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Unix Turns 40
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SunOS stopped including one by default. You had to purchase it. Solaris has always been that way (IIRC) until SunStudio 11 was made available for free. HP-UX stopped with version 9.x.
Luckily, gcc was good enough by this time and you could obtain it at a reasonable price from the FSF.
Linux and the BSDs came out and started getting good enough to displace the other OSen.
I'd put email up before web. I started on the internet in 1986. There was no www, no gopher. There was email, ftp, telnet and usenet.
Only companies doing government work or colleges could connect.
FWIW, Mosaic was spun into Mosaic Communications after everyone left for Netscape. Mosaic was licensed to various companies, including Microsoft. Mosaic was the basis of Internet Explorer.
I find that statement hilarious because New Hampshire has no personal income tax - and yet their roads are kept in far better condition and their snow removal is far superior to Massachusetts. Why do you need high taxes for that, again?
I grew up in NH and moved to MA after college & I've wondered about the roads and snow. I think there are a few reasons:
Less traffic - I lived a long ways from the MA border and there is less traffic. But Southern NH is practically a suburb of MA and has just as much traffic or more.
Better budgeting/planning - my town in MA shifts budget items from various dept to the highway dept all the time. I never notices that up north.
Ownership - in NH, the town/state owns the plows and maintains roads. Poor roads damage plows so there's incentive. In MA, plowing is contracted out. The town/state has no stake in maintaining roads to not damage plows. Also, the state pays the contractors in July (Sept?) for work done as far back as December.
I think the NH plows tend to start plowing sooner then the MA trucks. There's a delay to organize the contractors and assemble them. I think the NH crews own the plowing more and might have a more personal stake in cleaning up the storm. I'm not saying they work harder - my brother in law plows for MA. I think NH might have fewer rules imposed on them by groups that are not doing the work. MA had a whole scenario of GPS tracking of drivers that never happened that would never have occured if the drivers were state employees.
I'm not sure. I've been getting the Baen books and reading them on my BlackBerry (which is a *lousy* ebook reader). I've since bought several John Scalzi books (and I've seen torrents too). I bought Charles Stross after reading an eBook. I've seen that on torrent also. I see just about every SciFi author on torrents.
I've found myself reading more in general since I've been putting eBooks on the BB (which is always with me). I'm rereading lots of stuff I already own on the BB (1984) and buying books on paper to read at home.
So I'm reading more then I did before Baen. And in any event, that's a good thing for authors.
1st, fix your firewall to disallow *all* outgoing ports.
2nd, open up the ports that are needed.
I've seen one company disallow DNS to external addresses and force everyone to use the internal web proxy.
Now, you don't care that they connect to external IM servers because you've blocked them.
Set up an internal server recommended here with internal clients pointing at it.
If you're worried about installing a client that might be able to connect externally and you haven't already blocked that possibility, you're doing it wrong.
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Watchmen Watched
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· Score: 1
Unlike most of the reviews I've read, Ebert seems to get that it's set in a certain time frame & context. It's using the superhero concepts to analyze the human condition.
I wonder if it's possible for someone that didn't live during that era to really understand what was like. How liberating the fall of the Berlin wall was. How uplifting "We Are the World" was.
In the same context, I can't imagine what it was like during the 60's when you might be drafted into Vietnam.
ksh isn't part of Linux normally. Sometime's it's pdksh and sometimes it's genuine AT&T ksh. Same with cygwin. You have to explicitly add it too.
I had to port some shell scripts from Ultrix to SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, Irix and OSF/1. ksh wasn't part of SunOS. However, we had bought a license for ksh and put it in/bin/ksh everywhere.
I needed functions and Ultrix/bin/sh didn't have them. IIRC/bin/sh5 (?) did.
Anyways, ksh had to be licensed back then. This was Linux 1.09 era. pdksh wasn't even close to being a substitute. bash was 1.x.
I never understood why so many services were running by default in the first place.
Hear, hear. With poor explanations of *why* you want that running. I never print from my home laptop. I don't want CUPS running. My wife's laptop gets spoolv.exe taking up 100% CPU all the time and she's just web browsing.
I always thought it would make more sense to provide three big buttons on setup as well as an advanced tab. Those buttons are the presets: everything off, the most popular stuff on, and everything on. The advanced tabs would let you tweak the specifics.
