That small of a property probably only has one main feed with any electrical wired outbuildings using subpanels fed from the main panel. The short of a distance is unlikely to have ground loops that will "fry any equipment", any more than running a wire from the basement to the third floor would.
That said, fiber would be preferable, so long as the person installing the terminations knows what he's doing. That stuff's a pain.
Phew. That's some hard-core hacking required to make it work. Of course, to make keyboards work, something similar will need to be done with/dev/input/keyboard...:)
BTW, I have the drivers set up to automatically download when printing via samba - but windows needs a different setup for IPP-based printers. Hooray for consistency!
Last time I installed SuSE there was a part where it says "detecting printers" wherin it detects whatever printer is hooked up to your system. It's detected my brother laser printer and HP Deskjets just fine every time. On the machines that don't have printers, it's detected that cups is running on the network and tha it can just listen for broadcasts.
Let's compare network printing setup, as well. Say I've already used my superior intellect to set up cups - since it's real similar to apache, well documented, and not really very hard at all. Now I have a network that consists of Linux, Mac OS X, and windows mahcines to set up. Linux: configure cups to listen to broadcasts (ie, install cups using defaults). Mac OS X: turn power on. Windows: start "add printer" wizard, enter in URL for printer manually (can't browse for IPP printers), find driver disk, install driver disk. Repeat for each printer, on all Windows machines. Even if the drivers are on the windows network, you still have to manually type in the URL to the printer and confirm that the drivers are OK.
Windows is the *hardest* to configure network printers on. Maybe ESR should write another letter to Microsoft, suggesting that they take advantage of those fancy ppd files that everyone else has been using for a while now, and maybe support IPP the *right* way...
Look at the Kenwood music keg, then look at the "About us" link on the orignal Musc Keg's web site (aka phatnoise.com) that mentions when they first started developing it. 1999. Then search rec.audio.car for my/. name and look at the posts asking about info to make such a device in late 1998 (my website's down due to an ISP failure, or I'd point at that, too).
At least I only know of one place where someone actually beat me to market (I was gonna give my software away - those asses at phatnoise won't help anyone out, though they're sure benefitting from their Linux-based system), so the other things that are old news aren't quite as irritating.
No, 42's the meaning of life, the universe, and everything - not the point at which a company turns from good to evil. The good/evil transition happens at 49. I'm sure that would've been in the Hichiker's Guide to Small Business Management...
Some people actually weren't around to use the web before Google. I remember being happy to find som emeta search engines that actually did a good job, so I could stop having to search Altavista first, then Lycos, then HotBot/Excite/Yahoo Directory. Now, if it's not in Google, it's probably not on the web...
Yes, I know it was a joke. The directory quoted is also only useful per machine, which often would just help one user, thus saving 0 time.:)
Everything you should want to know about KDE in the enterprise is right here: http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/ Specifically, you want to put things in $KDEDIR/share/apps/kdesktop/Desktop (a folder which doesn't exist by default on most installs) to make them available to all users.
I wish there was a comparable URL for Gnome, but those guys just refuse to write documentation (or, refuse to update it when the documentation falls out of sync with the UI).
I clicked on the "click here to get a demonstration" link at the bottom of the page. All I got was the same flash movie and game controller guys from the front page, and some text in the form of graphics. I was promised a demo of 100% blockage of any downloads of my software. 100%! They don't even have a demo, but I should believe that they can stop *all* trading of my software through P2P networks? Ha!
There are web pages out there full of fake email addresses, for just that purpose. In each of the mails I send out, I have a couple of fake addresses in the headers. Somehow, the mail servers I administer still get 80%+ spam, despite that these things have been going on for years.
Spammers can get around the problem by putting a URL in the message and using a fake sender address (or your address, for that matter). They don't care if half of their messages are bounced after the open relay they're sent through, because the messages almost never get back to the spammer anyway.
I thought "why is a video game review on Slashdot?" Then, I saw the use of "center around" at the beginning. Hooray for poor grammar usage! Boo for advertising poorly done video games!
Does the slow restore time have to do, perhaps, with Windows' [poor] memory management and the subsequent swapping out of programs that aren't actively doing stuff in the foreground? Watch your drive acceess lights - I'll bet your swap file is getting used a tad when you restore in the morning.
I'll leave Firefox running for weeks on Linux and Win2K (under VMWare), and it's fine.
Firefox's "install" consists of one directory. Copied to many machines. The configuration consists of one file stored in a user's profile. The distribution of both is easily automated without requiring the use of an MSI.
