Cheers to that man, quantity should only matter for a given amount of time. Six shots over six hours and you're probably fine. Do it in 10 minutes and you're probably having a good time. I'm not sure why some substances are demonized. Most people I think want to blame an external pressure for failures of people. They'd rather blame alcohol than the driver. As if the driver wouldn't have found another way to become intoxicated.
I love it, it's insightful and doesn't even get into the fact that the article actually does say before age X. The pertinent text from the article...
The sample of those who were studied included individuals between ages 55 and 65 who had had any kind of outpatient care in the previous three years. The 1,824 participants were followed for 20 years. One drawback of the sample: a disproportionate number, 63%, were men. Just over 69% of the never-drinkers died during the 20 years, 60% of the heavy drinkers died and only 41% of moderate drinkers died.
Really, before disparaging a study please read the even basic article about it.
Of course in reality, my area is serviced by only one broadband provider which is the local cable company. They will happily pass on the increases to me.
You could very easily argue that installing gear without your knowledge to your car while in your driveway would be considered vandalism. I'm just uncertain why they can't get a warrant to do it. There seems to be a war on oversight for the last decade and realistically even longer. When it become bad to have to justify your actions? In the case of FISA you don't even have to justify it before you do it.
While AMD inarguably has been a manufacturing generation or two behind for quite some time you fail to realize that the platform was design from the ground up to be SMP friendly. This has helped AMD pretty much rule the roost for several years in the virtual market. The 12 Core Opterons are beating the hell out of the Xeons on price and performance. Intel made a lot of great strides to improve their situation but in the end AMD has been pretty good about maintaining their lead there. AMD also has the additional benefit of maintaining their sockets for longer so many older AMD servers support the latest 12 core Opterons. HP and Dell like to lag their bios support to encourage you to replace the whole server but those building based on Supermicro or any of the custom built server markets can do in-place upgrades adding significant capacity to the datacenter for comparatively little upgrade cost.
Intel rules the performance desktop market but AMD has the virtual market which IMHO is the market that has a future.
Ya know, I'm in the live entertainment biz and folks that have come from the computer world don't have near the ground problems as the stereo jockies. We just put everything behind two UPS with an autoswitcher in the middle and never looked back. Of course all of our stuff is HD-SDI so it either works or it doesn't. Grounds loops don't matter when you are digital as that interference won't mean anything to the decoder which wouldn't ever have the opportunity to receive said interference as the interface controller will do the signal passing at which point all grounding effects disappear. This was a huge issue when cameras had analog outputs with BNC connectors. Now that it's SD or HD-SDI none of us have ever looked back.
The only time I run into grounding effects these days is on the other side of distro where I'm outputting SD distro for large projectors. Everytime it's been because their cables were way longer than they needed to be so there wasn't enough signal to reach the other side. These days more often than not, hum bars are caused by lighting which can be adjusted for in most cameras.
Of course the audio is done separately and we put it back together for our recordings. Audio has been digital for a long time too. The only analog part is the microphone who's cable will attach to an amplifier usually only a few feet away. Noise is calibrated during the sound check so it gets filtered and has negligible impact on quality. The wireless microphones goes to their receiver which is almost always digital out as well. They all got sick of those grounding issues especially since most stage performances have to more or less share the same ground.
Cool, I'll go around to key beta testers and add lines to their host files so we can do IPv6. As I keep saying, it's adding steps that currently aren't necessary and you've yet to provide a reason why anyone would want to do that when it's completely unnecessary.
It makes a lot of sense to do it at the WAN level and in the core datacenter but outside it makes very little sense. Even the WAN side right now is up for debate given that most providers even if they do offer IPv6 has slow as shit 6to4 gateways so you take a performance hit.
I second that, I never understand why normal behaviour is considered taboo. Going out drinking and having fun with friends is something most all of us do from time to time. Why would you not hire someone because they get drunk in their off times? Wouldn't their performance and history of performance be a lot more important? This is the same reason I don't like drug testing. If it tested whether the person had done it that day it wouldn't be so bad, but it's anytime in the last two weeks to 21 years depending on the test. That's completely pointless and says nothing about the reliability of the person.
I'm not sure when it became okay for businesses to inspect every aspect of your life, if only politicians were held to such scrutiny.
As I said, you're adding steps that weren't necessary before. IPv6 addresses aren't as unfriendly as they look at first glance but most people will have a hard time remembering that mean numbers. DNS and Hosts files are not always practical and I even gave several examples. Now my cameras I'll just enter the addresses in the recorder one time, no big deal, the printers, the same for the print server. The end affect is simply that I'm typing a lot more than I would be with IPv4 and I'm not gaining anything since all of these things already work with IPv4. So I'm doing more work for what? Fuzzy good feelings?
