It's because people don't want to wait for a bugfix for over 2 years. They need fast systems NOW, and when a performance bug which doesn't get fixed can be solved by buying faster hardware, that's what they do.
I don't agree. I run my own servers, not at home but in a colo some considerable distance away. I own my domains, I run my own name servers. When the ISP for my home connection blocks smtp to any but their own smtp servers, I am disconnected from my own machines.
No you're not. You can simply use smtp port 587 to submit mail to your colo. Providers should never do egress filering on port 587, only on port 25.
I think we've already reached the point where egress filtering should be the norm. Home users can and should use their ISPs smtp server for outgoing mail; mobile users can use port 587 for mail submission (which is just SMTP with required authorisation).
Here in.nl most consumer ISPs already do egress filtering. It really helps a lot.
Space travel took no evolution at all. Humans didn't adapt to space travel in order to survive, nor did their intelligence increase enabling to 'invent' space travel.
Basically you can take a baby from cavemen and raise it to be a modern human being.
That's because there's been little evolutionary pressure on mankind to evolve into something slightly different in order to have a slightly better chance of survival/reproduction.
Chances are the cavemen baby will die of disease we're now all imune to though. Also, it will likely be lactose intolerant. Lactose tolerance evolved when we were farmers, thousands of years after the cavemen.
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Yes, we all know gnome 2.0 was a marvel of engineering.
Does anybody know the aim of the hack? Starting last saturday we saw a huge surge in incoming spam, with a peak yesterday (monday) at about 25 to 30% more spam than ever before. Today we see a lot less spam, almost at normal levels (normal being around 80-90% of all mail is spam:-S )
Four racks, that's a server room. Refuse it. Servers need a radically different environment from humans. You don't want to be there. In a civilized country it's even illegal to work in such an environment without wearing at least hearing protection.
In your real office, make sure you've got a bench seperate from the desk your working at. Use the bench for repairing and installing computers, so the mess won't enter your desk.
I'm using xen 3.0.x on opensuse 10.1 and opensuse 10.2 and live migration works great. However, you can't migrate virtualized disks, so the domU's need to be diskless. We're using iSCSI.
Linux 3.x wouldn't have to be compatible with Linux 2.x (that's the criterium for upping the major version number in the Linux kernel). So, we could have all sorts of exotic incompatible stuff:)
I personally would love to see Posix as a compatibility layer in a much reworked OS with a object-relational filesystem done right. But that won't be done in the next decade or so, so I won't hold my breath;)
What if glibc contains a security hole? What's the faster, more reliable option: rebooting or manually restarting ALL processes?
On a desktop, does it really matter if your reboot or logout/login?
MSIE is first and foremost a html rendering library. Surely it's bundled with a webbrowsing frontend named msie.exe, but msie.exe is just one of many users of the library. On a major upgrade like this, how do you guarantee all applications are linked against the new version of the library? And please take into account that most of your user base are users, not admins.
Rebooting is just a sane thing to do. I've seen way too many rooted unix boxes with uptime > 2 years...
My first distro was slackware 2.0. My second was Slackware '96. I would have no problem at all installing and running any current slackware. Heck, I could install linux from scratch without Linux From Scratch. No problem at all.
It's been a niche distro for many years now. The only reason slack is mentioned on/. at all is because of its important place in Linux history.
Slack is for hobbyists. It's rarely used in production environments because where money counts, slack is almost always out of the question for being way too labour intensive.
Even in the hobby market it's filling a niche. Only a few die hard nerds like to be exposed to the inner workings of their system as slack does. Most others will just use a more automated distro and custumize the parts of the system they're really interested in.
However, slack still serves a purpose. It's about as bare a distro as can be, and as such it's nice learning material when you like to explore the innards of a linux distro.
A restart usually kills hanging processes, making the actual cause of the hang impossible to determine afterwards.
Automatic restarts make some admins lazy. Instead of debugging the problem, they accept apache/whatever service is restarted once a day.
However, making graphs and monitoring your services is a very good thing. Graphs are invaluable in determining trends, such as memory leaks or steadily increasing load. Monitoring saves lots of downtime and unhappy customers;-)
Personally I use nagios for monitoring and DIY scripts for graphing. The latter mostly because I started making graphs before decent of-the-shelf software was available;-)
Both software and hardware grow. Software grows in terms of functionality, hardware grows in terms of speed, memory size, etc. Software and hardware need to match. Don't run slackware 2.0 on your shiny new dual core athlon 64. Don't run KDE or gnome on that old 486 you found in the basement.
So Negroponte creates a low cost laptop. Good. Now he tries to fit contemporary software on it. He finds it doesn't work. Does that make the software bloated? No. The software just doesn't match the hardware.
People tend to forget how slow old hardware really was. Don't you remember visible slowness in scrolling on 8086 hardware in text mode? Don't you remember how long Wordperfect took to start up? Big&bloated Microsoft Word starts in under 2 seconds on modern hardware.
You probably don't remember. That's why modern software seems so incredibly slow on old hardware. That's just because the hardware is old.
