I did. I mentioned the 2% in my post. My point is that with more money going to the ISS and less to other kinds of space exploration, there is less overall left for space exploration.
[B]ut you can't pass up an Orwellian straight line like that.
Sadly it looks like they can. Science or the pursuit of knowlege is usually one of the first things to go in times of trouble. I am not an American, but I would hardly call the times in the U.S. "troubled". I fear that the constant downgrading of NASA is perhaps that warning sign of trouble.
There is simply too much "lack of caring" for scientific (or more specifically skeptical) thinking in North America, things like the "outlawing" of evolutionary instruction are, like the NASA "A Blueprint for New Beginnings" dangerous. Sure, the budget is 2% greater than 2001, but with the space station all the money is put towards that.
Expect to see even more "cheaper, faster" but not "better" space exploring craft in the future.
Oh I agree. (and nice post bob, that is far closer to a real post than a troll. There is hope for you yet!;)
Cowpland was the real problem with Corel, he jumped on every new technology, whether it was useful to the company or not. Netwinder, Java, Linux etc. (Netwinder is actually a good thing, but they sold it off, I guess they had little choice.)
It would be nice to see Corel enter the Linux market for reasons other than PR or stock price. Unfortunaly to few people in the higher ranks in Corel understand what Linux is about.
No doubt someone is going to harp on the fact that Corel is "back" in the Linux business now that Microsoft is getting out of Corel. I agree with Taco on this, it's probably just spin.
The Linux community at large was never overly pleased with Corel, as they acted generally cluless about the community-generated OS. I don't want to discourage Corel or anyone from their pursuit of Linux products, but I would say that Corel is currently on very shakey ground - In both the Linux world and the financial world.
Nvidia could be dethroned, but I am afraid its not very likely. I am a Matrox User myself (G400 Max, Dual Head) and yes, the 2D is great, but I am a Gamer/*Nix user, and I am kind of left with a dichotomy. I don't much like ATI, primarily because of their driver situation (and past experience). Matrox I like because of their open drivers and dual-head. Nvidia makes wicked fast cards, but you are tied to closed drivers (which I really dislike.)
I am really left in the lurch like this. I don't want to buy a GeForce 3 when it comes out, not because it won't be any good, but because I doubt that the drivers will be open. I am one of the people that believes in voting with my dollars. Whenever there is a Linux game that also has a windows version, I always buy the Linux version. I bought Matrox because Nvidia did a 180 on their "open drivers" situation.
What worries me (and Carmack it seems) is the lack of competiton. The only viable competition to nVidia right now is ATI. I really like Matrox as a company (especially their policy on drivers and open source), and have been quite lukewarm towards nVidia due to the driver situation. (Now that they have purchased 3Dfx, maybe they will open the drivers?)
Unfortunatly, it looks like nVidia has a fast product cycle, they release a new card every 6 months. I fear that in a year there will only be one graphics card company. Sure, Matrox and ATI will still be around in the OEM market, but the 3D world will belong to nVidia. That is not good for Linux users, and worse for BSD users.
Here is hoping someone else has something hiding in the wings.
I actually have a few systems set aside for the following at home:
Open BSD 2.7, FreeBSD, and perhaps NetBSD if I have the time (Then again, I might make it a Solaris box).
I am unfamiliar with BSD, hence why I wish to try it, what are softdeps? The term reminds me of "symlink" for some reason (as in the way a symlink appears on the inode table).
This will destroy intelectual property as we know it! It will destroy innovation in the movie industry! We have to keep movies closed so no one can see them... I err...
Well some people try to use that argument for software...
Seriously though, you *KNOW* the MPAA is going to be coming down hard on them.
Hacking Exposed is actually one of the next ones on my list, along with the FreeBSD Handbook
Hacking Exposed is nothing short of AWESOME. I do suggest that you pick up the second edition though, which came out a little while back. (Unfortunatly for me, it came out 2 months after I got the first edition...)
As for the Free BSD handbook, is that the red hardcover one about BSD 4.4? I have heard good things about it.
Of course, you are more advanced than I am - I've NEVER built a firewall.
I would hardly consider myself more advanced than you. The funny thing is that firewalls are far easier to build than you might imagine. Understanding them is the hard part, it sounds like you are well on your way towards that!
