At where I work, what we're doing is moving our Oracle servers to RHAS 2.1. Any other Linux server will run RH 8.0. (In fact, tomorrow I'll be on-site at a subsidiary replacing a SCO server with a RH 8.0 server.)
I've seen a lot of people here mention Debian. That may work for you, but you WILL need to ask yourself, "Will I need Oracle (the company)'s support services?" If so, then Debian is NOT the choice for you. Oracle only supports RHAS and UnitedLinux's enterprise-level distros. That's the only reason we're running any RHAS at all: we need Oracle support.
1) IBM already has the king of hearts and a pair of queens of spades on the table. Everyone can see that SCO is bluffing, unless they can pull triple tens or jacks.
I was actually going to say that IBM had three kings face up, and a quiet knowing smile on his face that just TELLS you the king of hearts is one of his hole cards... in other words, he has the winning hand and knows it, but the final bets haven't been placed yet and he's biding his time.
Also:: considering the fact that SCO wont actualy reveal what code in rh they own without a nondisclosure agreement I would say that they may not actualy have code and are simply trying to exploit those companies out there that are using rh and have the money to pay their fees.
I look at this as a high-stakes game of five card stud, with Red Hat and IBM playing against the dealer (but not each other)... in this case, SCO.
SCO has three cards visible: the ten, jack, and queen of hearts. We can't see their hole cards, but really, what are the chances they're a king AND ace of hearts?
Let's say Red Hat has three sixes showing. It doesn't really matter what their hole cards are; right now the only strength SCO has over Red Hat is a perceived strength that could just as easily fall away once their hole cards are revealed.
I'm not really a gambler, but if it was me versus that hand, I'd be feeling a bit more confident... and about ready to call the dealer's bluff. Let's see who folds first.
"It's my network and anything that I don't know about gets trashed" blah blah blah *thumps chest*
As opposed to, "It's my workstation and I should have the right to install whatever tools I want on it?"
As a previous poster pointed out, most medium+ sized companies have a policy they follow. Corporate management folks LIKE policies. It's not the user's job to determine whether said policy is right or wrong. If you want something other than the standard, would it really hurt to ask? I think a good reason a lot of these posts about Linux installs bother me is because it seems like a number of them didn't even think to ask IT. Who knows... if you have a good enough reason, maybe they'll let you do it! If they don't let you, don't just assume that it's because they're on a power trip. They've got their own problems and policies they have to deal with.
I work desktop support and some server administration for a medium-sized company. Our standard desktop OS is Windows XP Professional. On the other hand, right now I'm using a Powerbook with Mac OS X 10.2 as my primary work PC, and before that I used a Compaq laptop running Red Hat Linux 9. Even though I'm IN IT, I asked the sysadmin for permission before running these OS'es. If someone wants to run something other than WinXP here, they should ask permission. I ask no less of myself.
Just my own personal $.02, which does not reflect the views of my employer in any way, shape, or form....
The police chief was not fired. He wasn't even in town when the raid went down. The captain in charge of the raid, Mark Aguirre, was fired and charged with official oppression, but was later acquitted.
Chief Bradford DID step down briefly, but only because he was being tried for perjury in a case involving the aforementioned Aguirre. (There was also talk from Aguirre that he was being punished for the K-Mart thing in retaliation for getting Bradford in trouble.) The judge dismissed the case saying the prosecution had failed to provide any proof in their case. Bradford went back to work, but has since announced his resignation. The K-Mart raid is possibly one reason, but a much bigger reason would be the HPD crime lab which was so screwed up the department had to shut it down, and retesting has already cleared one person who's currently serving time for rape.
It's a mess of a situation, but in short, the police chief was not the one directly fired for this fiasco.
Sweet. I wish I had known about laptop mode while I was in Los Angeles a couple of months ago for E3; I got a rather rude awakening when my Compaq laptop running RH 9 would die at a fraction of the time it took for it to die when in Windows 2000. (Until then I had never run it on a battery.)
Having to watch the inflight movie instead of the one I brought with me sucked.;-)
Also keep in mind that Oracle only officially supports the Advanced Server release of Red Hat. For that reason, most of our Linux servers right now except the Oracle servers are Red Hat 8, while the Oracle servers are Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1.
If you need vendor support from Oracle and/or Red Hat, I'd go with AS. Otherwise, the standard releases should work fine for you.
Wheres the MPAA? Now that this fan film is known, gaining mass popularity, and may become mildly successful, will there be legal ramifications for copyright infringement?
