Okay I have had this beef with Microsoft for a long while now and have even posted the feature request about a dozen times over the past three years.
How difficult would it be to change the Windows File Server's interpretation of a connecting Client's "delete" command to translate as "move." As head of an IT department for a very large company with a lot of corporate executives and administrative staffers I must get close to 100 requests a week for file retrieval due to accidental file deletion. It some times takes an hour to recover a single file from the backup tapes. I have three simple words for the Windows Server development team "Network Recycle Bin."
I have tried third party software like "Undelete" but it is just crap and never seems to work the way we need it to. Why is this simple to understand pain in the butt for SysAdmins of a Windows box not available and continually overlooked on the release of every Service Pack and new version? My staff and I have much better things to do with our weeks than file retrieval from backup tape.
I have been personally using UNIX for years now and I can easily change a users profile to redefine the "rm" command to mean "mv/trash" so why can I not do the same simple thing in Windows.
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HEHE... Okay honestly, who else other than me named one of their new Linux Servers PEN-PEN after watching this EVA. I know you are out there so stop denying your inner love for PEN-PEN. Creating Pen-pen was like creating an anime character with a linux objective.:)
Sorry, I am a long time Linux user on the server side but never been bold enough to make the desktop switch. I still run Windows at the house for my desktop partially because I support a large windows desktop environement at the office... (INSERT SELF FLAME HERE). However, for the first time yestreday I started looking into a Mac laptop with OSX installed. I found the following major differnce in my personnal and humble opinion of the iBook and PowerBook.
The primary difference I saw was that compared to the PowerBook the iBook has the physical appearance of a fragile childs toy. It has a cheesy little loose key, plastic keyboard. I swear every time I tapped a key I thought it was going to come off in my hand. It (iBook) was also much heavier (comparing 12" iBook to 12" PowerBook).
But in the words of Austin Powers the 12" PowerBook is a "Sexy Beast, Baby!" I loved it, the thing was light, fast, and the UNIX command line functions including VI kicked major ass. Never thought I would say I liked VI but I have decided over the years that I like it!!! If I made the switch and then still needed to operate a Windows Server for work I could use VNC which works on MAC OSX.
Anyway those were just a couple of my observations. I think that the biggest selling point for a Mac is to get a PowerBook into someones hand and let them use it a few minutes. You might find yourself foaming at the mouth as I found myself. I had a seriously hard time trying to convince myself that I did not need to walk out of my local Fry's yesterday with a 12" Powerbook. God! I hate Fry's and their little Mac Center, it is going to end up costing $1700 for 12" PowerBook sometime very soon. Will power fading... must fight urge to spend money!!!!!
"Isn't that a little dangerous for military secrecy?" ---Bendebecker---
Nope, the ability and technology to detect radar has been around for along time, decades. The most comon example of this technology in found military aircraft where it is used to determine whether or not the aircraft is being tracked by radar. Most governments have this capability but the biggest tactical factor just depends on the level of their technology.
For example Iraqi ground mobile anti-aircraft missiles facilities are usually not able to aquire radar target on a U.S. F-15 and shoot it down before the U.S. F-15 can detect the source of the radar transmission and blow it up. This is not always the case as the Iraqi's have been desperately trying to aquire new technologies which sometimes allows them to get off a lucky shot. It all depends on the level of their technology.
The biggest difference is that it is 8 to 18 years later and what was not cool is now once again cool. Computer Technology is starting to become like the fashion industry where everything is reinvented as cool new technology every 20 years.
I am still waiting for Atari to release their "Atari 2600 - Nostalgic Edition."
TO BE SERIOUS FOR A MOMENT:
By the way I like the idea behind the article. Several people have suggested this type of thing over the paste few years Oracle, Microsoft, etc. however not many have put together a working model with a modern OS. I know I'll give it a try, I may find it to be worthless for my needs but then again you never can tell until you try it. Keep plugging away guys.:)
Actually I have been doing this for several years as an admininistrator and developer on a UNIX box. This software appears similar to what I have done for my users and myself which is rewrite the "rm" command in the users profile. All users including myself have had the rm command supplimented to mean "mv [file]/home/$USER/garbage."