If you have any questions on them you can always mail me (despam my hotmail address) or check out our (very small and humble) message board off of our tiny LUG solug.org.
I had not checked out half.com before, it looks good, but unfortunatly with the exchange rate between the U.S. Dollar and the Canadian one I rarely shop online. I get a large proportion of my computer books from: Halfpricecomputerbooks.com but this is because it is a Canadian company, and I can drive to the store (6Hrs away...). (Heh, I have spent at least $2000.00 CDN there!) Due to the value of your dollar it should be of benifit for you to check it out too, although the prices at Half.com look better I must admit.
I will add your two books to my "get list"... Just what I need... I was at the grocery store today and they had one of those "discount computer book bins"...
Java In a Nutshell (O'Reilly) $9.99
LPI Linux Professional Institute Certification $19.99 (I already have it at $75.00 but I can give this to a friend who needs a copy)
Apache Server Commentary $19.99
Learning Debian/GNU Linux (O'Reilly) $19.99
(Ok, I did not need this last one, but hey, it was an O'Reilly and it was cheap!)
This book habit is bad. (I suppose it's better than drugs...) I can already hear some of the more recent books of fiction I bought calling me...
Why is your code so special that it would be wrong to turn it into a commodity?
We don't make the database software, rather we make the clients that access the data. The clients run on Windows. The database is not our code, we licence it from another company, we would love an open format database if we could use one, but for reasons of backwards compatiblity we cannot do so at this time. (It it is something we are looking into.)
What I mean about not all software being free and open is that if we opened the code we would make less money. Would it be a better product? Probably, (depending on how many people looked at the code, which would not be all that many IMO).
John Carmack Open Source's his code after some time of keeping it closed, he has to release it in a closed format to make money - id Software does not make money on support. (Actually, support on games is usually a loss, not a profit situation.)If everyone were honest, and Quake 3 was fully Open-Source, Carmack and Co. would make money. As it is, Quake 3 must contain a registration code to prevent piracy.
Our main business is selling our software solution, yes we sell support, but we make *FAR* more money on sales. (Indeed, up until we implemented a new system, we were loosing money on support.) As I said Microsoft is not a bad solution - Our stuff runs on NT/2000 and we prefer that our client run on 2000, after all thats what all the programmers use while developing.
It comes down to the fact that Linux is a better solution for us in the server department, because we make more money, and our clients pay less. Technically, Novell is faster and just as stable in this environment (actually, we have been using Novell for longer, and in some situations it is more stable due to coding of the database engine on different platforms.) But Novell is the most expensive solution of the three, and the performance gain (10,000 random requests yields 81 seconds on a Linux server and 78 seconds on Novell) is not enough of at time difference to justify the cost difference. (A similar Novell solution IIRC, costs $3000.00, we have not sold a Novell server in the last 2 years.)
As you said:
As all software source code IS a tool, what is wrong with tools being usable to all?
I think it would be great if our client program was open-sourced. I also think that I would be unemployed too. This is why I think some things can be open-sourced by their nature, and some can't.
Despite Linux's success in some markets, Allchin says he isn't concerned about sales competition from the product. Microsoft provides support to change and develop products based on its operating system software that Linux companies don't, he said. Companies that use Linux in their products then must pay someone else for support, he said.
"We can build a better product than Linux," he said. "There is always something enamoring about thinking you can get something for free."
I work for a software company. No, our code is not open, not everything should be. However, we run database servers, and they will work on Linux, Novell, or NT. What server is selling most often?
Linux.
Why? First, we charge for Linux on the servers (because the GPL allows for that) We charge $600.00 for the software install, this is LESS than the cost of Novell or NT/2000. If you want us to install NT or Novell, we will do it, but at a cost above the licence fee.
Second, the Linux servers are very stable (server won't run on BSD yet), and it costs us nothing to install OpenSSH for, you guessed it, REMOTE SUPPORT.
Linux is easier for us to support as a server, it is more reliable, it costs the customer less, and makes our business MORE profit. So if he believes that "We can build a better product than Linux" Go ahead. I will use anything that works, and benifits our business and our customers the most. Right now that solution for a server is clearly Linux. Still, I strongly doubt that MS can beat the price and power of free.
