I disagree with your statement because you've missed the friggin' point. We're not talking about the "*nix world." We're talking about a mixed environment. We teach *nix how to new things everyday. Why not teach it to handle basic instructions that it receives from a domain controller if the administrator joined it to a Windows domain?
Slashdot has gone to hell. Ask yourself this question. Am I really familiar with MS Active Directory and Group Policy management, as well as Unix administration, to the point where I can make a recommendation on how to maintain a network of Unix/Linux computers using AD and Group Policy (or equivalents)? If not, why are you making suggestions or claiming that the OP is doing something wrong?
The OP and a few other posters get it and the rest of you don't and are making asses out of yourselves.
Group policy is extremely useful. Here is the super short description. Group Policy is like DHCP, but for user and computer settings. Meaning, when a user logs on, all of these settings that are appropriate for him and his computer (which are a part of an organization) automatically happen. No configuration of that user's computer is necessary other than "joining it to the domain." The next day or next week or next year when a change is needed, it can be made in Group Policy and it is a done deal. Administrators who are used to this method of management probably like it and are unlikely to change away from it. It would increase adoption of Linux if we could provide most of the functionality of AD and GP on Linux on the server side and the client side. Samba 4 will be a big step in that direction. But what about the client side? A lot of the Group Policy objects could be just as useful in administering Linux workstations, servers, and users and groups that are members of a "domain."
Patents on formats, codecs, and streaming methods are the issues with those, I believe. Even if the end user has the proper software, I'm not sure about the content creator or distributor being confident that they won't get sued by someone. I'm not positive that these legal worries are real, but I've heard them repeated over and over again.
A patent unencumbered open standard for online video and audio stuff would be huge.
At least for stuff distributed over the web, the web browser would seem to be a good way to distribute the player software and codecs.
Just my thoughts.
Well, that's the problem isn't it. There is not yet a video standard that all browsers support. Mozilla decided to support Ogg-Vorbis, despite the fact that it did not get approved (yet) as a web standard.
At the moment, I'm glad that folks made an effort to ensure that Linux users like me were able to watch this very important event. It was important to me anyway. Thank you.
It installed easily and with little effort.
It seems to work pretty well. The video looks fine. The sound seems to be really good, but it is hard to tell for sure because I don't have anyway to compare it.
After installing Moonlight, I visited silverlight.net in order to run some demos. None of the four that I tried actually worked. They either indicated that I needed to install Silverlight or that I needed a different version of Silverlight.
As for the inauguration video, you have to click a special link on the web page to use the "Linux-compatible Silverlight Player." Two observations about that:
How useful is Moonlight if the web developer has to do more work or otherwise Linux users will not be able to view the content?
Also, isn't it kind of cool that the Presidential Inaugural Committee went to all that trouble to support Linux? Really, that is pretty cool. What do you all think?
First off, you are going to have to start off clean. That means spending time at each workstation. There is no magic wand that will get rid of everything your machines have gotten. You got to use the tools that are available to start clean and then focus on prevention.
Cleaning:
Have someone set down at each workstation. Install and update ad-aware and spybot and start them running, clear temp internet files and cookies.
Prevention:
You are running a DNS server on your network, right? Put this list domains in your dns pointing to the loopback address:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt
Or, you can install the file on individual machines as a hosts file (as was intended by the authors of the list above) and "lock" the file with this http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/lockhost.bat
Install Spybot and during installation, install the updates and use the "immunize" feature.
Increase Internet Explorer security settings.
Install Mozilla Firefox, make Qute theme the default. Right click on the Firefox icon on the desktop and quick launch bar and change the icon to the famous blue e icon. Change shortcut name from "Mozilla Firefox" to "Web Browser". Install the flash plugin and put the stupid "go" button on the tool bar. Make firefox the default browser when asked and also go into the windows control panel and make it the default again. (Windows Update when lauched from the start menu will still launch in IE.)
Tell users not to download and install anything from the internet because it will break their computer. If you don't tell them, they won't know.
Good luck!
If you can't type you can't be productive on a computer, period. Maybe, maybe, if you're on a terminal and all you have to hit are arrow keys, function keys, and Enter. But most workers are expected to send email all the time. How the hell can you be productive in the age of email if you can't friggen type.
Emails take time to write. They take a really long time to write if you have to hunt and peck all over the keyboard.
None of the locally owned coffee shops in Nashville that have wi-fi charge a dime (or even ask for tips) for wireless internet access. There is also no authentication or encryption and I haven't heard of any problems. I installed the Linksys wap11 right after it came out ( I think it cost ~$300 at the time ) at JJ's Market & Cafe. The coffee shop owner paid for half and I paid for half. They already had DSL. Wireless Access Points are so cheap now that they are nearly free (www.justdeals.com). No bandwidth bottle-necks, nothin. No problems.
