"We have some 2500 Windows servers where I work. None of them have monitors, keyboards, or mice. If we need a KVM it's typically to get into the BIOS, not the operating system."
Sounds nice, but what you're really saying is that a Windows server will load and run without certain hardware peripherals attached. Ignoring the event log errors issue, I don't see this as meaningful.
1. You cannot administer a Windows server (or a desktop) to any meaninful extent on the command line. You can add all the resource kit utilities, sysinternals utilities, whatever other little programs the Windows folks routinely get excited about to the embarrassingly small collection of native "DOS" commands, and then throw in all the vb scripts you can write, and you still end up with a toolkit the size of which would maker any Viagra marketer drool.
2. That Longhorn may introduce some shiny new approach to a terminal window (non-text-based from what I've heard) is saying that it won't be as crippled as cmd.exe, but not much else. I doubt anyone is holding their breath. And I doubt anyone believes that Microsoft will get it right.
3. Changing the Windows shell (to cmd.exe, for example, as was previously suggested) is little more than a distraction. You swap out a visual desktop that displays the start menu, taskbar, system tray, etc., for a black background. Everything else, with a few quirks here and there is alive and well as before.
4. That you use KVMs mostly to "get into the BIOS" also says little. It would have been more informative to say that your company manages its 2500 servers with terminal services or something similar and saved money by not buying a monitor for each sever.
"Not long ago they started requiring a Passport account to post to the MS support newsgroups..."
Huh? It's one thing for Microsoft to try and recreate email, usenet, etc. in their own image, but what you're saying is rubbish.
Put another way, the microsoft.public.* hierarchy is still as "public" as ever. It's available on most nntp feeds, or accesssible directly from their own server at news.microsoft.com.
My guess is that most of us can learn live with the "coupla spammers" and bickering on the discussion boards, but the "I Need a Laptop" ads in the For Sale section (as an example) are more than annoying.
Is is that much work to reclassify an ad? Or implement a lameness filter to nip the allcaps/extraneous ascii headline artists?
-----Original Message----- From: smilin [mailto: http://slashdot.org/~Smilin/] Sent: Thurday, December 24, 2004 10:29 AM To: slashdot@slashdot.org Subject: Re: Re: Outlook 2003 rocks. Period.
"I've seen nothing that works as well >as Outlook 2003 for managing incoming and >>outgoing data and communication. I can receive >a constant stream of incoming email and >deal >>>with it on the fly. No other email client >works as well."
Hmmm. I guess that not being a mutt user, you >don't notice the broken threading, the lack of single key read, >the oversized and easily >corruptable mailboxes, and a long history of serious attachment-related problems as being on >> > > >the laundry list of features some people just don't want.
But it rocks, right?
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The "customers" I think of are not the recently-bereaved, but those involved in breeding animals. A champion show dog, for instance, is easily worth 50 grand. It's highly likely that cloning as opposed to selective breeding would confuse the hell out of the folks at the AKC, but for those of us looking to better our odds on getting a healthy pup from a good line, the idea of seeing the scientific method put to greater use would be very appealing.
"Although in the video the girl is smiling and stuff..."
Unless I missed it, that bit of reporting wasn't included in the article, so I'm assuming you have seen video. What's interesting is that you choose to characterise the video with the loaded phrase "child porn."
Maybe you want to describe what happened in the "and stuff" part for those of us who haven't yet seen it and want to watch child porn too.
Interesting scenario, but what's to prevent an attorney from adding a few lines of boilerplate to the back of the sales contract/receipt to require acceptance of the EULA for any and all software 'sales'?
"CDs are for listening to {if they contain music}, or backing up files to. They are not for looking at."
Huh? I seem to have the same habits as you (no label, info on the inlay only, etc.) but "not for looking at?" How about this: buy a few thousand books (they're for reading, not looking at, right?), tear off the covers, write the title on a bookmark stuck in between the pages of each and then put them all back on the shelf. Give yourself a few days before you wonder on the marvels of packaging and the nature of the decorative arts.
"Other than the Koolance water-cooling which we'll get to in a minute, additional system cooling is provided by a couple of rear 80mm fans (along with the two front fans), as well as your PSU if it has fans in it (most likely)."
So, 4 fans plus the power supply fan? Seems to me that's 1 fan more than found in my Antec 2U server cases, which I keep locked in a closet.
Personally, I think most case/cooling solutions are next to hopeless. Ultimately, it may come down to being aware of the limitations and choosing the option that sucks less.
"Many ISP's choke bandwidth on usenet. SBC and Road Runner choke it down so badly..."
Bzzzzt!
Sorry, usenet is not your ISP's news server.
Subscribe to any good news service (newscene, giganews, easynews, yada yada) and the bandwidth your ISP allocates to you will be maxed out almost as fast as your hard drive will fill up.
"I imagine the copyright holders will go after the people who index bittorrent seeds, rather than the people involved in the filesharing, for facilitating the crime."
