses recently. If you say that we should have had them patched you're wrong. The patches themselves have "added functionality" which we could not install on our clients until we determined they were OK to do so. Essentially, a patch is SUPPOSED to fix a wrong, not add extra crap.
Third, is I cannot log in to multiple accounts at once. Exapmle: I can log into my user on my Linux box, and (since I'm in wheel) su to root to get certain root-only things done. With su/sudo/kdesu/gsu, correct attributes with each user are applied properly. In windows, there is no way I can do this (I know xp has it, but It's not a server os). Some of you might say, "Use the RunAs service" (hold down left-shift and left click on program, or called from command line). It doesnt propigate environment varibles correctly, so many programs wont install/run. Heck, even I can run XWindows stuff as multiple users! Why cant windows?
1: Xwindows server 2: True INIT runlevels with windows reg-startips inserted as init scripts 3: Samba server (heh heh heh) 4: Remapping of the drive to conform with the standard of/bin ,/sbin ,/etc ,/home (or/usr/home)......
The tools are nice, but it still feels like a half-ass effort with Microsoft. I'm still somewhat happy that they tried.
1: Sure does. Has another rule set also, but the 2.6.0test4 didnt have help associated to it. I believe it was MDAC, but there's no configuration for it yet.
2: I'm too poor to afford any decent PPC box. However, ALSA seemed to work on most of my boxes. Only garbage cards like the Aureal series dont work. And I dont fel bad about them either....
3: Yep. Instead of having to deal with network block suppport, you just mount as a -T CIFS . It sees that you're trying to mount/dev nodes, and allows you to have the appropiate controls.
I'll give you 3 good reasons why 2.6 is a "bit" better than 2.4
1: NSA security patches included into kernel as "Alternate security system"
2: Default sound system of ALSA
3: SMB-Unix extensions for the new CIFS, allows you to remotely mount/dev/ from another computer
I look at Linux as this for a secure system. Take a beefy machine and put UML on it. Now, use NSA security patches on every UML sub-machine. Have all of those/dev mounted to the real machine by way of SMB-Unix extension and USB rootplug on the master.
In effect, you have to be sitting at the console, with your usb key, and then take root on those sub-machines on your UML network.
Can anyone say ouch? Put those black-hat's in their place.
This could get neat if used right....
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Well, first off, "HyperSCSI' isnt such. All it is is just a correctionless protocol over ethernet hardware. Really, that's a bad idea. You'd be better off if you used ethernet hardware that sped up IPSEC and related ip protocols.
1: Create 2 networks, one being the normal network, and one being the SAN
2: Use GigE cable on your SAN with the inclusion of advanced Network FS'es like Coda.
3: Provide POP's that connect the external network with the internal SAN/serverNET by way of tunnels and port forwarding. Also offer a way to mount local share by Samba or the network FS'es you use internally. Kerberos and an LDAP would be a STRONG option for maintaining
As long as our OS'es run on multiple platforms with good hardware behind them, Intel's just a low end cheap solution. After all, the better chipsets are using the Gx series (care of Motorola and IBM) or Sparc hardware.
Intel, AMD and Cyrix have enabled cheap, low end mainframe computing for the masses... After all, look at some of the better OS'es - QNX, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris.
I know why he used that as his example. Who actually uses, by default, a 486? Everybody in technology has something more powerful. Een a GBA has more CPU power.
Also, a lot of HAM's who're in digital transmissions use around a 486. Plenty of serials, paralells, ISA for handmade cards, PCI for those 10BT + 10B2 + AUI combo networking cards all in something you wouldnt mind if a wee too much signal went through it;-)
If you didnt know about it, you probably didnt need it, as you probably would do a search before paying for a tool similar to these.
After all, we know slashdotters click on the link, but 95% of them are windows users (roughly the similar percentage as every other site). Slashdot is a site where people whine about MS and parade Linux news around, so why attempt to submit an article HERE?
Even better yet, if you're soo interested in linux stuf, check out Fravia's lessons on Searching. There's interesting black and gray hat tools that compare to sebek, but you have to ACTUALLY find them. They're not on the normal crapforge site
It'll show how good the merger is between Enix and Square. I know, as a DQ fan, that I dreaded hearing tha news. After all, look how bad the FF series has gotten.
>>FYI, I believe that PS1 was emulated and PS2,3 were translated in Phantasy Star Collection.
Ambigous. Do you mean that the PS1 code was emulated in the PS2? If so, you're wrong. There's 2 main CPU's in the PS2. One is for PS1 and a bios-like chip to interface to the main CPU to make the PS2 rom calls. They also use this shim to add anti-aliasing.
I know. The default AppleII gs hardware is a SNES with a 32 channel sound board. The SNES was a Sony SPC700 chip that handled only 8 channels and 64k ram.
For console video games, why in the hell would you translate the language? All the consoles had funky hardware that games used one time or another.
For 1, the NES uses mappers to display games. On emulators, many mappers are not supported. NES game producers also put hard-coded timings in games. So if your recompiled game isnt the exact same multiplier of clock frequencies, many will exhibit starnge behavior or just lock up.
