Netcraft is inaccurate as all get out. When things fall off the list, they don't come back no matter what you do. When things get on the list, the don't necessarily fall off the list. Basically it's an unpredictable service that only caters to the largest of hosting companies and ignores all of the rest with extreme prejudice.
With that in mind, I place such small stock in ANYTHING that netcraft says. How can I do otherwise when sites that have been hosted by me for years never show up on netcraft, and sites that died 6 years ago are still showing up as hosted by me.
Cogent seems to have a problem policing it's network. That traffic keeps hitting L3 and they are tired of it. That's overly simplified, but yeah, cogent is not the best for policing it's network...I would have a hard time peering with them.
Now, since there is apparently some lack of understand of what peering is by the author of the article.... Peering is when 2 companies run a line between themselves. They aren't selling bandwidth to each other, but they share the line cost and traffic between them only goes between them. It helps speed up routes and in many cases helps avoid bottle necks at some of the central hubs.
First off, that was a slight exageration and the fact that you thought it was actual facts tells me that maybe you take some things a little too seriously and/or can't tell the difference between fact and making a point.
The point to that was, I've not had a single "virus" hit my linux servers. Basically, at this point, I'm batting 1000 on my linux servers for everything. Not one hack or virus. On the other hand, don't get me started on Windows servers. Even after hot fixes have been applied to a clean server, I'll turn around and 24 hours later find they've been infected. Clean up, apply the hot fix again, another 24 hours later, worm again. So before you try to wax intellectual and point the blame at someone that you "think" should be doing something else since their figures look skewed. Maybe you should ASK.
The old phrase comes to mind about the wise man listening while the fool chatters. I was mearly pointing out real world scenerios. Hell, half I'll be called in the first time something gets broken. I've never touched the network before. And you wouldn't like me to tell you the alarming rate of them that have had personal data stolen that are real estate agents or mortgage brokers. You know, the kind of people that get their hands on your most precious of data. Then we wonder why so many people are having their identities stolen. After all, real estate agents and mortgage brokers tend to be notoriously cheap and will spent thousands of dollars a month on their image, but are loathe to spend $10 on the infrastructure.
Speaking from personal experience, 85% of all hacks come from poor administration. ie. not patching flaws, weak passwords, poor security measure such as file permissions and lack of firewalls. The remaining 15% come from a mixture of things, and like it or not, 14.999% of that is Windows. Security through obscurity doesn't work when you have thousands of people pounding at your code just trying to find a way in.
All these Worms on the net is a perfect example. And when you get down to it, even some of the poor administration is Microsoft's fault for making it "so easy you don't need an experienced technician...." When in fact they bury stuff so deep unless you know where it is, the necessary changes don't get made leaving everything as default.
I can't even begin to count how many times I've gone to a customer's location where they had an employee that was a self proclaimed geek that did all the setup and everything was not only wrong, it opened gaping holes on their network. Including things like having a USER logging in as Administrator on the server and using it as a workstation.
Plus I won't go into all the people who hold an MCSE that never touched a computer until they went to a 2 week bootcamp on how to pass the tests.
But, point in fact, any closed source application is subject to flaws that don't get patched because it's a small enough flaw that putting a programmer on it to fix it would cost more than keeping the flaw hidden.
Well, then I guess I am confused....why in the HELL should the provider care? They already charge hefty early term fees and if their customer needs/wants to be able to use something else with the phone they are buying, I don't see the problem.
For example, Nextel in my area is friggin horrible, specially for someone who works around alot of electronic equipment. I had to wait for my contract to end because otherwise I would have been stuck with a phone that couldn't even be unlocked...which I still was and sold on ebay. But to my thinking, if someone decided to pay the early term fees to get out of the contract due to poor service, that's nextel's problem.
Mobile phone companies means manufacturers. Why then, was mobile phone service providers talked about in the article? They actually lose money on the phones or make such a small amount they would prefer to just sign you up for the contract. It's the phone manufacturer that wants to be able to sell you the phone for a different service provider.
I just felt I needed to say that. I really dislike disinformation...which is why I don't watch the news.
How come it took me 2 weeks to install Windows 2003 SP1 terminal server with Office 2000? I went through 7 Microsoft Techs before I finally got the problem resolved. Granted normally it's not usually that bad, and it only takes 8 hours to PROPERLY set up a windows server...key word is PROPERLY.
And how come it takes me 3-6 hours to setup a Fedora server the way it needs to be for file sharing, web, mail, whatever including updates.
