People totally misunderstand Europe. They don't see where its going, nor what is going on. Most Europeans are blisfully ignorant, to the point of stupidity about democracy, the EU, and indeed the world.
Consistently low numbers of polling citizens in elections is a symtom of the eradication of democracy. The socialist and left wing, politically correct run things in Europe. The architects of the EU do not care for the United States. Nor do they care for anoyone else. You only have to look at how the EU treats African farmers, and how it operates an as aggresive economic policy as anyone in the globe.
Many of these petty technocrats grew up wishing to be enveloped by the old soviet socialist empire. Now they build their own socialist, technocratic society for themselves.
It is moderatly amusing to see the Irish being told they will re-referendum until they say Yes, or to see the architects and leaders of Europe denounce Britains Prime Minster for daring to give his own people a referendum. How very democratic of them.
When you see comments like, you must be 'in' Europe to survive, contrary to any logic, know that you are being railroaded. Countries in the European continent are capable of surviving and prospering. Switzerland, and Norway seem to still exist, shockingly enough. What is never said, is you must be in it to lose your nation, your laws, your way of life, your justice, freespeech, independance, laws, and so on.
When you are told you must join the Euro, or you will face terrible consequences, look at the states who have taken it, and those who did not, and note the economies that suffer now. Its not the none Euro states.
When you watch as entire nations vote in a clear anti EU sentiment as they ignore any democracy, and march on and railroad their constitution down all european citizens throats. Watch as they water down individual states and nations to the point where they will serve no purpose and can be eradicated.
Watch as the French give their votes for the Germans to cast. Last night Chirac left a conference, and handed his votes to the Germans to cast. How very representative. How very democratic. Watch now as the Germans, whom have ben working on an economic and political war, albeit peacefully in europe now again grow bolder. In recent times already, you can see states such as Poland being threatened by amazing behaviour. 'You will lose votes for XY, and Z'.
Since when is it laudable to tell such states they will suffer penalties for daring to have a different view from Germany, and France.
Perhaps someone can explain how it is ok for the EU to fail to have its accounts signed of for nine years running, for it to run out of town any staff who blow the whistle on corruption, and to ignore blatant and astonishing failures of government? Bearing in mind the numbers are bigger than Enron, and the near zero coverage in the EU and its press, one should think carefully about lauding the EU as the way to go.
One could claim the EU is a democratic government for Europe. We have elections. Each state gets to put a tiny body of numbers into a toothless parliament. Even if you whole representative body of people want something, they are watered down to nothingness. Take the democratic states in the EU, divide them, conquer them, weaken them. Give them in name only democracy. Give them local government until the people no longer take an interest. Give the dog a bone.
The people running the EU are not democratic. They are wholly unrepresentative of the people of the EU. The commissionares are unelected. They are selected by national governments, and that is thereby laughably called 'democratic'. One might look into times where the whofully pathetic 'democratic' parliament has managed to actually bring to account EU officers and commissionars in regard to fraud, or mis accounting, and you will not that the same commission is still in office. You will note that the same commissionare responsible for the issue, Neil Kinnock is still i
Having spent some time on an LPI course, and delving a little deeper, I found some aspects of Linux still need attention (IMHO).
Why is it not possible to have all configuration files with the.conf added on the end. Perhaps people who still roll the software with -conf are trying to be amusing.
Daemons are another. Why the hell call your FTP log Xtransfer.log?
There were so many examples of this idiocy that I ended up scratching my head. For an OS built on standards, there was a remarkable lack of reasonable standards when working with the OS, to the point of it being setup in some demented legacy ideals.
Now, I know I can go and add my own aliases, and I can amend all my log files, and break open all the configuration and fix this myself. But if you take that view, JoeNewUser is going to face this everytime you crack open a new Linux on the guy.
In the end, JoeNewUser will have to use the command lines and configuration, where he'll come up on the non standard, sometimes illogical, system confs and logs.
One day maybe, just maybe, Linux and its distributions will agree on its boot configuration files being in a standard place, and the same leads on for conf files.
Now, I suppose if you use the OS every day, you work around these things. You might adapt to the non logical names, non standard conf files, and ever changing locations of files.
The UK people are being victimised, criminalised by virtue of a law and politiciastion of the roads that SHOULD be beyond comprehension and population acceptance.
By taking ownership of a car in the UK you are turning yourself into a criminal. Not through choice either.
What is occurring is just the tip of the iceberg, there is plenty more to come.
First though, some small pointers.
Speed kills. Erm, no. Speed(ing) in some situations kills. There is a subtle difference.
Respect for the Law. Forget it. You cannot gain respect by turning EVERYONE into a criminal. Adding a complete blanket ban on vehicle speed that is too low in too many areas simply turns everyone into a speeder. As its been said elsewhere in the comments, everyone does 35 in a 30, 45 in a 40, and so on.
I am fortunate that I grew up in the Isle of Man. What is so special about the Isle of Man one might ask? Ok, I will answer, the Island is famous for only having speeding limits in some areas (in town, round a school, so on and so forth) but in the more open road areas there is no speed limit.
One might think this is a recipe for catastrophic traffic accidents. It can be, on occasion. However, its very rare people speed in the town and built up areas. One of the reasons why is that when you leave the area, you are able to proceed to where you are going at reasonable speed. I used to travel to work going through 4 towns and I had no problem following speed limits in the areas where they existed because they are reasonable. Its logical and sensible to abide by limits which are fair and have a reason.
Nothing explains the current behaviour of police and government when it comes to the roads in the UK. There is no rhymn or reason for many of the criminalisation acts that are being put in place. There is not even a reason to put half the speed camera's were they are being cited. Many of the actual speed limits are in place where they have been ratched so far down that the road no longer serves its proper purpose or use.
In addition, the taxation element of the enforcement is clear to anyone that has sense. Its being made and put in place to persecute people and force additional tax collections and further beaurocratic governance. Unfair in all aspects.