Of course some software is bloated. Openoffice is extremely slow in comparison to Microsoft Office, while even lacking features (wether you want those features is open to another debate). KDE applicates take too long to start up (while their speed when stated up is good).
My point is: software is not bloated. Software is designed to run on contemporary software. Which in this day and age is >= 2 Ghz, >= 512 MB ram, >= 200 GB harddisk, fast GPU w/ >= 64 MB ram. That's a lot faster than the $100 laptop.
MSIE is much more than just a browser. It's a basic component of the Windows OS. So, they have to be careful not to change the API. They also try to remain compatible with existing (broken!) sites.
Firefox is no component. It's just the browser. Compatibility is no issue. They also care less about 'correct' rendering of broken sites.
Most datacenters cool the entire machine room. There's no need for that.
Make two rows of racks face each other. Place a roof on the lane between the racks and doors on either end. This is the cool lane. On the opposite sides of the racks, place no roofs. This is the warm side.
Only let cool air enter the room in the cold lanes and suck the hot air from the warm lanes. Use racks with perforated doors and use shields to completely cover unused space in the racks.
Now the cold air from the enclosed cool lane can only flow one way out: through the computers.
This will dramatically reduce the power needed for airconditioning.
Well, Ubuntu certainly is not the first user friendly distro. IMHO it's not even the most user friendly distro. Suse has far better (and easier) systems management with Yast and Mandriva has been known for its friendly interface for years. In hardware support Ununtu doesn't seem to be the top of the crop either.
It must be something else.
I think the reason for Ubuntu's popularity is Debian. Debian always has been a distro with a large userbase, but it was never aimed at anybody except nerds. Dispite that Debian was used by a large number of 'normal users'. They al seem to have converted to Ubuntu now.
Lots of ubuntu users I know are in fact ex-debian users. They're al very happy they found a polished debian distro (and rightfully so, Debian is rough round the edges).
Also, I think Debian users are traditionally quite vocal. I think it's likely this has skewed the statistics in favour of Ubuntu (and Debian). Fact is: measuring market share of linux distributions is a very hard thing to do. I don't believe any stats unless random people on the streets are polled. Polls on the internet are always skewed since the people polled are people wanting to be polled. It's a consious decision to go and vote for your favorite distro.
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It's because people don't want to wait for a bugfix for over 2 years. They need fast systems NOW, and when a performance bug which doesn't get fixed can be solved by buying faster hardware, that's what they do.
I don't agree. I run my own servers, not at home but in a colo some considerable distance away. I own my domains, I run my own name servers. When the ISP for my home connection blocks smtp to any but their own smtp servers, I am disconnected from my own machines.
No you're not. You can simply use smtp port 587 to submit mail to your colo. Providers should never do egress filering on port 587, only on port 25.
I think we've already reached the point where egress filtering should be the norm. Home users can and should use their ISPs smtp server for outgoing mail; mobile users can use port 587 for mail submission (which is just SMTP with required authorisation).
Here in .nl most consumer ISPs already do egress filtering. It really helps a lot.
Luckily this is a release of opensuse, a distribution that's got nothing to do with the novell-microsoft deal.
Space travel took no evolution at all. Humans didn't adapt to space travel in order to survive, nor did their intelligence increase enabling to 'invent' space travel.
Basically you can take a baby from cavemen and raise it to be a modern human being.
That's because there's been little evolutionary pressure on mankind to evolve into something slightly different in order to have a slightly better chance of survival/reproduction.
Chances are the cavemen baby will die of disease we're now all imune to though. Also, it will likely be lactose intolerant. Lactose tolerance evolved when we were farmers, thousands of years after the cavemen.
Yes, we all know gnome 2.0 was a marvel of engineering.
Qt has been under the GPL for over 7 years now.
Y2K was mosty (!!) a non-issue because we saw the problem coming and fixed it.
Does anybody know the aim of the hack? Starting last saturday we saw a huge surge in incoming spam, with a peak yesterday (monday) at about 25 to 30% more spam than ever before. Today we see a lot less spam, almost at normal levels (normal being around 80-90% of all mail is spam :-S )
Four racks, that's a server room. Refuse it. Servers need a radically different environment from humans. You don't want to be there. In a civilized country it's even illegal to work in such an environment without wearing at least hearing protection.
In your real office, make sure you've got a bench seperate from the desk your working at. Use the bench for repairing and installing computers, so the mess won't enter your desk.
I'm using xen 3.0.x on opensuse 10.1 and opensuse 10.2 and live migration works great. However, you can't migrate virtualized disks, so the domU's need to be diskless. We're using iSCSI.
Linux 3.x wouldn't have to be compatible with Linux 2.x (that's the criterium for upping the major version number in the Linux kernel). So, we could have all sorts of exotic incompatible stuff :)
I personally would love to see Posix as a compatibility layer in a much reworked OS with a object-relational filesystem done right. But that won't be done in the next decade or so, so I won't hold my breath ;)
What if glibc contains a security hole? What's the faster, more reliable option: rebooting or manually restarting ALL processes?