Seems to me that the reason they had such problems is they didn't have someone on staff that understood linux. It's not something that someone can just jump into. For that matter (using the same phrase again...maybe there's a point here as well) to set up a windows server PROPERLY it takes knowledge as well. More often than not someone that just sets up a windows server with the defaults is leaving the box(es) open to attack(s).
It's all about the proper tool for the proper job. And in this case either OS could be the proper tool, but also having staff that understands the stuff on hand is a proper tool as well.
Some good news coming from the FCC for a change. As an independant ISP using SBC transport it's been a huge pet peeve that they subsidize their DSL costs with their phone service(s). Until this new jerk got into the FCC it was actually illegal subsidization that was putting an unfair advantage in the hands of the telcos.
Of course the fact that DSL is provided over a phone network that was built with tax dollars then handed over to the telcos to be maintained doesn't mean anything anymore...so why shouldn't they have a government sponsored monopoly.
Of course this is flame bait for people who don't understand the way the economy works and how people like myself are important for getting services into remote areas that neither cable or the telcos actually care about until people like myself start complaining that we have large amounts of customers that went it in that area.
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Anything Gartner says about Windows and Linux has to be taken with a grain of salt. A very large grain at that. How can you trust anything that a company that's been paid by Microsoft once to say anything realistic about a Microsoft competitor?
I mean, if linux isn't "mature" why is it already in so many networks? I don't know a single ISP that doesn't have atleast ONE linux server. Even those ISPs that are Windows based still has atleast one linux box somewhere.
For that matter, why are so many Unix boxes being replaced with Linux? I personally have replaced 2 Windows servers for clients with Linux in the past 6 months. My ISP, though small, has moved from 12 Windows servers to 4 Linux boxes and 1 Windows. But of course it's not stable enough to handle the work? I was getting hacked on a monthly basis with the Windows NT servers. And the remaining server got nailed by the zotob virus even though I had applied the patch. But THIS is ready for the mainstream datacenter?
I mean, c'mon. If it wasn't ready there wouldn't be so many Linux servers out there. What all of these "reports" fail to be able to take into consideration is all the White boxes out there. Or for that matter all the servers people have purchased with Windows or without OS all together that get wiped out and have Linux installed.
I, for one, have gotten really tired of this kind of BS "news" since it's always putting Linux capabilities down, or DRASTICALLY misreported numbers. I mean.... http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_surve y.html Most servers running apache are Linux. Just kind of tired of this misinformation.
Yeah, this is really going to help the take up of the GPL and OSS. Many software producers write software for both Windows AND *NIX. So now they'll be forced to just completely stay away from *NIX.
For example, mp3...out the window for using OSS, so why should they bother making their codec linux compatible?
What about all that stuff that IBM is putting out? For that matter, now Novell, Redhat.....WHOOPS. Guess the GPL will effectively kill off several major players....
Stallman, I hate to say this, but you're not exactly the sharpest tack in the box, are you?
There's several issues I see here. As an ISP already servicing the SF bay area, I have problems with San Francisco going "into business" for its self. The state and local governments tax the crap out of us on everything from equipment to sales, then they come up with their own service that can be made cheaper because they don't have to tax themselves....that's anticompetitive behavior at it's finest. Not to mention a monopoly. Let's not forget they dont' exactly handle "other" things smoothly and in the state of CA, we're friggin in debt up to our eyeballs. Starting an 8 figure "luxury" project isn't exactly the smartest thing to do right now.
The ONLY way to make it cheaper than what people like myself are charging is subsidizing it with tax dollars. So, not only are they taxing the crap out of companies to supply Internet access such as myself, they are going to use those tax dollars to take business away from us.....
Either rate, the cost will probably be too high so it's just BS posturing. 47.5 square miles with all the hills and everything present in SF....gonna cost waaaaaaaay to much to get everywhere he wants to get. Either that or it's going to be sub standard and not worth what they want.
Only because of mass publicity. What if a little company somehow offends SBC? What on earth can a company grossing $150k/year do against that monolith? If they all of a sudden decided to block my company's website for whatever reason. Sure, I could launch a legal battle over it, but I don't even come close to the kind of income that would be needed to support a legal battle like that. They would tie me up in court for years costing me thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix the problem. Let's not even get started on Mom and Pop Cell Phone company that gets blocked and never even knows it simply because they sell cell phones and services. SBC customers never see the site so they go to....Cingular, imagine that.
Alot of people bash MS because of Anti-Competitive behavior and they deserve it. But the Bells are arguably 10 times worse. They actually own the physical cable. With Windows you can atleast choose to use a different OS or different Office suite. With the ILECs you don't have that kind of choice. It's their copper wire or the cable company for the most part as it is. They already force us to require a customer has an SBC phone line and many customers don't want one.