There's so much extraneous crap running on a typical Windows install it just blows me away. I'm less familiar with Linux and OS X but from what I've seen they are as guilty at times.
It's typically easier to find info on what those services do on a Unix box. And they're not always focused on Joe sixpack that just wants things to work.
Incidentally, this also brings up my beef about software updaters. I have no problem with them running once a week at startup, checking the net for an update and terminating. But these fuckers remain running in the background constantly like Google updater. Look, do I really care to know the second a new program is released, a new patch? Look, why can't you just tell me the next time I reboot? Or hell, just run the updater when I execute the specific program and piss off when finished.
Or one updater that *every* program can use. On Windows you have Windows Update, Java, Anti-virus, Google, Adobe, Software Manager.
Most of the posts say what's the point, I'd rather stuff it into my regular RAM.
ZFS could use something like this for the ZIL/etc if it's faster then existing drives.
Battery backup means it keeps the content. Can it flush the ram to flash when the power goes out? Then load it back into its ram when the batt. is back up. That'd be perfect! No wear on the flash + protection from power outages.
Everything has to be approved by "inspectors". They've never heard of DBAN. They have heard of some wiping app that charges a per wipe fee.
The fee is about $100/drive. You need to spend some time performing that wipe. You need a spare machine to hook it up to. DBAN, if it was approved by the "inspector" would still require time.
We have a special support contract for repairing drives that allows us to not return the failed drive.
On the other hand, a new drive is about $100. It will have higher capacity; we're limited in the number of disks we can put in a system after all. We have a disposal system for classified materials that burns & shreads already. Drives won't add to that cost.
In our environment, wiping just isn't worth it.
At home, I'll use DBAN. I don't place as high a value on my data.
Just the the perennial "disk is cheap" line from users..
A user can buy a USB 500 GB drive for $100 (20 cents/GB). But they neglect the cost of the server, backups, reliability (raid 'em), scaling (20 USB drives?).
By the time IT gets done with the storage, $1/GB is considered cheap. Some SANs are probably closer to $10/GB.
Create a file server running Solaris. Make all the data drives ZFS. zpool the disks and make zfs partitions (with maximum sizes - called zfs quotas) on the zpool. zfs quotas can grow & shrink.
Run linux/windows/etc for your applications. Use the file server for your data via NFS, Samba or iSCSI. Use gigabit ethernet (it's faster MB/sec then USB2 )
I've found it much easier to admin disks/filesystems/partitions with ZFS then with Linux LVM/raid/etc. Or NTFS.
I have > 2.5 TB available in my basement. I use it at work.
I've been through a number of layoffs. I use random passwords and keep a list of accounts & passwords. I make sure I delete/burn the list so I don't have access.
A few times I was called up about the passwords & had to say I don't have them. I wanted to help, but I didn't have them. In any event, they have physical access, they shouldn't need anything I might have.
Nicholson's Joker was along the lines of the TV Joker. A buffoon.
Ledger's Joker was like the comic - a psychopath.
Ledger nailed the Joker as he's been in the comics since the DK graphic novel.
I also kinda liked how they treated the Two Face origin. I think it may work better then the original origin and goes more towards why he might hate Batman.
This is such a shame. These events are, let's face it, some of the toughest mainstream contests in the world of sport. After the 2006 Tour, we were all hoping 2007 would clean-up its act to save face... Boy, were we wrong!
Consequently, the athletes who are genuine and clean -- and deserve kudos -- get tarred with the same brush.
I used to watch the Paris-Dakar Rally. It's also a tough contest over multiple days. If it had been around when I was in my teens, I could imagine trying to do it in my 20s. In any event, terrorist threats shut it down this year. I've heard they're trying to do it in South America next year.
I've seen at least one college bookstore go out of business due to pressure from the internet. Students started going online to buy textbooks and course materials. It was a fantastic store. It now gone & replaced by Borders (& it's smaller FWIW).
The college didn't get a dime from the store. It was privately owned.
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/usr/ucb/cc has always been included. You can't compile useful programs with it. gcc for example. Or perl 4.
My copies of Solaris 2.6, 7 and 8 do not have compilers.
Which version of Solaris are you using?
Why are ISPs dropping NNTP?
Because of alt.binaries.*
SunOS stopped including one by default. You had to purchase it. Solaris has always been that way (IIRC) until SunStudio 11 was made available for free. HP-UX stopped with version 9.x.
