Oh, I have nearly 15 years of proven skill. I think what I'm getting at here is, there is a sizeable amount of demand for RH services and/or support -- yet people who are certified with their products seem to find less demand than, say, MCSE.
Maybe my RHCE certification will land me a job now! *gets hopes up*
Question is, with all of this emerging interest in Red Hat, why hasn't it already gotten me a job? I haven't seen (around here, in Ottawa, anyway) any sharp rise in the number of Linux-related jobs available. So, who's buying all of this support?
Now, will they be in violation of their own EULA when their junk ends up on any PC that I use through no fault of my own? I certainly won't ask for their software to be installed of my own free will, but that is not how their model works, now is it?
So, if we all sign on as developers of a FOSS anti-spyware project, are we all effectively protected from these people, as it is against their EULA for their software to be pushed to us? And who gets in trouble, us, or the operators of the sites that are responsible for feeding us this garbage?
Sorry, but after being asked, in all seriousness, by an American about how I used the Internet (or even a computer) from my igloo in Canada, I tend to take these kinds of things at face value.
I told that guy that my pet polar bear gnaws on the phone wires every once in a while, causing me a lot of nasty lag. He was impressed.
Of course the number is higher in Canadian dollars. No, our dollars are not the same as your dollars. $1 USD is about $1.18 CAD right now. You do realize this, right?
Yeah, funny that, our country's "backwoods" ideas (and broadband internet prices) are in line with much of the rest of the world, whereas your country's "normal" ideas have led you to overpriced broadband. Huzzah!
Yes, because there are no servers operating outside the United States that are worth going to. Didn't everyone know this? I mean, why are they even bothering serving DNS in the first place? No one cares about anything outside the US, right???
I think that this type of opinion is exactly why things must change.
Your mileage may vary. This blocks attempts for 1 minute after 3 attempts (successful or failed, so if someone forgets their password, they may trip it as well).
-Have to- install? I downloaded one additional theme for Firefox and apart from the occasional plugin such as Shockwave, I never have to do anything to enhance Firefox for daily use.
It's nice that you have everything worked out -- but this is like saying that Internet Explorer is as much of a hassle because of all those security updates you have to download. No thanks.
It's important to identify that if this is not a browser thing, but a Sun JRE thing, any Java-enabled program that can come in contact with the installer applet could potentially infect your system.
Speaking solely as a Canadian citizen, I get more spam today than I ever have in the past. This has nothing to do with the propagation (or lack thereof) of any law, but more the fact that my email address (or one of my email addresses, many of which forward) has been out on the Internet in lists and such for years now.
While the lists propagate, so will the spam. One of these days, whatever list(s) I am on may stop circulating, but I'm not holding my breath.
Any IT manager worth their salt will look past this FUD and look towards things like... this, where Microsoft's single sign-on program fails them utterly.
Oh, wait, isn't that one of the key points this guy tried to make, even though Passport has basically begun to circle the drain?
They don't provide crucial information in this article, which is really more like a paragraphed spittle of information, really.
1. Was this guy the original seed?
2. Was he even a seed? Or was he just downloading them?
I think this is very important, especially given that as a BitTorrent user, one can only be so selective about one's involvement in the distribution of the file(s). If this guy was just downloading the files (not sure why anyone would, but hey), and was arrested for uploading them, that would be a Very Bad Thing.
The court decision inspired panic in the Canadian music industry; industry spokesmen were predicting the collapse of copyright control would cause severe financial hardship for people making their living from music.
If only the people making their living weren't suffering at the hands of labels and record companies/associations already, I might even agree with the people on this side (the CRIA) of the fence.
We all know that artists who don't make enough drama or news to get endorsements, major deals and huge publicity, already have a difficult time making their money from their music alone.
I installed RH 8 (typing this using it right now) this morning. It looks like Windows, feels like Windows, and yet has the power and structure of Linux under it, even more invisible than before.
This is -exactly- what will win customers over, because customers aren't people like me and (potentially) you; customers are people like my boss, his boss, and so on up the line, that look at Linux as a cheap server alternative when we don't want to buy Windows 2000 Server. We, on the other hand, are Linux geeks, who will use Linux and most likely turn off the looks-like-Windows part anyway. =)
I could probably install RH8 on desktops where I work and use it as an alternative to Windows with a minor change or two (the ability to browse SMB shares would be a must). So, in my view, looking and feeling like Windows is critical, because people don't want to have to learn new tricks when they can just as easily buy Windows.
I live near a Wal-Mart... and I'm a Lindows Insider. I guess all Lindows Insiders are rednecks too?
Hey, wait, does that mean that since the Lindows staff are all inherently Insiders, that they are all rednecks as well?
