And on a lighter note, Bill Gates hailed this breakthrough as just the thing needed for thier SPOT technology to revolutionize the use of toilet tissue in the home.
He was quoted as saying "Imagine the potential impact of being able to stream news, sports and advertisements to this often overlooked segment of the market in real-time."
Where do you see a 128 MB Powerbook? The lowest-end PB starts at 256 MB and they are still running thier 'double your memory for $40' deal which puts the memory pricing back in-line with everyone else. In other words, get it.
256 MB starts to get useful but at 512 the PB is plenty responsive. I'm very impressed with OS X's memory handling and Aqua maintains a very snappy response under heavy system loads. Of course you still get that damned beach ball but that rarly has anything to do with system load in my experience.
>>> What on earth do you need from AD that cannot be solved otherwise?
How about OU-level GPO or GPO on *ANY* level other than local.
Aside from simply providing information about users thier passwords and mailboxes, AD also allows group ploicy to be set at levels other than on each desktop. This makes it *really* handy to do things like, say, tell windows NOT to display the last logon name (security risk) or put a logoff user option on the start bar (how many windows boxes get rebooted because logoff and restart are so damned close?) or even allow your whole domain to "send unecrypted passwords to third-party SMB servers" (aka easy, though insecure, samba integration).
Maybe there are other solutions to this type of thing but as far as I can tell the GPO stuff is the only real advantage over other directory services. And when your managing thousands of desktops and servers it really is a major advantage!
My Favorites are a tie between the old "Guru Meditation Error" on the Amiga and the "Double Panic" in SCO OpenServer where the system not only panics once but panics again when it realizes it can't talk to the dump device all-of-a-sudden.
Then there's the obligatory "General Protection Fault" and, my favorite, "Your computer has performed an illegal operation". Leave it to Bill Gates and co. to scare the shit out of old people that can barly read their email let alone grasp the fact that the FBI *isn't* going to knock at thier door in a few minutes.
Steven Hawking's A Brief History of time is a great introduction without getting too technical. Though a bit dated it was revised not-too-long ago and now includes discussion of the ever-popular string thoeries.
He does talk a great deal about relativity and does touch upon quantum mechanics.
Physics is such a deep subject that, from there, you can go just about anywhere you want!
But it seems to me the wording of the 4th amendment prevents illegal search *AND* seizure, not *OR*.
This would imply, to me anyway, that a search in and of itself is legal as long as no seizure of goods took place.
On a similar note, something I've thought about in the past, if I were to urinate in my employers toilet does my urine then become my employer's property and can they legally test it for illegal substances without my consent? Does my disposal of urine on thier property constitute consent? Is it rightly thiers seeing how I just threw it away?
Yes, these kinds of things keep me up at night.
Get yourself a civil rights lawyer or contact the ACLU for advice. Ask questions here about how to setup Apache to handle 5 billion requests a second.
Why wouldn't someone simply start a service where users can report technical complaints about CDs.
This way it would be possible to reference this database before a purchase and be able to determine the ability to rip it based on others experience. If it's a title that's protected, sipmly don't buy it.
I agree this stuff should be labeled but that's nothing more than a pipe dream. Instead of just complaining about the problem, let's do something about it!
I think that thier competitors would rip through the code and put the things they don't have into thier product.
Next, they would bury them.
OSS doesn't make sense in a *LOT* of places. I can't think of a *single* vertical market where OSS would flourish. If a vendor was to OSS a particular vertical package it would likely kill them. Remember, most vertical software vendors rely solely on one market and one product to sustain themselves.
I expect I'll hear arguments that they shouldn't do business this way and they should diversify and compete on support alone. Well, people who say this are just niave. Many of these vendors have products that can get the job done. There is also a *lot* of competition in most (if not all) of these markets. They end-up winning contracts based on thier support track record. Most companys rely on word of mouth go do thier advertising for them.
It makes sense in horizontal markets such as OSs, word processors, web servers and MUA. But not for vertical markets. It would just end up killing the small guys trying to make a decent living.
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Have you ever been to a Dave and Buster's?
