Look here, whippersnapper, you haven't lived until you've played Nethack on punch cards. I still have paper cuts from my battle with the shopkeeper on level 5.
I use Fluxbox... It works well on minimal hardware (runs on a 233MhZ Intel MMX). I always customize it, but for the most part, copying the ~/.fluxbox directory is all that's needed. Versus KDE or Gnome which can take up to twenty or thirty seconds, the window manager is ready for use in about two seconds after I press [ENTER] in the xdm/gdm/kdm login screen.
Y'know, as much as I enjoyed LOTR (all 247 hours of it), it seemed a trifle long.
Sure, The Hobbit is a children's tale. There are dwarves in pointy hats, elves, barrels rolling along the river, a dragon with a single vulnerability, dwarves in pointy shoes, hairy feet, and dwarves curtseying... But it seems that it would be perfect for a movie. The story is self-contained, there's action, monsters, etc.. I don't expect anything deep so I won't be disappointed.
Plus it may finally enpunge the "Frodooooo, of the ninnnneee fingers and the ring of DOOOOM" from my head when I think of the Hobbit.
OpenLDAP is great and does a good job. You may also want to look at Fedora Directory Server, which is based on a previously commercial product. Both are ridiculously easy to configure for basic authentication. Another option for OpenLDAP is to grab the VMWare OpenLDAP appliance. It's an easy way to get LDAP working.
For administration, check out JXplorer. It makes it easy to add/delete/modify users.
It's coming to the point where every home should come equipped with a file server. We have MP3 collections, DVRs, home video to be edited, backups, etc.. Most technically savvy folks realize at some point that it's much cheaper and manageable to build out a file server than to try to replicate across multiple machines. Worst is when a box needs to be updated...
A typical computer power user may have the following: 1) 100G-200G worth of DV video from home movies 2) 10G-20G of MP3s 3) 5G-10G of digital camera pictures 4) 200+G of Tivo, MythTV, downloaded movies 5) 10G of software (ISOs, update files, BIOS upgrade, etc) 6) 5G miscellaneous
That's half a terabyte there already. You can put together a fileserver with JBOD for a few hundred dollars. But if you're putting all your data there, you probably want RAID and a backup solution. Right now I have a terabyte of storage, with the majority used by DV files from my camera. Though it would be nice to do cooler things, it's just barely adequate for my mundane stuff.
Fat chance that people start using that phrase correctly. Or is that "slim chance"? Funny how phrases get turned around.. Like "bloody" for example. It supposedly arose from "By Our Lady" but somehow it's now about blood, the red kind. Speaking of blood, there's a Jamaican exclamation that sounds like "bloodclot". The suburban kids in my high school (USA born and raised) would go around saying when Jamaican music (dancehall reggae) was popular. At least until a real Jamaican AP put one in detention. "Bloodclot" is actually from "blood cloth" and a word for a used tampon. Not exactly the sort of thing to say in polite company.
I dunno... I like the idea of doing something really disgusting involving 6-legged critters to the food and not saying a word when it gets stolen. I'd walk around the office smiling that day... I could see it: people would ask me why I sit in front of the computer and every once in a while let out a loud chuckle or snicker. I'd go to random people and ask, "Did you enjoy your lunch?" then laugh softly and evilly to myself. "How was the macaroni?" "That salad looks good. What's in it?" "Interesting - crunchy cottage cheese."
That may work elsewhere, not in the good ole USA. Over here, she should do what the politicians do. Do not deny the evidence, just claim that it's not illegal. Politicians are not caught because they commit a crime, but rather that they try to hide it. *NOTHING* proclaims guilt as loudly as an attempted coverup.
I think this is how the marketers think: We need to advertise this movie. What is our target audience? Young males 16-29... What are they doing? They're blogging! Quick, let's put up a bunch of fake blog sites, seed existing blogs with references, and our target demographic will flock to see this movie.
I dunno about everyone else, but the blog postings touting the movie always seemed like those TV commercials that started using "hip hop" and "street" phrases to sell toothpaste ("It's the bomb! Bling bling! Off the chain!") long after the phrases have become old (and by old I mean that I, the least hip, most geriatric bastard on the face of the earth, finally understands what they mean because I Googled for the phrases and found a Wiki). It's like FoxTV saying "The arrest *went down* on Main St and Lincoln"...
