Is Fedora 23 a "modern Linux distro"? If so, to use Wayland on a modern distro, click on the little gear under your name on the login screen and choose "Gnome on Wayland". It's so easy I've done it by accident. (Synergy still has no Wayland support, so I don't want it as my default, but GDM remembers what desktop you chose last time.) This is a "real pain in the ass"?
My current complaints are that Synergy doesn't work, which isn't really a Wayland failing at all; lack of an xrandr equivalent that I've found in a couple days of casual looking; and that I can't middle-click to paste anymore in native Wayland applications. (That last actually does still work between applications running on XWayland.) The availablility of XWayland also should mean that you can still use ssh -X from a desktop running Wayland and forward remote X applications. Still, I'm happy to see networks transparency developed for Wayland, because eventually X won't cover everything graphical I want to run from a remote VM.
Wayland already handles multiple monitors with different DPI much better than X, which is why I went ahead and tried it for a while recently. Other than the items mentioned above, the experience was barely noticeable. If I can find a replacement for xrandr to use in my screen rotation script, I'll probably switch my convertible laptop from X to Wayland by default, since I don't use it with Synergy and I do plug it in to a variety of external displays. My work laptop and desktop systems will probably stay on X until there is Wayland support in Synergy, or a Synergy replacement for Wayland. For my use, I don't even care if such a replacement supports any non-Wayland displays, since I could switch everything at once and non-Linux OSes are confined to VMs in my life.
It's supposed to increase the odds that the original card is physically present. That magnetic stripe read could have been encoded onto a used hotel key. Many brick and mortar stores actually instruct the cashier to look at the last four themselves, which would catch such things if they did. In my experience, most of them are happy to simply ask you to read it to them, which doesn't help much of anything that I can think of.
I don't use the Brother software with my MFC at all. My solution is to set up an FTP drop box on my desktop, and use the scan-to-ftp function. My MFC-9970-CDW kindly drops a nice PDF(several sub-types available)/JPEG/XPS file into the FTP drop box and I work with it from there. I haven't tried it, but it claims to have the ability to scan to Windows file shares as well, which would probably be easier to set up for Windows users. My wife doesn't even bother with scanning to her PC - she just plugs in a USB disk to the front port and has it scan to that. No big deal in her mind, since she has to walk up to it to put the paper on the scanner anyway.
For printing, of course, I just extract the PPD from the Brother driver package and feed it to Cups. Works like a charm, all printer features available.
Faxing might possibly be a reason to use the client tools, if you care about that. I haven't had an old-style land line in so long that I never had a chance to find out if the feature even works.
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If you are looking for some job, any job, this attitude may make some sense. Say, because you are unemployed or because you are truly miserable in your current position. Even with a pretty crummy employment market at the moment, this is not most people.
If you are looking for a next position, say because you have a big life change coming, want career advancement, or just plain feel like it's time for a change, this doesn't make sense at all. Spewing uncountable copies of your resume to the four winds and hoping might land you a job. If so, my guess is at some company you have no connection to, no passion for, and likely no reason but the pay check to keep going. This is not a recipe for happiness OR success in the new job.
I frankly can't imagine being willing to leave my current position for another one unless it was more than sufficiently exciting to justify customizing a resume and cover letter. Heck, the last time I did that it was for an internal transfer. Probably the next time, too. Red Hat is an excellent fit for me. Of course, I also find the whole idea of finding jobs through any form of job add rather improbable. I've literally never been hired for a job that I had seen an add for before I had talked with the hiring manager. Do people really get jobs that way in statistically significant numbers?
I routinely recover partial and entire lost files. With magnetic media: Even with multiple rewrites before deletion you are not guaranteed that the disk didn't swap out that sector before it was overwritten. SSD is a different beast...
Different indeed. With solid-state drives, wear leveling makes it reasonably likely that the sector got swapped, rather than merely impossible to be sure it didn't.
