This is a great point, checking accounts are different beasts alltogether. I setup a completely seperate checking account at a different bank from my personal one for Paypal transactions only. It works because, yes it has the potential of being hacked, but they aren't privy to access my other primary accounts which pays my mortgage. If a customer has a rather large transaction I always do money orders.
Linux is great for firewalls, Apache, web devel, software devel, could possibly be a desktop replacement. Solaris is not a user-friendly as a modern Linux distro would be. Solaris would be for large size databases (Oracle, Sybase), enterprise class software type items.
Sun is trying to change that though with the newer AMD64 machines/servers that perform very fast in terms of webserving. For the price and if you were trying to maintain say a medium size website then you really couldn't go wrong with a lower-end Sun server with the AMD chips in it, running Solaris 10 X86. Anything you can run on Linux you can run on Solaris to some extent (DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Firewall, Apache, MySQL).
The hardware is still top notch, especially the AMD64 boxes that they have produced the last year or two. Screamingly fast in web servers (my companies websitse run completely on sun/solaris/apache/php) and pretty damn stable (close to a year of uptime since being implemented).
Solaris 10 Sparc and X86 are also probably the best releases Sun has had for years, ZFS right around the corner, the zones implementation (allowing prod/QA/test all to reside on one box but somewhat seperate from each other), the new services implementation which allow for role-based access control eases the burden from having to start services for app admins/developers.
While all this stuff probably isn't new in the Linux front, it's fantastic for large scale companies with numerous layers of IT depts.
Well here's a crazy idea, why don't you challenge your students instead of lecturing? Some of the best educators I had in my pursuit of my degree always challenged the system, not by lecturing but by doing. The best class I had was a UNIX intro that the professor moonlit as a consultant. He taught by doing which is installing the system and seeing how you can break it/fix it. Of course we had a book and he referenced the book constantly but for the most part it was really hands on. Programming was another where the professor gave out assignments that forced you to look and manipulate the code, not just copy and paste and put it together.
but the latest issue of PC World gave AVG Free the lowest in their AV round up of about 10 products. I'm not sure how one could consider that the porducts above it all purchased add space, but read into it what you will.
I still use AVG Free without issue.
...when Microsoft was innovative? I think the last time MS was pushing computing forward was the introduction of Windows 95 from 3.1, or when IE first came on the scene evolving from the dreadful Microsoft web browser, around version 4.0 if I remember. Maybe it is true that all the great engineers that were pushing home/office desktop computing have left due to the corporate environment that has taken over the mentality of the middle-managers that who's only concern is to help the stock price?
that the visual upgrade from fisher price to MacOSX isn't enough for you? Cause I'm sure MS is going to charge about $300 for the desktop clock upgrade.
Yeah Powerlunch had a quick blurb on this yesterday about how housing prices are outpacing salaries, folks are spending close to 45% of income on mortgages and the tricky lending is eventually going to catch up with them.
I foresee a great deal of bankruptcy services to spring up after the mortgage service die off as people go higher into debt and can't afford the home they own.
I'd like to say that running Solaris 10 on a homegrown AMD XP 1800+ with a VIA chipset is a great advance for the OS. Of course you still need a specific NIC (3Com), but it has made advances in its compatibilty with X86 hardware.
Take a look at this http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/ if you are interested in running 10 on a X86 machine. It's still pretty rigourous and you'll more than likely have more success running it on a Dell/HP workstation but 10 has opened the doors for better X86 hardware support.
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This is a great point, checking accounts are different beasts alltogether. I setup a completely seperate checking account at a different bank from my personal one for Paypal transactions only. It works because, yes it has the potential of being hacked, but they aren't privy to access my other primary accounts which pays my mortgage. If a customer has a rather large transaction I always do money orders.
Linux is great for firewalls, Apache, web devel, software devel, could possibly be a desktop replacement. Solaris is not a user-friendly as a modern Linux distro would be. Solaris would be for large size databases (Oracle, Sybase), enterprise class software type items. Sun is trying to change that though with the newer AMD64 machines/servers that perform very fast in terms of webserving. For the price and if you were trying to maintain say a medium size website then you really couldn't go wrong with a lower-end Sun server with the AMD chips in it, running Solaris 10 X86. Anything you can run on Linux you can run on Solaris to some extent (DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Firewall, Apache, MySQL).
The hardware is still top notch, especially the AMD64 boxes that they have produced the last year or two. Screamingly fast in web servers (my companies websitse run completely on sun/solaris/apache/php) and pretty damn stable (close to a year of uptime since being implemented). Solaris 10 Sparc and X86 are also probably the best releases Sun has had for years, ZFS right around the corner, the zones implementation (allowing prod/QA/test all to reside on one box but somewhat seperate from each other), the new services implementation which allow for role-based access control eases the burden from having to start services for app admins/developers. While all this stuff probably isn't new in the Linux front, it's fantastic for large scale companies with numerous layers of IT depts.
Well here's a crazy idea, why don't you challenge your students instead of lecturing? Some of the best educators I had in my pursuit of my degree always challenged the system, not by lecturing but by doing. The best class I had was a UNIX intro that the professor moonlit as a consultant. He taught by doing which is installing the system and seeing how you can break it/fix it. Of course we had a book and he referenced the book constantly but for the most part it was really hands on. Programming was another where the professor gave out assignments that forced you to look and manipulate the code, not just copy and paste and put it together.
but the latest issue of PC World gave AVG Free the lowest in their AV round up of about 10 products. I'm not sure how one could consider that the porducts above it all purchased add space, but read into it what you will. I still use AVG Free without issue.
...when Microsoft was innovative? I think the last time MS was pushing computing forward was the introduction of Windows 95 from 3.1, or when IE first came on the scene evolving from the dreadful Microsoft web browser, around version 4.0 if I remember. Maybe it is true that all the great engineers that were pushing home/office desktop computing have left due to the corporate environment that has taken over the mentality of the middle-managers that who's only concern is to help the stock price?
that the visual upgrade from fisher price to MacOSX isn't enough for you? Cause I'm sure MS is going to charge about $300 for the desktop clock upgrade.
...but not for long I'm sure. Marketing/sales people are the devil anyway.
Do a search for "San Andreas," and see the one-day inflated auctions; you'll make your money back plus some.
Yeah Powerlunch had a quick blurb on this yesterday about how housing prices are outpacing salaries, folks are spending close to 45% of income on mortgages and the tricky lending is eventually going to catch up with them. I foresee a great deal of bankruptcy services to spring up after the mortgage service die off as people go higher into debt and can't afford the home they own.
Yes! The free subscription to eWeek pays off once again.
I'd like to say that running Solaris 10 on a homegrown AMD XP 1800+ with a VIA chipset is a great advance for the OS. Of course you still need a specific NIC (3Com), but it has made advances in its compatibilty with X86 hardware. Take a look at this http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/ if you are interested in running 10 on a X86 machine. It's still pretty rigourous and you'll more than likely have more success running it on a Dell/HP workstation but 10 has opened the doors for better X86 hardware support.