I then have a cron job that runs to evaluate the age of the files in the garbage directory. It will automatically clean the garbage directories of all files that are older than 14 days. The cron job currently runs once a day.
By the way I even caught I a guy that one of the companies I worked for hired to do an attack and penetration test because of this little fact. He set a job to run after he logged out to clean and clear out the general and host specific log files. He did not account for the fact that I change the rm command's meaning. I found his file lingering in the garbage directory of a temp account. HEHE... gotta love UNIX.:) Oh, by the way this has been a stable release for about 8 years now or since I first learned it could be done. I have had 100% success with no failures.:)
Below is a full copy of a letter that I sent this evening to my U.S. Congressman Loyd Dogget of the Texas 10th Congressional District.
BEGIN LETTER:
Representative Doggett,
I am a voter in your district and residing in Austin, TX. I have serious concerns with a bill which was introduced for Legislation this week by Representative Howard L. Berman of California's 26th Congressional District.
The bill which is entitled "Peer-to-Peer Piracy Legislation" has some strong concepts which would make for extremely horrid legislation, as it is currently laid out within his proposal. The bill as introduced seeks to gain immunity from prosecution for copyright holders (such as major media organizations like the MPAA and RIAA) when attempting to hack or illegally gain access to private peer-to-peer networks and or the computers potentially containing their copyrighted works. I happen to be an information tecnology professional who specializes in network and computer security. With all my experience I can tell you that this is not a battle that the U.S. government wants to allow to happen between copyright holders and common citizens or even the more technologically savvy citizen. This proposed legislation as written would allow any copyright holder with reasonable suspicion to gain access to any system or network in question and prevent that machine from communicating this information on the Internet. Previous legislation has always defined actions of this type as a federal crime and more recent legislation since 9/11 even classifies illegal access to a computer network as a terrorist act.
The potential privileges granted to copyright holders under this proposed legislation has too much potential for abuse. As an example, if this bill were allowed to become a law a hacker could create a copyrighted work and place it into circulation among the peer-to-peer networks in secret. Every time the work is downloaded without express permission from the copyright holder the copyright holder would then be allowed the right to prevent that machine from communicating this data on the Internet. The massive potential for abuse of this legislation is too great, therefore it should not be allowed. If this legislation passes it could also force government monitoring and enforcement agencies to be overloaded with excessive work loads while attempting to identify whether a hack was truly legal or an actual illegal entry. This will create a cloud of smoke for the real hacker and terrorist entities or individuals to hide behind. The potential long term effects of this legislation could be extremely devastating and detrimental to the security of this country's Internet infrastructure.
The bottom line here is that hacking a computer or network without oversight by a government agency (as currently described by standing legislation) or expressed permission from the owning/operating organization/individual is a crime. This is stated plain and simple in many different forms of legislation currently being enforced in this country. I urge you to vote down this legislation and use your influence among your congressional peers to defeat this bill in its entirety.
Thank you,
Bill
William M. Daugherty
Director of Information Systems
First International Computer of Texas
Lets just say that I have T-1 line to the Internet and Verio is providing that line. When a DOS attack is launched it could potentialy flood every router between my box and the intiator of the attack.
Okay by law they were given the right to DOS me but not the ISP which can still file criminal charges. So, it sound like they are still shit out of luck unless the law gives them a "get out of jail free card" for all acts commited during the execution of a plan to attack the offender. Wow, now if that were the case it would open up a huge new can of worms.
Although the concept sounds cool. I am a little weary of moving out away from a centrally based firewall that sits in front of the servers.
However the concept has extreme merit if used in conjunction with contempory firewall solutions already in place. It would definitely add an extra layer of security to the network if properly managed. That then brings the only bad point I can think of right off the top of my head which would be the headache involved in managing so many different firewall configurations. It might turn out to be more of a headache than it is really worth for the Sys. admins in charge of a given network.
