I've never understood why operations like this are so hard to track down. If you give them $40,000 that creates a finantial paper trail that is traceable! The same thing with spam, if it is illeagal spam and they ask you for money, at some point the money has to go somewhere. Why do the feds have such a hard time connecting the dots on cases like this? I'm sure there is something I'm missing so someone please inform me.
g4u (short for Ghost for Unix) just uses dd to make copies, but is in a nice bootable floppy form that makes it very easy to use. I highly recommend it.
The submitter is right in saying that g4u only using ftp, but why is that a problem? Just keep one ftp server running for image deployment. It doesn't use anonymous ftp, you can specify the account to use. Just don't have it accessible to the internet and you are fine.
I have been shocked at the wide range of NIC cards g4u has been able to detect and use. The latest Compaq EVOs (blech) that we have around here have a new intel nic card that gives me all kinds of problems in Linux. I have not found a distro yet that will auto-detect it on install, but g4u does just fine.
It also lets you copy just one partition at a time.
It boots from a floppy or a CD so there is no software to install.
Best of all, it is FREE!
I have never had it crash on me, and the only time I have had a deployment not work is when copying to a drive that is smaller than the image.
The only downside that I have found is that both image creation and deployment take longer than ghost does, but for me it is well worth it.
This is consistent with my long experience with Micrsoft development... some piece of Microsoft's software and tools are really good, others are bad, but never is there any kind of overarching consistency and philosophy.
A perfect example of this fragmentation is in the application installers. Compare the installers for MDAC vs..NET Framework vs. SQLServer, vs. any other MS application. I have also seen patches that are very different too. There is the typical hotfix type installer, but then every now and again you will see a patch for something like a service pack for a more obscure MS application and it is obvious that it came from a completely different department with little or no "corporate identity scrubbing" beforehand. Is this a good or bad thing? I don't know, but I have long had the impression that every MS app I use was from a completely department with little global consistancy.
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Are we sure this wasn't put out by the Umbrella corporation?
They reacted to this awfull fast. Does it seem to anyone else that SCO was planning this all along? Thay just waited for IBM to make the first move.
If it's cash, they have to show up in person to collect it.
I've never understood why operations like this are so hard to track down. If you give them $40,000 that creates a finantial paper trail that is traceable! The same thing with spam, if it is illeagal spam and they ask you for money, at some point the money has to go somewhere. Why do the feds have such a hard time connecting the dots on cases like this? I'm sure there is something I'm missing so someone please inform me.
g4u (short for Ghost for Unix) just uses dd to make copies, but is in a nice bootable floppy form that makes it very easy to use. I highly recommend it.
The submitter is right in saying that g4u only using ftp, but why is that a problem? Just keep one ftp server running for image deployment. It doesn't use anonymous ftp, you can specify the account to use. Just don't have it accessible to the internet and you are fine.
I have been shocked at the wide range of NIC cards g4u has been able to detect and use. The latest Compaq EVOs (blech) that we have around here have a new intel nic card that gives me all kinds of problems in Linux. I have not found a distro yet that will auto-detect it on install, but g4u does just fine.
It also lets you copy just one partition at a time.
It boots from a floppy or a CD so there is no software to install.
Best of all, it is FREE!
I have never had it crash on me, and the only time I have had a deployment not work is when copying to a drive that is smaller than the image.
The only downside that I have found is that both image creation and deployment take longer than ghost does, but for me it is well worth it.
A perfect example of this fragmentation is in the application installers. Compare the installers for MDAC vs. .NET Framework vs. SQLServer, vs. any other MS application. I have also seen patches that are very different too. There is the typical hotfix type installer, but then every now and again you will see a patch for something like a service pack for a more obscure MS application and it is obvious that it came from a completely different department with little or no "corporate identity scrubbing" beforehand. Is this a good or bad thing? I don't know, but I have long had the impression that every MS app I use was from a completely department with little global consistancy.