I can almost guarantee that those advertising for Campus Crusade for Christ were Protestant's and not Catholics. As such, they would claim that their "sect, cult, denomination" isn't responsible for the Crusades or the Inquisition (ain't it grand, the Inquisition...).
But, I get your point. It does, however, beat "Campus Jihad for Alah." I say that from a non-Muslim perspective so maybe they have the same connotation for Crusade as I do for Jihad. Of course, in the Crusade the Europeans beat up on themselves every bit as much as they did on the Muslims (who actually kicked a little pale-face hiney)
I someday hope that I'll have something happen to me that is clearly my fault, that will get national media attention, that has everyone telling me to sue for "huge tracts of land", so that I can tell everyone: I'm an idiot and I'm the one who caused this to happen. My mother, father, sister, brother, nephew, uncle, government, teacher, priest, wife, mistress, daughter, son, friend, airline, restraunt, car, neighbor, etc, had nothing to do with it. I am the one to blame. I cannot sue for the land because I'm to blame.
I spilled the damn coffee on myself. I knew it was hot, but I did it anyway.
I rear ended your car, let me pay for you doctor's fees, but screw your emotional distress cause gump happens. I've got a burn on my face from the airbag, but I'm just thankful I didn't get impaled on the fschking steering column.
I'm an overweight weenie who closed the toilet lit down on my schlong (and ladies, it is a schlong!) and then sat on it, then twisted around a bit for good measure. I mean, c'mon fellows, how many of us don't know where our one eyed Jack is at all times?
My baby swallowed a penny and choked. I think I'll sue the goverment for not putting a child warning label on it. 20 years later that child is going to shoot up a post office over a 1 cent stamp increase, I just know it.
Pretty soon, people will be sueing Microsoft for charging too much for their products, even though no one forced them to buy the damn thing! So what if Dell didn't let you get a computer with something else on it, punish Dell, tell them you are buying a computer somewhere else. I don't get too upset with Honda for not having ALL the options on my Prelude that I wanted, I still bought the car. But, but, Chrylser offered that on their car, why don't you on yours?
Hey man, you can have any color car you want. As long as it is black--Henry Ford.
Damn, monopolies. I'll show him, I'll pick a white horse over his black car.
Build a toilet seat that even an idiot can use, and only an idiot will sit on it.
Let's face it, the "secret" code names that companies come up with for their projects are much better than the actual marketing names. Why? Because usually they can be attached to something with significance. Hydra was the name for Microsoft's terminal server. That was cool. Cairo was the original name for the product to be called NT (though a lot of Cairo's promises have not been realized), and we all know that referred to them building ontop of ancient VMS designs that are being resurrected from their mummified remains in banks everywhere because they have run so long and so well that they are encased in dust.
A potato is better for you than a slink. I think. Manhattan is great but what's a Hedwig? I've got a Neptune board but think I'll move to a Seattle. Coppermine, I really dig that one.
The military comes up with great names: Battle of the Bulge, Operation: Just Cause, Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Roundhammer (Space above and Beyond Rocks!).
And what's with this silly trend to spell stuff wrong? Changing an S to a Z. My company sells labels not labelz.
The Pentium name was Intel's desire to start selling themselves as a brand. I don't think you can copyright, or trademark, whatever it called, a set up numbers. So, they sell Pentiums, not a 586. The silly part is to have Pentium II's, and III's. They are afraid to give up on the market recognition of the name Pentium. Sad.
Same thing goes for this crap about Office 2000, Windows 98, WordPerfect Office 2000. I hate identifying it by a year. Pretty soon, Dell will sell Dimension 2001. Come 2002 you will feel SO COMPELLED to upgrade. Look, it is Word 9.0, Excel 9.0, etc. Flash those numbers around and people will start to say, hey, I don't need to upgrade, I'm at version 8.0 by God, what could be so much better in 9.0 that they couldn't fit into the previous 8 versions? Answer? Bugs! Bloat! Feature Creep! Don't miss out, get your copy for only $549!