If not, you have no idea what you are missing. For those that are not aware it is a huge arcade for adults complete with pool tables, a restaruant and a bar. Unfortulatly, my local D&B's (Denver, CO) doesn't have any pinball machines.
I really wish they did, however. Even still, going there is still a blast.
What about the moving parts inside of tapes? I have had countless issues with tapes. The travan cartridges are expensive becase there is a fair amount of mechanics in them! DDS cartridges are cheaper and more portable, but the drives are expensive and (here's the real kicker) TAPE STORAGE TECHNOLOGY ISN'T KEEPING UP WITH HARD DISK TECHNOLOGY!!! These DDS drives are just not big enough anymore.
You say that the math is such that tapes are cheaper, but I challenge you to do the math. A tape drive that is capable of storing 40 BG of storage (uncompressed) will be expensive. The only technology that comes close is DLT. A 35/70GB DLT will set you back about 5 grand! Then the damn tapes are $35 a pop (and, once again, filled with a lot of things that can break)!
Depending on that data (and this is really what backups are all about, huh?), the hard disk option is making more and more sense these days.
Now, where does it not make sense? With my customer. They have a need to have immediate access to data that is up to 5 years old (telecommunincation regulations). We are talking exabytes of data. We have to use these *HUGE* StorageTek silos that are packed with DLT cartridges and drives and controlled by robotics. In this sceneraio moving this data to disk makes no sense and is not econmonical. These guys cycle through 4.5TB of storage every 10 days!!! The biggest issue with tapes these days is the scale that we are talking about before it starts to pay not using hard disks!
I was pondering a few hours ago about this exact issue. My solution will be to get about 4 more disks (for less than the price of a decent tape drive but with a *LOT* more capicity) and keep a mirror handy. Once a week, remove the mirrored disk and replace it with another, sync the mirror, and repeat. For my data, this is plenty good enough. For my customer, forget it.
It's pretty neat to look at and I highly recommend anyone look at the source and pull it apart. You will have to check-out the "encrytion" algorithm (if it can be called that) th get the key.
Of course, you can always do what I did and crack the old way, with pen and paper.;)
I'm current;y a Senior UNIX Systems Administrator for a Fortune 500 company outsourced to another Fortune 500.
I started my path about 7 years ago with no clear direction but, somehow, that path was cleared.
My goal for about the last 5 years was to be a UNIX SA for a large company. This seemed to be a logical choice considering my interests.
I did this by eating, living, and breathing UNIX for the last 6 years. The more intimate I have gotten with the UNIX variants, the less I wanted to program (in college it seemed that programming was the path for me). I would set-up things just for the sake of doing it but, somehow, I always seemed to find a personal use for it!
Today, I am considerably younger than even the next ranking Sr. UNIX admin in age. However, no one there would argue with my abilities (only , perhaps, my spelling and grammar;).
My advice to you, enjoy what it is you do and you will find yourself living it. When you live it, you greatness will be found.
Good luck with your path, you will find a successful end.
The only question is *WHEN* you reach that goal, what's next. This is a position I find myself in today.
That's all fine and dandy and perhaps the USTO will allow them to trademark "for dummies" brand of books, but to attempt to take down web sites and harass people sending out emails with very generic words "for dummies" seems obsurd!
It's bad enough that the USTO allowed them to have this trademark (the site listed even has an example of prior ord in dead-tree form), but for them to go after a sevort of the world-wide populateion that <STRONG>they helped to build</STRONG> is against common decency and <STRONG><I>WE SHOULD BE OUTRAGED</I></STRONG>.
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And on a lighter note, Bill Gates hailed this breakthrough as just the thing needed for thier SPOT technology to revolutionize the use of toilet tissue in the home.
He was quoted as saying "Imagine the potential impact of being able to stream news, sports and advertisements to this often overlooked segment of the market in real-time."
MSFT was down 5% on the announcment.
In my case it's not having enough money to buy a Mac.
Note that I didn't say Macs were more expensive. With the economy the way it is and my girlfriend out of work I just don't have the cash I used to.
Besides, we're still paying-off her Powerbook. When that's done I'll likly order my 1 GHz Superdrive-equiped Powerbook.
Wasn't this posted the other day?
