Come on, 106 hours gets news on slashdot. Jeez, if I posted to slashdot every time I worked that many hours, I'd be able to...., well, I guess I'd be able to say I posted to slashdot more hours than I can remember.
I prefer linux to every other unix out there, but I have to say that Sun and Irix's(and netapp, but they don't count:0 ) nfs implementations are much more solid than linux's. Oh sure 'where's your proof', or 'give me an example' you might say, but to that I say bah. Manage enough machines and try them all out, then see what I mean.
Oh, and I mean on the server side. NFS on the client side is ok.
people really need to learn the technology before they comment. rfid tags are activated by a radio signal, which the tag bounces bag with it's info. if a high enough radio signal is sent to the tag, the tag fries. no more tag. end of privacy concerns.
What I've set up for our machines is MSI's of Mozilla. The best way to create the MSI's are to use Wise Admin Studio.
Here's how you do it:
1)You start Wise Admin Studio (I've got 3.2, but 4 is out) and go through the steps of repacking into MSI.
2)You run the Mozilla installer. I then also add the spellchecker.
3)You modify the MSI, as some entries get detected improperly, such as temp directories you don't want on other machines.
4)Deploy the MSI to the entire site, domain or OU.
The above is assuming knowledge of Active Directory and GPO's.
What you could do, and what we do, is offload authentication to MIT, but keep the file server local. We've had real good luck with that. And authentication isn't that big a bandwidth hog.
We're completely scrapping our domain in order to use WinAthena, which has a few limitations, but they're responsive, and after managing a Win2k domain, let me tell you the headaches saved by having somebody else do it right(key word is right) keep me from going postal on the users.
It wasn't until this very column, titled Mac OS X with Active Desktop, until I realized how very stupid the humans at slashdot are. I never paid any attention to others who insisted this, but now I'm a believer. I mean, come on! Active Desktop when the text clearly says Active Directory. Jeez, where does slashdot find them? On topic now.. I've seen documentation on Apples's site on how to do it, but it's quite a mess. We currently support Win2k(soon XP) and Linux boxen in the Bio dept. at MIT, because of the kerberos. With the release of Jaguar, Macs become a viable managed platform for us, as opposed to the unmanaged platforms we have to support, such as Irix, NT4, Solaris(although 9 finally supports kerberos). Any success stories and/or caveats will be appreciated by many.
If you're looking to build a network of machines, stay away from IRIX. There's not kerberos support, no pam, no extendible way to login other than local files and NIS. If SGI were to include kerberos support, the urgent move to Linux we are doing here wouldn't be needed, although we'd still move, albeit slower. The apps that demanded an SGI took 22 minutes on dual octane, versus 3:40 on P4. Screw IRIX.
"Well, our object collision budget's a million dollars. That allows us to track about 3% of the sky, and begging your pardon sir, but it's a big-ass sky."
Every large piece of software has bugs. It is inevitable. The difference is that if a piece of software is written with security in mind, it will have less bugs. If a piece of software is written with backward-compatibility, ease of use, performance at any cost, etc.., it will have more bugs.
Here at MIT, there is a system in place that allows access to any public machine for anybody with credentials. All remote software is under/mit, with homedirs being/mit/user/.../.../xxx. Authentication is Kerberos, remote filespace is AFS. It's called Athena. It's available for Solaris, Irix and Linux, with Solaris and Irix being phased out. Basically it's a RH system with a boatload of custom rpms. Some of the neater ones do auto-updating, so that you can go from a RH6.2 based Athena system to RH7.1 based overnight, no intervention required. Since all user data is remote, it works great. We(biology,biomicro,bioinformatics) are taking this system and making it more usable. A kickstart script gets the latest RH plus updates for installation. Homedirs and maintenance dirs are on nfs, and with kickstarts %postinstall section, a system can be customized perfectly right during install. I recommend this route, as you can add any rpms you want to be installed, and any scripts that you want executed.
Me and my roommates did this last summer in Boston. We got the cable modem, grabbed some wire and ran a connection from the modem to the tv. It's how I was able to watch the RedSox all summer. Otherwise I woulda missed all the espn/nesn games, but the bunny ears worked fine for local fox station.
The chapter was a good read. Specifically, OpenSSH and kerberos. At this url, http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/patches/openssh.ht ml, you can get the patches for sshv2 and krb5 support. At MIT, we use it to ssh from machine to machine without being prompted for a password. It's a very nice setup.
If the mega-stick does work well with the game, and assuming that the game is good, it would make for a seriously good gaming experience. I mean, I've played mechwarrior 1-4, and the keyboard/mouse experience was passable, and my force-feedback joystick was really nice too, but I still had to resort to the keyboard. If the game is good enough, I'd look forward to a controller like this. It would surely make the game much better. The only downside is that it's a MS-USB controller, and I couldn't use it on the PC. Eh, what're ya gonna do.
