How is the server going to know about the users if they don't exist? Or does your existing setup just automatically create a mailbox whenever someone connects to your mail server?
qmail-ldap can do this. You have to provide a valid username/passwd, but after that you can have qmail-ldap automatically create mail directory and other info on the fly when the user first connections.
qmail can also be used with mysql and NIS, among others. I don't know how exchange handles users profiles, but creating users by hand is a pain. With qmail, you can write a script to automate most of this for you, just give user/pass and have it prograte into the ldap, MySQL, NIS db and don't have to worry about it.
Why couldn't you use that "Active Directory" or whatever Microsoft calls it (ie. that ldap thing that Microsoft "extended") to make it smooth like butter?
Exchange is a system for transporting mail. Sendmail is just as adept at forwarding macro virus infected emails
I don't know about Exchange, but qmail has methods of killing virii before they start, at the server level. There is some sendmail add-ons also avaiable.
Exchange should also have some prevention methods, but I really don't know, never used it.
Off an Axil 245 (Think generic Sparc Station 20) with 96 Megs ram and Solaris 7 we are able to pull 1000 users both smtp and pop3 (both provided though qmail).
Off a pent 75 48 megs ram running Red Hat Linux 5.2 (this was awhile ago) could handle 5 users. But these 5 users where all signed up to roughly 200 mailing lists. On a busy day it would pull in roughly 8,000 incoming messages about roughly 40 outgoing messages. This was provided by Sendmail and qpopper.
(When ever we would start learning new software we would sign up to the mailing list. Plus the generic "linux newbie" lists and security lists. Plus any security lists for the OS's we where running. and spam.
We would sign up, and "forget" to unsubscribe. Why the hell did we care? procmail sorted them into their neat little containers in case we needed them and we didn't see them clutter are in box. For the lists we where intrested in though, we used though alot.)
Then again this was not "enterpise" level, it was at a company, but it was something we did in our free time to learn more about our jobs. The hard drive died on the Pent75 and didn't really have another hard drive to exchange, since it wasn't offical company bussiness. (the server was built from spare parts)
One of these days when I get a fast connection at home (dsl, cable), I am going to setup a 386 with 8 megs of ram and see how many emails I can force into the thing before it explodes. Going to subscribe to the qmail, mysql and ldap lists about 5 times a peice, that should be a good start:)
Can Someone tell me why a search engine needs 60+ employees? I could understand with yahoo or something. But Scour could have been done with 5 good programmers and spare time.
Yea that is a really good idea, I could see it now:
"Hey, what is the deal with this trash can it won't accept any more trash"
"I don't know, lets have a look here, hrm yes, it appears to be full, to it's max capacitcy. Since it is complete full, anything attempted to be placed inside just rolls off the top, that would explain why that used coffee filter just rolled onto the floor"
"Yea, that is a logically explaination of why there is a 2 foot ring of coffee grounds baked into the carpet around this trash can."
"I think it is defective."
"Why So?"
"I had one of these at my last job, a trash can that is. I would fill it with stuff during the day and when I would come back the next day it was COMPLETELY empty and that white liner thing was replaced with a new or assumed to be new one"
"Yes, I remember at my prevoius job, at night I always ponder when I left that the trash was full but in the morning it was emptied. This trash can has been full for 2 weeks, it is obviously broken."
"Oh I also should note, I think there is a problem with the phone system. The phones just keeps RINGING AND RINGING and doesn't stop!"
"Yea, this place sucks, this guy claiming to be some magical "bill collector" keep coming up to me with this yellow peice of paper trying to talk to me. I got confused and huddled into a little ball on the floor, it scared me. This place is creepy"
AHEM. For the slashdotters that do not know, the "free" country of the United States has a couple facts you should be aware of; The United States has more regulations and laws than any other goverment or soceity!
Our free and decomcratic United States is more regulated and more controlled than "non-free" countries that are under communists or dictatorship control!
There is SO MANY fscking laws in the United States. Why so many laws?
Because with that many laws, EVERYONE is atleast guility of breaking one of those millions of laws. So if EVERYONE has committed the crime, the law enforcement agency can "pick and choice" who to arrest and not to arrest.
