As I recall I was temporarily between jobs and decided to watch the launch at home with my wife, who worked nights as a nurse. Being a big fan of the Shuttle, I tried to watch every launch, and when I saw the large y-shaped cloud, I realized something had gone *seriously* wrong.. The rest of the day was a blur.. Then again in 2003, I realized I had a good chance to see the firey trail of Columbia reentering the atmosphere, as the reentry path was close enough to Las Vegas to see in the northern sky. So I got up really early (for me) and drove out to a spot away from the bright lights of town, and right on schedule, there was this bright streak across the sky. I noticed it looked like flaming pieces were coming off of it.. Since I'd never seen a shuttle reentry like this, I didn't, at the time, realize anything was wrong.. That realization quickly changed when I turned the radio on, and listened to the latest news.. I'll never forget hearing Houston saying "Columbia.. Houston.. " quite a few times with no answer... I then realized, I must have been seeing Columbia breaking up during reentry.. I had to pull over as I couldn't drive safely for a while, and in fact, I'm tearing up just writing this... God Bless the brave souls who go into space and expand mankind's knowledge...
Oh.. You are a gloomy one.. But I fear you're 100% correct.. Witness the claims of FEMA camps all over the country, rumors of UN troops already here.. Sure, I'm sure some of it is just scare-mongering, but if even 10% is true, we're in deep shit soon...
The preceding is my opinion. Don't like it? Tough, deal with it
Its mine too, I supported/used MS products for 19+ years as a Windows/Linux sysadmin. When I retired in 2010, I decided I'd had enough of Redmond's *stuff* and since I'd been using Linux since 1995 (Slackware, if you must know), I decided ALL of my systems going forward would be running Linux. After seeing Windows 10 (and playing with it quite a bit during preview), I couldn't be happier about my decision to flush MS products. However, since I'm retired and *too* many people in the neighborhood knew I was one of those "IT geeks", I've become the defacto tech support for my church and neighborhood. I've had quite a few people ask me about this new Windows 10 they're hearing about, and I proceed to show them chapter/verse of just how insidious it is. I did testing where I "castrated" a clean install of 10, including local account, and a bunch of stuff turned off in gpedit.msc, then loaded rpcapd on my router and pointed Wireshark at it.. Even "castrated" with all of the obvious spyware crap turned off, the Wireshark packet buffer showed a scary amount of "calling home" still.. Even the folks still on 7/8/8.1 are getting the "telemetry" crap shoved down their throats.. Since my testing, I've had several neighbors come to me with new systems bought over the holidays asking what can they do to minimize the damage. I give them an Ubuntu LiveCD and show them how to boot it, and have them work with it for a week or so and then ask them if they'd like to switch to it permanently. So far, everybody who has tried the LiveCD "preview" has gone for the "upgrade". I normally suggest, on a new-inwarrantee system, that they spend $40 or so for another hard drive to install Linux on, keeping the original in case of warrantee issues. As more and more people find out about Windows 10, I suspect I'd be able to start a small business doing upgrades..
What once, many years ago, was known as the "Fouth Estate", has now become the "US Department of Propaganda", that will tout whatever the current administration tells it to...It doesn't matter which party is in power, they both use the "propaganda department" to LIE to you...
Yup... A supposedly fully "castrated" copy of Windows 10, (local account only, all of the spyware switches turned off, several other settings in gpedit.msc disabled) STILL constantly blabs away to many of the listed domains. Just to show a couple of neighbors who doubted the fact that Windows 10 was such a privacy nightmare, I used a previously unused Windows 7 productkey to install the latest build (November update) on a spare laptop drive. I turned off all the bullshit, used a local account, cruised thru gpedit.msc and turned more shit off.. Then loaded rpcapd on my router and pointed a copy of wireshark at it... Oh my god... I saved the packet capture for use to show other neighbors/friends WHY friends DON'T LET FRIENDS use Windows 10...... After 19+ years supporting/using MS products, I quit in 2010, and after seeing what a nightmare Windows 10 is, I couldn't be happier.... KUbuntu FTW!!!!!
