It's funny how people love to take this stance about government. Sorry, government mandates do not always hurt economies. If that were the case then we'd have no Internet right now, no public roads, no police, no public schools. These are all things that commercial interests would not have picked up on their own that required massive investments.
Even gas powered cars would not have taken off so readily if the government hadn't helped oil companies grow. Lack of oversight became the real problem, not involvement in general.
That said, the CO2 problem is irrelevant. CO2 does cause temperatures to rise and does cause massive amounts of algae to grow in the ocean killing many other species. The impact we have as humans is up for pointless debate but the reality remains that the earth will get warmer even if we stop all emissions today. The question is whether we want to prolong this process by reducing emissions or help it move forward by continuing as we are. That is the real debate as such you are right that we should shift our focus to nuclear technology although I have no idea how government is somehow preventing nuclear plants when here in AZ they were going to build another out near Yuma but private citizens banned together and blocked it, not government. In fact, the government was heavily encouraging the development through very enticing tax credits.
Electric cars probably won't ever become viable because batteries are tough to make, although they are 100% recyclable so it might be worth it. Fuel cells are probably the best future bet, but hydrogen is the only thing we currently have enough technology to deploy widely at the cost of having to build more power plants through hopefully renewable sources which can be combinations of technology thankfully. Nuclear power is nicely dense, solar power has its merits here in AZ, hydroelectric power works beautifully in lots of places. There are a lot of options and we need to leverage as many as we can.
Fair enough, some businesses don't have the technical staffing to deploy it either. It does effectively fight the problem though which is a shame since more companies don't do it.
Honestly, do you really allow excel documents to come from the outside? This is why companies have secure transfer facilities for items which could be dangerous if accepted from any random party.
I'm confused, does open-source or not? You're right, time = money but art has a subjective value based on the person who is enjoying it. This is why most painters offer prints or replicas of their work for less cost than the original.
In the case of a painter there are physical products involved that cost money such as paints and printers but in the digital world distribution costs nearly nothing. The price isn't justified especially when choices are artificially limited.
Given the number of concerts I've been to I can say that the vast majority of people I know that download will feel free and buy a t-shirt to support the band even after paying for tickets to see the show. These are things which digital distribution will never replace. An artist is not entitled to be rich forever because he or she produced one work which gained notoriety. Copyright law is designed to encourage continued contribution to the arts, not a one time contribution. The law has been molested over the years and you really can't blame millions for wanting to even the scale.
Copyright infringement is clearly wrong, but the law needs to be rewritten and made more fair. Paying $20 for a CD is ridiculous, if it is costing them enough for every album produced to justify the price then they are doing something clearly wrong and should fail.
Of course there is a side issue in that you don't need a sound engineer to produce your work anymore. Yes, they have a lot to offer and can improve your work but the public doesn't have a problem with a lot of locally produced music, in many cases its simply good enough to just record through Audacity with some very simple gear.
Given that a lot of/.ers make a living writing code that is given out for free I think you may want to rethink things if you consider them to by hypocritical.
The fact of the matter is IP law is horribly out of whack thanks to Disney and many others and as a result it is no longer serving the interests of the world at large. People that produce a creative work have a right to compensation, they do not have a right to be compensated for the same work for their entire lives like the current law is written which is totally against the spirit of the initial copyright laws.
Furthermore, the music industry like the movie industry is incredibly wasteful with their spending and so their costs cannot be justified. The cost of CDs are not decreasing and the latest blue-ray video will cost you more than the movie on DVD.
Consumers have shown in both industries that they aren't as interested in paying the prices for which the product is offered. In many cases the product isn't even offered like season 19 of the Simpsons. I can download the entire season without a problem though.
They are slow to get product to the market and people that can provide it for free are eating their lunches, they should get better and just-in-time releases and more to the point, not charge as much for a tv show DVD as they do for a movie DVD.
In short, you claim slashdotters want everything for free and the entertainment people think they are entitled to be rich and wealthy when I can guarantee you that the best creative talent isn't cutting record deals. They are playing in local clubs charging cover and have day jobs. They do it because they love to express themselves, money in return is fantastic, thats why they sell t-shirts and other merch at their events, physical goods which have a justified cost. When you're talking IP there justified cost is way out of proportion.
I am of course not condoning copyright infringement, just stating the reality. In that reality a lot of people will behave differently. I will seek out new music which does not come at a price I'm unwilling to pay, others will download, others will pay anyway.
While you are correct, many many proponents of the RIAA claim that copyright infringement is theft which we know is not true but nevertheless, given their standard the analogy holds.
That's funny because I had the exact opposite experience with a dell laptop and a macbook air. The Air wouldn't detect the majority of displays plugged into it so you have to force it to use multiple monitors, a real pain since most Mac users don't even know how to do that so I'm usually left have to figure it out for them when they can't hook up to the big ole TVs we have in our conference rooms. The Dell had issues until I got proper drivers for it. Then it would detect dock and apply the standard profile. Of course when setting profiles you have to set it, then reboot your machine so that the catalyst drivers actually commit the configuration.
