this is such typical bleeding heart liberal crap. there is definatly no *duty* to spend your hard earned $$ on anything! I would walk over my own grandmother to get a chance to go to space before I die, whatever the cost!
there is MORE than enough money being thrown at charaties and such. between that and all the damn welfare programs the US has I think we're giving far too much to those types of things. people make mistakes, they should have to deal with them. this is not a damn socialist country, you make your own destiny here. these people (although probably very fortunate) have worked for years to earn that fortune, and frankly I can't even begin to think of a better way to spend $20 mil than to go into space!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooook enough is enough, the ignorance must stop! Saddam not a bad guy!? man put down the crack pipe, remember after the 1st gulf war when the shii'te muslims tried to rise up against the government? remember that? remember the horrific massacre that ensued? hussein killed 10s of thousands of iraqi's (his own people!) squashing that coup.
Oh and what about when he dropped mustard gas on that kurdish city (more iraqi's), killed 10s of thousands there too. ALL HIS OWN PEOPLE! we did this as much for the iraqi's as we did for our own worries.
and as far as WMD's, sure we found none, cause he had years to get rid of them. I was assured by someone on the up-n-up (family) in the navy that we were goin to war with iraq > 9 months before it happened. if he knew that, saddam knew that (and most anyone with 1/2 a brain knew it too!). we found tons of mobile bio labs and plenty of evidence to support that he had WMD's at one time. he had ample time to rid himself of anything incriminating.
for real people, saddam hussein is just as bad as osama, if not worse. osama just didn't have the resources to wreak havoc like hussein. check your history books, or just turn on the damn tv, discovery times channel has crap on hussein on all the time.
truth be known the warez scene has some of the best crackers on earth and they will likely remove the drm feature somehow. they've done it for every other type of lock/limit in software. I'm sure this one is doable.
If we flood spammer's websites with garbage data, maybe, just maybe we'll do a little to remove the profit motive in spamming, and once there's no money in it it'll end.
Yes but unfortunatly most spammers have enormous clusters of servers for what they do and more bandwidth than you can shake a stick at (thats the only way the upstream providers will let them spam, they need 20mbit, they buy an OC-3). it would really be no big deal for spammers to survive a DDoS attack, it would take him down for maybe MAYBE 2 hours. how do I know this? I used to work for one. he was more legitimate than "make your penis bigger", all his lists were 2x optin but being in the biz I met all the other spammers down here in Boca Raton FL (the american capital of spam).
To put it in perspective, one spammer had somewhere around 500 servers taking up an entire row of racks in the datacenter we were at. another one had 350. the guy I worked for was comparably small, less than 50 servers. and all these guys have enormous burstable bandwidth behind them (spam eats up somewhere around 100-300mbit/sec when doing the initial dns caching)
Another thing is spammers usually hire VERY good technicians and pay them very well (which is why I stayed working for a spammer). it would be no big deal during a ddos attack, to swap out ip pools on the network (most spammers own tons of ip networks and multiple AS #'s), reprogram the router and setup LVS on 6-8 boxes and it would be able to take most any DDoS you could throw at them.
Oh and finally spam makes money. TONS AND TONS of money. hundreds of thousands of dollars profit a month usually run by 3-4 guys, so there's always room for ways around whatever we can dish at them. they simply have more resources than the userbase they spam.
do you see what happens when we allow liberal democrats to take over? we end up with asinine blue laws targetted to enforce morality so everyone can "feel equal". there is a nice thing about living a bush-controlled state (FL not tex-ass) is that we have almost no blue laws like this annoying piece of excrement. sure we have our caveats but no stupid OBVIOUSLY LOBBIED laws coming out of our state. especially being a former-cali resident, I really dispised not being able to smoke ciggerettes on the street in davis county.
It leads one to wonder, when will the madness stop? california is perhaps one of the most progressive states, but it's run by a bunch of art student ass-fucking commies who only care about equality amongst all things. Liberal arts must be a damn requirement of living there.
I have never in my life heard more asinine laws come out of california then as of recent. I mean please, this seems to be the state of "idiots only". the rest of the world is much more mature than to consider a term such as "master/slave" an "offensive" term.
What is it with cali? everyone gets offended over everything!? these slack-arse-dumb-ass's really need to wake the fuck up and smell the 21st century.