This finally puts to rest, once and for all, that Mac's aren't any slower than thier PC bretheran.
Where do you see a 128 MB Powerbook? The lowest-end PB starts at 256 MB and they are still running thier 'double your memory for $40' deal which puts the memory pricing back in-line with everyone else. In other words, get it.
256 MB starts to get useful but at 512 the PB is plenty responsive. I'm very impressed with OS X's memory handling and Aqua maintains a very snappy response under heavy system loads. Of course you still get that damned beach ball but that rarly has anything to do with system load in my experience.
Don't think so there chief... The classic iMacs, unless discontinued, start at $799 a full $200 under the low-end iBook.
What about going the other way?
Can one use Apple's OpenDirectory and netinfo to not only have Windows authenticate against it but also set GPOs?
Generally I agree but I have to take issue here:
>>> What on earth do you need from AD that cannot be solved otherwise?
How about OU-level GPO or GPO on *ANY* level other than local.
Aside from simply providing information about users thier passwords and mailboxes, AD also allows group ploicy to be set at levels other than on each desktop. This makes it *really* handy to do things like, say, tell windows NOT to display the last logon name (security risk) or put a logoff user option on the start bar (how many windows boxes get rebooted because logoff and restart are so damned close?) or even allow your whole domain to "send unecrypted passwords to third-party SMB servers" (aka easy, though insecure, samba integration).
Maybe there are other solutions to this type of thing but as far as I can tell the GPO stuff is the only real advantage over other directory services. And when your managing thousands of desktops and servers it really is a major advantage!
My Favorites are a tie between the old "Guru Meditation Error" on the Amiga and the "Double Panic" in SCO OpenServer where the system not only panics once but panics again when it realizes it can't talk to the dump device all-of-a-sudden.
Then there's the obligatory "General Protection Fault" and, my favorite, "Your computer has performed an illegal operation". Leave it to Bill Gates and co. to scare the shit out of old people that can barly read their email let alone grasp the fact that the FBI *isn't* going to knock at thier door in a few minutes.
Steven Hawking's A Brief History of time is a great introduction without getting too technical. Though a bit dated it was revised not-too-long ago and now includes discussion of the ever-popular string thoeries.
He does talk a great deal about relativity and does touch upon quantum mechanics.
Physics is such a deep subject that, from there, you can go just about anywhere you want!
I heard Worldcom hid a lot of revenue in thier website. Good luck finding it though. ;-)
"leave it to a greedy corporation to start targeting the most naive and vulnerable demographic there is."
CowboyNeal??
Face it, this book is bound to be around for quite a long time. Granted, it will be on 80th edition, but still, a timeless classic none the less.
But it seems to me the wording of the 4th amendment prevents illegal search *AND* seizure, not *OR*.
This would imply, to me anyway, that a search in and of itself is legal as long as no seizure of goods took place.
On a similar note, something I've thought about in the past, if I were to urinate in my employers toilet does my urine then become my employer's property and can they legally test it for illegal substances without my consent? Does my disposal of urine on thier property constitute consent? Is it rightly thiers seeing how I just threw it away?
Yes, these kinds of things keep me up at night.
Get yourself a civil rights lawyer or contact the ACLU for advice. Ask questions here about how to setup Apache to handle 5 billion requests a second.
Why wouldn't someone simply start a service where users can report technical complaints about CDs.
This way it would be possible to reference this database before a purchase and be able to determine the ability to rip it based on others experience. If it's a title that's protected, sipmly don't buy it.
I agree this stuff should be labeled but that's nothing more than a pipe dream. Instead of just complaining about the problem, let's do something about it!
Nuff said.
I see a Darwin Award coming out of this.
If it turns out that it's as dangerous as smoking, I'll just use a headset instead. I'd rather have a tumor in my hip (belt clip) than in my head.
Let's see....
I think that thier competitors would rip through the code and put the things they don't have into thier product.
Next, they would bury them.
OSS doesn't make sense in a *LOT* of places. I can't think of a *single* vertical market where OSS would flourish. If a vendor was to OSS a particular vertical package it would likely kill them. Remember, most vertical software vendors rely solely on one market and one product to sustain themselves.