I say, piss on them all! I won't fall for all that marketing hype and name branding. I'm going to stick with an OS which has arguments about how to even pronounce, not to mention about whether it should have a prefix of GNU which 1000's more probably don't know how to pronounce.
I guess Microsoft can now say that Office 2000 is so intuitive that you don't even need to know the alphabet to use it. You can accomplish amazing things with it like sending blank e-mails. No one will have a problem opening your attachments.
My thoughts are: Make something that even an idiot can use, and only an idiot will use it.
Obviously you are not understanding how an IPO works. Or maybe you are choosing to not understand.
Anyway, the Company decides they want to raise some capitol. They decide how much of their company they want to sell off, or they decide how much capitol they want. They have some Underwriters come in who audit the business. These Underwriters say, "Hey, I like what you've got going here. Here's what our experts think your company is worth." The Company says, "Cool, I'll give up 10% of that" The Underwriters say, "Okay, that comes to 4.4 million shares at $22 bones each" The Company says, "Cool, I'm comfortable with that."
See, the Underwriter buys these 4.4 million shares at $22 bones a pop from the Company. They are assuming a risk that each one of those will be at least worth $22. If they opened at $50, and nothing sold, and took it all the way down to $10 before it did sell, they would loose a lot of money.
Take LinuxOne as an example. They are Underwriting themselves. Most likely because they are painfully aware that no self respecting financial institution would Underwrite them. They are hoping to issue some paper on a valueless company, get some suckers, and make off with some cash. Obviously I'm oversimplifying, but they are bogus.
So, Cobalt and Redhat may loose out of maximizing the potential of the %'s they gave up to the Underwriters. But, remember, what they held onto also has sky rocketed some 600%. That is why they are potentially worth billions.
Other ways of measuring the size are market share, # of employees, how many unique visitors your website gets, etc. Depends upon which metric is relevant to your study.
But, as I said, the typical way is the sales dollars. For instance my company is 34 million. This makes it a small company, approaching mid size, in most people's eyes. However, out of 3,000 companies that do what we do, we are the 32nd largest, which makes us a pretty big player.
If you are sick of power cycling your NT servers, why don't you fix the problem?
I've had some unstable NT servers before. They never stayed that way for longer than 14 days because I work out the problems. I replace hardware, remove offending applications, talk with Microsoft Tech, put on patches, fixes, whatever it takes to make my server stable.
I read the sample chapter last night. I enjoyed the writing style and it really conveyed a lot of information to me quickly.
I'm approaching this from a Samba newbie standpoint so all the information was interesting and helpful. Experienced users might not find it so. But, I believe a program that is always evolving as Samba does and adding new configurations parameters will have few masters who don't use a reference book. I might not always have an answer, but I almost always know where to get one.
I almost wouldn't mind seeing a book about how to replace your NT server with Linux. Meaning, if I have an NT server running file serving, print serving, fax serving, and Exchange e-mail, what do I need to get on a Linux box to replace it wholesale so my users have no idea what just happened? Especially if I have Mac as well as Windows clients. I guess I'm talking about a small business server guide to using Linux instead of NT.
I do hope they keep this book up to date at the Samba site. With the constant changes some of this information gets old quickly.
Don't know what you purchased or from where, but I've bought about 300 Dell machines in my life and 100% have installed the OS correctly out of the box.
However, I wouldn't want their default config anyway as I hate all the crap they load. So I wipe them clean afterwards (after I make diskette images for the drivers which is why I allow the OS to load).
Hey Dude,,,chill out yourself. Maybe I'm pissed because my Inspiron 7000 notebook was advertised as having a built in 56k modem, not a built in 56k winmodem. So, imagine my surprise when I found I couldn't use it under Linux. I was pretty upset but by that time it was too late. I saw later changes to their documentation to reflect that it was a winmodem, but when the notebooks first came out this was not known.
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I can almost guarantee that those advertising for Campus Crusade for Christ were Protestant's and not Catholics. As such, they would claim that their "sect, cult, denomination" isn't responsible for the Crusades or the Inquisition (ain't it grand, the Inquisition...).
