Ouch - after a quick browse I was thinking that site was satirical, until I looked up the first few author names on Amazon. Geez there really are businesses that anal - ick.
Others have mentioned winbind, but you can also use pam_krb5 and nss_ldap for single sign on stuff with AD. There's a bit of a learning curve setting it up for those that don't yet know much about Kerberos, LDAP and AD internals though.
Now throw the techie guy, the really techie guy 35 years plus, the network engineer, software gury, unix freak, he wants a simple little phone, cause he has realized that life is more than futzing around with gear when he is not at work.
Itanic is for servers; I can't see how Intel could make desktops CPUs from Itanic, I wasn't talking about itanic
It might be only for servers now, but nevertheless that was what they were originally planning for. But long delays and the fact that noone really wanted IA64 anyway meant it wouldn't happen how Intel wanted it to. And Intels hubris was responsible for not realising this in time, and having no alternatives ready apart from quickly scramblimg to implement AMD64, quickly scrambling to base a whole new architecture on Pentium M tecnologies, quickly scramblimg to implement dual cores (once the P4s fabled scalability up to 10GHz proved wishful thinking) etc.
Which is rather like going to a restaurant for a date, being served terrible food, and then being told by the waiter where to find the kitchen.
I thought that was a bad analogy. Maybe if he had've used a soup kitchen staffed by volunteers instead of a restaurant the analogy would've worked better......
So how is Ubuntu's model any better? He paints Red Hat as evil for offering both a commercial and a free version, but then expects Ubuntu to be extended in exactly the same way (or worse)! The only difference here is that Red Hat is a single shop.
And? It sounds like what you are calling "the only difference" is what is actually the whole point - especially in the context of the cross distro collaboration efforts he talks about. The contradictions are entirely in the way you chose to interpret them.
But since the GPL guarentees the same enduring freedoms for Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu and Ubuntu-derivative distributions, why should we care who encourages an effort, especially when they have everything to gain by doing so? I would think the collection of talent working on both together would have a better synergy: design, bug fixing, packaging should all be improved.
If you read the rest of the stuff about the relationship with Debian and the amount of work they're doing to develop ways in which different distros can work together you'd have your answers. No one distro can fit everyones needs, so they're working to ensure that improvements can be shared easier for everyones benefit.
Uh, if Ubuntu is so free, why is it necessary to make this distinction? Does it mean Ubuntu's leader could be associated as having the same commercial structure previously vilified in the competing distribution?
and
But this continuous bashing of Red Hat serves nothing. It is especially ironic when it comes from individuals who have to equivocate on their own position to avoid appearing the same way! These arguments are naive, poorly constructed, petty, and generally irrelevant. They only stir up trouble and are the perfect distraction from the real work at hand.
Huh? Did you even read the thing? Where is this vilification and continous bashing? It seems like you're in a reactionary paranoid delusion where every mention of your beloved RedHat is an attack on it. You're reading far too much into this stuff.
Makes sense on both counts - the US soldiers wouldn't recognise the Aussies uniforms anyway. The Aussies would be safer if the Americans couldn't see them either.
Not the last time I looked - having a properly integrated OpenSSH client and server was my biggest wish list item for SFU. Although you can download OpenSSH separately, but you miss out on cool features like Kerberos auth when used on SFU.
I'm sure if you asked Tim Berners-Lee about Web fundamentals he would tell you not to use /> as it is not semantic markup and to use paragraphs instead - like the blog in question does.
What does understanding Web fundamentals have to do with someone using excessive paragraph lengths? That's bad writing rather than bad markup.
Okay, who's the Slashcode nitwit whose filter cancels the <i> tag when a list is started?
w3.org?
I was under the impression that the HTML specs don't let you put block level elements (eg lists) inside inline elements (eg italics). Corrections welcome of course.
Maybe you should try using blockquote elements instead?
No, the GPL is good because it keeps Microsoft (and anyone in general) from bastardizing open standards. Kerberos (MIT License, similar to BSD) anyone?
Ummm Kerberos being GPL wouldn't have made one bit of difference. Even if that made sense - Kerberos is a standard protocol (RFC 1510) not a codebase therefore the GPL vs BSD debate isn't applicable.
And that standard allowed MS to do what they did with it. There was a specific part that allowed for extensions.
MITs implementation of Kerberos is MIT licensed, but MS didn't use that codebase anyway. They wrote their own implementation based on the published standards. So even if MITs implementation was GPL it wouldn't have made any difference to what MS ended up writing.
Lets take a look of a quote from the article slashdot linked to: "helping Microsoft to understand Open Source and community-based projects." Why do you think they would want to understand open source and community based projects? I can think of one good reason. I think it was many-a warrior that once said, keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.