Whoa, hold on! They are contributing to the general software cause that we all love to talk about here on Slashdot. Does that mean all contributors to the well-being of Linux and alternative OSes, Slashdot readers, and everyone else that uses a computer is a redneck?
Unfortunately, like other 802.11b solutions, these use WEP, which is inherently broken... if I were linking my business' two campuses, I wouldn't really want Joe, Bob and Mary (who all happen to have line of sight) sniffing all of my network traffic with their perfectly simple store-bought solutions.:-)
If a kernel patchlevel (remember v Major.Minor.Patchlevel?) breaks your application, then I am led to believe that your application is very poorly programmed...
I can't understand how that could possibly be correct. If the kernel changes and your program relies on the kernel, and your program breaks, the program is poorly written?
If something is tweaked in a patchlevel release that breaks a subtle nuance that you were relying on, it might be because that nuance was never meant to be there in the first place. A great example of this is a patchlevel release of Checkpoint Firewall-1 a short while ago that changed a very subtle behaviour that a friend of mine was relying on. The behaviour was not correct, but that's the way the software worked, so that's how he had things set up. When Checkpoint "fixed" it, his rules were broken.
With the sheer amount of code present in the kernel, it would strike me as very odd if some of these "features" don't exist.
Haven't we seen this already with the Cheese worm? It attempted to fix broken Linux systems and repair damage done by other worms.
IIRC, people didn't appreciate it, and noted so in the Slashdot article about the worm (found here).
Why would this be any different?
(not that I'd seriously mind having some of my work done for me, but hey... I don't want people playing around on my machines, regardless of why they're doing it)
This is, put simply, a flame by MySQL AB towards mysql.org. I just went to mysql.org, and on the very first page, I see:
"If you are looking for the MySQL AB company, click here. If you came here looking for NuSphere, click here."
Furthermore, nowhere on the page does it say "we are the official contacts for this product", nor does it suggest this. One has to wonder what mysql.org did to MySQL AB to prompt such an inflammatory (and apparently uninformed) attack.
At my last job, I discovered that the mail system, which was hideously slow, was constantly being bogged down by jokes, songs, etc. being sent through e-mail.
When I brought this to the attention of the powers-that-be, I was told "if they have nothing better to do, send them to us". When I further told them that other, more important e-mails were being held up as a result of this, the president of the company sent out a note basically saying "don't, or suffer the consequences".
If these are smaller companies, this seems like a very fair thing to me. It's pure hell as a network administrator to be asked "Why is my e-mail so slow", and eventually have the complaints filter up and cost time and effort where none is needed.
A lot of people fail to realize that PCs at work don't belong to them in most cases; they belong to their place of employment. They have an acceptable use policy more often than not. IMHO... they need to act accordingly and fetch their MP3s at home.
No they're not, they don't get it. We don't want closed source software on Linux, it was meant as an open system which is why Linus created the GPL to ensure it's freedom, unlike the BSD license which allows you to close a piece of software.
Hey, Linus created the GPL too? Cool! I thought the only thing he'd been accredited with was creating Penguins...
"Free software" is not the be-all and end-all of the software world.
Loki, for example, is doing the Linux world a great favour by porting popular games to Linux. Their games are not free. Same with id (until they released Quake x sources), if you didn't own win32 Quake before you got the linux port.
A piece of software released as a source tarball can have more of an effect on the Linux world, sure, but IMHO, we don't have to expect everything to be that way. It's really very simple; a lot of work requires licensing fees to be paid (a-la-CSS), and we can't always expect companies to dish out cash and reward us all with their efforts for free.
That having been said, I will probably not buy a Linux DVD product, because I have no problem using a win9x box for that. I already have a Windows box for playing Windows games. What's the crime in that?
Yeah, but filtering at the user end isn't good enough in some cases.
For example, if you're running a mail server on a slow/marginal link, and someone decides to spam a list of your users with a bunch of crap, it will still get delivered. It'll be refused, sure, but it'll still pick away at your bandwidth.
What would be much nicer would be a user-friendly spam filter for sendmail/qmail/etc. that could be controlled online. Sort of a community spam filter service. I know there is an online blacklist service (I forget the name), but does it provide the ability to report things that could be consituted as spam, such as the toner emails and the "make $50000 per month in your own home" junk?
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Oh, I have nearly 15 years of proven skill. I think what I'm getting at here is, there is a sizeable amount of demand for RH services and/or support -- yet people who are certified with their products seem to find less demand than, say, MCSE.
Maybe my RHCE certification will land me a job now! *gets hopes up*
Question is, with all of this emerging interest in Red Hat, why hasn't it already gotten me a job? I haven't seen (around here, in Ottawa, anyway) any sharp rise in the number of Linux-related jobs available. So, who's buying all of this support?