Facilitating crimes? It's become a cliche, but it's worth reminding ourselves that introducing a new vocabulary to change the meaning of common and well-understood ideas is a tactic as effective as it is disingenuous, yet a tactic that demands not only tacit acceptance on everyone's part, but also a measure of credulity as that typically found on the AM airwaves for its success. Put another way, you need to (and often can) fool all the people all the time.
How else to gain advantage than re-frame the discussion? Instead of concerning ourselves with (or being amused by) the mundane activities of ordinary folks who, when children, were taught to share, we can all become law enforcement officials. Just like on TV. But why just mouth the words when we can complete the picture with the requisite uniform, badge and perhaps a sidearm.
Aiding and abetting? Providing material support? Or maybe offering expert advice and asistance? How about conspiring to commit? It was George Bush who said "There ought to be limits to freedom." but my guess is that both he and his former attorney general John Ashcroft would be just as proud.
Geesus, man! I agree the Cisco Press books are well written, but your suggestion would have been more valuable if it included the passing of participles along with books.
Years ago when I was attending grade school in Canada I could have made the same observations. Not just about East Africans, but also the Italians, Poles, Pakistanis, and any other group that were newly arrived.
From the "One of the Slashdot Posts Worth Saving" Department:
* --All right, I'm only going to say this once: 'He' is the singular indefinite pronoun in English ("if a person drinks too much, he will likely experience a hangover"). 'He' also happens to be the masculine personal pronoun.
'She' is the singular pronoun of personification in English ("if England fails to advance America's foreign-policy ambitions, she will suffer terrible consequences"). 'She' also happens to be the feminine personal pronoun.
Confusing the two exhibits not a warm-and-fuzzy concern for the inclusion of women so much as a writer's or speaker's ignorance. Using the feminine personal pronoun as an indefinite article is as moronic as using the masculine personal pronoun for personification. Thus the captain greets us: "Welcome to my ship. Isn't he splendid?"
Give it up, people. It's not thoughtful; it's just illiterate. ®
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"We have some 2500 Windows servers where I work. None of them have monitors, keyboards, or mice. If we need a KVM it's typically to get into the BIOS, not the operating system."
Sounds nice, but what you're really saying is that a Windows server will load and run without certain hardware peripherals attached. Ignoring the event log errors issue, I don't see this as meaningful.
1. You cannot administer a Windows server (or a desktop) to any meaninful extent on the command line. You can add all the resource kit utilities, sysinternals utilities, whatever other little programs the Windows folks routinely get excited about to the embarrassingly small collection of native "DOS" commands, and then throw in all the vb scripts you can write, and you still end up with a toolkit the size of which would maker any Viagra marketer drool.
2. That Longhorn may introduce some shiny new approach to a terminal window (non-text-based from what I've heard) is saying that it won't be as crippled as cmd.exe, but not much else. I doubt anyone is holding their breath. And I doubt anyone believes that Microsoft will get it right.
3. Changing the Windows shell (to cmd.exe, for example, as was previously suggested) is little more than a distraction. You swap out a visual desktop that displays the start menu, taskbar, system tray, etc., for a black background. Everything else, with a few quirks here and there is alive and well as before.
4. That you use KVMs mostly to "get into the BIOS" also says little. It would have been more informative to say that your company manages its 2500 servers with terminal services or something similar and saved money by not buying a monitor for each sever.
"Not long ago they started requiring a Passport account to post to the MS support newsgroups..."
Huh? It's one thing for Microsoft to try and recreate email, usenet, etc. in their own image, but what you're saying is rubbish.
Put another way, the microsoft.public.* hierarchy is still as "public" as ever. It's available on most nntp feeds, or accesssible directly from their own server at news.microsoft.com.
My guess is that most of us can learn live with the "coupla spammers" and bickering on the discussion boards, but the "I Need a Laptop" ads in the For Sale section (as an example) are more than annoying.
Is is that much work to reclassify an ad? Or implement a lameness filter to nip the allcaps/extraneous ascii headline artists?
"Why do people bother asking me why I have this in my sig?"
Not to worry. I won't. Ever.
Slashdot -> Preferences -> Comments -> Disable Sigs
Now if I could only get rid of the excessive whitespace from the HTML-Formatted-But-Don't-Preview crowd, I won't have anything to complain about.
And installed Windows on it.
-----Original Message-----
From: smilin [mailto: http://slashdot.org/~Smilin/]
Sent: Thurday, December 24, 2004 10:29 AM
To: slashdot@slashdot.org
Subject: Re: Re: Outlook 2003 rocks. Period.
"I've seen nothing that works as well
>as Outlook 2003 for managing incoming and
>>outgoing data and communication. I can receive >a constant stream of incoming email and >deal
>>>with it on the fly. No other email client
>works as well."
Hmmm. I guess that not being a mutt user, you
>don't notice the broken threading, the lack of single key read,
>the oversized and easily
>corruptable mailboxes, and a long history of serious attachment-related problems as being
on >>
>
>
>the laundry list of features some people just don't want.
But it rocks, right?
The "customers" I think of are not the recently-bereaved, but those involved in breeding animals. A champion show dog, for instance, is easily worth 50 grand. It's highly likely that cloning as opposed to selective breeding would confuse the hell out of the folks at the AKC, but for those of us looking to better our odds on getting a healthy pup from a good line, the idea of seeing the scientific method put to greater use would be very appealing.
