British horror film veteran Christopher Lee also lavished praise on the director.
``What Peter has done is miraculous. No director in history has made three films at the same time,'' he said.
Now the 79-year-old Lee has just one ambition -- he hopes to live long enough to see the next two films in the trilogy when they come out in 2002 and 2003.
Sqaure is responsible, more than any other factor, for my severe interest in "video games". Early on, VGs were of course interesting, but there's mention to be made for the one-two whammy of RPGs and then Squaresoft. From the Nintendo, to Super Nintendo, to Game Boy, to Playstation, to others, Square has been one of the major companies I've followed.
I purchased FFVII before I bought a playstation. I stayed up for weeks playing that game, maxing the clock past 99:99 (yes, at the last hour the seconds go up to 99). All other RPGs were rated on a scale as compared to the FF series. I have yet to purchase a PS2, GC, or Xbox, but the deadline for FFX is coming and I'm getting the shakes.
For sure, this was a relaxing read while sitting at my desk this morning. But as it went on, it became more disappointing. The idea of doing things in 3D has been bounced here and there for a while in different forms but they didn't seam as limiting (and also not as cheap) as this.
512 million bits=64MB. Not miniscule, but not huge.
WORM (write once read many). Yeah, you can use it for digital photography, but you can only use it once.
It seemed like he was skirting the heat issue, only mentioning it briefly at the end.
This initial size doesn't bother me. As it's perfected and costs go down that would grow fast enough. Being WORM media is another issue though. I understand that this is a stepping stone to dynamic media, but at the moment I can get CD-Rs for around $.50/unit that are a proven media, hold much more data, and are already widely supported. And guess what: there are CD-RW already too (he can't do that yet). The heat thing could also be/not be an issue. Perhaps since it's stacked vert it will cool better. It's certainly harder to cover all surfaces in 3D. I have this vision of a cube with a heatsink on it's five exposed sides, only to have a core meltdown.
I agree that there's a performance hit that can't be ignored when using a software de/crypt platform, but if they were to use such a filesystem then the most effecient way to do it is to store the routines in hardware.
Besides that point, even if they were to use a software de/crypt filesystem I don't believe it would be that big-o-deal. Yes, it would be slower than you're used to in your PC, but in the console world even an encrypted HD will likely outperform reading the DVD. And don't forget that most of the I/O is directed at the DVD drive, the HD only being accessed for special needs. If it's going to be used for anything large (say DivX, MP3), it will most likely be because it's been hacked. And at that point we'll just use whatever suits us:).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that the HDs in the Xbox are standard IDE drives. I've also read that people have attempted to chain the drives into their PC's IDE loop and mount them, but have been unable to because of a prop filesystem. Seeing as how the drives are 8-10 GB, what if you were to dd if=/dev/xbox of=/spare/drive bs=1024 to a spare drive >10GB (to hold the info). This way you don't damage your Xbox drive and you have a copy of it to play with. The reason?
I have worked with proprietary systems in the past that were (more or less) similar to the Xbox, in that they used standard PC hardware and theory but needed to be secure from hardware "hack" attempts. Microsoft has had the tools to do something similar for a while. Reports state the Xbox is using a W2K kernel. The most associated filesystem with W2K is NTFS. With NTFS it's possible to create an encrypted filesystem. Now, if you wanted to handle the de/crypt as fast as possible where would you put it? In hardware.
Take it a step further. Instead of adding extra de/crypt hardware to the mainboard why not consolidate a little bit more and take it straight to the I/O, that is the BIOS. Perhaps the HD is using an encrypted filesystem that is being handled directly by the BIOS. This would make some sense, since a software part could be broken all to easy. This also protects all components equally. Replace the BIOS and you can't read the HD, replace the HD but the BIOS can't read it (which has been proven).
I venture that if you were to hammer out the details of the filesystem it would provide insight into the working of the BIOS. The sour part of this is that we already know it can be done (to some extent) because we have seen shots of MAME running on Xbox hardware. Though, perhaps that was under different rules since it was an SDK kit.
I know this may be redundant, but I'm just throwing my acknowledgement in that they work for me in Konqueror (2.2.1). Granted, they do not appear on their own when I browse the boston.com site, but if I browse their "gallery of ads" (blech) they come up fine.
