I believe this was answered above, but I'll give it a go.
Last summer one of our users RH boxes was broken into and basically used for a pirate games repository over the weekend. I was notified Monday for by our ISP of a 5000% increase in our traffic over the weeken (gee, thanks guys, could have called me saturday). It took me 6 hours to figure out what happened plus another 24-36 to fix the problem and seal the security hole. During this time period I was unable to do other tasks around here. I don't make nearly close to what the person in the other message posted, but we lost a few grand in my time when I could have been doing jobs for customers. Plus you end up behind schedule and you have to makeup the time you lost either threw overtime (if you get it) or by sacrificing other tasks. From that one litle break in it took me close to a week to catch-up and get back to where I'd been. Sounds confusing, but business is confusing.
I'm pretty lucky because I do receive overtime even though I'm salaried. It's some goofy way the company designates people as exempt and non-exempt. I don't totally understand it, but as long as I get my time and a half.
I never realized how much I was working until the HR department called down the other day to my boss to ask how it was possible I was turning in 10-20 hours of overtime every paycheck. To be honest I never really think about it. Once I get going on something I usually don't stop until I've got it figured out. I bought a watch, but never use it. None of my computer clock are even remotely close to having the same time. To this "Knowledge Worker" let the weanies in HR worry about overtime and people working to much, that's their job, not mine.
I agree completely with you on Wine. I'll never forget the first time I got it compiled and working (few years ago) and got Solitare to work. I love that feeling when dealing with Linux. I may not have written Wine, but the hours spent setting it up were rewarding. That was what got me hooked on Linux in the first place.
"That's why Ford Motor's announcement announcement last week was potentially the most significant technology news in years, vastly more important than the river of hype about mergers and IPOs. Ford will offer each of its 350,000 employees worldwide, from factory workers in India to designers in Michigan, a high-speed desktop computer, a color printer and unlimited Internet access for just $5 a month. This announcement was potentially the most significant technology news in years, vastly more important than the river of hype about mergers, IPOs and stock prices."
We have to preview before submitting. If you are trying to be a professional writer, act like one.
Hell, I'd pay $8 a ticket to see that. You should send that to New Line. Seriously. Natalie Portman's gotta get kidnapped by Dr. Evil so they can have the standard save the chick and kill all the bad guys and ride out into the sunset scene at the end.
In my opinion, we (the us) could be invaded, but unless somebody nuked us into submission, I don't think any one or two countries could take and hold the US. Think of every gang in most major cities that has better weaponry than most third-world armies. An invading force could maybe get to the Rockies, but every yahoo for North Dakota to Georgia would be saying "Ma, get me my gun" and that would be the end of any invading force. Look at how many Americans died to protect their country during the Civil War and that was with brother's fighting against brothers. Imagine brothers fighting with each other against some country who had the balls to come and invade their city. To many people with guns that know how to use them in the US.
I just wanted to say thanks to all the Slashdot editors and readers. I find it extremely amazing that Slashdot now has the weight (readership, etc.) behind to be able to interview just about anybody it wants. I mean, we just got an interview from a guy who is in charge of systems for the the UK government? I've never seen an article like that in any computer magazine. Thanks for the great article. I bet pretty soon people are going to be lining up to be interviewed on Slashdot.
Here is the thing that irritates me about this article. The statement about no central repository for updates. What about Red Hat's errata section, how about Freshmeat and Linux Today?
I have also spent the last two days trying to download Service Pack 5 for NT. Sure Microsoft has a "central repository", but you are stuck with a 25-75mb file to download and Microsoft's site by itself is slow without having to try to download from Conxion. The farthest I've gotten is 10mb before the connection hung and I cancelled. We have 6 channels of a T1 here, and I'm only getting 3.2kb to Microsoft and on the download.
I think it it pretty obvious from the last two-three weeks that PC Week has done little or no research on anything they are trying to do or write about. It is my personal opinion that we should just ignore them. If they aren't going to take the time to research their articles and statements (think Journalistic Integrity) I'm not going to take the time to read their magazine.
This may seem a little off-topic. But I am a little confused about the ISO images. Do I just burn the one big file to a CD and make the CD bootable, or do I need some type of extraction tool for the.iso first? And just what the heck is an ISO image?
Matt "It's not premarrital sex if you're not planning on getting married."
Hey, that's nothin'. We now have Interstate Mark McGwire here in St. Louis. Just because he hit seventy homeruns (shakes head). And poor Joltin Joe had to wait until he was on his deathbed before those bastards in New York would give him his highway (That's right New York, you heard me). Thank god we also have a highway 67 in case he only hits that many this hear.
Our motto here in Missoura is "The Show-Me" state. Show you what? I have no freaking idea. The money? My bunghole? Well okay. They should have called us:
Missouri "Hey, we've got an extremely large, metal, half of a McDonald's sign standing next to the dirtiest river in North America and you don't" state.