If anyone was sane at the department of transport, they might consider having different licenses for higher speed vehicles, with different tests for the applicants. Someone who intends to drive a high speed vehicle should be able to handle it properly.
There should be higher speed limits on motorways and on many dual carriageways, and on many roads where there is no reason to have this heavyhanded limitation in place. During bad weather or for other reasons there is no reason why this could not be amended to suit.
I have no objection to having tight limits round schools or other areas. Thats totally acceptable. Its logical. But many of the things being done today on UK roads are not. The assumtion is being made that no one is capable of driving above 60 miles per hour apart from motorways.
Sorry, but I for one am capable of driving beyond 60-70 miles per hour. Based on road conditions and on traffic there is no reason why the population should not be allowed to drive at sensible speeds rather than snail paced crawling.
Add in that many roads are being artifically 'jammed' by totally inappropriate behaviour from the government just adds to the misery. Care to discuss the accidents and social consequences of road rage related to these various issues? Perhaps consider the irrational behaviour of some individuals when you imprison them in a prison of a different kind without trial, reason, or justice and consider the impact. The social impacts of the monsters this breeds and the accidents related to it are generally unknown. Many of the traffic lights in London are being held on Red for inappropriate lengths of time. Little is said of such road piracy.
It would seem to me many people here have the following ideas
1. Exchange is good. What it does hangs together, and the end user likes it.
2. 'I got this other / or other products together and we have a nice working setup not too far from what exchange offers.'
3. I hate Exchange and MS sucks, oh and I had to fix/reboot/repair an exchange server(or servers) and I now think its the worst thing in the universe.
4. You don't need exchange
5. Look, you only need POP3/SMTP/IMAP - use this other stuff
So, rather than go on with all the differing and squabbling, I will tell you how it is.
1. There is no open software to match exchange. Some claim to do what exchange does, and to some degree, or even largely, they might.. But none match exchange as a turnkey solution.
2. There are commercial solutions. We tested SCO Open Mail and SUSE exchange server, along with Samsung contact. All can work as exchnage replacements, and offer similar functionality. All claim to be cheaper, easier to run, and all claim that they equal the function offered by Exchange. You also need their outlook connectors to get this functionality.
3. Exchange is still the best solution to 'Groupware' that money can buy. Make sure you buy the right hardware, install and configure the system correctly, plan your AD correctly and set your corporate standard for email and so forth. Make sure you have solutions for Spam, Virii and backup.
A note to those who bitch about cost. Bottom line, Email/Groupware is now close to, if not THE tool for business. If your company want groupware, then feel free to look into solutions that fit the bill. You don't have to buy exchange. But you do have to seriously consider exchange. Its a damn fine product, and any good IT person would ignore where it comes from and look at the requirements and consider exchange.
If you or your company only need POP/SMTP/Imap then you don't need exchange. If you do need groupware, then thats different.
There have been some sensible posts regarding this question posted, but a lot of noise by those who can't abide MS or their products. In reality most if not all the competition is also closed software, so the attacks on MS are somewhat misdirected. MS Exchange is a product of a company that believes in the productivity and innovation of its workers. That is something to be respectful of. The effort put into exchange has provided the world with a very fine server.
The free software movement, has as yet not quite got there in the case of exchange. This is not a reason to attack MS or the free software movement. It would be nice if some people are fundamental in their thinking would be a little more 'real' about the real world. There is good software produced in non open software methods, and that itself is not a crime.
Any company and ANY IT staff member should look closely at exchange and what the company needs and wants. You'd have to see what money was in the kitty and take into account any other factors. Many of the posts here have been pretty amataurish by their nature. If you want to attack Exchange, lets have solid reasoning behind your claims, rather than blind hatred, or stories of bad installs and planning.
The problem is that this IS how the EU is run. You will get what you are given. The people there offer to listen then ignore the information if it does not concur with what they believe/think/intend to put inplace.
I could go into vast detail, but lets leave it like this. One day, I will die fighting for my freedom from the EU, or live a desperate sad life under a massivly oppressive regime.
People 'really' need to wake up to what is happening in the countries in the EU. Its desperately late in the day, but people are amazingly stupid to have let things go this far was so little protest.
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In her article, Arlene McCarthy wrote:
Numerous people from small to medium-sized enterprises have written to me in support of my proposal. To me, this is the most blood-boiling point. I was there at the parliamentary hearing in Brussels in early May. Arlene McCarthy was not. The hearing was a forum for SMEs (Small-to-Medium Enterprises) to present their take on the proposed software patent directive. The prevailing opinion was so unanimous it was boring: software patents are bad. Enterpreneurs and investors pleaded lawmakers to stick to and reaffirm the spirit of the 1973 Munich convention. Yeah, supporters of Free Software were there too (strong Debian contingent, hi, guys!), but by no means in the majority.
I could hardly muster the willpower to talk to anyone during those two days, it was so depressing. No one of the opposing viewpoint showed up, effectively reducing the conference and the hearing to a feel-good get-in-our-of-your-systems-then-go-home kind of event. The only supporter of the directive was Elly Plooij van Gorsel (chairwoman of one of the three committees in charge of the directive), who showed up for the last thirty minutes, took some notes, evaded answering any questions, then left. An enterpreneur even said to her face: I'm the one who's supposed to be protected here, and I'm here to tell you, I don't want your protection. This went wholly unanswered.
So allow me not to suspend my disbelief in Ms. McCarthy's comment quoted above. BTW, Ms. McCarthy is also a chairwoman of a committee handling the directive (of the most powerful of the three). What I saw and read and got to know so far all point into one direction: she's entirely aware of what she does, she just doesn't care about flushing the European SMEs down the toilet. The American multinationals sure can pay for more educational opportunities taking place in Hawaii.
A tirade against the moderatly socialist governments and intran governmental structure? How can a structure that is aiming to dismember the very intergovernmental structure and democratic principal of those governments, and remove any and all power from numerous people expect *not* to be questioned.