I apologise for the formatting of this post. The lameness filter would not allow me to post it in its original format.
The Complete FreeBSD I have this, but to be honest have not read much of it, been reading Bruce Schneier's Secrets & Lies (An easy read actually, quite entertaining). I have heard that The Complete FreeBSD is the definitive reference however. I am just having trouble pulling myself away from my System V roots (Solaris) and moving to BSD.
Firewalls, and Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls How is this as a book? I have heard good and bad things about it. I have OpenBSD 2.7 and plan to make a firewall out of it, but then again I can build a firewall out of Red Hat 6.2 and ipchains in about 30 Min, so I am lazy and I stick with what I know. (And that BSD initd thing gets in the way too.:)
I should give you a good link to some books. I am amassing every book that is in this list. Each and every book on that list is excellent.
When I go to someone's house, I look at their bookshelves. You can learn a lot about a person by looking at their collection.
Absolutely! (I am often disturbed by people who lack literature in their homes!) It's funny that you mention that in the way you do. I keep all my computer books (an entire shelf of them) on top of my computer desk. I do this for 3 reasons:
1) The books are really easy to get to.
2) I have quite a few monitors on my desk, if I remove the shelf, the desk falls over from the weight!
3) I can show off the spines of my 30 O'Reilly books.:) (Pure ego!)
As for future generations having an appreciation for books? They will, but it will diminish. No one seems to have an affinity for stone tablets or papyrus scrolls anymore apart from archaeologists. As soon as calculators appeared en masse the frequency of slide rules and abacuses (abaci?) in the general population began to decrease. We may not like it, but I doubt that there is much we can do. (Or as the trees might say SHOULD do to prevent it.)
I can remember when the ushering in of the computer era (early 80's) would eliminate the use of paper everywhere. Nope, did not happen. Paper use went UP. So much for the paperless office.
Will paper books dissapear? Yes, but not for quite some time. Our current generation grew up with paper books. We like the smell and feel of them. My copy of The Lord of the Rings has pages falling out of it, and I would not have it any other way. The technology may be there, but the consumer desire to use something other than the dead tree version other than for the "nifty" factor is not.
Something about the way material is distributed will have to change for this to happen. What do I predict? Napster. Napster for books. MP3's were around before Napster, but Napster is a major influcence on the proliferation of MP3 devices. When books are more easially distributed, E-books will take off. Yes, you can get them now, I read Moby Dick on my Palm Pilot, or rather, I STARTED to read Moby Dick on my Palm Pilot, then I went out and bought the book because it was annoying on my Palm. I like my Palm for occasional reading, I read A book of Five Rings and Sun Tzu's Art of War on my palm, but I read those in brief stints. True, this new technology is *NOT* a palm pilot - its better, but I have a bias, and I will stick with what I know, as I suspect will most people until they are given an incentive to switch.
I really like this direct marketing thing. I failed in life as a salesperson, but I belive everyone loves my ideas so they will buy my crappy ideas if I send this stuff out in volume. Come on, send me the cash. I am broke because I invested in all these pyramid schemes that I thought would work, and that penis enlargement? It did not help. Hell when I signed up for those XXX sites all they gave me was a link to goats.cx. Come on buy my crap and help out a poor spammer!
Heh, I have a reason now that X 4 has support for dual head for my G400 Max!:)
(Was sick of only having that in Windows, yes yes there is the pay-for solution but I wanted something else:)
Is it just me, or is this kind of look-at-my-new-shiny toy what most of the effort in the open source community seems to be going for?
No, its not a toy. Windows has Anti-Aliased fonts, X does not. I use Word Perfect 8 Under Windows and Linux, and I hate to admit that it looks awful under Linux. This is not the fault of Corel, it is the fault of X. X does not do Anti-Aliased fonts. The lettering in X has "Jaggies" you may be familar with how much 3Dfx was going on and on about their FSAA Technology, its a similar idea. Anti-Aliased fonts are simply easier to read.
Under X, even though people try to make the skins pretty, the actual UI is anything but clean. Can't we work on cleaning things up, and making the UI more reliable instead of making pretty shiny toys?