If you read the story, you'd know that not only does Steven Spielberg know about it (the guy who ran the projector at the AICN film festival it was shown at gave him a copy), he was astonished by how good it is.
Also, you can't find their PocketPC Phone Edition available for sale on their website anymore.
I personally use a Handspring Visor Pro w/ a VisorPhone attachment. True, it's a bit bulky, but that's never really bothered me. Plus, it's a full-sized PDA, and if something should happen to my Visor Pro... I have a 2 MB Visor I can plug the VisorPhone into in case of emergency.:)
Nice strawman there. There are laws that make it illegal for companies to tap your phone calls. Why should it be any different for your use of the computer?
The analogy is a little flawed. This isn't the equivalent of tapping the phones or listening into phone conversations. This is the equivalent of looking into a company-owned filing cabinet that you're using. Last I checked (and no, IANAL), checking those is still perfectly legal.
Hmm... this seems to me to be the second time they've used Chewbacca to "spice up" the series, so to speak. The first time was in the book Vector Prime, where Chewbacca became the first/only one of the surviving heroes from Episodes 4-6 to be killed off. Now, they're putting him in Episode III... *shrug*
I'd ask why, but I already know the answer. Money. *sigh* More and more I'm inclined to agree that Lucas SHOULD have allowed Spielberg to direct Episode III...
Right now I have DSL through SBC. I used to have service through Time-Warner/Roadrunner, but gave it up last year. Why, you may ask? Simple: reliability.
Everything was fine with Roadrunner for about a year or so, until we started having line issues. After that, about every six months, we would end up having issues with the physical cable going from our junction box out back to the house. Each time, it would take us more than one call to get someone out, because the quality of techs were rather... well, varied. ("I know you don't support Linux... but the fact that the `Cable' light on my cable modem isn't lit tells me it's not a problem with my cable modem, you know?") The second to last time it happened, the tech lied and said he came out when someone was home at the time and never saw him, and the line had very obviously not been touched. The LAST time it happened, it took them TWO WEEKS to send someone out and fix it. The day after that, we started investigating DSL.
Frankly, we've been much happier with the DSL. We started off with DirecTV DSL and since moved to SBC... and not only is the service more reliable so far than Roadrunner's (excluding DirecTV getting out of the market... otherwise only slightly slower speeds but steadier connection), we're allowed to run servers and can host our own domains on it. Heck, for $15 a month more I get static IP's, which means no more worrying about the DHCP server switching my home address on me.
Your mileage may vary, of course, but so far I've found that in my area, at least (north Houston), DSL has shaped up to be more reliable than cable service.
... and I highly doubt that Nintendo, with its reputation as a for-kids console maker, would like the idea of making Doom III (which is likely to be the goriest first-person shooter ever created) available on their console anyway.
As opposed to games like Resident Evil, Resident Evil 0, Eternal Darkness, and others?
Christ, just because Nintendo's core titles are pretty much geared for all ages doesn't mean they're not going to go for mature titles as well. Hell, they stopped censoring their games back in 1994, after they tried censoring the original Mortal Kombat and got spanked by Sega in sales as a result.
As far as the subject matter goes, though... this really is a non-story, as Carmack's been saying for a while that the X-Box was pretty much the only console he was planning to release Doom III on. Nothing to see here, folks...
No, not about the fact that this is a dupe. That's par for the course nowadays...
I mean, is anyone surprised that Intervideo's only doing this for set-top boxes and the like? I mean, hell... their LinDVD software is STILL only available for embedded and OEM systems. Regular users can't buy it. Why should we expect anything less for Windows Media?
Also keep in mind that the CEO of Intervideo said a few years back that those of us using software like DeCSS to watch DVD's on our Linux boxes were pirates or some such. Then, when he could turn around and SELL a "legitimate" platform for us, he chose to keep it away from the Linux using public at large. *grumble* I don't see why we should support them if they're going to treat us like red-headed stepchildren.
(Sorry, I don't have a link to the article where the CEO said that... couldn't find it via Google. I'm sure I can't be the only one who's seen it...)
Seems like everybody is saying this guy has no rights because he a spammer(the lowest life form).
No, we're saying this guy has no right to complain because in essence, he's being hit by the same shit that he's pulling on other people. (With the exception of the threats, of course; I don't agree with that at all. The rest of it, well... karma's a harsh mistress.)
What if this guy spoke harshly about the government, would you feel the same?
No.