Until there is a compelling reason to do it internally expect a lot of resistance. Personally I don't care as my infrastructure is solid and already in the process of migration. A great many people and organizations aren't going to go through the trouble until they can't do the things they currently can do.
IPv6 really only makes sense for completely new setups and given the lack of vendor support for it even that is still questionable.
It is? I run hundreds of SIP phones complete with video calling behind NAT without a problem. It only becomes an issue when you have 10s or 100s of thousands of phones.
Why would the phones even need Internet access? You have your SIP proxy on your network which connects to your SIP provider or POTs provider depending how you like to deploy. It's a very simple setup, makes auditing really easy, and allows me to do tricky stuff like divert the video from the gate to the phone so whoever answers can choose whether or not to let them in.
Worms will propogate as they always have, properly firewalled setups have dramatically reduced this in IPv4 and the same will happen on IPv6. I keep hearing people speak of NAT like it's not a firewall but most of those people are forgetting that most NAT devices actually are real firewalls these days unlike the early days of NAT.
I'm not against IPv6 but I have to agree with the parent, it has to start with the ISPs before it really makes sense for the rest of us to change. ISPs are having enough trouble with current traffic levels however that I have no faith in their ability to launch anytime soon on any real scale.
That's cute, you think DNS solves his problem. Hate to break it to ya but often in testing you don't want your host to have a name until it's ready for production. Then of course there are times when DNS breaks due to service lockup or someone misplacing an encryption key. It's adding complexity back to a system that is supposed to reduce complexity plain and simple.
Kind of a moot point really anyway as a lot of network devices don't register hostnames with DNS anyway. I know none of my IP cameras do, although they don't even support IPv6 but they're on a separate network so no big deal. Oh wait, my printers don't register their names either, oh wait, my phones don't either and btw, none of them support IPv6.
The only place it makes sense in most environments right now is at the edge or in server to server communications since auto-provisioning is vastly simplified. At least a lot of my newer switches support IPv6 management addresses.
Until all the little nitpicky issues like that are resolved you can expect a lot of legitimate resistance to the adoption of IPv6. A lot of my firewalls don't support it although my newest ones finally do. Firmware upgrades on every device that currently works just to make them work with IPv6 is going to look like a waste of time. We already have an IPv4 address or 12 to the Internet, that means it will be a while before we're forced to upgrade internally.
I think your confused about even basic Linux administration. Of course the first user is an admin. How is this different than setting the root password on installation of any other Linux distro. This is one of the weakest criticisms of Ubuntu I've encountered since the 7.04 days.
By default when you create a user in Ubuntu it is not granted admin. Only the first user created at install is granted admin by default and this is a safe practice as anything you do in sudo leaves an audit trail. This is good security practice by default, out-of-the-box. The first thing I do on CentOS or Slackware, or any Linux distro is create the sudoers file where you can specify what users can perform what tasks with root level permissions while denying them the ability to do it with all programs. Of course my account can sudo any application, but I'm an admin. Windows 7 is no different, OS X is no different. This is pretty standard industry practice for a desktop or even server OS these days.
There is very little that is insecure about Ubuntu and especially Ubuntu server out of the box.
Clearly you are unaware of Ubuntu's actual problems as only members of the admin group may sudo. Feel free to try again. Of course you go into why you have Windows credentials but again jump to how that somehow makes Ubuntu inferior.
You are free to hate Ubuntu, I would suggest it is wiser to know what you are hating though.
You're humorous. I come from a Linux background actually. The only difference is that I'm not blindly following any particular distro. There is a reason that I have some machines running Ubuntu where it makes sense, others like Asterisk running on CentOS again where it makes sense and still others running Oracle Linux for my databases.
You seriously expect me to take that drivel? You didn't even fully read what the parent was saying, he wasn't suggesting old machines lying around, he was suggesting new machines. Given than ATI and Nvidia don't have released drivers for their newest cards your statement is rather laughable unless you merely mean that it works on Mandriva even if it's in VESA mode.
I think you're going to have a hard time quantitively measuring the number of devices supported in Mandriva versus Ubuntu 10.04. Of course you make a lot of logical leaps that make no sense like my statement about Mandriva being a Cadillac compared to Ubuntu and somehow that means I come from a Windows background?
The problem is that I use a lot of tools, Windows and even OS X are commonly used in my environment, I routinely get to compare and contrast. They all have their pros and cons. Mandriva has gone through it's share of growing pains like all of them going back as far as the Mandrake days. CentOS had a change in leadership and survived, so did Mandriva. Arguing that it is the best is pointless as it's still Linux, if you can make it work in one distro you can almost always make it work in them all.
