Why? It is quite normal to overbook broadband connection capacity, in fact normal overbooking factors are between 25 and 40. So, they sell the bandwith they have 25-40 times.
Of course you can opt for non-overbooked capacity, but you will pay proportionally more.
When you really need to worry that much if you can get a completely working box for significantly less than the $399 this one costs, you are probably not their intended customer.
Not everybody wants to hire a nerd to setup a box at their home, then having to find him again when something goes wrong. A standard appliance that does the same thing for a few dollars more can have the advantage of commercial support.
Why doesn't every multinational buy their PC's and servers at pop-and-mom around the corner and then let it setup by some hired "guy"? They could save a lot of money...
RAID-1 is not a backup. Sure it saves your data when a disk crashes. But when you remove or overwrite a file it is gone from both your disks.
I have a RAID-1 setup in my system but I still make backups. One backup is to a spare drive that stores only my valuable data (i.e. not the OS and software), and then there is an old DAT drive for the same purpose but with more generations. Should the whole system crash, I will have to re-install and rebuild the system, and will lose some large things that are impractical to backup. (like recorded video)
Don't think "I have RAID-1 so I don't need a tape".
When you don't enforce standard units, companies can invent their own units or use imperial units to conceal a price difference. This is considered unfair.
These laws are mainly there to protect consumers against companies. But between companies the same issues arise.
Being a French Linux does not mean everything has been translated to French. SuSE is a German Linux but there are still many English documents and messages in that system.
Full translation to many local languages, like Windows has, is a lot of work. One cannot assume that the open source world will achieve that soon. But it never hurts to work on it.
When they want to communicate their measurements to others, e.g. when trading, they have to do that in a standardized unit. It is required by law to use s.i. units for this. That is not retarded, the US is retarded.
I wonder why mail server antivirus/protection programs don't simply remove ALL executable attachments from ALL mail messages. If that had been in place we would not have a mail worm problem, and we would lose very little useful functionality.
When you want somebody to have your program, mail him a URL where he can download it if he feels he wants to do that.
In France it is always very important that all your software is translated to the local language. You will probably see increased use there once that has been completed.
Don't forget that many people are effectively forced into buying Windows.
I work at a small-to-medium sized company (about 1500 people, 250 of which use computers) that uses both Windows and Linux. We like open software, but when decisions have to be made about vertical applications specific to our organization, or when we consider practical facts of life like suppliers sending documents in office formats or computer suppliers not wanting to sell systems without Windows license, we are certainly driven towards Windows all the time. Driven so strongly that you could call it forcing.
We use Mozilla, we use StarOffice, we use Apache, we use OpenLDAP and a Linux IMAP server, we use an open-source calendaring system (webCalendar), but for how long? What if the next application insists on Outlook and Office for integration (this threat really exists, as the supplier of that application is a Microsoft shop)?
Maybe when you are a hobbyist at home, no-one is forcing you to buy Windows. Maybe if you are a large corporation or government agency that can develop its own software or can force open-software compatability when buying things, you are not forced. But a big section in the middle really IS forced to buy Windows. And Microsoft, realizing that, is increasing their activity precisely on that sector.
> FWIW, the Netherlands still sells beer in pints as well.
While you may find many packaging units that are derived from original imperial units and even some daily usage of terms like (metric) pounds and ounces, it is in fact illegal for manufactures and traders to use these units in their communication. So your beer bottle will have its contents specified in cl (centiliter), not pints.
But the open question still remains: does it really take that long?
I think it does not take long when compared to Windows 2000, the OS our users use for their everyday work. I am sometimes irritated by the long boot time of Windows 2000, but it seems the only way to fix that is to migrate to Windows XP, which boots a lot faster.
At least in Linux there are some ways to improve it without doing a major upgrade.
I tried, but that darned incompatible GNU/Linux crap of mine just wouldn't do it.
Same here, but I was only counting the incoming messages. In the meantime it has increased to 8. Let's hope this will not get out of hand as bad as Sobig.F, as these are sent out via the provider's mailserver, so it is not so simple to block infected systems by blocking a single IP address in the firewall (this helped a lot with Sobig.F that sent many repeated messages to the same address)
Tonight 3 of these arrived here. It is an e-mail message that contains a.exe attachment that promises to be "the latest version of security update, the "September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which fixes all known security vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express as well as three newly discovered vulnerabilities."
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Why?
It is quite normal to overbook broadband connection capacity, in fact normal overbooking factors are between 25 and 40.
So, they sell the bandwith they have 25-40 times.
Of course you can opt for non-overbooked capacity, but you will pay proportionally more.
When you really need to worry that much if you can get a completely working box for significantly less than the $399 this one costs, you are probably not their intended customer.
Not everybody wants to hire a nerd to setup a box at their home, then having to find him again when something goes wrong.
A standard appliance that does the same thing for a few dollars more can have the advantage of commercial support.
Why doesn't every multinational buy their PC's and servers at pop-and-mom around the corner and then let it setup by some hired "guy"? They could save a lot of money...
RAID-1 is not a backup.
Sure it saves your data when a disk crashes. But when you remove or overwrite a file it is gone from both your disks.