Next, the SNES had pretty much basic AppleII GS hardware with the exception of the 32 channel sound card. It had a sound cpu which could hold 64k code along with samples. A problem that the makers of ZSnes had was determining the random noise generators formula. On the older games like Chrono Trigger, the wind would sound like square waves going up and down. That sounds fun, compiling a game when you find out that the hardware emulation controls wernt right.
Jump to PS2. Who would have thought that a comuter like that would be available to the public? One that has little GFX ram but a huge bus. Not to mention a full FS to "compile". What pitfalls occur in the 3D hardware?
Emulation is still better as it offers a replacable shim to modify and add features. You can also use other emulators.
Cause the effects business is big
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And everybody seems to need a custom sound.
For some effects, all you need is the item (horn, siren, wind) and a recording studio. Those are the canned effects. Most efects are auditioned. All I can say is they're expensive.
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Oh yeah, I forgot.
They're a company, so it makes them EVIL.
I'd say they're a monopoly, but Linux is coming ahead quite fast. Linux is easily been usable... Choice. Isnt that what unmakes a monopoly?
Anyways, I have solid facts why I dont like windows stuff on my servers, not knee-jerk reactions that fail scrutiny. After all, I have to answer to my boss if ol' MS marketing squadron comes into town, and Im invited to those "meetings".
>>>Administrator ability to log in as another user, without their password, using their environment.
/winnt/etc that lets you see, a list of txt configs that control the system? You could back up the configs and know you have a hardcopy of the conf's. Once you're done editing these files, you could re-run the sync program and have it re-populate the registry.
Nope. That one is intentionally NOT in there. Go have a look at OpenVMS, the software from yesteryear that MS built NT. There was supposed to be a form of audit logs that you must either reset their password OR take Control Rights of. Either way, the user is tipped off that admin/root was playing in their acct.
>>>Ability to easily assign a printer or share you've set up as administrator to all other users of the machine/domain... and don't even mention group policies (what a cluster fuck).
It's not that hard. Check the permissions of the local device/directory is. Then control who has access to the share. It's no harder than user/group/everybody along with the NSA patches on Linux.
>>>Ability to easily assign drive mappings/printers dependant on what groups a users belongs to (again don't EVEN say you can do thit with group policies).
Simply done with logon scripts, as the AC said. He IS right, you know..
And if you're going to get pissed off at MS, at least do so with the right reasons. First, there's no way to configure a server decently over a modem line. MS already created edit.com, which is a usable editor. Why not have a SYNC program in
Next bitch is about MS not patching critical software. Here at my work, we were hit with 2 nasty viruses recently. If you say that we should have had them patched you're wrong. The patches themselves have "added functionality" which we could not install on our clients until we determined they were OK to do so. Essentially, a patch is SUPPOSED to fix a wrong, not add extra crap.
Third, is I cannot log in to multiple accounts at once. Exapmle: I can log into my user on my Linux box, and (since I'm in wheel) su to root to get certain root-only things done. With su/sudo/kdesu/gsu, correct attributes with each user are applied properly. In windows, there is no way I can do this (I know xp has it, but It's not a server os). Some of you might say, "Use the RunAs service" (hold down left-shift and left click on program, or called from command line). It doesnt propigate environment varibles correctly, so many programs wont install/run. Heck, even I can run XWindows stuff as multiple users! Why cant windows?
And they missed some of the best parts..
/bin , /sbin , /etc , /home (or /usr/home)......
1: Xwindows server
2: True INIT runlevels with windows reg-startips inserted as init scripts
3: Samba server (heh heh heh)
4: Remapping of the drive to conform with the standard of
The tools are nice, but it still feels like a half-ass effort with Microsoft. I'm still somewhat happy that they tried.
They have some really nice Broadcomm linux drivers there....
Or do you remember that?
1: Sure does. Has another rule set also, but the 2.6.0test4 didnt have help associated to it. I believe it was MDAC, but there's no configuration for it yet.
/dev nodes, and allows you to have the appropiate controls.
2: I'm too poor to afford any decent PPC box. However, ALSA seemed to work on most of my boxes. Only garbage cards like the Aureal series dont work. And I dont fel bad about them either....
3: Yep. Instead of having to deal with network block suppport, you just mount as a -T CIFS . It sees that you're trying to mount
Use TELNET with 'hotkeys', Use those keybinds for something.
I'll give you 3 good reasons why 2.6 is a "bit" better than 2.4
/dev/ from another computer
/dev mounted to the real machine by way of SMB-Unix extension and USB rootplug on the master.
1: NSA security patches included into kernel as "Alternate security system"
2: Default sound system of ALSA
3: SMB-Unix extensions for the new CIFS, allows you to remotely mount
I look at Linux as this for a secure system. Take a beefy machine and put UML on it. Now, use NSA security patches on every UML sub-machine. Have all of those
In effect, you have to be sitting at the console, with your usb key, and then take root on those sub-machines on your UML network.
Can anyone say ouch? Put those black-hat's in their place.