At my last review I found that it paled in comparison to either SUSE or Red Hat enterprise products. I'll grant that was a year ago so things can and will have changed which is why I'll do another review when it's time for a new project.
Mandriva has support out of the box for 3TB partitions, as does Ubuntu, you just have to use parted or gparted if you like the GUI to create it since fdisk doesn't support it. Your Enterprise edition statement made no difference and if you think Mandriva is a Cadillac compared to Ubuntu then I'll suggest you're the one making ridiculous claims.
If you actually read what I wrote you'll notice that I'm not condemning the entire Linux world and find it good enough for the majority of my tasks. I've even deployed touch screen kiosks based on Ubuntu that run XBMC which is a great combination so far.
Futhermore you just condemn Windows 7 despite making obvious statements that you are unfamiliar with the changes in it. You also don't even deny that I can go to my favorite electronics store, buy all the parts for a machine and that I can safely expect it to run just fine on Windows 7 while the same is simply not true on Linux. Of course the example scenario was academic and doesn't really mean all that much but it does make a statement about hardware driver support in Linux. You have to do more research to build a Linux machine. This is especially true with all the software RAID cards out there that even HP Proliants are starting to come with. I always found it funny that a RAID 1 setup with 2 volumes would show has 2 drives in Windows 2003 or 2008 while the same setup with Linux will see 4 drives.
It's not the fault of the Linux community though as that is just hardware manufacturers behaving badly. Nevertheless it is a reality all Linux folk face despite your evangelical support for Mandriva.
I'll second this, 10.04 was a dramatic improvement in hardware support. If only multi-monitor support could work without me having to log out and back in. Windows still does multi-monitor the best and it's only improved with Windows 7.
As a side note I found with 10.04 that bluetooth tethering with my cell phone worked out of the box using the Network Manager wizard. It's come a long ways since I would also remove it and install WICD.
Sweet, now format a 3TB partition without falling to parted... Mandriva ain't the silver bullet you claim, boy did I find that out with my netbook. I settled on Ubuntu netbook edition as I know Ubuntu the best. Hardware support in Linux is pretty flaky but it's pretty flaky in Windows too. Windows 7 has improved the landscape considerably back in Microsoft's favor for hardware compatibility as there is much more driver support on the install DVD. Additionally, the install is now image based so you are incorrect, Mandriva will take longer on the same machine to install although neither take what I consider an arduous amount of time these days.
The point that I haven't heard anything since is pointing out that they screwed up and didn't want to admit it but couldn't point the finger anywhere else. I suggested to the COO and the CEO/Owner that we just keep it in a safe at his house. I regularly work up there too so it makes keeping the thing up to date relatively simple. Make no mistake, I am never the only person that has a production password.
I definitely hold the people responsible accountable and the chain of command is jacked here as I've been through four bosses in seven years. When the new IT director came aboard per the owner's instructions I did not give him full access. I slowly increased his access as I felt comfortable with his abilities and now he has the same level of access I have which coincidentally means I can finally take a vacation. This I very much enjoy!
When I was a juror the judge explicitly said that jury nullification was not allowed. I'm still confused now as to why she lied to us but it didn't matter since there wasn't enough evidence in the case to convict despite the defendant being a grade A douchebag. Of course the plaintiff wasn't any better and in the end he was declared not guilty. Will never know if that was the right decision but I felt good about it because all of us jurors agreed once we went over the facts of the case and the words of the lawyers. Took all of 10 minutes so I got to go home early that day. Woot!
I think a lot of people blindly support him because they can easily see themselves in a similar position and have no desire to be railroaded should they find themselves in the same position. While Childs did abuse his position and gave every sysadmin a bad name he doesn't hold all of the blame and if management had been more on top of the situation none of this unpleasantness would have happened.
Why on earth would a city the size of SF have only one sysadmin? This is the real root of the problem. If there had been a team, the project would have been properly built out as they check each others' work.
Also, let's note that Childs was NOT an IT manager, he was a sysadmin and found his IT manager to be really bad at his job which is pretty evident from the lack of enforcement of passwords entered into their password management system. He/she should have caught that early on and again would have avoided the whole mess. I wouldn't hire the guy either though. Anyone that plays such games with passwords and keys should not have any business being a part of it.
What if his laptop was dropped? Suddenly all those keys would be lost. It was an accident waiting to happen and brings into question his skills to begin with.