Actually the last poster was correct he just did not take his post the step farther it needed. In some cases yes a firewall does stop a denial of service attack. When a you have a 5000 node network running NAT behind a firewal those machine are usually talking to one another. If your centralized firewall is DoS'ed then the you loose outside connectivity but you 5000 nodes remain unaffected with regards to internal communications.
Now reverse and think about what happens if there was no centralized firewall and you were running 5000 client based firewals. Your entire network now potentially comes to a screaching halt because you are being DoS'ed by some lame script kiddie.
So as you can see a centralized firewall serves its purpose and will never go away. It is the central choke point that can cut the outside pipe off from your network and prevent a global network catastrophy.
Sorry just a bit of clarification on your comment. Bell did not get the judge to throw it out. They won the right to a restructuring of the wording in the clause. This allowed companies to run a non facilities based LEC within a city. The original wording could have been interpreted to required BELL to physicall hand over parts of their network. I agree with decision by the judge it was an unfare and unintended piece of the deal.
Actually the best place to test Microsoft Theories or Proof of Concepts would be in a traditionally black or minority college/university. Since the early to mid 90s (far as I can remember back) Microsoft has donated software to these institutions free of charge. No licensing fees what so ever at all. It is too bad that these smaller universities cannnot pump out some serious testing of these types of things. With licensing no longer being a factor we could all then see the true technical and performance results instead of our many biased Linux opinions. (Including my own.)
If I were going to run a cluster that needed to take advantage of computational power I would go Linux. However my choice would be baised off of the fact that up until this point I still have not seen enough documented proof to support the theory that Microsoft vs. Linux cluster is even a battle. From my current knowledge I would have to deduce that they currently have their different uses even though the linked article above says that Microsoft Clusters are capabable of computational colaboration. Again as many have already stated, cost is always a factor when dealing with Microsoft and you have to take it into consideration.
I really will need to study the articles more closely in the link above. Many thanks for publishing it, this is the first thing I have read to support Microsofts capablity of computational colaboration within a cluster environment.
Remember my little Penguins do not be so quick to judge any OS even Microsoft's. Microsoft may not be cheap, it may be filled with bugs, and it may not always be the most secure. But it does serve its uses in the world, for now.;)
No as stated before. The author was incorrect. Now if he would have said Special Operations he would have been correct. But since he said Special Forces he is stating inaccuracies which you seem to paint as trivial.
When stating facts you have be sure to clear your self all inaccuracies in order to retain credibility. If you find an accuracy you need to follow up your comments with a clarification. Special Forces might be commonly misused by non-military personnel to describe all of the underlying subsets of Special Operations. However, as stated the detail/fact as was orignaly posted is wrong. If you look up the correct definition of Special Forces it is classified as "Army Green Berets." The titles "Special Forces" and "Special Operations" are as defined by the U.S. miliary not synonomous or interchangable. There for the poster has inaccurately stated the fact by assigning the incorrect title to a "Special Operations" group which was under orders and participated in this particular set of scirmishes. However, your points are not valid considering by its own definition the title used by the poster was inaccurate.
Okay then all you Open Source advocates and coders are cheaters and bad people who are just plain uninteligent?
No I do not think you are and I also do not consider cutting and pasting code to be cheating. The only person you cheat is when you cut and paste code is yourself. The goal is CS is to get the job done as quickly and as efficiently as possible. Allot of times those goals involves cutting and pasting code code you found from somewhere.
This pretty XP is the 13 year old undeveloped girl of GUIs. Yeah it looks pretty but it just ain't got it where it counts.
While Gnome is the busty, sexy pot, 21 year old co-ed most of you geeks can only dream about at night.
I know this a probably a troll but I have never done it and wanted to feel the power of absurdity.
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To all of the American allies who have given their best wishes I thank you. We need global support in a time like this. All of our world leaders are correct this is not a problem for the United States of America but a problem for all democratic countries in the world.
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I am going to assume with a name like Brit_in_Oz you are British. Easy assumption and kind silly to even comment on.