Plugins, BTW, are also in that folder in the user's profile. You know, the one that's stored on a central server in your large network? Just set up firefox once on a test machine, and copy the firefox profile folder to each user's windows profile, then distribute the program files however you prefer to do that kind of thing.
This can't be the first program with a non-MSI install method that an admin of a large network has encountered...
It's too bad that Blizard doesn't have any good programmers or anyone who can get access to the Quake server code. If they did, then maybe they could've written a game server that actually works.
It is not a difficult task to handle 7K connections transmitting a very small amount of data (compressed player position, direction, a motion vector, and possibly items being carried). I've built data servers on commodity hardware that can serve more data to more simultaneous connections than is needed to keep some networked role players in sync, and I don't have a bazillion dollar budget or a team of some of the best programmers in the world. Maybe I should send them my resume (or maybe you should upgrade your hardware, including the network conenction)
I think it's totally reasonable for Blizzard to have 1) estimated how many players they'd have in a best case and 2) planend for that. Claiming that it's understandable that they have problems is just settling for too little. Then again, so is using Win32.;)
More time with Windows would show that lots of installers don't work well, don't respect settings, etc. If you wanna talk impossible to fix, try a closed-source installer with an undocumented archival format. Try to figure out what to do when a popup says "this installer is trying to copy a file called blahfuk.dll to c:/winnt/system32/, but there ie already a version there. Do you want to replace it?" - tell me what that library will break, or what installed it. What, windows doesn't have any way for the user to get that information? I see.
I'm running Gentoo on a few machines, and SuSE + Redhat on a few others (with Yellow Dog counting as RedHat). The binary packages for my distro either just work, or tell you exactly what they need if they don't. It's your fault if you don't know how to use the installer (rpm / emerge / apt), because all of them are *very* well documented. Besides, Yast, up2date, emerge, and apt will all resolve dependencies for you, and are what a new user will be using to install. I've been adminning linux boxes for over a decade, and the only problems I've had were from me compiling some new version of something because I just couldn't wait for the distro to catch up, etc. The recipients of free boxes aren't likely to be doing that.
Honestly, Linux would probably be a better choice, precisely because the user will not going to be able to install some of the piece of shit programs that are available for window which screw up other installs. The hard to install programs would probably just cause them problems anyway.
So, upgrading isn't always useful, but sometimes it's justfied? Isn't that the point you were disagreeing with?:)
I'm still running SuSE 5.1 on a machine somewhere (which is a late 90's vintage release, IITC), but because I'm lazy and it still works, not because upgrades are available. I'll probably upgrade it this weekend, though, because my ISP's been down for over a week. While the downtime pisses me off, it's giving me a chance to upgrade some of the servers at my house without causing downtime. Hooray for silver linings!
Yeah, you can also burn disks from within the disk utility, but those are sensible UI choices. I was knocking the "trash = save" idiom.:)
The lack of an easy way to erase a CD-RW, or to append to a multi-session CD-R/CD-RW, has been the primary thing preventing the adoption of CD media in our graphics department. Instead, they're subbornly stuck on the use of those awful DVD-RAM disks.
I haven't seen Tiger yet, but I don't hold out much hope that this will be fixed, either...
So, buying new equipment at a huge cost just to get a couple of years of support is not a workaround? With the current setup, a small time investment has resulted in something that will work until the hardware breaks - not for just a couple of years until the next big thing is released. The time cost of switching systems every few years *just* to "maintain support" is a terrible idea. If there are useful features in an update, and their benefit outweighs the cost of switching, great. There aren't always benefits, though.
Yeah, it's a bit much to expect a "massively multiplayer on line role playing game" to actually be able to handle more than 10 or so players. I mean, why would anyone think that "massively multiplayer" meant anything close to 100 players?
What's that? I've run 64 player quake servers on dedicated pentium-II class machines with 0 problems before, and there are processors and memory systems now that are orders of magnitude faster which should be able to handle a slower-paced game even better?
The Blizzard people poorly designed their network protocol (again) if it has problems on a modern machine with modern bandwidth capabilities. Then again, I don't see the WOW Linux version at the Blizzard store, so I can't exactly test it out.
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That small of a property probably only has one main feed with any electrical wired outbuildings using subpanels fed from the main panel. The short of a distance is unlikely to have ground loops that will "fry any equipment", any more than running a wire from the basement to the third floor would.
That said, fiber would be preferable, so long as the person installing the terminations knows what he's doing. That stuff's a pain.
