Does anyone know if you can mount a Win2k3 partition yet with smbmount without turning off client signing on network?
I last tried this a few years back, but failed because you had to turn off signing for the DCs...kinda stops Linux being able to connect to valuable resources.
Linux as a data-store in a Windows network is pretty awesome though with samba + lvm once configured well.
FxCop too has gone server-side too (for those familiar with.Net development). It takes one experienced dev to customise the rules, and you've got a fairly decent protection scheme against insane code commits.
Yeah, and i expect Linux will make some inroads into the desktop scene; i'm just not sure how much.
Windows, if nothing else provides a standard for devs to target. I.e, software today you can buy will say "Compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista".
Imagine the same with Linux... "Compatible with Ubuntu 6.10, 7.04, CentOS X, Mandriva Y,...." you see where this is going. There's a lot more permutations in the Linux world that in the Windows world.
Also, people say "why not Linux?", but the same argument goes both ways "Well, why not Windows?". Sometimes, as we've seen, Linux when pre-installed isn't actually much cheaper, if at all.
This "girlfriend" you speak of... I think you are making a point that Linux is ready for the uses of most illiterate users.
Yep, pretty much...I mean, she's not much of a computer interested girl, just uses some laptop for the basics and that's it, so Linux would be perfect.
And I don't know what PC games you need, but I've always found games on Linux to be enjoyable timesinks. Also, you can work with doc and (coming soon) docx files on Linux. Comparatively, I would estimate that 65-75% of the world's computer's do not have the ability to work with docx, anyway. I'm sure there are some good games for Linux, but how about some of the big-namers? I'm currently playing BioShock - top game incidentally. My point is that I need flawless MS Office document interaction. OO doesn't do that. SharePoint services too; OO doesn't do them either. Again, for a friend only yesterday recommended OO as she just wanted a word processor to type her essays up in Spanish, and the version of Word didn't allow Spanish dictionaries. But it's not for me.
Lastly, I don't know what features are in iTunes that you need, but I know that I've seen posts on here by Linux uses saying they have no issues synch'ing with their iPods. iPod + iTunes is a seamless experience on Windows. Podcasts, music libraries, downloads etc; it all just works. Syncing is one very small peice of the pie; if you can garauntee there's a Linux equivalent that'll do all of what iTunes does, maybe I'll switch.
As far as being a MS.Net developer... I'm sure you'd be happy being a PHP or Ruby or Java or C/C++ developer if you could find an employer that will pay you to develop those non-Microsoft developed languages. Right? You only develop.Net because that is where the money is? I develop in.Net lingos because the tools are really good, the technology is solid and wide varying (web-services through to smart devices), and frankly it's the most dynamically growing development platform there is from what I can see. I'm sure there are other languages that are good too, I used to be a Java dev, but nothing that covers so much so effectively. In short, I think.Net rocks, and have no intention of switching to anything else right at this moment.
The way I see it, it's ready for YOUR desktop when it can run all YOUR apps seamlessly and without a problem.
My girlfriend for instance, just browses the net, plays mp3's, checks her emails and occasionally writes documents, prints them, and occasionally uses Skype. Linux is ready for HER desktop.
Me on the other hand, I'm a.Net dev, play lot's of PC games, work with doc & docx files every day, and actually like iTunes (for the iPod). Linux is not ready for my desktop, nor is it likely to be any time soon.
To say "Linux is ready for THE desktop" is quite frankly very short-sighted.
Then fire the PR company you pay to harass Slashdot. It's obvious they can't control a single individual much less sway public opinion on Slashdot. I often wonder, Twitter, if it is you that is on the MS payroll list; you're that good at promoting free software (which FOSS being pretty good as it is, is a shame).
it totally thrashed my computer, now won't start at all - constant BSOD's. Also, there's a burning smell coming from the back of the tower; I could swear its killed the fan on the cpu too. Oh, and it constantly leaves the toilet seat up now when it goes to the loo, and keeps looking at my girlfriend's ass.
Yes I will compare them, for graphics. And direct X is horrible to work with by comparison. True insight if ever I've seen it. I can't speak for the quality of OpenGL, but my point is basically that Microsoft are the only vendor that's provided a single API set for gaming, making it an attractive option for game devs. Graphics, while a big part, is only a part of gaming.