The EU is young, utter rubbish. Its been around for decades now, it is more corrupt than its ever been and grows more so by the day. Care to explain to me why this group of people who cannot get their accounts signed by auditors should be allowed to remove democratically accountable governments without so much as a by or leave?
There is no excuse for the EU. None.
Onto your claims about healthcare. In much of Europe healthcare is very good, but usually you will I am sorry to say that they are not government run health systems. They are a mix of government and private working together.
In the UK You have a nice choice, especially if you are one of the people on a middle or lower income. You pay into your NHI every month. You pay a great deal into it. You also pay a stupid amount of tax that is remorselessly wasted. What you get in return is heathcare. Its the kind of healthcare no one in their right mind would like.
If you go to an accident and emergency unit, you may have to wait DAYS to see a doctor. Want to make an appointment to see your own doctor ? Sure, that will be three weeks sir.
Got a heart problem you might be dying from? Well thats 18 months.
Got cancer, well, maybe due to the new spending you'll get treated. Or maybe you'll be unlucky and have to wait a year.
The reality is the UK has the largest employer in the EU. It is dutied with a care for 60 odd million people and those people on a daily basis are mistreated, ripped off, defrauded and betrayed by a system that is beyond contempt.
The very assumption of a national health service thats there for everyone is a great idea. The truth is that a heath service that is basically days, weeks, or years behind the persons needs is no health service at all.
Its now run for the benefit of the people in the health service, and those who feed of it.
So the great health service, like the great welfare state leaves each individual in the wonderful position of paying every single day of their working lives while short changing them at every opportunity. So wether you are poor, middle classed or rich, you have to go buy yourself private healthcare to look after yourself or your family. You make me laugh, how long you live is stated like an affront to other worldwide health systems, and you somehow thing the NHS does'nt commit the same crime? How about this, people are paying everyday for the NHS and dying. At least if you pay into an american system, they make at least some effort to save your life.
Let me make a point here. At one point the idea of welfare, care and helthcare for all was a monumental and fantastic idea put into place. But that, like the British Empire is in the past. I am not critical of the creation of the two, I am critical of what they have become.
Social security, the health service, and other things like the 'comprehensive school' have left a socially unparralled problem of a rich country, intelligent people, and a culture of living of the state, its dire healthcare, and off benefits. Add to that the recent changes in human rights and the adoption of various internation agreements regarding people seeking to live i the UK, you now add to the mix a new social group. One that can commit crime at will, adhere to no law, and gain preferential treatment and care compared to a true citizen of the nation.
This is the socialist nation of the united kindgom. One where you mean nothing. You are nothing. Your value and worth is nothing. Your healthcare, schooling, transport and housing mean nothing.
A country where people are criminalised, in the equivalent effort of law and orders 'comprehensive schools' model where a car driver who speeds is as
Sadly, if only the money in the idealistic idea of yours went to the hospitals and schools. This is a line that is pedantically and repeatedly laid out by socialist, leftist politicians and their allies.
Care to have a close look at the UK, where monumental spending increases, and activity such as re-nationialisation of the railways has brought.. ZERO benefit.
The hospitals are as dirty and understaffed as they were 8 years ago when a labour opposition declared that there was 24 hours to save the UK national health service. People believe this kind of drivel, but thats down to a social culture of dumbing down and operating at the lowest possible common denomiter.
The line about schools was one which was peddled by such goverments when the 'comprehensive' school system was created. That is a socialist dream. A school where the end achivement is to reduce both the opportunity and the quality, AND remove the options for the people who are forced to attend.
The same applies to the hospitals. People by law are forced to pay into a system that does not work. Then they are forced to pay more into a system that does not work. They are then told they have to pay more into a system that does not work. Let me put this another way. The UK health service is the largest employer in the EU and it provides close to the worst service. Still people will prefer to believe that every government has to save the health service. Idiots.
As for the EU, this is another senario where the ludicrous have taken control. You have a politically built entity. It is largely run by a group of failed politicians, usually people kicked out of office in their country of origin. They are then given office that has no democratic mandate (Look, I agree before people start about democratic system failures, but we live in a supposedly democratic place, so breaching democracy should be questioned.) and then start dictating the law and government across a continent of some 300 million people.
People argue that because these people are selected by democratic governments, this is an acceptable way to build a europe of the future. Because so very many of the european people live in countries that have lacked a true democratic basis, not enough europeans ask severe questions of this european social and political 'experiment' and even fewer appreciate what is actually going on.
You are seeing the dismantling of any democratic government in europe. Piece by piece, the national governments hand over control of their legislature to this new body. Often without question. The methods used vary from you will not get aid unless you agree to treaty X, Y, Z or that if your country does not say yes, you will leave millions of eastern block people locked out of the EU. You see referendums that are taken, and if the correct result does not occur, they retake them until the EU gets the response it desires.
In the UK there is now talk of forcing changes to the housing market so that most costs will double, thus forcing the market into a more closly linked cycle with 'europe'. Yesterday the UK chancellor announced that if the UK joins the Euro, every man, woman and child would be upto 50% better off in the future. This is the kind of statement that was peddled to workers who were voting in the 19th and early 20th century. People who could be swayed by argument, and charisma rather than logic, and knowledge. Yet this is the norm. By continuing horrors such as the NHS and the comprehensive school, such people are able to continue the status quo. Its the exact opposite of true socialism, at least to me. It is the impoverishment of a people, carried out by the socialists at the top of the pecking order, with a direct aim of ensuring they remain that way.
Across europe, millions of people are becoming unemployed. What people see, if they bother to look is a multitude of economies that are being forced to adapt to cycles that cannot be maintained or controlled. Germany is rapidly falling into a terrible recession that
This kind of hacking only gets local machine admin access. Please be aware IT DOES NOT gain you access to domain user data.
We tested, the NETWORK domain users data does not even show up on the computer. Only the local computer domain data can be breached.