By "big truck" I assume you mean "bus or van"?
Here's your patch:
/dev/mouse /dev/input/mouse0
/dev/input/keyboard... :)
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Phew. That's some hard-core hacking required to make it work. Of course, to make keyboards work, something similar will need to be done with
BTW, I have the drivers set up to automatically download when printing via samba - but windows needs a different setup for IPP-based printers. Hooray for consistency!
Last time I installed SuSE there was a part where it says "detecting printers" wherin it detects whatever printer is hooked up to your system. It's detected my brother laser printer and HP Deskjets just fine every time. On the machines that don't have printers, it's detected that cups is running on the network and tha it can just listen for broadcasts.
Let's compare network printing setup, as well. Say I've already used my superior intellect to set up cups - since it's real similar to apache, well documented, and not really very hard at all. Now I have a network that consists of Linux, Mac OS X, and windows mahcines to set up. Linux: configure cups to listen to broadcasts (ie, install cups using defaults). Mac OS X: turn power on. Windows: start "add printer" wizard, enter in URL for printer manually (can't browse for IPP printers), find driver disk, install driver disk. Repeat for each printer, on all Windows machines. Even if the drivers are on the windows network, you still have to manually type in the URL to the printer and confirm that the drivers are OK.
Windows is the *hardest* to configure network printers on. Maybe ESR should write another letter to Microsoft, suggesting that they take advantage of those fancy ppd files that everyone else has been using for a while now, and maybe support IPP the *right* way...
At least this guy's not making money off of it.
/. name and look at the posts asking about info to make such a device in late 1998 (my website's down due to an ISP failure, or I'd point at that, too).
Look at the Kenwood music keg, then look at the "About us" link on the orignal Musc Keg's web site (aka phatnoise.com) that mentions when they first started developing it. 1999. Then search rec.audio.car for my
At least I only know of one place where someone actually beat me to market (I was gonna give my software away - those asses at phatnoise won't help anyone out, though they're sure benefitting from their Linux-based system), so the other things that are old news aren't quite as irritating.
No, 42's the meaning of life, the universe, and everything - not the point at which a company turns from good to evil. The good/evil transition happens at 49. I'm sure that would've been in the Hichiker's Guide to Small Business Management...
Some people actually weren't around to use the web before Google. I remember being happy to find som emeta search engines that actually did a good job, so I could stop having to search Altavista first, then Lycos, then HotBot/Excite/Yahoo Directory. Now, if it's not in Google, it's probably not on the web...
Yes, I know it was a joke. The directory quoted is also only useful per machine, which often would just help one user, thus saving 0 time. :)
Everything you should want to know about KDE in the enterprise is right here:
http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/ Specifically, you want to put things in $KDEDIR/share/apps/kdesktop/Desktop (a folder which doesn't exist by default on most installs) to make them available to all users.
I wish there was a comparable URL for Gnome, but those guys just refuse to write documentation (or, refuse to update it when the documentation falls out of sync with the UI).
49. Less than 49 people = good, more = bad. Exactly 49, though, that depends on whether or not they're open-sourcing the product.
They misspelled "paternity"!
I clicked on the "click here to get a demonstration" link at the bottom of the page. All I got was the same flash movie and game controller guys from the front page, and some text in the form of graphics. I was promised a demo of 100% blockage of any downloads of my software. 100%! They don't even have a demo, but I should believe that they can stop *all* trading of my software through P2P networks? Ha!
There are web pages out there full of fake email addresses, for just that purpose. In each of the mails I send out, I have a couple of fake addresses in the headers. Somehow, the mail servers I administer still get 80%+ spam, despite that these things have been going on for years.
Spammers can get around the problem by putting a URL in the message and using a fake sender address (or your address, for that matter). They don't care if half of their messages are bounced after the open relay they're sent through, because the messages almost never get back to the spammer anyway.
I think he's saying "we're just playing with you - we don't have shit"...
If only there was a directory on Windows machines of the form
:)
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop
I thought "why is a video game review on Slashdot?" Then, I saw the use of "center around" at the beginning. Hooray for poor grammar usage! Boo for advertising poorly done video games!
Does the slow restore time have to do, perhaps, with Windows' [poor] memory management and the subsequent swapping out of programs that aren't actively doing stuff in the foreground? Watch your drive acceess lights - I'll bet your swap file is getting used a tad when you restore in the morning.
I'll leave Firefox running for weeks on Linux and Win2K (under VMWare), and it's fine.