TheOneRingSCSI
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Tolken Ring revisited!
Well, first off, "HyperSCSI' isnt such. All it is is just a correctionless protocol over ethernet hardware. Really, that's a bad idea. You'd be better off if you used ethernet hardware that sped up IPSEC and related ip protocols.
1: Create 2 networks, one being the normal network, and one being the SAN
2: Use GigE cable on your SAN with the inclusion of advanced Network FS'es like Coda.
3: Provide POP's that connect the external network with the internal SAN/serverNET by way of tunnels and port forwarding. Also offer a way to mount local share by Samba or the network FS'es you use internally. Kerberos and an LDAP would be a STRONG option for maintaining
It's just his way of bashing Intel.
As long as our OS'es run on multiple platforms with good hardware behind them, Intel's just a low end cheap solution. After all, the better chipsets are using the Gx series (care of Motorola and IBM) or Sparc hardware.
Intel, AMD and Cyrix have enabled cheap, low end mainframe computing for the masses... After all, look at some of the better OS'es - QNX, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris.
I know why he used that as his example. Who actually uses, by default, a 486? Everybody in technology has something more powerful. Een a GBA has more CPU power.
;-)
Also, a lot of HAM's who're in digital transmissions use around a 486. Plenty of serials, paralells, ISA for handmade cards, PCI for those 10BT + 10B2 + AUI combo networking cards all in something you wouldnt mind if a wee too much signal went through it
If you didnt know about it, you probably didnt need it, as you probably would do a search before paying for a tool similar to these.
After all, we know slashdotters click on the link, but 95% of them are windows users (roughly the similar percentage as every other site). Slashdot is a site where people whine about MS and parade Linux news around, so why attempt to submit an article HERE?
Even better yet, if you're soo interested in linux stuf, check out Fravia's lessons on Searching. There's interesting black and gray hat tools that compare to sebek, but you have to ACTUALLY find them. They're not on the normal crapforge site
After all, with the Gen2 honeynets out there, this is the tool of choice.
This tool has been out at honeynet.org for months now.I've been using it for at least 2 months.
THIS IS NOT NEWS,
Does it have a Kitchen sink? How about Xwindows? What about a full video-confrencing suite? Is it bluetooth enabled?
The top question: Emacs or VI?
PS2 Price To Shadow GameCube, Not XBox
Bull shit. All the VMS idiots were picking on me.
But I fixed them, did I . I 0x'ed em. They came back as Windows NT.
No wonder somebody said that Unix and C were the ultimate viruses....
Heh heh heh..
Great Troll. But BSD is dead. How could Apple invend something Still-Born?
Forgot. MS BOB.
It'll show how good the merger is between Enix and Square. I know, as a DQ fan, that I dreaded hearing tha news. After all, look how bad the FF series has gotten.
I still will remember this.. It cracks me up
Here lies Erdrick"
"873-866"
"RIP"
>>FYI, I believe that PS1 was emulated and PS2,3 were translated in Phantasy Star Collection.
Ambigous. Do you mean that the PS1 code was emulated in the PS2? If so, you're wrong. There's 2 main CPU's in the PS2. One is for PS1 and a bios-like chip to interface to the main CPU to make the PS2 rom calls. They also use this shim to add anti-aliasing.
I know. The default AppleII gs hardware is a SNES with a 32 channel sound board. The SNES was a Sony SPC700 chip that handled only 8 channels and 64k ram.
Sorry for the confusion.
For console video games, why in the hell would you translate the language? All the consoles had funky hardware that games used one time or another.
For 1, the NES uses mappers to display games. On emulators, many mappers are not supported. NES game producers also put hard-coded timings in games. So if your recompiled game isnt the exact same multiplier of clock frequencies, many will exhibit starnge behavior or just lock up.
Next, the SNES had pretty much basic AppleII GS hardware with the exception of the 32 channel sound card. It had a sound cpu which could hold 64k code along with samples. A problem that the makers of ZSnes had was determining the random noise generators formula. On the older games like Chrono Trigger, the wind would sound like square waves going up and down. That sounds fun, compiling a game when you find out that the hardware emulation controls wernt right.
Jump to PS2. Who would have thought that a comuter like that would be available to the public? One that has little GFX ram but a huge bus. Not to mention a full FS to "compile". What pitfalls occur in the 3D hardware?
Emulation is still better as it offers a replacable shim to modify and add features. You can also use other emulators.
And everybody seems to need a custom sound.
For some effects, all you need is the item (horn, siren, wind) and a recording studio. Those are the canned effects. Most efects are auditioned. All I can say is they're expensive.
EXCUSE ME, but thats on topic. The first link is a legit link to fix/install ASPI on his system. The second's an opinion to how bad Roxio software is.
I warned em'. If they wanna click on a goatse link, thats their problem.
Was also trying to be helpful as the crashing problem is a bad/no aspi layer in his version of windows.
You need to get an ASPI layer for your system.
Click HERE for the tool forceASPI.
Click HERE to see where Roxio's software should go.**
**Dont click if you value your sight. It nasty.