I've dealt with some pretty inept management in my day however. I've created the DR document should I be hit by a bus, I placed it in the safe of the CFO only to have the CFO position removed without any notification to myself. Six months later the COO and controller are emptying out his safe and they take no inventory of what was in it. They notified me at that time and I promptly changed VPN keys and passwords which was a huge pain in the ass. Six more months later they ask me for the same document again, I know it's outdated by then but I ask them where the old document was and they went looking for it. I still have no idea whether they found it as they don't answer my emails unless they need something. To cover my ass I made a new envelop and gave it to the owner to put in his safe at home. He routinely talks to me and even went so far as to ask for that information so I provided it. He and I both have peace of mind as I then won't have to worry about what happens when I separate myself from this company. Of course keeping that document up to date is also not an easy task.
One of my fellow admins, who, let's face it, should retire wanted to watch a video online. He was using IE6 no less and just clicked install when it asked him to. Naturally he got a lovely virus and I again had to go through the process of auditing and changing passwords as anything could have been leaked during that time.
It's at least easy for me to put myself in Childs situation. I wouldn't like to nailed to the wall like he was, of course I behave much more professionally than he did so I'm not really that worried about it. It does naturally make me want to side with him though. Despite the risks he was taking it does make sense that his management would have mishandled the information. Personally, I've gone through four bosses in the seven years I've worked here. Trust in authority is earned, not granted which is why when our new IT director came on board he didn't have full access until I deemed he was trustworthy per directions from a VP and the owner.
The chain of command isn't always easy to spell out.
I like that rule, I wish it could always be the case too! I'll give you a real life example of my situation. I created said envelope with all the key passwords and sensitive documentation to allow another to step in should I be hit by a bus. It was placed in the safe in the CFOs office.
You may or may not have guessed it but the CFO was fired and his position was removed. Since this was an executive decision they of course waited until way too late to tell me. The COO and Controller emptied the safe and now I do not know where that paperwork wound up. I changed my critical passwords and VPN encryption keys. Then the time came where they wanted the list of passwords. I asked them where the old list was and I haven't heard anything since.
Now for my own sanity I still keep a copy of the records but it is no small feat to change all the sensitive passwords so I keep them in the safe of the owner who has already twice forgotten that he has it. He asks me for it personally sometimes. If the time came I don't believe he would know its in his safe.
This is why I can feel at least some sympathy for Terry Childs although he definitely didn't act in any way professionally. He deserves to be punished but his punishment doesn't fit the crime given what's been brought to light about his management.
My other question is why in a city the size of SF was there only one person responsible for critical city infrastructure? If two people had been working together the whole time then the project would never have been in jeopardy unless Childs managed to corrupt the second guy which I guess is possible if some the ineptitude of management was in fact true.
As I'm sure you're aware what's broken in an older release often is fixed in the next, especially with Ubuntu. It becomes more a matter of finding the drivers necessary and the components are all pretty industry standard. The only major issue is the GMA500 graphics and that's improving everyday.
I won't tolerate it if things can't work reliably. My thought process is at worst, I could install a real version of Windows 7 on it instead of Starter edition and still get around all the codec licensing BS that Archos puts you through and then still have a decent performer with improved battery life.
I keep hearing this stuff and have wondered if people have actually used Vista or 7 tablet edition or more to the point the tablet PCs. They run Linux just fine too and with the netbook edition of Ubuntu are quite friendly as touch screens. I use them all the time and have not found them lacking. Of course in most of those tablet PCs there is also a keyboard for when you're doing lots of data entry. So you get all the benefits of the iPad and none of the drawbacks. The tablets we use at work are just as light albeit a little thicker.
When it comes to tablets the OS doesn't matter, why people think the iPhone and iPad are so special because they have an OS built for touch is beyond me as people never play with the OS on either device, or at least very rarely. They play with the applications, the dialer is just an app. A purpose built Linux distro is just as efficient and doesn't have any of the limitations. Combine that with touch friendly apps and honestly there are plenty especially since you can emulate Android and use those apps too. Web browsing is a hell of a lot better, then you get adblock, spell check, flash, java. Whatever you want!
Of course with the Archos you can install Ubuntu and get rid of the buggy software. There aren't even that many necessary tweaks. I was looking into just that. Once you replace the slowass hdd with a half decent SSD you get better battery life and you get a real snappy machine, must snappier than the iPad.
I've been looking at all sorts of options specifically for controlling home automation systems. I hate the iPad and the lack of options. Wallmounting them isn't too friendly either but that trait is shared by most of them out there. The Archos 8 however is built just for that so it would work well in that environment especially since they don't attempt to lock you out of their hardware like Apple.
There's plenty of examples, I'm not sure why you're so blind to them. I actually quoted Apple's press release which was also quoted in the article so if its misleading or sensationalistic then it is Apple behaving that way. Feel free to discount what you don't agree with even though you're arguing with recent history.