But, I get your point. It does, however, beat "Campus Jihad for Alah." I say that from a non-Muslim perspective so maybe they have the same connotation for Crusade as I do for Jihad. Of course, in the Crusade the Europeans beat up on themselves every bit as much as they did on the Muslims (who actually kicked a little pale-face hiney)
Oh, let's just dot com everything. Bill needs a website like he needs another whole in the head.
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And if he did need a website, it should be a community type thing:
www.cityname.com/business/autos/repairs/bill.ht
That's the worst!
I someday hope that I'll have something happen to me that is clearly my fault, that will get national media attention, that has everyone telling me to sue for "huge tracts of land", so that I can tell everyone: I'm an idiot and I'm the one who caused this to happen. My mother, father, sister, brother, nephew, uncle, government, teacher, priest, wife, mistress, daughter, son, friend, airline, restraunt, car, neighbor, etc, had nothing to do with it. I am the one to blame. I cannot sue for the land because I'm to blame.
I spilled the damn coffee on myself. I knew it was hot, but I did it anyway.
I rear ended your car, let me pay for you doctor's fees, but screw your emotional distress cause gump happens. I've got a burn on my face from the airbag, but I'm just thankful I didn't get impaled on the fschking steering column.
I'm an overweight weenie who closed the toilet lit down on my schlong (and ladies, it is a schlong!) and then sat on it, then twisted around a bit for good measure. I mean, c'mon fellows, how many of us don't know where our one eyed Jack is at all times?
My baby swallowed a penny and choked. I think I'll sue the goverment for not putting a child warning label on it. 20 years later that child is going to shoot up a post office over a 1 cent stamp increase, I just know it.
Pretty soon, people will be sueing Microsoft for charging too much for their products, even though no one forced them to buy the damn thing! So what if Dell didn't let you get a computer with something else on it, punish Dell, tell them you are buying a computer somewhere else. I don't get too upset with Honda for not having ALL the options on my Prelude that I wanted, I still bought the car. But, but, Chrylser offered that on their car, why don't you on yours?
Hey man, you can have any color car you want. As long as it is black--Henry Ford.
Damn, monopolies. I'll show him, I'll pick a white horse over his black car.
Build a toilet seat that even an idiot can use, and only an idiot will sit on it.
Xeon also sucks as a processor. Body blow,body blow, uppercut, down for the count.
Let's face it, the "secret" code names that companies come up with for their projects are much better than the actual marketing names. Why? Because usually they can be attached to something with significance. Hydra was the name for Microsoft's terminal server. That was cool. Cairo was the original name for the product to be called NT (though a lot of Cairo's promises have not been realized), and we all know that referred to them building ontop of ancient VMS designs that are being resurrected from their mummified remains in banks everywhere because they have run so long and so well that they are encased in dust.
A potato is better for you than a slink. I think. Manhattan is great but what's a Hedwig? I've got a Neptune board but think I'll move to a Seattle. Coppermine, I really dig that one.
The military comes up with great names: Battle of the Bulge, Operation: Just Cause, Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Roundhammer (Space above and Beyond Rocks!).
And what's with this silly trend to spell stuff wrong? Changing an S to a Z. My company sells labels not labelz.
The Pentium name was Intel's desire to start selling themselves as a brand. I don't think you can copyright, or trademark, whatever it called, a set up numbers. So, they sell Pentiums, not a 586. The silly part is to have Pentium II's, and III's. They are afraid to give up on the market recognition of the name Pentium. Sad.
Same thing goes for this crap about Office 2000, Windows 98, WordPerfect Office 2000. I hate identifying it by a year. Pretty soon, Dell will sell Dimension 2001. Come 2002 you will feel SO COMPELLED to upgrade. Look, it is Word 9.0, Excel 9.0, etc. Flash those numbers around and people will start to say, hey, I don't need to upgrade, I'm at version 8.0 by God, what could be so much better in 9.0 that they couldn't fit into the previous 8 versions? Answer? Bugs! Bloat! Feature Creep! Don't miss out, get your copy for only $549!