Quick test method:
Take a machine that belongs to a network domain. make a couple of users on said machine. Now remove the machine from the network domain (make it a workgroup with a different name, or stand alone machine)
Now reboot
Sign in using local machine admin
All the accounts you have and data is now not available, visible etc etc
Those of you who defend IBM do so wrongly. During the 'bad run' if IDE GXP based drives, which I believe from what I have read invloved GXP 60 and 75 ranges, IBM behaved irresponsibly, and should have come clean and advised customers as soon as it knew it had problems.
After a considerable amount of time, they issued new doctrines, such as 'drives must not be used for more than 11 hours per day'.
In addition, they did not handle warranty coverage correctly, nor customer advice correctly.
Users who shipped bad drives got either the same drive back after IBM had used their utility on the drive, or a replacement.
The joke was if you were a customer they advised you to wipe, using their downloadable tool, and by common account within 3 weeks the grinding noises and data loss returned.
Many people got returned drives, and then lost data again when the new drives failed.
Sending out bad batches is one thing. Sending out bad families of drives is a new scale altogether. Add to that the warranty handling, the multiple returns, the failure to make public the actual issues. The failure to withdraw a faulty product they knew damn well was loosing customers data. Resupplying the customer with said same drives with pretty clear knowledge the drive was a likely failure. Lastly the issue of new guidelines making the problem the customers (ie, daily no more use than 11 hours).
I had 5 of these drives. 3 were replaced. Out of a total of 8 drives 7, that is 7, died, made grinding noises, lost data, etc etc.
The bottom line is now this. I do NOT know if I can trust IBM disk again. I am neutral when it comes to brand. But given that IBM have not publicly accepted the problems, or given the true reasons for failure, OR SAID , on our new family of drives we cured the problem by X,Y,Z, that means until I know for an absolute FACT that IBM make IDE harddisk that are utterly bombproof, I doubt I or anyone I advise will buy an IBM IDE 3.5" harddisk in the future.
I just do not dare to put my data on their drive, and that is the bottom line.
It is a shame as they, looking at www.scan.co.uk come at a good price, good (speed) performance, and one huge gigantic stone round their neck care of the GXP issue in the past.
Hmmm.. we are under threat of losing governance. The people demanding jury trial are capable of breaking/bringing down the system.
Result: Draconian adjustment of current laws and constitutions removing jury trial in certain criminal circumstances. Thats already happened in the UK. IMHO The EU human rights law has commited dreadful results to Britain, and I for one would consider carefully before seeing results occur in the US on the same basis (loss of jury trial)
I would be concerned right now about the constant 'double up' of laws meant to control society. Everywhere I look I see it occuring. Multiple laws covering the same basic issue. Tougher sentences and penalties.
Eventually the DMCA will be overturned, but I ask you, based on what I am seeing from the government side, plus those who oppose, its hard to see a 'sensible conclusion' around this.
Right now its the draconian response to issues of increasing copyright theft based on past business practice. At a given point business practice will HAVE to change to make it work in society.
Those governments and businesses trying to force changes in society can only go so far.
Yes.
But even further to that, I`m sad to say Britain is now full of leftie doo-gooders who have been given cart-blanche by the mother government (Labour).
I look at my country with fondness, yet great sadness to see this kind of thing coming in.
In case anyone from outside Britain is reading this, I`ll give you an overview.
Britain has a transport system that would be acceptable, except the sheer numbers and size of traffic overloads every aspect.
But instead of tackling this in a logical way, what you have in Britain today is endless camera`s to catch lawbreakers, endless speedlimits, endless police activity, and no end of useless roundabouts, speed humps, traffic lights and pedestrian crossings.
The traffic in London used to travel more quickly in 1911 than it does now based on average.
The idea that people can speed in Britain is totally implausible. If anyone cosistently broke the limits, the`d loose their license. The amount of policing and government activity in this area of life has reached big brother proportions, and its getting worse, much worse.
But its not just in this area of daily life that the nanny government is overstepping the mark. In everything from business, to individual rights and freedoms, its gone way beyond what is acceptable.
Add to that the basic problem with Europe and a duality of litigation and legalities, and you soon reach a point where,whatever freedom you believe you have, its a damn sight less than you may believe.
I think that in general, the reasons why in Europe there is now a consistent loss of interest in politics, is basically people have seen and realised , even perhaps only in the subconsious, that there is little point IN voting. It does`nt change very much.
As for europe, I`m totally against britain going any further in eurogration. Until I get a direct vote to remove the people at the top (The commision, its cronies, and so forth) I want nothing to do with them.
Its an insipid and corrupt organisation, and I proudly say they can go f*ck themselves
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Better still. Get a really mean pair of sharks. One to defend you, another to open litigation against them, counter suit for worry, depression, loss of earnings, and no doubt many other issues !! D
I`m slightly puzzled. If people here have a PC, lets say a p200 or something. A machine that is somewhat behind the times. I would think that most people have have an interest in computers would make use of the machine. Whether its a Linux box, or a windows machine for the wife, or whatever you like. It gets used. So why bash people who still use older kit ? Be it Macs, PC`s or Amiga`s. If the machine can perform a task, its a tool. There seems to me little reason to attack a tool for being out of date if it performs that task to a resonable level. Personally, I still use a banged up 1200 tower as my Internet gateway, My TV, and my main internet machine. Apart from some websites being problematic, it serves the purpose very well indeed. Before people start flaming please note I run linux boxes, and windows boxes here as well and I have the same enjoyment out of using these boxes. So while I can see little new development in Amiga`s, why should I stop using the tool when it performs a very resonable job. The one thing I will say is that people here on slashdot are often lining up Linux as a desktop competitor for Windows. As someone who uses a fair number of systems my own opinion is that Windows is a better multimedia system/desktop system. Thats not to say that Linux is`nt useful. I dislike M$ as much as the next, but a resonable product is a resonable product. As for those people out there who just have to have the latest greatest OS and equipment, I can`t keep up:) sorry. Techno fashion victims perhaps ? AdmV
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People totally misunderstand Europe. They don't see where its going, nor what is going on. Most Europeans are blisfully ignorant, to the point of stupidity about democracy, the EU, and indeed the world.
