There is a script in the rc.d directory to handle SysV init scripts. I think it's rc.d/rc.sysvinit or something similar. It will parse and cycle through the SysV init directory structure. You just have to create the SysV directory structure manually. You would rarely have to use this, as you could just drop any init script in the rc directory and call it from rc.local or rc.X, where X is the runlevel you want to call the script from.
Sorry, a less than symbol was read as an open tag.
Ok, they're not little black helicopters and they aren't automated drones. The summary drew this picture in my mind of the camera drones from Half Life 2.
These are short range (less than 2 mi. range), GPS navigated reconnaissance toy planes. With a 6 ft. wingspan, they should be fairly easy to spot. They can't even fly in the air for an hour without a battery change. The range can be extended with 802.11b access points (only 128-bit WEP is supported). So you should be able to fire up Kismet / Netstumbler and do a little spying of your own if they are in your area. It will be interesting to see if anyone reverse engineers the command & control if these are adopted by police departments in other urban areas.
Product page, no price listed. Interesting technical specs though.
Not a good solution for autonomous spying. It might be good for search and rescue jobs.
Ok, they're not little black helicopters and they aren't automated drones. The summary drew this picture in my mind of the camera drones from Half Life 2.
These are short range (Product page, no price listed. Interesting technical specs though.
Not a good solution for autonomous spying. It might be good for search and rescue jobs.
The reason: the scarcity of Linux and open source documentation
One thing is certain, it's not the lack of documentation. Rather the lack of quality documentation.
On the other hand, nobody can say Windows Server has quality documentation. Have you been to Technet? Hello? It's like they set their marketing team loose and let them make it up as they went along.
What do most people do when faced with the really hard to fix Windows problems? They do as MS suggests and reinstall Windows.
Either that or wade through the bullshit on Technet, try the 25 alleged fixes one at a time. It is like Microsoft doesn't even know it's own Operating System.
We had an application server that crashed everytime anyone logged out. I searched for the stop error in Microsoft's knowledge base, turned up nothing. I searched on Google for the same stop error, it takes me to the Microsoft knowledge base article. The alleged cause was a "missing font" causes terminal services to crash. Fix: Uninstall SP2 or call Microsoft for an untested hotfix. First, what in the hell do fonts have to do with Terminal Server? Second, how did the font dissappear from the system?
For Linux? It seems they get on the net and ask around until they A) find and answer, and B) leave an electronic trail in the process for others with similar problems to find.
I have been lucky enough a few times to accomplish the same with Windows Server. There are a few indispensable NON-Microsoft resources available such as Daniel Petri's website, and the TechGenix websites which have been my only saving grace at time.
It's so sad that people disregard the Bible (special creation) and rely on theories like evolution.
Creationism is also one of many theories. That's the funny thing about theories, they are not fact unless proven with irrefutable evidence.
The Bible has been proven the most historically accurate book ever,
No. It has not been proven the most historically accurate book ever. Who has proven it? When was this proven? If it is the most historically accurate book ever, why can't the hundreds of Christian sects agree on what it is trying to say? I would say that's open for interpretation.
while evolution is full of contradictory ideas which do not work out.
Such as? Could you please give a citation? There are two schools of thought: micro and macro evolution. Which one contradicts itself? How does it condradict itself?
The Bible says that birds and animals were created on the fifth and sixth day.
Birds were created on the fifth day. Humans were created on the sixth. What human was there on the fifth day to see if the chickens hatched or just appeared? If God says, "Let there be light.", and there is nobody to hear it. Does God make a sound?
Another easy system would combine whitelists with a small challenge, such as requiring the sending computer to determine the square root or factors of a 1000 digit number, or some other task that requires a few seconds of CPU effort, to slow down spam a lot. and if the senders e-mail software can't handle it, a human readable CAPTCHA image as an auto-reply, with a correct answer allowing access.
GNU factor can handle up to 20 digits. Boy, I can't wait until my e-mail client can factor RSA challenges. Let me know when you finish this one, it's only 309 digits.
In other news, the Motion Picture Association of America takes on a legal battle against Sony. Sony allegedly made unauthorized copies of one of its own movies, House of Flying Daggers. Sony also allowed an unlicensed public performance of said film.