... to be an anti-spyware software publisher.
Now, will they be in violation of their own EULA when their junk ends up on any PC that I use through no fault of my own? I certainly won't ask for their software to be installed of my own free will, but that is not how their model works, now is it?
So, if we all sign on as developers of a FOSS anti-spyware project, are we all effectively protected from these people, as it is against their EULA for their software to be pushed to us? And who gets in trouble, us, or the operators of the sites that are responsible for feeding us this garbage?
Sorry, but after being asked, in all seriousness, by an American about how I used the Internet (or even a computer) from my igloo in Canada, I tend to take these kinds of things at face value.
I told that guy that my pet polar bear gnaws on the phone wires every once in a while, causing me a lot of nasty lag. He was impressed.
Um. You're kidding, I hope?
Of course the number is higher in Canadian dollars. No, our dollars are not the same as your dollars. $1 USD is about $1.18 CAD right now. You do realize this, right?
Yeah, funny that, our country's "backwoods" ideas (and broadband internet prices) are in line with much of the rest of the world, whereas your country's "normal" ideas have led you to overpriced broadband. Huzzah!
Long live the American Dream!
Yes, because there are no servers operating outside the United States that are worth going to. Didn't everyone know this? I mean, why are they even bothering serving DNS in the first place? No one cares about anything outside the US, right???
I think that this type of opinion is exactly why things must change.
And by 1 minute, I meant 10 minutes... no edit button. Sorry.
I tried to post this in the talkback on the article but it got horribly munged.
Here are the iptables rules I use to dynamically stop this kind of thing (with a good degree of success):
# SSH
-A PREROUTING -m tcp -p tcp -d $EXTERNAL --dport 22 -m recent --rcheck --hitcount 3 --seconds 600 -j LOG --log-prefix "SSH attack: "
-A PREROUTING -m tcp -p tcp -d $EXTERNAL --dport 22 -m recent --rcheck --hitcount 3 --seconds 600 -j DROP
-A PREROUTING -m tcp -p tcp -d $EXTERNAL --dport 22 -m recent --set -j DNAT --to-destination $INTERNAL:22
-A OUTPUT -m tcp -p tcp -d $EXTERNAL --dport 22 -j DNAT --to-destination $INTERNAL:22
Your mileage may vary. This blocks attempts for 1 minute after 3 attempts (successful or failed, so if someone forgets their password, they may trip it as well).
-Have to- install? I downloaded one additional theme for Firefox and apart from the occasional plugin such as Shockwave, I never have to do anything to enhance Firefox for daily use.
It's nice that you have everything worked out -- but this is like saying that Internet Explorer is as much of a hassle because of all those security updates you have to download. No thanks.
It's important to identify that if this is not a browser thing, but a Sun JRE thing, any Java-enabled program that can come in contact with the installer applet could potentially infect your system.
Speaking solely as a Canadian citizen, I get more spam today than I ever have in the past. This has nothing to do with the propagation (or lack thereof) of any law, but more the fact that my email address (or one of my email addresses, many of which forward) has been out on the Internet in lists and such for years now.
While the lists propagate, so will the spam. One of these days, whatever list(s) I am on may stop circulating, but I'm not holding my breath.
Any IT manager worth their salt will look past this FUD and look towards things like... this, where Microsoft's single sign-on program fails them utterly. Oh, wait, isn't that one of the key points this guy tried to make, even though Passport has basically begun to circle the drain?
They don't provide crucial information in this article, which is really more like a paragraphed spittle of information, really.
1. Was this guy the original seed?
2. Was he even a seed? Or was he just downloading them?
I think this is very important, especially given that as a BitTorrent user, one can only be so selective about one's involvement in the distribution of the file(s). If this guy was just downloading the files (not sure why anyone would, but hey), and was arrested for uploading them, that would be a Very Bad Thing.
The court decision inspired panic in the Canadian music industry; industry spokesmen were predicting the collapse of copyright control would cause severe financial hardship for people making their living from music.
If only the people making their living weren't suffering at the hands of labels and record companies/associations already, I might even agree with the people on this side (the CRIA) of the fence.
We all know that artists who don't make enough drama or news to get endorsements, major deals and huge publicity, already have a difficult time making their money from their music alone.
I installed RH 8 (typing this using it right now) this morning. It looks like Windows, feels like Windows, and yet has the power and structure of Linux under it, even more invisible than before.
