I could care less if AOL made OSCAR a spec that would help clones to mimic its functionality, or not.
I think I will never use AIM, for the simple reason that it is yet another way for people to get ahold of me. I have a cell phone, need to get my attention - call me. If not - send e-mail. Too slow? Well those are the two ways you can reliably get my attention. AIM for me will be like ICQ. Something somebody ordered me to install but something I never use.
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The last I heard (read cared to read) about the Xbox it would include an NVidia chip and an AMD CPU. Looks like an "Intel Inside" sticker on the rightmost heatsink. Seems like the specs change a little bit too much.
Also, what is a crappy Western Digital disk doing in there? Looks like a low-end PC with commodity parts. I have seen "micro" PC's before and they are nothing new.
But then again, I will probably never buy a game console.
1) OpenMail support sucks. The people are very friendly and knowledgeble, but when it comes time to make a bugfix? 3-9 months leadtime. Unacceptable.
2) OpenMail MAPI is horrible. It is basically a crude way of network storing a.pst file.
3) OpenMail IMAP is mediochre. Problems with MIME over IMAP leads to a virtually unusable IMAP service.
4) OpenMail uses some 500 binary executables. A nightmare to understand how to use, unless one is a seasoned OpenMail guru. Each has a slightly different command syntax as well...
5) OpenMail LDAP is somewhat cumbersome to configure. Most commercial products have a built-in LDAP connector to it's internal directory engine. OpenMail doesn't do this the same way, one has to configure LDAP with some seriously cryptic configuration files.
6) OpenMail takes about a good 2 days to get up and running to an acceptable level of performance. A normal messaging solution takes about a half day.
Now... Here is a golden opportunity for Lotus! Write an OpenMail migration kit and arrange with HP to offer a competitive upgrade license from OpenMail. The matter should thereby be closed case. Another 5% of the total messaging market.
I feel cheated by HP. It has gladly taken my money for support, subscriptions and excessive licensing fees. Only to receive this back... IMHO, Ms Carly has turned HP into a PC pusher and a flimsy InkJet printer manufacturer... Very sad indeed.
I find it to be rather sad that some people elect to walk the ignorant path.
Stalin wasn't as bad as Hitler, in my opinion he was worse. So somebody is going to approach me and say that one life is as precious as one hundred. The humanist way of thinking is sometimes rather horrible. Which is worse? 6 million Jews or 21 million Soviets?
Ludo Martens is a Communist. Communism has done far worse to our environment and people than any other religious cult. Yes, I do say religious cult, because that it is. One leader, one party. Very similar to the NSDAP, which decentant religions I do not endorse either. The rule of the proletariate? Not something that is possible according to a few prominent people, such as Sigmund Freud, Freidrich Nietsche et al.
And how dare you say that my grandfather was "plain bad"? Have you ever taken the time to read up about the SS? The SS was a huge organization led by a horrible man, Heinrich Himmler. Himmler had many henchmen, especially one very "dedicated" one. His name was Reinhard Heydrich. He was so very into his task that he carried dossiers on Der Reichsfuhrer himself. Now, these people had an organization called SD (Sicherheits Dienst) under them, which controlled concentration camps and so on. There were many other SS organizations as well. The Waffen SS (Weapons SS) was an infantry organization. It had mechanized batallions and regular conscripts. These soldiers were given better training, better weapons and more hazardous assignments than the Wehrmacht (regular German Army).
My grandfather fought for the Waffen SS in the Latvian Legion. HOW IN THE WORLD did he have time to kill Jews in concentration camps when he was out, being shot to pieces on a battlefield?! That, let alone the fact that almost EVERY soldier that fought for the SS or the Wehrmacht were kept in the dark about the Holocaust.
Not everybody in the SS were guilty of the Holocaust. In fact, a very miniscule part of the SS was guilty of anything else but fighting for their lives.
Being part of Hitler's murder machine? Well my friend, you have just told me that you think Stalin wasn't such a bad ol' chap. Stalin killed a large part of my family. So you go take a few aspirins and think about it all. I doubt very much that you have the courage to show yourself and talk about this openly, since you have elected to post as "Anonymous Coward". It is very easy to be brave when one doesn't have to be seen.
But this is a free country. You have the right to your opinions. Just don't expect me to agree with you, for obvious reasons. You have no idea about who my Great Grandfather was. He was a great man. He fought with the SS for the sake of his own country - Latvia, which Stalin raped, mutilated and destroyed. From the sounds of it, I assume that is a whole lot more than you have ever accomplished. I may be wrong...
In my own time I run a number of servers for other people.
The number of times that a problem with the server is mentioned to me, along with the suggestion of "Why don't you just reboot it?" is scary.
That is part of the MS mind set. If it doesn't work, reboot.
I would rather that we found the cause of the problem, and then fixed it. It will stop it recurring, and... it may not require a reboot.
But that's what comes with inferior technology. If a technical design for an "Advanced Server" results in a pretty nice gaming platform, I find it to be a rather sad chapter in a bad book. NT once had a meaning on a LAN. I am of course speaking of 3.51.
On our Sun boxes here, there is only one problem that is fixed with a reboot. Oracle has problems when it's been up around 130 days due to some internal counter. Solution, Reboot...