I have a RAID-1 setup in my system but I still make backups. One backup is to a spare drive that stores only my valuable data (i.e. not the OS and software), and then there is an old DAT drive for the same purpose but with more generations.
Should the whole system crash, I will have to re-install and rebuild the system, and will lose some large things that are impractical to backup.
(like recorded video)
Don't think "I have RAID-1 so I don't need a tape".
That won't fool the scanner.
Tell that to your government when they talk about software patents and copyright acts.
So if it's the better system, why does it take strict government edict, enforced standards, and strict laws to force it on the people?
It doesn't.
The system was in place decades before laws enforced it.
When you don't enforce standard units, companies can invent their own units or use imperial units to conceal a price difference. This is considered unfair.
These laws are mainly there to protect consumers against companies. But between companies the same issues arise.
Being a French Linux does not mean everything has been translated to French.
SuSE is a German Linux but there are still many English documents and messages in that system.
Full translation to many local languages, like Windows has, is a lot of work. One cannot assume that the open source world will achieve that soon.
But it never hurts to work on it.
Office formats, yes.
Office integration, no.
When an application interfaces with Word or Excel that does not mean it works with Staroffice or Openoffice. Could be working, but usually isn't.
But I don't think you will understand this.
When they want to communicate their measurements to others, e.g. when trading, they have to do that in a standardized unit.
It is required by law to use s.i. units for this.
That is not retarded, the US is retarded.
I wonder why mail server antivirus/protection programs don't simply remove ALL executable attachments from ALL mail messages.
If that had been in place we would not have a mail worm problem, and we would lose very little useful functionality.
When you want somebody to have your program, mail him a URL where he can download it if he feels he wants to do that.
We block all Windows executable attachments in the companies mail gateway. When you want to transfer an executable, tough luck. Send a floppy or a CD.
This has so far blocked ALL virus mail, often a day before the virus scanner (which is also used) recognized the contents as a virus.
Mail is good for person-to-person communication but should not be used to transfer programs.
In France it is always very important that all your software is translated to the local language.
You will probably see increased use there once that has been completed.
Don't forget that many people are effectively forced into buying Windows.
I work at a small-to-medium sized company (about 1500 people, 250 of which use computers) that uses both Windows and Linux. We like open software, but when decisions have to be made about vertical applications specific to our organization, or when we consider practical facts of life like suppliers sending documents in office formats or computer suppliers not wanting to sell systems without Windows license, we are certainly driven towards Windows all the time.
Driven so strongly that you could call it forcing.
We use Mozilla, we use StarOffice, we use Apache, we use OpenLDAP and a Linux IMAP server, we use an open-source calendaring system (webCalendar), but for how long?
What if the next application insists on Outlook and Office for integration (this threat really exists, as the supplier of that application is a Microsoft shop)?
Maybe when you are a hobbyist at home, no-one is forcing you to buy Windows. Maybe if you are a large corporation or government agency that can develop its own software or can force open-software compatability when buying things, you are not forced.
But a big section in the middle really IS forced to buy Windows. And Microsoft, realizing that, is increasing their activity precisely on that sector.
That probably is because US citizens cannot think of any empire besides their own.
> FWIW, the Netherlands still sells beer in pints as well.
While you may find many packaging units that are derived from original imperial units and even some daily usage of terms like (metric) pounds and ounces, it is in fact illegal for manufactures and traders to use these units in their communication.
So your beer bottle will have its contents specified in cl (centiliter), not pints.
Well, you must be new to Unix/Linux.
In the old days (10-20 years ago), systems took ages to boot. Much of this time was spent in sleeps.
But the open question still remains: does it really take that long?
I think it does not take long when compared to Windows 2000, the OS our users use for their everyday work. I am sometimes irritated by the long boot time of Windows 2000, but it seems the only way to fix that is to migrate to Windows XP, which boots a lot faster.
At least in Linux there are some ways to improve it without doing a major upgrade.
I tried, but that darned incompatible GNU/Linux crap of mine just wouldn't do it.
Same here, but I was only counting the incoming messages.
In the meantime it has increased to 8.
Let's hope this will not get out of hand as bad as Sobig.F, as these are sent out via the provider's mailserver, so it is not so simple to block infected systems by blocking a single IP address in the firewall (this helped a lot with Sobig.F that sent many repeated messages to the same address)
Tonight 3 of these arrived here. It is an e-mail message that contains a .exe attachment that promises to be "the latest version of security update, the
"September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which fixes
all known security vulnerabilities affecting
MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express
as well as three newly discovered vulnerabilities."
Apparently lots of people just doubleclick it.
27, as of this writing!
that seems too few
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003
Responds? Yeah, sure!
A version of amavis that I fixed myself.
But I think current versions of amavis do this as well.
Warning messages to the sender were good some time ago, but should be removed from any scanner now.
ALL "modern" viruses fake the return address.
However, why can't I opt with either my ISP or email provider to have virus emails deleted immediately from the server?
Because you have opted for the wrong ISP?
My ISP offers this add-on mail virus scanning, and about half of the ISPs here do the same.
In fact, my ISP has installed a "free" Sobig.F virus scanner for all subscribers. (the scanning for a complete list of virus has an extra charge)