I second that. Mandrake pushes the bar with every new release. Things like LDAP Authentication support right in the install, journaling filesystems as you mentioned, devfs (Something we all/need/ to start using) etc. It certainly does have a 'newbieish' feel to it, but it is also quite capable as a server.
Mandrake has it's fair share of problems. Poor (IMO) packages, testing cycles that are far too short, etc. But they certainly aren't afraid of adding new features.
I'm not certain I like the 'Configure everthing in the instal' approach they take, but I am sure it's helpful for all new Linux users.
While it's certainly scary that IIS is enabled by default, when one considers the recent (and not so recent) problems it's had, the fact remains that Apache is also enabled, by default, in quite a few Linux distributions. So I don't know if this is a very strong against the survey.
So it's nothing short of miraculous that Apache managed to retain its market share for about two years while essentially treading water. Let's face it, in spite of a few point releases, Apache hasn't introduced any significant user features in two years.
This is a completely unfair statement. While work on a 2.0 release of Apache has been ongoing, development has hardly stalled in the 1.x series. The strength of Apache was never the server itself - It was the modular design. Mod_rewrite, libphp, etc -/these/ are the strengths of Apache.
Yes, you can run PHP under IIS/Apache for Win - But you have to run it as a CGI. It loses one of it's major strenghs.
Apache is constantly being refined and extended with modules. If the author has any doubts about this, I strongly suggest he 'grep -v ^LoadModule' his httpd.conf. I suspect he would soon realize his Apache did nothing at all.
My guess is the author has never actually admin'd Apache. He's probably been just an Apache user his whole life. (I see nothing to the contrary in his bio at the bottom of the article).
Apache is a wonderful tool that is upto/any/ job we throw at it. Jakarta is a great example of a web-services enabling extension to the Apache project.
Please excuse the poor thought-line of this post:) I was in a hurry to get my thoughts out the door.
There aren't any real advantages. Netscape has some added-value stuff, but none of it is really that important. The jist of it is that Netscape/is/ Mozilla. It's just a branded version. In the same sense that gtk-licq/is/ licq - with gtk. (There are better examples, but I can't think of any right now).
So average joe-blow might use Netscape because he doesn't like Internet Explorer, and has never heard of any other alternatives besides Netscape. Dell might create a Dell-branded, Mozilla-based browser. And Earthlink might create an Earthlink-branded, Mozilla-based browser.
It just nice to see that a company as visible (Albeit, a lot less than they use to be) as Netscape has released a new (Now worthwhile) browser.
At work, we've been searching for a product that we can use as an IPSEC-enabled router.
So far, we've just been giving out PC's with FreeS/WAN. But this gets a little bit expensive, so we've been trying to find an embedded solution. Any such product would have to meet the following requirements:
* Cheap
* Small
* Reasonably powerful (At least 200MHz for x86 processors)
* And hopefully, sleek looking.
LinuxDevices Mentions a product called the STBMX1030, which meets all of these requirements, and much much more. But it seems as though the company that makes them, Allwell, has stopped making them. Anyone know of anything else that fits the bill?
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I'd be surprised to hear about any problems w/ ReiserFS and NFS just not plain working together. While it certainly has (had?) some problems w/ NFS , they're not problems that prevent NFS from working at all.
The problems all relate to big and busy file servers. We've been running it on our 50-client fileserver at work w/ a 2.4.2 kernel for 4 or 5 months now with no problem.
Have you actually pinpointed the problem to be Reiser? In other words, does your NFS setup work properly w/ ext2?
The problem isn't with KDE/QT isn't the fact that QT is not LGPL'd. The problem is that it used to have a source-under-glass license and the KDE camp didn't care.
Don't get me wrong - I like theKompany. Any company that released any software GPL'd is doing something right. They certainly do 'get it' more than most other companies. I just happen to believe that it's fundamentally wrong to sell closed-source software. It's nice that they're contributing to the community and all, and hey - we're not forced to use their proprietary plugins/stencils. In fact, we're free to make our own using their Open technology. But it's still wrong to write closed software:P
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I'm a big evolution supporter. Have always liked it. I like the fact that the entirety of the program is GPL'ed (Unlike certain products from certain nameless others.