Aren't advertisers payed to be as effective as possible? And as part of that, shouldn't they be making strides to reach as many people as possible? So why do they state they only work in IE when they obviously work in NS and KQ as well? There could be reasons:
They do not consider != IE a large enough market
This is only an initial test of effectiveness (likely)
They haven't done their homework (also likely)
Others I can't think of (most likely)
If not for any other reason, this at least shows how different other browsers are compared to IE. Not for technical merrit, but for philosophical reasons. Microsoft and IE are perfectly fine, if not supportive, with creating channels that advertisers can take advantage of. Whereas a browser such as Konqueror has measures in place (cookie management, popup handlers) to help prevent those things from happening.
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Burning CDs, just like pretty much everything else, requires overhead. The pipe might be technically big enough to move that ammount of data but you still have to consider that error checking, device I/O, and other things have bandwidth needs as well. Similarly, your new ATA100 hard drive will never be able to move files at peak speed because of the overhead related to it.
It doesn't "suck", it's just the way it is. USB was not invented as a means specifically for CD-RWs. Notice that the U stands for Universal. Manufacturers just realized that there may be some people that would be willing to trade speed for USB's ease of use. Saying it sucks is like bitching that you can't burn at 24X over COM1. A comparative list of speeds can be found here if you're interested.
Back on topic: This is where the iPod has everthing else out there beat hands down. Even this new Treo has some nice features but it's still USB. But does it really matter? Yes, when you first load it it'll be a pain in the arse, but after you've cleared that hurdle I don't believe you'll be sitting for hours waiting to update it. A CD with ~12 songs encoded at 128k takes up ~40M. USB tops out at 1.5MB/s. Including the afformentioned overhead, you're still only looking at 1 minute per CD. Why is it we all act like we're so important that we can't wait that long?
Agreed, it is sexy that the iPod can move files like lightning, but how long do you think it will be untill someone wises up and makes a firewire MP3 player for PCs?
I've got access through Comcast@Home here in Richmond, VA. We're still up but I keep the green lights in the corner of my eye.
Mail, News, and DNS servers are all still active on their original IPs. We have not received any official email from Comcast concerning the status of their network. They're either solid with their own network and backbone, or they're just waiting to die. Either way, I wish we would get informed.
It plays.vob files? Does that include encrypted files? I've searched the company site and it doesn't mention anything about being able to DeCSS.vob files. And I can't imagine having much fun with only unencrypted.vobs.
Wouldn't it be niftier to pack some hard drives into an actual DVD player and stick an ethernet port in the back? You could have all the features of this box plus the ability to rip straight from DVD. Course the MPAA wouldn't let it see the light of day.
The size of our opperation doesn't really permit us to have redundant backups of every service we provide. For instance: We only have one Exchange 2000 server. If that were to go down we'd lose email services untill we could restore from backups. In fact, backups are what we rely on, and backups are what protect my Linux proxy/MRTG/syslog beast. If any of our machines go down we sweat it for a day while we restore and we're back in business.
half of your MIS structure falls over dead
BTW, I wouldn't even come close to calling that half of our structure. Remember, we've got our domain controllers, email server, file server and www/ftp server to watch as well. Those rowdy kids are the bulk of our structure.
P.S. - I'v got a 3COM 1100 24 port switch that one of our interns blocked admin access to (he messed the ACLs up). Can anyone clue me in on how to perform a 'hard-reset' on these?
It has been, and will continue to be right for us:
I am one of two people who run the MIS office at a small technical college. We support everything that plugs into the wall for ~500 staff, faculty, and students. We're not huge, but we keep busy:) We run a Windows 2000 Adv. Server domain that seems to run well for the most part but acts... haunted, as if it's just scared to run stable all the time.
Recently we decided to replace an old outdated MS-Proxy server (don't yell, I know) with a Squid server. Not because squid is more stable, but it was damn near impossible to monitor MS-Proxy cheaply and effectively. We farmed around for sollutions but they were all over $1,500 for anything decent. Any of you familiar with Squid can finish this story yourself. For the others, now we can monitor at any depth all we want for $free (and of course it's more stable).
Last night I sat that same server up with MRTG to monitor all of our switches and the network interfaces on all the servers in our farm. Oh, and it's also a syslog server, watching over the the network printers and the server farm itself ( we have Event Viewer in Win2k setup to dump to a CSV file and then push it to syslog). It's also a planned backup www/ftp server and what-ever-else-is-needed server.