Both have graphs generated by RRDTool, that's why they look the same. It has nothing to do with the codebase being the same. The graphing tools are the same in both.
This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only! So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights.
Yeah, what he said. There is more to I.T. and Computer Science than programming. I am one of those insourcing consultants. We do just about anything and everything for customers related to I.T. One of the reasons we are more valuable than having a separate developer, network administrator, system administrator, security specialist, and technical support agent is they only have to go to us for all of those services.
We don't pigeonhole ourselves, the more services we offer, the benefit to the customer increases. It is more cost effective than paying salaries to full time employees who offer the same specialty as the services we provide. I do enough work for so many clients, it is like having several part-time jobs. I really love it too, never know what new problems I will have to face the next day.
To the original poster: If you haven't started or finished College, it helps to focus on more than just programming. Take the parents advice and don't pigeonhole yourself. It never hurts to have a diverse foundation in your education. You will have more to fall back on something, in case programming doesn't pan out. There will probably be a hundred or so other posts in this article about getting a secondary degree in business. That's not a bad idea. It could be something different like engineering, physics, chemistry, graphic design, accounting, law, or literature. Don't put limits on yourself. Good luck, whatever you do.
Everyones using USB disks for backups now rather than tapes. So many benefits there.
Nonsense, everyone does not backup on USB disks. Tapes have the advantage of offsite storage in the event of a disaster. You certainly are not going to take a USB drive to the bank vault weekly or monthly.
How many small and medium sized companies have total data exceeding 750GB?
Plenty. You underestimate the needs of small to midsize business. It is not that uncommon for a small business with only a few employees to have Terabyte storage needs. The size of the shop does not have to be directly proportional to the size of their data or needs.
What will you PUT on it?
Backups, hosting storage, forensic data, heavy database needs, real-time data replication, or pretty much anything that will take up space.
...I am opposed to the idea of him charging people for new versions of the same product.
This is how Microsoft makes a profit.
The information on the steam browser leaves out that its also available freely, which means he is misleading people into paying for a free product when they won't know the difference.
Oh, c'mon. Valve charges $10 bucks to deliver Counter-Strike. It's a free download for Half-Life retail owners, I have never heard anyone complain about this. Steam allows game producers to sell their mods/products as separate products than Valve's products. You buy the mod and get all the Valve content loaded, without having to buy the original game. Garry isn't misleading anyone into paying for a free product. Half-Life 2 isn't a free product, and if Valve or Garry want to deliver the mod through Steam "as a separate product", they must charge something to deliver that copyrighted content.
I for one, welcome our $9.99 content delivery overlords.
4. [Dare I say it] Remote Desktop. I currently work with a team of 5 IT's to maintain a nation wide network of PC's. VNC just doesn't cut it, neither does a lot of other programs. Remote Desktop is highly acceptable from my point of view, although booting into windows via VMWare is a pain.
Yes it is handy. You don't need VMware just for this. Try the open source client rdesktop.
I tried hard to come up with a good top 10 list. This is by no means definitive. Feel free to flame on about the qualities or shortcomings of my selections.
iptables - Packet filtering of course.
tcpdump - Troubleshooting network applications.
ssh - Aside from the obvious remote administration capabilities. You can cat input and output securely over the connection (remote backups). Impromptu VPN (ssh -L), when you don't have time to set up a tunnel proper.
perl - Great for quickly coding home-brewed sysadmin tools.
snort - For monitoring networks, reading sensitive e-mail;)
a text editor - I like vi (esc, esc, i, insert) or the many derivatives. Your mileage (emacs/pico) may vary.
nmap - Investigating suscpicious hosts on your own network. Don't scan someone else, it's impolite. Especially if you are so bold to scan a whole netblock allocation.
autoconf/automake tools - Despite having great binary packages in your favorite distribution. Sometimes you have to go to the source. If for no other reason you need make to compile custom kernels. Makefiles can be handy for more than just compiling.
screen - The anti-window manager.
whois/dig/nslookup - For hunting down the responsible person abusing your networks.
There exists several legitimate ways to keep your web content out of google's indexes. They respect all of the following methods. Google even has a page titled "Google information for webmasters" which documents most of these. On what grounds does one have to sue?