There is a huge difference between the CA and the US legal system. Things like this could be tied up for years. During that time the company bringing action could be put out of business due to low sales or whatever. Then where's the lawsuit? SBC wins just because they had deep enough pockets, not on the merit of the case.
Oops, you're correct. I'm mistaken on that point, but the message is still there when you think about it. If they can/will block a union website, who's to say that later on "other" things won't get blocked.
Don't forget what Unions are about in the first place. I don't necessarily agree with Unions in the modern age, but that doesn't change the fact that Telus is blocking their "message" because it could be harmful to Telus.
Let me start this out by saying that SBC and Verizon make the SAME money if you buy DSL from them or a "competitor" simply because of the way their pricing for transports are. Yes, they charge more to independants. What that ends up doing is that the competition offers better service, services, and support to justify their higher costs. With that in mind....
I'm sure there's many people here who want choice, since usually that choice gives you better products. There are things you can do to protect your choice.
I am a consumer in the United States and I believe that deregulating DSL will do nothing for consumer choice. It will only give a monoply back to the bells that due to their business practices 20 years ago had to be broken up. They never stopped those practices, just hid them better.
If you deregulate DSL you lower the choice to 2 broadband choices that both historically have a low quality of service and support instead of allowing us a choice of companies that value their customers. One of these companies has even farmed all of their support over seas and is continuing to do so taking jobs away from American citizens.
Deregulation is a bad thing on it's own. The word Enron springs to mind. Not only will the incumbant company begin raising prices to cover their "costs of expansion" and farm more jobs over seas, you will also effectively kill off over 6000 independant ISPs and all the people they employ will join the unemployed
In Canada Incumbant internet providers are already blocking the competition websites so consumers may not look. This is the kind of thing you will start by deregulation of DSL.
When small and startup ISPs first began selling DSL, the incumbants tried to stiffle the service. Now they realize that with all the hard work of the small companies that it truly is a service worth keeping and they want to take the fruits of labor away from those who helped build it to what it is today.
In 2002, President Bush signed Executive Order 13272, requiring federal agencies to implement policies protecting small businesses when writing new rules and regulations. President Bush's own Small Business Agenda states that every new business starts with an idea for a better product or process, which has been the driving force of Internet innovation. Not a single innovation related to the Internet has come from the former Bell phone companies. In fact, when DSL was being launched by other smaller companies, the Bells continued to insist that DSL would threaten the quality of voice calls.
As a consumer, an employee, and as an American, I strongly urge you to not only keep DSL regulated, but to also regulate Cable internet service.
It also wouldn't hurt to check out www.cispa.org on occasion. Many of the ISPs there are local to you in one way or another. I highly recommend pulling ANY support you may have away from the companies that want to stiffle independant ISPs just to profit from it. Independants WILL take good care of their customers. Even though they charge a bit more, you won't feel ripped off because they offer value for the service. You would also help prove the point that Independants MUST stay alive.
I don't disagree with some points that you make. It's true that an armed populous isn't a good thing. There's plenty of unstable people out there that shouldn't own firearms.
HOWEVER, I'm going to assume you've never been in harms way or else you probably wouldn't think that way. 2 seperate times I've had a situation where it was necessary to have a firearm, luckily both times I happened to have one on me. Once was just a mugging, no biggie but I kept my money and got a laugh from the guy letting his bladder loose.
The other time, let's just say due to the fact that I had my firearm on me 2 other people are alive today that probably wouldn't have been. One of those 2 myself. The other my EX who would later become pregnant with my son (obviously not my EX then).
It's just like with anything else, the few ruin everything for the many. If I hadn't been in either of these cases, I probably wouldn't feel the way I do about gun control. But you try calling the police and they show up 20 minutes later after weapons fire is reported and people have been hit. See if you don't feel that you have a right to protect you and yours.
Don't worry, I plan on it and I wouldn't be surprised if I get several speeding tickets while I leave. Only reason I'm still here is obligations, once those are fullfilled.....buh bye.
Well, California is notoriously known for making mountains out of mole hills. It's also known to blatantly lie. See Comments made at the CPUC hearings about the SBC/AT&T merger where John Miller claimed to be the assistant police cheif of the LAPD stated that the Dept. of Homeland Security wants emergency response to only have 1 method of communication and so AT&T and SBC should be allowed to merge. This is, of course, a blatant lie and he had to be paid to say such things. The DoHS REQUIRES 5 methods of communications specifically so when things break they won't be out of contact....