Proxy, MRTG, better monitoring then Event Viewer, syslog, www/ftp: all on one box, at zero software cost. Since it's Linux I know I can trust it to keep up. And I'm not saying that because I'm wearing my shebang(#!) hat and my tux hoodie, I'm talking from experience. You can't beat it.
That's why Linux is here for us now, and it's because of those qualities that Linux will continue to grow with us in the future.
I ran into the same situation some time ago. Tho, I was interested as a portable MP3 player, as well as a portable mass storage solution. Some of the retail MP3 players double as mass storage devices but still didn't quite fit the bill.
And then I found the PJRC High Capacity MP3 Player! You get full control, well, because you have to build it. It has IDE connectors for both standard and laptop hard drives, can be run off AA bateries or +12 DC (from car), has a headphone jack and RCA jacks, and a RS232 serial port for shell access to the firmware (upgradable). It has a LCD attatchment, but as you may read from the site the firware for it is still in devel (allthough it looks to work quite well). Honestly, I haven't ordered mine yet because I'm waiting for a break from work to have time to play. In the mean time, I'll just keep looking at the pictures.
A buddy of mine has the original Casio watch. It's resolution makes it worthless. When he snaps pictures of us we're essentially a blob of grey pixels. A color version just means we'll be pink(ish) pixels.
Now the eyemodule cameras for Handspring PDAs are just right. I had the original and now have an eyemodule2 and can't say enough good things about it.
Takes 640x480 color pictures
Captures short movies (although in Quicktime)
Incredibly small and portable
Comes with a nice custom cut foam aluminium case
Nice geek factor(!)
Obviously if you want hi-res pictures then a watch or a PDA addon is not what you need. But compare these pictures taken with the Casio watch, and these pictures taken with an eyemodule2. If you're a Handspring owner it's absolutely worth checking out.
But what I really want to know is what's up with that Nokia 7650 phone features on the same page as the new Casio watch?! It's beautiful!
There are tools to help with these exact situations.
Our NOC has a dedicated ImageCast IC3 image server. If one of our lab machines develops a problem that will take to much time to fix we pop in an IC3 client boot floppy and re-image it across the network. All we have to do is rename it when it's done and it's ready to go, like it was just installed.
ImageCast (in current stable versions) does not support Linux filesystems, but there are other product that do. It would be trivial for RedHat to perfect an "educational" distro and turn one of the machines per location into an image server. If anything should go tits up it's much easier to re-image a machine then send tech support out.
Also, if changes need to be made to the distro, you could make them and create a new image. Distribute the improved image to your machines and everyone is up to date. You could probably even have the image server at each location poll the RedHat network to check for updated images.
It's a system like this that allows only me and my office mate to support ~500 computers 24/7 with no stress. Just remember that there are few ways of getting around hardware problems.
If I didn't fall victim to a troll before, I have most certainly fallen victim to my own ignorance. I was prepared to march into this replay with "Well, I'm sitting in front of a stock RH 7.2 and it's symlinked!", but, unlike before, I did enough research to find out I'm wrong. I did at least open a shell and check on the box I was on at work (a RH 7.1 box), and it was symlinked. However, I failed to remember that just a few weeks prior I had hand compiled and installed Apache myself, only to symlink/var/www to/usr/local/apache/htdocs myself. I guess my subconscious knew the correct answer, it just wasn't sharing it with me or I wasn't paying attention.
So: A formal apology to the forum for letting my ego get the best of me.
Regardless, you make a more valid point with the mention of the other data stores inside/var. Theoretically, you could transplant all of that data into a different location and then symlink it back, slowly deprecating/changing configuration files that point to the old locations. I guess it would be nice if RPMs were rigged to offer you a choice of installation points.
I'm at work now and and rereading this thread and have realized that I may have fallen victim to a troll trap. If I have, you got me. If not, you have natural troll like ablities and should consider applying for troll status.
Anyway the point of this post is just to mention that all distros that I'm aware of that use the/var/www directory for html data do not actually store it there./var/www/html is a symlink to/usr/local/apache/htdocs by default.
I've been slowly reading these posts and it seems like, while there are a few genuine issues, there are also a lof of lazy complainers out there. Aren't we all goofy for our favorite operating system because it's 'open' and we can 'do what we want'? We'll then freakin' do it.