On a desktop, does it really matter if your reboot or logout/login?
MSIE is first and foremost a html rendering library. Surely it's bundled with a webbrowsing frontend named msie.exe, but msie.exe is just one of many users of the library. On a major upgrade like this, how do you guarantee all applications are linked against the new version of the library? And please take into account that most of your user base are users, not admins.
Rebooting is just a sane thing to do. I've seen way too many rooted unix boxes with uptime > 2 years...
My first distro was slackware 2.0. My second was Slackware '96. I would have no problem at all installing and running any current slackware. Heck, I could install linux from scratch without Linux From Scratch. No problem at all.
It's been a niche distro for many years now. The only reason slack is mentioned on /. at all is because of its important place in Linux history.
Slack is for hobbyists. It's rarely used in production environments because where money counts, slack is almost always out of the question for being way too labour intensive. Even in the hobby market it's filling a niche. Only a few die hard nerds like to be exposed to the inner workings of their system as slack does. Most others will just use a more automated distro and custumize the parts of the system they're really interested in.
However, slack still serves a purpose. It's about as bare a distro as can be, and as such it's nice learning material when you like to explore the innards of a linux distro.
However, making graphs and monitoring your services is a very good thing. Graphs are invaluable in determining trends, such as memory leaks or steadily increasing load. Monitoring saves lots of downtime and unhappy customers ;-)
Personally I use nagios for monitoring and DIY scripts for graphing. The latter mostly because I started making graphs before decent of-the-shelf software was available ;-)
PS. what's this subject got to do with debian?
What's the difference between an EULA and the GPL, besides an EULA being 'evil' and the GPL being 'good'?
What makes the GPL legally binding while most commenters here seem to agree an EULA is not enforcable?
I've seen them for about a day when they were first introduced, after that they are gone. What happened to them?
(and yes, I've got them enabled in my preferences)
He's wrong.
Both software and hardware grow. Software grows in terms of functionality, hardware grows in terms of speed, memory size, etc. Software and hardware need to match. Don't run slackware 2.0 on your shiny new dual core athlon 64. Don't run KDE or gnome on that old 486 you found in the basement.
So Negroponte creates a low cost laptop. Good. Now he tries to fit contemporary software on it. He finds it doesn't work. Does that make the software bloated? No. The software just doesn't match the hardware.
People tend to forget how slow old hardware really was. Don't you remember visible slowness in scrolling on 8086 hardware in text mode? Don't you remember how long Wordperfect took to start up? Big&bloated Microsoft Word starts in under 2 seconds on modern hardware.
You probably don't remember. That's why modern software seems so incredibly slow on old hardware. That's just because the hardware is old.
Of course some software is bloated. Openoffice is extremely slow in comparison to Microsoft Office, while even lacking features (wether you want those features is open to another debate). KDE applicates take too long to start up (while their speed when stated up is good).
My point is: software is not bloated. Software is designed to run on contemporary software. Which in this day and age is >= 2 Ghz, >= 512 MB ram, >= 200 GB harddisk, fast GPU w/ >= 64 MB ram. That's a lot faster than the $100 laptop.
Because .NET is the major development platform of the major operating system.
Neither perl nor python are very popular for large application development, even on unix. So there isn't much demand.
MSIE is much more than just a browser. It's a basic component of the Windows OS. So, they have to be careful not to change the API. They also try to remain compatible with existing (broken!) sites.
Firefox is no component. It's just the browser. Compatibility is no issue. They also care less about 'correct' rendering of broken sites.
Make two rows of racks face each other. Place a roof on the lane between the racks and doors on either end. This is the cool lane. On the opposite sides of the racks, place no roofs. This is the warm side.
Only let cool air enter the room in the cold lanes and suck the hot air from the warm lanes. Use racks with perforated doors and use shields to completely cover unused space in the racks.
Now the cold air from the enclosed cool lane can only flow one way out: through the computers.
This will dramatically reduce the power needed for airconditioning.
... and that's why it's better.
What do you think current toys are for? They're for learning. Childhood is entirely about learning.
Well, Ubuntu certainly is not the first user friendly distro. IMHO it's not even the most user friendly distro. Suse has far better (and easier) systems management with Yast and Mandriva has been known for its friendly interface for years. In hardware support Ununtu doesn't seem to be the top of the crop either.
It must be something else.
I think the reason for Ubuntu's popularity is Debian. Debian always has been a distro with a large userbase, but it was never aimed at anybody except nerds. Dispite that Debian was used by a large number of 'normal users'. They al seem to have converted to Ubuntu now.
Lots of ubuntu users I know are in fact ex-debian users. They're al very happy they found a polished debian distro (and rightfully so, Debian is rough round the edges).
Also, I think Debian users are traditionally quite vocal. I think it's likely this has skewed the statistics in favour of Ubuntu (and Debian). Fact is: measuring market share of linux distributions is a very hard thing to do. I don't believe any stats unless random people on the streets are polled. Polls on the internet are always skewed since the people polled are people wanting to be polled. It's a consious decision to go and vote for your favorite distro.