I for one am glad I live in a conservitave controlled state where liberal crap like this gets shot down the moment it is conceived. sure we have extreme penalties for crimes that do not fit the punishment, but hey. . . we don't have bleeding heart liberals like that to totally fuck our way of life and take apart our social order by introducing stupid laws that ban context-specific terms such as "master/slave".
I hope the asshole who introduced this law finds his way into oncoming traffic and meets a timely end due to a "master/salve" issue involving a southbound car vs a northbound semi.
As for outages -- exactly how many thunderstorms did you have in Florida as compared to France? Since I arrived 6 months ago: none in Florida.
Where the hell were you yesterday when fort lauderdale almost blew away!? or the past month when it rained EVERY DAY, and 1/2 of the storms were thunder storms.
and as for the grid in america, you ppl across the pond are forgetting how many ppl this grid services and the shear massive size of it. we're talking an area with 50-60 million or more people easy and one of the most complex grids on the planet.
Sure france, EU in general might have better phones, power, etc but thats only because your very late players in the game. electricity was discovered here and phones invented here so our grids tends to be the oldest by quite a margain. your countries aren't much more than our states are, so it's much easier to manage something cut off from your neighboors except in defined meeting places. our power goes everywhere in all directions to anyone who will buy it, further complicating an extremely complicated thing. I think this is a total unfair comparison.
ok I've had it! you people get spammed CAUSE YOU DESERVE IT! you give out your email to web services, sign up for lame crap like hotmail/yahoo. do dumb stuff like post your email addr on a website. all of these things attract spam. how do I know, cause I used to work for a spammer sending out 100 million emails a day on average and this is how he got email addresses. web crawlers, shady businesmen and fucked up isp's sell these emails to anyone, not just the highest bidder.
you don't want to get spammed? don't sign up for email notifications. don't give your bank your email address. infact, no company really needs to know that unless it's they're only way of corresponding with you. all of you who get spammed really deserve it! at some point you goofed and gave your email to the wrong person. it's SOOOOO easy to avoid getting spammed. I personally have not been spammed (unsolicited email) in over 2 years! not at work, not at home, not even in email accounts I don't care about. cause I don't give out my email to people/places that don't need it.
it's sickening to me to hear people bitch about spam when they invite it upon them selves. how many tech news lists do most of you belong to? how many mailing lists have you posted to? all of these things will get you spammed. and especially those windows users out there. almost all software you install these days for windows asks you for your email address. if you give it out, your just begging to get spammed.
hey I hate spam as much as anyone else. but the sad truth of the matter is, it's avoidable. extreemly easy to avoid as I've found out. and for those of you anti-spam zealots out there, here's a secret for you. spam makes asinine amounts of money. alot of the guys down here pull down $50-100 thousand dollars profit a month, with usually only 2-3 employees (including the owner/spammer him self). there are PLENTY and I mean _PLENTY_ of companies who will host spammers. especially in boca raton FL (where I live). ya wanna stop em? here, do your worst:
http://www.oneroute.net. 10,000 sq ft data center dedicated to spammers. plus the company spams them selves.
http://www.tracisolutions.com. another spam host down the road from oneroute. not as big, they do alot of pr0n too but alot of spam as well.
http://www.xo.net. xo communications. we had an agreement with them to take up to 10,000 spam complaints a month if we purchased an overpriced DS-3 from them. they are notorious for allowing spammers.
these are just a couple big players down here, there are tons more.
in closing, most people who get spammed (especially the multiple thousand emails a day) deserve it.
I've seen this debate go on for years. the only people I've ever seen say IDE is better than scsi and doesn't warrant the price ARE PEOPLE WHO NEVER USED IT!! current SCSI technology is like almost 5 years ahead of IDE technology. just because your little IDE drive says it's ata/133 doesn't mean it will ever achieve that speed. you really need to look at internal transfer speeds of the drives. if the internal transfer speed doesn't even get to 1/2 of the external transfer speed, than they're just equipping a crappy drive with a screaming interface.