So what I did was set it up without the dock, set the profile, rebooted out of the dock. When I booted back up, I put it on the dock while booted and started over setting another profile. From then on out I had no issues. A real pain but at least it could consistently use multiple monitors unlike the Air that keeps coming back here.
You seem to think syslog is the be all? Sorry, but I actually do use syslog and you have to specifically set it up for each service you wish to monitor. Windows has built in syslog services so it makes no sense that people are selling services for it.
Unfortunately for you I do enterprise work so I'll guarantee my automated image based installs are just as fast as your automated image based installs.
You completely missed the point of everything that I was saying since you were implying that Linux and accompanying philosophy is vastly superior when it simply isn't. You seem to be under a horrible impression that an experienced Unix admin is any more skilled than an experienced Windows admin. You write with a tone indicating that you are on the one true path and that just isn't the case. If it were the case Microsoft would never have made a dent in the world. People are inherently lazy and want the path of least resistance, very often that path simply means shelling out for a solution rather than coming up with one with a Linux kludge. Look at Proxmox VE to see what I mean, an all around great product but falls short in important places because they haven't been able to get the right tools working reliably. If I didn't have a SAN I would definitely not spend my money on VMWare or Xenserver and just install Proxmox.
As for event correlation I shouldn't even bother to explain the ridiculousness you are spouting. The only difference is that in Windows you have a central facility and in Linux you don't. That's not to say you can't have one in Linux, you just put a few tools together and you get the same thing. So one tool is Windows is 5 tools in Linux.
You also fail to understand why Microsoft products are significantly faster to deploy, they get you up and running with the latest technology in no time at all. From scratch you cannot setup a Linux distro that will provide all the same functionality as a Windows server install including your favorite directory services in the same amount of time and without documentation. Why should it be difficult to deploy new technology? Why should I have to bandaid qmail to get modern functionality? Oh right, I'll just install postfix or sendmail with the mail scanner suite which involves several separate installs and most certainly requires careful following of installation guides leaving much room for typos during configuration although as my email server can attest you get great performance although I can send and receive just as many emails with my Exchange server.
You seem to think that most businesses care about the quality of a deployment as opposed to the speed at which it is deployed. In most shops you are pressed to deliver or be replaced and that is a reality you clearly don't understand.
All your problems with Microsoft appear to stem from the fact that you have to pay for it and the divisions there of as a result of it being proprietary technology. This is a pointless argument as it makes no attempt to argue that open source software is superior because it plain and simply isn't. It can be in a lot of circumstances but the mere fact that it's open source doesn't mean it's perfect and the same goes with proprietary software so it makes more sense to attack things on merit that actually matter such as the manner in which Windows has historically mismanaged memory and process threading.
Who running Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard edition needs more than 4 sockets and doesn't also need the additional features you get with Enterprise edition? You might also note that the 64bit versions and editions you list don't have the same limitations. A pointless argument because you have to operate under the assumption that people are paying for a solution, an extra $600 for a copy of Windows that can handle the hardware you've spend 30k on is no big deal even though we both agree it would be a waste of money in some circumstances.
In short, you're way off base with reality man. First and foremost, lighten up and realize that a GUI isn
Thanks for pointing this out to the parent as I was about to do it myself. DFS-R as a side-note has worked wonderfully for me though and with minimal effort. I guess I'm unsure how even an incompetent admin could make it not work. As for DNS problems my first thought was, wtf? What DNS problems too?
The only thing I can conclude is that parent was posting about something to which he or she was not qualified to comment on as they don't sound like they are working with 2008 in an administrative capacity.
Wow dude, you're out there! First of all, there are a lot of people out there that value the straight forward setup approach that Microsoft often gives you for that high dollar. Of course when I'm running Oracle and spend many thousands on it I install it on a free OS but I certainly can't apt-get install Oracle.
Aptitude is great and all, but you're forgetting apt-get install apache-modssl, mod_mysql, php and the myriad of other things that usually have to get installed too in order to do anything useful with your webserver.
You also seem very misguided in the decisions that Bill Gates can make even though he no longer holds CEO or President as positions at Microsoft. He didn't do anything to which you give him credit for doing.
As for adding multiple cpu support, wtf? Why are you adding support to something that is universally supported in all camps and never required users to spend money to upgrade. Higher memory support was never a reason to pay for an upgrade as they always had the 4gig 32bit limitation. Windows 98 had trouble dealing with that amount of memory but that's because it handled memory like crap to begin with.
Furthermore, trivializing the differences between Windows does your cause no good as there have been plenty of upgrades on the Linux side that haven't gone so smoothly, as an Ubuntu user I can assure you the world is far from perfect and often requires time consuming research to troubleshoot issues that crop up such as why my Sangoma card won't initialize despite lspci showing the card and using matching drivers. In the Windows world I get a nice easy to read event log that doesn't require me to go trapesing through/var/log looking for something that will give me a clue as to the cause of the problem. As a side note Asterisk can be a real pain in the arse.
