I use CentOS constantly, and love it.. However, I would like to kick back some 'love' in the form of money to Redhat to thank them for their hard work. (or else CentOS would not exist)..
However, justifying the cost of RHEL is very hard for us.. if it was a cheap $50 updates only version, I would move our dozens of servers to it..
they both work as an easy replacement in ubuntu to connect. It adds the features to network-manager. Very easy way for me to connect to my Cisco SSL and IPSec VPN's.
No problem, I'll just write a quick liltle app/program that will do that for you.. of course, you'll have to put in your sudo password (or whatever they call it on a mac) but Don't worry, you can trust me! (hey, isn't this how the whole problem starts?)
I really wish Redhat had some much cheaper, "updates only" version of their software.. When I worked in Education, we had a version that was $50/year.. I would love something like that for my own personal use.. and maybe a $100/y version for companies.. You know.. Like Oracle Does with their clone of redhat..
I have been working on the same thing for a company I help out.. Make sure you check out zarafa (www.zarafa.com)... It is very, very slick... Also, http://www.zentyal.org/ is a great project. Integrated tools, based on Ubuntu Long Term Server.. includes a Samba PDC and file server, LDAP, chat, zarafa, etc. There is also VPN, and internet gateway tools as well.. Pretty slick tool for quick to get started.
You forgot about how we then later gave a guy named Saddam Hussein weapons, money, and training to then fight a war with Iran, after we decided that an enemy of our enemy is our friend.. He thought we were good friends, and told the US ambassador he was going to Invade Kuwait before he did so..
Totally different then how we trained a bunch of rebels (and gave them weapons) to fight those pesky Commies in Afghanistan, and are now fighting those same guys, who are using those same rebel tactics against us. Or pretty much anywhere we insert ourselves, wait 20 years and watch it bite us in the ass...
Thanks for this.. I need to look into doing this. I have a two year old that loves Shrek (and all her movies) so much she carries the discs around the house...
For a good laugh, read the comments on any newspapers online editions.. especially any political comment (yeah, xkcd got that right: http://xkcd.com/1019/ )
I have submitted some ideas to our local paper, and got a brush off.. but the anonymous nature, plus people thinking others are WRONG and have to be corrected seem to make it all pretty much unreadable..
Simple fixes to make an online story's comments normal again: 1 - Limit the times a person can comment on the same story in a 24 hour period.. I have seen too many times, when there are pages and pages of comments in online newspapers where 4 people are calling each other idiots.. Yes, they have a freedom of speech, but everyone else gets drowned out.... 2 - make it very easy to see all posts made by a person... hey, that makes finding astro-turfers really, really easy.. 3 - maybe make it slightly less anonymous.. possibly post the first 3 octets of the ip address or something.. People start being nicer when they know they are being watched... (hence the spots for camera's ever 12 feet in wal-mart's ceiling)
Lenovo sells a Hard drive carrier that fits in the CDRom bay of ThinkPads. Works great.. Especially since my drive was EXT4, and Windows 7 can't read it.. (so the corporate monitoring software never even recognized another partition on there, let alone drives. I just left it in all the time. My co-workers would just swap theirs in, and Reboot..
Cable companies have to pay for the right to broadcast the channels, some channels are much more expensive than others. (I have heard from friends that ESPN charges cable companies about $12/month per subscriber!!!) So yes, cable is expensive, and there is a fair amount of profit, but the companies could probably raise internet costs by only a few dollars a month, and still maintain the same margins. Not to mention, they can use the fact people are leaving in droves to force lower licensing costs from the content producers... (Of course, if your cable company OWNs a content producer, like http://www.kabletown.com/, then yes, you should panic)
I college there was a guy in my classes that worked as a mechanic while he went to school. I jokingly asked him, "what do you prefer, ford or chevy"? His answer was hilarious.. this was a few years ago, and he was working on older farm trucks in a rural college
"I love Ford, Chevy, and Dodge.. they all guarantee me 40 hours of work a week. But when I get home, I don't want to work on my car, I want to use my car, I drive a Toyota."
Funny thing, was, that saying stuck in my mind for a long time.. Became the exact same reason I switched to Ubuntu at home:)
I imagine they make FAR more money from Acrobat than they do from photoshop.. photoshop is kind of niche tool. Go to any large business, and look at how many copies of Acrobat there are.. (although a previous company of mine migrated to bluebeam, after Adobe became jerks to deal with)..
The problem is, there are only 2 groups that seem to provide these databases.. Neither are cheap. I am sure there is a LARGE amount of liability for developing such a database..
But cmon, you gotta admit, that initial bid sure was cheap... before you city put in a bunch of change requests, new features, etc.. First hit is always free..