...unless DirectX comes to OSX. Mac's make up 10% of the market, something like that, right?
While I'm sure some games will be cross-platform, you try selling the idea of focussing your coding efforts on 10% of the total market to your CEO.
Remember too; games written for DirectX just happen to port real easy to the XBox too - that is real margin savings right there for most game developers.
Oh, and don't even compare OpenGL to DirectX because DirectX does way more than just graphics; it's an entire API set for every element of gaming.
It wasn't something that bothered me that much to be honest. I mean, there's no expectation for any kind of serious privacy the minute you leave your own property, except to say CCTV was probably invented catching thieves rather than watching randy students (which I was at the time).
So I did what any self respecting gentleman does in such circumstances; gave him the finger while grinning ear-to-ear.
In fact, the thought that they could help if I were to be in a tight-spot is actually reassuring. People think twice about doing stupid things if they know there's an eye in the sky watching them.
I have however had one objection; I caught one blatantly checking me and one ex-girlfriend "making out" (let's say) in a park once. The dirty bastard on the end even nodded the camera at me in recognition I'd caught him watching it all.
Some malware i've seen has become seriously soffisticated, so much so cleaning it is basically impossible.
Non-admin rights, client-side file-scanners, web-side black-lists, and user training is the only way malware is going to go away.
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I personally think it's more that Ballmer if anything, just wasn't on the ball with new emerging tech....portal music and internet search come to mind as current examples, but the XBox is doing ok - coming from nothing to something in a crowded market like that is quite impressive.
Remember, it took IE 3 major revisions before it became the dominant browser for example. It took IIS 6 major revisions to become a serious contender to Apache.
I don't think it'll be that easy on the two failing business areas I mentioned above to become dominant (or even perhaps prevalent), but Microsoft have a habit of hammering away until successful one way or another. It'll be an interesting battle that's for sure.
The facts are you don't just buy OSX; part of the mac attraction is the hardware too for the complete Mac experience.
Sure you can upgrade MacOS, but only on a Mac you've already paid above board for. If you could buy OSX and run it on generic hardware (which will probably never happen), you'd have a point, and the two would indeed be comparable. Hence, MacOS is a different market.
I'm calling FUD on this considering how popular OSX is and how many poorer countries use Linux That's two separate markets though; OSX does nicely in the "money is not a problem, make it work and make it shiny" market, whereas Linux works very well in the "let's run it on any hardware" market. Windows is engineered for the mainstream upwards really, and the corporate desktop where managing hundreds/thousands of desktops is critical.
After the disaster that has been Windows Vista Vista is the 2nd most used OS in the world for desktop PCs and laptops; I wonder how you would quantify it being a disaster (the fact you might dislike it not counting of course). You could claim it's not the most popular Windows to have come out, but disaster it is not. Money talks, bullshit walks, as they say.
After watching the video, I am quite assured the coming apocalypse will preventable as long as I remember kick my mechanical oppressor in the nads every 20 minutes or so.
Yeah it's true, you don't get the same flexibility that OSS gives (if nothing else, you don't get the source for example), but the MS way for systems is that you'll get 80% of what you want a system to do very quickly and easily. The rest you use other stuff for, or write it yourself.
I mean, it's a very broad topic of course, but what Microsoft does very well is focus on an entire ecosystem of products that work really well together which is something OSS can be lacking in, in my humble opinion.
If you take Windows Vista, Windows Server, Office, SharePoint, Exchange, SQL Server, IIS, everything on offer; you're guaranteed absolutely they will work together (assuming you're not thick as shit and screw it up) you can be assured that some of the most thorough testing on the planet has gone into making sure they work together and that's a real advantage Microsoft has over OSS - information systems are never one component, they are many. Ok, it's never perfect, but still.
Outlook is one of the most user-acceptance tested applications in the world. Really, it is.
Outlook just happens to work really well with Exchange.
Exchange/Outlook just happens to plug really well with SharePoint/MOSS (for document sharing, workspaces, etc).
The both just happen to use SQL Server, and of course the whole security model just happens to be based in AD, which in turn just happens to be a Windows Server only technology.
It's all very integrated, and actually works very well with not too much knowledge. Seriously, I think 99% of the people on this site could setup the system above I just outlined in a day.