But I digress. I've lived in CA for almost 6 years now. EVERY time something comes up protests start (see last years presidential election) or people start spreading F.U.D. even deeper than MS does. Just like Lt. Bob Lozito said. If it were illegal, why are pringles still sold in that can? I mean, get real people.
Just as our wonderful Senator Feinstein. She's actually saying that because there were shootings in Columbine (1999) that it's proving the assault weapon ban works and needs to be extended. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the assault weapon ban was in effect at the time of colubine (1994-2004) and it didn't seem to stop those kids from having "assault" weapons. Nor did it stop the bank robbers in LA from having metal armor and AK-47 Assault rifles. To me, that speaks the other way around. IT'S NOT WORKING OR THESE PEOPLE WOULDN'T HAVE THEM, NOW WOULD THEY?!??!?!?! The age old saying of "Gun control is hitting your target" sits well with me. I'm of a firm belief that anyone should be able to own any firearm they want as long as they take the appropriate safety courses. It's not the guy who legally obtains and carries a weapon that concerns me......
Unfortunately, I'm very rapidly coming to the belief that if the person is involved with CA government, they are probably lying...period. Not just twisting the truth like other politicians, I mean flat out lying.
So...since this was way off topic....Yeah, I'm going to go freebase some pringles right now so I can toss the can in my back seat and go speeding through Sac. to see if I can get arrested for possession or something.
That Google's searches are becoming of a lesser value. Since the 20th century I haven't used another search engine for any reason....until about 4 months ago when I went through 10 pages of Google results and got absolutely NO results. All I got were spam sites that had google ads links. If you run into those, don't click them...please. Don't make what they do valuable to them so they'll stop.
I decided to try yahoo again to find an answer to my question. 4th link down...bingo. I tried altavista, same page 8th link down. I went back to the google search to look specifically for that site result...it was on the 23rd page and the second to last link.
If finding a solution to your query is so hard on Google, people ARE going to go elsewhere. It's that simple. Since then, I've started using Altavista and Yahoo more often simply because I'm getting results from them within the first 2 pages. More often than not google does still give me a result within the first 2 pages, but if not. Yahoo and altavista do.
Google NEEDS to do something about it's ever increasing spam problem or they are going to start losing the brass ring. I've been considering pulling my google ads simply due to the fact that I've seen less click throughs and even less sales from them than other engines. While other engine click through and sales are going up.
I don't know, I've had so many things that just....work with linux. I switched my network from an all Windows network (done before I came aboard) to an almost all linux network. I had to leave a few windows servers around for those people with MS specific hosting requirements.
Windows network 20hrs/wk minimum managing, cleaning up, updating, and other routine care.
Linux network 2hrs/wk...period. And 1 hour of that is strictly for the Windows servers that remained.
I also reduced my server count when I switched. It was cut almost literally in half, 55% to be exact. Ontop of that I almost doubled the work load. It would have been less servers if I didn't have to keep those !@#$@#$% windows servers around. So I don't want to hear any BS from Microsoft about solidity, functionality, features, performance or security. Around my shop I've already proven to everyone that Linux is the way to go.
Yeah, which is exactly why we had to break up AT&T almost 20 years ago. Assholes like this need to be shot.
Speaking as an ISP who would be put out of business by this kind of crap, I can say there would be MILLIONS of customers who would baulk at the FCC allowing SBC and Verizon to keep them out of the broadband business.
Those millions of customers might just say to hell with it and use dialup instead of broadband just because they HATE the bells and they HATE comcast. That's why many people use independant ISPs. They want choice.
May I introduce you to the chip embedded on the Mac PC board that OS X will look for? Apple has already said it won't support any hardware other than it's own. So what if it's "cheap", Apple is going to tack on a healthy profit to their hardware just like they always have and you won't be able to just use any ol' computer to run OS X.
Ok, now the way I see it. Darl is about to have such a shadow over him that someone needs to consider criminal charges of...
Perjury (statements in court) Liable (statements in written letters to the press) Slander (statements said anywhere he didn't physically write) extortion (SCO license assurance to linux users) Fraud (starting all this to boost SCOs stock value KNOWING he was false)
I'm sure there's more that I haven't thought of, but that's 5 items right there. Honestly....it should be some jail time for this guy. He's already proven he makes his living from suing others...this is the kind of person that needs to be removed from society. I'd rather have a rapist living next door to me. Atleast I know what to expect from them and shooting them when they enter my home is self defense.
Let alone the many other printer manufacturers out there. I have an HP Deskjet 2000c (killer printer I might add). It's almost 8 years old now and still prints like a champ, and at almost twice the speed of many of these new printers. Granted I'm not doing photoprinting, but still.