If he was an abortion doctor would he feel the same?
No.
If he was a communist would you feel the same?
No.
One side or the other folks, no sitting in the middle.
This is real life. There is no black and white... just shades of grey. In the examples you gave, I look at them as people who speak their mind but try to work within the system and not cause any real harm to others. (Well, with the possible exception of the abortion doctor, but that's a whole different argument that's really best suited for another thread.) This guy has been an extreme public nuisance, and he's getting a taste of his own medicine. You reap what you sow.
Slashdot readers are supposed to be idealistic, right?
I'd like to think I'm idealistic. I'd like to see Linux companies be able to profit off of the services they provide. What Red Hat is doing is just providing an extra perk or incentive to those who subscribe to the Red Hat Network.
So, in response, Slashdot decides to show how to circumvent said subscription method and get the RH 9 ISO's without having to wait an entire week. As robbo put it in an earlier posting, that's kind of hypocritical when Slashdot wants people to paid for subscriptions to their own site.
I guess we all have different ideals. Your ideals seem to say to me, "Fuck what Red Hat wants! I want it for free and right now!"
Go ahead and mod me down, folks... I've said my peace.
I have already said this, but this announcement is not aimed at selling Linux on HP hardware to Joe consumer. They are selling/supporting the Entrerprise versions of RedHat that are aimed at corporate accounts.
That doesn't mean that corporate laptop users won't want to run Linux. At where I work, we're beginning a rollout to move some of our servers to Linux. Seeing as I'm often on-site at our subsidiaries doing support work, my laptop is my primary PC. However, I'm also going to be one of the primary people supporting Linux, so I'd like to have a "best of both worlds" solution where I have a laptop that runs Linux. I know my boss is trying to get approval for a new laptop for me; it'd make getting me a laptop easier if we could find a manufacturer like Dell or HP/Compaq who sells machines with Red Hat pre-installed.
Squid and winbind are probably two of the more difficult things to setup. You can't be serious if you're saying this is The Solution. It's not.
I'm not saying this is The Solution. I was merely correcting the parent poster who said Squid did not support NTLM.:) I actually expected to be modded as Off-Topic considering I was replying to a post that was more of a "this also has the same problem" and wasn't really about Mozilla.
There's no NTLM authentication in Squid proxy either, and it makes no sense. I guarantee it would find much more use in the real world with NTLM.
Huh?
We have a Squid proxy server running right now using NTLM authentication with help from Winbind. The Squid FAQ has an entry here which explains how to implement it.
Also, a company MAY pay the $800 for a few boxes, but install a free version of Linux for other boxes. Maybe their dedicated DNS boxes don't need the support, or their POP boxes. As you stated, they don't have this option with windows. They can PAY for support on the ones they need, get the other free, and run the same basic OS on all of them.
That's exactly what we're doing at where I work. Those servers that run Oracle that we will need support on will be running RHAS or RHEL AS/ES. The other Linux servers (such as proxy or file storage servers) will be running RH 8.0. It's all about the support in this case... not just from Red Hat, but from Oracle as well. (RH Advanced Server is a supported Oracle platform, after all...)
I'm sure Kevin Mitnick's proud you've taken his book to heart.;)
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It's interesting how bullying by people who are geeks is funny, when the same sort of activity by jocks is decried.
I think what he was implying was not that he would torture or bully jocks who he didn't know, but just the particular ones who bullied him in high school.
In this case, it's more karma than anything else... he's just showing the people who bullied him what he went through. You reap what you sow.
Geeze, we're talking about a low-budget production by a basic-cable channel. If you were expecting a special-effects extravaganza, then you were obviously going in with a complete lack of clue.
I wasn't expecting a special effects extravaganza. I know better than to expect LotR or Star Wars quality effects out of Sci-Fi.;) What I DO expect is for them to look like they're making half an effort. Ultra-obvious backdrops does not tell me they're making half an effort.:p
If I want fancy FX, I'll go watch the latest Lucas potboiler. But in general, I'd rather have unconvincing backdrops and a good script than the most realistic computer-generated Jar-Jar.:)
I agree, the special effects are secondary to the story. Story-wise, I like the Dune miniseries more than Episode I. I did say that I really wanted to like this one a lot. But the cheap obvious backdrops made it very difficult, because it's distracting and makes it look like they didn't give a damn about the quality of that aspect of it. (This is why I could never watch that Romeo & Juliet with DiCaprio and Danes; it's too damn jarring seeing it take place in modern times. The setting/environment of a story is important, after all.)
