The thing is, I bet this algorithm wasn't even that hard to reverse engineer. I mean, I'm not saying that I could have done it and I'm sure most of you couldn't either. But to someone skilled in the black arts of disassembly and debuggery (if that isn't a word it should be), it would probably have been fairly trivial.
Or maybe they just watched the DNS lookups from an infected machine for a week and just figured out what the next day would be....
they can waste tons of money on useless and ineffective programs, treaties and resolutions, and atleast know that they "feel" better doing it, even if it doesn't do anything anyway.
Oh I completely disagree. They created the oil for food program for Iraq, which was heavily abused, creating a black market for oil, increasing world supply, and driving my gas prices down.
Sounds like it worked out quite well for me.
And you thought some folks were upset about descending from apes, wait till they see this.
No kidding. Some people just can't accept God was actually a Reeses Monkey, and the Soddom and Gammorah were really destroyed by a massive rain of terds.
"No one is running IPv6, because there is no business case for it." says a senior Internet research scientist from Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (Apnic)
Oddly enough, I've just recently flat out banned large portions of APNIC from signing up with my email service because I've gotten so many spammers from there... coincidence? Maybe. In all my dealings regarding spam, they just seem ass-backwards over there.
Sure, Zenworks. But I'm kind of biased, I can't even get a freaking root certificate from cacert.org to install with group policies.. Not like there's much to it. *grumble*:/
Rick
I believe Netware will do what you're looking for. Netware volumes can grow dynamically as you add disk space, and Netware does support iSCSI, so theoretically it should work. Then you export the whole thing as NFS, and you're set to go. (Plus you get kick-ass Netware managment as a bonus).
If you really wanted to be cheap, just NFS mount that cluster(fuck?) to a Linux box and do all your user management from there. That way you'll only use 1 connection to the Netware box. Download a copy of Netware and check it out.
If you think about it, the only users that are going to be downloading beta software are the dedicated fans
I disagree. I've always thought Windows was crap, Yet I've probably run more betas of that OS than most MCSE's. I as pleasantly surprised when Win2k was available and it was finally equivalent to Warp 3 from '94:P It's nice to know what's on the horizon.
I mean, look at something like an optimizing JIT Java virtual machine or a.NET runtime. Those are fairly complex motherfuckers.
I think he means when those programmers are going about their business and all of a sudden they see "Out of Memory". Instead of looking for the infitite loop they just created, they call their hardware guy to add more memory.
If anything happens that all our technology is destroyed to the point where we're living like Gilligan, make note that I have dibs on being the village sandwich maker.
In the article, there is a screenshot of a supposed 'System Properties' dialog box showing the following:
The big clue is the box itself. When the 'Support' button is there, the hardware properties MS usually puts there is replaced by custom text from the OEM. Obviously these guys are trying to make it appear that info is from Windows, but it's custom text.
The people who usually bitch about certifications are the ones who have met a person who is an MSCE and is an idiot. They think: "this guy doesn't even know X, how can he be an MSCE? That MSCE thing is a joke!"
Well, Personally, I never put much stock in them myself. THEN I met the MSCE. After half a day of him running 3com diagnostics in NT, trying to figure out what the 'IRQ error' was, I arrived onsite and plugged in the network cable for him.
Well it is feasible. Script kiddies have downloaded all these cool little programs that break into their systems without any understanding on how computers or the internet work. They think their are Hot Stuff because they found the programs to break and screw with the computer. And it is probably very easy for them to get in because their local IP address is on the other side of the firewall (hardware and software). Plus because he is such a bad lier, I am sure he beleaves the junk he hears from other kiddies, with suff like the reversing firwall that attacks the connecting system.
Replace "Script Kiddies" with "Windows Programmers", and welcome to my life:(
But, Pegasus Mail and Mercury Mail (the server-side component) don't only run on a Netwaresolution, they run just fine on Windows NT as well.
"Just fine" isn't automatically integrated with AD like it is with NDS. For NT, you have to specify a username on the command line. That doesn't jive with Win98, where Windows doesn't provide easy to assign variables.
But wait, a similar solution has been aroundin Unix systems forever, NFS sharing the mail spool.
What was your point again?
If the guy doesn't even know what other directory services are available for Windows (when they've already existed for a decade), why do you think he'd be ready for a Unix desktop?
What an odd question. NDS has existed almost 10 years, providing centralized appliation serving via NDS integrated applications. Look at Pegasus Mail (I assume this is what you mean). Install the app on the server, and the programs INI files are stored in the user's home directories. Users can move from PC to PC without migrating anything that's PC-specific (such as the registry). Hell, if there's any reason to get MS Source code, it would be to get the source to Outlook and rip out the registry crap.
