I always enjoy it when people rail on government while utilizing TCP/IP.

I am now dumber for reading your comment. Your power to reduce intelligence is amazing.

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Apple's imaginary value skyrockets, until Steve Jobs has another medical problem.

"Almost" as responsive as VNC? So it sucks even more?

Don't use your personal computer for purposes of work. If you want to access your employer's network, use their tools and follow their rules. If you can't handle the rules, advocate for change or leave.

How innovative.

This is all marketing fluff, and Time gets sucked into it badly. Crisco is great at acquiring companies, but they hardly innovate much anymore. "The claim of 12 times the traffic capacity of the nearest competing system is based on a theoretical maximum of 72 interconnected CRS-3 chassis in order to achieve the 322Tbps total capacity -- this will likely never be deployed in practice due to space, power, and manageability realities," he said. "With its new T-Series chipset announced in early February, Juniper will deliver a four Terabit system in a half rack configuration while the CRS-3 requires a full rack to deliver four Terabits.' That's a real space and power savings for every unit deployed."

The information is publicly available, so no unreasonable search or seizure occurred. You are "pissing" up the wrong tree, to mix a metaphor.

How is analyzing the data of a copyrighted torrent via a publicly available tracker a privacy violation? And why are you talking about warrants here? I didn't see any mention of a governmental agency utilizing this technology...

Check out Aerohive (http://www.aerohive.com). These guys use to work at Juniper/Netscreen. It's a controller based solution that runs CentOS with a MySQL backend. The APs themselves run Linux too. If the APs lose connectivity to the controller, they can still function. You can do 802.11x auth. Good stuff.

While I mostly agree with your post, you went a bit overboard. These operating systems can make GREAT servers. Linux definitely has a place in the business world. And yes, even OS X does as well. For some reason, Photoshop and "creative" apps run better on a Mac. I defer to those people, since I'm not "creative." :) I have worked for 3 different companies in an IT Administration capacity during my professional career (10 years). I LOVE Linux. I use it at home, and have tried using it at work as a workstation. I have my own NetApp filer that uses a Unix derivative (ONTAP) to publish files shares and authenticate against AD. At work, Linux interoperability with Windows is decent, but I am more productive if I use an actual Windows machine to administer a Windows environment. I would never push Linux or even OSX as a desktop replacement in our medium size 1000 user environment for multiple reasons. The biggest one of those reasons is a lack of centralized management that is as effective as Active Directory. Having AD in an environment and being able to control it via central management is HUGE when you are management and you need to have a solution that can administer your users and machines in a cost effective manner. Additionally, you will need to retrain your staff or hire replacements who would subsequently demand more salary. Or, you can just stick with the known evils you have and do your best to overcome them.

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Yes they are. Which is my my ./ reputation is in the dog house.