The parent poster, for example, is trying so hard to impress with his knowledge of the history of/var (available in pretty much any *nix book), yet fails miserably when it comes to understanding that there is no gun to his head forcing home to keep html in/var/www. I agree, I think/var/www is an odd place for html data, but there's always the option of changing your http root directory, moving it somewhere else and symlinking back to/var/www, or a few other options.
As for the posters mentioning how the Dark Side (Windows) does it, remember that even though Windows has the Progra~1 structure to keep things seperated, if any of that stuff is needed at a system level or if any of those programs need to call proprietary libraries, many times they will dump bloat into your/winnt or/winnt/system(32) directories or add to your PATH. I hate it when I'm uninstalling and it asks something like "Would you like to remove C:\Winnt\System32\SGF32.DLL? Some programs may still be using it!" It turns into a lose-lose situation: I'm either going to break some software or create complete bloat. And with Windows you're pretty much stuck with what you got. Even if there were symlinks in Windows you still wouldn't be able to create a makeshift/usr/bin for yourself. Most of the programs keep their own libraries in their own directories and would require a "working path" pointing to it to operate.
There are a few people in here that seem to have found personal solutions for getting around FSS quirks. Quirks there are, but with a few symlinks, #!'s, and other toys it's possible to build a very comfortable and logical system.
Just be careful you're not turning into Twoface. It's not really effective to preach about Open Source virtues and then turn around and bitch about something when it's those same virtues that will solve your problems.
Any X-Box owners out there that can testify to the existance or absence of any sort of EULA for the hardware? Microsoft is somewhat famous for their software EULAs, would it be so supricing to find one on the X-Box?
I've looked at the boxes they come in, but short of buying one I haven't been able to check out the included liturature. Perhaps one of you can stop gaming/hacking for a moment and actually read the paper waste that came with the box.
Not that it will make a difference one way or the other. But you figure they have to know there's a hacker community out here just waiting to rip this thing apart. If not, I'm sure it will be a real i-opening experience!
I'd moderate this up if I could! It's completely true.
I also have an I8K with a G2Go. And I get the same FPS scores as mentioned above. I'm a big fan of nVidia, but I think they've pulled out the hype machine a little to much on this one.
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British horror film veteran Christopher Lee also lavished praise on the director.
``What Peter has done is miraculous. No director in history has made three films at the same time,'' he said.
Now the 79-year-old Lee has just one ambition -- he hopes to live long enough to see the next two films in the trilogy when they come out in 2002 and 2003.
What a horribly bitter way to end a news brief.
Sqaure is responsible, more than any other factor, for my severe interest in "video games". Early on, VGs were of course interesting, but there's mention to be made for the one-two whammy of RPGs and then Squaresoft. From the Nintendo, to Super Nintendo, to Game Boy, to Playstation, to others, Square has been one of the major companies I've followed.
I purchased FFVII before I bought a playstation. I stayed up for weeks playing that game, maxing the clock past 99:99 (yes, at the last hour the seconds go up to 99). All other RPGs were rated on a scale as compared to the FF series. I have yet to purchase a PS2, GC, or Xbox, but the deadline for FFX is coming and I'm getting the shakes.
This initial size doesn't bother me. As it's perfected and costs go down that would grow fast enough. Being WORM media is another issue though. I understand that this is a stepping stone to dynamic media, but at the moment I can get CD-Rs for around $.50/unit that are a proven media, hold much more data, and are already widely supported. And guess what: there are CD-RW already too (he can't do that yet). The heat thing could also be/not be an issue. Perhaps since it's stacked vert it will cool better. It's certainly harder to cover all surfaces in 3D. I have this vision of a cube with a heatsink on it's five exposed sides, only to have a core meltdown.
First of all, it's hard to post at all because Willow is on and it's hard to divert my attention.
Concerning Terminator 3, my griend Google me that Linda Hamilton will not be returning, Eddie Furlong will be playing John Conner, is titled Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, could possible star Chyna (WWF), will not be directed by James Cameron, up untill this past June there were talks that Ed Norton would be playing John Conner, and NoChickTrix will not be featured but is deffinatly worth checking out.
I agree that there's a performance hit that can't be ignored when using a software de/crypt platform, but if they were to use such a filesystem then the most effecient way to do it is to store the routines in hardware.
:).