But it's a little bit discouraging when you install the binaries through red-carpet, rm -rf your existing ~/evolution directory, run oaf-slay, start evolution and then find that it crashed consistently if you try to open the 'Welcome to Evolution' email.
I'll go file a bug report now...
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Yet another example of a typical Slashdot You-Deserve-It response.
The extent of your stupidity is frightening.
Firstly, I can hide in the bushes on a sidewalk and secretly record passers-by. If someone is standing on their balcony having sex, I can videotape that as well (so long as it's in plain view).
In the United States, you have the right to privacy where you might reasonably expect it. This includes your home, the trunk of your car, etc. It does not, however, describe a bubble that travels around with you protecting you wherever you go.
The fact that the person being recorded in this instance was a public official only furthers the point. Courts have held time and time again that those who have by their own will become famous have less rights to privacy than normal citizens do. This is because there reasonable expectation of privacy goes down as their fame increases. The premise is basically the same in this case: The police officer cannot, while being paid by taxpayers, expect any form of privacy.
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This is the typical reaction I would expect from Slashdot.
Okay, so maybe the penalty is a little steep
Yeah, maybe. Even if you assume they bought 200 computers for 1500$ each, he was using a full T1's worth of bandwith and that the computers in qestion are all now broken beyond repair, the fine alone still outweighs the cost to purchase completely new computers. This is without mention of the prison term. Regardless of whether or not he's sentenced to that term - or even convicted - the danger here is the precedent that this sets.
You didn't ask your employer's permission to use your employer's computer for non-work-related activities.
Nor did you, I suspect, when you posted to Slashdot last week Thursday, Tuesday, and Monday. We all use our work computers for non-work-related activities. We all don't goto prison for it.
He/was/ fired for this. That would be the typical employer reaction. The problem here is that Georgia's Attorney General's office obviously knows nothing of computers or technology. Im sure that whomever is prosecuting this case was presented with the facts in a manner that would portray David McOwen as a 'hacker.' (He put a virus on your computers that cracks encryption!). Needless to say, however, this did not hurt the school district in the slightest. Noone noticed for 2 years. That says something about just how transparent Distributed.net clients are.
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While it may be a bit more difficult to do on a distro like Slackware, it's certainly possible.
Unlike Windows,/most/ shared libraries in Linux use the.so.major.minor convention. If you want to upgrade a library to a new minor version, chances are it won't hurt the applications. If you're upgrading to a new major number, you can simply save the older library. I prefer keeping older libs in/usr/lib/deprecated, then symlinking them to/usr/lib. It may sound odd, but this is what I prefer. That's the beauty about these types of distributions - Without dependencies, you can do things like this (fairly) easily. signature smigmature
Mandrake and RedHat target different markets. As much has been said by RedHat. RedHat is not concerned w/ the desktop market. They want to keep their desktop users happy - but they're not going to go out of their way to attract the masses.
RedHat wants the server market. Low-end to mid-end right now, but perhaps the high-end as well in the future. Their decision w/ RedHat DB illustrates that point.
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Yes, you are correct. A Victim does not, nor have they ever had, any special rights, whatsoever.
They do not have the right to justice. They do not have the right to vengence.
They are simply promised that the Government will do what it reasonably can do in the pursuit of justice.
This is the way it should be. The U.S. fancies itself to be a human rights supporter, while all the while violating international treaties to which the U.S. is a signee. Countless examples come to mind - The Death Penalty, Prisoners being systematically raped by guards, documented in many prisons in many states across the country, prisoners being deprived of light, prisoners being deprived of at least 1 hour outside of solitary confinement per day, and the list goes on.
These are all rights granted to criminals by international treaty (The Geneva conventions and otherwise). They are basic human rights that every person deserves.
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Firstly, All Your Data Already Belongs To Someone With Root. That is, unless you only distribute data on physical media.
But it's a legitimate concern. Hell, I wouldn't feel comfortable with it either. So I would refer you to TCFS.
TCFS is a cryptographic network file system featuring group sharing of encrypted files. TCFS will encrypt your files before sending them to the file server
and will decrypt them before they are read by the requesting application. Because the encryption/decryption process takes place on the client host, no
clean data will travel the network. This is particularly valid for the encryption key.