Why? Well, you start with Outlook and before you know it, you've got the whole ecosystem. It's designed to plug in as easily as possible to enable you to give cash as easily as possible to Microsoft.
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Does anyone know if you can mount a Win2k3 partition yet with smbmount without turning off client signing on network?
I last tried this a few years back, but failed because you had to turn off signing for the DCs...kinda stops Linux being able to connect to valuable resources.
Linux as a data-store in a Windows network is pretty awesome though with samba + lvm once configured well.
While not the be-all-and-end-all of code quality metrics, VS2008/Team Foundation Server has this built-in now so you can stop developers checking in completely junk code if you so wish - http://blogs.msdn.com/fxcop/archive/2007/10/03/new-for-visual-studio-2008-code-metrics.aspx
.Net development). It takes one experienced dev to customise the rules, and you've got a fairly decent protection scheme against insane code commits.
FxCop too has gone server-side too (for those familiar with
Yeah, and i expect Linux will make some inroads into the desktop scene; i'm just not sure how much.
...." you see where this is going. There's a lot more permutations in the Linux world that in the Windows world.
Windows, if nothing else provides a standard for devs to target. I.e, software today you can buy will say "Compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista".
Imagine the same with Linux... "Compatible with Ubuntu 6.10, 7.04, CentOS X, Mandriva Y,
Also, people say "why not Linux?", but the same argument goes both ways "Well, why not Windows?". Sometimes, as we've seen, Linux when pre-installed isn't actually much cheaper, if at all.
This "girlfriend" you speak of... I think you are making a point that Linux is ready for the uses of most illiterate users.
Yep, pretty much...I mean, she's not much of a computer interested girl, just uses some laptop for the basics and that's it, so Linux would be perfect. And I don't know what PC games you need, but I've always found games on Linux to be enjoyable timesinks. Also, you can work with doc and (coming soon) docx files on Linux. Comparatively, I would estimate that 65-75% of the world's computer's do not have the ability to work with docx, anyway. I'm sure there are some good games for Linux, but how about some of the big-namers? I'm currently playing BioShock - top game incidentally.My point is that I need flawless MS Office document interaction. OO doesn't do that. SharePoint services too; OO doesn't do them either. Again, for a friend only yesterday recommended OO as she just wanted a word processor to type her essays up in Spanish, and the version of Word didn't allow Spanish dictionaries. But it's not for me. Lastly, I don't know what features are in iTunes that you need, but I know that I've seen posts on here by Linux uses saying they have no issues synch'ing with their iPods. iPod + iTunes is a seamless experience on Windows. Podcasts, music libraries, downloads etc; it all just works. Syncing is one very small peice of the pie; if you can garauntee there's a Linux equivalent that'll do all of what iTunes does, maybe I'll switch. As far as being a MS.Net developer... I'm sure you'd be happy being a PHP or Ruby or Java or C/C++ developer if you could find an employer that will pay you to develop those non-Microsoft developed languages. Right? You only develop
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-10 points for nullifying point by alienating the entire
All in all, a fairly typical AC comment! Good to see no moulds are being broken today on
The way I see it, it's ready for YOUR desktop when it can run all YOUR apps seamlessly and without a problem.
.Net dev, play lot's of PC games, work with doc & docx files every day, and actually like iTunes (for the iPod). Linux is not ready for my desktop, nor is it likely to be any time soon.
My girlfriend for instance, just browses the net, plays mp3's, checks her emails and occasionally writes documents, prints them, and occasionally uses Skype. Linux is ready for HER desktop.
Me on the other hand, I'm a
To say "Linux is ready for THE desktop" is quite frankly very short-sighted.
It's a .net 2 application, so might even work in Mono.
Anyone tried?
It looks really cool in Windows, for the record.
it totally thrashed my computer, now won't start at all - constant BSOD's. Also, there's a burning smell coming from the back of the tower; I could swear its killed the fan on the cpu too. Oh, and it constantly leaves the toilet seat up now when it goes to the loo, and keeps looking at my girlfriend's ass.
Fucking Microsoft.
*shakes fist*
And direct X is horrible to work with by comparison. True insight if ever I've seen it. I can't speak for the quality of OpenGL, but my point is basically that Microsoft are the only vendor that's provided a single API set for gaming, making it an attractive option for game devs. Graphics, while a big part, is only a part of gaming.