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Cheers to that man, quantity should only matter for a given amount of time. Six shots over six hours and you're probably fine. Do it in 10 minutes and you're probably having a good time. I'm not sure why some substances are demonized. Most people I think want to blame an external pressure for failures of people. They'd rather blame alcohol than the driver. As if the driver wouldn't have found another way to become intoxicated.
I love it, it's insightful and doesn't even get into the fact that the article actually does say before age X. The pertinent text from the article...
The sample of those who were studied included individuals between ages 55 and 65 who had had any kind of outpatient care in the previous three years. The 1,824 participants were followed for 20 years. One drawback of the sample: a disproportionate number, 63%, were men. Just over 69% of the never-drinkers died during the 20 years, 60% of the heavy drinkers died and only 41% of moderate drinkers died.
Really, before disparaging a study please read the even basic article about it.
Of course in reality, my area is serviced by only one broadband provider which is the local cable company. They will happily pass on the increases to me.
You could very easily argue that installing gear without your knowledge to your car while in your driveway would be considered vandalism. I'm just uncertain why they can't get a warrant to do it. There seems to be a war on oversight for the last decade and realistically even longer. When it become bad to have to justify your actions? In the case of FISA you don't even have to justify it before you do it.
While AMD inarguably has been a manufacturing generation or two behind for quite some time you fail to realize that the platform was design from the ground up to be SMP friendly. This has helped AMD pretty much rule the roost for several years in the virtual market. The 12 Core Opterons are beating the hell out of the Xeons on price and performance. Intel made a lot of great strides to improve their situation but in the end AMD has been pretty good about maintaining their lead there. AMD also has the additional benefit of maintaining their sockets for longer so many older AMD servers support the latest 12 core Opterons. HP and Dell like to lag their bios support to encourage you to replace the whole server but those building based on Supermicro or any of the custom built server markets can do in-place upgrades adding significant capacity to the datacenter for comparatively little upgrade cost.
Intel rules the performance desktop market but AMD has the virtual market which IMHO is the market that has a future.
Ya know, I'm in the live entertainment biz and folks that have come from the computer world don't have near the ground problems as the stereo jockies. We just put everything behind two UPS with an autoswitcher in the middle and never looked back. Of course all of our stuff is HD-SDI so it either works or it doesn't. Grounds loops don't matter when you are digital as that interference won't mean anything to the decoder which wouldn't ever have the opportunity to receive said interference as the interface controller will do the signal passing at which point all grounding effects disappear. This was a huge issue when cameras had analog outputs with BNC connectors. Now that it's SD or HD-SDI none of us have ever looked back.
The only time I run into grounding effects these days is on the other side of distro where I'm outputting SD distro for large projectors. Everytime it's been because their cables were way longer than they needed to be so there wasn't enough signal to reach the other side. These days more often than not, hum bars are caused by lighting which can be adjusted for in most cameras.
Of course the audio is done separately and we put it back together for our recordings. Audio has been digital for a long time too. The only analog part is the microphone who's cable will attach to an amplifier usually only a few feet away. Noise is calibrated during the sound check so it gets filtered and has negligible impact on quality. The wireless microphones goes to their receiver which is almost always digital out as well. They all got sick of those grounding issues especially since most stage performances have to more or less share the same ground.
Cool, I'll go around to key beta testers and add lines to their host files so we can do IPv6. As I keep saying, it's adding steps that currently aren't necessary and you've yet to provide a reason why anyone would want to do that when it's completely unnecessary.
It makes a lot of sense to do it at the WAN level and in the core datacenter but outside it makes very little sense. Even the WAN side right now is up for debate given that most providers even if they do offer IPv6 has slow as shit 6to4 gateways so you take a performance hit.
I second that, I never understand why normal behaviour is considered taboo. Going out drinking and having fun with friends is something most all of us do from time to time. Why would you not hire someone because they get drunk in their off times? Wouldn't their performance and history of performance be a lot more important? This is the same reason I don't like drug testing. If it tested whether the person had done it that day it wouldn't be so bad, but it's anytime in the last two weeks to 21 years depending on the test. That's completely pointless and says nothing about the reliability of the person.
I'm not sure when it became okay for businesses to inspect every aspect of your life, if only politicians were held to such scrutiny.
As I said, you're adding steps that weren't necessary before. IPv6 addresses aren't as unfriendly as they look at first glance but most people will have a hard time remembering that mean numbers. DNS and Hosts files are not always practical and I even gave several examples. Now my cameras I'll just enter the addresses in the recorder one time, no big deal, the printers, the same for the print server. The end affect is simply that I'm typing a lot more than I would be with IPv4 and I'm not gaining anything since all of these things already work with IPv4. So I'm doing more work for what? Fuzzy good feelings?