I have never heard of that problem before. We have Oracle 8i running on a couple of 6500's. Been there since we set them up. Which was over a year ago.
Here various products are used because they provide X or Y. We use exchange, not because it's any good, but because of the scheduling stuff. I would rather use a real mail program, but that is not acceptable as people can't then add appointments to my calendar...
There is a product that fills that void, with a very nice price tag as well. It is called HP OpenMail and it runs on lots of platforms. It is much nicer to administer than Exchange and it is much better performing. It even runs on Linux. It has a message store which doesn't easily get corrupted and has very good support. A 24/7 contract with HP is cheaper than buying about 6-8 incidents from Microsoft.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against Linux. I just know what the arguments against using it that are brought up here are. I like Linux, I use Linux...
But I work with a bunch of people, some of whom don't know anything about software development. They don't want to be able to read the source code, they want to be able to ask someone else why did your application/os/driver/hardware do THIS?
These arguments are universally applicable and LinuxCare is a partial solution... If they were willing to go one step further and provide patches then I wouldn't worry. At least with MS the managers know if this fails because of a problem with the stuff Microsoft provided, then we can go ask microsoft to fix it.
Red Hat provides this kind of support and they do provide patches. I know that you can buy a year of tier 3 support + a distribution for under $1,000.00 from Red Hat. Microsoft doesn't even give you a mail service, web service and OS for that kind of money.
I went to Starbucks the other day to order what I needed to cure a hangover. A large cup of strong black coffee. The cashier wouldn't serve me until she had verified that it was a "venti" coffee that I needed.
So let's say that I would go to Starbucks, order a "venti" coffee and check my mail? Sounds like a VIP-sales-guy syndrom to me. Hell, I don't carry my laptop with me other than to work and home. Why would I take it to Starbucks just so I can check what's new on Slashdot? Personally I don't live to get a first post.
Then, this wireless stuff is making me wonder. A colleague of mine just had a microwave station "rigged" on top of his computer at work. I can't imagine that it is very fun to sit by that thing and get, whatever is left of, your brain fried. Not dangerous? Perhaps not just one device, but think about all the cell phones, wireless ethernet, radio, TV and other technologies stream through your body each day... I am all for RJ45 as far as it can go. Airlines should pick up on this too. Put an RJ45 jack in the back of the seat in front.
We don't really need to be "connected" that much anyway. Think about your average day. How much is actually work being done because you have that Internet in your face? Most of it is probably reading e-mail with 50MB attachments and Slashdot.
When Starbucks pushes it into it's employees to understand non-jargon about coffee cup sizes, I will raise an eyebrow. As far as this wireless stuff goes, I could give a shit.
OK, I think I got you now. I was under the impression that you tried to say that no matter what the swastika comes from, it is the symbol of mass destruction.. etc. etc. etc. Mass destruction and genocide is something that is far beyond just that of Hitler and the swastika.
But now that I get that your ENTIRE point was that it is useless to debate wheather a law in another country is fair or not, I agree fully.. Thanks for the clarification.
Countries are allowed to make laws, yes. But are they always wise? Should we always accept what some politicians decide is good for us? Of course not. But then again, that's not what you were trying to say. I am partially in agreement with you. If you don't like it, don't look. Sure, there is a lot of junk out there that some people do not benefit from looking at. Let us say some labile teenager that sees a picture of a blown up head. Thinking that's cool, this person gets a gun and blows somebody's head open. But guess what, the triggering action isn't the problem. Also this hypothesis is only concerning ONE person and ONE victim. Why should the double moral say that we can watch this on the news, but not on the web?
I don't think that anybody is glorifying any of the actions taken in WWII. The people that do, have serious issues and they should be dealt with accordingly.
"Don't give me a long boring lecture on the origin of the swastika, don't tell me about the treatment of Native Americans, don't draw me a stupid analogy to something else. It's not relevant."
Here is where I disagree mostly. There is great relevance in all of that you wish to not hear about. The usage of the Swastika during WWII by the NSDAP is the issue though. I will do you the favor of not drawing the stupid analogy, but it is relevant. Education is key.
I don't really care what Yahoo! decides to do in terms of blocking certain ads for inanimate objects. The reason for this is that I wouldn't use Yahoo! at all in the first place. Especially if I was to buy German WWII militaria.
I have a collection of German WWII militaria, among others a full uniform and a bunch of medals. These used to belong to my late Great Grandfather. He was an officer in the SS Legion Latvia on the eastern front. He got wounded at Kursk but still managed to save two of his men. He died shortly after. His wife was awarded the Ritter Kreuz, which is also in my collection. Know what? Not all Germans killed Jews. Neither did they all like Hitler. In fact, most Germans hated him.
But this collection I have, however offensive it may be to French or other people, is part of my heritage. I will pass this on to my decendants when that time comes. My Great Grandfather fought a battle, in which he died as well as many of his countrymen. Now here is for the real noodle. He wasn't German. He was Latvian. He fought for the Germans because that was the only opposition towards the Soviets who blatantly occupied his country. So there is history on both sides of the war. Stalin, who was the almighty ally of the Allies, was one of the most horrible people in the 20th century. Genocide in the form of "artificial starvations" and the like were only part of the horror that he induced. He didn't care wheather somebody was close to him or not. He killed them anyway. But we all seem to forget these things.