There is one other case where disk encryption on a server could be useful, though it is not widely applicable: if you have a need to be able to rapidly destroy data, say in the event of a physical security breach. Having data stored on encrypted storage devices can mean that to render the data on the drives unrecoverable only requires wiping the header region of the encrypted block device. That, in turn, means wiping at most a few KB instead of several GB, and thus the difference between many passes in mere seconds and hours for a single pass.
Having said that, this is probably primarily of significance to military, intelligence, and criminal organizations. Few others are likely to be faced with the need to destroy large volumes of data on very short notice.
(If you care about why, this is because most/all disk encryption systems use a randomly-generated master key to encrypt the data on the disk. A copy of that master key is then stored in a header, encrypted with the password or passwords known by the user. No plaintext copy of the master key exists, so to access the data you have to provide the user-known password and use it to decrypt the master key. Changing the password can then be done simply by re-encrypting the master password, rather than by re-encrypting the entire drive. If the encrypted copy of the master key is destroyed, then it doesn't matter how many people you torture to get the password, it's still useless for decrypting the data on the disk.)
2.0 is still supported in several Linux distros, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, which is still in support. If you truly need 2.0.x, Red Hat (and I assume other distro maintainers) can be expected to continue providing basic security fix updates to the 2.0 series as long as RHEL4 is still in support. I don't see much reason to expect an upstream project like Apache.org to do that.
[Yes, I work for Red Hat. But I only represent myself, not my employer nor my colleagues.]
If you're bringing a laptop, forget the transformer and just bring a plug adapter - they cost only a couple bucks, and they're small. Then charge everything else off the USB ports. Heck, I do this for my regular domestic travel, too, just without the plug adapter. Works for everything I need on my perpetual business trips except the iron and the coffee/tea equipment, and any decent hotel provides those.
As I understand, Xen is the operating system and hypervisor all rolled into one, whereas Vmware is an additional layer on top of the host os.
More or less the case with regard to Xen, as I understand it. I know on my machine, Grub boots Xen, not Linux, and then Xen boots Linux. With VMWare I think it actually varries by product. VMWare Workstation doesn't work that way, but some of their server products do.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I leave my browser running for weeks or even months at a time. On the home computer, I pretty much never close Slashdot or Userfriendly. At work, I pretty much never close isc.sans.org or our internal ticketing app. If I'm doing a lot of reading on a theme, and I usually am, then there are likely to be half a dozen tabs on that subject open. I may get interrupted and come back to them later. If the subject isn't likely to be of ongoing importance to me, but I do want to finish reading, I don't necessarily make bookmarks. Even if I did, bookmarks don't keep tab history. Closing the browser loses the history even though the same tabs will open up if I re-launch my browser. I'm almost never done with *all* the tabs I have open, so usually there's history information to lose by closing the browser. So I don't.
Now, I don't do all this in Fire-fox. I use Galeon. However, the usage pattern really isn't browser-specific, and I could see myself eventually switching to Firefox for the extra customizability, or even just the spell-check. If leaving it open for weeks isn't an option, though, then I won't ever make the switch.
Sadly, GFS 6.1 is fundamentally different in several ways, and not documented nearly so well. They're aware of it, so presumably it will be fixed before too long.
Either use 2.5.92, or grab current CVS. They fixed both calendar bugs I was aware of in CVS last week. It was quite a relief, as I was getting sick of having to switch to my Windows machine to edit my calendar.
You might also consider Unstable rather than Testing. Counter-intuitively, I've found I have fewer, shorter-lived problems that way. Another possible option is RHEL4, which actually has a tolerable desktop, and a working Exchange connector. You lose the benefits of Debian, though, and for a desktop system it's not a trade-off I personally want to make.
Apple seems to have it all figured out as far as enterprise unix is concerned.
No operating system that makes me re-boot a server for ~80% of the updates they push out is really enterprise-ready. And as of last June, they thought I was crazy to object to the practice.
No, I really can't tolerate a couple minutes of downtime on many of my servers at all. It's OK for departmental/workgroup servers as long as I'm willing to come in after hours or on the weekend for every stinking update. (I'd prefer not to.) But I work for a 24*7*365 enterprise. There are things that just can't have downtime, and Apple can't do that yet. If they keep their current attitude, they never will.