I say, piss on them all! I won't fall for all that marketing hype and name branding. I'm going to stick with an OS which has arguments about how to even pronounce, not to mention about whether it should have a prefix of GNU which 1000's more probably don't know how to pronounce.
NOW! Pass me a Potato!
Celeron first, then Inprise, then Intanium.
A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.
I guess Microsoft can now say that Office 2000 is so intuitive that you don't even need to know the alphabet to use it. You can accomplish amazing things with it like sending blank e-mails. No one will have a problem opening your attachments.
My thoughts are:
Make something that even an idiot can use, and only an idiot will use it.
Obviously you are not understanding how an IPO works. Or maybe you are choosing to not understand.
Anyway, the Company decides they want to raise some capitol. They decide how much of their company they want to sell off, or they decide how much capitol they want. They have some Underwriters come in who audit the business. These Underwriters say, "Hey, I like what you've got going here. Here's what our experts think your company is worth." The Company says, "Cool, I'll give up 10% of that" The Underwriters say, "Okay, that comes to 4.4 million shares at $22 bones each" The Company says, "Cool, I'm comfortable with that."
See, the Underwriter buys these 4.4 million shares at $22 bones a pop from the Company. They are assuming a risk that each one of those will be at least worth $22. If they opened at $50, and nothing sold, and took it all the way down to $10 before it did sell, they would loose a lot of money.
Take LinuxOne as an example. They are Underwriting themselves. Most likely because they are painfully aware that no self respecting financial institution would Underwrite them. They are hoping to issue some paper on a valueless company, get some suckers, and make off with some cash. Obviously I'm oversimplifying, but they are bogus.
So, Cobalt and Redhat may loose out of maximizing the potential of the %'s they gave up to the Underwriters. But, remember, what they held onto also has sky rocketed some 600%. That is why they are potentially worth billions.
Typically by sales dollars.
Other ways of measuring the size are market share, # of employees, how many unique visitors your website gets, etc. Depends upon which metric is relevant to your study.
But, as I said, the typical way is the sales dollars. For instance my company is 34 million. This makes it a small company, approaching mid size, in most people's eyes. However, out of 3,000 companies that do what we do, we are the 32nd largest, which makes us a pretty big player.
If you are sick of power cycling your NT servers, why don't you fix the problem?
I've had some unstable NT servers before. They never stayed that way for longer than 14 days because I work out the problems. I replace hardware, remove offending applications, talk with Microsoft Tech, put on patches, fixes, whatever it takes to make my server stable.
I read the sample chapter last night. I enjoyed the writing style and it really conveyed a lot of information to me quickly.
I'm approaching this from a Samba newbie standpoint so all the information was interesting and helpful. Experienced users might not find it so. But, I believe a program that is always evolving as Samba does and adding new configurations parameters will have few masters who don't use a reference book. I might not always have an answer, but I almost always know where to get one.
I almost wouldn't mind seeing a book about how to replace your NT server with Linux. Meaning, if I have an NT server running file serving, print serving, fax serving, and Exchange e-mail, what do I need to get on a Linux box to replace it wholesale so my users have no idea what just happened? Especially if I have Mac as well as Windows clients. I guess I'm talking about a small business server guide to using Linux instead of NT.
I do hope they keep this book up to date at the Samba site. With the constant changes some of this information gets old quickly.
Don't know what you purchased or from where, but I've bought about 300 Dell machines in my life and 100% have installed the OS correctly out of the box.
However, I wouldn't want their default config anyway as I hate all the crap they load. So I wipe them clean afterwards (after I make diskette images for the drivers which is why I allow the OS to load).
I guess Sun didn't just pay 500+ million to give StarOffice away for free.
Not quite the same as being open, but still the same as cutting off direct revenues from selling the product.
I agree, I don't think RedHat has plans on giving anything away.
Hey Dude,,,chill out yourself. Maybe I'm pissed because my Inspiron 7000 notebook was advertised as having a built in 56k modem, not a built in 56k winmodem. So, imagine my surprise when I found I couldn't use it under Linux. I was pretty upset but by that time it was too late. I saw later changes to their documentation to reflect that it was a winmodem, but when the notebooks first came out this was not known.