I had a "manual" typewriter once (yes, I'm really old). For those of you who don't know anything about them except from what they saw on "Murder, She Wrote" or some old movie, this won't matter. Anyhoo, when a "key" was struck, it would cause one of a series of metal arms to rise. On the end of the arm was either a letter or a symbol. There were two symbols on each arm. If the shift key was pressed then another metal rod underneath would shift the arm up by about 1/2" causing the second character to strike the "ribbon" (a black strip of cloth soaked in ink). On my old typewriter the CAPSLOCK was called SHIFTLOCK. When you reached the end of the line you would strike the right part of the doohicky to perform a carriage return. This would also cause the paper to shift by one line. If you wanted to add another line, there was another lever at the side that you could shift to advance the paper by 1/2 line. If you needed to "eject" the paper, you'd turn the platen knob (heh, I said "knob").
At the end of the day we blew out the candles and went to bed.
Ever read Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light". In one of the chapters there's a story about battling an enemy that looks like a demon, is strong as a demon, is fast as a demon, etc.. It's not a called a demon, however. One character asks why they make the distinction when it doesn't matter how they go about fighting it (i.e., if it walks like a duck). The other character responds that it is all the difference. To say that it's a demon would be equivalent to "bowing down to the unknown". I.e., dispensing with science and knowledge and bowing to the supernatural. Excellent book.
There's nothing worse than anthropomorphizing your description of cellular mechanics.
Interesting sentiment... Funny how we can talk of "mind" as opposed to "brain" and nobody raises an eyebrow. The idea of consciousness is not that far removed from the idea that DNA is selecting host animals. After all, what is consciousness but the expression of chemical and electrical processes in the brain, similar to the chemical and electrical processes in DNA replication.
If your workload per server is light enough, then buy 1 decent server with RAID and lots of memory and CPU. Virtualize the machines on this new server. Put in a Ethernet remote management card. This will allow you to forego the monitor and access it remotely. Make sure this machine is fully redundant and hot-swappable. Now instead of 3 servers you have one. You don't have to actually enter the server closet. For even more space, mount the unit up above.
Of course it may only be coincidence that pre-Christian civilizations worshipped snakes... These civilizations saw the annual re-birth of the snake (via shedding its skin) as somehow divine. It may also be coincidence that the bull (horns, cloven feet) was also worshipped by pre-Christian civilizations. Or not so coincidental. Nothing like making the god of the old religion the icon of evil, eh?
Of course, this didn't always happen. In many cases the beliefs and rituals of the previous civiliation were modified by Christianity. It's not just coincidental -- almost all civilizations/religions have a feast time at the end of winter, end of harvest, during the winter. There are *human* reasons for this. Most times it's either for rationalizing the unknown or just an excuse to feast. So we have Christian feasts that coincide with the Saturnalia and other ancient ceremonies. Maybe when we sit down for a Christmas dinner some ancient god nods and thanks us for remembering. Maybe when we recognize the Resurrection of Christ some primal force awakens and pushes the new plants out.
But back to snakes. The story of Genesis is old and borrows heavily from previous traditions. To condemn the snake by selecting one reference is wrong though, as the snake/serpent is considered wise throughout other books in *YOUR* Bible (E.g., John 3:14). Read your Book!
I wonder what other deep-rooted, genetic fears we have... I know that snakes in the wild give me that weird chill on the back of my neck. So does hearing tigers. Lions sound different and they don't have the same effect, but hearing a tiger growl I guess triggers some primal fear. Maybe it's that these animals -- snakes and tigers -- can kill you without you ever knowing you're in danger. Imagine a snake biting you, injecting venom, then sitting there waiting until you finally kick the bucket. I can imagine laying there, your life starting to fade, and watching that snake moving around and cleaning his knives and forks.... Plus humans suck at fighting. We have soft underbellies, no claws, no proper teeth, our reproductive organs hang out in plain sight, we can't run fast, we can't climb trees quickly, our sense of smell sucks. Maybe horror writers understand this better. Add deadly unseen things, darkness, and we're terrified.
