I'd also like to point out some errors in the Computerworld article. NCSA is *currently* storing 940 TB in near-line storage (Legato DiskXtender running on an obscenely big tape library), and growing at 2TB a week. The DiskXtender is licenced for up to 2 petabytes--we're coming close to half of that now
Interesting. I used the original OTG product on NT with a smallish (6B) tape library. We weren't that impressed with the software, and the support was terrible (in the UK). I heard that OTG bought Unitree's linux HSM software, and that the Legato product was (eventually) going to be based on this one, rather than the OTG offering. Any idea if this is so? What platform are you running it on? I'd also be interested in the tape library technology - we've moved on to ADIC's LTO Scalar 1000. The AMASS software we're using with that doesn't seem to be that manageable (I'm not running the tape archives myself anymore).
The University I used to attend paid, at most, $33 per license, as that's how much they would allow a student to purchase a copy of XP for. And they were not exactly famous for giving their students anything below cost.
Your University has already paid (a four or five figure number, depending on the size of the university) for a site licence subscription to be able to sell you MS licences at that cost, so the cost to the university is higher than the cost you pay. Honest. Ask them.
Well i think we're getting a shitty deal in the UK when 0.99 euro converts to 65p and UK users have to pay 79p a track!
Shitty, maybe, against EC trade rules, definitely. See last week's news on airline price ticket differences in the EU. The European Commission ruled that airlines could not price differentiate on tickets according to which country in the EU the customer lived in.
To nitpick your nitpick, Windows For Worgroups 3.11 had a native 32-bit TCP/IP stack. This was when OS/2 TCP/IP cost $350 extra.
WfW did have a native TCP/IP stack - called 'Wolverine' IIRC, but it wasn't included, it was a download. I shudder at the days I spent over the years crowbaring trumpet on there (a fantasic hack, fair enough) then wolverine. It was all worth it, since we could then dump the horrendous PCNFS and go to samba.
Tescos and Sainsburys' are far better-2 hour windows, weekend delivery, and deliveries up till 6pm
Better, but still not great. I work until 6.15 most days! And a 2 hour window means that I'd have to be home at 4pm to be sure not to miss it.
Having said that, other deliveries are left on our veranda anyway, even hundreds of s worth of gear. Ah, the bliss of living in a low crime community...
A quick question for you - when do they deliver? I'm out in the sticks, so I haven't got a Tesco or a Sainsburys, but we've got an Iceland that does online shopping.
I'd be glad to use even Iceland's online service for bulky or heavy stuff (they do beer, toilet roll & wine, for example!) but they deliver during the day, which is no good to those of us with an all-working household. They've also got an absurdly long delivery window - something like between 11am and 4pm, so even if you were at home, you'd have to stay at home all day.
I could do all my shopping on foot if the bulky stuff was delivered weekly.
Anybody who's used online shopping the UK care to share their delivery experiences?
I really like it alot, so far no problems. The only thing I don't like about a fedora box is that I have to hunt around for weeks to get the necessary multimedia stuff in it.
I found this info quite by chance after moving from RHN to yum after installing Fedora core. I've posted this before, but here it is again:
Add these lines to your yum.conf (watch out for the slashcode extra spaces in the baseurl line):
...but you're Australian, I thought you'd prefer that approach!
the reason I do it this way is because not everyone has access to a linux-capable modem, which you in your infinite wisdom obviously have enormous numbers of. Some of us need to use windows machines to download stuff, but obviously your ivory tower is not equipped with such inconveniences.
Ah, but it is, and they're the bane of my life. OK, yes, I did make the totally insane assumption that your linux box was net connected. My bad. See if you'd told me that you didn't have a linux modem I'd have given one to my cow orker who left for Australia on Friday. He could have popped it in the post when he got there. The miracle that is ADSL reached us last year, so I've a couple of hardware 56k's in the spares box.
Also, thankyou for taking a post which was intended to help other people in a similar situation to mine, and turning it into a personal insult. I hope it made you happy!
Sorry, years of usenet have probably made me grouchier than the avarage bear. I apologize. It would have helped if you'd mentioned your lack of connectedness, but then again there's no excusing my abruptness. Try ebay.com.au or something for the modem - they should be dirt cheap now that broadband's come along.
google "mp3 xmms rpm" download resulting rpm. as root - rpm -i xmmsmp3.rpm honestly, even a windows convert like myself was able to work this one out in about 2 minutes!
Dickwad. The whole point of doing it through yum is that when a new version hits freshrpms, it'll update automatically when you do a 'yum update' to apply all patches to your system. It's the right and easy way to do it. It'll also resolve all dependencies for you, which your "duh! Google for an rpm" is not going to. Try using your method to install mplayer.
