I ran XIG's acceleratedX for about 3 months because I thought it would be "accelerated" and thus faster than Xfree. After having AX crash fairly regularly, and not provide me with a signifigant speed increase, I've gone back to XFree. XFree actually feels a little faster. I'm not sure if that's because it actually is, or if I feel better knowing that the free, open product is more stable than the closed product that claims to be more stable... BTW, this was true on my FireGL 1000, Imagine 128e, and TNT-based card.
But, you take the "-american" off when you're not in "america", and are left with a valid description: african-american results in "african" - there are prolly a few africans in africa... Same theory.
Speaking of portability, I'm currently doing something similar:
I designed an inventory system using MS access, also because I had no SQL servers set up and I needed the database immediately (pen-and-paper sucks).
While the MS forms and database I set up were being used for initial data gathering, I set up Roxen's web server on the windows machine and started developing a front end and some queries using the wonderful RXML enhancements, including the SQL tags Roxen includes (damn, Roxen's nice).
After getting some basic front-end parts up, I set up a linux box, and installed Roxen and MySQL (SuSE ships with both, but I rolled my own just to be on the bleeding edge and to get 128-bit encryption). Moving the web content to the linux box was 100% painless, since Roxen is virtually identical on both platforms.
Moving the database over was almost as simple, using one of the scripts a few others have mentioned that I grabbed from the MySQL home page. I did have to change a memo field to a blob, and change the default "Yes" in an int field to a "1", but that was it. Then a simple mysql -u me -p database < oldaccessdata was all it took to bring the old data over to the world of Real SQL.:)
It sounds like a lot, but in reality it only took me about a week to do the conversion - including the time it took me to learn how to set up MySQL and teach myself the needed SQL (in addition to doing what they actually pay me to do). The little extra effort is well worth it for the signifigant fine-grained access control gains I got from MySQL's grant tables, etc - and from a data access point of view since everything's web-enabled now.
Gtk looks nice, but I'm not sure most Windows users would want to or would bother installing Gtk to run an app.
"This app requires vbrun100/200/300/400/500.dll in order to execute. You can download it from..."
I know plenty of windows users that have d/l'd vb runtimes and what have you, I can't see ti as being much more difficult to set up a nice little installshield deal that will stab gtk libraries into the ever-tangled pile-o'-spaghetti that is c:\windows\system. Or is the GTK/win32 install more complicated than that could handle?
maybe Kansas will join us the rest in the 20th while they still have a few months left...........
Wait, a few months? I thought we started counting with "1" not "0", which would imply that the 20th century doesn't start until 2001. Gosh damned media, making Y2K into "The Millenium"... Turns out that CS was right - we really do start with 0.
Sorry, I've been bugged about this for a while and had to vent...:) It would be cool if someone had a definitive link that set us all straight though, eh?
That'd be cool - use some of that neat-o fabric with the fiber optics that directs light from behind the object to the front, so it looks like it's not there? The invisible computer (except for a power LED and a mild distortion) would kick arse...
Get yourself a Plextor 40X Max CD-ROM drive. It rips at 17x, blazes through my cd's.
No matter how fast your CD-ROM, if you just run cd-paranoia it'll rip at 1x. I was pissed for a long time when my new pioneer 36x SCSI wasn't any faster than my old 8x SCSI, until I was prompted to look at the man pages...
Try cdparanoia -Z on your CD's with no scratches, that disables all the paranoia checks and thus allows max speed ripping (I'm a lot happier now:)). If you've got scratches and stuff, look into the other options that'll fix the problems you have, but skip the problems you know arent on there.
I will take a look at pam_smb and see if it uses the NT challenge/response mechanism...
AFAIK, pam_smb doesn't change thepart fo the authentication which occurs over the network - that's cntrolled based on the "encrypted passwords" setting. pam_smb should just allow you to use the system password file instead of a seperate one, which would also be good I guess.:)
On a related note, I can't get pam to compile under SuSE 6.0/6.1 hybrid, at least not the pam rpm from redhat. Anyone else have any success? I guess I'll try the "real" source instead of redhat's...:)
While I wold definately reccomend windowmaker, I'd also like to mention bowman as well. I used it before I used windowmaker, and it looks pretty next-ish. After a bit more research, that's apperently what afterstep was based on, so it may not be as useful...