Anywho, those of us that aren't Linux only and aren't Windows only admins will continue to laugh at you and your poor attempts to attack something you clearly don't understand.
Here's a hint for you, Linux is not free, not by a long shot. Time to deploy new technologies with Microsoft has almost always been significantly faster than time to deploy new linux based services, note this does not state whether or not the deployment was better. That time costs real money and isn't worth a lot of people's efforts. Often times paying for something instead of developing a solution yourself is the smarter move and saves you money in the long run. Of course this is not always the case so naturally, use the right tool for the job. Sometimes its Linux, sometimes it's Windows. My main issue is grappling with which distro to use for which task. CentOS or Elastix for Asterisk is a hell of a lot easier than getting the whole rig running on Debian for instance.
Actually, server 2003 R2 does not trust Windows Update by default.
I find it amusing that people would make fun of Microsoft for doing this to their browser when people were mocking them for shipping things insecure out of the box. Just goes to show, when it's Microsoft, you can't do anything right even if it is actually right. People will complain anyways.
Funny how different parts of the country are. Here in the southwest and back in my home state of VT Karaoke is not dead but certainly not terribly popular. Of course in both places as well there is no shortage of good original music. I'm going to go see someone sing tonight actually and it will be all original music.
I've also found that its more popular among people that don't have a lot of money. You're more likely to find karaoke in dive bars for example. So my experience may be jaded by the fact that I've been in more expensive places lately.
While technically accurate the period in question involved a brief shutdown of napster due to court injunction and subsequent reinstatement.
More to the point, I was counterclaiming the parents assumptions and was not attempting to prove my example. The reference I made was to a slashdot posting a few years ago on the topic of Napster. You are right in that the decline of Napster and the decline of CD sales are not necessarily directly linked although I do think that they are. It's just hard to prove on any scale so I won't fault anyone for thinking otherwise.
Kazaa cropped up shortly after all this happened so it's not linked to the issue at hand but there could indeed be one or many other external factors not being considered such as the quality and quantity of albums released during those times.
Unfortunately there is evidence that shows that the necline of Napster directly contributed to the decline in CD sales and visa versa when Napster was in it's glory days. CD sales were skyrocketing during the time of Napster so your "data" doesn't even attempt to make a counter claim.
Don't expect people to just shut up when you present your argument in the manner in which you have. Now we have the days of XM and Pandora, last.fm, magnatunes, and a slew of others to provide us with free music or nearly free music so CD sales aren't as compelling as they once were. Now the only time we buy CDs is when an artist puts out something truly worth while. The days of buying one or two discs a week are simply gone.
Now let's look at your graph again and conclude that people have once again lost interest in Karaoke which I can attest to in all the bars I frequent, people that do it are few and far between these days. Instead I'm seeing guitar hero taking up the music at a number of bars in addition to regular DJ work.
Sorry, there is absolutely nothing compelling about your data. Compare the same numbers against gross per-capita spending during those times and look at a similar decline as the economy slid into where it is today.
I think parent is right in terms of Gnome being brittle. For instance, I'm on Ubuntu myself, half the time the open application bar is on the very top of my desktop, the other half the time is the task menu.
Then of course there is the fact that periodically Alsa stops working and I lose sound. The Remote Desktop client doesn't allow you to sort the saved connections you have and seems to put them in random order to finding servers I want to connect to it cumbersome since I manage about 40 servers.
Of course these aren't all problems with Gnome specifically as tsclient is just an application that comes standard with Ubuntu. Those little usability issues are what the parent I believe was referring to.
Connecting to Samba shares is largely retarded as well I might add. If I fill the form out correctly I always get access denied, the prompt for credentials then allows me to re-enter the same information at which point I can connect to my share. As a result I simply just enter the server and share I wish to connect to and let the second screen prompt me instead.
Then of course there is cd burning, brasero works half the time for me while the inbuilt burning utility is far more reliable at something like 1 in 10 discs become coasters.
Battery life is also quite atrocious but that's not a gnome as a general Ubuntu thing. Usability is still a great concern, Linpus Linux Lite that came on my Acer Aspire One was fantastic for a user that wants to just browse email, do basic chatting with a webcam, and surf the web.
Of course with all things software related mileage varies greatly depending on what hardware is in your machine and how well it is suited for Linux.
You seem to think that admins aren't the biggest risk to a company's data?
As a sys admin I can safely say that a few wrong keystrokes and a lot of data is gone requiring me to go back to tape to fix.
The person with all the access is the person that can do all the damage whether intentional or not. I've made some pretty bone-headed moves in my day that have caused a little data loss resulting from a missing XO option on a robocopy because I was too tired to handle the one-off task. This is why you automate as much as you can as often as you can because machines are a hell of a lot more consistent.