Besides that point, even if they were to use a software de/crypt filesystem I don't believe it would be that big-o-deal. Yes, it would be slower than you're used to in your PC, but in the console world even an encrypted HD will likely outperform reading the DVD. And don't forget that most of the I/O is directed at the DVD drive, the HD only being accessed for special needs. If it's going to be used for anything large (say DivX, MP3), it will most likely be because it's been hacked. And at that point we'll just use whatever suits us
This gets on topic towards the end:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that the HDs in the Xbox are standard IDE drives. I've also read that people have attempted to chain the drives into their PC's IDE loop and mount them, but have been unable to because of a prop filesystem. Seeing as how the drives are 8-10 GB, what if you were to dd if=/dev/xbox of=/spare/drive bs=1024 to a spare drive >10GB (to hold the info). This way you don't damage your Xbox drive and you have a copy of it to play with. The reason?
I have worked with proprietary systems in the past that were (more or less) similar to the Xbox, in that they used standard PC hardware and theory but needed to be secure from hardware "hack" attempts. Microsoft has had the tools to do something similar for a while. Reports state the Xbox is using a W2K kernel. The most associated filesystem with W2K is NTFS. With NTFS it's possible to create an encrypted filesystem. Now, if you wanted to handle the de/crypt as fast as possible where would you put it? In hardware.
Take it a step further. Instead of adding extra de/crypt hardware to the mainboard why not consolidate a little bit more and take it straight to the I/O, that is the BIOS. Perhaps the HD is using an encrypted filesystem that is being handled directly by the BIOS. This would make some sense, since a software part could be broken all to easy. This also protects all components equally. Replace the BIOS and you can't read the HD, replace the HD but the BIOS can't read it (which has been proven).
I venture that if you were to hammer out the details of the filesystem it would provide insight into the working of the BIOS. The sour part of this is that we already know it can be done (to some extent) because we have seen shots of MAME running on Xbox hardware. Though, perhaps that was under different rules since it was an SDK kit.
Aren't advertisers payed to be as effective as possible? And as part of that, shouldn't they be making strides to reach as many people as possible? So why do they state they only work in IE when they obviously work in NS and KQ as well? There could be reasons:
If not for any other reason, this at least shows how different other browsers are compared to IE. Not for technical merrit, but for philosophical reasons. Microsoft and IE are perfectly fine, if not supportive, with creating channels that advertisers can take advantage of. Whereas a browser such as Konqueror has measures in place (cookie management, popup handlers) to help prevent those things from happening.
Boy, Dionne Warwick must have it bad. She's gone from "That's What Friends Are For" to singing the KPMG theme song. And I thought she was dead.
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Burning CDs, just like pretty much everything else, requires overhead. The pipe might be technically big enough to move that ammount of data but you still have to consider that error checking, device I/O, and other things have bandwidth needs as well. Similarly, your new ATA100 hard drive will never be able to move files at peak speed because of the overhead related to it.
It doesn't "suck", it's just the way it is. USB was not invented as a means specifically for CD-RWs. Notice that the U stands for Universal. Manufacturers just realized that there may be some people that would be willing to trade speed for USB's ease of use. Saying it sucks is like bitching that you can't burn at 24X over COM1. A comparative list of speeds can be found here if you're interested.
Back on topic: This is where the iPod has everthing else out there beat hands down. Even this new Treo has some nice features but it's still USB. But does it really matter? Yes, when you first load it it'll be a pain in the arse, but after you've cleared that hurdle I don't believe you'll be sitting for hours waiting to update it. A CD with ~12 songs encoded at 128k takes up ~40M. USB tops out at 1.5MB/s. Including the afformentioned overhead, you're still only looking at 1 minute per CD. Why is it we all act like we're so important that we can't wait that long?
Agreed, it is sexy that the iPod can move files like lightning, but how long do you think it will be untill someone wises up and makes a firewire MP3 player for PCs?
Check the player totals for each event:
There are currently only two players in Crazy Scooter, yet there are three purses. Enter now and you walk with at least $2,000!
I've got access through Comcast@Home here in Richmond, VA. We're still up but I keep the green lights in the corner of my eye.
Mail, News, and DNS servers are all still active on their original IPs. We have not received any official email from Comcast concerning the status of their network. They're either solid with their own network and backbone, or they're just waiting to die. Either way, I wish we would get informed.
It plays .vob files? Does that include encrypted files? I've searched the company site and it doesn't mention anything about being able to DeCSS .vob files. And I can't imagine having much fun with only unencrypted .vobs.