The phone book is a fitting analogy, as there is an option to not have your name listed in the public listing, but still to have a phone number. Your name's still in the phone company's database so they can contact you if need be, but crazy folk that wanna abuse the public service can't. It's a shame we need these kinda of options, but until "idiot's island" is official...:)
Oh no! If I buy this CD, and it comes with software I don't want that I'd be able to download if I wanted, I'll be crushing the linux spirit!
Gimme a break. If you don't want to use a package that comes with SuSE, then don't install it. There's this cool thing you run when installing most distributions where you pick out what goes on your system. I've never installed debian, but from the comments, I guess it's installer must just put everything it ships with on yor system, and then make you use your monsterous pipe direct to their server to download nay optional components. I kinda like to be able to just stick my CD in and install software instead of waiting for my modem.
I'm also not sure what "security holes" in SuSE people are talking about. My system is as secure as I make it. If you don't know how to secure a system, then don't put stuff on there that needs securing, eh?
SuSE's support has been fine in what little amount I've used it, but that's not much. I guess that I'm not the best person to ask about that, since I usually fix my own problems.
Anyway, I like SuSE. I like slack, except for the out-of-date-ness. I'm gonna have to stick debian on a box pretty soon so I'll know something about it that's not based on a few bad example's rants.:) Everyone else: Use what you like, not what I like.
Or is Oracle like toilet paper and everyone knows what you use it for?
Heh, "he doesn't know how to use the 3 shells.":)
Actually, I'm still trying to fiugre out _something_ useful I can use a big ol' database package for just so I have an excuse to set one up (like Oracle's). Someday...
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Are these only running GNU/Linux, or can we get them running GNU/Hurd as well?
The question is, can you get _anything_ usefully running GNU/hurd?:)
--Danny, who has a signifigant amount of non-gnu software on his linux box.
I never like the project and the people running it. Now look at what all this little alien fanatics are doing to ruin a good guy's name. I'm not saying ALL seti@home participants are idiots, but it sure does seem like the whole project is a big joke at times for a lotta people. There's that darned "hacker mentality" again...:)
Yes, why should I have to read the liscense for software I'm concerned about. It's not like using the software usually implies I agree with the liscense and thus know what the liscense says or anything... I should depend on someone else to know everything for me.:) But, with sarcasm mode turned off, the earlier poster who mentioned a list of free and kindafree stuff has a good idea. There oughtta be a liscense summary or something with distribs...
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Hey - I know plenty of people with dumb-souding accents that don't like Microsoft stuff...:) Unless that's your normal style of speaking, in which case I apologize for mocking your accent.
Geez. For such a group of "smart" people, you guys sure don't listen. I know damn well I'm not perfect, and I know I'm not the most attractive man around (well, surely someone would've told me if I was). I'm relatively certain that it helps to not be convinced I'm the ultimate man, every woman's dream and to not get bitter when no women agree with that opinion...:)
My girlfriend's not as geeky as some, but I still love her more than anything in the world. I think it helps to just shut up sometimes. The woman posting isn't too far off either, as far as I've been able to tell. We've just gotta understand that we'll never completely understand, I guess...
That's a lot of pubic hair; a whole wig's worth... I'm not sure if tha's insulting or not, however. Seems that a collection of such magnitude would be quite an achievement.:)
linux network block devices and software raid5 perhaps? I'm considering doing that for my own use, but haven't taken the time to find out if the 2 setups will work together - anyone know?
I can see my chest moving right now, and I'm doing something like 78 beats/min (is that too high for just sitting in front of a computer?). I'm skinny though and not in pain...
Doesn't Alexa archive the net, like every couple months?
As someone else mentioned, a lot of the pages are still in http://www.google.com's cache 'o pages. Maybe someone oughtta pull down as many as they can find and piece them back together...:)
Every time one of these sites goes down, I get closer and closer to mirroring every decent site I visit locally. I shouldn't even have to consider that... And doesn't the site just say "accused", which implies nothing's been proven anyway?