Or, maybe. Christopher. Walken?
Nah. He uses as many periods as commas.
"Although in the video the girl is smiling and stuff..."
Unless I missed it, that bit of reporting wasn't included in the article, so I'm assuming you have seen video. What's interesting is that you choose to characterise the video with the loaded phrase "child porn."
Maybe you want to describe what happened in the "and stuff" part for those of us who haven't yet seen it and want to watch child porn too.
"...you're buying right into that same allusion that Time Warner ran into."
I hesitate to count the number of mixed metaphors in that statement, but I believe the word you meant to use is "illusion."
Interesting scenario, but what's to prevent an attorney from adding a few lines of boilerplate to the back of the sales contract/receipt to require acceptance of the EULA for any and all software 'sales'?
Yeah, but have you stopped beating your wife?
"CDs are for listening to {if they contain music}, or backing up files to. They are not for looking at."
Huh? I seem to have the same habits as you (no label, info on the inlay only, etc.) but "not for looking at?" How about this: buy a few thousand books (they're for reading, not looking at, right?), tear off the covers, write the title on a bookmark stuck in between the pages of each and then put them all back on the shelf. Give yourself a few days before you wonder on the marvels of packaging and the nature of the decorative arts.
I stopped reading after:
"Other than the Koolance water-cooling which we'll get to in a minute, additional system cooling is provided by a couple of rear 80mm fans (along with the two front fans), as well as your PSU if it has fans in it (most likely)."
So, 4 fans plus the power supply fan? Seems to me that's 1 fan more than found in my Antec 2U server cases, which I keep locked in a closet.
Personally, I think most case/cooling solutions are next to hopeless. Ultimately, it may come down to being aware of the limitations and choosing the option that sucks less.
"Many ISP's choke bandwidth on usenet. ..."
SBC and Road Runner choke it down so badly
Bzzzzt!
Sorry, usenet is not your ISP's news server.
Subscribe to any good news service (newscene, giganews, easynews, yada yada) and the bandwidth your ISP allocates to you will be maxed out almost as fast as your hard drive will fill up.
"There's no indication that the index is being built, or when it might be done, etc."
... an AVI with a magnifying glass and a folder?
What??? No AVI with a magnifying glass and a folder to provide the administrator or user with
"I imagine the copyright holders will go after the people who index bittorrent seeds, rather than the people involved in the filesharing, for facilitating the crime."
Facilitating crimes? It's become a cliche, but it's worth reminding ourselves that introducing a new vocabulary to change the meaning of common and well-understood ideas is a tactic as effective as it is disingenuous, yet a tactic that demands not only tacit acceptance on everyone's part, but also a measure of credulity as that typically found on the AM airwaves for its success. Put another way, you need to (and often can) fool all the people all the time.
How else to gain advantage than re-frame the discussion? Instead of concerning ourselves with (or being amused by) the mundane activities of ordinary folks who, when children, were taught to share, we can all become law enforcement officials. Just like on TV. But why just mouth the words when we can complete the picture with the requisite uniform, badge and perhaps a sidearm.
Aiding and abetting? Providing material support? Or maybe offering expert advice and asistance? How about conspiring to commit? It was George Bush who said "There ought to be limits to freedom." but my guess is that both he and his former attorney general John Ashcroft would be just as proud.
"Those classes are usually hard."
"To learn anything concrete."
"From anyway."
Geesus, man! I agree the Cisco Press books are well written, but your suggestion would have been more valuable if it included the passing of participles along with books.
Mutt.
No, really. It sucks less than all the others.
Really.
Years ago when I was attending grade school in Canada I could have made the same observations. Not just about East Africans, but also the Italians, Poles, Pakistanis, and any other group that were newly arrived.
" Why did Ken Jennings - multi millionaire - decide to hook up with Microsoft to promote a less-than stellar product."
Because they asked?
The reason Microsoft is hawking the second-rate Encarta is because the folks at Britannica said no to the idea way back when.
They're also called voters.
... election's over ...
Yeah, I know
Well, if you're looking for stability, here's a real solid model.
Maybe there's more to the design and engineering part of the equation than first meets the eye.
An off by one error?
From the "One of the Slashdot Posts Worth Saving" Department:
* --All right, I'm only going to say this once: 'He' is the singular indefinite pronoun in English ("if a person drinks too much, he will likely experience a hangover"). 'He' also happens to be the masculine personal pronoun.
'She' is the singular pronoun of personification in English ("if England fails to advance America's foreign-policy ambitions, she will suffer terrible consequences"). 'She' also happens to be the feminine personal pronoun.
Confusing the two exhibits not a warm-and-fuzzy concern for the inclusion of women so much as a writer's or speaker's ignorance. Using the feminine personal pronoun as an indefinite article is as moronic as using the masculine personal pronoun for personification. Thus the captain greets us: "Welcome to my ship. Isn't he splendid?"
Give it up, people. It's not thoughtful; it's just illiterate. ®