Childs' had no obligation to give up passwords to people he didn't know, plain and simple. In fact, he had no obligation to give up passwords to anyone he did know. The employment was terminated, any and all interaction afterwards is voluntary for either party.
He didn't set any traps, he did his job as any competent admin would have from a technical standpoint but lacked the political skills to remedy upstream stupidity. That stupidity is demonstrated by the simple fact that he was indeed the only one with the passwords which should have been a flag before the firing. Of course he could refuse to give up the passwords while still being employed with the end result being the termination of his employment like would happen in any corporate setting.
This is gross mismanagement and now they are looking to fry someone that had the balls to call them on it publicly even going to jail to prove his point.
while you are correct that this is not limited to government entities I think it is worse when it is government related. I think any business out there would have handled this very differently and Childs' would have ended up in jail if he worked for a business.
Because the city was out to get him the police naturally followed suit and so did the DA as they all serve the city.
My guess is that you've never been in this position as you are completely incorrect.
Parent is right, the cops will tell you to get judgement first. A friend of mine went through this problem during her divorce since most things had been in her name since she was paying for most everything. That was exactly what the cops told her when she asked the question because she was afraid for her life to go to the house and get it without police being present.
To be fair, so does mine, we have a busy season where I will work several 100 hour weeks in a row, then it gets calm for a while. During the calm I make up for the hectic schedule although sometimes I'm still amped from prolonged stress that I don't know what to do with idle time so I end up working anyways. Call it the curse of a job that is always engaging my mind.
Fair enough, a lot of employers definitely take the idea too far. It cuts both ways, like putting people on salary, if they work 100 hours one week you can't expect them to work a full 40 hour week the next.
You have an odd idea of what professionalism is if you think it relates to perks for the company. Professionalism is not getting angry with people because they disagree with you no matter which method they choose to employ to persuade people. It's arriving at work on time and in proper attire. It means doing what you say you will do and when you say you'll do it. These are not unpaid perks that the company enjoys, they make for a work atmosphere which gets a lot more work done so I guess you could say you are doing more work without getting extra money but its all work you should be doing instead of arguing about stupid things.
Professionalism has a lot of characteristics that obviously vary from profession to profession so I'm mainly focusing on professionalism in an IT position. You need to intelligently be able to defend your position at all times even when someone that has no business making decisions is voicing an opinion and just happens to have the ear of the CTO or CEO in my case. You must be able to illustrate the lack of common sense those that would disagree with you would clearly have through polite means often with careful politicking. You need to be able to demonstrate the business sense in your goals and what you are proposing, how will this help the company make or save money? It's mastery of a craft, confidence that can't be shaken when the wind turns the wrong way which it inevitably does. It almost means consistency in behavior.
In the context of this discussion professionalism is a warm goodbye email that talks about what you enjoyed at the company and most times includes alternate ways to contact you.
Childs didn't go to jail because he didn't hand over the passwords, he went to jail for causing disruptions in service by setting traps like not committing router configs to startup memory.
There were a number of other things he did to land him in jail but withholding the passwords is not a crime. He was under no legal obligation to hand over information that he himself created and did not agree before the project began that all data belonged to the city which is not to say that it belong to his immediate boss. There are a number of circumstances that arise where you do not give your immediate boss the information needed because he will do something malicious with it. You can choose not to give him the passwords and file a notice with upper management. The risk is losing your job, not landing in jail.
As for the risk assessment in your idea of what you should do and mine is that I place my resume at higher value than some middle managers will. If I have an extreme failure causing a public outage then my resume is ruined for life. If I resign over not wanting to give up sensitive information to people that will not handle the information correctly then I have re-enforced my resume with the next company which is going to see that you are following good corporate policy that is less likely to end up in litigation.
Typically in these scenarios accounting gets the list of sensitive passwords to store in a safe with the rest of the sensitive financial documents. This is not the job of an IT manager who clearly had no idea what IT was.
Actually yes, buying Vista does give you a license to XP Pro, or 2000 Professional, or NT4 Workstation.
The problem is that Microsoft doesn't maintain this policy on the home side of the fence. If you buy a business OS you can downgrade all you want which is why my volume license for Windows includes keys for even Windows 2000. NT4 is considered EOL so they don't give you keys for it anymore.
Microsoft just needs to do the same thing on the home side to be consistent. These days companies all over seem to want to make money by nickel and diming customers through licensing. I just got off the phone with VMWare and their licensing model is so screwed up they didn't give me what I ordered despite them producing the quote to begin with based on my specifications. I've had the same thing happen with Oracle, and NetApp. It makes good financial sense from a bean counter perspective but it means that you now have to have dedicated licensing personnel which is annoying to say the least.
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It's funny how people love to take this stance about government. Sorry, government mandates do not always hurt economies. If that were the case then we'd have no Internet right now, no public roads, no police, no public schools. These are all things that commercial interests would not have picked up on their own that required massive investments.