TCFS does it's thang at the kernel level. This is certainly convenient, but not necessarily practical. If that is the case, there's a userland counterpart to TCFS called CFS that does basically the same thing. signature smigmature
It's a Slash-based site very similar to Slashdot, but leaning much more towards political issues. If you're a libertarian (Lower-case 'L' intentional), you'll feel right at home. signature smigmature
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Since 0.9, Mozilla has truly, truly shown that it will (is!) be one of the bright, shining stars of the Open Source community. There is no longer -any- doubt in my mind that it will be the best browser on any platform. The pace of advance lately has been nothing less than amazing.
Users need not remember 12-character long strings of random digigs and characters. They just need a training course on how to pick a good password.
Pass phrases are probably the easiest remedy.
Just have your users pick a phrase from a current song that they like, and use the first letter from each word as a character in the password. Substitute numbers for certain characters, capitalize proper nouns etc. (e.g., She was a Sour Girl the day that she left me == SwaSGtdts1m)
Very easy to remember, but still pretty darn hard to crack. This way, they'll also be more forgiving about changing their password every few months. Leave Jack the Ripper running on a spare machine to audit weak passwords.
When XFS was initially released, I ran some very simple, for my-purposes-only benchmarks of XFS and Reiser, using Postgres and the dbbench utility. Ran the dbbench with 100 clients connecting a few times with a fresh initdb on a Reiser partition, and with a fresh initdb on an XFS partition. Didn't save any numbers, but it was considerably faster on XFS. Run it for youself and see:)
(Note: This was w/out the use of the notail option for reiser)
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I suspect MandrakeForum is using the Mandrake PostgreSQL RPMs. They're built with a (default) 32 connection limit.
/home/www/mandrakeforum.com/html/mainfile.php on line 24
Warning: Too many connections in
Unable to select database
I second that. Mandrake pushes the bar with every new release. Things like LDAP Authentication support right in the install, journaling filesystems as you mentioned, devfs (Something we all /need/ to start using) etc. It certainly does have a 'newbieish' feel to it, but it is also quite capable as a server.
Mandrake has it's fair share of problems. Poor (IMO) packages, testing cycles that are far too short, etc. But they certainly aren't afraid of adding new features.
I'm not certain I like the 'Configure everthing in the instal' approach they take, but I am sure it's helpful for all new Linux users.
While it's certainly scary that IIS is enabled by default, when one considers the recent (and not so recent) problems it's had, the fact remains that Apache is also enabled, by default, in quite a few Linux distributions. So I don't know if this is a very strong against the survey.
So it's nothing short of miraculous that Apache managed to retain its market share for about two years while essentially treading water. Let's face it, in spite of a few point releases, Apache hasn't introduced any significant user features in two years.
/these/ are the strengths of Apache.
/any/ job we throw at it. Jakarta is a great example of a web-services enabling extension to the Apache project.
This is a completely unfair statement. While work on a 2.0 release of Apache has been ongoing, development has hardly stalled in the 1.x series. The strength of Apache was never the server itself - It was the modular design. Mod_rewrite, libphp, etc -
Yes, you can run PHP under IIS/Apache for Win - But you have to run it as a CGI. It loses one of it's major strenghs.
Apache is constantly being refined and extended with modules. If the author has any doubts about this, I strongly suggest he 'grep -v ^LoadModule' his httpd.conf. I suspect he would soon realize his Apache did nothing at all.
My guess is the author has never actually admin'd Apache. He's probably been just an Apache user his whole life. (I see nothing to the contrary in his bio at the bottom of the article). Apache is a wonderful tool that is upto
Please excuse the poor thought-line of this post:) I was in a hurry to get my thoughts out the door.
There aren't any real advantages. Netscape has some added-value stuff, but none of it is really that important. The jist of it is that Netscape /is/ Mozilla. It's just a branded version. In the same sense that gtk-licq /is/ licq - with gtk. (There are better examples, but I can't think of any right now).
So average joe-blow might use Netscape because he doesn't like Internet Explorer, and has never heard of any other alternatives besides Netscape. Dell might create a Dell-branded, Mozilla-based browser. And Earthlink might create an Earthlink-branded, Mozilla-based browser.
It just nice to see that a company as visible (Albeit, a lot less than they use to be) as Netscape has released a new (Now worthwhile) browser.
At work, we've been searching for a product that we can use as an IPSEC-enabled router.