I wouldn't worry too much. Eventually nanotechnology and cloning will be perfected. Then we can have teeny, tiny little Arnold Schwarzenagers(sp?) ala Terminator living in our firewalls and servers blowing away any malicious packets.
"Vittle evectron, I vill terminate you"
But then somebody will will create itsy, bitsy Sylvester Stallones.
Man, I needed that. These last two comments busted me up. Hi, I'm Al Gore. You know that little thing that hangs down in the back of your throat? That's right. I invented it.
All of these contests are designed for Linux to lose. Although PC Week has been expanding their coverage of Linux, what is PC Week? It is a magazine oriented towards Windows users. Look through their ads. 99% of their ad revenue are for products for Windows.
The way I see it, there is no real way to test the two operating systems against each other. Somebody will always find something wrong with the test criteria, someone else will scream conspiracy and the whole thing starts over again. Who cares if Linux got hacked first. It doesn't matter. I use Linux because I enjoy it, not because it is "hack-proof". I find it easier to get the things done that I do.
There is no such thing as a 100% secure server. Somebody is always going to find a way to get in. These tests are designed to convince corporate big shots to use one or the other. Its going to come down to CIOs actually listening to what their Sys Admins real world tests showed for their business, not somebody elses. Your business and systems are completely different than mine. I'm not going to use NT or Linux just because it works for you.
This is not intended as flamebait. I'm just tired of this. It's like all of the sudden Linux and NT need to be on the cover of Consumer Products magazine or something.
Um, it also says "Stuff that matters." George C. Scott influenced the lives of many Slashdotters including myself. I consider his death stuff that matters Anonymous Coward.
If nobody has ever seen it, A&E's biography of him is superb. I'll bet a dollar it will be on either tonight or as their Biography of the week this weekend. If you can, check it out. It really delves (my new word for the day, probably mispelled it) into his personality and private life.
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I believe this was answered above, but I'll give it a go.
Last summer one of our users RH boxes was broken into and basically used for a pirate games repository over the weekend. I was notified Monday for by our ISP of a 5000% increase in our traffic over the weeken (gee, thanks guys, could have called me saturday). It took me 6 hours to figure out what happened plus another 24-36 to fix the problem and seal the security hole. During this time period I was unable to do other tasks around here. I don't make nearly close to what the person in the other message posted, but we lost a few grand in my time when I could have been doing jobs for customers. Plus you end up behind schedule and you have to makeup the time you lost either threw overtime (if you get it) or by sacrificing other tasks. From that one litle break in it took me close to a week to catch-up and get back to where I'd been. Sounds confusing, but business is confusing.
Matt
I'm pretty lucky because I do receive overtime even though I'm salaried. It's some goofy way the company designates people as exempt and non-exempt. I don't totally understand it, but as long as I get my time and a half.
How does an interesting comment like this get moderated down to zero. We're commenting on much we enjoy Wine. This makes no sense.
Now I can waste time at work playing Grand Turisimo 2 instead of just at home.
I never realized how much I was working until the HR department called down the other day to my boss to ask how it was possible I was turning in 10-20 hours of overtime every paycheck. To be honest I never really think about it. Once I get going on something I usually don't stop until I've got it figured out. I bought a watch, but never use it. None of my computer clock are even remotely close to having the same time. To this "Knowledge Worker" let the weanies in HR worry about overtime and people working to much, that's their job, not mine.
I agree completely with you on Wine. I'll never forget the first time I got it compiled and working (few years ago) and got Solitare to work. I love that feeling when dealing with Linux. I may not have written Wine, but the hours spent setting it up were rewarding. That was what got me hooked on Linux in the first place.
I think every Linux user, heck, computer users in general should print out this article out and stick it where they can see it sitting at their desks.
I wonder what the Linux Killer will be? Any suggestions?
Matt
They used the old Find and Replace and switched all the references to hack to prank.
"That's why Ford Motor's announcement announcement last week was potentially the most significant technology news in years, vastly more important than the river of hype about mergers and IPOs. Ford will offer each of its 350,000 employees worldwide, from factory workers in India to designers in Michigan, a high-speed desktop computer, a color printer and unlimited Internet access for just $5 a month. This announcement was potentially the most significant technology news in years, vastly more important than the river of hype about mergers, IPOs and stock prices."
We have to preview before submitting. If you are trying to be a professional writer, act like one.
Hell, I'd pay $8 a ticket to see that. You should send that to New Line. Seriously. Natalie Portman's gotta get kidnapped by Dr. Evil so they can have the standard save the chick and kill all the bad guys and ride out into the sunset scene at the end.
