That's really cool, and more useful than it sounds... I was looking for just this feature several months ago when installing RH on a laptop whose video card was supported by XFree but for some reason wouldn't work with the graphical installer.
An AC has replied to you saying "but you must have a screen & keyboard attached to start the install. What's the point?". Another place where this will be useful is in a machineroom/colo situation (which is probably why this first appeared in the Enterprise versions). Dunno about you, but I'm fed up with standing next to a KVM'd keyboard/monitor in our chilled computer room with all the fans going - now I can kick the install off in the machine room, and go back to my desk to see it through.
my question: why does he need my physical address and phone number? it's obvious at this point he will let me know about some snag and that i need to send him some money for whatever reason.
Nope, that's not how it works. You get the cheque (check, for you leftpondians), you pay it in, it clears, someone comes round and picks up the car, then a few days later the bank calls you up and tells you the cheque is a dud, and they want their money back. Check it out at snopes.
Now I'd be suing my bank if this happened, but I'm assured that I wouldn't get very far.
Anyway, my point was that they don't ask you for any money, so it's quite a good sucker trap. It's basically exploiting the Average Joe's misconception of how banks and cheques work (ie, not like they *should*).
The US went to war for many reasons. Go back and read some of the very early speaches on Iraq. What happened was the media picked up on WMD because it was a buzz word and a new one that hadn't grown stale yet.
Can I have some of your crack? In case you didn't know, nobody (not even the US) goes to war on a vague 'many reasons' and on the contents of speeches - you've got to have a reason that's valid under international law. Lacking any such reason (IMHO), the US claimed that war was justified under the (novel) concept of preemptive self-defence from Saddam's WMDs - ie, that Saddam presented a clear and present danger, and that was enough to justify war. They did also, I grant you, claim that UN resolutions 678 (1990) and 687 (1991) - those which gave UN approval to Gulf War I (Daddy's War) - were somehow still in force, and that it gave them carte blanche to go into Iraq again.
As far as I know, I can not automate it. If I just wanted to make every security update to my computer that came out, I would like to click a button where it connects to the server every week or so to DL and install patches (and maybe sends an email to me when done saying what it did). If I am a sysadmin (which I am not), I would love to run this on 200 machines simulatneously without being at each machine and clicking next three times.
If they're servers, I'd be asking what a button's doing on there anyway. Servers don't need X, and Red Hat servers don't need X. Up2date is a command-line utility - what you're looking at is just a GUI front end. Try 'man up2date'.
What you're wishing for is a cron job that runs 'up2date -u' every night (or every hour). Alternatively, since you've paid your RHN subscription (you would have, since you've got more than one server, right?) you use the tools on rhn.redhat.com to list your servers, show which are out of date, select 'update this server automatically' (for pushed updates) etc. etc. You can even form logical groups of servers and have different update policies for each. Good stuff.
The words "intellectual property" seduce enough people into thinking it is fair to collect money for these things. In the long run we have to treat "standards" (not the ISO's but the worthwhile ones) just like programs. They are part of the public domain and they have to be defended.
And yes, this means silly things like ISO country codes and the Dewey Decimal System
As somebody who's used Dewey Decimal in a project, I can assure you that it's never been royalty-free. I was surprised at the time, but the librarians I worked with on the project assured me that this has always been the case.
Yes, "my" solution [RAID] - the solution used by anyone who has digital data they want to store long-term
Bullshit. Maybe for your piddly archive, but the real stuff is all happening on tape with refresh cycles, duplicates and offsites. I've a 42TB archive in the room next to me, and we're a small player in the world of international digital preservation. The Trusted Digital Repositories of the world all use tape.
Don't imagine that tape doesn't require babysitting either. You don't plonk 'em in a copper room (although we have two) and forget about them.
Are there any websites that offer high quality streaming video? Or even high quality downloadable movies?
I'm a bit late reading this, but for information:
http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php
The Prelinger film archive online is fantastic. Yup, it isn't Blockbusters, but there's great stuff there available under a really generous licence. A great resource for VJs and samplers.
Image number AA024508 at Photodisc (creative.gettyimages.com, select Photodisc). Scroll down in a mozilla browser, the guy who wrote this page obviously didn't care about us _REAL_ users... just the SCO's of the world.;)
I've always wondered why you need drivers for RAID...
AFAIK you build your raid array for say mirroring using the bios of your raid chipset (promise for example). Then it makes sure that any write to hda is actually also a write to hdb. So I think it's purely a bios issue and nothing for the OS to do...
NT and Linux don't use the BIOS at all once the kernel has loaded into memory. The BIOS is only used for booting off the controller.