Until there is a compelling reason to do it internally expect a lot of resistance. Personally I don't care as my infrastructure is solid and already in the process of migration. A great many people and organizations aren't going to go through the trouble until they can't do the things they currently can do.
IPv6 really only makes sense for completely new setups and given the lack of vendor support for it even that is still questionable.
It is? I run hundreds of SIP phones complete with video calling behind NAT without a problem. It only becomes an issue when you have 10s or 100s of thousands of phones.
Why would the phones even need Internet access? You have your SIP proxy on your network which connects to your SIP provider or POTs provider depending how you like to deploy. It's a very simple setup, makes auditing really easy, and allows me to do tricky stuff like divert the video from the gate to the phone so whoever answers can choose whether or not to let them in.
Worms will propogate as they always have, properly firewalled setups have dramatically reduced this in IPv4 and the same will happen on IPv6. I keep hearing people speak of NAT like it's not a firewall but most of those people are forgetting that most NAT devices actually are real firewalls these days unlike the early days of NAT.
I'm not against IPv6 but I have to agree with the parent, it has to start with the ISPs before it really makes sense for the rest of us to change. ISPs are having enough trouble with current traffic levels however that I have no faith in their ability to launch anytime soon on any real scale.
That's cute, you think DNS solves his problem. Hate to break it to ya but often in testing you don't want your host to have a name until it's ready for production. Then of course there are times when DNS breaks due to service lockup or someone misplacing an encryption key. It's adding complexity back to a system that is supposed to reduce complexity plain and simple.
Kind of a moot point really anyway as a lot of network devices don't register hostnames with DNS anyway. I know none of my IP cameras do, although they don't even support IPv6 but they're on a separate network so no big deal. Oh wait, my printers don't register their names either, oh wait, my phones don't either and btw, none of them support IPv6.
The only place it makes sense in most environments right now is at the edge or in server to server communications since auto-provisioning is vastly simplified. At least a lot of my newer switches support IPv6 management addresses.
Until all the little nitpicky issues like that are resolved you can expect a lot of legitimate resistance to the adoption of IPv6. A lot of my firewalls don't support it although my newest ones finally do. Firmware upgrades on every device that currently works just to make them work with IPv6 is going to look like a waste of time. We already have an IPv4 address or 12 to the Internet, that means it will be a while before we're forced to upgrade internally.
I think your confused about even basic Linux administration. Of course the first user is an admin. How is this different than setting the root password on installation of any other Linux distro. This is one of the weakest criticisms of Ubuntu I've encountered since the 7.04 days.
By default when you create a user in Ubuntu it is not granted admin. Only the first user created at install is granted admin by default and this is a safe practice as anything you do in sudo leaves an audit trail. This is good security practice by default, out-of-the-box. The first thing I do on CentOS or Slackware, or any Linux distro is create the sudoers file where you can specify what users can perform what tasks with root level permissions while denying them the ability to do it with all programs. Of course my account can sudo any application, but I'm an admin. Windows 7 is no different, OS X is no different. This is pretty standard industry practice for a desktop or even server OS these days.
There is very little that is insecure about Ubuntu and especially Ubuntu server out of the box.
Clearly you are unaware of Ubuntu's actual problems as only members of the admin group may sudo. Feel free to try again. Of course you go into why you have Windows credentials but again jump to how that somehow makes Ubuntu inferior.
You are free to hate Ubuntu, I would suggest it is wiser to know what you are hating though.
You're humorous. I come from a Linux background actually. The only difference is that I'm not blindly following any particular distro. There is a reason that I have some machines running Ubuntu where it makes sense, others like Asterisk running on CentOS again where it makes sense and still others running Oracle Linux for my databases.
You seriously expect me to take that drivel? You didn't even fully read what the parent was saying, he wasn't suggesting old machines lying around, he was suggesting new machines. Given than ATI and Nvidia don't have released drivers for their newest cards your statement is rather laughable unless you merely mean that it works on Mandriva even if it's in VESA mode.
I think you're going to have a hard time quantitively measuring the number of devices supported in Mandriva versus Ubuntu 10.04. Of course you make a lot of logical leaps that make no sense like my statement about Mandriva being a Cadillac compared to Ubuntu and somehow that means I come from a Windows background?
The problem is that I use a lot of tools, Windows and even OS X are commonly used in my environment, I routinely get to compare and contrast. They all have their pros and cons. Mandriva has gone through it's share of growing pains like all of them going back as far as the Mandrake days. CentOS had a change in leadership and survived, so did Mandriva. Arguing that it is the best is pointless as it's still Linux, if you can make it work in one distro you can almost always make it work in them all.