...unless DirectX comes to OSX. Mac's make up 10% of the market, something like that, right?
While I'm sure some games will be cross-platform, you try selling the idea of focussing your coding efforts on 10% of the total market to your CEO.
Remember too; games written for DirectX just happen to port real easy to the XBox too - that is real margin savings right there for most game developers.
Oh, and don't even compare OpenGL to DirectX because DirectX does way more than just graphics; it's an entire API set for every element of gaming.
It wasn't something that bothered me that much to be honest. I mean, there's no expectation for any kind of serious privacy the minute you leave your own property, except to say CCTV was probably invented catching thieves rather than watching randy students (which I was at the time).
So I did what any self respecting gentleman does in such circumstances; gave him the finger while grinning ear-to-ear.
In fact, the thought that they could help if I were to be in a tight-spot is actually reassuring. People think twice about doing stupid things if they know there's an eye in the sky watching them.
I have however had one objection; I caught one blatantly checking me and one ex-girlfriend "making out" (let's say) in a park once. The dirty bastard on the end even nodded the camera at me in recognition I'd caught him watching it all.
Some malware i've seen has become seriously soffisticated, so much so cleaning it is basically impossible.
Non-admin rights, client-side file-scanners, web-side black-lists, and user training is the only way malware is going to go away.
I personally think it's more that Ballmer if anything, just wasn't on the ball with new emerging tech....portal music and internet search come to mind as current examples, but the XBox is doing ok - coming from nothing to something in a crowded market like that is quite impressive.
Remember, it took IE 3 major revisions before it became the dominant browser for example. It took IIS 6 major revisions to become a serious contender to Apache.
I don't think it'll be that easy on the two failing business areas I mentioned above to become dominant (or even perhaps prevalent), but Microsoft have a habit of hammering away until successful one way or another. It'll be an interesting battle that's for sure.
The facts are you don't just buy OSX; part of the mac attraction is the hardware too for the complete Mac experience.
Sure you can upgrade MacOS, but only on a Mac you've already paid above board for. If you could buy OSX and run it on generic hardware (which will probably never happen), you'd have a point, and the two would indeed be comparable. Hence, MacOS is a different market.
After watching the video, I am quite assured the coming apocalypse will preventable as long as I remember kick my mechanical oppressor in the nads every 20 minutes or so.
:))
(Seriously though, it's impressive
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B258243&x=8&y=15
Please, i'd love to see some evidence you can just open a Windows user account password like a can of soda. Is that what you're saying right?
locally stored passwords for websites have been crackable for a while now, and in Windows Server has been disabled by default for this reason.
User login passwords for Windows itself is something else and you can't "just decrypt" them.
Apart from that, it just sounds like MS have provided a bunch of analysis tools.
Is this really news or am I missing something here?
Yeah it's true, you don't get the same flexibility that OSS gives (if nothing else, you don't get the source for example), but the MS way for systems is that you'll get 80% of what you want a system to do very quickly and easily. The rest you use other stuff for, or write it yourself.
I mean, it's a very broad topic of course, but what Microsoft does very well is focus on an entire ecosystem of products that work really well together which is something OSS can be lacking in, in my humble opinion.
If you take Windows Vista, Windows Server, Office, SharePoint, Exchange, SQL Server, IIS, everything on offer; you're guaranteed absolutely they will work together (assuming you're not thick as shit and screw it up) you can be assured that some of the most thorough testing on the planet has gone into making sure they work together and that's a real advantage Microsoft has over OSS - information systems are never one component, they are many. Ok, it's never perfect, but still.
Outlook is one of the most user-acceptance tested applications in the world. Really, it is.
Outlook just happens to work really well with Exchange.
Exchange/Outlook just happens to plug really well with SharePoint/MOSS (for document sharing, workspaces, etc).
The both just happen to use SQL Server, and of course the whole security model just happens to be based in AD, which in turn just happens to be a Windows Server only technology.
It's all very integrated, and actually works very well with not too much knowledge. Seriously, I think 99% of the people on this site could setup the system above I just outlined in a day.
Why? Well, you start with Outlook and before you know it, you've got the whole ecosystem. It's designed to plug in as easily as possible to enable you to give cash as easily as possible to Microsoft.
Clever eh?