I can think of another reason...
Maybe they want help developing their own user communities. After all MS based communities always seemed a bit lame, forced, or just plain non community like.
Maybe MS just dreams of having it's own zealot (clone?) army just like Gentoo did. I say did because they seem a lot quieter than they used to - did Ubuntu steal their thunder or something?
I like OpenBSD better in general, but Debian is a lot less work as a desktop OS and I'm lazy. OpenBSD runs my firewall/server and Debian-testing my desktop.
Sounds just like me:)
The documentation is MUCH better than any Linux I've used, which may be an edge if you're starting out.
Yeah the docs are better (ie correctness, completeness etc) but can be a bit terse and unforgiving for a newbie. Not to worry though, if you relax and take your time they will make sense and even a newbie can work their way through them.
PHP-Nuke and PHP-BB are spaghetti coded nightmares with frequent security holes, and are a total pain to extend/customise.
Drupal has a much cleaner core design with a good API and theme engines. It also has impressive metadata capabilities for organising content. And a friendly vibrant community with no big egos involved, and lots of available 3rd party modules.
The only criticism I can think of would be that out of the box it is more of a blog style community portal than a static site CMS. It can do static site type stuff, but you will need to tweak it a little.
It's also pretty fast - up there with the fastest CMS apps. I'd recommend checking it out.
Reasonable question. I hope this answer suffices: Office suites are the toolsets of 21st century inner/extra-office business. They go beyond the basic MS Word.doc (for which any.rtf editor can do 90% of the tasks) and allow the user to document and share information easily.
You reckon? Office Suites seem so 20th century to me.
I seeing a growing trend to using web based collaboration tools for all that stuff. Web based project management tools, issue trackers, wikis etc etc. It's quite liberating to be freed up from locking everything up in little 'smart' files that have to be stored, organised, versioned, lost, found, rebranded, transported etc all while accumulating extra crud in them. Building any kind of workflow into the documents themselves is just painful and seems silly. It seems so much better to separate the data from the workflow from the presentation.
Umm take the actual test this time, rather than looking at the reference image.
I tried it on the pretty much the same machine as you (just plain Server vs Adv Server though), and it was the same hideous red mess shown in the IE screenshot.
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In this day and age of super fast personal computers, what is to differentiate a server from a PC?
Most of the time: The case.
What kind of tosser has a "Complete collection of world music"?
;)
They'd probably work in an ad agency
(Being on Slashdot) this could be interpreted as if we asked him to stop sending spam and because he refused he's now in Australia.
There's got to be a penal joke in there somewhere
I was just going to suggest turning up the volume right up.
Ouch - after a quick browse I was thinking that site was satirical, until I looked up the first few author names on Amazon. Geez there really are businesses that anal - ick.
The subject says it all. Does Intel run AMD64 chips now? That'd be funny actually.
Yes. AMD64 is a name for the 64bit x86 instruction set. Of course Intel had to call it something else, but it is the same thing.
Others have mentioned winbind, but you can also use pam_krb5 and nss_ldap for single sign on stuff with AD. There's a bit of a learning curve setting it up for those that don't yet know much about Kerberos, LDAP and AD internals though.
Now throw the techie guy, the really techie guy 35 years plus, the network engineer, software gury, unix freak, he wants a simple little phone, cause he has realized that life is more than futzing around with gear when he is not at work.
;)
Nearly... I'm only 34
Itanic is for servers; I can't see how Intel could make desktops CPUs from Itanic, I wasn't talking about itanic
It might be only for servers now, but nevertheless that was what they were originally planning for. But long delays and the fact that noone really wanted IA64 anyway meant it wouldn't happen how Intel wanted it to. And Intels hubris was responsible for not realising this in time, and having no alternatives ready apart from quickly scramblimg to implement AMD64, quickly scrambling to base a whole new architecture on Pentium M tecnologies, quickly scramblimg to implement dual cores (once the P4s fabled scalability up to 10GHz proved wishful thinking) etc.
Which is rather like going to a restaurant for a date, being served terrible food, and then being told by the waiter where to find the kitchen.
I thought that was a bad analogy. Maybe if he had've used a soup kitchen staffed by volunteers instead of a restaurant the analogy would've worked better......
It wouldn't have helped his argument though.
And there I was thinking Alligator was some sort of new programming language.
And? It sounds like what you are calling "the only difference" is what is actually the whole point - especially in the context of the cross distro collaboration efforts he talks about. The contradictions are entirely in the way you chose to interpret them.