HAHA, it basically comes down to this; with so many laws, the law is FREE to arrest who ever they choice, for any reason they choice (for example because of their skin color, their income, just the way they look, because they don't like cops, because they work for a "hacker" magazine). Who ever they choice for whatever reason, there is atleast 1 law in this millions that they have broken. With this 1 law they have broke, they use this "it's the law" crap to fend off any acusations of "witch hunting".
Same soceity as we where before, but better method of weeding people that do not conform to our soceities "values"
Name one person that has NEVER and WILL NEVER break even 1 of the laws in the United states. I bet your broke 2-3 laws just coming to work this morning. We in the United States are NOT free, we just have the precepation that we have freedom.
We just think we have freedom, the same way a dog sits his head out a car window.
Um so instead of people just talking on cell phones when they are driving, we can introduce a way to enter a bunch of crypt numbers into their keypads while trying not to kill someone.
Let's just put a unix terminal in their cars, have the command line in a forgein launage, with an mis configured key board and see if we can raise the death toll a little more.
Better let, lets require them to do complex math and logic problems while trying to keep the car above 55 mphs.
Seriously, how "Jacked-In" do we really need to be? This is cool and all, but between my cell phone, pager, mp3 player, cd changer and 6 lanes of packed traffic in heavey rain doing 65 MPH trying no to spill hot coffee on my croch, my conceration is starting to wander of off "Don't hit that guy dressed in dark clothes on the ten speed riding in the middle of the fscking high way". Seriously is this some type of experiment to see how much stress an person can take before snapping and crashing their car causing a 20 car pile up?
There are mounting rails you can buy for the drive. I think dalco.com has them. They are used for computer in high impact industry, where computer have to be installed on a floor where large chunks for metal and droping to the floor (think steal factory). Get some of those for the inside of the case.
Then goto your audio center of choice and see if one of the car audio guru's can mount it for maxium shocks resitances.
that would rule. Pull up in your drive and it pulls down 50 new mp3. Drive to work the next day and it uploads the 50 new mp3 to your workstation.
:)
What you could do, if you find a way to prefect the wireless ethernet is this, it won't be hard
The drive in your car is an NFS/SMB share. Every 60 seconds it tries to ping a "known" client.
If the ping comes back postive, it runs an ssh connection to the client where it executes a "sync" script (basically find and compare).
Then the client gets the info from the "sync" script and upload/download the new mp3's on/off the NFS/SMB server in your car.
After the server gets a good ping, it drops it pinging-rate down to every 25 minutes. Once it gets a non-ping, it goes back into active mode; pinging every 60 seconds till it finds something.
Everything could be done it perl, since it be easy to write and be able to run on both unix and win32 systems. The only problem would be 1. getting the wireless ethernet working correctly. 2. finding a way to securly and remotely execute the script on a win32 client (this probably can be done easily, but not famlair with it).
How far is the range of wireless ethernet? Also one's company might not like unknown devices in the truck of people's cars "jumping on" their ethernet segerment and send/receiving a bunch of unfamlair data.
Also the other thing I just thought of, is don't test things shut down when you shut your car off?
Maybe Rob got a call from the network admin with a polite message saying "stop slashdoting me and we will give you a free unit"
I think Rob could use the "slash dot effect" as a form of legal blackmale
"Ok listen Sony; PS2; I know you got em, hand one over by sundown or I am linking to your 24 slot memory card at dusk. On a friday morning. And the only other stories that will be posted will be from Katz"
Say you have a decent track to work, say 2 hours round trip and work 5 days a week (I know this isn't exact!!:)
(2 * 5) / 800 = 80 days without hearing the same song twice.
Or roughly 2-3 months without ever hearing the same song twice. If you listen to each song say 2 times, you can go roughly a half a year without "reloading"
On disk, you can roughly fit 16000 songs, say each cd has an average of 10 songs per disk, that is 1600 CDs!
Say you "reload" ever six months with new cds, that is 3200 CD per year. Roughly each CD costs $15 a peice, that is $48,000 per year to keep this thing "fresh"
$48,000 + $300 (for unit) + $300 for 80 gig hard drive = $48,600 or (rounding up) $50,000 per year just on MUSIC!! This does not firgure in the cost of the car stero system, spearks, wiring, etc... (this also assumes one doesn't have access to company or college T1 line and napster)
Roughly this thing costs $137 dollars per day to maintain, or $6 per hour! This does not even account for the price need to maintain the car it is installed in (gas, battery, oil, etc..)