In my opinion, we (the us) could be invaded, but unless somebody nuked us into submission, I don't think any one or two countries could take and hold the US. Think of every gang in most major cities that has better weaponry than most third-world armies. An invading force could maybe get to the Rockies, but every yahoo for North Dakota to Georgia would be saying "Ma, get me my gun" and that would be the end of any invading force. Look at how many Americans died to protect their country during the Civil War and that was with brother's fighting against brothers. Imagine brothers fighting with each other against some country who had the balls to come and invade their city. To many people with guns that know how to use them in the US.
Matt
Matt
I just wanted to say thanks to all the Slashdot editors and readers. I find it extremely amazing that Slashdot now has the weight (readership, etc.) behind to be able to interview just about anybody it wants. I mean, we just got an interview from a guy who is in charge of systems for the the UK government? I've never seen an article like that in any computer magazine. Thanks for the great article. I bet pretty soon people are going to be lining up to be interviewed on Slashdot.
Matt
Here is the thing that irritates me about this article. The statement about no central repository for updates. What about Red Hat's errata section, how about Freshmeat and Linux Today?
I have also spent the last two days trying to download Service Pack 5 for NT. Sure Microsoft has a "central repository", but you are stuck with a 25-75mb file to download and Microsoft's site by itself is slow without having to try to download from Conxion. The farthest I've gotten is 10mb before the connection hung and I cancelled. We have 6 channels of a T1 here, and I'm only getting 3.2kb to Microsoft and on the download.
I think it it pretty obvious from the last two-three weeks that PC Week has done little or no research on anything they are trying to do or write about. It is my personal opinion that we should just ignore them. If they aren't going to take the time to research their articles and statements (think Journalistic Integrity) I'm not going to take the time to read their magazine.
Matt
This may seem a little off-topic. But I am a little confused about the ISO images. Do I just burn the one big file to a CD and make the CD bootable, or do I need some type of extraction tool for the .iso first? And just what the heck is an ISO image?
Matt
"It's not premarrital sex if you're not planning on getting married."
Hey, that's nothin'. We now have Interstate Mark McGwire here in St. Louis. Just because he hit seventy homeruns (shakes head). And poor Joltin Joe had to wait until he was on his deathbed before those bastards in New York would give him his highway (That's right New York, you heard me). Thank god we also have a highway 67 in case he only hits that many this hear.
Our motto here in Missoura is "The Show-Me" state. Show you what? I have no freaking idea. The money? My bunghole? Well okay. They should have called us:
Missouri "Hey, we've got an extremely large, metal, half of a McDonald's sign standing next to the dirtiest river in North America and you don't" state.
I wouldn't worry too much. Eventually nanotechnology and cloning will be perfected. Then we can have teeny, tiny little Arnold Schwarzenagers(sp?) ala Terminator living in our firewalls and servers blowing away any malicious packets.
"Vittle evectron, I vill terminate you"
But then somebody will will create itsy, bitsy Sylvester Stallones.
Matt
"And knowing is half the battle, YO JOE!"
Man, I needed that. These last two comments busted me up. Hi, I'm Al Gore. You know that little thing that hangs down in the back of your throat? That's right. I invented it.
I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with this person. Who does this person write for? Matt
Damn, I really miss my Tandy Color Computer and TI/94a. Now there were a couple of secure systems. :)
All of these contests are designed for Linux to lose. Although PC Week has been expanding their coverage of Linux, what is PC Week? It is a magazine oriented towards Windows users. Look through their ads. 99% of their ad revenue are for products for Windows.
The way I see it, there is no real way to test the two operating systems against each other. Somebody will always find something wrong with the test criteria, someone else will scream conspiracy and the whole thing starts over again. Who cares if Linux got hacked first. It doesn't matter. I use Linux because I enjoy it, not because it is "hack-proof". I find it easier to get the things done that I do.
There is no such thing as a 100% secure server. Somebody is always going to find a way to get in. These tests are designed to convince corporate big shots to use one or the other. Its going to come down to CIOs actually listening to what their Sys Admins real world tests showed for their business, not somebody elses. Your business and systems are completely different than mine. I'm not going to use NT or Linux just because it works for you.
This is not intended as flamebait. I'm just tired of this. It's like all of the sudden Linux and NT need to be on the cover of Consumer Products magazine or something.
My name is Matt and I'm a LinuxholicThanks for the quote. I needed to read it again.
Matt
Um, it also says "Stuff that matters." George C. Scott influenced the lives of many Slashdotters including myself. I consider his death stuff that matters Anonymous Coward.
Matt
Cnn website is saying the coroner's report says he died of natural causes. Man that sentence has some bad grammar.
Quote from article:
He died of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
Rest well Patton, you deserve it.
Matt
If nobody has ever seen it, A&E's biography of him is superb. I'll bet a dollar it will be on either tonight or as their Biography of the week this weekend. If you can, check it out. It really delves (my new word for the day, probably mispelled it) into his personality and private life.
Matt
If you're a youngster, check out Angus. He plays the grandfather and is really good in it. The movie itself is pretty cool.
Matt