Zenworks takes care of the rest of the desktop 'distribution', like installing and upgrading pc-centric software.
I would guess you didn't know Novell's Border manager could be thought of as IPChains based on NDS login.
It sounds like you really don't know much of what is out there, and you need to read some whitepapers at Novell.com. Or goto some tradeshows. Get exposed.
It's nice eye candy but I really don't see how this will make a user more efficient as it seems to be distracting (just more ammo for those with ADD). I do find Windowmaker's multiple workspaces to be a great boon though but it's not XP.
But litestep works in XP. If you don't want to dink around with setting it up, I have a simple one I port from PC to PC here. Just unzip it to c:\litestep, and run the executable.
I doubt a lot of shops accept refunds on online games, as they can't check if you used/wrote down the key.
Actually, I got Star Wars Galaxies for Xmas, and it didn't come with a CD! We couldn't return it to any branch of Game Stop because they actually call Sony Online and check to see if the key has been used. No CD, no key. We had to call the one at Mall of America (where it was bought), and fortunately they UPS'd us a new copy.
So yeah, some places to check to see if the key has been used, and if it hasn't you can return it.
Someone just got finished telling me in another thread (the speil on Vadalia Desktop) that the linux community is all about choice and is not interested in competing with Windows. If that is the case and the truth, why do you even care about a story like this, or care that M$ thinks they are competing with you? After all, it's all about freedom of choice isn't it -- or it is only about choice as long as the choice is Linux?
Because even though we're about 'the right tool for the job', MS doesn't pander to the tech community, they go after management.
Otherwise you wouldn't have insane comments like the above "Win2003 is a great workgroup server", when he'd really be running Netware.
On a side note, it would only cost me $10 per month to get one of those unlimited space accounts? And just to be certain that I'm clear here, as long as I don't exceed the 200 meg per month bandwidth limit on that plan, I'll have unlimited space to do with as I please for as long as I continue paying the $10 per month?
That's correct. Technically, the first month would be $25, as there is a $15 setup charge.
Do you offer an X day money back guarantee if I feel that the service doesn't live up to the claims? If so, I think I may take you up on this offer.
No, there is no guarantee. You're welcome to open up a free account and see if that meets your needs before you upgrade it or get your own domain. (LOL, back to square one. I really only provided free accounts for domain owners to test the service. Free users started 'flocking' to the service, so I had to adjust my plan to try and get them to pay in some way:)
Honestly, I'm far more concerned with keeping spammers off the system. IMHO, what you're suggesting so so impractible that it's just not usable. Someone who attempted to mount their IMAP drive to use as a disk store would be sorely disappointed with my available bandwidth.
Sorry, I see your point, but 'unlimited' is well within practical limits.
How can you guess what the average user is going to consider reasonable use? Grandma Jane may want to exchange videos of her grandkids with Grandma Jill like in them thar new-fangled AOL commercials. Jane checks out a few sites, and sees that the limits would seriously burden or prevent her intended use... but then, she stumbles across your site and sees "unlimited space". After the inevitable problems arise, would you be able to tell her that she's at fault due to her unreasonable assumptions about the service she would be getting after seeing "unlimited space" and sending you the cash to receive this?
You're seriously over estimating the 'average user'. While they may not know that FTP is for file transfer, and email is for text, they're not going to have enough knowledge to split up a large file into sections, retrieve it via IMAP (leaving it on the server), and reconstruct the video.
So yes, 'reasonable' even accounts for businesses who send/receive fat Powerpoint presentations. These users have also understood that disk space is not unlimited, and that if they use it reasonably, I will plenty of time to add more space before it becomes an issue. Hell, if uptime is an issue, I can add a box and NFS mount their domain directory without any noticable downtime to them. 90GB file transfers are not a reasonable use of email. Seriously, How many torrents over 1GB do you see on average?
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Or maybe they just watched the DNS lookups from an infected machine for a week and just figured out what the next day would be....
Oh I completely disagree. They created the oil for food program for Iraq, which was heavily abused, creating a black market for oil, increasing world supply, and driving my gas prices down. Sounds like it worked out quite well for me.
No kidding. Some people just can't accept God was actually a Reeses Monkey, and the Soddom and Gammorah were really destroyed by a massive rain of terds.
Oddly enough, I've just recently flat out banned large portions of APNIC from signing up with my email service because I've gotten so many spammers from there ... coincidence? Maybe. In all my dealings regarding spam, they just seem ass-backwards over there.
Sure, Zenworks. But I'm kind of biased, I can't even get a freaking root certificate from cacert.org to install with group policies.. Not like there's much to it. *grumble* :/
Rick
If you really wanted to be cheap, just NFS mount that cluster(fuck?) to a Linux box and do all your user management from there. That way you'll only use 1 connection to the Netware box. Download a copy of Netware and check it out.