I assume he's talking about the BIOS on the card, not the motherboard BIOS. It's not strictly a BIOS, but it's known as such probably because it's a text-mode pre-boot environment. SCSI RAID arrays don't need a driver (per se - I'll get to this in a minute) - they present the RAID array (of whatever level - 0,1,5) as a single SCSI disk, so the OS is never aware of any RAIDness*. You do need a SCSI driver so that you can use communicate with the array, but it's not really a RAID driver, as the RAID array and controller can be external, and you talk to it through a bog-standard SCSI card. With internal SCSI RAID controllers, the controller and the SCSI adapter are on the same card, but it's just the SCSI adapter driver that the OS uses.
So why don't the IDE ones work the same? Why would you need a driver? I don't know, I don't use IDE RAID (though I'm tempted to - the last Terabyte of SCSI RAID cost me UKP12k). Why don't they just present the array as a single disk through a normal IDE interface? I suspect it's because IDE is a lot closer to the metal than SCSI, and that the OS needs to know stuff about disk geometry, perhaps.
Could somebody give me an answer?
(*Monitoring apps can use stuff like SAF-TE to monitor individual disks in the array)
And pumped storage stations can be brought online and switched off almost instantaneously - there's one in Wales (the electric mountain plant at Trawsfynnydd - basically a hollowed out mountain) that claims the fastest response time of any power station in the world - something like 6 seconds.
Dinorwig, not Trawsfynydd (Traws is a decomissioned Nuclear Reactor, this week cleared as a nuclear waste storage facilty). 'Electric Mountain' or something they call it nowardays. Head up to Llanberis (the town on the other side of the lower reservoir lake) and take a tour of the facility. I walked through the massive chambers as a kid before they filled in the turbine halls - very impressive. To keep the fantastic response time, they have to use a whole lot of electricity spinning the turbines so that they don't just destroy them when they turn on the water flow. Still a great facility.
There's a large room with a Dr Strangelove map of the National Grid and a large indicator of the frequency. If it drops below 47Hz or something, they flick the switch and bring on the Big Battery.
Why dont I get to follow my paper ballot, meet the person who counts it, give them a math test to make sure they can do the arithmetic required, and wont "carry the two" and fuck everything up?
Dunno about the US, but you're allowed to attend the count and watch the ballots being counted in the UK. You're welcome to follow the paper ballot all the way from the booth to the result.
(the JS doesn't seem to work on Moz - go to here for first page.
There's a whole lot of digitized early books and manuscripts out there. For one thing, there are no copyright issues, and they can often be the biggest hurdle in a digitization project. Check out some of our digitized material.
It's about a quad processor machine that you can afford to put under your desk. Isn't anyone else excited about that?
A 4U server box under my desk? I don't think so! You really don't want a rackmount machine lying on an office carpet, unless you're starting a dust bunny ranch.
Here's a project worth checking out: Citadel/UX.... the thing that makes Citadel stand out from its open source brethren is that it's not just another Cyrus/Postfix/OpenLDAP/etc. rollup with some loose stiches put in to make them act like a single system.
We're actually taking the time to build something good from scratch.... Built-in IMAP, POP, SMTP protocols. A nice calendar service, and a Web interface. It's even got its own instant messenger.
See, that's what you're doing wrong. Do I trust your low-user-base, built-from-scratch SMTP, POP, etc. to be secure? To be bug-free and massively scalable? A point of FLOSS is that you reuse the best components to build bigger systems. Writing an SMTP server isn't easy - ask Sendmail. That's why I won't be checking out Citadel/UX for our enterprise - you've no proven record of doing this stuff. Sure, it may be enough for your "room-based BBS", but anything for else you won't get a look-in.
The BBC's The Money Programme are doing an edition on junk (postal) mail and spam tonight at 19:30 BST. The Money Programme tends to be fairly influential and usually has high journalistic and production values.
If you're in the UK, or have access to BBC2 tonight, watch it!
Slashdot Mirror
case in point - i recently put an ad out for a car that i was selling - a 67 camaro
How much do you want for it? Can you send me a photo?
Boink is an old usenet term for a Real World get together, a meat, a meatspace meeting:
F -8 &oe=utf-8&safe=off&q=boink&sa=N&tab=wg
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UT
Can't for the life of me remember where the term came from, but I wonder if that was in their minds.
(yes, I know it's boinc).
That's really cool, and more useful than it sounds... I was looking for just this feature several months ago when installing RH on a laptop whose video card was supported by XFree but for some reason wouldn't work with the graphical installer.