SCSI drives on the other hand are built from the ground up to offer the most performance they can possibly muster out of existing technology (without costing many thousand dollars). SCSI drives also have like 2x the MTBF of IDE drives. I still have some old 1 and 2gb scsi drives that work perfectly and still are faster than current large IDE drives.
frankly anyone ignorant enough to to say IDE is better than scsi doesn't deserve scsi in the first place. I'm extreemly happy with my 15,000RPM scsi drive (that I payed only $200 bucks for NEW with a 5 [yes thats FIVE!!] year warranty). I can defrag (in winblowz) a 36 gig partition with 40% fragmentation in just under 5 minutes. try that with a crappy maxtor!
ok, now I *understand* some people might still live in a cave and think programming the VCR is black magick, but here's my thoughts on this.
having worked under DIRECTORS OF IT that fit this profile, it leads me to ask the question. . . In a typical business model, shouldn't the boss not only know his employee's jobs, but be able to do them in most cases!? or atleast be savvy enough (i.e., we run Netware, yeah Netware XP) to hire a contractor. I'm not even going into the mcse stuff either (1 pci NIC + 1 driver disk + 1 NT box == particle engineering).
I personally take the stance that your superiors should alteast know how to operate they're own system and be computer literate enough to atleast receive a company-wide memo. we can't keep sheltering people like this. in the end it will end up, those of us who can. and the others that can't that will serve us. oh and those who can purchase those who can so they can too. IMHO.
except for file swappers and ch34p pr0n servers. frankly I'm happy with my 36GB 15,000 RPM drive! you poor ide using souls just don't know what your missing!!!
stories like this really cook my noodle. they didn't even bother doing any real research on this issue.
frankly it sounds like MS had a play in this. we all know they don't understand "ethics" so it's perfectly possible. but what really gets me is the total lack of understanding of what open source is. Commercial companies can still develop class A open-source software and sell it for $$. they make it out to look like everything they're going to use is written by some 16 year old geek.
and they don't even begin to think about how much more secure the system will be after the switch over, hence SAVING probably millions of dollars from not getting every virus that comes down the pipe because they're running windows, or the mad patching at 3am on a friday because the next huge hole in MS came out.
Frankly the article was totally blatently one sided and pro microsoft. This type of ignorance should not be allowed on the internet!
ok I guess my comment wasn't well appreciated. well to set the record straight, there's an mcse sitting in the other room from me right now that is a guru at linux. but he is _FAR_ from the norm. in my days as a consultant I ran across more fudge'd installations/repairs from purported "MCSE's" than any other group of techs.
Where I live (mid-town hell, oops I mean florida/US) the IT training industry is enormous! you hear more "get your mcse now" commercials than car commercials on the radio. this of course floods our market with under qualified technicians who _in my experience_ can't even fix a pc, let alone setup a corporate or enterprise network. Most of these n00b's have no background in dos and have never even seen a unix shell. they're experience goes as far as setting up ms proxy and configuring outlook.
I've been misunderstood here. I was simply stating that with the current state of IT, the average MCSE will be in very poor shape to install/configure linux workstations. let alone troubleshoot them when they have problems. I will do anything I can to see microsoft get dethroned, including train these mcse's on how to use linux. I was just simply stating that "most" (50-65%) of current mcse's would be up shit's creek without a paddle walking into a linux/unix enviornment.
lets face it, how many mcse's do we know capable of administering a linux network. most mcse's can't administer a windows network! I'm a strong advocate of linux on the desktop but I shudder to think how bad an average mcse could screw up a linux network say, after an IT admin leaves prematurely or a documentation-impared consultant installed it. let alone an mcse facing the custom written automation software implemented in most *nix networks.
Gonna be a few many years before this problem gets solved.
now see it's people like this who just ruin my day. you don't know what the f**k your talking about! the russians would have developed it if we hadn't, and likely USED IT! the only reason they didn't is cause we had better ones at the time. and furthermore the bomb does have redeeming qualities in the area of interplanetary and deep space travel. dropping an h-bomb out the back of a space craft is one of the most promissing ways to get to other stars (with our current technology). gawd people like you should be shot!
No they were not formidable. They had no Navy left at all. Japan has zero natural resources (iron, coal, oil), and had no stockpiles left. There is no way to "rebuild" a 20th century army from rice and wood.
I believe you need a history lesson. america had to invade mainland japan to win the war, or force them to surrender. the japanese were willing to fight untill EVERY and I mean E. V. E. R. Y. damn one of them was dead. they had 6 million people in training (civ's, children, old people, EVERYONE!) to fight off the coming american invasion. hell they even had propaganda campaign's trying to get more support. there was literilly no other choice but to nuke them. it SAVED countless millions of lives.