Well simple facts, who bailed your asses out of two major world wars in the last century? Huh, huh, huh? We actually tried not meddling in foreign affairs before WW2 and it didn't work. The French laid down and took it up the ass as the Nazi's inserted a Panzer sized rod and the British were as good as dead before we were finally brought into the war by Japan and a "questionable" torpedoing of an american ship by German forces.
It is funny we were and still are the only country capable of fighting and winning to major theater sized campaigns when the rest of the world is cowering in fear. It is funny we stepped up to the call and answered the prayers of you fathers and grandfathers and now their bastard chlidern like you damn us for doing exactly what we were asked to do before WW2. Americans need to TAKE A MORE ACTIVE ROLE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS is what they said. So we did and now people like you bitch about our aid. You do not want us to pull out of foreign affairs because you would get your lilly ass wiped by anyone and everyone. Do not forget that Britain's might is an illusion and even a global joke that most people around the globe laughs about. The only reason you get any military respect is because you have the might of the U.S. military and neucular capabilities standing arm in arm with you where ever you go.
To day we are a country in RAGE and I suggest you not step in our way or you might find out just how much of a joke you are. The terrorist forces have just created a dreadnaught that cannot be stopped. Congress will pass a declaration of war soon and no terrorist will be safe behind any border. Any threats from the rest of the world will mean nothing to us and we will not rest until our thirst for revenge is saturated.
If I were your sys admin and you took root on one of my UNIX boxes and I did not authorize it. I would have you fired for violating the corporate network and systems security policy. I have had many programmers fired for doing such. You people have to learn that you only get access to what you need to do your job not whatever you want. A sys admins job is to protect the data on the boxes he serves from all those not authorized to view its contents, including developers. And if they do not fire you after I complain I would simply jerk your personal network access and site the network and systems security policy as the cause. They will either fire you, you will appologize and promise never to do it again, or you will be left to defend your actions for being a self indulgent asshole. But you will never againi get access to the servers on my network because companies really frown on the violation of there security policies.
If your company is willing to throw away $41,500.00 and then have the balls to come back and tell you can not get a raise in these hard economic times there is a little more on the line here than your professional pride.
I am the Director of Information Systems for a Taiwanese based corporation that has a large presence in North America. So, I will tell you what; the VPs above me do not screw with me in regards to this stuff any longer. If I take the time to draw up an operational and cost summary and my expert opinion is not question... but ignored?! I will and have been on the next plane between the US and Taiwan. This stuff is serious bullshit; these people hired you for a reason. You are here to make the business systems decisions that they are not informed enough of to make for themselves. One uninformed choice can cost the company serious money and possibly set a precedent for future blinded decisions, which can induce unbelievable future monetary waste. This activity is unacceptable behavior out of anyone in this field whether you are an ADMIN, MGR, DIR, or VP.
I have been yelled at many a times by our Taiwanese VPs with regards to insubordinate behavior sometimes in Chinese of which I do not understand a word. But as I told them "I am an IT analyst first and a corporate director second and stupidity or closed minds are not something you can have if you are going to be in this business." There is no need to waste good corporate money when there are very stable cost effective solutions that do not always have the name Microsoft attached to them. At the same time, I also wouldn't pigeon hole MS as evil either. If you look at the big picture MS has done allot of overall good in the industry regardless of the sometimes popular opinion here on/. (But, that is another argument altogether!)
starting in June Direct PC offers product called Pegusus and is in a two way satelite connection. the connection is suposed to be 150k/sec upload and 350k/sec download. Just point yoour dish in a sounthernly direction and you can get highspeed Internet access anywhere in the USA, except Alaska and Haiwii. People in the sticks are going to start getting highspeed access. I know I am exited!!!!
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Okay I have had this beef with Microsoft for a long while now and have even posted the feature request about a dozen times over the past three years.
/trash" so why can I not do the same simple thing in Windows.
How difficult would it be to change the Windows File Server's interpretation of a connecting Client's "delete" command to translate as "move." As head of an IT department for a very large company with a lot of corporate executives and administrative staffers I must get close to 100 requests a week for file retrieval due to accidental file deletion. It some times takes an hour to recover a single file from the backup tapes. I have three simple words for the Windows Server development team "Network Recycle Bin."