IOW, pam is the shared library your code should be using to do the hard work of finding out if this password goes with that user; kerberos should be one of the pluggable modules your sysadmin can configure pam to use to ask some server elsewhere on the et to match users to passwords securely. two different things.
Zigzackly. Pamifying loginwindow would make many many sweet things very simple.
Kerberos is the way authentication is being done, so you'd want to kerberize your services. Another pluggable authentication layer would be superfluous.
It would be, if they didn't plaster their OSX documentation with references to pam. Including:
PAM. Mac OS X integrates the Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) into Apple's CDSA architecture, allowing UNIX applications to access CDSA services through a PAM API, and UNIX services to export functionality to CDSA-based applications via PAM modules.
Could somebody please tell me whether they've pam_ified LoginWindow on OS X after 1.28? What's the point of including pam in your system, linking ssh and the rest of them against it, but not linking LoginWindow (the main login screen on OSX) to pam, thus making it useless for centralizing authentication.
pam_smb works a treat on OSX, I can authenticate ssh logins to our NT domain, but the actual local login window on OSX takes not a blind bit of notice of pam, making it not-so-useful.
Please, please, don't take Linux down the same braindead route as Microsoft has done for XP. It's utterly insane to swap out my browser so that a 2GB file can be copied two seconds faster when I then have to wait two minutes for the browser to swap back in
Does it really make it faster anyway? Unless parts of that 2GB file were already in the cache then how is the cache going to make it transfer any faster?
It doesn't, but the OS might imagine that you're going to use that file again, so it caches it in the disk cache. I'm unsure as to whether the linux kernel will cache a file as you copy it - I wish it wouldn't on a simply filecopy, but it may work at a much lower i/o level, so it doesn't know whether you're opening/reading the file for copying or for something that may benefit from caching (opening an application, for example).
Anybody know if the linux disk cache is intelligent?
It's not cool. It's just a filesystem in a database.
C'mon, it's not even that. The filesystem will be NTFS, WinFS is an index of the metadata in the files on the system. It's just fast find on steroids and I've yet to meet a user with a clue that didn't disable that pig straight away.
Perfectly understandable. up2date on fedora uses yum as its backend... and it's all pointy/clicky. Even has an applet that turns red when there are new packages.
yeah, but that only does updates. I can't launch it to install new applications or remove installed ones. At least, I don't know of a way to.
From the command-prompt:
%yum install [newapp]
Installs the newapp (as long as it's a package in the depositories listed in your yum.conf, obviously).
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So it's not about "getting oil". But it is about the oil.
Specifically, it's about the fact that any US president who's in the hotseat when oil prices rise dramatically is toast. The US economoy is extremely sensitive to oil price fluctuations, and the electorate doubly sensitive to gas [sic] prices.
You make a good point. But like the anti-war freaks you forget that best estimates are that Saddam murdered between 1 million and 2 million Iraqis during his ~20 years in power. That works out to between 50,000 and 100,000 per year, or about 1,000 to 2,000 per week.
The vast majority of whom were killed in the Iran-Iraq war. Guess who was arming Saddam and supporting him during that war?
Good news for me. We moved from NS4.7 to Moz 1.4 (then up to 1.4.1) but Moz has been a moving target since then. A lot of bugs that we've been hitting (IMAP especially) may have been resolved in 1.5/6, but with 1.7 already in beta, this is an upgrade treadmill that has MS beat. A stable target with backported bugfixes is great news for us.
We also depend on a localized version which unfortunately needs work every time a new Moz is released. Bug releases shouldn't need a new version of the language pack.
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I'd also like to point out some errors in the Computerworld article. NCSA is *currently* storing 940 TB in near-line storage (Legato DiskXtender running on an obscenely big tape library), and growing at 2TB a week. The DiskXtender is licenced for up to 2 petabytes--we're coming close to half of that now
Interesting. I used the original OTG product on NT with a smallish (6B) tape library. We weren't that impressed with the software, and the support was terrible (in the UK). I heard that OTG bought Unitree's linux HSM software, and that the Legato product was (eventually) going to be based on this one, rather than the OTG offering. Any idea if this is so? What platform are you running it on? I'd also be interested in the tape library technology - we've moved on to ADIC's LTO Scalar 1000. The AMASS software we're using with that doesn't seem to be that manageable (I'm not running the tape archives myself anymore).
SRS, WOW and TruBass
Hmm, I could have sworn that my iriver hp-120 has had those all along. [from my link]:
"You will experience various sound effects with SRS, SRS WOW and TRUE BASS."
Oh, and ogg vorbis support.