I trully dispise reading such uneducated garbage on slashdot, we're supposed to be the geeks, the ones that payed attention in school.
Wow that was the first educated and well written post I've seen on this article. most of the people posting here have no clue the impact he made. Although truth be known Oppenheimer did most of the scientific work, teller oversaw the project but nevertheless all the contributions were for good.
I think most people are missing the point here. most, AND I MEAN MOST companies are not huge corporate giants running 3 flavors of oracle/informix/peoplesoft. in fact, most huge places still don't run windows. I have worked for 3 seperate companies where almost every male employee ran linux. especially in ISP and hosting/datacenter enviornments. this view is typical of the MCSE type IT person who eats, sleeps, sh!t's and breathe's micro$oft and ZDnet. I personally have noticed alot more personal freedom to run whatever OS you choose, as long as your firewalled or are fully capable of doing your job. I haven't used windows in the work place since Netware 5.00 was released and I don't see my self doing it any time soon either.
another thing to point out. you made a mention of proxy? again, purely micro$oft induced thinking. proxy servers are great for low bandwidth connections but are extreemly exploitable by nature. in trying to put up a protection point you expose your self to the internet even more. true ip routing and firewalls are your best bets for internet access and security. also they allow you to control alot more of what your company can do online without infringing on exec's ability to communicate in private.
the internet and corporate computing were built on unix, are _STILL_ unix based in some variant or another, AND ALLWAYS WILL BE. it still takes a farm of dual xeon windows boxes to do what 1 p3-ghz with 256mb ram unix box can do in it's sleep.
in the broader scheme of things I personally see linux coming of age in the workplace as a desktop OS. new tools enable it to be far more expandable, secure, and user-friendly than windows can ever be. if your a stickler for IT security, there is no reason on earth to run windows in a corporation. the NSA said it best "There is not enough man power in the entire US government to secure windows for proper use by federal agencies".
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this is such typical bleeding heart liberal crap. there is definatly no *duty* to spend your hard earned $$ on anything! I would walk over my own grandmother to get a chance to go to space before I die, whatever the cost! there is MORE than enough money being thrown at charaties and such. between that and all the damn welfare programs the US has I think we're giving far too much to those types of things. people make mistakes, they should have to deal with them. this is not a damn socialist country, you make your own destiny here. these people (although probably very fortunate) have worked for years to earn that fortune, and frankly I can't even begin to think of a better way to spend $20 mil than to go into space!
hrmm, escape velocity is around ~17,500 MPH, at 16,603 the ISS would be a meteor in a matter of months .... me thinks.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooook enough is enough, the ignorance must stop! Saddam not a bad guy!? man put down the crack pipe, remember after the 1st gulf war when the shii'te muslims tried to rise up against the government? remember that? remember the horrific massacre that ensued? hussein killed 10s of thousands of iraqi's (his own people!) squashing that coup.
Oh and what about when he dropped mustard gas on that kurdish city (more iraqi's), killed 10s of thousands there too. ALL HIS OWN PEOPLE! we did this as much for the iraqi's as we did for our own worries.
and as far as WMD's, sure we found none, cause he had years to get rid of them. I was assured by someone on the up-n-up (family) in the navy that we were goin to war with iraq > 9 months before it happened. if he knew that, saddam knew that (and most anyone with 1/2 a brain knew it too!). we found tons of mobile bio labs and plenty of evidence to support that he had WMD's at one time. he had ample time to rid himself of anything incriminating.
for real people, saddam hussein is just as bad as osama, if not worse. osama just didn't have the resources to wreak havoc like hussein. check your history books, or just turn on the damn tv, discovery times channel has crap on hussein on all the time.
so long windows 98, you made ALOT of people on slashdot ALOT of money :) gotta give it up for micro$oft, they keep a good amount of us employed.
you bastard you stole my theory!!!!! I swear that is the truth, even amongst intelligent people. gotta publish a paper on that one of these days.
truth be known the warez scene has some of the best crackers on earth and they will likely remove the drm feature somehow. they've done it for every other type of lock/limit in software. I'm sure this one is doable.
If we flood spammer's websites with garbage data, maybe, just maybe we'll do a little to remove the profit motive in spamming, and once there's no money in it it'll end.