I have tried third party software like "Undelete" but it is just crap and never seems to work the way we need it to. Why is this simple to understand pain in the butt for SysAdmins of a Windows box not available and continually overlooked on the release of every Service Pack and new version? My staff and I have much better things to do with our weeks than file retrieval from backup tape.
I have been personally using UNIX for years now and I can easily change a users profile to redefine the "rm" command to mean "mv
HEHE... Okay honestly, who else other than me named one of their new Linux Servers PEN-PEN after watching this EVA. I know you are out there so stop denying your inner love for PEN-PEN. Creating Pen-pen was like creating an anime character with a linux objective. :)
Sorry, I am a long time Linux user on the server side but never been bold enough to make the desktop switch. I still run Windows at the house for my desktop partially because I support a large windows desktop environement at the office... (INSERT SELF FLAME HERE). However, for the first time yestreday I started looking into a Mac laptop with OSX installed. I found the following major differnce in my personnal and humble opinion of the iBook and PowerBook.
The primary difference I saw was that compared to the PowerBook the iBook has the physical appearance of a fragile childs toy. It has a cheesy little loose key, plastic keyboard. I swear every time I tapped a key I thought it was going to come off in my hand. It (iBook) was also much heavier (comparing 12" iBook to 12" PowerBook).
But in the words of Austin Powers the 12" PowerBook is a "Sexy Beast, Baby!" I loved it, the thing was light, fast, and the UNIX command line functions including VI kicked major ass. Never thought I would say I liked VI but I have decided over the years that I like it!!! If I made the switch and then still needed to operate a Windows Server for work I could use VNC which works on MAC OSX.
Anyway those were just a couple of my observations. I think that the biggest selling point for a Mac is to get a PowerBook into someones hand and let them use it a few minutes. You might find yourself foaming at the mouth as I found myself. I had a seriously hard time trying to convince myself that I did not need to walk out of my local Fry's yesterday with a 12" Powerbook. God! I hate Fry's and their little Mac Center, it is going to end up costing $1700 for 12" PowerBook sometime very soon. Will power fading... must fight urge to spend money!!!!!
"Isn't that a little dangerous for military secrecy?" ---Bendebecker---
Nope, the ability and technology to detect radar has been around for along time, decades. The most comon example of this technology in found military aircraft where it is used to determine whether or not the aircraft is being tracked by radar. Most governments have this capability but the biggest tactical factor just depends on the level of their technology.
For example Iraqi ground mobile anti-aircraft missiles facilities are usually not able to aquire radar target on a U.S. F-15 and shoot it down before the U.S. F-15 can detect the source of the radar transmission and blow it up. This is not always the case as the Iraqi's have been desperately trying to aquire new technologies which sometimes allows them to get off a lucky shot. It all depends on the level of their technology.
The biggest difference is that it is 8 to 18 years later and what was not cool is now once again cool. Computer Technology is starting to become like the fashion industry where everything is reinvented as cool new technology every 20 years.
:)
I am still waiting for Atari to release their "Atari 2600 - Nostalgic Edition."
TO BE SERIOUS FOR A MOMENT:
By the way I like the idea behind the article. Several people have suggested this type of thing over the paste few years Oracle, Microsoft, etc. however not many have put together a working model with a modern OS. I know I'll give it a try, I may find it to be worthless for my needs but then again you never can tell until you try it. Keep plugging away guys.
So I do not get flammed by somebody... more specifically I just created an alias for the rm command.
Actually I have been doing this for several years as an admininistrator and developer on a UNIX box. This software appears similar to what I have done for my users and myself which is rewrite the "rm" command in the users profile. All users including myself have had the rm command supplimented to mean "mv [file] /home/$USER/garbage."
:) Oh, by the way this has been a stable release for about 8 years now or since I first learned it could be done. I have had 100% success with no failures. :)
I then have a cron job that runs to evaluate the age of the files in the garbage directory. It will automatically clean the garbage directories of all files that are older than 14 days. The cron job currently runs once a day.