But I digress...in the 2000c Professional series ink jet, not only are the colors seperate (I hate tri-color cartidges) but the print heads are seperate and removable as well.
Basically, this is NOTHING more than marketing speak to try and say HP has something new when they don't to boost sales. Quite frankly, I used to be an HP shop (peripherals only) and their computers would find their way off the back balcony of my second story *grin*, but I haven't seen products coming from HP that warrent staying exclusively HP for a long time. Actually, I've only seen 2 products in the past 3 years that were worthy of saying "this is a great product".
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Netcraft is inaccurate as all get out. When things fall off the list, they don't come back no matter what you do. When things get on the list, the don't necessarily fall off the list. Basically it's an unpredictable service that only caters to the largest of hosting companies and ignores all of the rest with extreme prejudice.
With that in mind, I place such small stock in ANYTHING that netcraft says. How can I do otherwise when sites that have been hosted by me for years never show up on netcraft, and sites that died 6 years ago are still showing up as hosted by me.
Cogent seems to have a problem policing it's network. That traffic keeps hitting L3 and they are tired of it. That's overly simplified, but yeah, cogent is not the best for policing it's network...I would have a hard time peering with them.
Now, since there is apparently some lack of understand of what peering is by the author of the article.... Peering is when 2 companies run a line between themselves. They aren't selling bandwidth to each other, but they share the line cost and traffic between them only goes between them. It helps speed up routes and in many cases helps avoid bottle necks at some of the central hubs.
64-bit encryption is 13 characters and 128-bit is 26 characters.
First off, that was a slight exageration and the fact that you thought it was actual facts tells me that maybe you take some things a little too seriously and/or can't tell the difference between fact and making a point.
The point to that was, I've not had a single "virus" hit my linux servers. Basically, at this point, I'm batting 1000 on my linux servers for everything. Not one hack or virus. On the other hand, don't get me started on Windows servers. Even after hot fixes have been applied to a clean server, I'll turn around and 24 hours later find they've been infected. Clean up, apply the hot fix again, another 24 hours later, worm again. So before you try to wax intellectual and point the blame at someone that you "think" should be doing something else since their figures look skewed. Maybe you should ASK.
The old phrase comes to mind about the wise man listening while the fool chatters. I was mearly pointing out real world scenerios. Hell, half I'll be called in the first time something gets broken. I've never touched the network before. And you wouldn't like me to tell you the alarming rate of them that have had personal data stolen that are real estate agents or mortgage brokers. You know, the kind of people that get their hands on your most precious of data. Then we wonder why so many people are having their identities stolen. After all, real estate agents and mortgage brokers tend to be notoriously cheap and will spent thousands of dollars a month on their image, but are loathe to spend $10 on the infrastructure.
Speaking from personal experience, 85% of all hacks come from poor administration. ie. not patching flaws, weak passwords, poor security measure such as file permissions and lack of firewalls. The remaining 15% come from a mixture of things, and like it or not, 14.999% of that is Windows. Security through obscurity doesn't work when you have thousands of people pounding at your code just trying to find a way in.
All these Worms on the net is a perfect example. And when you get down to it, even some of the poor administration is Microsoft's fault for making it "so easy you don't need an experienced technician...." When in fact they bury stuff so deep unless you know where it is, the necessary changes don't get made leaving everything as default.
I can't even begin to count how many times I've gone to a customer's location where they had an employee that was a self proclaimed geek that did all the setup and everything was not only wrong, it opened gaping holes on their network. Including things like having a USER logging in as Administrator on the server and using it as a workstation.
Plus I won't go into all the people who hold an MCSE that never touched a computer until they went to a 2 week bootcamp on how to pass the tests.
But, point in fact, any closed source application is subject to flaws that don't get patched because it's a small enough flaw that putting a programmer on it to fix it would cost more than keeping the flaw hidden.
Well, then I guess I am confused....why in the HELL should the provider care? They already charge hefty early term fees and if their customer needs/wants to be able to use something else with the phone they are buying, I don't see the problem. For example, Nextel in my area is friggin horrible, specially for someone who works around alot of electronic equipment. I had to wait for my contract to end because otherwise I would have been stuck with a phone that couldn't even be unlocked...which I still was and sold on ebay. But to my thinking, if someone decided to pay the early term fees to get out of the contract due to poor service, that's nextel's problem.