Not a palm, but I remember using an ipaq(hpaq?) at my last job. With it's sleeve, you could use a standard pcmcia card. I remember using a netgear one. Was kinda cool being in the lunchroom reading/. And I vnc'd to another machine once. Was real weird, controlling this machine from the lunchroom. Too bad we junked the wireless lan, it was neat.
Umm, why would you want a dollar sign in the user name?? When doing NT style networking you place the dollar sign in the share name, which works just peachy
Well, you want a $ sign in the username, because the machine name MACHINENAME has to be in the system passwd file as $MACHINENAME, if you want to have a samba server join machines to it's domain. It might be MACHINENAME$, I'd have to double-check.
Hey, screw you ya freaking karma nazis. I say something original, maybe not funny, and I get mod'd down. Now I've got an original idea. I'll copy and paste the article in discussion, and get mod'd to 5. "Hell, I hope I'm not breaking any copyright rules in doing so." Freaking jerks.:0
I've got a question? Who regulates the BSA's practices? What kind of rules does it have to abide by? I mean, even creditors have rules that say you can't be harassed and such. So, are there any that will keep the BSA in line? It really sounds to me like a bounty organization.
I have to concur on the Boondock Saints item. It is really a great movie. The best scene has to be the 'What the hell are you doing with that knife?' scene. Cuts me up every time.
why doesn't star trek have it's own topic icon? i'm looking at them, and i see a penguin, a chalkboard, an apple, etc.. i mean, star wars has it's own topic icon on slashdot. what gives?
honestly, what do you expect from microsoft, the company that has made it's billions from being heavy-handed in every situation it could. we're all well aware of the netscape/ie debate, the desktop-oem debate, the 'unfair' pricing strategy where ms penalizes those who would dare defy it.
wait a second, i've yet to read the license agreement for win2k(who the hell does anyway?) or ie6. by posting using these, could i wind up on ms's blacklist? maybe a funny thought now, but if this type of policy is permitted, it won't be funny in the future, it'll probably be true. think about it, your freedom of speech gone, because microsoft has billions, and it ends up writing the laws. feels kinda f*cked up to me.
i used to work there, so i know a bit about these guys. they don't have limits on what you get. they don't seel '8-node clusters' or '16-node clusters' only. if you want 10, you get 10. wanna add a cd-rw? sound card? kick-ass geforce3(they were fun to setup) i don't remember the days of the xt, so i can't comment on that, but they do a good job of linux clusters.
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Come on, 106 hours gets news on slashdot. Jeez, if I posted to slashdot every time I worked that many hours, I'd be able to...., well, I guess I'd be able to say I posted to slashdot more hours than I can remember.
Such is the life of a sysadmin.
I prefer linux to every other unix out there, but I have to say that Sun and Irix's(and netapp, but they don't count:0 ) nfs implementations are much more solid than linux's. Oh sure 'where's your proof', or 'give me an example' you might say, but to that I say bah. Manage enough machines and try them all out, then see what I mean.
Oh, and I mean on the server side. NFS on the client side is ok.
people really need to learn the technology before they comment. rfid tags are activated by a radio signal, which the tag bounces bag with it's info. if a high enough radio signal is sent to the tag, the tag fries. no more tag. end of privacy concerns.
Trent Lott is quoted as apologizing to this new material.
What I've set up for our machines is MSI's of Mozilla. The best way to create the MSI's are to use Wise Admin Studio.
Here's how you do it:
1)You start Wise Admin Studio (I've got 3.2, but 4 is out) and go through the steps of repacking into MSI.
2)You run the Mozilla installer. I then also add the spellchecker.
3)You modify the MSI, as some entries get detected improperly, such as temp directories you don't want on other machines.
4)Deploy the MSI to the entire site, domain or OU.
The above is assuming knowledge of Active Directory and GPO's.
What you could do, and what we do, is offload authentication to MIT, but keep the file server local. We've had real good luck with that. And authentication isn't that big a bandwidth hog.
We're completely scrapping our domain in order to use WinAthena, which has a few limitations, but they're responsive, and after managing a Win2k domain, let me tell you the headaches saved by having somebody else do it right(key word is right) keep me from going postal on the users.
It wasn't until this very column, titled Mac OS X with Active Desktop, until I realized how very stupid the humans at slashdot are. I never paid any attention to others who insisted this, but now I'm a believer. I mean, come on! Active Desktop when the text clearly says Active Directory. Jeez, where does slashdot find them? On topic now.. I've seen documentation on Apples's site on how to do it, but it's quite a mess. We currently support Win2k(soon XP) and Linux boxen in the Bio dept. at MIT, because of the kerberos. With the release of Jaguar, Macs become a viable managed platform for us, as opposed to the unmanaged platforms we have to support, such as Irix, NT4, Solaris(although 9 finally supports kerberos). Any success stories and/or caveats will be appreciated by many.