Why not ban American militaria from that era? I think I know why, the winner writes the book. But a great man known as General Patton was not a very nice guy either. Upon the surrender of approximately 300 German soldiers near Ville Spockers, France, he ordered his men to shoot the Germans who already had given up. Why? Because he didn't think that Germans were good enough to be taken prisoners. But then again, history is only as good as in the eye of the beholder. I think that WWII militaria should be widely traded and at the best possible way be taken care of. American, German, British, Soviet, Japanese and Italian... These tokens of history may aid in preventing future uprisings of left-/rightwing extremists. We should all remember the people that died in that war. We should learn from the atrocities of the 20th century. Not the way we punished the Germans after WWI. These "bannings" of certain objects only fuel the growth of underground organizations who will obtain these artifacts for tokenizing some kind of religion. It is unfortunate that the people out there that really do collect WWII militaria should suffer for these reasons. Once again, these people are probably more interested in the history than starting a foundation of a Vierte Reich.
However, as I started out, if I was in the market for obtaining some German militaria, I would look at http://www.german-militaria.co.uk, rather than Yahoo! auctions.
Thanks for reading and understanding that I in no way support what the holocaust or whatever other atrocities the Germans bestowed upon others, by posting this response.
If I am not all behind the door here, BSD/OS is based on 4.2BSD. Not 4.4. Significant changes have been made since BSD/OS once emerged, but still, I think the first versions were based on 4.2BSD, thus the debacle between UCB, BSDI and AT&T.
"Can we please put this obnoxious misconception to rest? All it does is give Gore-mongers opportunity to whine. What insufferable ego Gore must has to assume that he would naturally be the logical second choice for Nader supporters. Nonsense!"
Actually, that was the point I was trying to iterate. I think Gore is an idiot, as well as Bush. Both may have credentials to speak for, such as degrees and so on. But what difference does it make? Neither will be able to do anything about this country, since neither has mandate. I can care less if Gore or Bush becomes president. But thanks for the input.
I am lead to believe that a national wide revote would probably remedy most of these problems. Chances are that the Nader people would give up on that dream and go for Gore. Chances are that a certain amount of Jewish people in a certain Florida county would not "vote" for that Nazi. Chances are that Bush could win the presidency.
In my opinion, we have effectively wasted lots of money and time on something that is inherently stupid. Neither of these two candidates are ever going to have any mandate to speak of now, so we will probably waste even more money on political debacles until the next election, where another political scandal is going to emerge.
But since this is going to go on, wasting _more_ money, I guess you and I should sit back, relax and pay higher taxes. I am a Libertarian voter, but I wouldn't care if hell froze over at this point. That being Bush elected for president, which he officially seems to be.
PS. I hope you understand that you are considered to be stupid, which is why your vote doesn't directly count. America needs to be protected from you by means of an electoral college. DS.
I once saw a TV show where a peace officer interviened in a shootout. The policeman got hurt and is now suing the perpetrator, AS WELL as the company that manufactured the weapon that hurt him.
But the cop's weapon was OK?
Blaming Napster for users committing piracy would be correct. Blaming Napster for what their users do, is rather stupid. The RIAA does in fact endorse CD distributions. Well, these are extremely easy to copy. Well, why doesn't the RIAA sue Sony, Panasonic, Plextor, Mitsumi and all the other myriads of CD-R manufacturers?
In my opinion, the RIAA should be sued by the government a la Microsoft. Antitrust and monopoly.
However, how does one boycott the RIAA? Not working for them? That may hurt them in the long run, but there will always be MCSE's that like fortune and glory. Can we stop buying CD's and just rip off the various artists out there? Sure, but that's not right either... As long as the RIAA is allowed to exist in the form it does today, it will roam free like a beast on a rampage. And YOU, my friend, will be watching...
"Wars are won by politicians and lost by innocents" von Clausewitz
I assume that this image, like any other filesystem image is made by a utility like dd. How do I place that on a CD to make it bootable in such a fashion that people talk about? Personally I think that Be are fucking idiots for not releasing a CD image. Why the hell would a company that does anything to conquer Microsoft customers, require that they would run Microsoft OS's... But back to the real issue, I read a bunch of the posts here, and I saw people saying and concurring that burning a CD is possible. If anybody did this successfully or has a plausible explanation on how to do this and with what kind of tools, please speak. I am very much all ears.
I am one of these conspiracy believers. I think that Microsoft are "unofficially" and deliberately "leaking" software like this. Nobody is going to admit it, but what better market leverage can one get than this?
On the other hand, why would "built" versions leak, but not source code? Somebody is clearly making sure that the right things leak. But then again, what can one expect from a company that "misplaces" source code in certain Caldera lawsuits.
Ultimately, I am kind of sick of Slashdot for posting these kinds of insignificant stories. I certainly do not care about pre-release Microsoft software, especially since the released versions seem to be bad enough.