Something doesn't sound quite right about this whole thing...
Their reply was poorly formatted and unhelpful. I'm going to sell my logitech mice and replace them with some other company's (stupid USB mouse never worked right anyway - and I blame the drivers), and the camera's going to be sold too. No more logitech for me unless they change their tone.:)
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I ran XIG's acceleratedX for about 3 months because I thought it would be "accelerated" and thus faster than Xfree. After having AX crash fairly regularly, and not provide me with a signifigant speed increase, I've gone back to XFree. XFree actually feels a little faster. I'm not sure if that's because it actually is, or if I feel better knowing that the free, open product is more stable than the closed product that claims to be more stable... BTW, this was true on my FireGL 1000, Imagine 128e, and TNT-based card.
But, you take the "-american" off when you're not in "america", and are left with a valid description: african-american results in "african" - there are prolly a few africans in africa... Same theory.
I designed an inventory system using MS access, also because I had no SQL servers set up and I needed the database immediately (pen-and-paper sucks).
While the MS forms and database I set up were being used for initial data gathering, I set up Roxen's web server on the windows machine and started developing a front end and some queries using the wonderful RXML enhancements, including the SQL tags Roxen includes (damn, Roxen's nice).
After getting some basic front-end parts up, I set up a linux box, and installed Roxen and MySQL (SuSE ships with both, but I rolled my own just to be on the bleeding edge and to get 128-bit encryption). Moving the web content to the linux box was 100% painless, since Roxen is virtually identical on both platforms.
Moving the database over was almost as simple, using one of the scripts a few others have mentioned that I grabbed from the MySQL home page. I did have to change a memo field to a blob, and change the default "Yes" in an int field to a "1", but that was it. Then a simple mysql -u me -p database < oldaccessdata was all it took to bring the old data over to the world of Real SQL. :)
It sounds like a lot, but in reality it only took me about a week to do the conversion - including the time it took me to learn how to set up MySQL and teach myself the needed SQL (in addition to doing what they actually pay me to do). The little extra effort is well worth it for the signifigant fine-grained access control gains I got from MySQL's grant tables, etc - and from a data access point of view since everything's web-enabled now.
"This app requires vbrun100/200/300/400/500.dll in order to execute. You can download it from..."
I know plenty of windows users that have d/l'd vb runtimes and what have you, I can't see ti as being much more difficult to set up a nice little installshield deal that will stab gtk libraries into the ever-tangled pile-o'-spaghetti that is c:\windows\system. Or is the GTK/win32 install more complicated than that could handle?
Wait, a few months? I thought we started counting with "1" not "0", which would imply that the 20th century doesn't start until 2001. Gosh damned media, making Y2K into "The Millenium"... Turns out that CS was right - we really do start with 0.
Sorry, I've been bugged about this for a while and had to vent... :) It would be cool if someone had a definitive link that set us all straight though, eh?
That'd be cool - use some of that neat-o fabric with the fiber optics that directs light from behind the object to the front, so it looks like it's not there? The invisible computer (except for a power LED and a mild distortion) would kick arse...
No matter how fast your CD-ROM, if you just run cd-paranoia it'll rip at 1x. I was pissed for a long time when my new pioneer 36x SCSI wasn't any faster than my old 8x SCSI, until I was prompted to look at the man pages...
Try cdparanoia -Z on your CD's with no scratches, that disables all the paranoia checks and thus allows max speed ripping (I'm a lot happier now :)). If you've got scratches and stuff, look into the other options that'll fix the problems you have, but skip the problems you know arent on there.
AFAIK, pam_smb doesn't change thepart fo the authentication which occurs over the network - that's cntrolled based on the "encrypted passwords" setting. pam_smb should just allow you to use the system password file instead of a seperate one, which would also be good I guess. :)
On a related note, I can't get pam to compile under SuSE 6.0/6.1 hybrid, at least not the pam rpm from redhat. Anyone else have any success? I guess I'll try the "real" source instead of redhat's... :)
--Danny
--Danny, not helping much
Mmmm, I/O error...