I think this very same thing everytime I have to fuck with roaming profiles and registry crap.
I disagree. I've always thought Windows was crap, Yet I've probably run more betas of that OS than most MCSE's. I as pleasantly surprised when Win2k was available and it was finally equivalent to Warp 3 from '94 :P It's nice to know what's on the horizon.
I think he means when those programmers are going about their business and all of a sudden they see "Out of Memory". Instead of looking for the infitite loop they just created, they call their hardware guy to add more memory.
It fits PERFECTLY doesn't it? Too bad nobody else got it :)
If anything happens that all our technology is destroyed to the point where we're living like Gilligan, make note that I have dibs on being the village sandwich maker.
The big clue is the box itself. When the 'Support' button is there, the hardware properties MS usually puts there is replaced by custom text from the OEM. Obviously these guys are trying to make it appear that info is from Windows, but it's custom text.
Well, Personally, I never put much stock in them myself. THEN I met the MSCE. After half a day of him running 3com diagnostics in NT, trying to figure out what the 'IRQ error' was, I arrived onsite and plugged in the network cable for him.
Oh wait, I can do one better. I predict PCComputing will have a cover that says "Microsoft Longhorn, Never Reboot Again!!"
Replace "Script Kiddies" with "Windows Programmers", and welcome to my life :(
Good luck with that swim :)
"Just fine" isn't automatically integrated with AD like it is with NDS. For NT, you have to specify a username on the command line. That doesn't jive with Win98, where Windows doesn't provide easy to assign variables.
But wait, a similar solution has been aroundin Unix systems forever, NFS sharing the mail spool.
What was your point again?
If the guy doesn't even know what other directory services are available for Windows (when they've already existed for a decade), why do you think he'd be ready for a Unix desktop?
What an odd question. NDS has existed almost 10 years, providing centralized appliation serving via NDS integrated applications. Look at Pegasus Mail (I assume this is what you mean). Install the app on the server, and the programs INI files are stored in the user's home directories. Users can move from PC to PC without migrating anything that's PC-specific (such as the registry). Hell, if there's any reason to get MS Source code, it would be to get the source to Outlook and rip out the registry crap.
Zenworks takes care of the rest of the desktop 'distribution', like installing and upgrading pc-centric software.
I would guess you didn't know Novell's Border manager could be thought of as IPChains based on NDS login.
It sounds like you really don't know much of what is out there, and you need to read some whitepapers at Novell.com. Or goto some tradeshows. Get exposed.
But litestep works in XP. If you don't want to dink around with setting it up, I have a simple one I port from PC to PC here. Just unzip it to c:\litestep, and run the executable.
Actually, I got Star Wars Galaxies for Xmas, and it didn't come with a CD! We couldn't return it to any branch of Game Stop because they actually call Sony Online and check to see if the key has been used. No CD, no key. We had to call the one at Mall of America (where it was bought), and fortunately they UPS'd us a new copy.
So yeah, some places to check to see if the key has been used, and if it hasn't you can return it.
Because even though we're about 'the right tool for the job', MS doesn't pander to the tech community, they go after management.
Otherwise you wouldn't have insane comments like the above "Win2003 is a great workgroup server", when he'd really be running Netware.
Ahhhh There's nothing like the feeling of being 13, and returning LSL1 to Egghead because you and your buddy won the game overnight.
We were geek gods that day.
That's correct. Technically, the first month would be $25, as there is a $15 setup charge. Do you offer an X day money back guarantee if I feel that the service doesn't live up to the claims? If so, I think I may take you up on this offer.
No, there is no guarantee. You're welcome to open up a free account and see if that meets your needs before you upgrade it or get your own domain. (LOL, back to square one. I really only provided free accounts for domain owners to test the service. Free users started 'flocking' to the service, so I had to adjust my plan to try and get them to pay in some way :)
Sorry, I see your point, but 'unlimited' is well within practical limits.
You're seriously over estimating the 'average user'. While they may not know that FTP is for file transfer, and email is for text, they're not going to have enough knowledge to split up a large file into sections, retrieve it via IMAP (leaving it on the server), and reconstruct the video.
So yes, 'reasonable' even accounts for businesses who send/receive fat Powerpoint presentations. These users have also understood that disk space is not unlimited, and that if they use it reasonably, I will plenty of time to add more space before it becomes an issue. Hell, if uptime is an issue, I can add a box and NFS mount their domain directory without any noticable downtime to them. 90GB file transfers are not a reasonable use of email. Seriously, How many torrents over 1GB do you see on average?