Say the average worker makes $12 per hour working at a factory, this would require 12 hour work days 7 days a week, just to pay for this! Not to menation food, rent or other funcation required to just live.
In closing, I would like to state that this device is nothing more then progranda being pushed on the masses to converted them into factory slavery. The elites vaule the "golden age" of the industrial revoulation and are willing to use this device to manuplate the general public into work camps. Mind control at it's finest gentlemen.
Yea, I remember reading in a couple books (Upgrading and repairing) PC, that 7-8 years ago they had problems with regular hard drives in office computers being effected by heat/cold. They turned off the heater/air at night and in the morning the hard drive would be acting up.
It has to do with the drive platers expanding or contracting when hot or cold. Most drive can take a fair amount of temperature abuse. But it makes you wonder when you live in a place that gets high 98 in the summer and 5-6 below in the winter, over time that doesn't sound good.
Also the other problem I could see with this, is that today's hard drives are great, but hitting a big old pot hole at 80 mph can't be good for the drive. Maybe there is some "shock" brackets you could mount it in?
I am not trying to throw hay on what appears to be flamebait, but I would like to see them redo the test with a couple other OS that are in the same "weight class" as Windows 2000
Solaris
HP-UX
AIX
Linux
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
IRIX
I think Windows 98 SE should be put into this "weight class"
If you say take lines 120-200 from say the Linux kernel and use it in your program, your program must fall under the GPL license or you are in voliation.
But, you can use link against GPL libaries, as long as you don't have any of the main code inside them. Check out LGPL for more info.
Correct me if I am wrong, but a college is a educational organization, right? They are in the bussiness of educating the people that pay a good (dam good) price to attend. These people pay out of ass for a decent education, they pay alot, so that they may learn alot in a short period of time.
GPL software would help colleges, atleast the CS students attending these colleges better educate themselves about their subject of interest.
College are not, or atleast should not be, in the bussiness of the "bottom line" mentality of the corperate world.
People pay really HIGH PRICES to attended college, they are their to learn. They are not their to make the college money. If the college is lacking on money they should raise the fee's required to attend the college.
CS students are their to learn like everyone else, their is no need for the colleges to exploit them, stress them and jade them before they even get into the real world.
If you right a book as an ungrad, is that the school's right to market that book? If you write a term paper, does the school have the right to sell that to the local newspaper for cash?
Just because you can make huge amounts of money exploiting geeks, doesn't mean that you always should.
If the colleges are having troubles paying their billings, they should raise tution. If the colleges are fine money wise their is no reason for them to be so greedy. They are in the bussiness of teaching, not making money.
As you can tell from my grammer and spelling, I never attended college. When I do finally get a chance to go to college I will have to pay a high price for it. When I am there, I am there to learn, not make money for the college. If the college wants me to make money from them, they have put in a job offer like everyone else.
I 'HIT THE MONKEY' and bash that little poop thrower hard, right in the jaw. And where is my $20, this is a fscking rip off. I am going to beat the hell out of that dam monkey next time I see that little SOB. I got a nice metal 32 bat waiting for him, COME ON SHOW YOUR FACE YOUR MONKEY COWARD, I WILL WACK YOU GOOD!!!
Dam monkey. Can't sleep or will miss monkey. Can't sleep or will miss monkey. Can't sleep or will miss monkey.
Then they throw me in this tree and I dig at the tree for an hour and there is no MONKEY CASH, THERE IS NO MONEY.
you can't make money off the monkey. Dam monkey. Can't sleep or will miss monkey. Can't sleep or will miss monkey. Can't sleep or will miss monkey.
So what is stoping them from block one canidate under the terms of "bad" and letting another pass as "good". Seriously, if these guys where hard up for Y canidate, allow his site and block all the others.
A simple, but effective way, the media could "force" their view on to the American public.
I wish I could get a good example for this. Oh wait, TV.
The words I used is "good start", I didn't say one would become a guru system admin or even a decent system admin, but reading books and learning about the system is the best way IMHO to start.