At my last review I found that it paled in comparison to either SUSE or Red Hat enterprise products. I'll grant that was a year ago so things can and will have changed which is why I'll do another review when it's time for a new project.
Mandriva has support out of the box for 3TB partitions, as does Ubuntu, you just have to use parted or gparted if you like the GUI to create it since fdisk doesn't support it. Your Enterprise edition statement made no difference and if you think Mandriva is a Cadillac compared to Ubuntu then I'll suggest you're the one making ridiculous claims.
If you actually read what I wrote you'll notice that I'm not condemning the entire Linux world and find it good enough for the majority of my tasks. I've even deployed touch screen kiosks based on Ubuntu that run XBMC which is a great combination so far.
Futhermore you just condemn Windows 7 despite making obvious statements that you are unfamiliar with the changes in it. You also don't even deny that I can go to my favorite electronics store, buy all the parts for a machine and that I can safely expect it to run just fine on Windows 7 while the same is simply not true on Linux. Of course the example scenario was academic and doesn't really mean all that much but it does make a statement about hardware driver support in Linux. You have to do more research to build a Linux machine. This is especially true with all the software RAID cards out there that even HP Proliants are starting to come with. I always found it funny that a RAID 1 setup with 2 volumes would show has 2 drives in Windows 2003 or 2008 while the same setup with Linux will see 4 drives.
It's not the fault of the Linux community though as that is just hardware manufacturers behaving badly. Nevertheless it is a reality all Linux folk face despite your evangelical support for Mandriva.
I'll second this, 10.04 was a dramatic improvement in hardware support. If only multi-monitor support could work without me having to log out and back in. Windows still does multi-monitor the best and it's only improved with Windows 7.
As a side note I found with 10.04 that bluetooth tethering with my cell phone worked out of the box using the Network Manager wizard. It's come a long ways since I would also remove it and install WICD.
Sweet, now format a 3TB partition without falling to parted... Mandriva ain't the silver bullet you claim, boy did I find that out with my netbook. I settled on Ubuntu netbook edition as I know Ubuntu the best. Hardware support in Linux is pretty flaky but it's pretty flaky in Windows too. Windows 7 has improved the landscape considerably back in Microsoft's favor for hardware compatibility as there is much more driver support on the install DVD. Additionally, the install is now image based so you are incorrect, Mandriva will take longer on the same machine to install although neither take what I consider an arduous amount of time these days.
The point that I haven't heard anything since is pointing out that they screwed up and didn't want to admit it but couldn't point the finger anywhere else. I suggested to the COO and the CEO/Owner that we just keep it in a safe at his house. I regularly work up there too so it makes keeping the thing up to date relatively simple. Make no mistake, I am never the only person that has a production password.
I definitely hold the people responsible accountable and the chain of command is jacked here as I've been through four bosses in seven years. When the new IT director came aboard per the owner's instructions I did not give him full access. I slowly increased his access as I felt comfortable with his abilities and now he has the same level of access I have which coincidentally means I can finally take a vacation. This I very much enjoy!
When I was a juror the judge explicitly said that jury nullification was not allowed. I'm still confused now as to why she lied to us but it didn't matter since there wasn't enough evidence in the case to convict despite the defendant being a grade A douchebag. Of course the plaintiff wasn't any better and in the end he was declared not guilty. Will never know if that was the right decision but I felt good about it because all of us jurors agreed once we went over the facts of the case and the words of the lawyers. Took all of 10 minutes so I got to go home early that day. Woot!
I think a lot of people blindly support him because they can easily see themselves in a similar position and have no desire to be railroaded should they find themselves in the same position. While Childs did abuse his position and gave every sysadmin a bad name he doesn't hold all of the blame and if management had been more on top of the situation none of this unpleasantness would have happened.
Why on earth would a city the size of SF have only one sysadmin? This is the real root of the problem. If there had been a team, the project would have been properly built out as they check each others' work.
Also, let's note that Childs was NOT an IT manager, he was a sysadmin and found his IT manager to be really bad at his job which is pretty evident from the lack of enforcement of passwords entered into their password management system. He/she should have caught that early on and again would have avoided the whole mess. I wouldn't hire the guy either though. Anyone that plays such games with passwords and keys should not have any business being a part of it.
What if his laptop was dropped? Suddenly all those keys would be lost. It was an accident waiting to happen and brings into question his skills to begin with.