Yes but unfortunatly most spammers have enormous clusters of servers for what they do and more bandwidth than you can shake a stick at (thats the only way the upstream providers will let them spam, they need 20mbit, they buy an OC-3). it would really be no big deal for spammers to survive a DDoS attack, it would take him down for maybe MAYBE 2 hours. how do I know this? I used to work for one. he was more legitimate than "make your penis bigger", all his lists were 2x optin but being in the biz I met all the other spammers down here in Boca Raton FL (the american capital of spam).
To put it in perspective, one spammer had somewhere around 500 servers taking up an entire row of racks in the datacenter we were at. another one had 350. the guy I worked for was comparably small, less than 50 servers. and all these guys have enormous burstable bandwidth behind them (spam eats up somewhere around 100-300mbit/sec when doing the initial dns caching)
Another thing is spammers usually hire VERY good technicians and pay them very well (which is why I stayed working for a spammer). it would be no big deal during a ddos attack, to swap out ip pools on the network (most spammers own tons of ip networks and multiple AS #'s), reprogram the router and setup LVS on 6-8 boxes and it would be able to take most any DDoS you could throw at them.
Oh and finally spam makes money. TONS AND TONS of money. hundreds of thousands of dollars profit a month usually run by 3-4 guys, so there's always room for ways around whatever we can dish at them. they simply have more resources than the userbase they spam.
do you see what happens when we allow liberal democrats to take over? we end up with asinine blue laws targetted to enforce morality so everyone can "feel equal". there is a nice thing about living a bush-controlled state (FL not tex-ass) is that we have almost no blue laws like this annoying piece of excrement. sure we have our caveats but no stupid OBVIOUSLY LOBBIED laws coming out of our state. especially being a former-cali resident, I really dispised not being able to smoke ciggerettes on the street in davis county.
It leads one to wonder, when will the madness stop? california is perhaps one of the most progressive states, but it's run by a bunch of art student ass-fucking commies who only care about equality amongst all things. Liberal arts must be a damn requirement of living there.
I have never in my life heard more asinine laws come out of california then as of recent. I mean please, this seems to be the state of "idiots only". the rest of the world is much more mature than to consider a term such as "master/slave" an "offensive" term.
What is it with cali? everyone gets offended over everything!? these slack-arse-dumb-ass's really need to wake the fuck up and smell the 21st century.
I for one am glad I live in a conservitave controlled state where liberal crap like this gets shot down the moment it is conceived. sure we have extreme penalties for crimes that do not fit the punishment, but hey. . . we don't have bleeding heart liberals like that to totally fuck our way of life and take apart our social order by introducing stupid laws that ban context-specific terms such as "master/slave".
I hope the asshole who introduced this law finds his way into oncoming traffic and meets a timely end due to a "master/salve" issue involving a southbound car vs a northbound semi.
oh well it sounds pretty cool. maybe we'll check it out.
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Is that not the saddest form of life you've ever heard of?
As for outages -- exactly how many thunderstorms did you have in Florida as compared to France? Since I arrived 6 months ago: none in Florida.
Where the hell were you yesterday when fort lauderdale almost blew away!? or the past month when it rained EVERY DAY, and 1/2 of the storms were thunder storms.
and as for the grid in america, you ppl across the pond are forgetting how many ppl this grid services and the shear massive size of it. we're talking an area with 50-60 million or more people easy and one of the most complex grids on the planet.
Sure france, EU in general might have better phones, power, etc but thats only because your very late players in the game. electricity was discovered here and phones invented here so our grids tends to be the oldest by quite a margain. your countries aren't much more than our states are, so it's much easier to manage something cut off from your neighboors except in defined meeting places. our power goes everywhere in all directions to anyone who will buy it, further complicating an extremely complicated thing. I think this is a total unfair comparison.
ok I've had it! you people get spammed CAUSE YOU DESERVE IT! you give out your email to web services, sign up for lame crap like hotmail/yahoo. do dumb stuff like post your email addr on a website. all of these things attract spam. how do I know, cause I used to work for a spammer sending out 100 million emails a day on average and this is how he got email addresses. web crawlers, shady businesmen and fucked up isp's sell these emails to anyone, not just the highest bidder.
you don't want to get spammed? don't sign up for email notifications. don't give your bank your email address. infact, no company really needs to know that unless it's they're only way of corresponding with you. all of you who get spammed really deserve it! at some point you goofed and gave your email to the wrong person. it's SOOOOO easy to avoid getting spammed. I personally have not been spammed (unsolicited email) in over 2 years! not at work, not at home, not even in email accounts I don't care about. cause I don't give out my email to people/places that don't need it.