Try something. Pick a unix command, ANY unix command and key it into your console. What did you type ls or pwd? it doesn't matter what you typed. Where did you GET this commands from?
Your memory. A admin requires fast thinking, I don't deny that. But they must also remember what does what, why and when to do it.
Once your remember a good chunck of commands and what they do, THEN and only then, after you have remember them can you use your fast thinking and logical problem sloving to use those commands in a productive manner.
It requires both.
Knowledge is food for the brain and it never did anyone harm. The more knowledge you have about a certain subject is a "good start"
Of course, stuff like god, noclip, and give just won't work; those are Quake specific.
Quake -> Unix command conversion:
god -> su
noclip -> chmod 755 directory_name (directory must be executable or it will clip you)
give -> elm -s "NEED MONEY FOR UPGRADE" ceo@company.com
Slashdot Mirror
Your such a jerk! A guy goes and has a baby and you slashdot his web server! Nice going, I hope your happy.
Would it be possiable to write browser plugs in Java?
Shockwave releases "java flash", you install the
I don't know if this would work or not. Probably not.
How is the server going to know about the users if they don't exist? Or does your existing setup just automatically create a mailbox whenever someone connects to your mail server?
qmail-ldap can do this. You have to provide a valid username/passwd, but after that you can have qmail-ldap automatically create mail directory and other info on the fly when the user first connections.
qmail can also be used with mysql and NIS, among others. I don't know how exchange handles users profiles, but creating users by hand is a pain. With qmail, you can write a script to automate most of this for you, just give user/pass and have it prograte into the ldap, MySQL, NIS db and don't have to worry about it.
Why couldn't you use that "Active Directory" or whatever Microsoft calls it (ie. that ldap thing that Microsoft "extended") to make it smooth like butter?
Exchange is a system for transporting mail. Sendmail is just as adept at forwarding macro virus infected emails
I don't know about Exchange, but qmail has methods of killing virii before they start, at the server level. There is some sendmail add-ons also avaiable.
Exchange should also have some prevention methods, but I really don't know, never used it.
Off an Axil 245 (Think generic Sparc Station 20) with 96 Megs ram and Solaris 7 we are able to pull 1000 users both smtp and pop3 (both provided though qmail).
Off a pent 75 48 megs ram running Red Hat Linux 5.2 (this was awhile ago) could handle 5 users. But these 5 users where all signed up to roughly 200 mailing lists. On a busy day it would pull in roughly 8,000 incoming messages about roughly 40 outgoing messages. This was provided by Sendmail and qpopper.
(When ever we would start learning new software we would sign up to the mailing list. Plus the generic "linux newbie" lists and security lists. Plus any security lists for the OS's we where running. and spam.
We would sign up, and "forget" to unsubscribe. Why the hell did we care? procmail sorted them into their neat little containers in case we needed them and we didn't see them clutter are in box. For the lists we where intrested in though, we used though alot.)
Then again this was not "enterpise" level, it was at a company, but it was something we did in our free time to learn more about our jobs. The hard drive died on the Pent75 and didn't really have another hard drive to exchange, since it wasn't offical company bussiness. (the server was built from spare parts)
One of these days when I get a fast connection at home (dsl, cable), I am going to setup a 386 with 8 megs of ram and see how many emails I can force into the thing before it explodes. Going to subscribe to the qmail, mysql and ldap lists about 5 times a peice, that should be a good start
Can Someone tell me why a search engine needs 60+ employees? I could understand with yahoo or something. But Scour could have been done with 5 good programmers and spare time.
Yea that is a really good idea, I could see it now:
"Hey, what is the deal with this trash can it won't accept any more trash"
"I don't know, lets have a look here, hrm yes, it appears to be full, to it's max capacitcy. Since it is complete full, anything attempted to be placed inside just rolls off the top, that would explain why that used coffee filter just rolled onto the floor"
"Yea, that is a logically explaination of why there is a 2 foot ring of coffee grounds baked into the carpet around this trash can."
"I think it is defective."
"Why So?"
"I had one of these at my last job, a trash can that is. I would fill it with stuff during the day and when I would come back the next day it was COMPLETELY empty and that white liner thing was replaced with a new or assumed to be new one"
"Yes, I remember at my prevoius job, at night I always ponder when I left that the trash was full but in the morning it was emptied. This trash can has been full for 2 weeks, it is obviously broken."