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Telemarketers alledge that they create several billion dollars in sales every year, several billion dollars that will go up in smoke in October.
Although, sometimes I really wonder if the system by which they get those figures is the same one the RIAA uses...
At where I work, what we're doing is moving our Oracle servers to RHAS 2.1. Any other Linux server will run RH 8.0. (In fact, tomorrow I'll be on-site at a subsidiary replacing a SCO server with a RH 8.0 server.)
I've seen a lot of people here mention Debian. That may work for you, but you WILL need to ask yourself, "Will I need Oracle (the company)'s support services?" If so, then Debian is NOT the choice for you. Oracle only supports RHAS and UnitedLinux's enterprise-level distros. That's the only reason we're running any RHAS at all: we need Oracle support.
Just my $.02...
1) IBM already has the king of hearts and a pair of queens of spades on the table. Everyone can see that SCO is bluffing, unless they can pull triple tens or jacks.
I was actually going to say that IBM had three kings face up, and a quiet knowing smile on his face that just TELLS you the king of hearts is one of his hole cards... in other words, he has the winning hand and knows it, but the final bets haven't been placed yet and he's biding his time.
Just my $.02...
Also:: considering the fact that SCO wont actualy reveal what code in rh they own without a nondisclosure agreement I would say that they may not actualy have code and are simply trying to exploit those companies out there that are using rh and have the money to pay their fees.
I look at this as a high-stakes game of five card stud, with Red Hat and IBM playing against the dealer (but not each other)... in this case, SCO.
SCO has three cards visible: the ten, jack, and queen of hearts. We can't see their hole cards, but really, what are the chances they're a king AND ace of hearts?
Let's say Red Hat has three sixes showing. It doesn't really matter what their hole cards are; right now the only strength SCO has over Red Hat is a perceived strength that could just as easily fall away once their hole cards are revealed.
I'm not really a gambler, but if it was me versus that hand, I'd be feeling a bit more confident... and about ready to call the dealer's bluff. Let's see who folds first.
Just my $.02...
"It's my network and anything that I don't know about gets trashed" blah blah blah *thumps chest*
As opposed to, "It's my workstation and I should have the right to install whatever tools I want on it?"
As a previous poster pointed out, most medium+ sized companies have a policy they follow. Corporate management folks LIKE policies. It's not the user's job to determine whether said policy is right or wrong. If you want something other than the standard, would it really hurt to ask? I think a good reason a lot of these posts about Linux installs bother me is because it seems like a number of them didn't even think to ask IT. Who knows... if you have a good enough reason, maybe they'll let you do it! If they don't let you, don't just assume that it's because they're on a power trip. They've got their own problems and policies they have to deal with.
I work desktop support and some server administration for a medium-sized company. Our standard desktop OS is Windows XP Professional. On the other hand, right now I'm using a Powerbook with Mac OS X 10.2 as my primary work PC, and before that I used a Compaq laptop running Red Hat Linux 9. Even though I'm IN IT, I asked the sysadmin for permission before running these OS'es. If someone wants to run something other than WinXP here, they should ask permission. I ask no less of myself.
Just my own personal $.02, which does not reflect the views of my employer in any way, shape, or form....
Correction:
The police chief was not fired. He wasn't even in town when the raid went down. The captain in charge of the raid, Mark Aguirre, was fired and charged with official oppression, but was later acquitted.
Chief Bradford DID step down briefly, but only because he was being tried for perjury in a case involving the aforementioned Aguirre. (There was also talk from Aguirre that he was being punished for the K-Mart thing in retaliation for getting Bradford in trouble.) The judge dismissed the case saying the prosecution had failed to provide any proof in their case. Bradford went back to work, but has since announced his resignation. The K-Mart raid is possibly one reason, but a much bigger reason would be the HPD crime lab which was so screwed up the department had to shut it down, and retesting has already cleared one person who's currently serving time for rape.
It's a mess of a situation, but in short, the police chief was not the one directly fired for this fiasco.
Sweet. I wish I had known about laptop mode while I was in Los Angeles a couple of months ago for E3; I got a rather rude awakening when my Compaq laptop running RH 9 would die at a fraction of the time it took for it to die when in Windows 2000. (Until then I had never run it on a battery.)
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Having to watch the inflight movie instead of the one I brought with me sucked.
Also keep in mind that Oracle only officially supports the Advanced Server release of Red Hat. For that reason, most of our Linux servers right now except the Oracle servers are Red Hat 8, while the Oracle servers are Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1.