At one point in time, before they bought, er, earned deregulation, that extra space was often used in many states for the CLEC's to provide phone service as well. They had to pay the local company a certain amount to rent the space, and per line, but it sure was nice on prices for the few years it lasted..
I bitch about that every single time I have to setup a windows box.. not to mention: run windows update, install 32 updates Run again, install 4 updates run again, install 1 update #hey, look, must be done... lets just double check.. run again, install 9 updates.. WTF? why not do them all in one pass?
And my other pet peve. (I guess apt and yum has spoiled me).. get a new OEM laptop.. open control panel.. Click uninstall on program wait click uninstall on other wait click uninstall on other wait.. repeat.. same thing with installs.. why can't you install two programs at once?
You do know you don't need to use ANY of those commands to use Linux, right? Just like windows, you can click. (for fun, try to explain to windows people why sometimes the CD is "D:" sometimes "E" and why sometimes, if they have a few drives, and a mapped network drive that is "low" like E or F, they can never see their USB drive they plug in..) How many times have you had to ponder if its rn or mv on your android phone or Tivo?
Fiber is made from glass.. Glass comes from sand, that is millions of year old crushed rock and shells, being heated at high temps. Since Topeka refuses to acknowledge that the earth is any more than 6000 years old, obviously, the people there don't believe glass can exist. You can't install something that can't exist, and google was chased out as a blasphemer..
Your right that we can't just sit back and ignore them, but Apple needs to start publishing some tools, and TELLING people outside of mac how to use them..
How do you deploy an app to 250 ipads? Do you just tell all the people you will re-imburse their costs to purchase it themselves?
If there is a central program, can you remotely disable/remove an app from a users device and deploy to another? can you mandate encryption on devices, can you push enterprise wireless keys? How can you ensure that data on the devices is backed up to a central server? (no, having everyone also install itunes on their work PC is just silly)
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I use CentOS constantly, and love it.. However, I would like to kick back some 'love' in the form of money to Redhat to thank them for their hard work. (or else CentOS would not exist)..
However, justifying the cost of RHEL is very hard for us.. if it was a cheap $50 updates only version, I would move our dozens of servers to it..
Cisco VPN
sudo apt-get install network-manager-vpnc
or
sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn
they both work as an easy replacement in ubuntu to connect. It adds the features to network-manager.
Very easy way for me to connect to my Cisco SSL and IPSec VPN's.
No problem, I'll just write a quick liltle app/program that will do that for you.. of course, you'll have to put in your sudo password (or whatever they call it on a mac) but Don't worry, you can trust me! (hey, isn't this how the whole problem starts?)
I really wish Redhat had some much cheaper, "updates only" version of their software.. When I worked in Education, we had a version that was $50/year.. I would love something like that for my own personal use.. and maybe a $100/y version for companies.. You know.. Like Oracle Does with their clone of redhat..
The irrigation canals in southern Oregon cover hundreds of thousands of acres.. but their biggest cost is power, to run pumps.. (pretty flat land) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klamath_Project however, it looks like they are trying to get some power project put along the canal.. (maybe to offset the costs of pumping) http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/documentShow.cfm?Doc_ID=8142
I have been working on the same thing for a company I help out.. Make sure you check out zarafa (www.zarafa.com) ... It is very, very slick...
Also,
http://www.zentyal.org/ is a great project. Integrated tools, based on Ubuntu Long Term Server.. includes a Samba PDC and file server, LDAP, chat, zarafa, etc. There is also VPN, and internet gateway tools as well.. Pretty slick tool for quick to get started.
You forgot about how we then later gave a guy named Saddam Hussein weapons, money, and training to then fight a war with Iran, after we decided that an enemy of our enemy is our friend.. He thought we were good friends, and told the US ambassador he was going to Invade Kuwait before he did so..
Totally different then how we trained a bunch of rebels (and gave them weapons) to fight those pesky Commies in Afghanistan, and are now fighting those same guys, who are using those same rebel tactics against us. Or pretty much anywhere we insert ourselves, wait 20 years and watch it bite us in the ass...
Thanks for this.. I need to look into doing this. I have a two year old that loves Shrek (and all her movies) so much she carries the discs around the house...
For a good laugh, read the comments on any newspapers online editions.. especially any political comment (yeah, xkcd got that right: http://xkcd.com/1019/ )
I have submitted some ideas to our local paper, and got a brush off.. but the anonymous nature, plus people thinking others are WRONG and have to be corrected seem to make it all pretty much unreadable..