One thing that it did have going for it was some really cool desktop apps. At the time when the Amiga 1000 and Atari 520 STs were out (yeah, I had those too) the Macs had a lot of cool software. That's why they were being emulated. The first Amigas and Ataris had Motorola 68000 processors. They were pretty quick for their day, but when they came out the current Macs were then using newer processors. It was fun to use Spectre128 and SpectreGCR on the Atari to emulate a 68K Mac, and it was useful, but the truth was that it would be emulating old tech -- like someone making a machine to run MacOS8 today. Interesting, but maybe just a geeky thrill than practical. The Amiga had a powerful OS, but it was lacking in some applications. For example, there was a word processing application (don't recall the name but I think it was WordPerfect) for the Amiga. It ran, but scrolling and inserting images was not optimized properly. As a consequence, an older Mac could scroll a page faster even though its hardware was primitive compared to the Amiga. This also happened on the Atari ST. The drawing routines in GEM were so abysmal that there was a market for improved libraries. There was a text editor called Tempus that used these improved routines and it was super fast compared to the TOS routines.
But Macs did things that were not easily available on other machines. For example, I've had multiple desktops on my Macs for years. Only recently (last couple years) has this become stable in XP (though some apps still are not multiple screen aware - E.g., some Java apps, full screen applications, etc.). This has worked for as long as I can remember in Unix, but recently it has actually been problematic for some configurations (dual head on Linux laptops, for example).
Don't get me wrong -- I loved my Amigas and Ataris, but there are clearly areas where the Mac led the pack.
Actually $3K sounds very reasonable, cheap even, for two terabytes. Prices I've seen are in the $5K-$7K range:D Cost per gig, just for the disks alone, is in the $2 range. DO you know of a product in the $3K range that has 2 terabytes after the RAID is built?
What are people using for small office/home file servers? I'm looking for something that will hold about a terabyte in storage, and another terabyte in some sort of SAN backed disk. I.e., I want to be able to present arbitrary sized LUNs to machines on the network and also have standard file storage ability (CIFS/SMB, NFS, FTP). Right now I'm running Samba/NFS on Linux but have not figured out how to present LUNs to the clients. The iSCSI and Coda stuff in the kernel has not been updated in quite a while from what I can see.
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Don't worry, the new product will be called, "Open Fire!".
Word on the street is that that the Pentagon doesn't want this in use by the military. Especially if your name is Will.
Look here, whippersnapper, you haven't lived until you've played Nethack on punch cards. I still have paper cuts from my battle with the shopkeeper on level 5.
If you want to learn vi, play nethack. Then the hjkl will seem natural.
Of course, it may pose a problem when you're trying to type an email and cc: just scares you away.
I use Fluxbox... It works well on minimal hardware (runs on a 233MhZ Intel MMX). I always customize it, but for the most part, copying the ~/.fluxbox directory is all that's needed. Versus KDE or Gnome which can take up to twenty or thirty seconds, the window manager is ready for use in about two seconds after I press [ENTER] in the xdm/gdm/kdm login screen.
Nah, you'll have to search on "that famous book by Nabokov".
Y'know, as much as I enjoyed LOTR (all 247 hours of it), it seemed a trifle long.
Sure, The Hobbit is a children's tale. There are dwarves in pointy hats, elves, barrels rolling along the river, a dragon with a single vulnerability, dwarves in pointy shoes, hairy feet, and dwarves curtseying... But it seems that it would be perfect for a movie. The story is self-contained, there's action, monsters, etc.. I don't expect anything deep so I won't be disappointed.
Plus it may finally enpunge the "Frodooooo, of the ninnnneee fingers and the ring of DOOOOM" from my head when I think of the Hobbit.
OpenLDAP is great and does a good job. You may also want to look at Fedora Directory Server, which is based on a previously commercial product. Both are ridiculously easy to configure for basic authentication. Another option for OpenLDAP is to grab the VMWare OpenLDAP appliance. It's an easy way to get LDAP working.
For administration, check out JXplorer. It makes it easy to add/delete/modify users.
It's coming to the point where every home should come equipped with a file server. We have MP3 collections, DVRs, home video to be edited, backups, etc.. Most technically savvy folks realize at some point that it's much cheaper and manageable to build out a file server than to try to replicate across multiple machines. Worst is when a box needs to be updated...
A typical computer power user may have the following:
1) 100G-200G worth of DV video from home movies
2) 10G-20G of MP3s
3) 5G-10G of digital camera pictures
4) 200+G of Tivo, MythTV, downloaded movies
5) 10G of software (ISOs, update files, BIOS upgrade, etc)
6) 5G miscellaneous
That's half a terabyte there already. You can put together a fileserver with JBOD for a few hundred dollars. But if you're putting all your data there, you probably want RAID and a backup solution. Right now I have a terabyte of storage, with the majority used by DV files from my camera. Though it would be nice to do cooler things, it's just barely adequate for my mundane stuff.