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Okay, I know I can't be the only person this happened to. Promise supports only the stock Redhat 7.3 kernel, not the errata kernels. The stock 7.3 SMP kernel shipped with a bug that made the system friggin crash (remember that?). So what do you have then? A server that crashes and can't be fixed because of the stupid proprietary RAID card driver. The lesser of evils was to not use the SMP kernel and just run off of one processor. I thought that was going to be a temporary fix, but it has been over a year now and Promise hasn't released updated drivers. All they would have to do is open source their stupid drivers and they would sell sooooo many more of those little cards. Damn.
We've done this. Try finding a decent salesman who doesn't come off as being some dork or some sleazey sales guy that doesn't "get it". They listen when you say, "this saves money" and "no user licenses" and "it will run fin on the 'old' server."
That can be done with what I suggested as well. Check out the program. We do it where I work. The people who approve IT deployments like deployments that don't require the purchase of additional Client Access Licenses. With the MS solution, each new employee costs money. With the OSS solution described above, they don't. They like that. Introduce the web based solution and they will start using it. First they won't use it, then they will use both, then they will use only the web based solution. It isn't a hard sell because it doesn't cost cash.
Look, just because it comes on a CD doesn't make it a single program. Exchange is just a bunch of crap thrown together in a nice box, with a nice installer, and a big price tag. All that crap can be done in typical unix fashion with different programs that do their job really well instead of half-assed and insecure. Use Qmail, Vpopmail, Qmailadmin, Courier-IMAP, Sqwebmail, for email (you can even run them over SSL). Use WebCalendar ( http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/ ) for calendar and calendar sharing (you can run that over ssl too) WebCalendar also emails reminders, you can export events into outlook, and it emails new appointments. Use Samba for file sharing. Or use WinSCP for filesharing for remote users. Use jabber for instant messaging. The only trick (not really much of a trick) is using getting the authentication uniform so that people don't have to login a million times with different usernames and passwords.
A note about Sqwebmail. You can customize the look, it has spellcheck, and users can change their own password and it also changes the pop3, smtp (if you use smtp auth patch), and webmail password. It also has a basic calendar that can be enabled.
Another note about Exchange. Everyone wants calendar sharing, but if you ask them if they are using it they usually say no.
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Agreed! This is not vaporware.
Isn't Akimbo out of business? Wikipedia thinks so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akimbo_(on-demand_service)
I disagree with your statement because you've missed the friggin' point. We're not talking about the "*nix world." We're talking about a mixed environment. We teach *nix how to new things everyday. Why not teach it to handle basic instructions that it receives from a domain controller if the administrator joined it to a Windows domain?
Slashdot has gone to hell. Ask yourself this question. Am I really familiar with MS Active Directory and Group Policy management, as well as Unix administration, to the point where I can make a recommendation on how to maintain a network of Unix/Linux computers using AD and Group Policy (or equivalents)? If not, why are you making suggestions or claiming that the OP is doing something wrong? The OP and a few other posters get it and the rest of you don't and are making asses out of yourselves. Group policy is extremely useful. Here is the super short description. Group Policy is like DHCP, but for user and computer settings. Meaning, when a user logs on, all of these settings that are appropriate for him and his computer (which are a part of an organization) automatically happen. No configuration of that user's computer is necessary other than "joining it to the domain." The next day or next week or next year when a change is needed, it can be made in Group Policy and it is a done deal. Administrators who are used to this method of management probably like it and are unlikely to change away from it. It would increase adoption of Linux if we could provide most of the functionality of AD and GP on Linux on the server side and the client side. Samba 4 will be a big step in that direction. But what about the client side? A lot of the Group Policy objects could be just as useful in administering Linux workstations, servers, and users and groups that are members of a "domain."
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/mozilla-goes-to.html
Patents on formats, codecs, and streaming methods are the issues with those, I believe. Even if the end user has the proper software, I'm not sure about the content creator or distributor being confident that they won't get sued by someone. I'm not positive that these legal worries are real, but I've heard them repeated over and over again. A patent unencumbered open standard for online video and audio stuff would be huge. At least for stuff distributed over the web, the web browser would seem to be a good way to distribute the player software and codecs. Just my thoughts.
Well, that's the problem isn't it. There is not yet a video standard that all browsers support. Mozilla decided to support Ogg-Vorbis, despite the fact that it did not get approved (yet) as a web standard. At the moment, I'm glad that folks made an effort to ensure that Linux users like me were able to watch this very important event. It was important to me anyway. Thank you.