Even gas powered cars would not have taken off so readily if the government hadn't helped oil companies grow. Lack of oversight became the real problem, not involvement in general.
That said, the CO2 problem is irrelevant. CO2 does cause temperatures to rise and does cause massive amounts of algae to grow in the ocean killing many other species. The impact we have as humans is up for pointless debate but the reality remains that the earth will get warmer even if we stop all emissions today. The question is whether we want to prolong this process by reducing emissions or help it move forward by continuing as we are. That is the real debate as such you are right that we should shift our focus to nuclear technology although I have no idea how government is somehow preventing nuclear plants when here in AZ they were going to build another out near Yuma but private citizens banned together and blocked it, not government. In fact, the government was heavily encouraging the development through very enticing tax credits.
Electric cars probably won't ever become viable because batteries are tough to make, although they are 100% recyclable so it might be worth it. Fuel cells are probably the best future bet, but hydrogen is the only thing we currently have enough technology to deploy widely at the cost of having to build more power plants through hopefully renewable sources which can be combinations of technology thankfully. Nuclear power is nicely dense, solar power has its merits here in AZ, hydroelectric power works beautifully in lots of places. There are a lot of options and we need to leverage as many as we can.
Fair enough, some businesses don't have the technical staffing to deploy it either. It does effectively fight the problem though which is a shame since more companies don't do it.
Honestly, do you really allow excel documents to come from the outside? This is why companies have secure transfer facilities for items which could be dangerous if accepted from any random party.
As much as I don't like the idea of replacing Microsoft on the desktop with any Linux I gotta appreciate the name.
Big Buck Hunter Safari for the win! The original is too easy by comparison.
I'm confused, does open-source or not? You're right, time = money but art has a subjective value based on the person who is enjoying it. This is why most painters offer prints or replicas of their work for less cost than the original.
In the case of a painter there are physical products involved that cost money such as paints and printers but in the digital world distribution costs nearly nothing. The price isn't justified especially when choices are artificially limited.
Given the number of concerts I've been to I can say that the vast majority of people I know that download will feel free and buy a t-shirt to support the band even after paying for tickets to see the show. These are things which digital distribution will never replace. An artist is not entitled to be rich forever because he or she produced one work which gained notoriety. Copyright law is designed to encourage continued contribution to the arts, not a one time contribution. The law has been molested over the years and you really can't blame millions for wanting to even the scale.
Copyright infringement is clearly wrong, but the law needs to be rewritten and made more fair. Paying $20 for a CD is ridiculous, if it is costing them enough for every album produced to justify the price then they are doing something clearly wrong and should fail.
Of course there is a side issue in that you don't need a sound engineer to produce your work anymore. Yes, they have a lot to offer and can improve your work but the public doesn't have a problem with a lot of locally produced music, in many cases its simply good enough to just record through Audacity with some very simple gear.
Given that a lot of /.ers make a living writing code that is given out for free I think you may want to rethink things if you consider them to by hypocritical.
The fact of the matter is IP law is horribly out of whack thanks to Disney and many others and as a result it is no longer serving the interests of the world at large. People that produce a creative work have a right to compensation, they do not have a right to be compensated for the same work for their entire lives like the current law is written which is totally against the spirit of the initial copyright laws.
Furthermore, the music industry like the movie industry is incredibly wasteful with their spending and so their costs cannot be justified. The cost of CDs are not decreasing and the latest blue-ray video will cost you more than the movie on DVD.
Consumers have shown in both industries that they aren't as interested in paying the prices for which the product is offered. In many cases the product isn't even offered like season 19 of the Simpsons. I can download the entire season without a problem though.
They are slow to get product to the market and people that can provide it for free are eating their lunches, they should get better and just-in-time releases and more to the point, not charge as much for a tv show DVD as they do for a movie DVD.
In short, you claim slashdotters want everything for free and the entertainment people think they are entitled to be rich and wealthy when I can guarantee you that the best creative talent isn't cutting record deals. They are playing in local clubs charging cover and have day jobs. They do it because they love to express themselves, money in return is fantastic, thats why they sell t-shirts and other merch at their events, physical goods which have a justified cost. When you're talking IP there justified cost is way out of proportion.
I am of course not condoning copyright infringement, just stating the reality. In that reality a lot of people will behave differently. I will seek out new music which does not come at a price I'm unwilling to pay, others will download, others will pay anyway.
While you are correct, many many proponents of the RIAA claim that copyright infringement is theft which we know is not true but nevertheless, given their standard the analogy holds.
Of course I also wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I've been seeing a lot of job postings at the trading firms involved lately.
That's funny because I had the exact opposite experience with a dell laptop and a macbook air. The Air wouldn't detect the majority of displays plugged into it so you have to force it to use multiple monitors, a real pain since most Mac users don't even know how to do that so I'm usually left have to figure it out for them when they can't hook up to the big ole TVs we have in our conference rooms. The Dell had issues until I got proper drivers for it. Then it would detect dock and apply the standard profile. Of course when setting profiles you have to set it, then reboot your machine so that the catalyst drivers actually commit the configuration.
