Auto-installation of printer drivers (hm does Samba do this yet?). I hack emacs lisp, I can hand-edit sendmail.cf (to some degree), I write perl, but jesus christ printing under Unix is still something I despise doing.
Yes. SAMBA 2.2.0alpha (which is plenty stable, I've been using the HEAD versions of this for months) will hold on to printer drivers and autoinstall them on NT workstations.
It seems most new technologies now have a catch: DVDs and the mess over DeCSS and the MPAAs desire to sue, MP3 encoding and the RIAA drooling to sue anyone who even looks at an MP3, intellectual property right, DMCA, who owns what, etc.
I'm obviously a huge fan of new technology, but is there a catch somewhere in Super CD? The article was big on technical, not on much else. Anyone have any insight to this?
Common sense would suggest that encouraging the rich to gamble while discouraging the poor from throwing away what little money they have might achieve a more equitable assessment of revenue-raising among the people. We already see this with vanity liscense plates
Interesting thought, although, I see more 1984 Cameros on the road with vanity plates such as "2FAST" (and virtually non-existant mufflers, too, I might add) then shiny new Lexus's and SUVs.
How soon 'til Pick-4 is available from your local ".gov" domain?
Studies often show that people with easy access to computers/technology as being at the top of the social ladder (in that they come from higher income familes, have backgrounds involving more education, etc).
On the flip side, other studies often show people who play the lottery as being at the bottom of the social ladder (lower incoming familes). Many people call the State Lotteries a "stupid tax", in that poorer familes often waste their precious few remaining dollars on lottery tickets in hopes of climbing out of their situation.
Thus, with the "rich" being on computer/The Internet but not playing the lottery, and the "poor" playing the lottery but without access to the Net, it makes you wonder whether online State Lotteries would make sense.
But this is not an Airboard! An airboard can be seen in Back to the Future part 2, in which Marty McFly played by that guy who shakes a lot, rides one.
Actually, that's a "Hoverboard". I've always wanted one.
Certification is a waste of time [snip]
no "certified professional" is worth anything without the real-world experiance that comes from being on the job.
While more often then not the employee with the expert will shine where the paper-certified employee will fail, you have to seriously take in to account on this: Certification often times provides a GREAT path for someone just breaking in to the industry to follow.
Assuming from your post that you are already in the industry, imagine how daunting it would be to enter. There's just SO MUCH out there. While obviously a lot of people chase certifications for money (check any technical comp.sys group on UseNet; it WILL be littered with "how much can I expect for MCSE + CCNA in the SF area"), I think others recognize it as a great path to get started. In my opinion, Cisco's entry-level and mid-level certification programs (CCNA and CCNP, along the implmementation path) provide a great foundation for starting out and moving ahead in the very daunting internetworking field.
I reiterate we're not disagreeing--I don't claim "certification==genius" and I don't think most companies approach it like that, either. I DO feel it provides a clear-cut path for the skills you need to master to truly get ahead in that particular niche of the industry.
ARgh... the vaio is soooo close to being about the ultimate laptop. But completely shoddy construction just makes that
I got a PII/350 Superslim back in April, and considering I take it everywhere, I'm surprised how well it's stood up. The only thing I notice that shows me it's not new is the coloration is a little off where I rest my right hand by the touchpad.
Check them out again, if you're in the market. I'm surprised a laptop as little as mine is stands up as well as it does. I could only assume the bigger (ie, nonsuperslim) modles are equally well-constructed these days.
In fact, your response is pretty characteristic of why NT is such a bad deal: you need zillions of commercial third party packages for all sorts of eventualities, and you get nickled-and-dimed to death, not to mention all the time that is wasted on this stuff.
Settle down.
I was simply suggesting an alternative solution to the technical dilemna presented by the originator of this thread. I didn't defend or support the administrative or financial benefits of anything.
Isn't solving problems one of the things geeks do best?
Yes, it is stupid. You cannot get to the C: drive to fix data corruption with a normal boot disk as with FAT. Especially on print servers where this eems to happen all too often... Ever see the message "Cannot find NTOSKRN.VXD"...
Ever played with the Sysinternals' NTFSDOS Professional? Allows you to, using one floppy, have read/write access to your NTFS partitions. No more reinstalling NT to an alternate directory just to replace one DLL.
Not saying it's the end-all-be-all, but it sure is a slick tool and allows you to keep the benefits of NTFS on your system drive.