I did this very thing back in 2010.. I had just retired from using/supporting MS products since Windows 3.11, and I decided at that time, I didn't care to use MS products any longer, and since I'd started using Linux around 1995 (Slackware), I decided ALL of my systems would be on Linux. In reality, the change was only to my Dell Precision workstation and laptop, both of which came with Windows 7 Pro from Dell, whereas my home server had been running Linux since I set it up back in 2005. Since I'm the defacto neighborhood tech-support, I still get pestered to clean up after neighbors Windows systems. I've been able to convert quite a few friends/relatives over to Linux, and have a couple more on the calendar to do, since the appearance of Windows 10 and its spyware ways. Over the holidays, I had two neighbors who bought new Intel i7 systems from CostCo come to me and ask about Linux, as they had heard what a privacy nightmare Windows 10 was. I gave them each a KUbuntu LiveCD and had them try it out. After several days both neighbors came and asked me to upgrade them... TL;DR... FUCK MS AND THEIR WINDOWS 10....
Can those student's who attended his Constitutional Law class when he was teaching get a refund?
IF you believe he ever *actually* taught Constitutional Law ANYwhere... There's no evidence of any such teaching and quite a number of people who attended Columbia and other schools that Obama *claims* to have attended, have zero recollection of him... VERY suspicious...
Unless you have a VERY expensive phone, with 32gb or more of space, you're NOT gonna be putting every fucking app that some asshole company advertises.. I'm on (and I bet a lot of other readers here) a very limited budget, and as much as I'd love to have a $500-$700 latest/greatest Nexus phone, it aint happening anytime soon, and since I don't DO phone contracts, I'm on an MVNO of Sprint and Tmobile (Ting, if you must know), I'm not gonna get a phone thru osmosis, with a first-line carrier.. I buy my phones on either eBay or Glyde and they're usually 2010-vintage ones, so they don't have a hell of a lot of room after bloatware takes up 25-30% of the space. Since the phone I currently have is very difficult to root, I'm stuck with all of the useless bloatware that the carrier *thoughtfully* puts on the phones. So to make a long story short, I go for the mobile website for ANYthing over and above the several apps I do use, namely my credit unions app and a few others...
Anywhere that cares about security will have a bunch of cubbyholes or lockers at the front door, and you'll be checking your personal electronics when you walk in.
From 2005 to 2010, I worked for a fed government contractor in a fed government facility, and that is precisely what we had.. Certain areas of the building were secure areas and ALL personal electronics were placed in those lockers when entering the secure area. Other areas you *could* carry your personal cellphone, so long as it didn't have a camera, otherwise you had to leave in your car. Before I left in 2010, it got so *secure* that you had to declare to the armed guards at the front gate as you drove in, what you had in your car. I often carried my personal laptop in the trunk of my car, to use before and after work, and I had to get special dispensation from security to allow that..
I wouldn't even trust security updates from Microsoft.. They've proven they are totally untrustworthy.. The ONLY alternative to using MS products is switching to Linux, which I did in 2010, and am forever glad I did..
You know the funny part?.. I've installed the latest ISO of the November update, using an OEM Windows 7 Pro product key I had laying around on a spare laptop drive in one of my laptops. I went thru turning off all the cutesy-toosie privacy destroying toggle switches during the install instead of going with the "recommeneded" defaults, including all of the additional steps done in gpedit.msc, went with a local account vs an MS account. From a lot of articles I've read, that *allegedly* disables nearly all of the more egregious crap.. Note I said "alledgedly"... After loading a copy of rpcapd on my Tomato router and firing up Wireshark and pointing it at the rpcapd instance on the router, I still see this fuckin' Microsoft abortion yammering away at a good number of the listed (in many articles) MS endpoints. In other words, It appears to me, that MS is gonna vacumn up your data come hell or high-water, even if you believe you've "castrated" the fucker.. I guess the only way to prevent this pile of shit from phoning home is to block *.microsoft.com in your hardware firewall... You *do* have one, don't you??? Sooooooooo fuckin' glad I moved all my systems to Linux about 5 years ago.... The *only* reason I was trying out Win10 was the fact that I *know* I'm gonna be pestered by friends/family to support this pile of shit, so I figured I'd play with it a while....... (shudders)...