If you need vendor support from Oracle and/or Red Hat, I'd go with AS. Otherwise, the standard releases should work fine for you.
Just my $.02...
Wheres the MPAA? Now that this fan film is known, gaining mass popularity, and may become mildly successful, will there be legal ramifications for copyright infringement?
If you read the story, you'd know that not only does Steven Spielberg know about it (the guy who ran the projector at the AICN film festival it was shown at gave him a copy), he was astonished by how good it is.
I think they're safe for now.
... which T-Mobile has already dropped?
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Also, you can't find their PocketPC Phone Edition available for sale on their website anymore.
I personally use a Handspring Visor Pro w/ a VisorPhone attachment. True, it's a bit bulky, but that's never really bothered me. Plus, it's a full-sized PDA, and if something should happen to my Visor Pro... I have a 2 MB Visor I can plug the VisorPhone into in case of emergency.
Just my $.02...
The analogy is a little flawed. This isn't the equivalent of tapping the phones or listening into phone conversations. This is the equivalent of looking into a company-owned filing cabinet that you're using. Last I checked (and no, IANAL), checking those is still perfectly legal.
Just my $.02...
"Pan-and-scan is formatted for the small-minded."
Hmm... this seems to me to be the second time they've used Chewbacca to "spice up" the series, so to speak. The first time was in the book Vector Prime, where Chewbacca became the first/only one of the surviving heroes from Episodes 4-6 to be killed off. Now, they're putting him in Episode III... *shrug*
I'd ask why, but I already know the answer. Money. *sigh* More and more I'm inclined to agree that Lucas SHOULD have allowed Spielberg to direct Episode III...
Just my $.02...
Right now I have DSL through SBC. I used to have service through Time-Warner/Roadrunner, but gave it up last year. Why, you may ask? Simple: reliability.
Everything was fine with Roadrunner for about a year or so, until we started having line issues. After that, about every six months, we would end up having issues with the physical cable going from our junction box out back to the house. Each time, it would take us more than one call to get someone out, because the quality of techs were rather... well, varied. ("I know you don't support Linux... but the fact that the `Cable' light on my cable modem isn't lit tells me it's not a problem with my cable modem, you know?") The second to last time it happened, the tech lied and said he came out when someone was home at the time and never saw him, and the line had very obviously not been touched. The LAST time it happened, it took them TWO WEEKS to send someone out and fix it. The day after that, we started investigating DSL.
Frankly, we've been much happier with the DSL. We started off with DirecTV DSL and since moved to SBC... and not only is the service more reliable so far than Roadrunner's (excluding DirecTV getting out of the market... otherwise only slightly slower speeds but steadier connection), we're allowed to run servers and can host our own domains on it. Heck, for $15 a month more I get static IP's, which means no more worrying about the DHCP server switching my home address on me.
Your mileage may vary, of course, but so far I've found that in my area, at least (north Houston), DSL has shaped up to be more reliable than cable service.
Just my $.02...
... and I highly doubt that Nintendo, with its reputation as a for-kids console maker, would like the idea of making Doom III (which is likely to be the goriest first-person shooter ever created) available on their console anyway.
As opposed to games like Resident Evil, Resident Evil 0, Eternal Darkness, and others?
Christ, just because Nintendo's core titles are pretty much geared for all ages doesn't mean they're not going to go for mature titles as well. Hell, they stopped censoring their games back in 1994, after they tried censoring the original Mortal Kombat and got spanked by Sega in sales as a result.
As far as the subject matter goes, though... this really is a non-story, as Carmack's been saying for a while that the X-Box was pretty much the only console he was planning to release Doom III on. Nothing to see here, folks...
No, not about the fact that this is a dupe. That's par for the course nowadays...
I mean, is anyone surprised that Intervideo's only doing this for set-top boxes and the like? I mean, hell... their LinDVD software is STILL only available for embedded and OEM systems. Regular users can't buy it. Why should we expect anything less for Windows Media?
Also keep in mind that the CEO of Intervideo said a few years back that those of us using software like DeCSS to watch DVD's on our Linux boxes were pirates or some such. Then, when he could turn around and SELL a "legitimate" platform for us, he chose to keep it away from the Linux using public at large. *grumble* I don't see why we should support them if they're going to treat us like red-headed stepchildren.
(Sorry, I don't have a link to the article where the CEO said that... couldn't find it via Google. I'm sure I can't be the only one who's seen it...)