I've dealt with some pretty inept management in my day however. I've created the DR document should I be hit by a bus, I placed it in the safe of the CFO only to have the CFO position removed without any notification to myself. Six months later the COO and controller are emptying out his safe and they take no inventory of what was in it. They notified me at that time and I promptly changed VPN keys and passwords which was a huge pain in the ass. Six more months later they ask me for the same document again, I know it's outdated by then but I ask them where the old document was and they went looking for it. I still have no idea whether they found it as they don't answer my emails unless they need something. To cover my ass I made a new envelop and gave it to the owner to put in his safe at home. He routinely talks to me and even went so far as to ask for that information so I provided it. He and I both have peace of mind as I then won't have to worry about what happens when I separate myself from this company. Of course keeping that document up to date is also not an easy task.
One of my fellow admins, who, let's face it, should retire wanted to watch a video online. He was using IE6 no less and just clicked install when it asked him to. Naturally he got a lovely virus and I again had to go through the process of auditing and changing passwords as anything could have been leaked during that time.
It's at least easy for me to put myself in Childs situation. I wouldn't like to nailed to the wall like he was, of course I behave much more professionally than he did so I'm not really that worried about it. It does naturally make me want to side with him though. Despite the risks he was taking it does make sense that his management would have mishandled the information. Personally, I've gone through four bosses in the seven years I've worked here. Trust in authority is earned, not granted which is why when our new IT director came on board he didn't have full access until I deemed he was trustworthy per directions from a VP and the owner.
The chain of command isn't always easy to spell out.
I like that rule, I wish it could always be the case too! I'll give you a real life example of my situation. I created said envelope with all the key passwords and sensitive documentation to allow another to step in should I be hit by a bus. It was placed in the safe in the CFOs office.
You may or may not have guessed it but the CFO was fired and his position was removed. Since this was an executive decision they of course waited until way too late to tell me. The COO and Controller emptied the safe and now I do not know where that paperwork wound up. I changed my critical passwords and VPN encryption keys. Then the time came where they wanted the list of passwords. I asked them where the old list was and I haven't heard anything since.
Now for my own sanity I still keep a copy of the records but it is no small feat to change all the sensitive passwords so I keep them in the safe of the owner who has already twice forgotten that he has it. He asks me for it personally sometimes. If the time came I don't believe he would know its in his safe.
This is why I can feel at least some sympathy for Terry Childs although he definitely didn't act in any way professionally. He deserves to be punished but his punishment doesn't fit the crime given what's been brought to light about his management.
My other question is why in a city the size of SF was there only one person responsible for critical city infrastructure? If two people had been working together the whole time then the project would never have been in jeopardy unless Childs managed to corrupt the second guy which I guess is possible if some the ineptitude of management was in fact true.
As I'm sure you're aware what's broken in an older release often is fixed in the next, especially with Ubuntu. It becomes more a matter of finding the drivers necessary and the components are all pretty industry standard. The only major issue is the GMA500 graphics and that's improving everyday.
I won't tolerate it if things can't work reliably. My thought process is at worst, I could install a real version of Windows 7 on it instead of Starter edition and still get around all the codec licensing BS that Archos puts you through and then still have a decent performer with improved battery life.
I keep hearing this stuff and have wondered if people have actually used Vista or 7 tablet edition or more to the point the tablet PCs. They run Linux just fine too and with the netbook edition of Ubuntu are quite friendly as touch screens. I use them all the time and have not found them lacking. Of course in most of those tablet PCs there is also a keyboard for when you're doing lots of data entry. So you get all the benefits of the iPad and none of the drawbacks. The tablets we use at work are just as light albeit a little thicker.
When it comes to tablets the OS doesn't matter, why people think the iPhone and iPad are so special because they have an OS built for touch is beyond me as people never play with the OS on either device, or at least very rarely. They play with the applications, the dialer is just an app. A purpose built Linux distro is just as efficient and doesn't have any of the limitations. Combine that with touch friendly apps and honestly there are plenty especially since you can emulate Android and use those apps too. Web browsing is a hell of a lot better, then you get adblock, spell check, flash, java. Whatever you want!
Of course with the Archos you can install Ubuntu and get rid of the buggy software. There aren't even that many necessary tweaks. I was looking into just that. Once you replace the slowass hdd with a half decent SSD you get better battery life and you get a real snappy machine, must snappier than the iPad.
I've been looking at all sorts of options specifically for controlling home automation systems. I hate the iPad and the lack of options. Wallmounting them isn't too friendly either but that trait is shared by most of them out there. The Archos 8 however is built just for that so it would work well in that environment especially since they don't attempt to lock you out of their hardware like Apple.
Apple's multitouch patent is well documented.
There's plenty of examples, I'm not sure why you're so blind to them. I actually quoted Apple's press release which was also quoted in the article so if its misleading or sensationalistic then it is Apple behaving that way. Feel free to discount what you don't agree with even though you're arguing with recent history.