An AC has replied to you saying "but you must have a screen & keyboard attached to start the install. What's the point?". Another place where this will be useful is in a machineroom/colo situation (which is probably why this first appeared in the Enterprise versions). Dunno about you, but I'm fed up with standing next to a KVM'd keyboard/monitor in our chilled computer room with all the fans going - now I can kick the install off in the machine room, and go back to my desk to see it through.
my question: why does he need my physical address and phone number? it's obvious at this point he will let me know about some snag and that i need to send him some money for whatever reason.
Nope, that's not how it works. You get the cheque (check, for you leftpondians), you pay it in, it clears, someone comes round and picks up the car, then a few days later the bank calls you up and tells you the cheque is a dud, and they want their money back. Check it out at snopes.
Now I'd be suing my bank if this happened, but I'm assured that I wouldn't get very far.
Anyway, my point was that they don't ask you for any money, so it's quite a good sucker trap. It's basically exploiting the Average Joe's misconception of how banks and cheques work (ie, not like they *should*).
The US went to war for many reasons. Go back and read some of the very early speaches on Iraq. What happened was the media picked up on WMD because it was a buzz word and a new one that hadn't grown stale yet.
Can I have some of your crack? In case you didn't know, nobody (not even the US) goes to war on a vague 'many reasons' and on the contents of speeches - you've got to have a reason that's valid under international law. Lacking any such reason (IMHO), the US claimed that war was justified under the (novel) concept of preemptive self-defence from Saddam's WMDs - ie, that Saddam presented a clear and present danger, and that was enough to justify war. They did also, I grant you, claim that UN resolutions 678 (1990) and 687 (1991) - those which gave UN approval to Gulf War I (Daddy's War) - were somehow still in force, and that it gave them carte blanche to go into Iraq again.
The Independent carried an excellent article on Diebold on Tuesday. Article here.
As far as I know, I can not automate it. If I just wanted to make every security update to my computer that came out, I would like to click a button where it connects to the server every week or so to DL and install patches (and maybe sends an email to me when done saying what it did). If I am a sysadmin (which I am not), I would love to run this on 200 machines simulatneously without being at each machine and clicking next three times.
If they're servers, I'd be asking what a button's doing on there anyway. Servers don't need X, and Red Hat servers don't need X. Up2date is a command-line utility - what you're looking at is just a GUI front end. Try 'man up2date'.
What you're wishing for is a cron job that runs 'up2date -u' every night (or every hour). Alternatively, since you've paid your RHN subscription (you would have, since you've got more than one server, right?) you use the tools on rhn.redhat.com to list your servers, show which are out of date, select 'update this server automatically' (for pushed updates) etc. etc. You can even form logical groups of servers and have different update policies for each. Good stuff.
Please. It's true and informative and should be at least at score 2 like the parent.
Add the appropriate routers and switches and you can easily go 90 km on dark fiber.
It's not going to be dark fibre if you're using it, is it??
The words "intellectual property" seduce enough people into thinking it is fair to collect money for these things. In the long run we have to treat "standards" (not the ISO's but the worthwhile ones) just like programs. They are part of the public domain and they have to be defended.
And yes, this means silly things like ISO country codes and the Dewey Decimal System
As somebody who's used Dewey Decimal in a project, I can assure you that it's never been royalty-free. I was surprised at the time, but the librarians I worked with on the project assured me that this has always been the case.
Yes, "my" solution [RAID] - the solution used by anyone who has digital data they want to store long-term
Bullshit. Maybe for your piddly archive, but the real stuff is all happening on tape with refresh cycles, duplicates and offsites. I've a 42TB archive in the room next to me, and we're a small player in the world of international digital preservation. The Trusted Digital Repositories of the world all use tape.
Don't imagine that tape doesn't require babysitting either. You don't plonk 'em in a copper room (although we have two) and forget about them.
Are there any websites that offer high quality streaming video? Or even high quality downloadable movies?
I'm a bit late reading this, but for information:
http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php
The Prelinger film archive online is fantastic. Yup, it isn't Blockbusters, but there's great stuff there available under a really generous licence. A great resource for VJs and samplers.
Why didn't airplanes have impermeable doors before 9-11?
Because it wasn't cost effective. Common sense and basic security took a back seat to the bottom line.
Why doesn't your house have bullet-proof windows? Could it be that in a civilized community you don't do stuff that makes people want to smash them?
Image number AA024508 at Photodisc (creative.gettyimages.com, select Photodisc). Scroll down in a mozilla browser, the guy who wrote this page obviously didn't care about us _REAL_ users... just the SCO's of the world. ;)
Bugzilla has a open evangalism bug about this specific site.
I've always wondered why you need drivers for RAID...