Oh no! If I buy this CD, and it comes with software I don't want that I'd be able to download if I wanted, I'll be crushing the linux spirit!
Gimme a break. If you don't want to use a package that comes with SuSE, then don't install it. There's this cool thing you run when installing most distributions where you pick out what goes on your system. I've never installed debian, but from the comments, I guess it's installer must just put everything it ships with on yor system, and then make you use your monsterous pipe direct to their server to download nay optional components. I kinda like to be able to just stick my CD in and install software instead of waiting for my modem.
I'm also not sure what "security holes" in SuSE people are talking about. My system is as secure as I make it. If you don't know how to secure a system, then don't put stuff on there that needs securing, eh?
SuSE's support has been fine in what little amount I've used it, but that's not much. I guess that I'm not the best person to ask about that, since I usually fix my own problems.
Anyway, I like SuSE. I like slack, except for the out-of-date-ness. I'm gonna have to stick debian on a box pretty soon so I'll know something about it that's not based on a few bad example's rants. :) Everyone else: Use what you like, not what I like.
Heh, "he doesn't know how to use the 3 shells." :)
Actually, I'm still trying to fiugre out _something_ useful I can use a big ol' database package for just so I have an excuse to set one up (like Oracle's). Someday...
The question is, can you get _anything_ usefully running GNU/hurd? :)
--Danny, who has a signifigant amount of non-gnu software on his linux box.
Well, they look good (fast clean pages and a well-thought-out product) - now I just need a half-baked reason to need a laptop...
I never like the project and the people running it. Now look at what all this little alien fanatics are doing to ruin a good guy's name. I'm not saying ALL seti@home participants are idiots, but it sure does seem like the whole project is a big joke at times for a lotta people. There's that darned "hacker mentality" again... :)
Yes, why should I have to read the liscense for software I'm concerned about. It's not like using the software usually implies I agree with the liscense and thus know what the liscense says or anything... I should depend on someone else to know everything for me. :) But, with sarcasm mode turned off, the earlier poster who mentioned a list of free and kindafree stuff has a good idea. There oughtta be a liscense summary or something with distribs...
Hey - I know plenty of people with dumb-souding accents that don't like Microsoft stuff... :) Unless that's your normal style of speaking, in which case I apologize for mocking your accent.
Geez. For such a group of "smart" people, you guys sure don't listen. I know damn well I'm not perfect, and I know I'm not the most attractive man around (well, surely someone would've told me if I was). I'm relatively certain that it helps to not be convinced I'm the ultimate man, every woman's dream and to not get bitter when no women agree with that opinion... :)
My girlfriend's not as geeky as some, but I still love her more than anything in the world. I think it helps to just shut up sometimes. The woman posting isn't too far off either, as far as I've been able to tell. We've just gotta understand that we'll never completely understand, I guess...
I'll stop rambling now.
That's a lot of pubic hair; a whole wig's worth... I'm not sure if tha's insulting or not, however. Seems that a collection of such magnitude would be quite an achievement. :)
linux network block devices and software raid5 perhaps? I'm considering doing that for my own use, but haven't taken the time to find out if the 2 setups will work together - anyone know?
I can see my chest moving right now, and I'm doing something like 78 beats/min (is that too high for just sitting in front of a computer?). I'm skinny though and not in pain...
Doesn't Alexa archive the net, like every couple months?
:)
As someone else mentioned, a lot of the pages are still in http://www.google.com's cache 'o pages. Maybe someone oughtta pull down as many as they can find and piece them back together...
Every time one of these sites goes down, I get closer and closer to mirroring every decent site I visit locally. I shouldn't even have to consider that... And doesn't the site just say "accused", which implies nothing's been proven anyway?
Something doesn't sound quite right about this whole thing...
Their reply was poorly formatted and unhelpful. I'm going to sell my logitech mice and replace them with some other company's (stupid USB mouse never worked right anyway - and I blame the drivers), and the camera's going to be sold too. No more logitech for me unless they change their tone. :)
Here is where Logitech's response to me should be posted ometime between now and June 24th (4 buisness days after my question).