True, you can get caught out if you make assumptions. However if you read the docs before assuming, its easier than being totally foreign. Also, once you get the "BSD way" for a few applications, the rest of the OS is configured and operates much more consistently than the mish-mash of ways linux apps seem to do things.
Stick with it... might take a little while for the thought process behind BSD to "click" but once it does for you, linux is full of glaring inconsistencies and just feels "dirty" by comparison (for lack of a better description - BSD just "feels" clean... as much as an OS can inspire "feel"...)
I wouldn't even suggest that $1000 is excessive. To get an admin with half a clue to sift through logs and investigate a user's activities properly, the billable rate is probably a couple of hundred per hour (company charging rate, not what the admin gets).
All they are asking for is that when the infringed party reports copyright infringement, the ISP actually investigates it In all honesty, this does seem reasonable, provided they don't flood their offices with garbage reports..
Why is this any of the ISP's business? To investigate requires resources. Resources that are not free. And given that there is no legal or moral reason for the ISP to be spying on what their customers are doing without a warrant, then the film studios can kindly go and get fucked. Go get a warrant, and THEN pay the ISP for their time to investigate.
Perhaps if the media companies made better use of their funds to actually put some time and effort into producing content that was worth actually bothering to go to the cinema or pay for high def content and actually watch without feeling ripped off, people would be less inclined to download shitty low-def rips or cinema captures (complete with mr big-head in the front row).
Me? I'd feel ripped off if I bothered wasting the time and bandwidth to download 90% of the tripe coming out of hollywood these days - let alone pay for it.
you get used to the keyboard, you just need to trust the auto correct and/or realise that you can move your finger to the correct letter before you release the tap (if you miss). I agree with the screen comment though - it really is the first mobile I ever saw that was actually usable for reading email and browsing the web. I had a demo of a couple of crack-berries, and really do not want....
Same. And yes, apple do not do anything much new. However what they DO do, is take an existing technology (or multiple) and integrate them tightly into devices that "just work". My iphone is used as a GPS, mail reader, map, telephone directory, notepad, web browser and for various other small applications. And unlike my previous phones, it does all of those tasks pretty damn well.
parent is not a troll, the bullet points are accurate. gotta love the moderation system - any time anyone brings up anything in any way anti linux.... as someone who has used both (in a 2500 employee company) for a decade+... he speaks the truth.
So you've found one algorithm bug that affects some tiny number of users (in 10 years of using BSD, both in an ISP and a 13 site international company, i've never encountered or heard of it).
There are plenty of bugs in linux that don't get fixed because the patch was "not invented here".
As far as BSD being useless as a modern desktop system, apple don't seem to think so, and neither do i or plenty of other users. There's certainly less visible brain damage in it than plenty of other "modern" operating systems (including linux, imho).
ports: cd/usr/ports/[package class]/[package name] && make && make install - done. however, if there is a package available, i just use that - pkg_add -r packagename will install the package off the network, with any dependencies as well - in a single step
can't comment on 1 year old laptop support, haven't run it on a laptop for a while
not sure
sysinstall will do this
3d support on intel = x.org - works as far as i know, the driver is open source
ext3, nfs are read-write. ntfs is read fine, writing is a bit "Experimental", but AFAIK thats the case with linux too.
I'd install it and give it a shot. You're right about the "feel". I think its because the kernel and userland are put out by the same core team, with the same quality standards and policies. It feels much more like an integrated system, rather than slapped together components.
I can't wait until CLANG is the default compiler, keen to see the speed-up...
Flash problem will hopefully go away with HTML 5. 3d acceleration works fine once set up. What probs have you had with library management? Being able to build from ports to suit the version of library X you have on your sytem, rather than what the package depends on is a great strength, imho...
As above. However, i've run freebsd quite happily on a laptop before (back in the 6.0 days, even). You just need to make sure the hardware support is there. AS you do with any OS - even on Windows i'm particular with the hardware I buy as the shiniest/cheapest/best value hardware in the world is no good without stable driver support...
Dtrace, zfs, pf, jails, configuration files done the right way and a scheduler that has not crapped out under load of more than about
2-3 - for decades.
None of this is available on Linux. Yes there are half-assed work arounds to do the same thing, but they don't work as well.
A number of apple employees are FreeBSD committers. I believe a number of FreeBSD guys were hired by apple, and still work on the FreeBSD core. If you don't know about FreeBSD give it a shot. Its different from Linux, so it will take a little while to get your head around, but its good. I left linux for it after 5 years of linux. The learning curve going from Linux to BSD is nowhere near the curve as say, going from Windows to Linux. Most of the ideas are the same, they're just implemented slightly differently (and imho, in a better way - but i guess that is personal preference).
If i'm running a free unix desktop, its usually freebsd. Give it a shot if you're a linux person, and give your head a little while to get around to the unix way of doing things (rather than the bastardised linux way) and you may like it.