Mobile phone companies means manufacturers. Why then, was mobile phone service providers talked about in the article? They actually lose money on the phones or make such a small amount they would prefer to just sign you up for the contract. It's the phone manufacturer that wants to be able to sell you the phone for a different service provider. I just felt I needed to say that. I really dislike disinformation...which is why I don't watch the news.
How come it took me 2 weeks to install Windows 2003 SP1 terminal server with Office 2000? I went through 7 Microsoft Techs before I finally got the problem resolved. Granted normally it's not usually that bad, and it only takes 8 hours to PROPERLY set up a windows server...key word is PROPERLY. And how come it takes me 3-6 hours to setup a Fedora server the way it needs to be for file sharing, web, mail, whatever including updates. Seems to me that the reason they had such problems is they didn't have someone on staff that understood linux. It's not something that someone can just jump into. For that matter (using the same phrase again...maybe there's a point here as well) to set up a windows server PROPERLY it takes knowledge as well. More often than not someone that just sets up a windows server with the defaults is leaving the box(es) open to attack(s). It's all about the proper tool for the proper job. And in this case either OS could be the proper tool, but also having staff that understands the stuff on hand is a proper tool as well.
Some good news coming from the FCC for a change. As an independant ISP using SBC transport it's been a huge pet peeve that they subsidize their DSL costs with their phone service(s). Until this new jerk got into the FCC it was actually illegal subsidization that was putting an unfair advantage in the hands of the telcos.
Of course the fact that DSL is provided over a phone network that was built with tax dollars then handed over to the telcos to be maintained doesn't mean anything anymore...so why shouldn't they have a government sponsored monopoly.
Of course this is flame bait for people who don't understand the way the economy works and how people like myself are important for getting services into remote areas that neither cable or the telcos actually care about until people like myself start complaining that we have large amounts of customers that went it in that area.
My company actually builds htpcs and will even come and install them for you (if you're close enough). We can build them to your specific requirements or for a general purpose. We don't use anything that's proprietary and you're free to do with your media what you wish, including PPV.
/.) you can come to our site and contact us and we'll get you the hook up. I'm completing a massive Home Theater for a client right now. They built the theater, I brought the equipment to fit and configured it. I only WISH I could have a theater like this in my home.
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Anything Gartner says about Windows and Linux has to be taken with a grain of salt. A very large grain at that. How can you trust anything that a company that's been paid by Microsoft once to say anything realistic about a Microsoft competitor? I mean, if linux isn't "mature" why is it already in so many networks? I don't know a single ISP that doesn't have atleast ONE linux server. Even those ISPs that are Windows based still has atleast one linux box somewhere. For that matter, why are so many Unix boxes being replaced with Linux? I personally have replaced 2 Windows servers for clients with Linux in the past 6 months. My ISP, though small, has moved from 12 Windows servers to 4 Linux boxes and 1 Windows. But of course it's not stable enough to handle the work? I was getting hacked on a monthly basis with the Windows NT servers. And the remaining server got nailed by the zotob virus even though I had applied the patch. But THIS is ready for the mainstream datacenter? I mean, c'mon. If it wasn't ready there wouldn't be so many Linux servers out there. What all of these "reports" fail to be able to take into consideration is all the White boxes out there. Or for that matter all the servers people have purchased with Windows or without OS all together that get wiped out and have Linux installed. I, for one, have gotten really tired of this kind of BS "news" since it's always putting Linux capabilities down, or DRASTICALLY misreported numbers. I mean.... http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_surve y.html Most servers running apache are Linux. Just kind of tired of this misinformation.
Yeah, this is really going to help the take up of the GPL and OSS. Many software producers write software for both Windows AND *NIX. So now they'll be forced to just completely stay away from *NIX.
For example, mp3...out the window for using OSS, so why should they bother making their codec linux compatible?
What about all that stuff that IBM is putting out? For that matter, now Novell, Redhat.....WHOOPS. Guess the GPL will effectively kill off several major players....
Stallman, I hate to say this, but you're not exactly the sharpest tack in the box, are you?
There's several issues I see here. As an ISP already servicing the SF bay area, I have problems with San Francisco going "into business" for its self. The state and local governments tax the crap out of us on everything from equipment to sales, then they come up with their own service that can be made cheaper because they don't have to tax themselves....that's anticompetitive behavior at it's finest. Not to mention a monopoly. Let's not forget they dont' exactly handle "other" things smoothly and in the state of CA, we're friggin in debt up to our eyeballs. Starting an 8 figure "luxury" project isn't exactly the smartest thing to do right now.
The ONLY way to make it cheaper than what people like myself are charging is subsidizing it with tax dollars. So, not only are they taxing the crap out of companies to supply Internet access such as myself, they are going to use those tax dollars to take business away from us.....