I am really getting sick of this. I'm jumping on the bandwagon. I will file for a patent for "a software or hardware apparatus that uses open standard protocols, to exchange electronic messages, or data, over public networks". Thus I will become rich and have everybody pay me royalties.
I wonder why people are never seizing to commit senselessly stupid acts like these. Of course meaning that I would probably never file for such a patent, and I would probably dispise anybody who would, or would attempt to.
Not that these kind of articles/questions bother me much, but I have always said Windows 95 is an application an not an OS. Same goes for NT. Perhaps the package includes a kernel and so on, but most of it is actually fancy packaging rather than anything else.
This is making Creative Labs cooler. However, I am not going to jump of joy until they release all their stuff for Linux. Not all has to be Open Source, but I think that the drivers should be. Which is what they seem to be doing. However, let us remember, that other vendors do this without asking. They release hardware specs and code to Linux developers instantly. So dont get over excited over Creative's little thing here.
I have been pounding my head in my desk trying to figure out what good this thing would do. I mean I do know that the editors on Slashdot are geeks, and so am I. When the Palm V came out, I bought that, and also the Rio player. And lots of other useless stuff that I have seen here.
But really, that is insignificant to the amount of cool stuff that somebody said "I want one" about. Lots of stuff I have seen on here with the backing of the Slashdot editors, have been way cooler than that.
However, this makes no sense whatsoever, because it is not only useless, but irritating. Lets say you hold a phone with one hand. You have some information that needs your mouse to be "activated" (oh my lord), and you need to type something. All of the sudden you are going to wish you had a headset or something like that. I would love to hear the author, or anybody else, its a matter of fact, tell me what in the world this thing would be used for.
I still, after all these years have a problem with GUI's (no use in them if you can do it from a console) and utterly this double-clicking, resizing, drag-and-dropping sanctamoneous crap. Excuse my language, but I am really aphauled when things like these reach the "presses".
Next Cool(TM) thing we hear is that Microsoft has built a MS Bobsleigh(R) that they will compete in the Olympics with. It has thermal sensors to detect if there is ice below the skids, made from the same plastic as the mice from Redmond, and of course it runs on Windows CE so that you can steer it. I saw a post about somebody saying "I want the mouse with the paperclip coming up saying that the mouse cursor went in another direction". I agree totally with this person. The only thing Microsoft has ever devised in the later part of this millennium, are useless things like talking paperclips.
This is why I once made the switch to Linux on my PC.
Hey boys and girls! I think it is great that Microsoft gives us critisism. It is great because of a few reasons, but the most important one.. Microsoft has understood that it can also take part of the GNU generation. And they do! They are acknowledging Linux. Not only, they are telling us things that they think we should do. What better compliance to the GNU ideal can we get? Now for the marketing part. Who in his/her right mind believes ANYTHING that a vendor puts on its web? If I want NT Server facts, I would rather go to some reliable source, rather than to Microsoft. While the redmondians has given us an excellent chance to do something about things, I dont think that they will honestly benefit too much from it. FUD if you people like, but to me it really doesnt matter. I am a part of a GNU generation, and GNU is a part of me. I can care less about it all. Thank you BillG, you and your staff has been most helpful. Sincerely, Alexander
I don't mean to disrespect the professionals that post comments here. Neither do I have any intent of pissing anybody off. But I do believe I have a point.
1. Somebody pointed out that the Linux distribution used is more secure than the boxed set NT distribution. Paranoid as I am, no system is stronger than it's weakest flaw. NT may have many, but frankly, so does Red Hat. They might not be too many, but they are there.
2. I agree totally with the people saying that PC Week had done more work with the NT box, than with the Linux one. In fact, this kind of press coverage is only looking bad on PC Week. I remember I saw a full page with documentation on how they set up the NT box. Steps on how they applied the service packs and all. I couldn't find one note on how the Linux box was configured. I think that one that knows how to do so much research on NT, should be able to read webpages and mailinglists for Linux issues.
3. The most important issue. What did this teach us? PC Week actually brought to light that too many Linux users are ignorant about their security. I remember reading an article in a major PC magazine about firewalls. They brought up different products. Linux based solutions got good security remarks, just because, they were Linux. And NT based ones got bad, because they were NT based. This is not good journalism. Perhaps it is all time that we do more extensive security auditing on our boxes...
I spend time on IRC once in a while. And I like to frequent channels such as #linuxwarez where competent discussions often go on. No, I don't look for pirated software, the channels name may reflect that, but that surely is not the case.
Once a nick name came along with a reverse DNS lookup saying something like "tide77.microsoft.com". Naturally the user was banned from the channel with a message such as "Be gone ye evil devil". I found it funny, so I messaged this user to ask him what he wanted. He needed help with Samba. As it showed out, not only did he need help with Samba, but he wanted to put it as a PDC for a production system. This production system was a workgroup of Windows 2000 machines. I helped him out, to demonstrate not my anger towards Microsoft, but how the Open Source community helps out. I think that we are all responsible for getting the knowledge out there, and what better way than to teach the Redmond people? =)
In fact I have seen more of these events. This user that I have been talking about didn't know how to read logs or anything. He told me some cheesy message he got from his Windows 2000 client that tried to connect to the Samba machine. Even though I know nothing of Windows 2000, it was still easy to solve. I know what this guy at Loki thought. I thought the same... What in the world does Billy's boys do during the days? I think they do much more Linux than we can imagine. The interesting thing to get out to the public is, exactly how many percent of the machines at Microsoft are running Linux. I think that is equally interesting to how much Linux has gained in marketshare.