I almost suspect you are an old-style troll, but maybe this is a genuine comment. Perhaps you should try the latest versions of KDE (quite clean IMO) cleaner than the Windows interface at any rate. I myself admit that when in Linux and X I use one of the "wizbang" interfaces on my desktop, but here is the kicker, I prefer it to the Windows desktop. (For those who care, I use Gnome and E with the Blueheart Theme over 9 Virtual Desktops) What it comes down to is choice. If you don't like the wizbang "features" of some of the desktops, don't use them. I have seen KDE and FWMV95 so configured as to be identical to Windows, and by default, KDE looks much like Windows, so if you don't like the interface, head over to themes.org and pick a really "boring" one. Remember, Linux is not for everyone, nor should it be, but it is, first and foremost about choice.
Yeah! And when the virus hits your system it waits for a few days, then hits you with an EULA that you have to agree to or it formats your system.
On this EULA will be the stipulation that you agree to pay me (Mr. Flibble) $20.00 for the continued use of my virus and its "protection" of your hard drive and information.
It's a good thing that there is no prior art for viruses because that would eat into my cash flow.
Don't worry though, I plan to publish this wonderful program for all operating systems, I would open source it too you know, but I don't want to damage my revenue stream.
Besides, it will be there to "protect" your system right? We all know that security by obscurity is the best security!
Soon to be slashdotted.
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Quake on IPv6
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I have seen websites slashdotted before, that's nothing new.
But quake servers?
I have a feeling that these servers will be highly populated for the next two days. I also have a strange feeling that there will be people on these servers with names like:
goatse.cx,Nat_p0rtman,H0t_Gritz! etc.
I also futher propose that these fellows will troll the servers the only way you can troll a quake server...
2CPU has what they are calling Dual 1.53GHz Athlon scores on a Tyan board. Well, there are a couple of problems with that which make me very, very unsure that these are legit. First of the Tyan 760MP board does not have overclocking features. I know, I held one in my hands at Comdex. So you think that they might add clock multiplier features in the meantime? Nope, what they had was the final revision of the board which only needs a final chipset from AMD to be complete. Second, it is very difficult to get a 1.2GHz Athlon to even 1.4GHz, much less 1.53GHz, and then you are telling me they got two to go that high? Lastly there are no details about this system at all except that it is using the Tyan board. Who knows, maybe it could be right, and I'm not saying 2CPU is making it up, but there are not enough details and not enough evidence, and there is too much logic keeping me from believing it. And for the fools that will say that I am jealous because I don't have dual scores to post here, don't even bother e-mailing me. That is ridiculous.
Pretty much says it all regarding the benchmarks we "saw".
There is often bizzare moderation in response to my.sig. Sometimes the replys take the form of "Hah! I hacked your firewall, and all I see is p0rn, and its all stuff I have seen before!"
I have seen replys like that modded up to +5 Funny and -1 Offtopic/Flamebait/Troll. I would love to see some statictics on overall moderation. (Personally, I would like to see how often people mod DOWN as opposed to up, In my 3-4 year./ history I believe I have only modded down about 5 comments.)
Maybe its time to move to Kuro5hin's format? Who knows.
FWIW, all Athlons can do SMP, but there's no boards on the market that support it, and even when this one makes it to market, it'll probably cost a mint and require a special case/PS.
I agree on the power supply, Athlons have a big draw, and duals will be worse of course. I disagree on the cost. Remember the BP6 from Abit? It was a big sucess because it took cheaper chips (Celerons) and created SMP systems at at price that was reasonable.
Here we have Athlons, offering a far better price/performance ratio than anything Intel has to offer. If Abit comes out with a board in the BP6 price range, I bet its more popular than the BP6. Remember, the BP6 has its own website few motherboards can claim that.
I would expect to see Tyans board sell well. I also strongly suspect that Abit, on the strength of things like the BP6, and KT7 series, combining the likes of the BP6 and KT7 will be a big seller. Well, I hope so at any rate!
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I did. I mentioned the 2% in my post. My point is that with more money going to the ISS and less to other kinds of space exploration, there is less overall left for space exploration.
[B]ut you can't pass up an Orwellian straight line like that.