Luckily, gcc was good enough by this time and you could obtain it at a reasonable price from the FSF.
Linux and the BSDs came out and started getting good enough to displace the other OSen.
Think of it as a Kindle with:
Color
Openness
WiFi instead of Cell
I'd put email up before web. I started on the internet in 1986. There was no www, no gopher. There was email, ftp, telnet and usenet.
Only companies doing government work or colleges could connect.
FWIW, Mosaic was spun into Mosaic Communications after everyone left for Netscape. Mosaic was licensed to various companies, including Microsoft. Mosaic was the basis of Internet Explorer.
I grew up in NH and moved to MA after college & I've wondered about the roads and snow. I think there are a few reasons:
I think the NH plows tend to start plowing sooner then the MA trucks. There's a delay to organize the contractors and assemble them. I think the NH crews own the plowing more and might have a more personal stake in cleaning up the storm. I'm not saying they work harder - my brother in law plows for MA. I think NH might have fewer rules imposed on them by groups that are not doing the work. MA had a whole scenario of GPS tracking of drivers that never happened that would never have occured if the drivers were state employees.
I'm not sure. I've been getting the Baen books and reading them on my BlackBerry (which is a *lousy* ebook reader). I've since bought several John Scalzi books (and I've seen torrents too). I bought Charles Stross after reading an eBook. I've seen that on torrent also. I see just about every SciFi author on torrents.
I've found myself reading more in general since I've been putting eBooks on the BB (which is always with me). I'm rereading lots of stuff I already own on the BB (1984) and buying books on paper to read at home.
So I'm reading more then I did before Baen. And in any event, that's a good thing for authors.
Antivirus
Antispyware
Defragmentation utility
Remote Access (Windows Pro upgrade at a minimum)
1st, fix your firewall to disallow *all* outgoing ports.
2nd, open up the ports that are needed.
I've seen one company disallow DNS to external addresses and force everyone to use the internal web proxy.
Now, you don't care that they connect to external IM servers because you've blocked them.
Set up an internal server recommended here with internal clients pointing at it.
If you're worried about installing a client that might be able to connect externally and you haven't already blocked that possibility, you're doing it wrong.
Unlike most of the reviews I've read, Ebert seems to get that it's set in a certain time frame & context. It's using the superhero concepts to analyze the human condition.
I wonder if it's possible for someone that didn't live during that era to really understand what was like. How liberating the fall of the Berlin wall was. How uplifting "We Are the World" was.
In the same context, I can't imagine what it was like during the 60's when you might be drafted into Vietnam.
ksh isn't part of Linux normally. Sometime's it's pdksh and sometimes it's genuine AT&T ksh. Same with cygwin. You have to explicitly add it too.
I had to port some shell scripts from Ultrix to SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, Irix and OSF/1. ksh wasn't part of SunOS. However, we had bought a license for ksh and put it in /bin/ksh everywhere.
I needed functions and Ultrix /bin/sh didn't have them. IIRC /bin/sh5 (?) did.
Anyways, ksh had to be licensed back then. This was Linux 1.09 era. pdksh wasn't even close to being a substitute. bash was 1.x.
Also, sometimes /bin/sh is ash.....
I never understood why so many services were running by default in the first place.
Hear, hear. With poor explanations of *why* you want that running. I never print from my home laptop. I don't want CUPS running. My wife's laptop gets spoolv.exe taking up 100% CPU all the time and she's just web browsing.
I always thought it would make more sense to provide three big buttons on setup as well as an advanced tab. Those buttons are the presets: everything off, the most popular stuff on, and everything on. The advanced tabs would let you tweak the specifics.
There's so much extraneous crap running on a typical Windows install it just blows me away. I'm less familiar with Linux and OS X but from what I've seen they are as guilty at times.
It's typically easier to find info on what those services do on a Unix box. And they're not always focused on Joe sixpack that just wants things to work.
Incidentally, this also brings up my beef about software updaters. I have no problem with them running once a week at startup, checking the net for an update and terminating. But these fuckers remain running in the background constantly like Google updater. Look, do I really care to know the second a new program is released, a new patch? Look, why can't you just tell me the next time I reboot? Or hell, just run the updater when I execute the specific program and piss off when finished.
Or one updater that *every* program can use. On Windows you have Windows Update, Java, Anti-virus, Google, Adobe, Software Manager.
On Fedora or Ubuntu, I have one.