So what I did was set it up without the dock, set the profile, rebooted out of the dock. When I booted back up, I put it on the dock while booted and started over setting another profile. From then on out I had no issues. A real pain but at least it could consistently use multiple monitors unlike the Air that keeps coming back here.
You seem to think syslog is the be all? Sorry, but I actually do use syslog and you have to specifically set it up for each service you wish to monitor. Windows has built in syslog services so it makes no sense that people are selling services for it.
Unfortunately for you I do enterprise work so I'll guarantee my automated image based installs are just as fast as your automated image based installs.
You completely missed the point of everything that I was saying since you were implying that Linux and accompanying philosophy is vastly superior when it simply isn't. You seem to be under a horrible impression that an experienced Unix admin is any more skilled than an experienced Windows admin. You write with a tone indicating that you are on the one true path and that just isn't the case. If it were the case Microsoft would never have made a dent in the world. People are inherently lazy and want the path of least resistance, very often that path simply means shelling out for a solution rather than coming up with one with a Linux kludge. Look at Proxmox VE to see what I mean, an all around great product but falls short in important places because they haven't been able to get the right tools working reliably. If I didn't have a SAN I would definitely not spend my money on VMWare or Xenserver and just install Proxmox.
As for event correlation I shouldn't even bother to explain the ridiculousness you are spouting. The only difference is that in Windows you have a central facility and in Linux you don't. That's not to say you can't have one in Linux, you just put a few tools together and you get the same thing. So one tool is Windows is 5 tools in Linux.
You also fail to understand why Microsoft products are significantly faster to deploy, they get you up and running with the latest technology in no time at all. From scratch you cannot setup a Linux distro that will provide all the same functionality as a Windows server install including your favorite directory services in the same amount of time and without documentation. Why should it be difficult to deploy new technology? Why should I have to bandaid qmail to get modern functionality? Oh right, I'll just install postfix or sendmail with the mail scanner suite which involves several separate installs and most certainly requires careful following of installation guides leaving much room for typos during configuration although as my email server can attest you get great performance although I can send and receive just as many emails with my Exchange server.
You seem to think that most businesses care about the quality of a deployment as opposed to the speed at which it is deployed. In most shops you are pressed to deliver or be replaced and that is a reality you clearly don't understand.
All your problems with Microsoft appear to stem from the fact that you have to pay for it and the divisions there of as a result of it being proprietary technology. This is a pointless argument as it makes no attempt to argue that open source software is superior because it plain and simply isn't. It can be in a lot of circumstances but the mere fact that it's open source doesn't mean it's perfect and the same goes with proprietary software so it makes more sense to attack things on merit that actually matter such as the manner in which Windows has historically mismanaged memory and process threading.
Who running Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard edition needs more than 4 sockets and doesn't also need the additional features you get with Enterprise edition? You might also note that the 64bit versions and editions you list don't have the same limitations. A pointless argument because you have to operate under the assumption that people are paying for a solution, an extra $600 for a copy of Windows that can handle the hardware you've spend 30k on is no big deal even though we both agree it would be a waste of money in some circumstances.
In short, you're way off base with reality man. First and foremost, lighten up and realize that a GUI isn
Thanks for pointing this out to the parent as I was about to do it myself. DFS-R as a side-note has worked wonderfully for me though and with minimal effort. I guess I'm unsure how even an incompetent admin could make it not work. As for DNS problems my first thought was, wtf? What DNS problems too?
The only thing I can conclude is that parent was posting about something to which he or she was not qualified to comment on as they don't sound like they are working with 2008 in an administrative capacity.
Wow dude, you're out there! First of all, there are a lot of people out there that value the straight forward setup approach that Microsoft often gives you for that high dollar. Of course when I'm running Oracle and spend many thousands on it I install it on a free OS but I certainly can't apt-get install Oracle.
Aptitude is great and all, but you're forgetting apt-get install apache-modssl, mod_mysql, php and the myriad of other things that usually have to get installed too in order to do anything useful with your webserver.
You also seem very misguided in the decisions that Bill Gates can make even though he no longer holds CEO or President as positions at Microsoft. He didn't do anything to which you give him credit for doing.
As for adding multiple cpu support, wtf? Why are you adding support to something that is universally supported in all camps and never required users to spend money to upgrade. Higher memory support was never a reason to pay for an upgrade as they always had the 4gig 32bit limitation. Windows 98 had trouble dealing with that amount of memory but that's because it handled memory like crap to begin with.