Either rate, the cost will probably be too high so it's just BS posturing. 47.5 square miles with all the hills and everything present in SF....gonna cost waaaaaaaay to much to get everywhere he wants to get. Either that or it's going to be sub standard and not worth what they want.
Only because of mass publicity. What if a little company somehow offends SBC? What on earth can a company grossing $150k/year do against that monolith? If they all of a sudden decided to block my company's website for whatever reason. Sure, I could launch a legal battle over it, but I don't even come close to the kind of income that would be needed to support a legal battle like that. They would tie me up in court for years costing me thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix the problem. Let's not even get started on Mom and Pop Cell Phone company that gets blocked and never even knows it simply because they sell cell phones and services. SBC customers never see the site so they go to....Cingular, imagine that.
Alot of people bash MS because of Anti-Competitive behavior and they deserve it. But the Bells are arguably 10 times worse. They actually own the physical cable. With Windows you can atleast choose to use a different OS or different Office suite. With the ILECs you don't have that kind of choice. It's their copper wire or the cable company for the most part as it is. They already force us to require a customer has an SBC phone line and many customers don't want one.
There is a huge difference between the CA and the US legal system. Things like this could be tied up for years. During that time the company bringing action could be put out of business due to low sales or whatever. Then where's the lawsuit? SBC wins just because they had deep enough pockets, not on the merit of the case.
Oops, you're correct. I'm mistaken on that point, but the message is still there when you think about it. If they can/will block a union website, who's to say that later on "other" things won't get blocked.
Don't forget what Unions are about in the first place. I don't necessarily agree with Unions in the modern age, but that doesn't change the fact that Telus is blocking their "message" because it could be harmful to Telus.
I'm sure there's many people here who want choice, since usually that choice gives you better products. There are things you can do to protect your choice.
First, You can write http://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html all 4 FCC commissioners and tell them something like this....
It also wouldn't hurt to check out www.cispa.org on occasion. Many of the ISPs there are local to you in one way or another. I highly recommend pulling ANY support you may have away from the companies that want to stiffle independant ISPs just to profit from it. Independants WILL take good care of their customers. Even though they charge a bit more, you won't feel ripped off because they offer value for the service. You would also help prove the point that Independants MUST stay alive.
I don't disagree with some points that you make. It's true that an armed populous isn't a good thing. There's plenty of unstable people out there that shouldn't own firearms. HOWEVER, I'm going to assume you've never been in harms way or else you probably wouldn't think that way. 2 seperate times I've had a situation where it was necessary to have a firearm, luckily both times I happened to have one on me. Once was just a mugging, no biggie but I kept my money and got a laugh from the guy letting his bladder loose. The other time, let's just say due to the fact that I had my firearm on me 2 other people are alive today that probably wouldn't have been. One of those 2 myself. The other my EX who would later become pregnant with my son (obviously not my EX then). It's just like with anything else, the few ruin everything for the many. If I hadn't been in either of these cases, I probably wouldn't feel the way I do about gun control. But you try calling the police and they show up 20 minutes later after weapons fire is reported and people have been hit. See if you don't feel that you have a right to protect you and yours.
Don't worry, I plan on it and I wouldn't be surprised if I get several speeding tickets while I leave. Only reason I'm still here is obligations, once those are fullfilled.....buh bye.
Well, California is notoriously known for making mountains out of mole hills. It's also known to blatantly lie. See Comments made at the CPUC hearings about the SBC/AT&T merger where John Miller claimed to be the assistant police cheif of the LAPD stated that the Dept. of Homeland Security wants emergency response to only have 1 method of communication and so AT&T and SBC should be allowed to merge. This is, of course, a blatant lie and he had to be paid to say such things. The DoHS REQUIRES 5 methods of communications specifically so when things break they won't be out of contact....
But I digress. I've lived in CA for almost 6 years now. EVERY time something comes up protests start (see last years presidential election) or people start spreading F.U.D. even deeper than MS does. Just like Lt. Bob Lozito said. If it were illegal, why are pringles still sold in that can? I mean, get real people.
Just as our wonderful Senator Feinstein. She's actually saying that because there were shootings in Columbine (1999) that it's proving the assault weapon ban works and needs to be extended. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the assault weapon ban was in effect at the time of colubine (1994-2004) and it didn't seem to stop those kids from having "assault" weapons. Nor did it stop the bank robbers in LA from having metal armor and AK-47 Assault rifles. To me, that speaks the other way around. IT'S NOT WORKING OR THESE PEOPLE WOULDN'T HAVE THEM, NOW WOULD THEY?!??!?!?! The age old saying of "Gun control is hitting your target" sits well with me. I'm of a firm belief that anyone should be able to own any firearm they want as long as they take the appropriate safety courses. It's not the guy who legally obtains and carries a weapon that concerns me......