On the other hand, if XSan turns out to be any good, and they follow up with some good failover and load-balancing tools, then they would start to be a contender for my real heavy-weight important deployments.
I do think they make a nice desktop for most users, though. Even if I do tend to use my Debian machine for 99% of my work, and the Mac for about.7%. (There's a windows box, too, for Webex and accounting software.)
BUT....all these months later I have not found a different job as a Linux admin. I never see job listings asking for people who have an RHCE. What I see are job listings wanting people with 3-5 years Linux experience with [fill in the blank - Apache, sendmail, bind, etc.] These listings MIGHT say "RHCE preferred" if it even mentions a certification at all.
I've never seen an ad that mentioned any Linux cert, Red Hat or otherwise. However, given the number of interviews I had in which I was asked whether I had any certificates to go with my BA in Computer Science and hands-on experience, I'd say people are looking for them. Certs might not prove that you're competent, but they are a lot easier to verify than the list of skills on your resume. (And no, I'm not trolling for a new employer. I'm happy where I am, thanks.)
The system was based on an utterly mainstream Intel motherboard with an on-board Intel sound system. This isn't some weird, off-brand system using unknown components: It's about as mainstream as it gets.
Hmm. Lately, I've had to deal with several systems that fit that description, as well as a few with SB Audigy cards - another pretty mainstream chip. I've used three distributions, and each one just set things up without any help from me. (Well, maybe I turned the volume up from zero, I don't remember for sure.) The distros were Knoppix, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, and Debian Sarge. Making X work on an officially unsupported video card took some work, but sound just happened.
the dependency hell that is Linux as we know it today.
# apt-get install foo Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: ..... Need to get X MB/ Y MB of archives. After unpacking Z MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Gee, wasn't that hellish?
I'm still trying to figure out how on $(diety)'s green earth to conveniently install something on a n RPM-based box, but don't blame that on Linux. The problem is solved. Red Hat just hasn't caught up.
Nobody ever seemed to use it in the real world though, although it's still in the distros.
ytalk was always my collaboration tool of choice when working with other sysadmins on a system. You just can't beat the ability to intersperse shell sessions in your conversation. I don't know how it stacks up for purposes other than collaborative Unix administration and helping folks troubleshoot their *nix boxes, but it's *great* there.
I have no idea whether non-techies found it useful - there was no shell access for accounts outside the CS department after my Freshman year. The only complaints I heard were about the loss of Vax mail. Mostly from people who thought Vax was a mail client.
What you want is a "product" and not a "service". What you're asking for is for the government to provide free every product which does "good for the public". This would include, soap, laundry detergent, deoderant (heh), cars, bikes, clothes, scissors, pens, pencils, paper, toilet paper, paper clips, computers, books, magazines (aka toilet paper), etc etc (you get my point).
Apparently, your point is that you don't understand the difference between a consumable object and software. Every one of your examples is a physical object. Most of your examples are consumable, and even the ones that aren't would be of reduced or limited usability when you try to split them between people. (eg, if I'm reading the magazine right now, there are a limited number of people who can read over my shoulder, and even that isn't desirable because of the inconvenience.) Software, on the other hand, is non-subtractive. Once a piece of software is written, there is no additional cost to run it on another machine, or fifty, or five million. Any appearance to the contrary is merely a figment of the proprietary licensing model, and nothing more.
There is, of course, a small cost to making the copy - the bandwidth or CD + shipping are subtractive. Perhaps, then, government-sponsored development should charge a few buck to mail you a CD of the code.
subsidize it to limit business opprotunities to provide individuals who are looking to earn a living and profit from their work.
Right now, the software market is exceedingly inefficient in ways that favor software producers. This will change whether we like it or not, and Open Source and Free software are part of that inevitable change. In most cases, government intervention in markets should be directed towards making them more efficient, even though this reduces proffits, because more people benefit from efficient markets than benefit from inefficient ones.