"Have your new machine counted! May I send a one-time message to the Linux user counter for you?"
Didn't old Slackware have something like this? It's been so long..
Anyway, this wouldn't work well either. How many times have you installed Linux on a machine only to blow it away/reinstall/whatever? I know the machine I run most of my domain services on has had RedHat installed on it at least 3 times over the years, and one of my home machines (486sx/25) at least 5 times.
This could almost skew data in the other direction.
SBC attempts to push their Windows 98 solution dubbed "Enternet 300" which is a PPP-over-Ethernet (PPPoE) solution.
I was annoyed it wasn't a DHCP solution, but it took me all of 15 minutes to find rp-pppoe on Freshmeat which has been working great for me for the last 2 months. A simple kernel patch, and an unpatched ppp-2.3.10 does the rest.
I am using an old Dell P166/16MB to do IPMASQ, running a transparent squid proxy, bind for my internal network, and dhcpd for workstations (ie, bring a laptop over, boot up, you're online).
Only bitch I have is upstream; 128Kb sucks. (I do get 1.5Mb down though)
Of course the biggest challenge to making MacOS more unix-like was giving the little mac guy who comes up during the startup screen a beard and making him fatter:)
Ironically, I always considered Novell guys to the beard+gut wielding crowd.
"Broadband" is the wave of the future! POTS is good for fast and easy voice transmission, but admit it: it's dead for Internet.
For you users sitting at home with the luxury of DSL and cable modems, sure. But what about travelling users, laptops, etc. No reason why we can't milk every bit out of the PSTN that we can, bandwidthwise, for those users who don't always have the luxury of "broadband". (even if the technology ain't perfect)
Ninety percent of the dial-ups I've used in the last three years have connected at 31200bps or lower, with 56k modems (modems on both ends utilizing either Flex or x2).
Ouch. While I'm living in St. Louis, MO, USA now, I use to live in Cincinnati, OH, USA. Perhaps Cincinnati Bell is on the ball (well, compared to Southwestern Bell--my new CLEC--they're 1000x better), but I rarely would see less then 44-46k unless you were REALLY out in the sticks. Even in those cases, you'd usually see a v34 connect of 28.8k or 31.2k if v90/K56Flex wasn't possible.
Anyone have some good links on exactly how the increased upstream works?
I thought the whole "trick" to v90 was taking advantage of the lack of an analog/digital conversion on the ISP/provider end (straight telco trunks in to NAS equipment), which was why the 56k downstream was possible (64k per channel + robbed bit signaling = 56k).
It's quite obvious the "customer side" is analog though, so how are we scamming 48k upstream?
This is interesting, as I was currently in the planning process of building a unit like this. With the REDICULOUSLY low price of hard drives, I was going to allocate a spare P166MMX to my audio cabinet in my living room and interface it to some sort of "remote control receiver" that would talk serial (so I could then use a universal remote control to go forward/backward through song)s. Anyone know of a good remote control receiver unit?
.. I can't believe there are people out there who are a member of the "real" PETA; "Unhappy Meals"? Don't eat meat? Animals are treated cruelly?
Who gives a rat's ass; there's people being killed, kids doing drugs, gangs on the streets.. let's focus our attention on something more important then whether or not a chicken lives a fulfilling life. Geese..
Now I'm just as big of a geek as the next, and anytime I make a 5-minute stop somewhere I'm ssh'ing in and firing up Pine to check my mail... but it's interesting that activities where the central point was to "get away from it all" now just mean "get away from people, but keep the net access."
Hrm. No people. Smell of fresh air. Net access. Maybe I need to take a 3-month trip on a boat after all.
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Auto-installation of printer drivers (hm does Samba do this yet?). I hack emacs lisp, I can hand-edit sendmail.cf (to some degree), I write perl, but jesus christ printing under Unix is still something I despise doing.
Yes. SAMBA 2.2.0alpha (which is plenty stable, I've been using the HEAD versions of this for months) will hold on to printer drivers and autoinstall them on NT workstations.
Have fun!
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It seems most new technologies now have a catch: DVDs and the mess over DeCSS and the MPAAs desire to sue, MP3 encoding and the RIAA drooling to sue anyone who even looks at an MP3, intellectual property right, DMCA, who owns what, etc.
I'm obviously a huge fan of new technology, but is there a catch somewhere in Super CD? The article was big on technical, not on much else. Anyone have any insight to this?