By the way I even caught I a guy that one of the companies I worked for hired to do an attack and penetration test because of this little fact. He set a job to run after he logged out to clean and clear out the general and host specific log files. He did not account for the fact that I change the rm command's meaning. I found his file lingering in the garbage directory of a temp account. HEHE... gotta love UNIX.
Below is a full copy of a letter that I sent this evening to my U.S. Congressman Loyd Dogget of the Texas 10th Congressional District.
BEGIN LETTER:
Representative Doggett,
I am a voter in your district and residing in Austin, TX. I have serious concerns with a bill which was introduced for Legislation this week by Representative Howard L. Berman of California's 26th Congressional District.
The bill which is entitled "Peer-to-Peer Piracy Legislation" has some strong concepts which would make for extremely horrid legislation, as it is currently laid out within his proposal. The bill as introduced seeks to gain immunity from prosecution for copyright holders (such as major media organizations like the MPAA and RIAA) when attempting to hack or illegally gain access to private peer-to-peer networks and or the computers potentially containing their copyrighted works. I happen to be an information tecnology professional who specializes in network and computer security. With all my experience I can tell you that this is not a battle that the U.S. government wants to allow to happen between copyright holders and common citizens or even the more technologically savvy citizen. This proposed legislation as written would allow any copyright holder with reasonable suspicion to gain access to any system or network in question and prevent that machine from communicating this information on the Internet. Previous legislation has always defined actions of this type as a federal crime and more recent legislation since 9/11 even classifies illegal access to a computer network as a terrorist act.
The potential privileges granted to copyright holders under this proposed legislation has too much potential for abuse. As an example, if this bill were allowed to become a law a hacker could create a copyrighted work and place it into circulation among the peer-to-peer networks in secret. Every time the work is downloaded without express permission from the copyright holder the copyright holder would then be allowed the right to prevent that machine from communicating this data on the Internet. The massive potential for abuse of this legislation is too great, therefore it should not be allowed. If this legislation passes it could also force government monitoring and enforcement agencies to be overloaded with excessive work loads while attempting to identify whether a hack was truly legal or an actual illegal entry. This will create a cloud of smoke for the real hacker and terrorist entities or individuals to hide behind. The potential long term effects of this legislation could be extremely devastating and detrimental to the security of this country's Internet infrastructure.
The bottom line here is that hacking a computer or network without oversight by a government agency (as currently described by standing legislation) or expressed permission from the owning/operating organization/individual is a crime. This is stated plain and simple in many different forms of legislation currently being enforced in this country. I urge you to vote down this legislation and use your influence among your congressional peers to defeat this bill in its entirety.
Thank you,
Bill
William M. Daugherty
Director of Information Systems
First International Computer of Texas
(O) 512.249.3202
(M) 512.848.4992
(E) wdaugherty@fictx.com
END LETTER:
Lets just say that I have T-1 line to the Internet and Verio is providing that line. When a DOS attack is launched it could potentialy flood every router between my box and the intiator of the attack.
Okay by law they were given the right to DOS me but not the ISP which can still file criminal charges. So, it sound like they are still shit out of luck unless the law gives them a "get out of jail free card" for all acts commited during the execution of a plan to attack the offender. Wow, now if that were the case it would open up a huge new can of worms.
When will we wake up and adopt this in the USA? This is an awesome idea.
Although the concept sounds cool. I am a little weary of moving out away from a centrally based firewall that sits in front of the servers.
However the concept has extreme merit if used in conjunction with contempory firewall solutions already in place. It would definitely add an extra layer of security to the network if properly managed. That then brings the only bad point I can think of right off the top of my head which would be the headache involved in managing so many different firewall configurations. It might turn out to be more of a headache than it is really worth for the Sys. admins in charge of a given network.
Actually the last poster was correct he just did not take his post the step farther it needed. In some cases yes a firewall does stop a denial of service attack. When a you have a 5000 node network running NAT behind a firewal those machine are usually talking to one another. If your centralized firewall is DoS'ed then the you loose outside connectivity but you 5000 nodes remain unaffected with regards to internal communications.