Oh and by the way, most towns in the U.S. still have volunteer services where very little money is provided by the town.
Very little money? All the ones I know of use tax dollars to fund the purchase of equipment, even though the fire fighters themselves are not paid. It's often one of the larger line items at town meeting.
And if one call gets through to you once every six months, are you really going to be enraged enough to file a complaint?
For the first call, I politely ask them if they are aware that Indiana has a do-not-call list, and then inform them that my phone number is on that list. If there were ever a second call, I would complain. Hasn't happened yet.
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Is Fedora 23 a "modern Linux distro"? If so, to use Wayland on a modern distro, click on the little gear under your name on the login screen and choose "Gnome on Wayland". It's so easy I've done it by accident. (Synergy still has no Wayland support, so I don't want it as my default, but GDM remembers what desktop you chose last time.) This is a "real pain in the ass"?
My current complaints are that Synergy doesn't work, which isn't really a Wayland failing at all; lack of an xrandr equivalent that I've found in a couple days of casual looking; and that I can't middle-click to paste anymore in native Wayland applications. (That last actually does still work between applications running on XWayland.) The availablility of XWayland also should mean that you can still use ssh -X from a desktop running Wayland and forward remote X applications. Still, I'm happy to see networks transparency developed for Wayland, because eventually X won't cover everything graphical I want to run from a remote VM.
Wayland already handles multiple monitors with different DPI much better than X, which is why I went ahead and tried it for a while recently. Other than the items mentioned above, the experience was barely noticeable. If I can find a replacement for xrandr to use in my screen rotation script, I'll probably switch my convertible laptop from X to Wayland by default, since I don't use it with Synergy and I do plug it in to a variety of external displays. My work laptop and desktop systems will probably stay on X until there is Wayland support in Synergy, or a Synergy replacement for Wayland. For my use, I don't even care if such a replacement supports any non-Wayland displays, since I could switch everything at once and non-Linux OSes are confined to VMs in my life.
It's supposed to increase the odds that the original card is physically present. That magnetic stripe read could have been encoded onto a used hotel key. Many brick and mortar stores actually instruct the cashier to look at the last four themselves, which would catch such things if they did. In my experience, most of them are happy to simply ask you to read it to them, which doesn't help much of anything that I can think of.
I don't use the Brother software with my MFC at all. My solution is to set up an FTP drop box on my desktop, and use the scan-to-ftp function. My MFC-9970-CDW kindly drops a nice PDF(several sub-types available)/JPEG/XPS file into the FTP drop box and I work with it from there. I haven't tried it, but it claims to have the ability to scan to Windows file shares as well, which would probably be easier to set up for Windows users. My wife doesn't even bother with scanning to her PC - she just plugs in a USB disk to the front port and has it scan to that. No big deal in her mind, since she has to walk up to it to put the paper on the scanner anyway.
For printing, of course, I just extract the PPD from the Brother driver package and feed it to Cups. Works like a charm, all printer features available.
Faxing might possibly be a reason to use the client tools, if you care about that. I haven't had an old-style land line in so long that I never had a chance to find out if the feature even works.
If you are looking for some job, any job, this attitude may make some sense. Say, because you are unemployed or because you are truly miserable in your current position. Even with a pretty crummy employment market at the moment, this is not most people.
If you are looking for a next position, say because you have a big life change coming, want career advancement, or just plain feel like it's time for a change, this doesn't make sense at all. Spewing uncountable copies of your resume to the four winds and hoping might land you a job. If so, my guess is at some company you have no connection to, no passion for, and likely no reason but the pay check to keep going. This is not a recipe for happiness OR success in the new job.
I frankly can't imagine being willing to leave my current position for another one unless it was more than sufficiently exciting to justify customizing a resume and cover letter. Heck, the last time I did that it was for an internal transfer. Probably the next time, too. Red Hat is an excellent fit for me. Of course, I also find the whole idea of finding jobs through any form of job add rather improbable. I've literally never been hired for a job that I had seen an add for before I had talked with the hiring manager. Do people really get jobs that way in statistically significant numbers?