Consistently low numbers of polling citizens in elections is a symtom of the eradication of democracy. The socialist and left wing, politically correct run things in Europe. The architects of the EU do not care for the United States. Nor do they care for anoyone else. You only have to look at how the EU treats African farmers, and how it operates an as aggresive economic policy as anyone in the globe.
Many of these petty technocrats grew up wishing to be enveloped by the old soviet socialist empire. Now they build their own socialist, technocratic society for themselves.
It is moderatly amusing to see the Irish being told they will re-referendum until they say Yes, or to see the architects and leaders of Europe denounce Britains Prime Minster for daring to give his own people a referendum. How very democratic of them.
When you see comments like, you must be 'in' Europe to survive, contrary to any logic, know that you are being railroaded. Countries in the European continent are capable of surviving and prospering. Switzerland, and Norway seem to still exist, shockingly enough. What is never said, is you must be in it to lose your nation, your laws, your way of life, your justice, freespeech, independance, laws, and so on.
When you are told you must join the Euro, or you will face terrible consequences, look at the states who have taken it, and those who did not, and note the economies that suffer now. Its not the none Euro states.
When you watch as entire nations vote in a clear anti EU sentiment as they ignore any democracy, and march on and railroad their constitution down all european citizens throats. Watch as they water down individual states and nations to the point where they will serve no purpose and can be eradicated.
Watch as the French give their votes for the Germans to cast. Last night Chirac left a conference, and handed his votes to the Germans to cast. How very representative. How very democratic. Watch now as the Germans, whom have ben working on an economic and political war, albeit peacefully in europe now again grow bolder. In recent times already, you can see states such as Poland being threatened by amazing behaviour. 'You will lose votes for XY, and Z'.
Since when is it laudable to tell such states they will suffer penalties for daring to have a different view from Germany, and France.
Perhaps someone can explain how it is ok for the EU to fail to have its accounts signed of for nine years running, for it to run out of town any staff who blow the whistle on corruption, and to ignore blatant and astonishing failures of government? Bearing in mind the numbers are bigger than Enron, and the near zero coverage in the EU and its press, one should think carefully about lauding the EU as the way to go.
One could claim the EU is a democratic government for Europe. We have elections. Each state gets to put a tiny body of numbers into a toothless parliament. Even if you whole representative body of people want something, they are watered down to nothingness. Take the democratic states in the EU, divide them, conquer them, weaken them. Give them in name only democracy. Give them local government until the people no longer take an interest. Give the dog a bone.
The people running the EU are not democratic. They are wholly unrepresentative of the people of the EU. The commissionares are unelected. They are selected by national governments, and that is thereby laughably called 'democratic'. One might look into times where the whofully pathetic 'democratic' parliament has managed to actually bring to account EU officers and commissionars in regard to fraud, or mis accounting, and you will not that the same commission is still in office. You will note that the same commissionare responsible for the issue, Neil Kinnock is still i
Having spent some time on an LPI course, and delving a little deeper, I found some aspects of Linux still need attention (IMHO).
.conf added on the end. Perhaps people who still roll the software with -conf are trying to be amusing.
Why is it not possible to have all configuration files with the
Daemons are another. Why the hell call your FTP log Xtransfer.log?
There were so many examples of this idiocy that I ended up scratching my head. For an OS built on standards, there was a remarkable lack of reasonable standards when working with the OS, to the point of it being setup in some demented legacy ideals.
Now, I know I can go and add my own aliases, and I can amend all my log files, and break open all the configuration and fix this myself. But if you take that view, JoeNewUser is going to face this everytime you crack open a new Linux on the guy.
In the end, JoeNewUser will have to use the command lines and configuration, where he'll come up on the non standard, sometimes illogical, system confs and logs.
One day maybe, just maybe, Linux and its distributions will agree on its boot configuration files being in a standard place, and the same leads on for conf files.
Now, I suppose if you use the OS every day, you work around these things. You might adapt to the non logical names, non standard conf files, and ever changing locations of files.
Anyway, just my tuppence..
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The UK people are being victimised, criminalised by virtue of a law and politiciastion of the roads that SHOULD be beyond comprehension and population acceptance.
By taking ownership of a car in the UK you are turning yourself into a criminal. Not through choice either.
What is occurring is just the tip of the iceberg, there is plenty more to come.
First though, some small pointers.
Speed kills. Erm, no. Speed(ing) in some situations kills. There is a subtle difference.
Respect for the Law. Forget it. You cannot gain respect by turning EVERYONE into a criminal. Adding a complete blanket ban on vehicle speed that is too low in too many areas simply turns everyone into a speeder. As its been said elsewhere in the comments, everyone does 35 in a 30, 45 in a 40, and so on.
I am fortunate that I grew up in the Isle of Man. What is so special about the Isle of Man one might ask? Ok, I will answer, the Island is famous for only having speeding limits in some areas (in town, round a school, so on and so forth) but in the more open road areas there is no speed limit.
One might think this is a recipe for catastrophic traffic accidents. It can be, on occasion. However, its very rare people speed in the town and built up areas. One of the reasons why is that when you leave the area, you are able to proceed to where you are going at reasonable speed. I used to travel to work going through 4 towns and I had no problem following speed limits in the areas where they existed because they are reasonable. Its logical and sensible to abide by limits which are fair and have a reason.
Nothing explains the current behaviour of police and government when it comes to the roads in the UK. There is no rhymn or reason for many of the criminalisation acts that are being put in place. There is not even a reason to put half the speed camera's were they are being cited. Many of the actual speed limits are in place where they have been ratched so far down that the road no longer serves its proper purpose or use.
In addition, the taxation element of the enforcement is clear to anyone that has sense. Its being made and put in place to persecute people and force additional tax collections and further beaurocratic governance. Unfair in all aspects.