The University I used to attend paid, at most, $33 per license, as that's how much they would allow a student to purchase a copy of XP for. And they were not exactly famous for giving their students anything below cost.
Your University has already paid (a four or five figure number, depending on the size of the university) for a site licence subscription to be able to sell you MS licences at that cost, so the cost to the university is higher than the cost you pay. Honest. Ask them.
Well i think we're getting a shitty deal in the UK when 0.99 euro converts to 65p and UK users have to pay 79p a track!
Shitty, maybe, against EC trade rules, definitely. See last week's news on airline price ticket differences in the EU. The European Commission ruled that airlines could not price differentiate on tickets according to which country in the EU the customer lived in.
There is a style of cartoon drawing (Illingworth) that would probably have you suspended from high school if you were to draw anything similar
Leslie Illingworth's original cartoon collection is in the National Library of Wales. The entire collection has been digitized and will be launched shortly on the Library's digital mirror.
To nitpick your nitpick, Windows For Worgroups 3.11 had a native 32-bit TCP/IP stack. This was when OS/2 TCP/IP cost $350 extra.
WfW did have a native TCP/IP stack - called 'Wolverine' IIRC, but it wasn't included, it was a download. I shudder at the days I spent over the years crowbaring trumpet on there (a fantasic hack, fair enough) then wolverine. It was all worth it, since we could then dump the horrendous PCNFS and go to samba.
I used Asda/Wal Mart and they deliver until 9pm, and they give you a 1 hour delivery window.
:(
Oooh, nice. Now that's what I'm after! Pity the nearest one's a good few hours away
Tescos and Sainsburys' are far better-2 hour windows, weekend delivery, and deliveries up till 6pm
Better, but still not great. I work until 6.15 most days! And a 2 hour window means that I'd have to be home at 4pm to be sure not to miss it.
Having said that, other deliveries are left on our veranda anyway, even hundreds of s worth of gear. Ah, the bliss of living in a low crime community...
A quick question for you - when do they deliver? I'm out in the sticks, so I haven't got a Tesco or a Sainsburys, but we've got an Iceland that does online shopping.
I'd be glad to use even Iceland's online service for bulky or heavy stuff (they do beer, toilet roll & wine, for example!) but they deliver during the day, which is no good to those of us with an all-working household. They've also got an absurdly long delivery window - something like between 11am and 4pm, so even if you were at home, you'd have to stay at home all day.
I could do all my shopping on foot if the bulky stuff was delivered weekly.
Anybody who's used online shopping the UK care to share their delivery experiences?
I really like it alot, so far no problems. The only thing I don't like about a fedora box is that I have to hunt around for weeks to get the necessary multimedia stuff in it.
a /linux/$rel easever/$basearch/freshrpms
I found this info quite by chance after moving from RHN to yum after installing Fedora core. I've posted this before, but here it is again:
Add these lines to your yum.conf (watch out for the slashcode extra spaces in the baseurl line):
[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedor
And for all your patent-encumbered multimedia needs, you just need do:
% yum install mplayer
% yum install xine
% yum install [whatever else you want]
and it'll resolve all dependencies and keep you away from rpm-hell but still within RH's rpm goodness.
NOTE - freshrpms haven't got Feodra Core 2 rpms yet - give them time!
the reason I do it this way is because not everyone has access to a linux-capable modem, which you in your infinite wisdom obviously have enormous numbers of. Some of us need to use windows machines to download stuff, but obviously your ivory tower is not equipped with such inconveniences.
Ah, but it is, and they're the bane of my life. OK, yes, I did make the totally insane assumption that your linux box was net connected. My bad. See if you'd told me that you didn't have a linux modem I'd have given one to my cow orker who left for Australia on Friday. He could have popped it in the post when he got there. The miracle that is ADSL reached us last year, so I've a couple of hardware 56k's in the spares box.
Also, thankyou for taking a post which was intended to help other people in a similar situation to mine, and turning it into a personal insult. I hope it made you happy!
Sorry, years of usenet have probably made me grouchier than the avarage bear. I apologize. It would have helped if you'd mentioned your lack of connectedness, but then again there's no excusing my abruptness. Try ebay.com.au or something for the modem - they should be dirt cheap now that broadband's come along.
google "mp3 xmms rpm"
download resulting rpm.
as root - rpm -i xmmsmp3.rpm
honestly, even a windows convert like myself was able to work this one out in about 2 minutes!
Dickwad. The whole point of doing it through yum is that when a new version hits freshrpms, it'll update automatically when you do a 'yum update' to apply all patches to your system. It's the right and easy way to do it. It'll also resolve all dependencies for you, which your "duh! Google for an rpm" is not going to. Try using your method to install mplayer.