Now reverse and think about what happens if there was no centralized firewall and you were running 5000 client based firewals. Your entire network now potentially comes to a screaching halt because you are being DoS'ed by some lame script kiddie.
So as you can see a centralized firewall serves its purpose and will never go away. It is the central choke point that can cut the outside pipe off from your network and prevent a global network catastrophy.
Sorry just a bit of clarification on your comment. Bell did not get the judge to throw it out. They won the right to a restructuring of the wording in the clause. This allowed companies to run a non facilities based LEC within a city. The original wording could have been interpreted to required BELL to physicall hand over parts of their network. I agree with decision by the judge it was an unfare and unintended piece of the deal.
Actually the best place to test Microsoft Theories or Proof of Concepts would be in a traditionally black or minority college/university. Since the early to mid 90s (far as I can remember back) Microsoft has donated software to these institutions free of charge. No licensing fees what so ever at all. It is too bad that these smaller universities cannnot pump out some serious testing of these types of things. With licensing no longer being a factor we could all then see the true technical and performance results instead of our many biased Linux opinions. (Including my own.)
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If I were going to run a cluster that needed to take advantage of computational power I would go Linux. However my choice would be baised off of the fact that up until this point I still have not seen enough documented proof to support the theory that Microsoft vs. Linux cluster is even a battle. From my current knowledge I would have to deduce that they currently have their different uses even though the linked article above says that Microsoft Clusters are capabable of computational colaboration. Again as many have already stated, cost is always a factor when dealing with Microsoft and you have to take it into consideration.
I really will need to study the articles more closely in the link above. Many thanks for publishing it, this is the first thing I have read to support Microsofts capablity of computational colaboration within a cluster environment.
Remember my little Penguins do not be so quick to judge any OS even Microsoft's. Microsoft may not be cheap, it may be filled with bugs, and it may not always be the most secure. But it does serve its uses in the world, for now.
No as stated before. The author was incorrect. Now if he would have said Special Operations he would have been correct. But since he said Special Forces he is stating inaccuracies which you seem to paint as trivial.
When stating facts you have be sure to clear your self all inaccuracies in order to retain credibility. If you find an accuracy you need to follow up your comments with a clarification. Special Forces might be commonly misused by non-military personnel to describe all of the underlying subsets of Special Operations. However, as stated the detail/fact as was orignaly posted is wrong. If you look up the correct definition of Special Forces it is classified as "Army Green Berets." The titles "Special Forces" and "Special Operations" are as defined by the U.S. miliary not synonomous or interchangable. There for the poster has inaccurately stated the fact by assigning the incorrect title to a "Special Operations" group which was under orders and participated in this particular set of scirmishes. However, your points are not valid considering by its own definition the title used by the poster was inaccurate.
Okay then all you Open Source advocates and coders are cheaters and bad people who are just plain uninteligent?
No I do not think you are and I also do not consider cutting and pasting code to be cheating. The only person you cheat is when you cut and paste code is yourself. The goal is CS is to get the job done as quickly and as efficiently as possible. Allot of times those goals involves cutting and pasting code code you found from somewhere.
Your OSX claims are most possibly correect... but the appropriatley tweak Gnome desktop is still a sexy bitch. :)
Does this mean that Rick Moranis will be repriseing his role as the KeyMaster.
Ghostbusters (It was 80s thing) most of you will not understand.
Gnome is the sexiest GUI bitch on the market.
This pretty XP is the 13 year old undeveloped girl of GUIs. Yeah it looks pretty but it just ain't got it where it counts.
While Gnome is the busty, sexy pot, 21 year old co-ed most of you geeks can only dream about at night.
I know this a probably a troll but I have never done it and wanted to feel the power of absurdity.
To all of the American allies who have given their best wishes I thank you. We need global support in a time like this. All of our world leaders are correct this is not a problem for the United States of America but a problem for all democratic countries in the world.