If anyone was sane at the department of transport, they might consider having different licenses for higher speed vehicles, with different tests for the applicants. Someone who intends to drive a high speed vehicle should be able to handle it properly.
There should be higher speed limits on motorways and on many dual carriageways, and on many roads where there is no reason to have this heavyhanded limitation in place. During bad weather or for other reasons there is no reason why this could not be amended to suit.
I have no objection to having tight limits round schools or other areas. Thats totally acceptable. Its logical. But many of the things being done today on UK roads are not. The assumtion is being made that no one is capable of driving above 60 miles per hour apart from motorways.
Sorry, but I for one am capable of driving beyond 60-70 miles per hour. Based on road conditions and on traffic there is no reason why the population should not be allowed to drive at sensible speeds rather than snail paced crawling.
Add in that many roads are being artifically 'jammed' by totally inappropriate behaviour from the government just adds to the misery. Care to discuss the accidents and social consequences of road rage related to these various issues? Perhaps consider the irrational behaviour of some individuals when you imprison them in a prison of a different kind without trial, reason, or justice and consider the impact. The social impacts of the monsters this breeds and the accidents related to it are generally unknown. Many of the traffic lights in London are being held on Red for inappropriate lengths of time. Little is said of such road piracy.
Let me put this another way. The entire system
It would seem to me many people here have the following ideas
/reboot /repair an exchange server(or servers) and I now think its the worst thing in the universe.
1. Exchange is good. What it does hangs together, and the end user likes it.
2. 'I got this other / or other products together and we have a nice working setup not too far from what exchange offers.'
3. I hate Exchange and MS sucks, oh and I had to fix
4. You don't need exchange
5. Look, you only need POP3/SMTP/IMAP - use this other stuff
So, rather than go on with all the differing and squabbling, I will tell you how it is.
1. There is no open software to match exchange. Some claim to do what exchange does, and to some degree, or even largely, they might.. But none match exchange as a turnkey solution.
2. There are commercial solutions. We tested SCO Open Mail and SUSE exchange server, along with Samsung contact. All can work as exchnage replacements, and offer similar functionality. All claim to be cheaper, easier to run, and all claim that they equal the function offered by Exchange. You also need their outlook connectors to get this functionality.
3. Exchange is still the best solution to 'Groupware' that money can buy. Make sure you buy the right hardware, install and configure the system correctly, plan your AD correctly and set your corporate standard for email and so forth. Make sure you have solutions for Spam, Virii and backup.
A note to those who bitch about cost. Bottom line, Email/Groupware is now close to, if not THE tool for business. If your company want groupware, then feel free to look into solutions that fit the bill. You don't have to buy exchange. But you do have to seriously consider exchange. Its a damn fine product, and any good IT person would ignore where it comes from and look at the requirements and consider exchange.
If you or your company only need POP/SMTP/Imap then you don't need exchange. If you do need groupware, then thats different.
There have been some sensible posts regarding this question posted, but a lot of noise by those who can't abide MS or their products. In reality most if not all the competition is also closed software, so the attacks on MS are somewhat misdirected. MS Exchange is a product of a company that believes in the productivity and innovation of its workers. That is something to be respectful of. The effort put into exchange has provided the world with a very fine server.
The free software movement, has as yet not quite got there in the case of exchange. This is not a reason to attack MS or the free software movement. It would be nice if some people are fundamental in their thinking would be a little more 'real' about the real world. There is good software produced in non open software methods, and that itself is not a crime.
Any company and ANY IT staff member should look closely at exchange and what the company needs and wants. You'd have to see what money was in the kitty and take into account any other factors. Many of the posts here have been pretty amataurish by their nature. If you want to attack Exchange, lets have solid reasoning behind your claims, rather than blind hatred, or stories of bad installs and planning.
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The problem is that this IS how the EU is run. You will get what you are given. The people there offer to listen then ignore the information if it does not concur with what they believe/think/intend to put inplace.
I could go into vast detail, but lets leave it like this. One day, I will die fighting for my freedom from the EU, or live a desperate sad life under a massivly oppressive regime.
People 'really' need to wake up to what is happening in the countries in the EU. Its desperately late in the day, but people are amazingly stupid to have let things go this far was so little protest.
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In her article, Arlene McCarthy wrote:
Numerous people from small to medium-sized enterprises have written to me in support of my proposal.
To me, this is the most blood-boiling point. I was there at the parliamentary hearing in Brussels in early May. Arlene McCarthy was not. The hearing was a forum for SMEs (Small-to-Medium Enterprises) to present their take on the proposed software patent directive. The prevailing opinion was so unanimous it was boring: software patents are bad. Enterpreneurs and investors pleaded lawmakers to stick to and reaffirm the spirit of the 1973 Munich convention. Yeah, supporters of Free Software were there too (strong Debian contingent, hi, guys!), but by no means in the majority.
I could hardly muster the willpower to talk to anyone during those two days, it was so depressing. No one of the opposing viewpoint showed up, effectively reducing the conference and the hearing to a feel-good get-in-our-of-your-systems-then-go-home kind of event. The only supporter of the directive was Elly Plooij van Gorsel (chairwoman of one of the three committees in charge of the directive), who showed up for the last thirty minutes, took some notes, evaded answering any questions, then left. An enterpreneur even said to her face: I'm the one who's supposed to be protected here, and I'm here to tell you, I don't want your protection. This went wholly unanswered.
So allow me not to suspend my disbelief in Ms. McCarthy's comment quoted above. BTW, Ms. McCarthy is also a chairwoman of a committee handling the directive (of the most powerful of the three). What I saw and read and got to know so far all point into one direction: she's entirely aware of what she does, she just doesn't care about flushing the European SMEs down the toilet. The American multinationals sure can pay for more educational opportunities taking place in Hawaii.
Posted as AC on purpose.
A tirade against the moderatly socialist governments and intran governmental structure? How can a structure that is aiming to dismember the very intergovernmental structure and democratic principal of those governments, and remove any and all power from numerous people expect *not* to be questioned.