it's sickening to me to hear people bitch about spam when they invite it upon them selves. how many tech news lists do most of you belong to? how many mailing lists have you posted to? all of these things will get you spammed. and especially those windows users out there. almost all software you install these days for windows asks you for your email address. if you give it out, your just begging to get spammed.
hey I hate spam as much as anyone else. but the sad truth of the matter is, it's avoidable. extreemly easy to avoid as I've found out. and for those of you anti-spam zealots out there, here's a secret for you. spam makes asinine amounts of money. alot of the guys down here pull down $50-100 thousand dollars profit a month, with usually only 2-3 employees (including the owner/spammer him self). there are PLENTY and I mean _PLENTY_ of companies who will host spammers. especially in boca raton FL (where I live). ya wanna stop em? here, do your worst:
http://www.oneroute.net. 10,000 sq ft data center dedicated to spammers. plus the company spams them selves.
http://www.tracisolutions.com. another spam host down the road from oneroute. not as big, they do alot of pr0n too but alot of spam as well.
http://www.xo.net. xo communications. we had an agreement with them to take up to 10,000 spam complaints a month if we purchased an overpriced DS-3 from them. they are notorious for allowing spammers.
these are just a couple big players down here, there are tons more.
in closing, most people who get spammed (especially the multiple thousand emails a day) deserve it.
I've seen this debate go on for years. the only people I've ever seen say IDE is better than scsi and doesn't warrant the price ARE PEOPLE WHO NEVER USED IT!! current SCSI technology is like almost 5 years ahead of IDE technology. just because your little IDE drive says it's ata/133 doesn't mean it will ever achieve that speed. you really need to look at internal transfer speeds of the drives. if the internal transfer speed doesn't even get to 1/2 of the external transfer speed, than they're just equipping a crappy drive with a screaming interface.
SCSI drives on the other hand are built from the ground up to offer the most performance they can possibly muster out of existing technology (without costing many thousand dollars). SCSI drives also have like 2x the MTBF of IDE drives. I still have some old 1 and 2gb scsi drives that work perfectly and still are faster than current large IDE drives.
frankly anyone ignorant enough to to say IDE is better than scsi doesn't deserve scsi in the first place. I'm extreemly happy with my 15,000RPM scsi drive (that I payed only $200 bucks for NEW with a 5 [yes thats FIVE!!] year warranty). I can defrag (in winblowz) a 36 gig partition with 40% fragmentation in just under 5 minutes. try that with a crappy maxtor!
ok, now I *understand* some people might still live in a cave and think programming the VCR is black magick, but here's my thoughts on this.
having worked under DIRECTORS OF IT that fit this profile, it leads me to ask the question. . . In a typical business model, shouldn't the boss not only know his employee's jobs, but be able to do them in most cases!? or atleast be savvy enough (i.e., we run Netware, yeah Netware XP) to hire a contractor. I'm not even going into the mcse stuff either (1 pci NIC + 1 driver disk + 1 NT box == particle engineering).
I personally take the stance that your superiors should alteast know how to operate they're own system and be computer literate enough to atleast receive a company-wide memo. we can't keep sheltering people like this. in the end it will end up, those of us who can. and the others that can't that will serve us. oh and those who can purchase those who can so they can too. IMHO.
except for file swappers and ch34p pr0n servers. frankly I'm happy with my 36GB 15,000 RPM drive! you poor ide using souls just don't know what your missing!!!
stories like this really cook my noodle. they didn't even bother doing any real research on this issue.
frankly it sounds like MS had a play in this. we all know they don't understand "ethics" so it's perfectly possible. but what really gets me is the total lack of understanding of what open source is. Commercial companies can still develop class A open-source software and sell it for $$. they make it out to look like everything they're going to use is written by some 16 year old geek.
and they don't even begin to think about how much more secure the system will be after the switch over, hence SAVING probably millions of dollars from not getting every virus that comes down the pipe because they're running windows, or the mad patching at 3am on a friday because the next huge hole in MS came out.
Frankly the article was totally blatently one sided and pro microsoft. This type of ignorance should not be allowed on the internet!
*67 my friends, unless you live in afghanistan or something. (i.e. *67, 1-800-xxxxxxxx).