IOW, pam is the shared library your code should be using to do the hard work of finding out if this password goes with that user; kerberos should be one of the pluggable modules your sysadmin can configure pam to use to ask some server elsewhere on the et to match users to passwords securely. two different things.
Zigzackly. Pamifying loginwindow would make many many sweet things very simple.
Kerberos is the way authentication is being done, so you'd want to kerberize your services. Another pluggable authentication layer would be superfluous.
It would be, if they didn't plaster their OSX documentation with references to pam. Including:
PAM. Mac OS X integrates the Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) into
Apple's CDSA architecture, allowing UNIX applications to access CDSA services through
a PAM API, and UNIX services to export functionality to CDSA-based applications via
PAM modules.
Could somebody please tell me whether they've pam_ified LoginWindow on OS X after 1.28? What's the point of including pam in your system, linking ssh and the rest of them against it, but not linking LoginWindow (the main login screen on OSX) to pam, thus making it useless for centralizing authentication.
pam_smb works a treat on OSX, I can authenticate ssh logins to our NT domain, but the actual local login window on OSX takes not a blind bit of notice of pam, making it not-so-useful.
Even worse, you can't play an MP3 file!
a /linux/$rel easever/$basearch/freshrpms
Oh boo hoo. Add these lines to your yum.conf:
[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedor
And for all your patent-encumbered multimedia needs, you just need do:
% yum install mplayer
% yum install xine
% yum install [whatever else you want]
and it'll resolve all dependencies and keep you away from rpm-hell but still within RH's rpm goodness.
Please, please, don't take Linux down the same braindead route as Microsoft has done for XP. It's utterly insane to swap out my browser so that a 2GB file can be copied two seconds faster when I then have to wait two minutes for the browser to swap back in
Does it really make it faster anyway? Unless parts of that 2GB file were already in the cache then how is the cache going to make it transfer any faster?
It doesn't, but the OS might imagine that you're going to use that file again, so it caches it in the disk cache. I'm unsure as to whether the linux kernel will cache a file as you copy it - I wish it wouldn't on a simply filecopy, but it may work at a much lower i/o level, so it doesn't know whether you're opening/reading the file for copying or for something that may benefit from caching (opening an application, for example).
Anybody know if the linux disk cache is intelligent?
WinFS is very, very cool stuff, even as vaporware
It's not cool. It's just a filesystem in a database.
C'mon, it's not even that. The filesystem will be NTFS, WinFS is an index of the metadata in the files on the system. It's just fast find on steroids and I've yet to meet a user with a clue that didn't disable that pig straight away.
Perfectly understandable. up2date on fedora uses yum as its backend... and it's all pointy/clicky. Even has an applet that turns red when there are new packages.
yeah, but that only does updates. I can't launch it to install new applications or remove installed ones. At least, I don't know of a way to.
From the command-prompt:
%yum install [newapp]
Installs the newapp (as long as it's a package in the depositories listed in your yum.conf, obviously).
uses MS Comic font for their articles. Sorry.
Right on, brother. Join us now!
So it's not about "getting oil". But it is about the oil.
Specifically, it's about the fact that any US president who's in the hotseat when oil prices rise dramatically is toast. The US economoy is extremely sensitive to oil price fluctuations, and the electorate doubly sensitive to gas [sic] prices.
First, the US Military for a long time kept nuclear bombers in air for retaliatory strikes during the Cold War, every day, all day long.
Yes, that's probably why nbaxley titled his post "Back to planes constantly in the air".
Furrfu.
You make a good point. But like the anti-war freaks you forget that best estimates are that Saddam murdered between 1 million and 2 million Iraqis during his ~20 years in power. That works out to between 50,000 and 100,000 per year, or about 1,000 to 2,000 per week.
The vast majority of whom were killed in the Iran-Iraq war. Guess who was arming Saddam and supporting him during that war?
The last parking meter I parked at was 25 cents for 10 minutes.
That's nothing. See this story in last week's Independent:
"Nearby, off Oxford Street, there is what must be some of the most expensive weekday parking in Britain: Pay & Display at 1.20 for 15 minutes."
Which at current exchange rates is about $2 (er, no $2.20... er $2.40...)
[note to self - must stop making fun of piss weak dollar]
Good news for me. We moved from NS4.7 to Moz 1.4 (then up to 1.4.1) but Moz has been a moving target since then. A lot of bugs that we've been hitting (IMAP especially) may have been resolved in 1.5/6, but with 1.7 already in beta, this is an upgrade treadmill that has MS beat. A stable target with backported bugfixes is great news for us.
We also depend on a localized version which unfortunately needs work every time a new Moz is released. Bug releases shouldn't need a new version of the language pack.