The last company I worked for before retirement had several Linux workstations that I admin'ed. The word came down from on-high that, going forward, we would have to run the Linux version of McAfee AV, being that McAfee was the decreed AV for all of our Windows systems. Being that the Windows enterprise version of McAfee, at the time (2010-ish) was a steaming pile of cow manure, I'll give you three guesses what the Linux version was... Hard to believe ANYthing could be worse than the Windows version, but there it was... I certainly could understand having an AV on Windows, but complaints about...WHY THE $#%$% DO WE HAVE TO HAVE AN AV on Linux fell on deaf ears... But I'm retired now and my Linux systems have no such requirement...
Ummm.. *This* universe?? I'm not gonna disagree with you on the "bloated executive salaries" in the American Red Cross (National), but local Red Cross chapters *DO* provide services to the public. If you've ever had a house fire, in most cases, the next people you see *after* the FD leaves, is two members of the local Disaster Action Team (DAT), who are volunteers, and provide immediate financial assistance, addressing clothing/housing/food issues. I KNOW this, as I'm one of about 30 such volunteers in Las Vegas, who respond right behind the FD (we're usually called *by* the FD, following their cleanup of the scene). We've had several large apartment fires recently where we provided close to 20 displaced families food/shelter/clothing within several hours after the fire. There are also Redcross volunteer caseworkers who contact the affected people the next business day to assist with other issues faced by the affected people.. As far as I know, all of the money that we disperse to these clients comes from *local* donations done thru local donation drives. So bottom line, I'm gonna partially agree with you about the national Red Cross, but STRONGLY DISagree with your painting local Red Cross chapters with the same brush...
Hey Sparky... Looks like you missed the part that said "After months of back and forth and troubleshooting by the customer, Comcast finally admitted....".. Sounds like you think its "oh gee, they make mistakes, and they fixed it... no harm/no foul"..... You'd be right IF they had done a check, said "oops our bad" and fixed it, but Comcast (and most other large companies) like to assume that they are always right and the customer is always wrong, and its up to the customer to fight as long as it takes to fix whatever problem big_corp decides to dump on said customer.... How much does Comcast pay you to astroturf/. ??? Whatever it is, you should get a raise, you do it sooooo well....
Just wondering *why* they wasted an FOIA request on something that *isn't* classified (anymore).. Is the National Park Service hiding stuff like this, as though it *was* classified???
While in Jr High School, (1963-1965), in San Diego, CA, I usually walked home, and on the way was a seriously cool store, by the name of Acro Sales. It had tons of vacumn tubes, WWII comm gear, and misc discrete parts up the wazoo.. Usually walked home with some friends/fellow geeks, and we'd regularly stop at the store for a bit on the way home.. For those who know San Diego, specfically East San Diego, the store was on University Avenue, between 41st Street and what is now the trench in the ground that carries Interstate 15... As I recall it didn't last much later than around 1970... They don't make em like that anymore...
My gripe is in EVERY scifi movie/tv show, EVERYbody speaks English.. yeah, I know viewers of said program likely speak/understand English, but what would be FAR more convincing would be some made up "alien" language, then subtitles in English. I've seen a VERY few sci-fi movies that did that, and it made the movie far more convincing... And yes, I know about Startrek's universal translator, but the gibberish and then subtitles would be far better, IMO
Golly gee.. Kinda sounds like the difference between Windows 2000 Workstation and Windows 2000 server... Some whiz-kids found those registry changes and it was fun (for a time) to make the changes and see your (cheaper) Windows 2000 Workstation boot up as a (more expensive) Windows 2000 server... Did it myself many moon ago....