I routinely recover partial and entire lost files. With magnetic media: Even with multiple rewrites before deletion you are not guaranteed that the disk didn't swap out that sector before it was overwritten. SSD is a different beast...
Different indeed. With solid-state drives, wear leveling makes it reasonably likely that the sector got swapped, rather than merely impossible to be sure it didn't.
There is one other case where disk encryption on a server could be useful, though it is not widely applicable: if you have a need to be able to rapidly destroy data, say in the event of a physical security breach. Having data stored on encrypted storage devices can mean that to render the data on the drives unrecoverable only requires wiping the header region of the encrypted block device. That, in turn, means wiping at most a few KB instead of several GB, and thus the difference between many passes in mere seconds and hours for a single pass.
Having said that, this is probably primarily of significance to military, intelligence, and criminal organizations. Few others are likely to be faced with the need to destroy large volumes of data on very short notice.
(If you care about why, this is because most/all disk encryption systems use a randomly-generated master key to encrypt the data on the disk. A copy of that master key is then stored in a header, encrypted with the password or passwords known by the user. No plaintext copy of the master key exists, so to access the data you have to provide the user-known password and use it to decrypt the master key. Changing the password can then be done simply by re-encrypting the master password, rather than by re-encrypting the entire drive. If the encrypted copy of the master key is destroyed, then it doesn't matter how many people you torture to get the password, it's still useless for decrypting the data on the disk.)
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Does that count as moving in the right direction? I'm hardly going to claim these guys are perfect, but it looks like something.
Looks like PHP 5.3.1, plus some patches ;)
2.0 is still supported in several Linux distros, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, which is still in support. If you truly need 2.0.x, Red Hat (and I assume other distro maintainers) can be expected to continue providing basic security fix updates to the 2.0 series as long as RHEL4 is still in support. I don't see much reason to expect an upstream project like Apache.org to do that.
[Yes, I work for Red Hat. But I only represent myself, not my employer nor my colleagues.]
If you're bringing a laptop, forget the transformer and just bring a plug adapter - they cost only a couple bucks, and they're small. Then charge everything else off the USB ports. Heck, I do this for my regular domestic travel, too, just without the plug adapter. Works for everything I need on my perpetual business trips except the iron and the coffee/tea equipment, and any decent hotel provides those.
More or less the case with regard to Xen, as I understand it. I know on my machine, Grub boots Xen, not Linux, and then Xen boots Linux. With VMWare I think it actually varries by product. VMWare Workstation doesn't work that way, but some of their server products do.
Indeed, this very danger is the reason for constitutional democracy. Sometimes, you have to be able to say no, even to a majority.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I leave my browser running for weeks or even months at a time. On the home computer, I pretty much never close Slashdot or Userfriendly. At work, I pretty much never close isc.sans.org or our internal ticketing app. If I'm doing a lot of reading on a theme, and I usually am, then there are likely to be half a dozen tabs on that subject open. I may get interrupted and come back to them later. If the subject isn't likely to be of ongoing importance to me, but I do want to finish reading, I don't necessarily make bookmarks. Even if I did, bookmarks don't keep tab history. Closing the browser loses the history even though the same tabs will open up if I re-launch my browser. I'm almost never done with *all* the tabs I have open, so usually there's history information to lose by closing the browser. So I don't.
Now, I don't do all this in Fire-fox. I use Galeon. However, the usage pattern really isn't browser-specific, and I could see myself eventually switching to Firefox for the extra customizability, or even just the spell-check. If leaving it open for weeks isn't an option, though, then I won't ever make the switch.
Red Hat GFS 6.0
Sadly, GFS 6.1 is fundamentally different in several ways, and not documented nearly so well. They're aware of it, so presumably it will be fixed before too long.
Either use 2.5.92, or grab current CVS. They fixed both calendar bugs I was aware of in CVS last week. It was quite a relief, as I was getting sick of having to switch to my Windows machine to edit my calendar.