I used to use Linux, but found FreeBSD to be easier to configure from the command line, more consistent in its filesystem layout, more responsive under load, and generally "smoother" in terms of process scheduling. I gave up linux desktop use (for FreeBSD, and later, OS X) after having been a linux desktop user for about 5 years.
The fact that the userland tools are shared with MacOS X is a bonus.
Thats an excuse many use yes. However, I just won't buy the game. If its not worth buying for me, its not worth downloading, either (I have the bandwidth, but its just not worth my time, i have other things to do).
However, dedicated servers ARE relevant. If there is no dedicated server, the functionality of your game can be reduced or disabled at a moment's notice. I can still play Quake or UT (1, i never bothered with the others because they didn't play as well imho) multi player because no matter what ID or whoever do - i can still host.
IMHO - if you can't run a dedicated server, multiplayer shouldn't be a listed feature on the box. Maybe "[foo company] hosted online play" is a better description...
Thats what you get when dealing with leading edge multi billion dollar tech... I mean software guys can't even get an OS release out the door without some critical bug, vulnerability or policy oversight - and the LHC is a fair bit more complex than that.
AS someone who has just done this in the past 18 months, I have this to say (also, i am not a vmware employee.... but:D)...
Centralise everything in one building if possible (if they're just next door, run fibre for example) and get everything you can back to one server room that you can properly air condition, run backups for, etc. You may want to investigate terminal services, if you can't run fibre, to see if you can get as much as possible out of the field and back under control. Trying to look after remote servers on a limited budget sucks balls - the backups are painful, the physical environment often sucks (not enough AC, too much dust, remote employees who think they know how to fix stuff by just hitting the power switch, etc)
Consider virtualising with something like ESX (or if you're a masochist, hyper-v). Yes, ESX licensing is a big chunk... however you can get much of the licensing cost back due to reduced hardware costs, reduced licensing costs in some circumstances (Windows datacenter for example is licensed per CPU, so you buy for say 8 cores and can run as many copies as you like under VM on those 8 cores).
The benefits of virtualisation are massive. WE went from 25 physical servers down to 6, and I'm not done virtualising yet. All the existing hardware was old and due for both hardware and software refresh... 25x 3-4k AU for physical hardware worked out to be pretty damn close in terms of cost to 3 physical hosts, a SAN plus an ESX "acceleration pack" including virtualcenter. Benefits we got? SAN storage (instead of local disks everywhere), high availability (vmware HA, vmware FT if we need it later), roll-back to snapshot for failed upgrades, right-click cloning/deploy from template of VMs and down the track, the ability to add on VDI virtual desktops, etc.
Another benefit is that we have standard virtual hardware everywhere. Never again do we need to rebuild an OS simply due to a hardware upgrade.
With ESX, you need nowhere near as much hardware as you would for physical hosts. You can easily separate services out onto different VMs, and not pay as big a hardware cost due to ESXs ability to share memory pages between VMs running the same OS. Rather than running multiple services on one physical server, and having a run-away process kill everything on the server, you can split the task out into multiple VMs and use resource pools to ensure that any resource contention issues are taken care of.
In short, we went ESX and I'm not looking back. Having the ability to upgrade the physical hardware (adding NICs and memory) at 10am during the day with ZERO downtime to the VM services (vmotion them off the single host I am upgrading then vmotion them back to upgrade the next host) running on top of the cluster is awesome.
If we're going to compare percentages of Linux users with root, vs percentage of Windows users with admin, i'm betting that the balance will tip towards more linux users having admin on their machine than Windows.
Any half-sane corporate deployment of Windows will not have their users being local admin.
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Stick with it... might take a little while for the thought process behind BSD to "click" but once it does for you, linux is full of glaring inconsistencies and just feels "dirty" by comparison (for lack of a better description - BSD just "feels" clean... as much as an OS can inspire "feel"...)
PHP is crap anyway.
I wouldn't even suggest that $1000 is excessive. To get an admin with half a clue to sift through logs and investigate a user's activities properly, the billable rate is probably a couple of hundred per hour (company charging rate, not what the admin gets).
Why is this any of the ISP's business? To investigate requires resources. Resources that are not free. And given that there is no legal or moral reason for the ISP to be spying on what their customers are doing without a warrant, then the film studios can kindly go and get fucked. Go get a warrant, and THEN pay the ISP for their time to investigate.
Perhaps if the media companies made better use of their funds to actually put some time and effort into producing content that was worth actually bothering to go to the cinema or pay for high def content and actually watch without feeling ripped off, people would be less inclined to download shitty low-def rips or cinema captures (complete with mr big-head in the front row).
Me? I'd feel ripped off if I bothered wasting the time and bandwidth to download 90% of the tripe coming out of hollywood these days - let alone pay for it.
hard drive manufacturers have been asked to ensure that their goods are not used for copyright infringement, or exit the industry.
you get used to the keyboard, you just need to trust the auto correct and/or realise that you can move your finger to the correct letter before you release the tap (if you miss). I agree with the screen comment though - it really is the first mobile I ever saw that was actually usable for reading email and browsing the web. I had a demo of a couple of crack-berries, and really do not want....
