You getting heavy mail usage? We have 1400 users on one box for email, another box does MTA and another does just shared databases...the 1400 user box leaks like water in a wiffle ball.
It isn't NT...any NT box running notes is going to be unstable...because Notes on NT is unstable. It's bloated and it leaks, consistently. I've got servers that stay up for months and never crash...except for the ones running notes.
are you looking for true document sharing or just document publishing? Net-It is a GREAT program for converting standard document formats into viewable HTML...very cool stuff.
Runs like yermother on any platform other than AS/400. This isn't flame, I'm being completely honest. It leaks, it fragments horribly on FSes that happen to fragment... Don't even get me started...
Yes, open source is better for the end user. It's better for the developer (typically). It's very bad for companies who don't have a business model designed around open sourcing their hardware and software. Sun, Microsoft, Novell...these companies aren't evil for not open sourcing everything. Open source is a new model, and if it's going to become "the way" of doing things, it's going to take a LONG time. These companies aren't going to shift paradigms on a whim...that's not profitable. That's right...it's all about making money...:)
And they're stupid for doing it. We originally ran Notes just for email...just as moronic. Someone once said that running Exchange just for email is like "driving in a nail with a nuclear warhead". Very appropriate...
What does Exchange server have to do with Sendmail? Apples and oranges, pal. There is NO comparable product on the market for Exchange other than Domino. As far as groupware is concerned, they're the only two noticable players in the game...i.e. they own the market. It's amazing how well people can twist anything into being a discussion on how shitty Microsoft products are.
I spent $50,000 on 2 years of education at a private school. It did nothing for me. I woke up, finally, and dropped out. Now I'm making more in a year than what I spent for those 2 years in college...and I'm doing what I love to do. College degrees aren't a requirement for geeks. They help, but they don't guarantee you a job. Certification and experience actually help more. My advice? If it's too expensive, don't put yourself or your family in debt. Just don't go. Work your ass off, get some experience, and in a couple years it *will* pay off.
I thought applications absolutely couldn't crash Linux. That's why it's so much better than NT, the OS never crashes, right? No application can take down the OS, right?
You're completely misinformed yourself. It has nothing to do with DirectPlay. The IP networking code is based on Quakeworld. I love this...something happens that is Not Good, and everyone does their damndest to blame it on Microsoft. Grow up.
I think a few things need to be cleared up: Aptivas have always been a high end, multimedia "gadget-focused" home system. They've never done well, retail-wise, outside of Radio Shack outlets. Just too expensive. This is a move on their part to lower costs and to stop competing with sub-par personal computer manufacturers in the retail market...such as Packard Bell, NEC (same thing), and CTX. This doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the IBM PC line, which is a line targeted at medium-large business desktops. We happen to use PC 300PLs here as a standard desktop, very reliable machines. They aren't going anywhere...they consistently get very high ratings in reviews and they'll continue to get high amounts of deployments in corporations. I doubt you'll see a major shit in the next couple years in the way computers are sold, at least in regards to retail sales. The cheap CPU (AMD, Celery), cheap part vendors will continue to pump out machines to go onto those Best Buy, Staples, Circuit City and Officemax storeshelves. And people will continue to buy them because they're that stupid.
You're misinformed. Gartner didn't originally release the report, it's for subscribers and paid customers. But because of this "controversy", they've put it up for the public to read.
How so much misinformation can lead to so much knee-jerk reactivity. Gartner writes reports for companies on a subscription basis. IE PAID. The company I work for, for example, pays Gartner for consulting and reports. The "webletter" on the Gartner site is a paid Microsoft publication of the original Gartner report, it is NOT the actual Gartner report. MS did not pay Gartner to trash Linux, they paid Gartner for the ability to post the Gartner report on Linux on their site. If you people would actually READ the report, instead of that idiotic summation by IDG and the Microsoft produced webletter, you'd realize that it isn't that big of a rip on Linux. It simply criticizes the *current* state of Linux as a viable desktop solution. It applauds what Linux is doing in other areas. Sheesh. Stop the zealotry and start to look at things with a *calm* and objective eye.
MS didn't write the report, they wrote a press release summarizing it on the site. In order to read the ACTUAL Gartner report, which is NOT paid for by MS, you have to have a paid subscription with them. It isn't publicly available. Maybe 1% of slashdot readers have actually seen the actual Gartner report.
1) yes, they ARE posix utilities 2) you can find hundreds of ported Unix commands. look around. a fuck of a lot more than 5 of them. hell the reskit alone has more than just what you listed. way to spread the FUD.
Stop spreading misinformation, dipshit. The SID is created in the domain when the workstation contacts the PDC to create the account during installation, OR when you create the account for the machine manually in server manager. It has NO connection to Microsoft. If it did, how the fuck would a private network with no internet connection EVER get anything running? Are you THAT stupid?
Well stated. I'm an MCSE+I, and about half of what this guy said is just completely *wrong*. All those clueless NT admins out there are reading that page and taking notes...and are going to further the perception that NT is a shit OS simply because they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Not that I'm bitter.
It fucks up because the SID is the same as another machine in the domain and you get problems. Cloning has gone way beyond all this discussion...it works fine and I do it all the time. The difference between you and me is that I do it RIGHT.
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You getting heavy mail usage?
We have 1400 users on one box for email, another box does MTA and another does just shared databases...the 1400 user box leaks like water in a wiffle ball.
It isn't NT...any NT box running notes is going to be unstable...because Notes on NT is unstable. It's bloated and it leaks, consistently. I've got servers that stay up for months and never crash...except for the ones running notes.
are you looking for true document sharing or just document publishing? Net-It is a GREAT program for converting standard document formats into viewable HTML...very cool stuff.