So far, we've just been giving out PC's with FreeS/WAN. But this gets a little bit expensive, so we've been trying to find an embedded solution. Any such product would have to meet the following requirements:
* Cheap
* Small
* Reasonably powerful (At least 200MHz for x86 processors)
* And hopefully, sleek looking.
LinuxDevices Mentions a product called the STBMX1030, which meets all of these requirements, and much much more. But it seems as though the company that makes them, Allwell, has stopped making them. Anyone know of anything else that fits the bill?
Is it just me, or was this item originally posted to the frontpage, as well as the Apache section?
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I was thinking the same thing, 'till I followed a link to the documentation. It has quite a bit more info about the project.
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True, but no matter how much memory you have, it can -always- be used by something. Why waste it if you don't have to?
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If you're running a website that get's 500,000 page-views per day, that's a lot of Perl processing just to put a header/footer on every page. Mod-layout provides caching, which I can imagine may take quite a bit of load off of a large website.
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I'd be surprised to hear about any problems w/ ReiserFS and NFS just not plain working together. While it certainly has (had?) some problems w/ NFS , they're not problems that prevent NFS from working at all.
The problems all relate to big and busy file servers. We've been running it on our 50-client fileserver at work w/ a 2.4.2 kernel for 4 or 5 months now with no problem.
Have you actually pinpointed the problem to be Reiser? In other words, does your NFS setup work properly w/ ext2?
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I have no problem with selling software. Just with closed software. There is a difference.
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The problem isn't with KDE/QT isn't the fact that QT is not LGPL'd. The problem is that it used to have a source-under-glass license and the KDE camp didn't care.
Don't get me wrong - I like theKompany. Any company that released any software GPL'd is doing something right. They certainly do 'get it' more than most other companies. I just happen to believe that it's fundamentally wrong to sell closed-source software. It's nice that they're contributing to the community and all, and hey - we're not forced to use their proprietary plugins/stencils. In fact, we're free to make our own using their Open technology. But it's still wrong to write closed software:P
I've heard all the arguments about software not being politics before, and don't care to get into it here. Regardless of what the nay-sayers spout, I won't be adding non-free to my sources.list anytime soon.
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I'm a big evolution supporter. Have always liked it. I like the fact that the entirety of the program is GPL'ed (Unlike certain products from certain nameless others.
But it's a little bit discouraging when you install the binaries through red-carpet, rm -rf your existing ~/evolution directory, run oaf-slay, start evolution and then find that it crashed consistently if you try to open the 'Welcome to Evolution' email.
I'll go file a bug report now... - James
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Yet another example of a typical Slashdot You-Deserve-It response.
The extent of your stupidity is frightening.
Firstly, I can hide in the bushes on a sidewalk and secretly record passers-by. If someone is standing on their balcony having sex, I can videotape that as well (so long as it's in plain view).
In the United States, you have the right to privacy where you might reasonably expect it. This includes your home, the trunk of your car, etc. It does not, however, describe a bubble that travels around with you protecting you wherever you go.
The fact that the person being recorded in this instance was a public official only furthers the point. Courts have held time and time again that those who have by their own will become famous have less rights to privacy than normal citizens do. This is because there reasonable expectation of privacy goes down as their fame increases. The premise is basically the same in this case: The police officer cannot, while being paid by taxpayers, expect any form of privacy.
I'd like to find the hookups the Mass. Supreme Court has, because they're smoking some good fucking crack. I hope very much this is appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court where it will no doubt be overturned.
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This is the typical reaction I would expect from Slashdot.
/was/ fired for this. That would be the typical employer reaction. The problem here is that Georgia's Attorney General's office obviously knows nothing of computers or technology. Im sure that whomever is prosecuting this case was presented with the facts in a manner that would portray David McOwen as a 'hacker.' (He put a virus on your computers that cracks encryption!). Needless to say, however, this did not hurt the school district in the slightest. Noone noticed for 2 years. That says something about just how transparent Distributed.net clients are.
///precedent///.
Okay, so maybe the penalty is a little steep
Yeah, maybe. Even if you assume they bought 200 computers for 1500$ each, he was using a full T1's worth of bandwith and that the computers in qestion are all now broken beyond repair, the fine alone still outweighs the cost to purchase completely new computers. This is without mention of the prison term. Regardless of whether or not he's sentenced to that term - or even convicted - the danger here is the precedent that this sets.