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ok I guess my comment wasn't well appreciated. well to set the record straight, there's an mcse sitting in the other room from me right now that is a guru at linux. but he is _FAR_ from the norm. in my days as a consultant I ran across more fudge'd installations/repairs from purported "MCSE's" than any other group of techs.
Where I live (mid-town hell, oops I mean florida/US) the IT training industry is enormous! you hear more "get your mcse now" commercials than car commercials on the radio. this of course floods our market with under qualified technicians who _in my experience_ can't even fix a pc, let alone setup a corporate or enterprise network. Most of these n00b's have no background in dos and have never even seen a unix shell. they're experience goes as far as setting up ms proxy and configuring outlook.
I've been misunderstood here. I was simply stating that with the current state of IT, the average MCSE will be in very poor shape to install/configure linux workstations. let alone troubleshoot them when they have problems. I will do anything I can to see microsoft get dethroned, including train these mcse's on how to use linux. I was just simply stating that "most" (50-65%) of current mcse's would be up shit's creek without a paddle walking into a linux/unix enviornment.
lets face it, how many mcse's do we know capable of administering a linux network. most mcse's can't administer a windows network! I'm a strong advocate of linux on the desktop but I shudder to think how bad an average mcse could screw up a linux network say, after an IT admin leaves prematurely or a documentation-impared consultant installed it. let alone an mcse facing the custom written automation software implemented in most *nix networks.
Gonna be a few many years before this problem gets solved.
now see it's people like this who just ruin my day. you don't know what the f**k your talking about! the russians would have developed it if we hadn't, and likely USED IT! the only reason they didn't is cause we had better ones at the time. and furthermore the bomb does have redeeming qualities in the area of interplanetary and deep space travel. dropping an h-bomb out the back of a space craft is one of the most promissing ways to get to other stars (with our current technology). gawd people like you should be shot!
No they were not formidable. They had no Navy left at all. Japan has zero natural resources (iron, coal, oil), and had no stockpiles left. There is no way to "rebuild" a 20th century army from rice and wood.
I believe you need a history lesson. america had to invade mainland japan to win the war, or force them to surrender. the japanese were willing to fight untill EVERY and I mean E. V. E. R. Y. damn one of them was dead. they had 6 million people in training (civ's, children, old people, EVERYONE!) to fight off the coming american invasion. hell they even had propaganda campaign's trying to get more support. there was literilly no other choice but to nuke them. it SAVED countless millions of lives. I trully dispise reading such uneducated garbage on slashdot, we're supposed to be the geeks, the ones that payed attention in school.
Wow that was the first educated and well written post I've seen on this article. most of the people posting here have no clue the impact he made. Although truth be known Oppenheimer did most of the scientific work, teller oversaw the project but nevertheless all the contributions were for good.
I think most people are missing the point here. most, AND I MEAN MOST companies are not huge corporate giants running 3 flavors of oracle/informix/peoplesoft. in fact, most huge places still don't run windows. I have worked for 3 seperate companies where almost every male employee ran linux. especially in ISP and hosting/datacenter enviornments. this view is typical of the MCSE type IT person who eats, sleeps, sh!t's and breathe's micro$oft and ZDnet. I personally have noticed alot more personal freedom to run whatever OS you choose, as long as your firewalled or are fully capable of doing your job. I haven't used windows in the work place since Netware 5.00 was released and I don't see my self doing it any time soon either. another thing to point out. you made a mention of proxy? again, purely micro$oft induced thinking. proxy servers are great for low bandwidth connections but are extreemly exploitable by nature. in trying to put up a protection point you expose your self to the internet even more. true ip routing and firewalls are your best bets for internet access and security. also they allow you to control alot more of what your company can do online without infringing on exec's ability to communicate in private. the internet and corporate computing were built on unix, are _STILL_ unix based in some variant or another, AND ALLWAYS WILL BE. it still takes a farm of dual xeon windows boxes to do what 1 p3-ghz with 256mb ram unix box can do in it's sleep. in the broader scheme of things I personally see linux coming of age in the workplace as a desktop OS. new tools enable it to be far more expandable, secure, and user-friendly than windows can ever be. if your a stickler for IT security, there is no reason on earth to run windows in a corporation. the NSA said it best "There is not enough man power in the entire US government to secure windows for proper use by federal agencies".