Common sense would suggest that encouraging the rich to gamble while discouraging the poor from throwing away what little money they have might achieve a more equitable assessment of revenue-raising among the people. We already see this with vanity liscense plates
Interesting thought, although, I see more 1984 Cameros on the road with vanity plates such as "2FAST" (and virtually non-existant mufflers, too, I might add) then shiny new Lexus's and SUVs.
How soon 'til Pick-4 is available from your local ".gov" domain?
Studies often show that people with easy access to computers/technology as being at the top of the social ladder (in that they come from higher income familes, have backgrounds involving more education, etc).
On the flip side, other studies often show people who play the lottery as being at the bottom of the social ladder (lower incoming familes). Many people call the State Lotteries a "stupid tax", in that poorer familes often waste their precious few remaining dollars on lottery tickets in hopes of climbing out of their situation.
Thus, with the "rich" being on computer/The Internet but not playing the lottery, and the "poor" playing the lottery but without access to the Net, it makes you wonder whether online State Lotteries would make sense.
Won't stop them from doing it, though.
But this is not an Airboard! An airboard can be seen in Back to the Future part 2, in which Marty McFly played by that guy who shakes a lot, rides one.
Actually, that's a "Hoverboard". I've always wanted one.
Certification is a waste of time
[snip]
no "certified professional" is worth anything without the real-world experiance that comes from being on the job.
While more often then not the employee with the expert will shine where the paper-certified employee will fail, you have to seriously take in to account on this: Certification often times provides a GREAT path for someone just breaking in to the industry to follow.
Assuming from your post that you are already in the industry, imagine how daunting it would be to enter. There's just SO MUCH out there. While obviously a lot of people chase certifications for money (check any technical comp.sys group on UseNet; it WILL be littered with "how much can I expect for MCSE + CCNA in the SF area"), I think others recognize it as a great path to get started. In my opinion, Cisco's entry-level and mid-level certification programs (CCNA and CCNP, along the implmementation path) provide a great foundation for starting out and moving ahead in the very daunting internetworking field.
I reiterate we're not disagreeing--I don't claim "certification==genius" and I don't think most companies approach it like that, either. I DO feel it provides a clear-cut path for the skills you need to master to truly get ahead in that particular niche of the industry.
ARgh... the vaio is soooo close to being about the ultimate laptop. But completely shoddy construction just makes that
I got a PII/350 Superslim back in April, and considering I take it everywhere, I'm surprised how well it's stood up. The only thing I notice that shows me it's not new is the coloration is a little off where I rest my right hand by the touchpad.
Check them out again, if you're in the market. I'm surprised a laptop as little as mine is stands up as well as it does. I could only assume the bigger (ie, nonsuperslim) modles are equally well-constructed these days.
In fact, your response is pretty characteristic of why NT is such a bad deal: you need zillions of commercial third party packages for all sorts of eventualities, and you get nickled-and-dimed to death, not to mention all the time that is wasted on this stuff.
Settle down.
I was simply suggesting an alternative solution to the technical dilemna presented by the originator of this thread. I didn't defend or support the administrative or financial benefits of anything.
Isn't solving problems one of the things geeks do best?
Yes, it is stupid. You cannot get to the C: drive to fix data corruption with a normal boot disk as with FAT. Especially on print servers where this eems to happen all too often... Ever see the message "Cannot find NTOSKRN.VXD"...
Ever played with the Sysinternals' NTFSDOS Professional? Allows you to, using one floppy, have read/write access to your NTFS partitions. No more reinstalling NT to an alternate directory just to replace one DLL.
Not saying it's the end-all-be-all, but it sure is a slick tool and allows you to keep the benefits of NTFS on your system drive.
"Have your new machine counted! May I send a one-time message to the Linux user counter for you?"
..
Didn't old Slackware have something like this? It's been so long
Anyway, this wouldn't work well either. How many times have you installed Linux on a machine only to blow it away/reinstall/whatever? I know the machine I run most of my domain services on has had RedHat installed on it at least 3 times over the years, and one of my home machines (486sx/25) at least 5 times.
This could almost skew data in the other direction.
It is my understanding that linux or even win32 in this mode would be very hard to detect.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:x.x.x.x Bcast:x.x.x.x Mask:255.255.255.128
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5490631 errors:362 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:492
TX packets:5668545 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:3
collisions:1153503 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400
Note the PROMISC flag above. The results of "ifconfig eth0" on my Linux machine.