You didn't ask your employer's permission to use your employer's computer for non-work-related activities.
Nor did you, I suspect, when you posted to Slashdot last week Thursday, Tuesday, and Monday. We all use our work computers for non-work-related activities. We all don't goto prison for it.
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The danger is in the
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While it may be a bit more difficult to do on a distro like Slackware, it's certainly possible.
/most/ shared libraries in Linux use the .so.major.minor convention. If you want to upgrade a library to a new minor version, chances are it won't hurt the applications. If you're upgrading to a new major number, you can simply save the older library. I prefer keeping older libs in /usr/lib/deprecated, then symlinking them to /usr/lib. It may sound odd, but this is what I prefer. That's the beauty about these types of distributions - Without dependencies, you can do things like this (fairly) easily.
Unlike Windows,
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Mandrake and RedHat target different markets. As much has been said by RedHat. RedHat is not concerned w/ the desktop market. They want to keep their desktop users happy - but they're not going to go out of their way to attract the masses.
RedHat wants the server market. Low-end to mid-end right now, but perhaps the high-end as well in the future. Their decision w/ RedHat DB illustrates that point.
Mandrake on the other hand is widely considered the best choice for the desktop. They have other offerings too (Mandrake Firewall, etc) but their main market remains the desktop.
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Yes, you are correct. A Victim does not, nor have they ever had, any special rights, whatsoever. They do not have the right to justice. They do not have the right to vengence. They are simply promised that the Government will do what it reasonably can do in the pursuit of justice. This is the way it should be. The U.S. fancies itself to be a human rights supporter, while all the while violating international treaties to which the U.S. is a signee. Countless examples come to mind - The Death Penalty, Prisoners being systematically raped by guards, documented in many prisons in many states across the country, prisoners being deprived of light, prisoners being deprived of at least 1 hour outside of solitary confinement per day, and the list goes on. These are all rights granted to criminals by international treaty (The Geneva conventions and otherwise). They are basic human rights that every person deserves. And I'll tell you what - I'd be /MUCH/ more inclined to see a thousand criminals go free to protect one innocent man from prison (Or even death).
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Firstly, All Your Data Already Belongs To Someone With Root. That is, unless you only distribute data on physical media.
But it's a legitimate concern. Hell, I wouldn't feel comfortable with it either. So I would refer you to TCFS.
TCFS is a cryptographic network file system featuring group sharing of encrypted files. TCFS will encrypt your files before sending them to the file server
and will decrypt them before they are read by the requesting application. Because the encryption/decryption process takes place on the client host, no
clean data will travel the network. This is particularly valid for the encryption key.
TCFS does it's thang at the kernel level. This is certainly convenient, but not necessarily practical. If that is the case, there's a userland counterpart to TCFS called CFS that does basically the same thing.
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For those that haven't yet made Plastic a part of their day- Check the site out now.
It's a Slash-based site very similar to Slashdot, but leaning much more towards political issues. If you're a libertarian (Lower-case 'L' intentional), you'll feel right at home.
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Since 0.9, Mozilla has truly, truly shown that it will (is!) be one of the bright, shining stars of the Open Source community. There is no longer -any- doubt in my mind that it will be the best browser on any platform. The pace of advance lately has been nothing less than amazing.
My hat goes off to the developers.
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Users need not remember 12-character long strings of random digigs and characters. They just need a training course on how to pick a good password.
Pass phrases are probably the easiest remedy.
Just have your users pick a phrase from a current song that they like, and use the first letter from each word as a character in the password. Substitute numbers for certain characters, capitalize proper nouns etc. (e.g., She was a Sour Girl the day that she left me == SwaSGtdts1m)
Very easy to remember, but still pretty darn hard to crack. This way, they'll also be more forgiving about changing their password every few months. Leave Jack the Ripper running on a spare machine to audit weak passwords.
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DivX would be nice.
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When XFS was initially released, I ran some very simple, for my-purposes-only benchmarks of XFS and Reiser, using Postgres and the dbbench utility. Ran the dbbench with 100 clients connecting a few times with a fresh initdb on a Reiser partition, and with a fresh initdb on an XFS partition. Didn't save any numbers, but it was considerably faster on XFS. Run it for youself and see:) (Note: This was w/out the use of the notail option for reiser) - James
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