If you're looking to build a network of machines, stay away from IRIX. There's not kerberos support, no pam, no extendible way to login other than local files and NIS. If SGI were to include kerberos support, the urgent move to Linux we are doing here wouldn't be needed, although we'd still move, albeit slower. The apps that demanded an SGI took 22 minutes on dual octane, versus 3:40 on P4. Screw IRIX.
"Well, our object collision budget's a million dollars. That allows us to track about 3% of the sky, and begging your pardon sir, but it's a big-ass sky."
Every large piece of software has bugs. It is inevitable. The difference is that if a piece of software is written with security in mind, it will have less bugs. If a piece of software is written with backward-compatibility, ease of use, performance at any cost, etc.., it will have more bugs.
Here at MIT, there is a system in place that allows access to any public machine for anybody with credentials. All remote software is under /mit, with homedirs being /mit/user/.../.../xxx. Authentication is Kerberos, remote filespace is AFS. It's called Athena. It's available for Solaris, Irix and Linux, with Solaris and Irix being phased out. Basically it's a RH system with a boatload of custom rpms. Some of the neater ones do auto-updating, so that you can go from a RH6.2 based Athena system to RH7.1 based overnight, no intervention required. Since all user data is remote, it works great. We(biology,biomicro,bioinformatics) are taking this system and making it more usable. A kickstart script gets the latest RH plus updates for installation. Homedirs and maintenance dirs are on nfs, and with kickstarts %postinstall section, a system can be customized perfectly right during install. I recommend this route, as you can add any rpms you want to be installed, and any scripts that you want executed.
Me and my roommates did this last summer in Boston. We got the cable modem, grabbed some wire and ran a connection from the modem to the tv. It's how I was able to watch the RedSox all summer. Otherwise I woulda missed all the espn/nesn games, but the bunny ears worked fine for local fox station.
The chapter was a good read. Specifically, OpenSSH and kerberos. At this url, http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/patches/openssh.ht ml, you can get the patches for sshv2 and krb5 support. At MIT, we use it to ssh from machine to machine without being prompted for a password. It's a very nice setup.
If the mega-stick does work well with the game, and assuming that the game is good, it would make for a seriously good gaming experience. I mean, I've played mechwarrior 1-4, and the keyboard/mouse experience was passable, and my force-feedback joystick was really nice too, but I still had to resort to the keyboard. If the game is good enough, I'd look forward to a controller like this. It would surely make the game much better. The only downside is that it's a MS-USB controller, and I couldn't use it on the PC. Eh, what're ya gonna do.
Not a palm, but I remember using an ipaq(hpaq?) at my last job. With it's sleeve, you could use a standard pcmcia card. I remember using a netgear one. Was kinda cool being in the lunchroom reading /. And I vnc'd to another machine once. Was real weird, controlling this machine from the lunchroom. Too bad we junked the wireless lan, it was neat.
Umm, why would you want a dollar sign in the user name?? When doing NT style networking you place the dollar sign in the share name, which works just peachy
Well, you want a $ sign in the username, because the machine name MACHINENAME has to be in the system passwd file as $MACHINENAME, if you want to have a samba server join machines to it's domain. It might be MACHINENAME$, I'd have to double-check.
Oh no you di'int.
Hey, screw you ya freaking karma nazis. I say something original, maybe not funny, and I get mod'd down. Now I've got an original idea. I'll copy and paste the article in discussion, and get mod'd to 5. "Hell, I hope I'm not breaking any copyright rules in doing so." Freaking jerks. :0
Ya, Leech Computing. Everybody new to warez'ing knows about this. That's why we the ftp sites and irc bots have up/down ratios.
I've got a question? Who regulates the BSA's practices? What kind of rules does it have to abide by? I mean, even creditors have rules that say you can't be harassed and such. So, are there any that will keep the BSA in line? It really sounds to me like a bounty organization.
I have to concur on the Boondock Saints item. It is really a great movie. The best scene has to be the 'What the hell are you doing with that knife?' scene. Cuts me up every time.
why doesn't star trek have it's own topic icon? i'm looking at them, and i see a penguin, a chalkboard, an apple, etc.. i mean, star wars has it's own topic icon on slashdot. what gives?
honestly, what do you expect from microsoft, the company that has made it's billions from being heavy-handed in every situation it could. we're all well aware of the netscape/ie debate, the desktop-oem debate, the 'unfair' pricing strategy where ms penalizes those who would dare defy it.
wait a second, i've yet to read the license agreement for win2k(who the hell does anyway?) or ie6. by posting using these, could i wind up on ms's blacklist? maybe a funny thought now, but if this type of policy is permitted, it won't be funny in the future, it'll probably be true. think about it, your freedom of speech gone, because microsoft has billions, and it ends up writing the laws. feels kinda f*cked up to me.
i used to work there, so i know a bit about these guys. they don't have limits on what you get. they don't seel '8-node clusters' or '16-node clusters' only. if you want 10, you get 10. wanna add a cd-rw? sound card? kick-ass geforce3(they were fun to setup) i don't remember the days of the xt, so i can't comment on that, but they do a good job of linux clusters.