Firefox's "install" consists of one directory. Copied to many machines. The configuration consists of one file stored in a user's profile. The distribution of both is easily automated without requiring the use of an MSI.
Plugins, BTW, are also in that folder in the user's profile. You know, the one that's stored on a central server in your large network? Just set up firefox once on a test machine, and copy the firefox profile folder to each user's windows profile, then distribute the program files however you prefer to do that kind of thing.
This can't be the first program with a non-MSI install method that an admin of a large network has encountered...
It's too bad that Blizard doesn't have any good programmers or anyone who can get access to the Quake server code. If they did, then maybe they could've written a game server that actually works.
;)
It is not a difficult task to handle 7K connections transmitting a very small amount of data (compressed player position, direction, a motion vector, and possibly items being carried). I've built data servers on commodity hardware that can serve more data to more simultaneous connections than is needed to keep some networked role players in sync, and I don't have a bazillion dollar budget or a team of some of the best programmers in the world. Maybe I should send them my resume (or maybe you should upgrade your hardware, including the network conenction)
I think it's totally reasonable for Blizzard to have 1) estimated how many players they'd have in a best case and 2) planend for that. Claiming that it's understandable that they have problems is just settling for too little. Then again, so is using Win32.
More time with Windows would show that lots of installers don't work well, don't respect settings, etc. If you wanna talk impossible to fix, try a closed-source installer with an undocumented archival format. Try to figure out what to do when a popup says "this installer is trying to copy a file called blahfuk.dll to c:/winnt/system32/, but there ie already a version there. Do you want to replace it?" - tell me what that library will break, or what installed it. What, windows doesn't have any way for the user to get that information? I see.
I'm running Gentoo on a few machines, and SuSE + Redhat on a few others (with Yellow Dog counting as RedHat). The binary packages for my distro either just work, or tell you exactly what they need if they don't. It's your fault if you don't know how to use the installer (rpm / emerge / apt), because all of them are *very* well documented. Besides, Yast, up2date, emerge, and apt will all resolve dependencies for you, and are what a new user will be using to install. I've been adminning linux boxes for over a decade, and the only problems I've had were from me compiling some new version of something because I just couldn't wait for the distro to catch up, etc. The recipients of free boxes aren't likely to be doing that.
Honestly, Linux would probably be a better choice, precisely because the user will not going to be able to install some of the piece of shit programs that are available for window which screw up other installs. The hard to install programs would probably just cause them problems anyway.
So, upgrading isn't always useful, but sometimes it's justfied? Isn't that the point you were disagreeing with? :)
I'm still running SuSE 5.1 on a machine somewhere (which is a late 90's vintage release, IITC), but because I'm lazy and it still works, not because upgrades are available. I'll probably upgrade it this weekend, though, because my ISP's been down for over a week. While the downtime pisses me off, it's giving me a chance to upgrade some of the servers at my house without causing downtime. Hooray for silver linings!
I was gonna say something along the line of "I'll bet they never whinge", but then I looked it up. Crazy British words...
http://www.answers.com/whinge
Yeah, you can also burn disks from within the disk utility, but those are sensible UI choices. I was knocking the "trash = save" idiom. :)
The lack of an easy way to erase a CD-RW, or to append to a multi-session CD-R/CD-RW, has been the primary thing preventing the adoption of CD media in our graphics department. Instead, they're subbornly stuck on the use of those awful DVD-RAM disks.
I haven't seen Tiger yet, but I don't hold out much hope that this will be fixed, either...
So, buying new equipment at a huge cost just to get a couple of years of support is not a workaround? With the current setup, a small time investment has resulted in something that will work until the hardware breaks - not for just a couple of years until the next big thing is released. The time cost of switching systems every few years *just* to "maintain support" is a terrible idea. If there are useful features in an update, and their benefit outweighs the cost of switching, great. There aren't always benefits, though.
Yeah, it's a bit much to expect a "massively multiplayer on line role playing game" to actually be able to handle more than 10 or so players. I mean, why would anyone think that "massively multiplayer" meant anything close to 100 players?
What's that? I've run 64 player quake servers on dedicated pentium-II class machines with 0 problems before, and there are processors and memory systems now that are orders of magnitude faster which should be able to handle a slower-paced game even better?
The Blizzard people poorly designed their network protocol (again) if it has problems on a modern machine with modern bandwidth capabilities. Then again, I don't see the WOW Linux version at the Blizzard store, so I can't exactly test it out.