When my video card has as much memory as my computer, you know it's time to be worried.
Ok, quick question.
What if I say something blatently slanderous about a company/person/whatever to, say, a friend. Or maybe a handful of people.
Is this "okay" just becuase it's a smaller group of people? What's the law say in a case like this?
SBC attempts to push their Windows 98 solution dubbed "Enternet 300" which is a PPP-over-Ethernet (PPPoE) solution.
I was annoyed it wasn't a DHCP solution, but it took me all of 15 minutes to find rp-pppoe on Freshmeat which has been working great for me for the last 2 months. A simple kernel patch, and an unpatched ppp-2.3.10 does the rest.
I am using an old Dell P166/16MB to do IPMASQ, running a transparent squid proxy, bind for my internal network, and dhcpd for workstations (ie, bring a laptop over, boot up, you're online).
Only bitch I have is upstream; 128Kb sucks. (I do get 1.5Mb down though)
Of course the biggest challenge to making MacOS more unix-like was giving the little mac guy who comes up during the startup screen a beard and making him fatter :)
Ironically, I always considered Novell guys to the beard+gut wielding crowd.
http://www.oldnovellguys.com
The keyboard is obviously a very good input device and serves me quite well. I've been doing it long enough I can type faster then most.
.. direct input? It sure would be a lot easier to "think" what I wanted to type and have it appear.
But how far along are we in regards to
Anyone know?
Silicon Valley. Ironic, no?
Ha. Painfully so.
"Broadband" is the wave of the future! POTS is good for fast and easy voice transmission, but admit it: it's dead for Internet.
For you users sitting at home with the luxury of DSL and cable modems, sure. But what about travelling users, laptops, etc. No reason why we can't milk every bit out of the PSTN that we can, bandwidthwise, for those users who don't always have the luxury of "broadband". (even if the technology ain't perfect)
I was curious how long it would take for the makers of NAS products to implement v.92--looks like availability is scarce:
//www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/cisco/mkt/ios/rel/1 21/prodlit/1095_pp.htm
Cisco claims support on their AS5400 product line:
http:
I couldn't find anything on Lucent's website (Portmaster 3 & Portmaster 4 products).
I couldn't find anything on 3Com's website (USR Total Control Products).
Anyone work with any of these products and know of any published timelines or press releases on ETAs for working software?
Ninety percent of the dial-ups I've used in the last three years have connected at 31200bps or lower, with 56k modems (modems on both ends utilizing either Flex or x2).
Ouch. While I'm living in St. Louis, MO, USA now, I use to live in Cincinnati, OH, USA. Perhaps Cincinnati Bell is on the ball (well, compared to Southwestern Bell--my new CLEC--they're 1000x better), but I rarely would see less then 44-46k unless you were REALLY out in the sticks. Even in those cases, you'd usually see a v34 connect of 28.8k or 31.2k if v90/K56Flex wasn't possible.
What part of the world are you in?
Anyone have some good links on exactly how the increased upstream works?
I thought the whole "trick" to v90 was taking advantage of the lack of an analog/digital conversion on the ISP/provider end (straight telco trunks in to NAS equipment), which was why the 56k downstream was possible (64k per channel + robbed bit signaling = 56k).
It's quite obvious the "customer side" is analog though, so how are we scamming 48k upstream?
This is interesting, as I was currently in the planning process of building a unit like this. With the REDICULOUSLY low price of hard drives, I was going to allocate a spare P166MMX to my audio cabinet in my living room and interface it to some sort of "remote control receiver" that would talk serial (so I could then use a universal remote control to go forward/backward through song)s. Anyone know of a good remote control receiver unit?
.. I can't believe there are people out there who are a member of the "real" PETA; "Unhappy Meals"? Don't eat meat? Animals are treated cruelly?
.. let's focus our attention on something more important then whether or not a chicken lives a fulfilling life. Geese ..
Who gives a rat's ass; there's people being killed, kids doing drugs, gangs on the streets
Now I'm just as big of a geek as the next, and anytime I make a 5-minute stop somewhere I'm ssh'ing in and firing up Pine to check my mail ... but it's interesting that activities where the central point was to "get away from it all" now just mean "get away from people, but keep the net access."
Hrm. No people. Smell of fresh air. Net access. Maybe I need to take a 3-month trip on a boat after all.