...and eDirectory is Novell's NDS, which has been around since 1993, I'm an old Novell admin and was happy when we switched from the Netware 3.11's bindery over to Novell 4.11 and its NDS in 1995. Unfortuantly the company I was at, decided to move to Windows and its new (at the time) AD soon after, so those of us who really liked NDS were out of luck, and had to learn AD. All I could do was shake my head.. At the time AD was a buggy piece of crap whereas NDS was a pretty stable (and powerful) directory service. Glad to see Novell having ported it to OES, it likely today is one directory service that could challenge AD and win, IF the castrated Novell that exists today would get off its ass...
Oh how I wish I had mod points to mod you up.... I retired in 2010 after using/supporting Windows and Linux since the mid 90s.. I decided when I retired I was done with MS products on my home network, and now, after seeing the privacy nightmare that *is* Windows 10, I see I made the correct decision. I strongly believe that Redhat is *trying* to fuck up the Linux ecosystem with the idiotic crap their employees create and then dump on other distros.. I couldn't care less how much they fuck up Redhat (and its compatibles) with their garbage (listed above by armanox), but when they manage to fuck up my favorite distro, Debian, I get PISSED...
I bought one of those, had to hold my nose, as it was a Samsung, I pretty much stick to WD Black for my "spinning rust".. But I wanted to see kind of an increase in boot speed I would get on my Dell Precision M4400 over the WD 320GB drive the SSD hybrid replaced.. Haven't actually benchmarked the difference, but frankly I don't see much difference.. I need a LOT of space on the laptop as I have a flock of 20-30GB Virtualbox VMs, so any SSD I bought would have to be at least as big as the replaced 320GB spinning rust.. Since I'm retired, money is tight, so any ideas of buying a true SSD is sometime in the future...
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As I recall I was temporarily between jobs and decided to watch the launch at home with my wife, who worked nights as a nurse. Being a big fan of the Shuttle, I tried to watch every launch, and when I saw the large y-shaped cloud, I realized something had gone *seriously* wrong.. The rest of the day was a blur.. Then again in 2003, I realized I had a good chance to see the firey trail of Columbia reentering the atmosphere, as the reentry path was close enough to Las Vegas to see in the northern sky. So I got up really early (for me) and drove out to a spot away from the bright lights of town, and right on schedule, there was this bright streak across the sky. I noticed it looked like flaming pieces were coming off of it.. Since I'd never seen a shuttle reentry like this, I didn't, at the time, realize anything was wrong.. That realization quickly changed when I turned the radio on, and listened to the latest news.. I'll never forget hearing Houston saying "Columbia.. Houston.. " quite a few times with no answer... I then realized, I must have been seeing Columbia breaking up during reentry.. I had to pull over as I couldn't drive safely for a while, and in fact, I'm tearing up just writing this... God Bless the brave souls who go into space and expand mankind's knowledge...
Oh.. You are a gloomy one.. But I fear you're 100% correct.. Witness the claims of FEMA camps all over the country, rumors of UN troops already here.. Sure, I'm sure some of it is just scare-mongering, but if even 10% is true, we're in deep shit soon...
Hey shithead.. If you want to play "ad hominem", why do you hide behind AC? Don't have the balls to put your actual handle behind your bullshit?