Sadly it looks like they can. Science or the pursuit of knowlege is usually one of the first things to go in times of trouble. I am not an American, but I would hardly call the times in the U.S. "troubled". I fear that the constant downgrading of NASA is perhaps that warning sign of trouble.
There is simply too much "lack of caring" for scientific (or more specifically skeptical) thinking in North America, things like the "outlawing" of evolutionary instruction are, like the NASA "A Blueprint for New Beginnings" dangerous. Sure, the budget is 2% greater than 2001, but with the space station all the money is put towards that.
Expect to see even more "cheaper, faster" but not "better" space exploring craft in the future.
I have a bad feeling about this.
Oh I agree. (and nice post bob, that is far closer to a real post than a troll. There is hope for you yet! ;)
Cowpland was the real problem with Corel, he jumped on every new technology, whether it was useful to the company or not. Netwinder, Java, Linux etc. (Netwinder is actually a good thing, but they sold it off, I guess they had little choice.)
It would be nice to see Corel enter the Linux market for reasons other than PR or stock price. Unfortunaly to few people in the higher ranks in Corel understand what Linux is about.
No doubt someone is going to harp on the fact that Corel is "back" in the Linux business now that Microsoft is getting out of Corel. I agree with Taco on this, it's probably just spin.
The Linux community at large was never overly pleased with Corel, as they acted generally cluless about the community-generated OS. I don't want to discourage Corel or anyone from their pursuit of Linux products, but I would say that Corel is currently on very shakey ground - In both the Linux world and the financial world.
I hope they make it work, but I doubt they can.
I agree on the "comfy" front.
Nvidia could be dethroned, but I am afraid its not very likely. I am a Matrox User myself (G400 Max, Dual Head) and yes, the 2D is great, but I am a Gamer/*Nix user, and I am kind of left with a dichotomy. I don't much like ATI, primarily because of their driver situation (and past experience). Matrox I like because of their open drivers and dual-head. Nvidia makes wicked fast cards, but you are tied to closed drivers (which I really dislike.)
I am really left in the lurch like this. I don't want to buy a GeForce 3 when it comes out, not because it won't be any good, but because I doubt that the drivers will be open. I am one of the people that believes in voting with my dollars. Whenever there is a Linux game that also has a windows version, I always buy the Linux version. I bought Matrox because Nvidia did a 180 on their "open drivers" situation.
I just wish more of us voted like this.
What worries me (and Carmack it seems) is the lack of competiton. The only viable competition to nVidia right now is ATI. I really like Matrox as a company (especially their policy on drivers and open source), and have been quite lukewarm towards nVidia due to the driver situation. (Now that they have purchased 3Dfx, maybe they will open the drivers?)
Unfortunatly, it looks like nVidia has a fast product cycle, they release a new card every 6 months. I fear that in a year there will only be one graphics card company. Sure, Matrox and ATI will still be around in the OEM market, but the 3D world will belong to nVidia. That is not good for Linux users, and worse for BSD users.
Here is hoping someone else has something hiding in the wings.
I actually have a few systems set aside for the following at home:
Open BSD 2.7, FreeBSD, and perhaps NetBSD if I have the time (Then again, I might make it a Solaris box).
I am unfamiliar with BSD, hence why I wish to try it, what are softdeps? The term reminds me of "symlink" for some reason (as in the way a symlink appears on the inode table).
Bones: "Dammit Jim, the Star Trek series is dead!"
Spock: "I believe, doctor, your observation is in error."
This will destroy intelectual property as we know it! It will destroy innovation in the movie industry! We have to keep movies closed so no one can see them... I err...
Well some people try to use that argument for software...
Seriously though, you *KNOW* the MPAA is going to be coming down hard on them.
Hacking Exposed is actually one of the next ones on my list, along with the FreeBSD Handbook
Hacking Exposed is nothing short of AWESOME. I do suggest that you pick up the second edition though, which came out a little while back. (Unfortunatly for me, it came out 2 months after I got the first edition...)
As for the Free BSD handbook, is that the red hardcover one about BSD 4.4? I have heard good things about it.
Of course, you are more advanced than I am - I've NEVER built a firewall.
I would hardly consider myself more advanced than you. The funny thing is that firewalls are far easier to build than you might imagine. Understanding them is the hard part, it sounds like you are well on your way towards that!