Seems like everybody is saying this guy has no rights because he a spammer(the lowest life form).
No, we're saying this guy has no right to complain because in essence, he's being hit by the same shit that he's pulling on other people. (With the exception of the threats, of course; I don't agree with that at all. The rest of it, well... karma's a harsh mistress.)
What if this guy spoke harshly about the government, would you feel the same?
No.
If he was an abortion doctor would he feel the same?
No.
If he was a communist would you feel the same?
No.
One side or the other folks, no sitting in the middle.
This is real life. There is no black and white... just shades of grey. In the examples you gave, I look at them as people who speak their mind but try to work within the system and not cause any real harm to others. (Well, with the possible exception of the abortion doctor, but that's a whole different argument that's really best suited for another thread.) This guy has been an extreme public nuisance, and he's getting a taste of his own medicine. You reap what you sow.
Just my $.02...
Slashdot readers are supposed to be idealistic, right?
I'd like to think I'm idealistic. I'd like to see Linux companies be able to profit off of the services they provide. What Red Hat is doing is just providing an extra perk or incentive to those who subscribe to the Red Hat Network.
So, in response, Slashdot decides to show how to circumvent said subscription method and get the RH 9 ISO's without having to wait an entire week. As robbo put it in an earlier posting, that's kind of hypocritical when Slashdot wants people to paid for subscriptions to their own site.
I guess we all have different ideals. Your ideals seem to say to me, "Fuck what Red Hat wants! I want it for free and right now!"
Go ahead and mod me down, folks... I've said my peace.
I have already said this, but this announcement is not aimed at selling Linux on HP hardware to Joe consumer. They are selling/supporting the Entrerprise versions of RedHat that are aimed at corporate accounts.
That doesn't mean that corporate laptop users won't want to run Linux. At where I work, we're beginning a rollout to move some of our servers to Linux. Seeing as I'm often on-site at our subsidiaries doing support work, my laptop is my primary PC. However, I'm also going to be one of the primary people supporting Linux, so I'd like to have a "best of both worlds" solution where I have a laptop that runs Linux. I know my boss is trying to get approval for a new laptop for me; it'd make getting me a laptop easier if we could find a manufacturer like Dell or HP/Compaq who sells machines with Red Hat pre-installed.
Just my $.02...
Squid and winbind are probably two of the more difficult things to setup. You can't be serious if you're saying this is The Solution. It's not.
:) I actually expected to be modded as Off-Topic considering I was replying to a post that was more of a "this also has the same problem" and wasn't really about Mozilla.
I'm not saying this is The Solution. I was merely correcting the parent poster who said Squid did not support NTLM.
There's no NTLM authentication in Squid proxy either, and it makes no sense. I guarantee it would find much more use in the real world with NTLM.
Huh?
We have a Squid proxy server running right now using NTLM authentication with help from Winbind. The Squid FAQ has an entry here which explains how to implement it.
Hope this helps...
Also, a company MAY pay the $800 for a few boxes, but install a free version of Linux for other boxes. Maybe their dedicated DNS boxes don't need the support, or their POP boxes. As you stated, they don't have this option with windows. They can PAY for support on the ones they need, get the other free, and run the same basic OS on all of them.
That's exactly what we're doing at where I work. Those servers that run Oracle that we will need support on will be running RHAS or RHEL AS/ES. The other Linux servers (such as proxy or file storage servers) will be running RH 8.0. It's all about the support in this case... not just from Red Hat, but from Oracle as well. (RH Advanced Server is a supported Oracle platform, after all...)
Just my $.02...
I'm sure Kevin Mitnick's proud you've taken his book to heart. ;)
I think what he was implying was not that he would torture or bully jocks who he didn't know, but just the particular ones who bullied him in high school.
In this case, it's more karma than anything else... he's just showing the people who bullied him what he went through. You reap what you sow.
I wasn't expecting a special effects extravaganza. I know better than to expect LotR or Star Wars quality effects out of Sci-Fi.
I agree, the special effects are secondary to the story. Story-wise, I like the Dune miniseries more than Episode I. I did say that I really wanted to like this one a lot. But the cheap obvious backdrops made it very difficult, because it's distracting and makes it look like they didn't give a damn about the quality of that aspect of it. (This is why I could never watch that Romeo & Juliet with DiCaprio and Danes; it's too damn jarring seeing it take place in modern times. The setting/environment of a story is important, after all.)
Just my $.02...