I thought this was old news. I remember myself reading about "Jessie" a while ago, here on slashdot. http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/27/0846234.shtm l
I dont know what angers me more, the fact that Apple is suing them, or that Compaq makes claim on intellectual property. These big boys have absolutely nothing to gain from squashing this distributor. If Apple wanted to make good with this, they should have said, "our iMac is the real one, theirs is a copy". That sells a lot better than choking your competitor. Plus it gives people that want Windows on their iMac a bit of Apple... ehrm, eMachines.
And as far as Compaq goes. Im fed up with them. Release all the closed source compilers you want, I dont care.
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I could care less if AOL made OSCAR a spec that would help clones to mimic its functionality, or not.
I think I will never use AIM, for the simple reason that it is yet another way for people to get ahold of me. I have a cell phone, need to get my attention - call me. If not - send e-mail. Too slow? Well those are the two ways you can reliably get my attention. AIM for me will be like ICQ. Something somebody ordered me to install but something I never use.
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The last I heard (read cared to read) about the Xbox it would include an NVidia chip and an AMD CPU. Looks like an "Intel Inside" sticker on the rightmost heatsink. Seems like the specs change a little bit too much.
Also, what is a crappy Western Digital disk doing in there? Looks like a low-end PC with commodity parts. I have seen "micro" PC's before and they are nothing new.
But then again, I will probably never buy a game console.
I would like to know what people would do without TV or infotainment... Read books and become smarter, driving the country forward?
Some facts.
.pst file.
1) OpenMail support sucks. The people are very friendly and knowledgeble, but when it comes time to make a bugfix? 3-9 months leadtime. Unacceptable.
2) OpenMail MAPI is horrible. It is basically a crude way of network storing a
3) OpenMail IMAP is mediochre. Problems with MIME over IMAP leads to a virtually unusable IMAP service.
4) OpenMail uses some 500 binary executables. A nightmare to understand how to use, unless one is a seasoned OpenMail guru. Each has a slightly different command syntax as well...
5) OpenMail LDAP is somewhat cumbersome to configure. Most commercial products have a built-in LDAP connector to it's internal directory engine. OpenMail doesn't do this the same way, one has to configure LDAP with some seriously cryptic configuration files.
6) OpenMail takes about a good 2 days to get up and running to an acceptable level of performance. A normal messaging solution takes about a half day.
Now... Here is a golden opportunity for Lotus! Write an OpenMail migration kit and arrange with HP to offer a competitive upgrade license from OpenMail. The matter should thereby be closed case. Another 5% of the total messaging market.
I feel cheated by HP. It has gladly taken my money for support, subscriptions and excessive licensing fees. Only to receive this back... IMHO, Ms Carly has turned HP into a PC pusher and a flimsy InkJet printer manufacturer... Very sad indeed.
Alex
I find it to be rather sad that some people elect to walk the ignorant path.
Stalin wasn't as bad as Hitler, in my opinion he was worse. So somebody is going to approach me and say that one life is as precious as one hundred. The humanist way of thinking is sometimes rather horrible. Which is worse? 6 million Jews or 21 million Soviets?
Ludo Martens is a Communist. Communism has done far worse to our environment and people than any other religious cult. Yes, I do say religious cult, because that it is. One leader, one party. Very similar to the NSDAP, which decentant religions I do not endorse either. The rule of the proletariate? Not something that is possible according to a few prominent people, such as Sigmund Freud, Freidrich Nietsche et al.
And how dare you say that my grandfather was "plain bad"? Have you ever taken the time to read up about the SS? The SS was a huge organization led by a horrible man, Heinrich Himmler. Himmler had many henchmen, especially one very "dedicated" one. His name was Reinhard Heydrich. He was so very into his task that he carried dossiers on Der Reichsfuhrer himself. Now, these people had an organization called SD (Sicherheits Dienst) under them, which controlled concentration camps and so on. There were many other SS organizations as well. The Waffen SS (Weapons SS) was an infantry organization. It had mechanized batallions and regular conscripts. These soldiers were given better training, better weapons and more hazardous assignments than the Wehrmacht (regular German Army).
My grandfather fought for the Waffen SS in the Latvian Legion. HOW IN THE WORLD did he have time to kill Jews in concentration camps when he was out, being shot to pieces on a battlefield?! That, let alone the fact that almost EVERY soldier that fought for the SS or the Wehrmacht were kept in the dark about the Holocaust.
Not everybody in the SS were guilty of the Holocaust. In fact, a very miniscule part of the SS was guilty of anything else but fighting for their lives.
Being part of Hitler's murder machine? Well my friend, you have just told me that you think Stalin wasn't such a bad ol' chap. Stalin killed a large part of my family. So you go take a few aspirins and think about it all. I doubt very much that you have the courage to show yourself and talk about this openly, since you have elected to post as "Anonymous Coward". It is very easy to be brave when one doesn't have to be seen.