I expect I'll hear arguments that they shouldn't do business this way and they should diversify and compete on support alone. Well, people who say this are just niave. Many of these vendors have products that can get the job done. There is also a *lot* of competition in most (if not all) of these markets. They end-up winning contracts based on thier support track record. Most companys rely on word of mouth go do thier advertising for them.
It makes sense in horizontal markets such as OSs, word processors, web servers and MUA. But not for vertical markets. It would just end up killing the small guys trying to make a decent living.
Global Warming.
Have you ever been to a Dave and Buster's?
If not, you have no idea what you are missing. For those that are not aware it is a huge arcade for adults complete with pool tables, a restaruant and a bar. Unfortulatly, my local D&B's (Denver, CO) doesn't have any pinball machines.
I really wish they did, however. Even still, going there is still a blast.
What about the moving parts inside of tapes? I have had countless issues with tapes. The travan cartridges are expensive becase there is a fair amount of mechanics in them! DDS cartridges are cheaper and more portable, but the drives are expensive and (here's the real kicker) TAPE STORAGE TECHNOLOGY ISN'T KEEPING UP WITH HARD DISK TECHNOLOGY!!! These DDS drives are just not big enough anymore.
You say that the math is such that tapes are cheaper, but I challenge you to do the math. A tape drive that is capable of storing 40 BG of storage (uncompressed) will be expensive. The only technology that comes close is DLT. A 35/70GB DLT will set you back about 5 grand! Then the damn tapes are $35 a pop (and, once again, filled with a lot of things that can break)!
Depending on that data (and this is really what backups are all about, huh?), the hard disk option is making more and more sense these days.
Now, where does it not make sense? With my customer. They have a need to have immediate access to data that is up to 5 years old (telecommunincation regulations). We are talking exabytes of data. We have to use these *HUGE* StorageTek silos that are packed with DLT cartridges and drives and controlled by robotics. In this sceneraio moving this data to disk makes no sense and is not econmonical. These guys cycle through 4.5TB of storage every 10 days!!! The biggest issue with tapes these days is the scale that we are talking about before it starts to pay not using hard disks!
I was pondering a few hours ago about this exact issue. My solution will be to get about 4 more disks (for less than the price of a decent tape drive but with a *LOT* more capicity) and keep a mirror handy. Once a week, remove the mirrored disk and replace it with another, sync the mirror, and repeat. For my data, this is plenty good enough. For my customer, forget it.
I got with this one many, many months ago!
;)
It's pretty neat to look at and I highly recommend anyone look at the source and pull it apart. You will have to check-out the "encrytion" algorithm (if it can be called that) th get the key.
Of course, you can always do what I did and crack the old way, with pen and paper.
I'm current;y a Senior UNIX Systems Administrator for a Fortune 500 company outsourced to another Fortune 500.
;).
I started my path about 7 years ago with no clear direction but, somehow, that path was cleared.
My goal for about the last 5 years was to be a UNIX SA for a large company. This seemed to be a logical choice considering my interests.
I did this by eating, living, and breathing UNIX for the last 6 years. The more intimate I have gotten with the UNIX variants, the less I wanted to program (in college it seemed that programming was the path for me). I would set-up things just for the sake of doing it but, somehow, I always seemed to find a personal use for it!
Today, I am considerably younger than even the next ranking Sr. UNIX admin in age. However, no one there would argue with my abilities (only , perhaps, my spelling and grammar
My advice to you, enjoy what it is you do and you will find yourself living it. When you live it, you greatness will be found.
Good luck with your path, you will find a successful end.
The only question is *WHEN* you reach that goal, what's next. This is a position I find myself in today.
That's all fine and dandy and perhaps the USTO will allow them to trademark "for dummies" brand of books, but to attempt to take down web sites and harass people sending out emails with very generic words "for dummies" seems obsurd!
It's bad enough that the USTO allowed them to have this trademark (the site listed even has an example of prior ord in dead-tree form), but for them to go after a sevort of the world-wide populateion that <STRONG>they helped to build</STRONG> is against common decency and <STRONG><I>WE SHOULD BE OUTRAGED</I></STRONG>.