If you have any questions on them you can always mail me (despam my hotmail address) or check out our (very small and humble) message board off of our tiny LUG solug.org.
I had not checked out half.com before, it looks good, but unfortunatly with the exchange rate between the U.S. Dollar and the Canadian one I rarely shop online. I get a large proportion of my computer books from: Halfpricecomputerbooks.com but this is because it is a Canadian company, and I can drive to the store (6Hrs away...). (Heh, I have spent at least $2000.00 CDN there!) Due to the value of your dollar it should be of benifit for you to check it out too, although the prices at Half.com look better I must admit.
I will add your two books to my "get list"... Just what I need... I was at the grocery store today and they had one of those "discount computer book bins"...
Java In a Nutshell (O'Reilly) $9.99
LPI Linux Professional Institute Certification $19.99 (I already have it at $75.00 but I can give this to a friend who needs a copy)
Apache Server Commentary $19.99
Learning Debian/GNU Linux (O'Reilly) $19.99
(Ok, I did not need this last one, but hey, it was an O'Reilly and it was cheap!)
This book habit is bad. (I suppose it's better than drugs...) I can already hear some of the more recent books of fiction I bought calling me...
Why is your code so special that it would be wrong to turn it into a commodity?
We don't make the database software, rather we make the clients that access the data. The clients run on Windows. The database is not our code, we licence it from another company, we would love an open format database if we could use one, but for reasons of backwards compatiblity we cannot do so at this time. (It it is something we are looking into.)
What I mean about not all software being free and open is that if we opened the code we would make less money. Would it be a better product? Probably, (depending on how many people looked at the code, which would not be all that many IMO).
John Carmack Open Source's his code after some time of keeping it closed, he has to release it in a closed format to make money - id Software does not make money on support. (Actually, support on games is usually a loss, not a profit situation.)If everyone were honest, and Quake 3 was fully Open-Source, Carmack and Co. would make money. As it is, Quake 3 must contain a registration code to prevent piracy.
Our main business is selling our software solution, yes we sell support, but we make *FAR* more money on sales. (Indeed, up until we implemented a new system, we were loosing money on support.) As I said Microsoft is not a bad solution - Our stuff runs on NT/2000 and we prefer that our client run on 2000, after all thats what all the programmers use while developing.
It comes down to the fact that Linux is a better solution for us in the server department, because we make more money, and our clients pay less. Technically, Novell is faster and just as stable in this environment (actually, we have been using Novell for longer, and in some situations it is more stable due to coding of the database engine on different platforms.) But Novell is the most expensive solution of the three, and the performance gain (10,000 random requests yields 81 seconds on a Linux server and 78 seconds on Novell) is not enough of at time difference to justify the cost difference. (A similar Novell solution IIRC, costs $3000.00, we have not sold a Novell server in the last 2 years.)
As you said:
As all software source code IS a tool, what is wrong with tools being usable to all?
I think it would be great if our client program was open-sourced. I also think that I would be unemployed too. This is why I think some things can be open-sourced by their nature, and some can't.
From the article:
Despite Linux's success in some markets, Allchin says he isn't concerned about sales competition from the product. Microsoft provides support to change and develop products based on its operating system software that Linux companies don't, he said. Companies that use Linux in their products then must pay someone else for support, he said.
"We can build a better product than Linux," he said. "There is always something enamoring about thinking you can get something for free."
I work for a software company. No, our code is not open, not everything should be. However, we run database servers, and they will work on Linux, Novell, or NT. What server is selling most often?
Linux.
Why? First, we charge for Linux on the servers (because the GPL allows for that) We charge $600.00 for the software install, this is LESS than the cost of Novell or NT/2000. If you want us to install NT or Novell, we will do it, but at a cost above the licence fee.
Second, the Linux servers are very stable (server won't run on BSD yet), and it costs us nothing to install OpenSSH for, you guessed it, REMOTE SUPPORT.
Linux is easier for us to support as a server, it is more reliable, it costs the customer less, and makes our business MORE profit. So if he believes that "We can build a better product than Linux" Go ahead. I will use anything that works, and benifits our business and our customers the most. Right now that solution for a server is clearly Linux. Still, I strongly doubt that MS can beat the price and power of free.