The EU is young, utter rubbish. Its been around for decades now, it is more corrupt than its ever been and grows more so by the day. Care to explain to me why this group of people who cannot get their accounts signed by auditors should be allowed to remove democratically accountable governments without so much as a by or leave?
There is no excuse for the EU. None.
Onto your claims about healthcare. In much of Europe healthcare is very good, but usually you will I am sorry to say that they are not government run health systems. They are a mix of government and private working together.
In the UK You have a nice choice, especially if you are one of the people on a middle or lower income. You pay into your NHI every month. You pay a great deal into it. You also pay a stupid amount of tax that is remorselessly wasted. What you get in return is heathcare. Its the kind of healthcare no one in their right mind would like.
If you go to an accident and emergency unit, you may have to wait DAYS to see a doctor. Want to make an appointment to see your own doctor ? Sure, that will be three weeks sir.
Got a heart problem you might be dying from? Well thats 18 months.
Got cancer, well, maybe due to the new spending you'll get treated. Or maybe you'll be unlucky and have to wait a year.
The reality is the UK has the largest employer in the EU. It is dutied with a care for 60 odd million people and those people on a daily basis are mistreated, ripped off, defrauded and betrayed by a system that is beyond contempt.
The very assumption of a national health service thats there for everyone is a great idea. The truth is that a heath service that is basically days, weeks, or years behind the persons needs is no health service at all.
Its now run for the benefit of the people in the health service, and those who feed of it.
So the great health service, like the great welfare state leaves each individual in the wonderful position of paying every single day of their working lives while short changing them at every opportunity. So wether you are poor, middle classed or rich, you have to go buy yourself private healthcare to look after yourself or your family. You make me laugh, how long you live is stated like an affront to other worldwide health systems, and you somehow thing the NHS does'nt commit the same crime? How about this, people are paying everyday for the NHS and dying. At least if you pay into an american system, they make at least some effort to save your life.
Let me make a point here. At one point the idea of welfare, care and helthcare for all was a monumental and fantastic idea put into place. But that, like the British Empire is in the past. I am not critical of the creation of the two, I am critical of what they have become.
Social security, the health service, and other things like the 'comprehensive school' have left a socially unparralled problem of a rich country, intelligent people, and a culture of living of the state, its dire healthcare, and off benefits. Add to that the recent changes in human rights and the adoption of various internation agreements regarding people seeking to live i the UK, you now add to the mix a new social group. One that can commit crime at will, adhere to no law, and gain preferential treatment and care compared to a true citizen of the nation.
This is the socialist nation of the united kindgom. One where you mean nothing. You are nothing. Your value and worth is nothing. Your healthcare, schooling, transport and housing mean nothing.
A country where people are criminalised, in the equivalent effort of law and orders 'comprehensive schools' model where a car driver who speeds is as
Sadly, if only the money in the idealistic idea of yours went to the hospitals and schools. This is a line that is pedantically and repeatedly laid out by socialist, leftist politicians and their allies.
Care to have a close look at the UK, where monumental spending increases, and activity such as re-nationialisation of the railways has brought.. ZERO benefit.
The hospitals are as dirty and understaffed as they were 8 years ago when a labour opposition declared that there was 24 hours to save the UK national health service. People believe this kind of drivel, but thats down to a social culture of dumbing down and operating at the lowest possible common denomiter.
The line about schools was one which was peddled by such goverments when the 'comprehensive' school system was created. That is a socialist dream. A school where the end achivement is to reduce both the opportunity and the quality, AND remove the options for the people who are forced to attend.
The same applies to the hospitals. People by law are forced to pay into a system that does not work. Then they are forced to pay more into a system that does not work. They are then told they have to pay more into a system that does not work. Let me put this another way. The UK health service is the largest employer in the EU and it provides close to the worst service. Still people will prefer to believe that every government has to save the health service. Idiots.
As for the EU, this is another senario where the ludicrous have taken control. You have a politically built entity. It is largely run by a group of failed politicians, usually people kicked out of office in their country of origin. They are then given office that has no democratic mandate (Look, I agree before people start about democratic system failures, but we live in a supposedly democratic place, so breaching democracy should be questioned.) and then start dictating the law and government across a continent of some 300 million people.
People argue that because these people are selected by democratic governments, this is an acceptable way to build a europe of the future. Because so very many of the european people live in countries that have lacked a true democratic basis, not enough europeans ask severe questions of this european social and political 'experiment' and even fewer appreciate what is actually going on.
You are seeing the dismantling of any democratic government in europe. Piece by piece, the national governments hand over control of their legislature to this new body. Often without question. The methods used vary from you will not get aid unless you agree to treaty X, Y, Z or that if your country does not say yes, you will leave millions of eastern block people locked out of the EU. You see referendums that are taken, and if the correct result does not occur, they retake them until the EU gets the response it desires.
In the UK there is now talk of forcing changes to the housing market so that most costs will double, thus forcing the market into a more closly linked cycle with 'europe'. Yesterday the UK chancellor announced that if the UK joins the Euro, every man, woman and child would be upto 50% better off in the future. This is the kind of statement that was peddled to workers who were voting in the 19th and early 20th century. People who could be swayed by argument, and charisma rather than logic, and knowledge. Yet this is the norm. By continuing horrors such as the NHS and the comprehensive school, such people are able to continue the status quo. Its the exact opposite of true socialism, at least to me. It is the impoverishment of a people, carried out by the socialists at the top of the pecking order, with a direct aim of ensuring they remain that way.
Across europe, millions of people are becoming unemployed. What people see, if they bother to look is a multitude of economies that are being forced to adapt to cycles that cannot be maintained or controlled. Germany is rapidly falling into a terrible recession that
This kind of hacking only gets local machine admin access.
Please be aware IT DOES NOT gain you access to domain user data.
We tested, the NETWORK domain users data does not even show up on the computer. Only the local computer domain data can be breached.
Quick test method:
Take a machine that belongs to a network domain. make a couple of users on said machine.