"Oh I also should note, I think there is a problem with the phone system. The phones just keeps RINGING AND RINGING and doesn't stop!"
"Yea, this place sucks, this guy claiming to be some magical "bill collector" keep coming up to me with this yellow peice of paper trying to talk to me. I got confused and huddled into a little ball on the floor, it scared me. This place is creepy"
AHEM. For the slashdotters that do not know, the "free" country of the United States has a couple facts you should be aware of; The United States has more regulations and laws than any other goverment or soceity!
Our free and decomcratic United States is more regulated and more controlled than "non-free" countries that are under communists or dictatorship control!
There is SO MANY fscking laws in the United States. Why so many laws?
Because with that many laws, EVERYONE is atleast guility of breaking one of those millions of laws. So if EVERYONE has committed the crime, the law enforcement agency can "pick and choice" who to arrest and not to arrest.
HAHA, it basically comes down to this; with so many laws, the law is FREE to arrest who ever they choice, for any reason they choice (for example because of their skin color, their income, just the way they look, because they don't like cops, because they work for a "hacker" magazine). Who ever they choice for whatever reason, there is atleast 1 law in this millions that they have broken. With this 1 law they have broke, they use this "it's the law" crap to fend off any acusations of "witch hunting".
Same soceity as we where before, but better method of weeding people that do not conform to our soceities "values"
Name one person that has NEVER and WILL NEVER break even 1 of the laws in the United states. I bet your broke 2-3 laws just coming to work this morning. We in the United States are NOT free, we just have the precepation that we have freedom.
We just think we have freedom, the same way a dog sits his head out a car window.
Can you prove it does NOT cause constipation in monkeys?
You sir do not provide a reference claiming his view false and you are very rude towards him, therefore I say you are the troll my freind.
Please back your claim and post a reference to either this a) causing the runs in monkeys b) causing normal digestive funcations in monkeys.
Do you even know what a monkey is?
FINALLY prove that there CAN be 31337 AOL users
Yea, but you are really going to confuse a Linux user that hasn't heard the news yet.
"Yea I run LINE-NU-X"
"Cool what distro you run"
"AOL 6.0, IT IS EASIER THEN EVER"
"Uh, I don't understand, you run that buggy AIM client on it? Have you tried GAIM? Why are you shouting?"
"NO AOL LINE-NU-X 6.0!"
"Um what kernel? what proc?"
"AOL KERNEL 6.0! PROCESSER IS GATEWAY!"
"Are you sure? Do you see a bunch of clouds when you boot up?"
"WHEN I TURN ON THE MACHINE I SEE A HAPPY PENGUIN HUGGING THE AOL LOGO!!!"
"Why are you shouting, what the hell are you talking about?"
"I AM TALKING ABOUT LINE-NU-X 6.0 NO WONDER IT IS NUMBER ONE IT IS SO EASY TO USE!!!"
"Did Fred in programming down the hall set you up to this? How much did he pay you?"
"WHAT ?!?!?! FRED DOESN'T DIAL UP TO LINE-NU-X 6.0 INTERNET SERVICE!"
Um so instead of people just talking on cell phones when they are driving, we can introduce a way to enter a bunch of crypt numbers into their keypads while trying not to kill someone.
Let's just put a unix terminal in their cars, have the command line in a forgein launage, with an mis configured key board and see if we can raise the death toll a little more.
Better let, lets require them to do complex math and logic problems while trying to keep the car above 55 mphs.
Seriously, how "Jacked-In" do we really need to be? This is cool and all, but between my cell phone, pager, mp3 player, cd changer and 6 lanes of packed traffic in heavey rain doing 65 MPH trying no to spill hot coffee on my croch, my conceration is starting to wander of off "Don't hit that guy dressed in dark clothes on the ten speed riding in the middle of the fscking high way". Seriously is this some type of experiment to see how much stress an person can take before snapping and crashing their car causing a 20 car pile up?
There are mounting rails you can buy for the drive. I think dalco.com has them. They are used for computer in high impact industry, where computer have to be installed on a floor where large chunks for metal and droping to the floor (think steal factory). Get some of those for the inside of the case.