Runs like yermother on any platform other than AS/400. This isn't flame, I'm being completely honest. It leaks, it fragments horribly on FSes that happen to fragment...
Don't even get me started...
Was there a reason you called him a fuckhead?
Or are you just doing your best to be a moronic jackass hiding behind the AC curtain?
Yes, open source is better for the end user. It's better for the developer (typically). :)
It's very bad for companies who don't have a business model designed around open sourcing their hardware and software.
Sun, Microsoft, Novell...these companies aren't evil for not open sourcing everything. Open source is a new model, and if it's going to become "the way" of doing things, it's going to take a LONG time. These companies aren't going to shift paradigms on a whim...that's not profitable. That's right...it's all about making money...
And they're stupid for doing it. We originally ran Notes just for email...just as moronic.
Someone once said that running Exchange just for email is like "driving in a nail with a nuclear warhead". Very appropriate...
What does Exchange server have to do with Sendmail?
Apples and oranges, pal. There is NO comparable product on the market for Exchange other than Domino. As far as groupware is concerned, they're the only two noticable players in the game...i.e. they own the market.
It's amazing how well people can twist anything into being a discussion on how shitty Microsoft products are.
I spent $50,000 on 2 years of education at a private school. It did nothing for me. I woke up, finally, and dropped out.
Now I'm making more in a year than what I spent for those 2 years in college...and I'm doing what I love to do.
College degrees aren't a requirement for geeks. They help, but they don't guarantee you a job. Certification and experience actually help more.
My advice? If it's too expensive, don't put yourself or your family in debt. Just don't go. Work your ass off, get some experience, and in a couple years it *will* pay off.
For bigger fans, Radio Shack carries 90hz models that are very quiet, they come in 3inch and 4inch models. And put out of a ton of air.
I thought applications absolutely couldn't crash Linux.
That's why it's so much better than NT, the OS never crashes, right?
No application can take down the OS, right?
You're completely misinformed yourself.
It has nothing to do with DirectPlay. The IP networking code is based on Quakeworld.
I love this...something happens that is Not Good, and everyone does their damndest to blame it on Microsoft.
Grow up.
I think a few things need to be cleared up:
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Aptivas have always been a high end, multimedia "gadget-focused" home system. They've never done well, retail-wise, outside of Radio Shack outlets. Just too expensive.
This is a move on their part to lower costs and to stop competing with sub-par personal computer manufacturers in the retail market...such as Packard Bell, NEC (same thing), and CTX.
This doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the IBM PC line, which is a line targeted at medium-large business desktops. We happen to use PC 300PLs here as a standard desktop, very reliable machines. They aren't going anywhere...they consistently get very high ratings in reviews and they'll continue to get high amounts of deployments in corporations.
I doubt you'll see a major shit in the next couple years in the way computers are sold, at least in regards to retail sales. The cheap CPU (AMD, Celery), cheap part vendors will continue to pump out machines to go onto those Best Buy, Staples, Circuit City and Officemax storeshelves. And people will continue to buy them because they're that stupid.
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This is old news anyway, why's it on
You're misinformed.
Gartner didn't originally release the report, it's for subscribers and paid customers. But because of this "controversy", they've put it up for the public to read.
Sun would happily pay for it.
Redhat could EASILY pay for it.
Gartner does well enough without MS. They don't need them to stay in business.
How so much misinformation can lead to so much knee-jerk reactivity.
Gartner writes reports for companies on a subscription basis. IE PAID. The company I work for, for example, pays Gartner for consulting and reports. The "webletter" on the Gartner site is a paid Microsoft publication of the original Gartner report, it is NOT the actual Gartner report. MS did not pay Gartner to trash Linux, they paid Gartner for the ability to post the Gartner report on Linux on their site.
If you people would actually READ the report, instead of that idiotic summation by IDG and the Microsoft produced webletter, you'd realize that it isn't that big of a rip on Linux. It simply criticizes the *current* state of Linux as a viable desktop solution. It applauds what Linux is doing in other areas.
Sheesh. Stop the zealotry and start to look at things with a *calm* and objective eye.
MS didn't write the report, they wrote a press release summarizing it on the site. In order to read the ACTUAL Gartner report, which is NOT paid for by MS, you have to have a paid subscription with them. It isn't publicly available.
Maybe 1% of slashdot readers have actually seen the actual Gartner report.
The NT 4.0 resource kit has this su-like utility as well.
1) yes, they ARE posix utilities
2) you can find hundreds of ported Unix commands. look around. a fuck of a lot more than 5 of them. hell the reskit alone has more than just what you listed.
way to spread the FUD.
Stop spreading misinformation, dipshit.
The SID is created in the domain when the workstation contacts the PDC to create the account during installation, OR when you create the account for the machine manually in server manager. It has NO connection to Microsoft. If it did, how the fuck would a private network with no internet connection EVER get anything running? Are you THAT stupid?
Well stated. I'm an MCSE+I, and about half of what this guy said is just completely *wrong*.
All those clueless NT admins out there are reading that page and taking notes...and are going to further the perception that NT is a shit OS simply because they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Not that I'm bitter.
http://www.sysinternals.com/newsid.htm
Free.
With source.
It fucks up because the SID is the same as another machine in the domain and you get problems.
Cloning has gone way beyond all this discussion...it works fine and I do it all the time.
The difference between you and me is that I do it RIGHT.
Clueless NT admins.
Duh.
SID.
Change it.