The preceding is my opinion. Don't like it? Tough, deal with it
Its mine too, I supported/used MS products for 19+ years as a Windows/Linux sysadmin. When I retired in 2010, I decided I'd had enough of Redmond's *stuff* and since I'd been using Linux since 1995 (Slackware, if you must know), I decided ALL of my systems going forward would be running Linux. After seeing Windows 10 (and playing with it quite a bit during preview), I couldn't be happier about my decision to flush MS products. However, since I'm retired and *too* many people in the neighborhood knew I was one of those "IT geeks", I've become the defacto tech support for my church and neighborhood. I've had quite a few people ask me about this new Windows 10 they're hearing about, and I proceed to show them chapter/verse of just how insidious it is. I did testing where I "castrated" a clean install of 10, including local account, and a bunch of stuff turned off in gpedit.msc, then loaded rpcapd on my router and pointed Wireshark at it.. Even "castrated" with all of the obvious spyware crap turned off, the Wireshark packet buffer showed a scary amount of "calling home" still.. Even the folks still on 7/8/8.1 are getting the "telemetry" crap shoved down their throats.. Since my testing, I've had several neighbors come to me with new systems bought over the holidays asking what can they do to minimize the damage. I give them an Ubuntu LiveCD and show them how to boot it, and have them work with it for a week or so and then ask them if they'd like to switch to it permanently. So far, everybody who has tried the LiveCD "preview" has gone for the "upgrade". I normally suggest, on a new-inwarrantee system, that they spend $40 or so for another hard drive to install Linux on, keeping the original in case of warrantee issues. As more and more people find out about Windows 10, I suspect I'd be able to start a small business doing upgrades..
What once, many years ago, was known as the "Fouth Estate", has now become the "US Department of Propaganda", that will tout whatever the current administration tells it to...It doesn't matter which party is in power, they both use the "propaganda department" to LIE to you...
Yup... A supposedly fully "castrated" copy of Windows 10, (local account only, all of the spyware switches turned off, several other settings in gpedit.msc disabled) STILL constantly blabs away to many of the listed domains. Just to show a couple of neighbors who doubted the fact that Windows 10 was such a privacy nightmare, I used a previously unused Windows 7 productkey to install the latest build (November update) on a spare laptop drive. I turned off all the bullshit, used a local account, cruised thru gpedit.msc and turned more shit off.. Then loaded rpcapd on my router and pointed a copy of wireshark at it... Oh my god... I saved the packet capture for use to show other neighbors/friends WHY friends DON'T LET FRIENDS use Windows 10...... After 19+ years supporting/using MS products, I quit in 2010, and after seeing what a nightmare Windows 10 is, I couldn't be happier.... KUbuntu FTW!!!!!
I did this very thing back in 2010.. I had just retired from using/supporting MS products since Windows 3.11, and I decided at that time, I didn't care to use MS products any longer, and since I'd started using Linux around 1995 (Slackware), I decided ALL of my systems would be on Linux. In reality, the change was only to my Dell Precision workstation and laptop, both of which came with Windows 7 Pro from Dell, whereas my home server had been running Linux since I set it up back in 2005. Since I'm the defacto neighborhood tech-support, I still get pestered to clean up after neighbors Windows systems. I've been able to convert quite a few friends/relatives over to Linux, and have a couple more on the calendar to do, since the appearance of Windows 10 and its spyware ways. Over the holidays, I had two neighbors who bought new Intel i7 systems from CostCo come to me and ask about Linux, as they had heard what a privacy nightmare Windows 10 was. I gave them each a KUbuntu LiveCD and had them try it out. After several days both neighbors came and asked me to upgrade them... TL;DR... FUCK MS AND THEIR WINDOWS 10....
Can those student's who attended his Constitutional Law class when he was teaching get a refund?
IF you believe he ever *actually* taught Constitutional Law ANYwhere... There's no evidence of any such teaching and quite a number of people who attended
Columbia and other schools that Obama *claims* to have attended, have zero recollection of him... VERY suspicious...
Unless you have a VERY expensive phone, with 32gb or more of space, you're NOT gonna be putting every fucking app that some asshole company advertises.. I'm on (and I bet a lot of other readers here) a very limited budget, and as much as I'd love to have a $500-$700 latest/greatest Nexus phone, it aint happening anytime soon, and since I don't DO phone contracts, I'm on an MVNO of Sprint and Tmobile (Ting, if you must know), I'm not gonna get a phone thru osmosis, with a first-line carrier.. I buy my phones on either eBay or Glyde and they're usually 2010-vintage ones, so they don't have a hell of a lot of room after bloatware takes up 25-30% of the space. Since the phone I currently have is very difficult to root, I'm stuck with all of the useless bloatware that the carrier *thoughtfully* puts on the phones. So to make a long story short, I go for the mobile website for ANYthing over and above the several apps I do use, namely my credit unions app and a few others...