Same. And yes, apple do not do anything much new. However what they DO do, is take an existing technology (or multiple) and integrate them tightly into devices that "just work". My iphone is used as a GPS, mail reader, map, telephone directory, notepad, web browser and for various other small applications. And unlike my previous phones, it does all of those tasks pretty damn well.
parent is not a troll, the bullet points are accurate. gotta love the moderation system - any time anyone brings up anything in any way anti linux.... as someone who has used both (in a 2500 employee company) for a decade+ ... he speaks the truth.
There are plenty of bugs in linux that don't get fixed because the patch was "not invented here".
As far as BSD being useless as a modern desktop system, apple don't seem to think so, and neither do i or plenty of other users. There's certainly less visible brain damage in it than plenty of other "modern" operating systems (including linux, imho).
I'd install it and give it a shot. You're right about the "feel". I think its because the kernel and userland are put out by the same core team, with the same quality standards and policies. It feels much more like an integrated system, rather than slapped together components.
I can't wait until CLANG is the default compiler, keen to see the speed-up...
Flash problem will hopefully go away with HTML 5. 3d acceleration works fine once set up. What probs have you had with library management? Being able to build from ports to suit the version of library X you have on your sytem, rather than what the package depends on is a great strength, imho...
wifi works with freebsd, you just need to RTFM.
As above. However, i've run freebsd quite happily on a laptop before (back in the 6.0 days, even). You just need to make sure the hardware support is there. AS you do with any OS - even on Windows i'm particular with the hardware I buy as the shiniest/cheapest/best value hardware in the world is no good without stable driver support...
None of this is available on Linux. Yes there are half-assed work arounds to do the same thing, but they don't work as well.
I ran FreeBSD 6.0 on a latitude D520 or D510 without any issues. Pretty sure power management even worked.
A number of apple employees are FreeBSD committers. I believe a number of FreeBSD guys were hired by apple, and still work on the FreeBSD core. If you don't know about FreeBSD give it a shot. Its different from Linux, so it will take a little while to get your head around, but its good. I left linux for it after 5 years of linux. The learning curve going from Linux to BSD is nowhere near the curve as say, going from Windows to Linux. Most of the ideas are the same, they're just implemented slightly differently (and imho, in a better way - but i guess that is personal preference).
I used to use Linux, but found FreeBSD to be easier to configure from the command line, more consistent in its filesystem layout, more responsive under load, and generally "smoother" in terms of process scheduling. I gave up linux desktop use (for FreeBSD, and later, OS X) after having been a linux desktop user for about 5 years.
The fact that the userland tools are shared with MacOS X is a bonus.
However, dedicated servers ARE relevant. If there is no dedicated server, the functionality of your game can be reduced or disabled at a moment's notice. I can still play Quake or UT (1, i never bothered with the others because they didn't play as well imho) multi player because no matter what ID or whoever do - i can still host.
IMHO - if you can't run a dedicated server, multiplayer shouldn't be a listed feature on the box. Maybe "[foo company] hosted online play" is a better description...
Thats what you get when dealing with leading edge multi billion dollar tech... I mean software guys can't even get an OS release out the door without some critical bug, vulnerability or policy oversight - and the LHC is a fair bit more complex than that.
Yeah, but surely 99.999% of them know how google works.
The benefits of virtualisation are massive. WE went from 25 physical servers down to 6, and I'm not done virtualising yet. All the existing hardware was old and due for both hardware and software refresh... 25x 3-4k AU for physical hardware worked out to be pretty damn close in terms of cost to 3 physical hosts, a SAN plus an ESX "acceleration pack" including virtualcenter. Benefits we got? SAN storage (instead of local disks everywhere), high availability (vmware HA, vmware FT if we need it later), roll-back to snapshot for failed upgrades, right-click cloning/deploy from template of VMs and down the track, the ability to add on VDI virtual desktops, etc.
Another benefit is that we have standard virtual hardware everywhere. Never again do we need to rebuild an OS simply due to a hardware upgrade.
With ESX, you need nowhere near as much hardware as you would for physical hosts. You can easily separate services out onto different VMs, and not pay as big a hardware cost due to ESXs ability to share memory pages between VMs running the same OS. Rather than running multiple services on one physical server, and having a run-away process kill everything on the server, you can split the task out into multiple VMs and use resource pools to ensure that any resource contention issues are taken care of.
In short, we went ESX and I'm not looking back. Having the ability to upgrade the physical hardware (adding NICs and memory) at 10am during the day with ZERO downtime to the VM services (vmotion them off the single host I am upgrading then vmotion them back to upgrade the next host) running on top of the cluster is awesome.
Your big problem will be file formats, but openoffice runs on all 3, and other data should be saved in cross-platform friendly formats.
Just save it onto a NAS box that can run NFS, and work from NFS?
I can then go to any fedora 12 desktop (say, an entire college lab), and install that package to exploit, to get root.
That is brain damage.
Any half-sane corporate deployment of Windows will not have their users being local admin.
It should destroy a 9400M