Furthermore, trivializing the differences between Windows does your cause no good as there have been plenty of upgrades on the Linux side that haven't gone so smoothly, as an Ubuntu user I can assure you the world is far from perfect and often requires time consuming research to troubleshoot issues that crop up such as why my Sangoma card won't initialize despite lspci showing the card and using matching drivers. In the Windows world I get a nice easy to read event log that doesn't require me to go trapesing through /var/log looking for something that will give me a clue as to the cause of the problem. As a side note Asterisk can be a real pain in the arse.
Anywho, those of us that aren't Linux only and aren't Windows only admins will continue to laugh at you and your poor attempts to attack something you clearly don't understand.
Here's a hint for you, Linux is not free, not by a long shot. Time to deploy new technologies with Microsoft has almost always been significantly faster than time to deploy new linux based services, note this does not state whether or not the deployment was better. That time costs real money and isn't worth a lot of people's efforts. Often times paying for something instead of developing a solution yourself is the smarter move and saves you money in the long run. Of course this is not always the case so naturally, use the right tool for the job. Sometimes its Linux, sometimes it's Windows. My main issue is grappling with which distro to use for which task. CentOS or Elastix for Asterisk is a hell of a lot easier than getting the whole rig running on Debian for instance.
Actually, server 2003 R2 does not trust Windows Update by default.
I find it amusing that people would make fun of Microsoft for doing this to their browser when people were mocking them for shipping things insecure out of the box. Just goes to show, when it's Microsoft, you can't do anything right even if it is actually right. People will complain anyways.
Funny how different parts of the country are. Here in the southwest and back in my home state of VT Karaoke is not dead but certainly not terribly popular. Of course in both places as well there is no shortage of good original music. I'm going to go see someone sing tonight actually and it will be all original music.
I've also found that its more popular among people that don't have a lot of money. You're more likely to find karaoke in dive bars for example. So my experience may be jaded by the fact that I've been in more expensive places lately.
While technically accurate the period in question involved a brief shutdown of napster due to court injunction and subsequent reinstatement.
More to the point, I was counterclaiming the parents assumptions and was not attempting to prove my example. The reference I made was to a slashdot posting a few years ago on the topic of Napster. You are right in that the decline of Napster and the decline of CD sales are not necessarily directly linked although I do think that they are. It's just hard to prove on any scale so I won't fault anyone for thinking otherwise.
Here's some evidence to back up what I've stated.
Kazaa cropped up shortly after all this happened so it's not linked to the issue at hand but there could indeed be one or many other external factors not being considered such as the quality and quantity of albums released during those times.
That's a lovely troll ya got going there.
Unfortunately there is evidence that shows that the necline of Napster directly contributed to the decline in CD sales and visa versa when Napster was in it's glory days. CD sales were skyrocketing during the time of Napster so your "data" doesn't even attempt to make a counter claim.
Don't expect people to just shut up when you present your argument in the manner in which you have. Now we have the days of XM and Pandora, last.fm, magnatunes, and a slew of others to provide us with free music or nearly free music so CD sales aren't as compelling as they once were. Now the only time we buy CDs is when an artist puts out something truly worth while. The days of buying one or two discs a week are simply gone.
Now let's look at your graph again and conclude that people have once again lost interest in Karaoke which I can attest to in all the bars I frequent, people that do it are few and far between these days. Instead I'm seeing guitar hero taking up the music at a number of bars in addition to regular DJ work.
Sorry, there is absolutely nothing compelling about your data. Compare the same numbers against gross per-capita spending during those times and look at a similar decline as the economy slid into where it is today.
I think parent is right in terms of Gnome being brittle. For instance, I'm on Ubuntu myself, half the time the open application bar is on the very top of my desktop, the other half the time is the task menu.
Then of course there is the fact that periodically Alsa stops working and I lose sound. The Remote Desktop client doesn't allow you to sort the saved connections you have and seems to put them in random order to finding servers I want to connect to it cumbersome since I manage about 40 servers.
Of course these aren't all problems with Gnome specifically as tsclient is just an application that comes standard with Ubuntu. Those little usability issues are what the parent I believe was referring to.
Connecting to Samba shares is largely retarded as well I might add. If I fill the form out correctly I always get access denied, the prompt for credentials then allows me to re-enter the same information at which point I can connect to my share. As a result I simply just enter the server and share I wish to connect to and let the second screen prompt me instead.
Then of course there is cd burning, brasero works half the time for me while the inbuilt burning utility is far more reliable at something like 1 in 10 discs become coasters.
Battery life is also quite atrocious but that's not a gnome as a general Ubuntu thing. Usability is still a great concern, Linpus Linux Lite that came on my Acer Aspire One was fantastic for a user that wants to just browse email, do basic chatting with a webcam, and surf the web.
Of course with all things software related mileage varies greatly depending on what hardware is in your machine and how well it is suited for Linux.
You seem to think that admins aren't the biggest risk to a company's data?
As a sys admin I can safely say that a few wrong keystrokes and a lot of data is gone requiring me to go back to tape to fix.