* E-mail header that prevent google groups from archiving your message: "X-No-Archive: Yes". * Meta tags: <META NAME="Googlebot" CONTENT="nofollow"> * Hyperlinks <a href="http://google.com" rel="nofollow"> * robots.txt file with proper syntax * Google's link removal page: http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html
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I tried it a couple months ago. I got it to associate, but had no traffic.
Woohoo, Broadcom 4300 drivers! I hope they work. ...I wish this had been brought to my attention before 1 A.M.
There is a script in the rc.d directory to handle SysV init scripts. I think it's rc.d/rc.sysvinit or something similar. It will parse and cycle through the SysV init directory structure. You just have to create the SysV directory structure manually. You would rarely have to use this, as you could just drop any init script in the rc directory and call it from rc.local or rc.X, where X is the runlevel you want to call the script from.
Sorry, a less than symbol was read as an open tag.
Ok, they're not little black helicopters and they aren't automated drones. The summary drew this picture in my mind of the camera drones from Half Life 2.
These are short range (less than 2 mi. range), GPS navigated reconnaissance toy planes. With a 6 ft. wingspan, they should be fairly easy to spot. They can't even fly in the air for an hour without a battery change. The range can be extended with 802.11b access points (only 128-bit WEP is supported). So you should be able to fire up Kismet / Netstumbler and do a little spying of your own if they are in your area. It will be interesting to see if anyone reverse engineers the command & control if these are adopted by police departments in other urban areas.
Product page, no price listed. Interesting technical specs though.
Not a good solution for autonomous spying. It might be good for search and rescue jobs.
Ok, they're not little black helicopters and they aren't automated drones. The summary drew this picture in my mind of the camera drones from Half Life 2.
These are short range (Product page, no price listed. Interesting technical specs though.
Not a good solution for autonomous spying. It might be good for search and rescue jobs.
I couldn't agree more.
The reason: the scarcity of Linux and open source documentation
One thing is certain, it's not the lack of documentation. Rather the lack of quality documentation.
On the other hand, nobody can say Windows Server has quality documentation. Have you been to Technet? Hello? It's like they set their marketing team loose and let them make it up as they went along.
What do most people do when faced with the really hard to fix Windows problems? They do as MS suggests and reinstall Windows.
Either that or wade through the bullshit on Technet, try the 25 alleged fixes one at a time. It is like Microsoft doesn't even know it's own Operating System.
We had an application server that crashed everytime anyone logged out. I searched for the stop error in Microsoft's knowledge base, turned up nothing. I searched on Google for the same stop error, it takes me to the Microsoft knowledge base article. The alleged cause was a "missing font" causes terminal services to crash. Fix: Uninstall SP2 or call Microsoft for an untested hotfix. First, what in the hell do fonts have to do with Terminal Server? Second, how did the font dissappear from the system?
For Linux? It seems they get on the net and ask around until they A) find and answer, and B) leave an electronic trail in the process for others with similar problems to find.
I have been lucky enough a few times to accomplish the same with Windows Server. There are a few indispensable NON-Microsoft resources available such as Daniel Petri's website, and the TechGenix websites which have been my only saving grace at time.
So, who is going to be the first one to welcome our new intestine-crawling robotic overlords? Oh wait...
One of the Goatse trolls of course.
The Church of the Subgenius is being outsourced! What a travesty. It figures, they were just a bunch of slackers anyway.
It's so sad that people disregard the Bible (special creation) and rely on theories like evolution.
Creationism is also one of many theories. That's the funny thing about theories, they are not fact unless proven with irrefutable evidence.
The Bible has been proven the most historically accurate book ever,
No. It has not been proven the most historically accurate book ever. Who has proven it? When was this proven? If it is the most historically accurate book ever, why can't the hundreds of Christian sects agree on what it is trying to say? I would say that's open for interpretation.
while evolution is full of contradictory ideas which do not work out.
Such as? Could you please give a citation? There are two schools of thought: micro and macro evolution. Which one contradicts itself? How does it condradict itself?
The Bible says that birds and animals were created on the fifth and sixth day.
Birds were created on the fifth day. Humans were created on the sixth. What human was there on the fifth day to see if the chickens hatched or just appeared? If God says, "Let there be light.", and there is nobody to hear it. Does God make a sound?
Note that this will drain your battery life in this configuration.
