Er, no. Windows makes the easy things easy (pick what you want from the list rather than, horror of horrors, type something) but still hasn't succeeded in making the difficult easy. This lulls people who think they know what they're doing into jumping into the deep end and finding out they can't swim. Lots of things when setting up a server (web or otherwise) that require an understanding of the underlying networking. The Windows admins who don't know this are the ones who are "a dime a dozen." The ones that do can create a secure, functional site with Windows but wish they had Linux since it's easier and more secure and faster and more flexible and....

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WKRP in Cincinnati episode (for those who didn't see it back when).

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Hey, jackass. Have you actually used Namecheap's services, or are you piping off at the mouth on things you know jack shit about? I strongly suspect the latter. You either (1) have zero clue how bad GoDaddy's offerings actually are, or how reprehensible their corporate behavior and that of their recently-former-for-PR-reasons founder and CEO's behavior tends to be, or (2) you're drawing your paycheck from Daddy Parsons.

Try Namecheap out and report back, champ. By the way, they also have a nice API you can hook into. Good luck, and have a nice day. Nice nick, btw, 1998 called and asked if they can have their leetspeak back, son.

My employer provides managed hosting for both Linux and Windows environments. New web server deployments running Linux and either Apache or nginx easily outnumber new deployments running Windows/IIS 20 to 1. As far as I've seen at numerous companies and from recent numbers tossed around by friends at other firms, this ratio is about average.

As the article states, GoDaddy moved millions of parked pages to IIS. Given the fact that GoDaddy is a bottom-feeding operation that relies on horrendously shitty shared setups on a massive scale for the bulk of its hosting business, I'm not surprised by any particular bit of idiocy they pull these days. I've long since ceased using them for domain name registrations as well, greatly preferring Namecheap instead.

The "article" is pure garbage. Don't bother reading it.

Ah, a fellow Z80 fan :). I think there's still two Sinclair ZX81s sitting in a box somewhere at my dad's house, likely with the old cassette deck as well. The one I used had a little black and white security monitor/TV hooked up to it for video, with a luxurious full size keyboard from an industrial floor spliced into it to provide relief from the horrendous membrane keyboard.

I've got to admit that I greatly preferred moving to an AT&T PC-6300 8086 box. It felt like a supercomputer by comparison, and was also the first machine I wrote any C on. Good times.

Hey man, don't rain on the parade. Better late than never, right? I mean heck, I call Linux finally getting networking a win. If you're gonna be such a Debbie Downer, you should just put a sock in it. I bet there's a stack of users rejoicing right now.

I've got many memories of evenings spent with Windows 3.11, although I spent far more time in DOS back then. Later on, I spent a few few years with Linux (starting with Mandrake) as my primary desktop OS, and wound up with Mac OS X for the last few years.

I'll still raise a toast to over a decade of Debian or FreeBSD on the server side for anything I care about.

Mod parent up. I'm genuinely curious what particular brand of idiot would wake up saying "hey, since the government provides me with this awesome crypto, I'll use it for everything" instead of generating his own keys for anything personal in nature.

I mean, heck, one might almost believe that such an individual were receiving telepathic communications from Edward Snowden detailing how to link up with Julian Assange in Afghanistan or Iraq to be schooled in the manufacture of improvised explosive devices for a doctoral thesis on violence while watching television coverage of congressional hearings with Senators and the president, all while pundits drop bombs online so to speak with regard to hypothetical tactics for the handling of terrorist threats in urban areas such as Boston, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, San Diego, and other high value targets.

I know, it's all just so crazy.

I have some systems on SL and some others on CentOS. I haven't noticed any significant lag in CentOS updates. The only time this really became an issue was the release of 6.0 from TUV. CentOS had some problems getting it to build.

Also, the two distros are NOT identical clones of RHEL. CentOS maintains binary compatibility with TUV. SL does not not claim to be 100% binary compatible (but usually is). This may explain why there are extra packages available for SL although you'll probably find most of them in the CentOS "extras" repository or they're available through the EPEL repo.

Oh yeah, I run the latest version of Fedora on my laptop and in a few VMs. For the Laptop, I keep the latest version of Fedora on one half of a 400GB external hard drive and the other half has the previous release. This way I always have access to a stable Fedora release and just have to keep copying my local data between partitions when I install a new release onto whichever partition has the older release. Works for me and I'm always doing a new install so no fighting with FedUp to upgrade.

I've tried other distros (Ubuntu, Mint, Gentoo, SuSE, etc.). I like the stability I get with RH. BTW, I started with Red Hat Linux 5.0 in 1998.

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Dave

The data is from California. It's not cool to have more than one person in the car.

Actually, you're right. They can't.

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It seems Zabbix isn't well suited for the use cases you care about. That's fine, but it should be noted that your preference for SNMP-based offerings is far from universal. I've dealt with environments where thousands of systems across several continents were constantly monitored without SNMP, and things worked very well.

You seem quite interested in forcibly proclaiming your preference for certain modes of monitoring. Are you equally prepared to discuss the security implications of those choices? Are all devices under your control operating exclusively over trusted networks and exclusively utilizing SNMPv3? If you're going to speak forcefully about these things, let's go ahead and have a frank conversation that includes different considerations and use cases.

Let's be perfectly clear on one point. All wars are rooted in economic objectives, regardless of any hand waving to the contrary. Analysis and debate of the ethics, morality, wisdom, etc of such conflicts are left as an exercise to the reader (along with any attempted associated bettering of society), but in the final analysis everything traces back to fundamental human nature. Humans are a beautiful species in many respects, but also a very nasty one; the global dominance of homo sapiens is backed by this nastiness.

From TFA:

Our data are restricted to calls routed through multiple cell phone towers in a contiguous region just outside of a major California downtown area during an eleven day period in 2005. Given the mechanics of call routing and signal switching, the calls could have been placed only by callers in moving vehicles.

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He has 5 kids. Hopefully he'll pass on his positive traits and his kids will multiply Musk's achievements.

I'm a wine drinker and lead foil used to be used over the corks of wine bottles. This ended with California's Prop 65 since it set a threshold of "detectable" instead of what can cause harm for any chemical known to cause cancer or birth defects. Seems a few atoms of lead could transfer from the lead foil to the glass of the bottle and then be carried by the wine into the glass of the person drinking the wine. Since CA is a huge market for wine (not just a producer) lead foil went away and was replaced by either another metal (doesn't have the same feel) or plastic (seems like I'm opening a bottle of Ripple).

Keep this sort of absurd approach to things in mind when discussing issues such as this. Lots of substances are detectale at levels that don't cause harm. In spite of the logic in your discussion, chances are that a detectable amount of lead will remain and thus trigger hysteria.

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