You might also consider Unstable rather than Testing. Counter-intuitively, I've found I have fewer, shorter-lived problems that way. Another possible option is RHEL4, which actually has a tolerable desktop, and a working Exchange connector. You lose the benefits of Debian, though, and for a desktop system it's not a trade-off I personally want to make.
Old? *shrug* so's NeXT^WOS X
Not Linux? Something new might be interesting.
Not free? I pay for Linux when it suits me.
Not Free? I might use it when I'm getting paid to, but not on my own time.
The only one I know of is Geotrust. That said, it's *really* nice. Experiencing it as a client there makes me want to impliment it for my own sites.
No operating system that makes me re-boot a server for ~80% of the updates they push out is really enterprise-ready. And as of last June, they thought I was crazy to object to the practice.
No, I really can't tolerate a couple minutes of downtime on many of my servers at all. It's OK for departmental/workgroup servers as long as I'm willing to come in after hours or on the weekend for every stinking update. (I'd prefer not to.) But I work for a 24*7*365 enterprise. There are things that just can't have downtime, and Apple can't do that yet. If they keep their current attitude, they never will.
On the other hand, if XSan turns out to be any good, and they follow up with some good failover and load-balancing tools, then they would start to be a contender for my real heavy-weight important deployments.
I do think they make a nice desktop for most users, though. Even if I do tend to use my Debian machine for 99% of my work, and the Mac for about
I've never seen an ad that mentioned any Linux cert, Red Hat or otherwise. However, given the number of interviews I had in which I was asked whether I had any certificates to go with my BA in Computer Science and hands-on experience, I'd say people are looking for them. Certs might not prove that you're competent, but they are a lot easier to verify than the list of skills on your resume. (And no, I'm not trolling for a new employer. I'm happy where I am, thanks.)
Hmm. Lately, I've had to deal with several systems that fit that description, as well as a few with SB Audigy cards - another pretty mainstream chip. I've used three distributions, and each one just set things up without any help from me. (Well, maybe I turned the volume up from zero, I don't remember for sure.) The distros were Knoppix, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, and Debian Sarge. Making X work on an officially unsupported video card took some work, but sound just happened.
ytalk was always my collaboration tool of choice when working with other sysadmins on a system. You just can't beat the ability to intersperse shell sessions in your conversation. I don't know how it stacks up for purposes other than collaborative Unix administration and helping folks troubleshoot their *nix boxes, but it's *great* there.
I have no idea whether non-techies found it useful - there was no shell access for accounts outside the CS department after my Freshman year. The only complaints I heard were about the loss of Vax mail. Mostly from people who thought Vax was a mail client.
Apparently, your point is that you don't understand the difference between a consumable object and software. Every one of your examples is a physical object. Most of your examples are consumable, and even the ones that aren't would be of reduced or limited usability when you try to split them between people. (eg, if I'm reading the magazine right now, there are a limited number of people who can read over my shoulder, and even that isn't desirable because of the inconvenience.) Software, on the other hand, is non-subtractive. Once a piece of software is written, there is no additional cost to run it on another machine, or fifty, or five million. Any appearance to the contrary is merely a figment of the proprietary licensing model, and nothing more.
There is, of course, a small cost to making the copy - the bandwidth or CD + shipping are subtractive. Perhaps, then, government-sponsored development should charge a few buck to mail you a CD of the code.
subsidize it to limit business opprotunities to provide individuals who are looking to earn a living and profit from their work.
Right now, the software market is exceedingly inefficient in ways that favor software producers. This will change whether we like it or not, and Open Source and Free software are part of that inevitable change. In most cases, government intervention in markets should be directed towards making them more efficient, even though this reduces proffits, because more people benefit from efficient markets than benefit from inefficient ones.
Very little money? All the ones I know of use tax dollars to fund the purchase of equipment, even though the fire fighters themselves are not paid. It's often one of the larger line items at town meeting.
For the first call, I politely ask them if they are aware that Indiana has a do-not-call list, and then inform them that my phone number is on that list. If there were ever a second call, I would complain. Hasn't happened yet.