Fat chance that people start using that phrase correctly. Or is that "slim chance"? Funny how phrases get turned around.. Like "bloody" for example. It supposedly arose from "By Our Lady" but somehow it's now about blood, the red kind. Speaking of blood, there's a Jamaican exclamation that sounds like "bloodclot". The suburban kids in my high school (USA born and raised) would go around saying when Jamaican music (dancehall reggae) was popular. At least until a real Jamaican AP put one in detention. "Bloodclot" is actually from "blood cloth" and a word for a used tampon. Not exactly the sort of thing to say in polite company.
I dunno... I like the idea of doing something really disgusting involving 6-legged critters to the food and not saying a word when it gets stolen. I'd walk around the office smiling that day... I could see it: people would ask me why I sit in front of the computer and every once in a while let out a loud chuckle or snicker. I'd go to random people and ask, "Did you enjoy your lunch?" then laugh softly and evilly to myself. "How was the macaroni?" "That salad looks good. What's in it?" "Interesting - crunchy cottage cheese."
That may work elsewhere, not in the good ole USA. Over here, she should do what the politicians do. Do not deny the evidence, just claim that it's not illegal. Politicians are not caught because they commit a crime, but rather that they try to hide it. *NOTHING* proclaims guilt as loudly as an attempted coverup.
I think this is how the marketers think:
We need to advertise this movie. What is our target audience? Young males 16-29... What are they doing? They're blogging! Quick, let's put up a bunch of fake blog sites, seed existing blogs with references, and our target demographic will flock to see this movie.
I dunno about everyone else, but the blog postings touting the movie always seemed like those TV commercials that started using "hip hop" and "street" phrases to sell toothpaste ("It's the bomb! Bling bling! Off the chain!") long after the phrases have become old (and by old I mean that I, the least hip, most geriatric bastard on the face of the earth, finally understands what they mean because I Googled for the phrases and found a Wiki). It's like FoxTV saying "The arrest *went down* on Main St and Lincoln"...
I had a "manual" typewriter once (yes, I'm really old). For those of you who don't know anything about them except from what they saw on "Murder, She Wrote" or some old movie, this won't matter. Anyhoo, when a "key" was struck, it would cause one of a series of metal arms to rise. On the end of the arm was either a letter or a symbol. There were two symbols on each arm. If the shift key was pressed then another metal rod underneath would shift the arm up by about 1/2" causing the second character to strike the "ribbon" (a black strip of cloth soaked in ink). On my old typewriter the CAPSLOCK was called SHIFTLOCK. When you reached the end of the line you would strike the right part of the doohicky to perform a carriage return. This would also cause the paper to shift by one line. If you wanted to add another line, there was another lever at the side that you could shift to advance the paper by 1/2 line. If you needed to "eject" the paper, you'd turn the platen knob (heh, I said "knob").
At the end of the day we blew out the candles and went to bed.
(yeah, the spurious quotes were intentional)
Ever read Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light". In one of the chapters there's a story about battling an enemy that looks like a demon, is strong as a demon, is fast as a demon, etc.. It's not a called a demon, however. One character asks why they make the distinction when it doesn't matter how they go about fighting it (i.e., if it walks like a duck). The other character responds that it is all the difference. To say that it's a demon would be equivalent to "bowing down to the unknown". I.e., dispensing with science and knowledge and bowing to the supernatural. Excellent book.
1994:
> ls -a
1997:
~ ls -a
1998:
tardis ~ ls -a
2001:
[kll@apocalypse] ls -a
2004:
[kll@helios] ssh apocalypse hostname
apocalypse
2006:
[kll@xm-fc5-001] ssh localhost
password:
Virtual Machine - FC5 - Image 001
Be nice!
Then you quickly run into the homunculus argument and that's slippery. At what point does complexity give rise to "mind"?
There's nothing worse than anthropomorphizing your description of cellular mechanics.
Interesting sentiment... Funny how we can talk of "mind" as opposed to "brain" and nobody raises an eyebrow. The idea of consciousness is not that far removed from the idea that DNA is selecting host animals. After all, what is consciousness but the expression of chemical and electrical processes in the brain, similar to the chemical and electrical processes in DNA replication.
But all of us ex-D&D'ers are well familiar with term :D
If your workload per server is light enough, then buy 1 decent server with RAID and lots of memory and CPU. Virtualize the machines on this new server. Put in a Ethernet remote management card. This will allow you to forego the monitor and access it remotely. Make sure this machine is fully redundant and hot-swappable. Now instead of 3 servers you have one. You don't have to actually enter the server closet. For even more space, mount the unit up above.