I apologise for the formatting of this post. The lameness filter would not allow me to post it in its original format.
The Complete FreeBSD I have this, but to be honest have not read much of it, been reading Bruce Schneier's Secrets & Lies (An easy read actually, quite entertaining). I have heard that The Complete FreeBSD is the definitive reference however. I am just having trouble pulling myself away from my System V roots (Solaris) and moving to BSD.
:)
Firewalls, and Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls How is this as a book? I have heard good and bad things about it. I have OpenBSD 2.7 and plan to make a firewall out of it, but then again I can build a firewall out of Red Hat 6.2 and ipchains in about 30 Min, so I am lazy and I stick with what I know. (And that BSD initd thing gets in the way too.
I should give you a good link to some books. I am amassing every book that is in this list. Each and every book on that list is excellent.
When I go to someone's house, I look at their bookshelves. You can learn a lot about a person by looking at their collection.
:) (Pure ego!)
Absolutely! (I am often disturbed by people who lack literature in their homes!) It's funny that you mention that in the way you do. I keep all my computer books (an entire shelf of them) on top of my computer desk. I do this for 3 reasons:
1) The books are really easy to get to.
2) I have quite a few monitors on my desk, if I remove the shelf, the desk falls over from the weight!
3) I can show off the spines of my 30 O'Reilly books.
As for future generations having an appreciation for books? They will, but it will diminish. No one seems to have an affinity for stone tablets or papyrus scrolls anymore apart from archaeologists. As soon as calculators appeared en masse the frequency of slide rules and abacuses (abaci?) in the general population began to decrease. We may not like it, but I doubt that there is much we can do. (Or as the trees might say SHOULD do to prevent it.)
I can remember when the ushering in of the computer era (early 80's) would eliminate the use of paper everywhere. Nope, did not happen. Paper use went UP. So much for the paperless office.
Will paper books dissapear? Yes, but not for quite some time. Our current generation grew up with paper books. We like the smell and feel of them. My copy of The Lord of the Rings has pages falling out of it, and I would not have it any other way. The technology may be there, but the consumer desire to use something other than the dead tree version other than for the "nifty" factor is not.
Something about the way material is distributed will have to change for this to happen. What do I predict? Napster. Napster for books. MP3's were around before Napster, but Napster is a major influcence on the proliferation of MP3 devices. When books are more easially distributed, E-books will take off. Yes, you can get them now, I read Moby Dick on my Palm Pilot, or rather, I STARTED to read Moby Dick on my Palm Pilot, then I went out and bought the book because it was annoying on my Palm. I like my Palm for occasional reading, I read A book of Five Rings and Sun Tzu's Art of War on my palm, but I read those in brief stints. True, this new technology is *NOT* a palm pilot - its better, but I have a bias, and I will stick with what I know, as I suspect will most people until they are given an incentive to switch.
...and I got:
I really like this direct marketing thing. I failed in life as a salesperson, but I belive everyone loves my ideas so they will buy my crappy ideas if I send this stuff out in volume. Come on, send me the cash. I am broke because I invested in all these pyramid schemes that I thought would work, and that penis enlargement? It did not help. Hell when I signed up for those XXX sites all they gave me was a link to goats.cx. Come on buy my crap and help out a poor spammer!
Heh, I have a reason now that X 4 has support for dual head for my G400 Max! :)
:)
(Was sick of only having that in Windows, yes yes there is the pay-for solution but I wanted something else
Yeah, that was kind of my point, I am still on a older version of X myself, I have not bothered to upgrade anything because everything still works. :)
Is it just me, or is this kind of look-at-my-new-shiny toy what most of the effort in the open source community seems to be going for?
No, its not a toy. Windows has Anti-Aliased fonts, X does not. I use Word Perfect 8 Under Windows and Linux, and I hate to admit that it looks awful under Linux. This is not the fault of Corel, it is the fault of X. X does not do Anti-Aliased fonts. The lettering in X has "Jaggies" you may be familar with how much 3Dfx was going on and on about their FSAA Technology, its a similar idea. Anti-Aliased fonts are simply easier to read.