Convert the bicycle into a generator.
http://www.amasci.com/amateur/coilgen.html
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question658.htm
GNU factor can handle up to 20 digits. Boy, I can't wait until my e-mail client can factor RSA challenges.
Let me know when you finish this one, it's only 309 digits.
In other news, the Motion Picture Association of America takes on a legal battle against Sony. Sony allegedly made unauthorized copies of one of its own movies, House of Flying Daggers. Sony also allowed an unlicensed public performance of said film.
From the list:
7._________ The Amulet of Yendor. [ 1 point ]
Oh, come on, that has got to be worth at least 1,000,000 Zorkmids!
Both have graphs generated by RRDTool, that's why they look the same. It has nothing to do with the codebase being the same. The graphing tools are the same in both.
Yeah, what he said. There is more to I.T. and Computer Science than programming. I am one of those insourcing consultants. We do just about anything and everything for customers related to I.T. One of the reasons we are more valuable than having a separate developer, network administrator, system administrator, security specialist, and technical support agent is they only have to go to us for all of those services.
We don't pigeonhole ourselves, the more services we offer, the benefit to the customer increases. It is more cost effective than paying salaries to full time employees who offer the same specialty as the services we provide. I do enough work for so many clients, it is like having several part-time jobs. I really love it too, never know what new problems I will have to face the next day.
To the original poster:
If you haven't started or finished College, it helps to focus on more than just programming. Take the parents advice and don't pigeonhole yourself. It never hurts to have a diverse foundation in your education. You will have more to fall back on something, in case programming doesn't pan out. There will probably be a hundred or so other posts in this article about getting a secondary degree in business. That's not a bad idea. It could be something different like engineering, physics, chemistry, graphic design, accounting, law, or literature. Don't put limits on yourself. Good luck, whatever you do.
Everyones using USB disks for backups now rather than tapes. So many benefits there.
Nonsense, everyone does not backup on USB disks. Tapes have the advantage of offsite storage in the event of a disaster. You certainly are not going to take a USB drive to the bank vault weekly or monthly.
How many small and medium sized companies have total data exceeding 750GB?
Plenty. You underestimate the needs of small to midsize business. It is not that uncommon for a small business with only a few employees to have Terabyte storage needs. The size of the shop does not have to be directly proportional to the size of their data or needs.
What will you PUT on it?
Backups, hosting storage, forensic data, heavy database needs, real-time data replication, or pretty much anything that will take up space.
...I am opposed to the idea of him charging people for new versions of the same product.
This is how Microsoft makes a profit.
The information on the steam browser leaves out that its also available freely, which means he is misleading people into paying for a free product when they won't know the difference.
Oh, c'mon. Valve charges $10 bucks to deliver Counter-Strike. It's a free download for Half-Life retail owners, I have never heard anyone complain about this. Steam allows game producers to sell their mods/products as separate products than Valve's products. You buy the mod and get all the Valve content loaded, without having to buy the original game. Garry isn't misleading anyone into paying for a free product. Half-Life 2 isn't a free product, and if Valve or Garry want to deliver the mod through Steam "as a separate product", they must charge something to deliver that copyrighted content.
I for one, welcome our $9.99 content delivery overlords.
You have taken the April Fools jokes too far. This is so not funny.
4. [Dare I say it] Remote Desktop. I currently work with a team of 5 IT's to maintain a nation wide network of PC's. VNC just doesn't cut it, neither does a lot of other programs. Remote Desktop is highly acceptable from my point of view, although booting into windows via VMWare is a pain.
Yes it is handy. You don't need VMware just for this. Try the open source client rdesktop.
I could have sworn that said "How open source is farting in retail."
It's been a long day.
How am I supposed to get any work done when my TV show playback is jumpy?
As a software developer, how does watching TV fall into the scope of your work?
There exists several legitimate ways to keep your web content out of google's indexes. They respect all of the following methods. Google even has a page titled "Google information for webmasters" which documents most of these. On what grounds does one have to sue?
* E-mail header that prevent google groups from archiving your message: "X-No-Archive: Yes".
* Meta tags: <META NAME="Googlebot" CONTENT="nofollow">
* Hyperlinks <a href="http://google.com" rel="nofollow">
* robots.txt file with proper syntax
* Google's link removal page: http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html