If you read the rest of the stuff about the relationship with Debian and the amount of work they're doing to develop ways in which different distros can work together you'd have your answers. No one distro can fit everyones needs, so they're working to ensure that improvements can be shared easier for everyones benefit.
and
Huh? Did you even read the thing? Where is this vilification and continous bashing? It seems like you're in a reactionary paranoid delusion where every mention of your beloved RedHat is an attack on it. You're reading far too much into this stuff.
Makes sense on both counts - the US soldiers wouldn't recognise the Aussies uniforms anyway. The Aussies would be safer if the Americans couldn't see them either.
Not the last time I looked - having a properly integrated OpenSSH client and server was my biggest wish list item for SFU. Although you can download OpenSSH separately, but you miss out on cool features like Kerberos auth when used on SFU.
I'm sure if you asked Tim Berners-Lee about Web fundamentals he would tell you not to use/> as it is not semantic markup and to use paragraphs instead - like the blog in question does.
What does understanding Web fundamentals have to do with someone using excessive paragraph lengths? That's bad writing rather than bad markup.
w3.org?
I was under the impression that the HTML specs don't let you put block level elements (eg lists) inside inline elements (eg italics). Corrections welcome of course.
Maybe you should try using blockquote elements instead?
No, the GPL is good because it keeps Microsoft (and anyone in general) from bastardizing open standards. Kerberos (MIT License, similar to BSD) anyone?
Ummm Kerberos being GPL wouldn't have made one bit of difference. Even if that made sense - Kerberos is a standard protocol (RFC 1510) not a codebase therefore the GPL vs BSD debate isn't applicable.
And that standard allowed MS to do what they did with it. There was a specific part that allowed for extensions.
MITs implementation of Kerberos is MIT licensed, but MS didn't use that codebase anyway. They wrote their own implementation based on the published standards. So even if MITs implementation was GPL it wouldn't have made any difference to what MS ended up writing.
Lets take a look of a quote from the article slashdot linked to: "helping Microsoft to understand Open Source and community-based projects." Why do you think they would want to understand open source and community based projects? I can think of one good reason. I think it was many-a warrior that once said, keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.
I can think of another reason...
Maybe they want help developing their own user communities. After all MS based communities always seemed a bit lame, forced, or just plain non community like.
Maybe MS just dreams of having it's own zealot (clone?) army just like Gentoo did. I say did because they seem a lot quieter than they used to - did Ubuntu steal their thunder or something?
I like OpenBSD better in general, but Debian is a lot less work as a desktop OS and I'm lazy. OpenBSD runs my firewall/server and Debian-testing my desktop.
:)
Sounds just like me
The documentation is MUCH better than any Linux I've used, which may be an edge if you're starting out.
Yeah the docs are better (ie correctness, completeness etc) but can be a bit terse and unforgiving for a newbie. Not to worry though, if you relax and take your time they will make sense and even a newbie can work their way through them.
Rusty Griswald?
Agreed about the Marvin in the TV series. I always imagined Marvin being smaller and looking a little like Twiki off the Buck Rogers TV series.
;)
But without the penis shaped head
The question this raises, though, is whether there are any games designed to work better on hyperthreaded/multiprocessor systems.
Falcon 4 (flight sim)
A bit long in the tooth now though.
PHP-Nuke and PHP-BB are spaghetti coded nightmares with frequent security holes, and are a total pain to extend/customise.
Drupal has a much cleaner core design with a good API and theme engines. It also has impressive metadata capabilities for organising content. And a friendly vibrant community with no big egos involved, and lots of available 3rd party modules.
The only criticism I can think of would be that out of the box it is more of a blog style community portal than a static site CMS. It can do static site type stuff, but you will need to tweak it a little.
It's also pretty fast - up there with the fastest CMS apps. I'd recommend checking it out.
Reasonable question. I hope this answer suffices: .doc (for which any .rtf editor can do 90% of the tasks) and allow the user to document and share information easily.
Office suites are the toolsets of 21st century inner/extra-office business. They go beyond the basic MS Word
You reckon? Office Suites seem so 20th century to me.
I seeing a growing trend to using web based collaboration tools for all that stuff. Web based project management tools, issue trackers, wikis etc etc. It's quite liberating to be freed up from locking everything up in little 'smart' files that have to be stored, organised, versioned, lost, found, rebranded, transported etc all while accumulating extra crud in them. Building any kind of workflow into the documents themselves is just painful and seems silly. It seems so much better to separate the data from the workflow from the presentation.
Umm take the actual test this time, rather than looking at the reference image.
I tried it on the pretty much the same machine as you (just plain Server vs Adv Server though), and it was the same hideous red mess shown in the IE screenshot.