Then goto your audio center of choice and see if one of the car audio guru's can mount it for maxium shocks resitances.
This doesn't really prove that MS supports Linux. Was the source on an MS server?
I think maybe it was just a "helpful" tech support person (I know an oxymoron) or a Linux geek traped in a MS job to pay the bills.
You might want to call again and see if you get the same results from a differant tech.
Create a macro to automatically preform a "rocket jump" or other some what difficult moves in FPS.
Put something like strafing left->right-left while facing forward unleashing a ungodly amount of machine gun fire
I haven't played Unreal Tournament, but things like this in Quake3 or SOF would rock!
that would rule. Pull up in your drive and it pulls down 50 new mp3. Drive to work the next day and it uploads the 50 new mp3 to your workstation.
:)
What you could do, if you find a way to prefect the wireless ethernet is this, it won't be hard
The drive in your car is an NFS/SMB share. Every 60 seconds it tries to ping a "known" client.
If the ping comes back postive, it runs an ssh connection to the client where it executes a "sync" script (basically find and compare).
Then the client gets the info from the "sync" script and upload/download the new mp3's on/off the NFS/SMB server in your car.
After the server gets a good ping, it drops it pinging-rate down to every 25 minutes. Once it gets a non-ping, it goes back into active mode; pinging every 60 seconds till it finds something.
Everything could be done it perl, since it be easy to write and be able to run on both unix and win32 systems. The only problem would be 1. getting the wireless ethernet working correctly. 2. finding a way to securly and remotely execute the script on a win32 client (this probably can be done easily, but not famlair with it).
How far is the range of wireless ethernet? Also one's company might not like unknown devices in the truck of people's cars "jumping on" their ethernet segerment and send/receiving a bunch of unfamlair data.
Also the other thing I just thought of, is don't test things shut down when you shut your car off?
Um yea, the story is gone.
Maybe Rob got a call from the network admin with a polite message saying "stop slashdoting me and we will give you a free unit"
I think Rob could use the "slash dot effect" as a form of legal blackmale
"Ok listen Sony; PS2; I know you got em, hand one over by sundown or I am linking to your 24 slot memory card at dusk. On a friday morning. And the only other stories that will be posted will be from Katz"
(this is not exact), but
Say the typically mp3 is 5 megs and is 3 minutes of sound.
(((80000 megs / 5 megs) * 3 minutes) / 60 minutes) = 800 hours of none stop music.
Say you have a decent track to work, say 2 hours round trip and work 5 days a week (I know this isn't exact!!
(2 * 5) / 800 = 80 days without hearing the same song twice.
Or roughly 2-3 months without ever hearing the same song twice. If you listen to each song say 2 times, you can go roughly a half a year without "reloading"
On disk, you can roughly fit 16000 songs, say each cd has an average of 10 songs per disk, that is 1600 CDs!
Say you "reload" ever six months with new cds, that is 3200 CD per year. Roughly each CD costs $15 a peice, that is $48,000 per year to keep this thing "fresh"
$48,000 + $300 (for unit) + $300 for 80 gig hard drive = $48,600 or (rounding up) $50,000 per year just on MUSIC!! This does not firgure in the cost of the car stero system, spearks, wiring, etc... (this also assumes one doesn't have access to company or college T1 line and napster)
Roughly this thing costs $137 dollars per day to maintain, or $6 per hour! This does not even account for the price need to maintain the car it is installed in (gas, battery, oil, etc..)
Say the average worker makes $12 per hour working at a factory, this would require 12 hour work days 7 days a week, just to pay for this! Not to menation food, rent or other funcation required to just live.
In closing, I would like to state that this device is nothing more then progranda being pushed on the masses to converted them into factory slavery. The elites vaule the "golden age" of the industrial revoulation and are willing to use this device to manuplate the general public into work camps. Mind control at it's finest gentlemen.
Yea, I remember reading in a couple books (Upgrading and repairing) PC, that 7-8 years ago they had problems with regular hard drives in office computers being effected by heat/cold. They turned off the heater/air at night and in the morning the hard drive would be acting up.
It has to do with the drive platers expanding or contracting when hot or cold. Most drive can take a fair amount of temperature abuse. But it makes you wonder when you live in a place that gets high 98 in the summer and 5-6 below in the winter, over time that doesn't sound good.