Of course it may only be coincidence that pre-Christian civilizations worshipped snakes... These civilizations saw the annual re-birth of the snake (via shedding its skin) as somehow divine. It may also be coincidence that the bull (horns, cloven feet) was also worshipped by pre-Christian civilizations. Or not so coincidental. Nothing like making the god of the old religion the icon of evil, eh?
Of course, this didn't always happen. In many cases the beliefs and rituals of the previous civiliation were modified by Christianity. It's not just coincidental -- almost all civilizations/religions have a feast time at the end of winter, end of harvest, during the winter. There are *human* reasons for this. Most times it's either for rationalizing the unknown or just an excuse to feast. So we have Christian feasts that coincide with the Saturnalia and other ancient ceremonies. Maybe when we sit down for a Christmas dinner some ancient god nods and thanks us for remembering. Maybe when we recognize the Resurrection of Christ some primal force awakens and pushes the new plants out.
But back to snakes. The story of Genesis is old and borrows heavily from previous traditions. To condemn the snake by selecting one reference is wrong though, as the snake/serpent is considered wise throughout other books in *YOUR* Bible (E.g., John 3:14). Read your Book!
I wonder what other deep-rooted, genetic fears we have... I know that snakes in the wild give me that weird chill on the back of my neck. So does hearing tigers. Lions sound different and they don't have the same effect, but hearing a tiger growl I guess triggers some primal fear. Maybe it's that these animals -- snakes and tigers -- can kill you without you ever knowing you're in danger. Imagine a snake biting you, injecting venom, then sitting there waiting until you finally kick the bucket. I can imagine laying there, your life starting to fade, and watching that snake moving around and cleaning his knives and forks.... Plus humans suck at fighting. We have soft underbellies, no claws, no proper teeth, our reproductive organs hang out in plain sight, we can't run fast, we can't climb trees quickly, our sense of smell sucks. Maybe horror writers understand this better. Add deadly unseen things, darkness, and we're terrified.
You sure? I thought it was the same root as frag, to demolish to smithereens.
One thing that it did have going for it was some really cool desktop apps. At the time when the Amiga 1000 and Atari 520 STs were out (yeah, I had those too) the Macs had a lot of cool software. That's why they were being emulated. The first Amigas and Ataris had Motorola 68000 processors. They were pretty quick for their day, but when they came out the current Macs were then using newer processors. It was fun to use Spectre128 and SpectreGCR on the Atari to emulate a 68K Mac, and it was useful, but the truth was that it would be emulating old tech -- like someone making a machine to run MacOS8 today. Interesting, but maybe just a geeky thrill than practical. The Amiga had a powerful OS, but it was lacking in some applications. For example, there was a word processing application (don't recall the name but I think it was WordPerfect) for the Amiga. It ran, but scrolling and inserting images was not optimized properly. As a consequence, an older Mac could scroll a page faster even though its hardware was primitive compared to the Amiga. This also happened on the Atari ST. The drawing routines in GEM were so abysmal that there was a market for improved libraries. There was a text editor called Tempus that used these improved routines and it was super fast compared to the TOS routines.
But Macs did things that were not easily available on other machines. For example, I've had multiple desktops on my Macs for years. Only recently (last couple years) has this become stable in XP (though some apps still are not multiple screen aware - E.g., some Java apps, full screen applications, etc.). This has worked for as long as I can remember in Unix, but recently it has actually been problematic for some configurations (dual head on Linux laptops, for example).
Don't get me wrong -- I loved my Amigas and Ataris, but there are clearly areas where the Mac led the pack.
Actually $3K sounds very reasonable, cheap even, for two terabytes. Prices I've seen are in the $5K-$7K range :D Cost per gig, just for the disks alone, is in the $2 range. DO you know of a product in the $3K range that has 2 terabytes after the RAID is built?
What are people using for small office/home file servers? I'm looking for something that will hold about a terabyte in storage, and another terabyte in some sort of SAN backed disk. I.e., I want to be able to present arbitrary sized LUNs to machines on the network and also have standard file storage ability (CIFS/SMB, NFS, FTP). Right now I'm running Samba/NFS on Linux but have not figured out how to present LUNs to the clients. The iSCSI and Coda stuff in the kernel has not been updated in quite a while from what I can see.