Unfortunately, I'm very rapidly coming to the belief that if the person is involved with CA government, they are probably lying...period. Not just twisting the truth like other politicians, I mean flat out lying.
So...since this was way off topic....Yeah, I'm going to go freebase some pringles right now so I can toss the can in my back seat and go speeding through Sac. to see if I can get arrested for possession or something.
That Google's searches are becoming of a lesser value. Since the 20th century I haven't used another search engine for any reason....until about 4 months ago when I went through 10 pages of Google results and got absolutely NO results. All I got were spam sites that had google ads links. If you run into those, don't click them...please. Don't make what they do valuable to them so they'll stop.
I decided to try yahoo again to find an answer to my question. 4th link down...bingo. I tried altavista, same page 8th link down. I went back to the google search to look specifically for that site result...it was on the 23rd page and the second to last link.
If finding a solution to your query is so hard on Google, people ARE going to go elsewhere. It's that simple. Since then, I've started using Altavista and Yahoo more often simply because I'm getting results from them within the first 2 pages. More often than not google does still give me a result within the first 2 pages, but if not. Yahoo and altavista do.
Google NEEDS to do something about it's ever increasing spam problem or they are going to start losing the brass ring. I've been considering pulling my google ads simply due to the fact that I've seen less click throughs and even less sales from them than other engines. While other engine click through and sales are going up.
"Hello?"
"Mister Kettle, it's Pot on Line 2"
I don't know, I've had so many things that just....work with linux. I switched my network from an all Windows network (done before I came aboard) to an almost all linux network. I had to leave a few windows servers around for those people with MS specific hosting requirements.
Windows network 20hrs/wk minimum managing, cleaning up, updating, and other routine care.
Linux network 2hrs/wk...period. And 1 hour of that is strictly for the Windows servers that remained.
I also reduced my server count when I switched. It was cut almost literally in half, 55% to be exact. Ontop of that I almost doubled the work load. It would have been less servers if I didn't have to keep those !@#$@#$% windows servers around. So I don't want to hear any BS from Microsoft about solidity, functionality, features, performance or security. Around my shop I've already proven to everyone that Linux is the way to go.
Yeah, which is exactly why we had to break up AT&T almost 20 years ago. Assholes like this need to be shot.
Speaking as an ISP who would be put out of business by this kind of crap, I can say there would be MILLIONS of customers who would baulk at the FCC allowing SBC and Verizon to keep them out of the broadband business.
Those millions of customers might just say to hell with it and use dialup instead of broadband just because they HATE the bells and they HATE comcast. That's why many people use independant ISPs. They want choice.
May I introduce you to the chip embedded on the Mac PC board that OS X will look for? Apple has already said it won't support any hardware other than it's own. So what if it's "cheap", Apple is going to tack on a healthy profit to their hardware just like they always have and you won't be able to just use any ol' computer to run OS X.
Ok, now the way I see it. Darl is about to have such a shadow over him that someone needs to consider criminal charges of...
Perjury (statements in court)
Liable (statements in written letters to the press)
Slander (statements said anywhere he didn't physically write)
extortion (SCO license assurance to linux users)
Fraud (starting all this to boost SCOs stock value KNOWING he was false)
I'm sure there's more that I haven't thought of, but that's 5 items right there. Honestly....it should be some jail time for this guy. He's already proven he makes his living from suing others...this is the kind of person that needs to be removed from society. I'd rather have a rapist living next door to me. Atleast I know what to expect from them and shooting them when they enter my home is self defense.
Let alone the many other printer manufacturers out there. I have an HP Deskjet 2000c (killer printer I might add). It's almost 8 years old now and still prints like a champ, and at almost twice the speed of many of these new printers. Granted I'm not doing photoprinting, but still.
But I digress...in the 2000c Professional series ink jet, not only are the colors seperate (I hate tri-color cartidges) but the print heads are seperate and removable as well.
Basically, this is NOTHING more than marketing speak to try and say HP has something new when they don't to boost sales. Quite frankly, I used to be an HP shop (peripherals only) and their computers would find their way off the back balcony of my second story *grin*, but I haven't seen products coming from HP that warrent staying exclusively HP for a long time. Actually, I've only seen 2 products in the past 3 years that were worthy of saying "this is a great product".