But this is a free country. You have the right to your opinions. Just don't expect me to agree with you, for obvious reasons. You have no idea about who my Great Grandfather was. He was a great man. He fought with the SS for the sake of his own country - Latvia, which Stalin raped, mutilated and destroyed. From the sounds of it, I assume that is a whole lot more than you have ever accomplished. I may be wrong...
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But that's what comes with inferior technology. If a technical design for an "Advanced Server" results in a pretty nice gaming platform, I find it to be a rather sad chapter in a bad book. NT once had a meaning on a LAN. I am of course speaking of 3.51.
On our Sun boxes here, there is only one problem that is fixed with a reboot. Oracle has problems when it's been up around 130 days due to some internal counter. Solution, Reboot...
I have never heard of that problem before. We have Oracle 8i running on a couple of 6500's. Been there since we set them up. Which was over a year ago.
Here various products are used because they provide X or Y. We use exchange, not because it's any good, but because of the scheduling stuff. I would rather use a real mail program, but that is not acceptable as people can't then add appointments to my calendar...
There is a product that fills that void, with a very nice price tag as well. It is called HP OpenMail and it runs on lots of platforms. It is much nicer to administer than Exchange and it is much better performing. It even runs on Linux. It has a message store which doesn't easily get corrupted and has very good support. A 24/7 contract with HP is cheaper than buying about 6-8 incidents from Microsoft.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against Linux. I just know what the arguments against using it that are brought up here are. I like Linux, I use Linux... But I work with a bunch of people, some of whom don't know anything about software development. They don't want to be able to read the source code, they want to be able to ask someone else why did your application/os/driver/hardware do THIS? These arguments are universally applicable and LinuxCare is a partial solution... If they were willing to go one step further and provide patches then I wouldn't worry. At least with MS the managers know if this fails because of a problem with the stuff Microsoft provided, then we can go ask microsoft to fix it.
Red Hat provides this kind of support and they do provide patches. I know that you can buy a year of tier 3 support + a distribution for under $1,000.00 from Red Hat. Microsoft doesn't even give you a mail service, web service and OS for that kind of money.
I went to Starbucks the other day to order what I needed to cure a hangover. A large cup of strong black coffee. The cashier wouldn't serve me until she had verified that it was a "venti" coffee that I needed.
So let's say that I would go to Starbucks, order a "venti" coffee and check my mail? Sounds like a VIP-sales-guy syndrom to me. Hell, I don't carry my laptop with me other than to work and home. Why would I take it to Starbucks just so I can check what's new on Slashdot? Personally I don't live to get a first post.
Then, this wireless stuff is making me wonder. A colleague of mine just had a microwave station "rigged" on top of his computer at work. I can't imagine that it is very fun to sit by that thing and get, whatever is left of, your brain fried. Not dangerous? Perhaps not just one device, but think about all the cell phones, wireless ethernet, radio, TV and other technologies stream through your body each day... I am all for RJ45 as far as it can go. Airlines should pick up on this too. Put an RJ45 jack in the back of the seat in front.
We don't really need to be "connected" that much anyway. Think about your average day. How much is actually work being done because you have that Internet in your face? Most of it is probably reading e-mail with 50MB attachments and Slashdot.
When Starbucks pushes it into it's employees to understand non-jargon about coffee cup sizes, I will raise an eyebrow. As far as this wireless stuff goes, I could give a shit.
Have a good one!
Alex
OK, I think I got you now. I was under the impression that you tried to say that no matter what the swastika comes from, it is the symbol of mass destruction.. etc. etc. etc. Mass destruction and genocide is something that is far beyond just that of Hitler and the swastika.
But now that I get that your ENTIRE point was that it is useless to debate wheather a law in another country is fair or not, I agree fully.. Thanks for the clarification.
Alex
Countries are allowed to make laws, yes. But are they always wise? Should we always accept what some politicians decide is good for us? Of course not. But then again, that's not what you were trying to say. I am partially in agreement with you. If you don't like it, don't look. Sure, there is a lot of junk out there that some people do not benefit from looking at. Let us say some labile teenager that sees a picture of a blown up head. Thinking that's cool, this person gets a gun and blows somebody's head open. But guess what, the triggering action isn't the problem. Also this hypothesis is only concerning ONE person and ONE victim. Why should the double moral say that we can watch this on the news, but not on the web?
I don't think that anybody is glorifying any of the actions taken in WWII. The people that do, have serious issues and they should be dealt with accordingly.
"Don't give me a long boring lecture on the origin of the swastika, don't tell me about the treatment of Native Americans, don't draw me a stupid analogy to something else. It's not relevant."
Here is where I disagree mostly. There is great relevance in all of that you wish to not hear about. The usage of the Swastika during WWII by the NSDAP is the issue though. I will do you the favor of not drawing the stupid analogy, but it is relevant. Education is key.
I don't really care what Yahoo! decides to do in terms of blocking certain ads for inanimate objects. The reason for this is that I wouldn't use Yahoo! at all in the first place. Especially if I was to buy German WWII militaria.