Hahaha! I did the same. Except I had a Syquest SCSI drive & the college had Macs. I made the floppies at home.
SLS 1.0.5 (103?) was my 1st install after BSD386 (or 386BSD?)/Jolix failed to install.
Most of the posts say what's the point, I'd rather stuff it into my regular RAM.
ZFS could use something like this for the ZIL/etc if it's faster then existing drives.
Battery backup means it keeps the content. Can it flush the ram to flash when the power goes out? Then load it back into its ram when the batt. is back up. That'd be perfect! No wear on the flash + protection from power outages.
I work in a DOD type environment.
Everything has to be approved by "inspectors". They've never heard of DBAN. They have heard of some wiping app that charges a per wipe fee.
The fee is about $100/drive. You need to spend some time performing that wipe. You need a spare machine to hook it up to. DBAN, if it was approved by the "inspector" would still require time.
We have a special support contract for repairing drives that allows us to not return the failed drive.
On the other hand, a new drive is about $100. It will have higher capacity; we're limited in the number of disks we can put in a system after all. We have a disposal system for classified materials that burns & shreads already. Drives won't add to that cost.
In our environment, wiping just isn't worth it.
At home, I'll use DBAN. I don't place as high a value on my data.
I find these supercomputer articles interesting as they touch on techniques that help science.
As a home user, what might I do with a cluster of PCs/PS3s/Cells/GPUs that might be useful?
Are there any "cluster apps" that I might want to run at home?
That was the downfall of one of my favorite strips.
Buy a domain & set up mail forwarding to your gmail account.
As others have said,gmail lets you set your outgoing email address. Set it to the mail on your domain that you forward to gmail.
You still use gmail. Email to name@yourdomain gets forwarded to anothername@gmail.com. Your replies have name@yourdomain.
Many registries let you setup your email this way so they don't have to provide space for mail and a service for pop/imap/web mail.
Just the the perennial "disk is cheap" line from users..
A user can buy a USB 500 GB drive for $100 (20 cents/GB). But they neglect the cost of the server, backups, reliability (raid 'em), scaling (20 USB drives?).
By the time IT gets done with the storage, $1/GB is considered cheap. Some SANs are probably closer to $10/GB.
Create a file server running Solaris. Make all the data drives ZFS. zpool the disks and make zfs partitions (with maximum sizes - called zfs quotas) on the zpool. zfs quotas can grow & shrink.
Run linux/windows/etc for your applications. Use the file server for your data via NFS, Samba or iSCSI. Use gigabit ethernet (it's faster MB/sec then USB2 )
I've found it much easier to admin disks/filesystems/partitions with ZFS then with Linux LVM/raid/etc. Or NTFS.
I have > 2.5 TB available in my basement. I use it at work.
I've been through a number of layoffs. I use random passwords and keep a list of accounts & passwords. I make sure I delete/burn the list so I don't have access.
A few times I was called up about the passwords & had to say I don't have them. I wanted to help, but I didn't have them. In any event, they have physical access, they shouldn't need anything I might have.
Sadly, I think the future is for athletes to undergo independent, ongoing testing. The 2 american teams in the Tour de France went through it.
I think it's as much to prove they're clean as to protect themselves from lab errors.
Nicholson's Joker was along the lines of the TV Joker. A buffoon.
Ledger's Joker was like the comic - a psychopath.
Ledger nailed the Joker as he's been in the comics since the DK graphic novel.
I also kinda liked how they treated the Two Face origin. I think it may work better then the original origin and goes more towards why he might hate Batman.
This is such a shame. These events are, let's face it, some of the toughest mainstream contests in the world of sport. After the 2006 Tour, we were all hoping 2007 would clean-up its act to save face... Boy, were we wrong!
Consequently, the athletes who are genuine and clean -- and deserve kudos -- get tarred with the same brush.
I used to watch the Paris-Dakar Rally. It's also a tough contest over multiple days. If it had been around when I was in my teens, I could imagine trying to do it in my 20s. In any event, terrorist threats shut it down this year. I've heard they're trying to do it in South America next year.
I've seen at least one college bookstore go out of business due to pressure from the internet. Students started going online to buy textbooks and course materials. It was a fantastic store. It now gone & replaced by Borders (& it's smaller FWIW).
The college didn't get a dime from the store. It was privately owned.
Otherwise, I think you're right on.