It installed easily and with little effort. It seems to work pretty well. The video looks fine. The sound seems to be really good, but it is hard to tell for sure because I don't have anyway to compare it. After installing Moonlight, I visited silverlight.net in order to run some demos. None of the four that I tried actually worked. They either indicated that I needed to install Silverlight or that I needed a different version of Silverlight. As for the inauguration video, you have to click a special link on the web page to use the "Linux-compatible Silverlight Player." Two observations about that: How useful is Moonlight if the web developer has to do more work or otherwise Linux users will not be able to view the content? Also, isn't it kind of cool that the Presidential Inaugural Committee went to all that trouble to support Linux? Really, that is pretty cool. What do you all think?
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First off, you are going to have to start off clean. That means spending time at each workstation. There is no magic wand that will get rid of everything your machines have gotten. You got to use the tools that are available to start clean and then focus on prevention. Cleaning: Have someone set down at each workstation. Install and update ad-aware and spybot and start them running, clear temp internet files and cookies. Prevention: You are running a DNS server on your network, right? Put this list domains in your dns pointing to the loopback address: http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt Or, you can install the file on individual machines as a hosts file (as was intended by the authors of the list above) and "lock" the file with this http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/lockhost.bat Install Spybot and during installation, install the updates and use the "immunize" feature. Increase Internet Explorer security settings. Install Mozilla Firefox, make Qute theme the default. Right click on the Firefox icon on the desktop and quick launch bar and change the icon to the famous blue e icon. Change shortcut name from "Mozilla Firefox" to "Web Browser". Install the flash plugin and put the stupid "go" button on the tool bar. Make firefox the default browser when asked and also go into the windows control panel and make it the default again. (Windows Update when lauched from the start menu will still launch in IE.) Tell users not to download and install anything from the internet because it will break their computer. If you don't tell them, they won't know. Good luck!
If you can't type you can't be productive on a computer, period. Maybe, maybe, if you're on a terminal and all you have to hit are arrow keys, function keys, and Enter. But most workers are expected to send email all the time. How the hell can you be productive in the age of email if you can't friggen type. Emails take time to write. They take a really long time to write if you have to hunt and peck all over the keyboard.
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None of the locally owned coffee shops in Nashville that have wi-fi charge a dime (or even ask for tips) for wireless internet access. There is also no authentication or encryption and I haven't heard of any problems. I installed the Linksys wap11 right after it came out ( I think it cost ~$300 at the time ) at JJ's Market & Cafe. The coffee shop owner paid for half and I paid for half. They already had DSL. Wireless Access Points are so cheap now that they are nearly free (www.justdeals.com). No bandwidth bottle-necks, nothin. No problems.
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Why's there never a pr0n benchmark? That's all anyone cares about.
Okay, I know I can't be the only person this happened to. Promise supports only the stock Redhat 7.3 kernel, not the errata kernels. The stock 7.3 SMP kernel shipped with a bug that made the system friggin crash (remember that?). So what do you have then? A server that crashes and can't be fixed because of the stupid proprietary RAID card driver. The lesser of evils was to not use the SMP kernel and just run off of one processor. I thought that was going to be a temporary fix, but it has been over a year now and Promise hasn't released updated drivers. All they would have to do is open source their stupid drivers and they would sell sooooo many more of those little cards. Damn.
We've done this. Try finding a decent salesman who doesn't come off as being some dork or some sleazey sales guy that doesn't "get it". They listen when you say, "this saves money" and "no user licenses" and "it will run fin on the 'old' server."
That can be done with what I suggested as well. Check out the program. We do it where I work. The people who approve IT deployments like deployments that don't require the purchase of additional Client Access Licenses. With the MS solution, each new employee costs money. With the OSS solution described above, they don't. They like that. Introduce the web based solution and they will start using it. First they won't use it, then they will use both, then they will use only the web based solution. It isn't a hard sell because it doesn't cost cash.
Look, just because it comes on a CD doesn't make it a single program. Exchange is just a bunch of crap thrown together in a nice box, with a nice installer, and a big price tag. All that crap can be done in typical unix fashion with different programs that do their job really well instead of half-assed and insecure. Use Qmail, Vpopmail, Qmailadmin, Courier-IMAP, Sqwebmail, for email (you can even run them over SSL). Use WebCalendar ( http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/ ) for calendar and calendar sharing (you can run that over ssl too) WebCalendar also emails reminders, you can export events into outlook, and it emails new appointments. Use Samba for file sharing. Or use WinSCP for filesharing for remote users. Use jabber for instant messaging. The only trick (not really much of a trick) is using getting the authentication uniform so that people don't have to login a million times with different usernames and passwords. A note about Sqwebmail. You can customize the look, it has spellcheck, and users can change their own password and it also changes the pop3, smtp (if you use smtp auth patch), and webmail password. It also has a basic calendar that can be enabled. Another note about Exchange. Everyone wants calendar sharing, but if you ask them if they are using it they usually say no.
if I do say so myself.
The interesting thing is the stock prices at the bottom of the page. SCO down, Sun down, and IBM up.