Now remove the machine from the network domain (make it a workgroup with a different name, or stand alone machine)
Now reboot
Sign in using local machine admin
All the accounts you have and data is now not available, visible etc etc
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Those of you who defend IBM do so wrongly. During the 'bad run' if IDE GXP based drives, which I believe from what I have read invloved GXP 60 and 75 ranges, IBM behaved irresponsibly, and should have come clean and advised customers as soon as it knew it had problems.
After a considerable amount of time, they issued new doctrines, such as 'drives must not be used for more than 11 hours per day'.
In addition, they did not handle warranty coverage correctly, nor customer advice correctly.
Users who shipped bad drives got either the same drive back after IBM had used their utility on the drive, or a replacement.
The joke was if you were a customer they advised you to wipe, using their downloadable tool, and by common account within 3 weeks the grinding noises and data loss returned.
Many people got returned drives, and then lost data again when the new drives failed.
Sending out bad batches is one thing. Sending out bad families of drives is a new scale altogether. Add to that the warranty handling, the multiple returns, the failure to make public the actual issues. The failure to withdraw a faulty product they knew damn well was loosing customers data. Resupplying the customer with said same drives with pretty clear knowledge the drive was a likely failure. Lastly the issue of new guidelines making the problem the customers (ie, daily no more use than 11 hours).
I had 5 of these drives. 3 were replaced. Out of a total of 8 drives 7, that is 7, died, made grinding noises, lost data, etc etc.
The bottom line is now this. I do NOT know if I can trust IBM disk again. I am neutral when it comes to brand. But given that IBM have not publicly accepted the problems, or given the true reasons for failure, OR SAID , on our new family of drives we cured the problem by X,Y,Z, that means until I know for an absolute FACT that IBM make IDE harddisk that are utterly bombproof, I doubt I or anyone I advise will buy an IBM IDE 3.5" harddisk in the future.
I just do not dare to put my data on their drive, and that is the bottom line.
It is a shame as they, looking at www.scan.co.uk come at a good price, good (speed) performance, and one huge gigantic stone round their neck care of the GXP issue in the past.
AdmV
No one seems to have considered:
.. we are under threat of losing governance. The people demanding jury trial are capable of breaking /bringing down the system.
Hmmm
Result: Draconian adjustment of current laws and constitutions removing jury trial in certain criminal circumstances.
Thats already happened in the UK. IMHO The EU human rights law has commited dreadful results to Britain, and I for one would consider carefully before seeing results occur in the US on the same basis (loss of jury trial)
I would be concerned right now about the constant 'double up' of laws meant to control society. Everywhere I look I see it occuring. Multiple laws covering the same basic issue. Tougher sentences and penalties.
Eventually the DMCA will be overturned, but I ask you, based on what I am seeing from the government side, plus those who oppose, its hard to see a 'sensible conclusion' around this.
Right now its the draconian response to issues of increasing copyright theft based on past business practice. At a given point business practice will HAVE to change to make it work in society.
Those governments and businesses trying to force changes in society can only go so far.
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Yes. But even further to that, I`m sad to say Britain is now full of leftie doo-gooders who have been given cart-blanche by the mother government (Labour). I look at my country with fondness, yet great sadness to see this kind of thing coming in. In case anyone from outside Britain is reading this, I`ll give you an overview. Britain has a transport system that would be acceptable, except the sheer numbers and size of traffic overloads every aspect. But instead of tackling this in a logical way, what you have in Britain today is endless camera`s to catch lawbreakers, endless speedlimits, endless police activity, and no end of useless roundabouts, speed humps, traffic lights and pedestrian crossings. The traffic in London used to travel more quickly in 1911 than it does now based on average. The idea that people can speed in Britain is totally implausible. If anyone cosistently broke the limits, the`d loose their license. The amount of policing and government activity in this area of life has reached big brother proportions, and its getting worse, much worse. But its not just in this area of daily life that the nanny government is overstepping the mark. In everything from business, to individual rights and freedoms, its gone way beyond what is acceptable. Add to that the basic problem with Europe and a duality of litigation and legalities, and you soon reach a point where,whatever freedom you believe you have, its a damn sight less than you may believe. I think that in general, the reasons why in Europe there is now a consistent loss of interest in politics, is basically people have seen and realised , even perhaps only in the subconsious, that there is little point IN voting. It does`nt change very much. As for europe, I`m totally against britain going any further in eurogration. Until I get a direct vote to remove the people at the top (The commision, its cronies, and so forth) I want nothing to do with them. Its an insipid and corrupt organisation, and I proudly say they can go f*ck themselves AdmV
Better still. Get a really mean pair of sharks. One to defend you, another to open litigation against them, counter suit for worry, depression, loss of earnings, and no doubt many other issues !! D
I`m slightly puzzled. If people here have a PC, lets say a p200 or something. A machine that is somewhat behind the times. I would think that most people have have an interest in computers would make use of the machine. Whether its a Linux box, or a windows machine for the wife, or whatever you like. It gets used. So why bash people who still use older kit ? Be it Macs, PC`s or Amiga`s. If the machine can perform a task, its a tool. There seems to me little reason to attack a tool for being out of date if it performs that task to a resonable level. Personally, I still use a banged up 1200 tower as my Internet gateway, My TV, and my main internet machine. Apart from some websites being problematic, it serves the purpose very well indeed. Before people start flaming please note I run linux boxes, and windows boxes here as well and I have the same enjoyment out of using these boxes. So while I can see little new development in Amiga`s, why should I stop using the tool when it performs a very resonable job. The one thing I will say is that people here on slashdot are often lining up Linux as a desktop competitor for Windows. As someone who uses a fair number of systems my own opinion is that Windows is a better multimedia system/desktop system. Thats not to say that Linux is`nt useful. I dislike M$ as much as the next, but a resonable product is a resonable product. As for those people out there who just have to have the latest greatest OS and equipment, I can`t keep up :) sorry. Techno fashion victims perhaps ? AdmV