Also the other problem I could see with this, is that today's hard drives are great, but hitting a big old pot hole at 80 mph can't be good for the drive. Maybe there is some "shock" brackets you could mount it in?
Whoa.
I am not trying to throw hay on what appears to be flamebait, but I would like to see them redo the test with a couple other OS that are in the same "weight class" as Windows 2000
Solaris
HP-UX
AIX
Linux
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
IRIX
I think Windows 98 SE should be put into this "weight class"
BeOS
MacOS
Yes!
If you say take lines 120-200 from say the Linux kernel and use it in your program, your program must fall under the GPL license or you are in voliation.
But, you can use link against GPL libaries, as long as you don't have any of the main code inside them. Check out LGPL for more info.
Correct me if I am wrong, but a college is a educational organization, right? They are in the bussiness of educating the people that pay a good (dam good) price to attend. These people pay out of ass for a decent education, they pay alot, so that they may learn alot in a short period of time.
GPL software would help colleges, atleast the CS students attending these colleges better educate themselves about their subject of interest.
College are not, or atleast should not be, in the bussiness of the "bottom line" mentality of the corperate world.
People pay really HIGH PRICES to attended college, they are their to learn. They are not their to make the college money. If the college is lacking on money they should raise the fee's required to attend the college.
CS students are their to learn like everyone else, their is no need for the colleges to exploit them, stress them and jade them before they even get into the real world.
If you right a book as an ungrad, is that the school's right to market that book? If you write a term paper, does the school have the right to sell that to the local newspaper for cash?
Just because you can make huge amounts of money exploiting geeks, doesn't mean that you always should.
If the colleges are having troubles paying their billings, they should raise tution. If the colleges are fine money wise their is no reason for them to be so greedy. They are in the bussiness of teaching, not making money.
As you can tell from my grammer and spelling, I never attended college. When I do finally get a chance to go to college I will have to pay a high price for it. When I am there, I am there to learn, not make money for the college. If the college wants me to make money from them, they have put in a job offer like everyone else.
I 'HIT THE MONKEY' and bash that little poop thrower hard, right in the jaw. And where is my $20, this is a fscking rip off. I am going to beat the hell out of that dam monkey next time I see that little SOB. I got a nice metal 32 bat waiting for him, COME ON SHOW YOUR FACE YOUR MONKEY COWARD, I WILL WACK YOU GOOD!!!
Dam monkey. Can't sleep or will miss monkey. Can't sleep or will miss monkey. Can't sleep or will miss monkey.
Then they throw me in this tree and I dig at the tree for an hour and there is no MONKEY CASH, THERE IS NO MONEY.
you can't make money off the monkey. Dam monkey. Can't sleep or will miss monkey. Can't sleep or will miss monkey. Can't sleep or will miss monkey.
Or change the boot order from "C only" to "CDROM, A, hard drive"
So what is stoping them from block one canidate under the terms of "bad" and letting another pass as "good". Seriously, if these guys where hard up for Y canidate, allow his site and block all the others.
A simple, but effective way, the media could "force" their view on to the American public.
I wish I could get a good example for this. Oh wait, TV.
uh Oh, sorry.
I think this is a record, an non-sarcastic slashdot post!
The words I used is "good start", I didn't say one would become a guru system admin or even a decent system admin, but reading books and learning about the system is the best way IMHO to start.
Try something. Pick a unix command, ANY unix command and key it into your console. What did you type ls or pwd? it doesn't matter what you typed. Where did you GET this commands from?
Your memory. A admin requires fast thinking, I don't deny that. But they must also remember what does what, why and when to do it.
Once your remember a good chunck of commands and what they do, THEN and only then, after you have remember them can you use your fast thinking and logical problem sloving to use those commands in a productive manner.
It requires both.
Knowledge is food for the brain and it never did anyone harm. The more knowledge you have about a certain subject is a "good start"
Of course, stuff like god, noclip, and give just won't work; those are Quake specific.
Quake -> Unix command conversion:
god -> su
noclip -> chmod 755 directory_name (directory must be executable or it will clip you)
give -> elm -s "NEED MONEY FOR UPGRADE" ceo@company.com