Anywhere that cares about security will have a bunch of cubbyholes or lockers at the front door, and you'll be checking your personal electronics when you walk in.
From 2005 to 2010, I worked for a fed government contractor in a fed government facility, and that is precisely what we had.. Certain areas of the building were secure areas and ALL personal electronics were placed in those lockers when entering the secure area. Other areas you *could* carry your personal cellphone, so long as it didn't have a camera, otherwise you had to leave in your car. Before I left in 2010, it got so *secure* that you had to declare to the armed guards at the front gate as you drove in, what you had in your car. I often carried my personal laptop in the trunk of my car, to use before and after work, and I had to get special dispensation from security to allow that..
I wouldn't even trust security updates from Microsoft.. They've proven they are totally untrustworthy.. The ONLY alternative to using MS products is switching to Linux, which I did in 2010, and am forever glad I did..
You know the funny part?.. I've installed the latest ISO of the November update, using an OEM Windows 7 Pro product key I had laying around on a spare laptop drive in one of my laptops. I went thru turning off all the cutesy-toosie privacy destroying toggle switches during the install instead of going with the "recommeneded"
defaults, including all of the additional steps done in gpedit.msc, went with a local account vs an MS account. From a lot of articles I've read, that *allegedly* disables nearly all of the more egregious crap.. Note I said "alledgedly"... After loading a copy of rpcapd on my Tomato router and firing up Wireshark and pointing it at the rpcapd instance on the router, I still see this fuckin' Microsoft abortion yammering away at a good number of the listed (in many articles) MS endpoints. In other words, It appears to me, that MS is gonna vacumn up your data come hell or high-water, even if you believe you've "castrated" the fucker.. I guess the only way to prevent this pile of shit from phoning home is to block *.microsoft.com in your hardware firewall... You *do* have one, don't you??? Sooooooooo fuckin' glad I moved all my systems to Linux about 5 years ago.... The *only* reason I was trying out Win10 was the fact that I *know* I'm gonna be pestered by friends/family to support this pile of shit, so I figured I'd play with it a while....... (shudders)...
The last company I worked for before retirement had several Linux workstations that I admin'ed. The word came down from on-high that, going forward, we would have to run the Linux version of McAfee AV, being that McAfee was the decreed AV for all of our Windows systems. Being that the Windows enterprise version of McAfee, at the time (2010-ish) was a steaming pile of cow manure, I'll give you three guesses what the Linux version was... Hard to believe ANYthing could be worse than the Windows version, but there it was... I certainly could understand having an AV on Windows, but complaints about...WHY THE $#%$% DO WE HAVE TO HAVE AN AV on Linux fell on deaf ears... But I'm retired now and my Linux systems have no such requirement...
Ummm.. *This* universe?? I'm not gonna disagree with you on the "bloated executive salaries" in the American Red Cross (National), but local Red Cross chapters *DO* provide services to the public. If you've ever had a house fire, in most cases, the next people you see *after* the FD leaves, is two members of the local Disaster Action Team (DAT), who are volunteers, and provide immediate financial assistance, addressing clothing/housing/food issues. I KNOW this, as I'm one of about 30 such volunteers in Las Vegas, who respond right behind the FD (we're usually called *by* the FD, following their cleanup of the scene). We've had several large apartment fires recently where we provided close to 20 displaced families food/shelter/clothing within several hours after the fire. There are also Redcross volunteer caseworkers who contact the affected people the next business day to assist with other issues faced by the affected people.. As far as I know, all of the money that we disperse to these clients comes from *local* donations done thru local donation drives. So bottom line, I'm gonna partially agree with you about the national Red Cross, but STRONGLY DISagree with your painting local Red Cross chapters with the same brush...