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I am going to assume with a name like Brit_in_Oz you are British. Easy assumption and kind silly to even comment on.
Well simple facts, who bailed your asses out of two major world wars in the last century? Huh, huh, huh? We actually tried not meddling in foreign affairs before WW2 and it didn't work. The French laid down and took it up the ass as the Nazi's inserted a Panzer sized rod and the British were as good as dead before we were finally brought into the war by Japan and a "questionable" torpedoing of an american ship by German forces.
It is funny we were and still are the only country capable of fighting and winning to major theater sized campaigns when the rest of the world is cowering in fear. It is funny we stepped up to the call and answered the prayers of you fathers and grandfathers and now their bastard chlidern like you damn us for doing exactly what we were asked to do before WW2. Americans need to TAKE A MORE ACTIVE ROLE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS is what they said. So we did and now people like you bitch about our aid. You do not want us to pull out of foreign affairs because you would get your lilly ass wiped by anyone and everyone. Do not forget that Britain's might is an illusion and even a global joke that most people around the globe laughs about. The only reason you get any military respect is because you have the might of the U.S. military and neucular capabilities standing arm in arm with you where ever you go.
To day we are a country in RAGE and I suggest you not step in our way or you might find out just how much of a joke you are. The terrorist forces have just created a dreadnaught that cannot be stopped. Congress will pass a declaration of war soon and no terrorist will be safe behind any border. Any threats from the rest of the world will mean nothing to us and we will not rest until our thirst for revenge is saturated.
IN SHORT FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MCSE does not count.
That sysadmining with training wheels!
If I were your sys admin and you took root on one of my UNIX boxes and I did not authorize it. I would have you fired for violating the corporate network and systems security policy. I have had many programmers fired for doing such. You people have to learn that you only get access to what you need to do your job not whatever you want. A sys admins job is to protect the data on the boxes he serves from all those not authorized to view its contents, including developers. And if they do not fire you after I complain I would simply jerk your personal network access and site the network and systems security policy as the cause. They will either fire you, you will appologize and promise never to do it again, or you will be left to defend your actions for being a self indulgent asshole. But you will never againi get access to the servers on my network because companies really frown on the violation of there security policies.
SCREW any notion of professional pride!!!
/. (But, that is another argument altogether!)
If your company is willing to throw away $41,500.00 and then have the balls to come back and tell you can not get a raise in these hard economic times there is a little more on the line here than your professional pride.
I am the Director of Information Systems for a Taiwanese based corporation that has a large presence in North America. So, I will tell you what; the VPs above me do not screw with me in regards to this stuff any longer. If I take the time to draw up an operational and cost summary and my expert opinion is not question... but ignored?! I will and have been on the next plane between the US and Taiwan. This stuff is serious bullshit; these people hired you for a reason. You are here to make the business systems decisions that they are not informed enough of to make for themselves. One uninformed choice can cost the company serious money and possibly set a precedent for future blinded decisions, which can induce unbelievable future monetary waste. This activity is unacceptable behavior out of anyone in this field whether you are an ADMIN, MGR, DIR, or VP.
I have been yelled at many a times by our Taiwanese VPs with regards to insubordinate behavior sometimes in Chinese of which I do not understand a word. But as I told them "I am an IT analyst first and a corporate director second and stupidity or closed minds are not something you can have if you are going to be in this business." There is no need to waste good corporate money when there are very stable cost effective solutions that do not always have the name Microsoft attached to them. At the same time, I also wouldn't pigeon hole MS as evil either. If you look at the big picture MS has done allot of overall good in the industry regardless of the sometimes popular opinion here on
starting in June Direct PC offers product called Pegusus and is in a two way satelite connection. the connection is suposed to be 150k/sec upload and 350k/sec download. Just point yoour dish in a sounthernly direction and you can get highspeed Internet access anywhere in the USA, except Alaska and Haiwii. People in the sticks are going to start getting highspeed access. I know I am exited!!!!
If they did not have a warrant to search and seize the data. The evidence will still be thrown out of court and they FBI will have no joy.