AFAIK you build your raid array for say mirroring using the bios of your raid chipset (promise for example). Then it makes sure that any write to hda is actually also a write to hdb. So I think it's purely a bios issue and nothing for the OS to do...
NT and Linux don't use the BIOS at all once the kernel has loaded into memory. The BIOS is only used for booting off the controller.
I assume he's talking about the BIOS on the card, not the motherboard BIOS. It's not strictly a BIOS, but it's known as such probably because it's a text-mode pre-boot environment. SCSI RAID arrays don't need a driver (per se - I'll get to this in a minute) - they present the RAID array (of whatever level - 0,1,5) as a single SCSI disk, so the OS is never aware of any RAIDness*. You do need a SCSI driver so that you can use communicate with the array, but it's not really a RAID driver, as the RAID array and controller can be external, and you talk to it through a bog-standard SCSI card. With internal SCSI RAID controllers, the controller and the SCSI adapter are on the same card, but it's just the SCSI adapter driver that the OS uses.
So why don't the IDE ones work the same? Why would you need a driver? I don't know, I don't use IDE RAID (though I'm tempted to - the last Terabyte of SCSI RAID cost me UKP12k). Why don't they just present the array as a single disk through a normal IDE interface? I suspect it's because IDE is a lot closer to the metal than SCSI, and that the OS needs to know stuff about disk geometry, perhaps.
Could somebody give me an answer?
(*Monitoring apps can use stuff like SAF-TE to monitor individual disks in the array)
'avast'?? 'as long as ye register.'??
Arrrr. I spy pirate.
Courtesy of Google (loads of hits on WPS Office):
1 0307/199035.html
http://www.pconline.com.cn/pcedu/soft/office/wps/
And pumped storage stations can be brought online and switched off almost instantaneously - there's one in Wales (the electric mountain plant at Trawsfynnydd - basically a hollowed out mountain) that claims the fastest response time of any power station in the world - something like 6 seconds.
Dinorwig, not Trawsfynydd (Traws is a decomissioned Nuclear Reactor, this week cleared as a nuclear waste storage facilty). 'Electric Mountain' or something they call it nowardays. Head up to Llanberis (the town on the other side of the lower reservoir lake) and take a tour of the facility. I walked through the massive chambers as a kid before they filled in the turbine halls - very impressive. To keep the fantastic response time, they have to use a whole lot of electricity spinning the turbines so that they don't just destroy them when they turn on the water flow. Still a great facility.
There's a large room with a Dr Strangelove map of the National Grid and a large indicator of the frequency. If it drops below 47Hz or something, they flick the switch and bring on the Big Battery.
Why dont I get to follow my paper ballot, meet the person who counts it, give them a math test to make sure they can do the arithmetic required, and wont "carry the two" and fuck everything up?
Dunno about the US, but you're allowed to attend the count and watch the ballots being counted in the UK. You're welcome to follow the paper ballot all the way from the booth to the result.
From an Afghani slashdotter
Junis? Is that you? Glad to see the Commodore's still going strong. Have you seen John Katz lately? We're a bit worried about him.
[...sorry mnmn]
N-grams? N-grams? DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK!
It's a CoS trick to enslave us all!
http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/default.asp
(the JS doesn't seem to work on Moz - go to here for first page.
There's a whole lot of digitized early books and manuscripts out there. For one thing, there are no copyright issues, and they can often be the biggest hurdle in a digitization project. Check out some of our digitized material.
It's about a quad processor machine that you can afford to put under your desk. Isn't anyone else excited about that?
A 4U server box under my desk? I don't think so! You really don't want a rackmount machine lying on an office carpet, unless you're starting a dust bunny ranch.
Here's a project worth checking out: Citadel/UX .... the thing that makes Citadel stand out from its open source brethren is that it's not just another Cyrus/Postfix/OpenLDAP/etc. rollup with some loose stiches put in to make them act like a single system.
.... Built-in IMAP, POP, SMTP protocols. A nice calendar service, and a Web interface. It's even got its own instant messenger.
We're actually taking the time to build something good from scratch
See, that's what you're doing wrong. Do I trust your low-user-base, built-from-scratch SMTP, POP, etc. to be secure? To be bug-free and massively scalable? A point of FLOSS is that you reuse the best components to build bigger systems. Writing an SMTP server isn't easy - ask Sendmail. That's why I won't be checking out Citadel/UX for our enterprise - you've no proven record of doing this stuff. Sure, it may be enough for your "room-based BBS", but anything for else you won't get a look-in.
The BBC's The Money Programme are doing an edition on junk (postal) mail and spam tonight at 19:30 BST. The Money Programme tends to be fairly influential and usually has high journalistic and production values.
If you're in the UK, or have access to BBC2 tonight, watch it!