I have a collection of German WWII militaria, among others a full uniform and a bunch of medals. These used to belong to my late Great Grandfather. He was an officer in the SS Legion Latvia on the eastern front. He got wounded at Kursk but still managed to save two of his men. He died shortly after. His wife was awarded the Ritter Kreuz, which is also in my collection. Know what? Not all Germans killed Jews. Neither did they all like Hitler. In fact, most Germans hated him.
But this collection I have, however offensive it may be to French or other people, is part of my heritage. I will pass this on to my decendants when that time comes. My Great Grandfather fought a battle, in which he died as well as many of his countrymen. Now here is for the real noodle. He wasn't German. He was Latvian. He fought for the Germans because that was the only opposition towards the Soviets who blatantly occupied his country. So there is history on both sides of the war. Stalin, who was the almighty ally of the Allies, was one of the most horrible people in the 20th century. Genocide in the form of "artificial starvations" and the like were only part of the horror that he induced. He didn't care wheather somebody was close to him or not. He killed them anyway. But we all seem to forget these things.
Why not ban American militaria from that era? I think I know why, the winner writes the book. But a great man known as General Patton was not a very nice guy either. Upon the surrender of approximately 300 German soldiers near Ville Spockers, France, he ordered his men to shoot the Germans who already had given up. Why? Because he didn't think that Germans were good enough to be taken prisoners. But then again, history is only as good as in the eye of the beholder. I think that WWII militaria should be widely traded and at the best possible way be taken care of. American, German, British, Soviet, Japanese and Italian... These tokens of history may aid in preventing future uprisings of left-/rightwing extremists. We should all remember the people that died in that war. We should learn from the atrocities of the 20th century. Not the way we punished the Germans after WWI. These "bannings" of certain objects only fuel the growth of underground organizations who will obtain these artifacts for tokenizing some kind of religion. It is unfortunate that the people out there that really do collect WWII militaria should suffer for these reasons. Once again, these people are probably more interested in the history than starting a foundation of a Vierte Reich.
However, as I started out, if I was in the market for obtaining some German militaria, I would look at http://www.german-militaria.co.uk, rather than Yahoo! auctions.
Thanks for reading and understanding that I in no way support what the holocaust or whatever other atrocities the Germans bestowed upon others, by posting this response.
Alex
Not very important anymore though.
Actually, that was the point I was trying to iterate. I think Gore is an idiot, as well as Bush. Both may have credentials to speak for, such as degrees and so on. But what difference does it make? Neither will be able to do anything about this country, since neither has mandate. I can care less if Gore or Bush becomes president. But thanks for the input.
I am lead to believe that a national wide revote would probably remedy most of these problems. Chances are that the Nader people would give up on that dream and go for Gore. Chances are that a certain amount of Jewish people in a certain Florida county would not "vote" for that Nazi. Chances are that Bush could win the presidency. In my opinion, we have effectively wasted lots of money and time on something that is inherently stupid. Neither of these two candidates are ever going to have any mandate to speak of now, so we will probably waste even more money on political debacles until the next election, where another political scandal is going to emerge. But since this is going to go on, wasting _more_ money, I guess you and I should sit back, relax and pay higher taxes. I am a Libertarian voter, but I wouldn't care if hell froze over at this point. That being Bush elected for president, which he officially seems to be. PS. I hope you understand that you are considered to be stupid, which is why your vote doesn't directly count. America needs to be protected from you by means of an electoral college. DS.
I once saw a TV show where a peace officer interviened in a shootout. The policeman got hurt and is now suing the perpetrator, AS WELL as the company that manufactured the weapon that hurt him. But the cop's weapon was OK? Blaming Napster for users committing piracy would be correct. Blaming Napster for what their users do, is rather stupid. The RIAA does in fact endorse CD distributions. Well, these are extremely easy to copy. Well, why doesn't the RIAA sue Sony, Panasonic, Plextor, Mitsumi and all the other myriads of CD-R manufacturers? In my opinion, the RIAA should be sued by the government a la Microsoft. Antitrust and monopoly. However, how does one boycott the RIAA? Not working for them? That may hurt them in the long run, but there will always be MCSE's that like fortune and glory. Can we stop buying CD's and just rip off the various artists out there? Sure, but that's not right either... As long as the RIAA is allowed to exist in the form it does today, it will roam free like a beast on a rampage. And YOU, my friend, will be watching... "Wars are won by politicians and lost by innocents" von Clausewitz
I assume that this image, like any other filesystem image is made by a utility like dd. How do I place that on a CD to make it bootable in such a fashion that people talk about? Personally I think that Be are fucking idiots for not releasing a CD image. Why the hell would a company that does anything to conquer Microsoft customers, require that they would run Microsoft OS's... But back to the real issue, I read a bunch of the posts here, and I saw people saying and concurring that burning a CD is possible. If anybody did this successfully or has a plausible explanation on how to do this and with what kind of tools, please speak. I am very much all ears.
I am one of these conspiracy believers. I think that Microsoft are "unofficially" and deliberately "leaking" software like this. Nobody is going to admit it, but what better market leverage can one get than this?