This is -exactly- what will win customers over, because customers aren't people like me and (potentially) you; customers are people like my boss, his boss, and so on up the line, that look at Linux as a cheap server alternative when we don't want to buy Windows 2000 Server. We, on the other hand, are Linux geeks, who will use Linux and most likely turn off the looks-like-Windows part anyway. =)
I could probably install RH8 on desktops where I work and use it as an alternative to Windows with a minor change or two (the ability to browse SMB shares would be a must). So, in my view, looking and feeling like Windows is critical, because people don't want to have to learn new tricks when they can just as easily buy Windows.
meisenst
I live near a Wal-Mart... and I'm a Lindows Insider. I guess all Lindows Insiders are rednecks too?
Hey, wait, does that mean that since the Lindows staff are all inherently Insiders, that they are all rednecks as well?
Whoa, hold on! They are contributing to the general software cause that we all love to talk about here on Slashdot. Does that mean all contributors to the well-being of Linux and alternative OSes, Slashdot readers, and everyone else that uses a computer is a redneck?
I think I've made my point somewhere herein.
me
Unfortunately, like other 802.11b solutions, these use WEP, which is inherently broken... if I were linking my business' two campuses, I wouldn't really want Joe, Bob and Mary (who all happen to have line of sight) sniffing all of my network traffic with their perfectly simple store-bought solutions. :-)
meisenst
I can't understand how that could possibly be correct. If the kernel changes and your program relies on the kernel, and your program breaks, the program is poorly written?
If something is tweaked in a patchlevel release that breaks a subtle nuance that you were relying on, it might be because that nuance was never meant to be there in the first place. A great example of this is a patchlevel release of Checkpoint Firewall-1 a short while ago that changed a very subtle behaviour that a friend of mine was relying on. The behaviour was not correct, but that's the way the software worked, so that's how he had things set up. When Checkpoint "fixed" it, his rules were broken.
With the sheer amount of code present in the kernel, it would strike me as very odd if some of these "features" don't exist.
meisenstHaven't we seen this already with the Cheese worm? It attempted to fix broken Linux systems and repair damage done by other worms.
IIRC, people didn't appreciate it, and noted so in the Slashdot article about the worm (found here).
Why would this be any different?(not that I'd seriously mind having some of my work done for me, but hey... I don't want people playing around on my machines, regardless of why they're doing it)
meisenstThis is, put simply, a flame by MySQL AB towards mysql.org. I just went to mysql.org, and on the very first page, I see:
"If you are looking for the MySQL AB company, click here. If you came here looking for NuSphere, click here."
Furthermore, nowhere on the page does it say "we are the official contacts for this product", nor does it suggest this. One has to wonder what mysql.org did to MySQL AB to prompt such an inflammatory (and apparently uninformed) attack.
At my last job, I discovered that the mail system, which was hideously slow, was constantly being bogged down by jokes, songs, etc. being sent through e-mail.
When I brought this to the attention of the powers-that-be, I was told "if they have nothing better to do, send them to us". When I further told them that other, more important e-mails were being held up as a result of this, the president of the company sent out a note basically saying "don't, or suffer the consequences".
If these are smaller companies, this seems like a very fair thing to me. It's pure hell as a network administrator to be asked "Why is my e-mail so slow", and eventually have the complaints filter up and cost time and effort where none is needed.
A lot of people fail to realize that PCs at work don't belong to them in most cases; they belong to their place of employment. They have an acceptable use policy more often than not. IMHO... they need to act accordingly and fetch their MP3s at home.
meisenst
No they're not, they don't get it. We don't want closed source software on Linux, it was meant as an open system which is why Linus created the GPL to ensure it's freedom, unlike the BSD license which allows you to close a piece of software.
Hey, Linus created the GPL too? Cool! I thought the only thing he'd been accredited with was creating Penguins...
meisenst"Free software" is not the be-all and end-all of the software world.
Loki, for example, is doing the Linux world a great favour by porting popular games to Linux. Their games are not free. Same with id (until they released Quake x sources), if you didn't own win32 Quake before you got the linux port.
A piece of software released as a source tarball can have more of an effect on the Linux world, sure, but IMHO, we don't have to expect everything to be that way. It's really very simple; a lot of work requires licensing fees to be paid (a-la-CSS), and we can't always expect companies to dish out cash and reward us all with their efforts for free.
That having been said, I will probably not buy a Linux DVD product, because I have no problem using a win9x box for that. I already have a Windows box for playing Windows games. What's the crime in that?
meisenst
Yeah, but filtering at the user end isn't good enough in some cases.
For example, if you're running a mail server on a slow/marginal link, and someone decides to spam a list of your users with a bunch of crap, it will still get delivered. It'll be refused, sure, but it'll still pick away at your bandwidth.
What would be much nicer would be a user-friendly spam filter for sendmail/qmail/etc. that could be controlled online. Sort of a community spam filter service. I know there is an online blacklist service (I forget the name), but does it provide the ability to report things that could be consituted as spam, such as the toner emails and the "make $50000 per month in your own home" junk?
meisenst