Hey Sparky... Looks like you missed the part that said "After months of back and forth and troubleshooting by the customer, Comcast finally admitted...." .. Sounds like you think its "oh gee, they make mistakes, and they fixed it... no harm/no foul"..... You'd be right IF they had done a check, said "oops our bad" and fixed it, but Comcast (and most other large companies) like to assume that they are always right and the customer is always wrong, and its up to the customer to fight as long as it takes to fix whatever problem big_corp decides to dump on said customer.... How much does Comcast pay you to astroturf /. ??? Whatever it is, you should get a raise, you do it sooooo well....
Just wondering *why* they wasted an FOIA request on something that *isn't* classified (anymore).. Is the National Park Service hiding stuff like this, as though it *was* classified???
buy products from a responsible company that isn't out to screw over their customer base.
Good luck finding one....
While in Jr High School, (1963-1965), in San Diego, CA, I usually walked home, and on the way was a seriously cool store, by the name of Acro Sales. It had tons of vacumn tubes, WWII comm gear, and misc discrete parts up the wazoo.. Usually walked home with some friends/fellow geeks, and we'd regularly stop at the store for a bit on the way home.. For those who know San Diego, specfically East San Diego, the store was on University Avenue, between 41st Street and what is now the trench in the ground that carries Interstate 15... As I recall it didn't last much later than around 1970... They don't make em like that anymore...
My gripe is in EVERY scifi movie/tv show, EVERYbody speaks English.. yeah, I know viewers of said program likely speak/understand English, but what would be FAR more convincing would be some made up "alien" language, then subtitles in English. I've seen a VERY few sci-fi movies that did that, and it made the movie far more convincing... And yes, I know about Startrek's universal translator, but the gibberish and then subtitles would be far better, IMO
HERE HERE!! I'd mod you up if I could...
Golly gee.. Kinda sounds like the difference between Windows 2000 Workstation and Windows 2000 server... Some whiz-kids found those registry changes and it was fun (for a time) to make the changes and see your (cheaper) Windows 2000 Workstation boot up as a (more expensive) Windows 2000 server... Did it myself many moon ago....
...and eDirectory is Novell's NDS, which has been around since 1993, I'm an old Novell admin and was happy when we switched from the Netware 3.11's bindery over to Novell 4.11 and its NDS in 1995. Unfortuantly the company I was at, decided to move to Windows and its new (at the time) AD soon after, so those of us who really liked NDS were out of luck, and had to learn AD. All I could do was shake my head.. At the time AD was a buggy piece of crap whereas NDS was a pretty stable (and powerful) directory service. Glad to see Novell having ported it to OES, it likely today is one directory service that could challenge AD and win, IF the castrated Novell that exists today would get off its ass...
Oh how I wish I had mod points to mod you up.... I retired in 2010 after using/supporting Windows and Linux since the mid 90s.. I decided when I retired I was done with MS products on my home network, and now, after seeing the privacy nightmare that *is* Windows 10, I see I made the correct decision. I strongly believe that Redhat is *trying* to fuck up the Linux ecosystem with the idiotic crap their employees create and then dump on other distros.. I couldn't care less how much they fuck up Redhat (and its compatibles) with their garbage (listed above by armanox), but when they manage to fuck up my favorite distro, Debian, I get PISSED...
Derp... Said Samsung... Meant Seagate... Don't care for either of em... WD FTW!!!
I bought one of those, had to hold my nose, as it was a Samsung, I pretty much stick to WD Black for my "spinning rust".. But I wanted to see kind of an increase in boot speed I would get on my Dell Precision M4400 over the WD 320GB drive the SSD hybrid replaced.. Haven't actually benchmarked the difference, but frankly I don't see much difference.. I need a LOT of space on the laptop as I have a flock of 20-30GB Virtualbox VMs, so any SSD I bought would have to be at least as big as the replaced 320GB spinning rust.. Since I'm retired, money is tight, so any ideas of buying a true SSD is sometime in the future...