Under X, even though people try to make the skins pretty, the actual UI is anything but clean. Can't we work on cleaning things up, and making the UI more reliable instead of making pretty shiny toys?
I almost suspect you are an old-style troll, but maybe this is a genuine comment. Perhaps you should try the latest versions of KDE (quite clean IMO) cleaner than the Windows interface at any rate. I myself admit that when in Linux and X I use one of the "wizbang" interfaces on my desktop, but here is the kicker, I prefer it to the Windows desktop. (For those who care, I use Gnome and E with the Blueheart Theme over 9 Virtual Desktops) What it comes down to is choice. If you don't like the wizbang "features" of some of the desktops, don't use them. I have seen KDE and FWMV95 so configured as to be identical to Windows, and by default, KDE looks much like Windows, so if you don't like the interface, head over to themes.org and pick a really "boring" one. Remember, Linux is not for everyone, nor should it be, but it is, first and foremost about choice.
Yeah! And when the virus hits your system it waits for a few days, then hits you with an EULA that you have to agree to or it formats your system.
On this EULA will be the stipulation that you agree to pay me (Mr. Flibble) $20.00 for the continued use of my virus and its "protection" of your hard drive and information.
It's a good thing that there is no prior art for viruses because that would eat into my cash flow.
Don't worry though, I plan to publish this wonderful program for all operating systems, I would open source it too you know, but I don't want to damage my revenue stream.
Besides, it will be there to "protect" your system right? We all know that security by obscurity is the best security!
I have seen websites slashdotted before, that's nothing new.
But quake servers?
I have a feeling that these servers will be highly populated for the next two days. I also have a strange feeling that there will be people on these servers with names like:
goatse.cx,Nat_p0rtman,H0t_Gritz! etc.
I also futher propose that these fellows will troll the servers the only way you can troll a quake server...
Camping.
(I feel sorry for the regular IPv6 players...)
I found this over at amdzone I agree:
2CPU has what they are calling Dual 1.53GHz Athlon scores on a Tyan board. Well, there are a couple of problems with that which make me very, very unsure that these are legit. First of the Tyan 760MP board does not have overclocking features. I know, I held one in my hands at Comdex. So you think that they might add clock multiplier features in the meantime? Nope, what they had was the final revision of the board which only needs a final chipset from AMD to be complete. Second, it is very difficult to get a 1.2GHz Athlon to even 1.4GHz, much less 1.53GHz, and then you are telling me they got two to go that high? Lastly there are no details about this system at all except that it is using the Tyan board. Who knows, maybe it could be right, and I'm not saying 2CPU is making it up, but there are not enough details and not enough evidence, and there is too much logic keeping me from believing it. And for the fools that will say that I am jealous because I don't have dual scores to post here, don't even bother e-mailing me. That is ridiculous.
Pretty much says it all regarding the benchmarks we "saw".
There is often bizzare moderation in response to my .sig. Sometimes the replys take the form of "Hah! I hacked your firewall, and all I see is p0rn, and its all stuff I have seen before!"
./ history I believe I have only modded down about 5 comments.)
I have seen replys like that modded up to +5 Funny and -1 Offtopic/Flamebait/Troll. I would love to see some statictics on overall moderation. (Personally, I would like to see how often people mod DOWN as opposed to up, In my 3-4 year
Maybe its time to move to Kuro5hin's format? Who knows.
FWIW, all Athlons can do SMP, but there's no boards on the market that support it, and even when this one makes it to market, it'll probably cost a mint and require a special case/PS.
I agree on the power supply, Athlons have a big draw, and duals will be worse of course. I disagree on the cost. Remember the BP6 from Abit? It was a big sucess because it took cheaper chips (Celerons) and created SMP systems at at price that was reasonable.
Here we have Athlons, offering a far better price/performance ratio than anything Intel has to offer. If Abit comes out with a board in the BP6 price range, I bet its more popular than the BP6. Remember, the BP6 has its own website few motherboards can claim that.
I would expect to see Tyans board sell well. I also strongly suspect that Abit, on the strength of things like the BP6, and KT7 series, combining the likes of the BP6 and KT7 will be a big seller. Well, I hope so at any rate!
:)
I really want a dual Athlon Abit board