On the other hand, why would "built" versions leak, but not source code? Somebody is clearly making sure that the right things leak. But then again, what can one expect from a company that "misplaces" source code in certain Caldera lawsuits.
Ultimately, I am kind of sick of Slashdot for posting these kinds of insignificant stories. I certainly do not care about pre-release Microsoft software, especially since the released versions seem to be bad enough.
I wonder why people are never seizing to commit senselessly stupid acts like these. Of course meaning that I would probably never file for such a patent, and I would probably dispise anybody who would, or would attempt to.
Sincerely,
Alexander
Not that these kind of articles/questions bother me much, but I have always said Windows 95 is an application an not an OS. Same goes for NT. Perhaps the package includes a kernel and so on, but most of it is actually fancy packaging rather than anything else.
Sincerely,
Alexander
But really, that is insignificant to the amount of cool stuff that somebody said "I want one" about. Lots of stuff I have seen on here with the backing of the Slashdot editors, have been way cooler than that.
However, this makes no sense whatsoever, because it is not only useless, but irritating. Lets say you hold a phone with one hand. You have some information that needs your mouse to be "activated" (oh my lord), and you need to type something. All of the sudden you are going to wish you had a headset or something like that. I would love to hear the author, or anybody else, its a matter of fact, tell me what in the world this thing would be used for.
I still, after all these years have a problem with GUI's (no use in them if you can do it from a console) and utterly this double-clicking, resizing, drag-and-dropping sanctamoneous crap. Excuse my language, but I am really aphauled when things like these reach the "presses".
Next Cool(TM) thing we hear is that Microsoft has built a MS Bobsleigh(R) that they will compete in the Olympics with. It has thermal sensors to detect if there is ice below the skids, made from the same plastic as the mice from Redmond, and of course it runs on Windows CE so that you can steer it. I saw a post about somebody saying "I want the mouse with the paperclip coming up saying that the mouse cursor went in another direction". I agree totally with this person. The only thing Microsoft has ever devised in the later part of this millennium, are useless things like talking paperclips.
This is why I once made the switch to Linux on my PC.
Sincerely, Alexander
Hey boys and girls! I think it is great that Microsoft gives us critisism. It is great because of a few reasons, but the most important one.. Microsoft has understood that it can also take part of the GNU generation. And they do! They are acknowledging Linux. Not only, they are telling us things that they think we should do. What better compliance to the GNU ideal can we get? Now for the marketing part. Who in his/her right mind believes ANYTHING that a vendor puts on its web? If I want NT Server facts, I would rather go to some reliable source, rather than to Microsoft. While the redmondians has given us an excellent chance to do something about things, I dont think that they will honestly benefit too much from it. FUD if you people like, but to me it really doesnt matter. I am a part of a GNU generation, and GNU is a part of me. I can care less about it all. Thank you BillG, you and your staff has been most helpful. Sincerely, Alexander
1. Somebody pointed out that the Linux distribution used is more secure than the boxed set NT distribution. Paranoid as I am, no system is stronger than it's weakest flaw. NT may have many, but frankly, so does Red Hat. They might not be too many, but they are there.
2. I agree totally with the people saying that PC Week had done more work with the NT box, than with the Linux one. In fact, this kind of press coverage is only looking bad on PC Week. I remember I saw a full page with documentation on how they set up the NT box. Steps on how they applied the service packs and all. I couldn't find one note on how the Linux box was configured. I think that one that knows how to do so much research on NT, should be able to read webpages and mailinglists for Linux issues.
3. The most important issue. What did this teach us? PC Week actually brought to light that too many Linux users are ignorant about their security. I remember reading an article in a major PC magazine about firewalls. They brought up different products. Linux based solutions got good security remarks, just because, they were Linux. And NT based ones got bad, because they were NT based. This is not good journalism. Perhaps it is all time that we do more extensive security auditing on our boxes...
Sincerely,
Alexander
Once a nick name came along with a reverse DNS lookup saying something like "tide77.microsoft.com". Naturally the user was banned from the channel with a message such as "Be gone ye evil devil". I found it funny, so I messaged this user to ask him what he wanted. He needed help with Samba. As it showed out, not only did he need help with Samba, but he wanted to put it as a PDC for a production system. This production system was a workgroup of Windows 2000 machines. I helped him out, to demonstrate not my anger towards Microsoft, but how the Open Source community helps out. I think that we are all responsible for getting the knowledge out there, and what better way than to teach the Redmond people? =)
In fact I have seen more of these events. This user that I have been talking about didn't know how to read logs or anything. He told me some cheesy message he got from his Windows 2000 client that tried to connect to the Samba machine. Even though I know nothing of Windows 2000, it was still easy to solve. I know what this guy at Loki thought. I thought the same... What in the world does Billy's boys do during the days? I think they do much more Linux than we can imagine. The interesting thing to get out to the public is, exactly how many percent of the machines at Microsoft are running Linux. I think that is equally interesting to how much Linux has gained in marketshare.
Sincerely, Alexander
But then again, I might be off the edge here.
And as far as Compaq goes. Im fed up with them. Release all the closed source compilers you want, I dont care.
Sincerely,
Alex