The person with all the access is the person that can do all the damage whether intentional or not. I've made some pretty bone-headed moves in my day that have caused a little data loss resulting from a missing XO option on a robocopy because I was too tired to handle the one-off task. This is why you automate as much as you can as often as you can because machines are a hell of a lot more consistent.
Childs' had no obligation to give up passwords to people he didn't know, plain and simple. In fact, he had no obligation to give up passwords to anyone he did know. The employment was terminated, any and all interaction afterwards is voluntary for either party.
He didn't set any traps, he did his job as any competent admin would have from a technical standpoint but lacked the political skills to remedy upstream stupidity. That stupidity is demonstrated by the simple fact that he was indeed the only one with the passwords which should have been a flag before the firing. Of course he could refuse to give up the passwords while still being employed with the end result being the termination of his employment like would happen in any corporate setting.
This is gross mismanagement and now they are looking to fry someone that had the balls to call them on it publicly even going to jail to prove his point.
while you are correct that this is not limited to government entities I think it is worse when it is government related. I think any business out there would have handled this very differently and Childs' would have ended up in jail if he worked for a business.
Because the city was out to get him the police naturally followed suit and so did the DA as they all serve the city.
My guess is that you've never been in this position as you are completely incorrect.
Parent is right, the cops will tell you to get judgement first. A friend of mine went through this problem during her divorce since most things had been in her name since she was paying for most everything. That was exactly what the cops told her when she asked the question because she was afraid for her life to go to the house and get it without police being present.
To be fair, so does mine, we have a busy season where I will work several 100 hour weeks in a row, then it gets calm for a while. During the calm I make up for the hectic schedule although sometimes I'm still amped from prolonged stress that I don't know what to do with idle time so I end up working anyways. Call it the curse of a job that is always engaging my mind.
Fair enough, a lot of employers definitely take the idea too far. It cuts both ways, like putting people on salary, if they work 100 hours one week you can't expect them to work a full 40 hour week the next.
You have an odd idea of what professionalism is if you think it relates to perks for the company. Professionalism is not getting angry with people because they disagree with you no matter which method they choose to employ to persuade people. It's arriving at work on time and in proper attire. It means doing what you say you will do and when you say you'll do it. These are not unpaid perks that the company enjoys, they make for a work atmosphere which gets a lot more work done so I guess you could say you are doing more work without getting extra money but its all work you should be doing instead of arguing about stupid things.
Professionalism has a lot of characteristics that obviously vary from profession to profession so I'm mainly focusing on professionalism in an IT position. You need to intelligently be able to defend your position at all times even when someone that has no business making decisions is voicing an opinion and just happens to have the ear of the CTO or CEO in my case. You must be able to illustrate the lack of common sense those that would disagree with you would clearly have through polite means often with careful politicking. You need to be able to demonstrate the business sense in your goals and what you are proposing, how will this help the company make or save money? It's mastery of a craft, confidence that can't be shaken when the wind turns the wrong way which it inevitably does. It almost means consistency in behavior.
In the context of this discussion professionalism is a warm goodbye email that talks about what you enjoyed at the company and most times includes alternate ways to contact you.
Childs didn't go to jail because he didn't hand over the passwords, he went to jail for causing disruptions in service by setting traps like not committing router configs to startup memory.
There were a number of other things he did to land him in jail but withholding the passwords is not a crime. He was under no legal obligation to hand over information that he himself created and did not agree before the project began that all data belonged to the city which is not to say that it belong to his immediate boss. There are a number of circumstances that arise where you do not give your immediate boss the information needed because he will do something malicious with it. You can choose not to give him the passwords and file a notice with upper management. The risk is losing your job, not landing in jail.
As for the risk assessment in your idea of what you should do and mine is that I place my resume at higher value than some middle managers will. If I have an extreme failure causing a public outage then my resume is ruined for life. If I resign over not wanting to give up sensitive information to people that will not handle the information correctly then I have re-enforced my resume with the next company which is going to see that you are following good corporate policy that is less likely to end up in litigation.
Typically in these scenarios accounting gets the list of sensitive passwords to store in a safe with the rest of the sensitive financial documents. This is not the job of an IT manager who clearly had no idea what IT was.
Actually yes, buying Vista does give you a license to XP Pro, or 2000 Professional, or NT4 Workstation.
The problem is that Microsoft doesn't maintain this policy on the home side of the fence. If you buy a business OS you can downgrade all you want which is why my volume license for Windows includes keys for even Windows 2000. NT4 is considered EOL so they don't give you keys for it anymore.
Microsoft just needs to do the same thing on the home side to be consistent. These days companies all over seem to want to make money by nickel and diming customers through licensing. I just got off the phone with VMWare and their licensing model is so screwed up they didn't give me what I ordered despite them producing the quote to begin with based on my specifications. I've had the same thing happen with Oracle, and NetApp. It makes good financial sense from a bean counter perspective but it means that you now have to have dedicated licensing personnel which is annoying to say the least.