Simple fixes to make an online story's comments normal again:
1 - Limit the times a person can comment on the same story in a 24 hour period.. I have seen too many times, when there are pages and pages of comments in online newspapers where 4 people are calling each other idiots.. Yes, they have a freedom of speech, but everyone else gets drowned out....
2 - make it very easy to see all posts made by a person... hey, that makes finding astro-turfers really, really easy..
3 - maybe make it slightly less anonymous.. possibly post the first 3 octets of the ip address or something.. People start being nicer when they know they are being watched... (hence the spots for camera's ever 12 feet in wal-mart's ceiling)
Samsung makes nice drives as well..
Lenovo sells a Hard drive carrier that fits in the CDRom bay of ThinkPads. Works great.. Especially since my drive was EXT4, and Windows 7 can't read it.. (so the corporate monitoring software never even recognized another partition on there, let alone drives. I just left it in all the time. My co-workers would just swap theirs in, and Reboot..
Don't worry, they laughed at your joke before it became popular..
Cable companies have to pay for the right to broadcast the channels, some channels are much more expensive than others. (I have heard from friends that ESPN charges cable companies about $12/month per subscriber!!!) So yes, cable is expensive, and there is a fair amount of profit, but the companies could probably raise internet costs by only a few dollars a month, and still maintain the same margins. Not to mention, they can use the fact people are leaving in droves to force lower licensing costs from the content producers... (Of course, if your cable company OWNs a content producer, like http://www.kabletown.com/, then yes, you should panic)
I college there was a guy in my classes that worked as a mechanic while he went to school. I jokingly asked him, "what do you prefer, ford or chevy"? His answer was hilarious.. this was a few years ago, and he was working on older farm trucks in a rural college
"I love Ford, Chevy, and Dodge.. they all guarantee me 40 hours of work a week. But when I get home, I don't want to work on my car, I want to use my car, I drive a Toyota."
Funny thing, was, that saying stuck in my mind for a long time.. Became the exact same reason I switched to Ubuntu at home :)
I imagine they make FAR more money from Acrobat than they do from photoshop.. photoshop is kind of niche tool. Go to any large business, and look at how many copies of Acrobat there are.. (although a previous company of mine migrated to bluebeam, after Adobe became jerks to deal with)..
Not that it would meet your wishlist, but amazon does have an S3 gateway appliance https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1334
you dump your files to it at local speeds, and it uploads them to S3 in the background. (basically seems like a buffer for reads and writes)
The problem is, there are only 2 groups that seem to provide these databases.. Neither are cheap. I am sure there is a LARGE amount of liability for developing such a database..
But cmon, you gotta admit, that initial bid sure was cheap... before you city put in a bunch of change requests, new features, etc.. First hit is always free..
At one point in time, before they bought, er, earned deregulation, that extra space was often used in many states for the CLEC's to provide phone service as well. They had to pay the local company a certain amount to rent the space, and per line, but it sure was nice on prices for the few years it lasted..
I bitch about that every single time I have to setup a windows box..
not to mention:
run windows update, install 32 updates
Run again, install 4 updates
run again, install 1 update #hey, look, must be done... lets just double check..
run again, install 9 updates.. WTF? why not do them all in one pass?
And my other pet peve. (I guess apt and yum has spoiled me)..
get a new OEM laptop.. open control panel.. Click uninstall on program
wait
click uninstall on other
wait
click uninstall on other
wait..
repeat..
same thing with installs.. why can't you install two programs at once?
Except that he can do that to a machine on another continent with a 24.4kbs connection..
You do know you don't need to use ANY of those commands to use Linux, right? Just like windows, you can click. (for fun, try to explain to windows people why sometimes the CD is "D:" sometimes "E" and why sometimes, if they have a few drives, and a mapped network drive that is "low" like E or F, they can never see their USB drive they plug in..) How many times have you had to ponder if its rn or mv on your android phone or Tivo?
Fiber is made from glass.. Glass comes from sand, that is millions of year old crushed rock and shells, being heated at high temps. Since Topeka refuses to acknowledge that the earth is any more than 6000 years old, obviously, the people there don't believe glass can exist. You can't install something that can't exist, and google was chased out as a blasphemer..
Your right that we can't just sit back and ignore them, but Apple needs to start publishing some tools, and TELLING people outside of mac how to use them..
How do you deploy an app to 250 ipads? Do you just tell all the people you will re-imburse their costs to purchase it themselves?
If there is a central program, can you remotely disable/remove an app from a users device and deploy to another? can you mandate encryption on devices, can you push enterprise wireless keys? How can you ensure that data on the devices is backed up to a central server? (no, having everyone also install itunes on their work PC is just silly)
Although, In the NW, hydrolectric is something like 85% of the power grid.