Wouldn't it be niftier to pack some hard drives into an actual DVD player and stick an ethernet port in the back? You could have all the features of this box plus the ability to rip straight from DVD. Course the MPAA wouldn't let it see the light of day.
Oddly enough, when I visited the Excite.com website a pop-under to get loan approval appeared.
The size of our opperation doesn't really permit us to have redundant backups of every service we provide. For instance: We only have one Exchange 2000 server. If that were to go down we'd lose email services untill we could restore from backups. In fact, backups are what we rely on, and backups are what protect my Linux proxy/MRTG/syslog beast. If any of our machines go down we sweat it for a day while we restore and we're back in business.
half of your MIS structure falls over dead
BTW, I wouldn't even come close to calling that half of our structure. Remember, we've got our domain controllers, email server, file server and www/ftp server to watch as well. Those rowdy kids are the bulk of our structure.
P.S. - I'v got a 3COM 1100 24 port switch that one of our interns blocked admin access to (he messed the ACLs up). Can anyone clue me in on how to perform a 'hard-reset' on these?
It has been, and will continue to be right for us:
:) We run a Windows 2000 Adv. Server domain that seems to run well for the most part but acts... haunted, as if it's just scared to run stable all the time.
I am one of two people who run the MIS office at a small technical college. We support everything that plugs into the wall for ~500 staff, faculty, and students. We're not huge, but we keep busy
Recently we decided to replace an old outdated MS-Proxy server (don't yell, I know) with a Squid server. Not because squid is more stable, but it was damn near impossible to monitor MS-Proxy cheaply and effectively. We farmed around for sollutions but they were all over $1,500 for anything decent. Any of you familiar with Squid can finish this story yourself. For the others, now we can monitor at any depth all we want for $free (and of course it's more stable).
Last night I sat that same server up with MRTG to monitor all of our switches and the network interfaces on all the servers in our farm. Oh, and it's also a syslog server, watching over the the network printers and the server farm itself ( we have Event Viewer in Win2k setup to dump to a CSV file and then push it to syslog). It's also a planned backup www/ftp server and what-ever-else-is-needed server.
Proxy, MRTG, better monitoring then Event Viewer, syslog, www/ftp: all on one box, at zero software cost. Since it's Linux I know I can trust it to keep up. And I'm not saying that because I'm wearing my shebang(#!) hat and my tux hoodie, I'm talking from experience. You can't beat it.
That's why Linux is here for us now, and it's because of those qualities that Linux will continue to grow with us in the future.
I ran into the same situation some time ago. Tho, I was interested as a portable MP3 player, as well as a portable mass storage solution. Some of the retail MP3 players double as mass storage devices but still didn't quite fit the bill.
And then I found the PJRC High Capacity MP3 Player! You get full control, well, because you have to build it. It has IDE connectors for both standard and laptop hard drives, can be run off AA bateries or +12 DC (from car), has a headphone jack and RCA jacks, and a RS232 serial port for shell access to the firmware (upgradable). It has a LCD attatchment, but as you may read from the site the firware for it is still in devel (allthough it looks to work quite well). Honestly, I haven't ordered mine yet because I'm waiting for a break from work to have time to play. In the mean time, I'll just keep looking at the pictures.
It only won't ask you for a password if you are logged in at the local console as root. You can't gain root access from a remote connection.
Now the eyemodule cameras for Handspring PDAs are just right. I had the original and now have an eyemodule2 and can't say enough good things about it.
Obviously if you want hi-res pictures then a watch or a PDA addon is not what you need. But compare these pictures taken with the Casio watch, and these pictures taken with an eyemodule2. If you're a Handspring owner it's absolutely worth checking out.
But what I really want to know is what's up with that Nokia 7650 phone features on the same page as the new Casio watch?! It's beautiful!
There are tools to help with these exact situations.
Our NOC has a dedicated ImageCast IC3 image server. If one of our lab machines develops a problem that will take to much time to fix we pop in an IC3 client boot floppy and re-image it across the network. All we have to do is rename it when it's done and it's ready to go, like it was just installed.
ImageCast (in current stable versions) does not support Linux filesystems, but there are other product that do. It would be trivial for RedHat to perfect an "educational" distro and turn one of the machines per location into an image server. If anything should go tits up it's much easier to re-image a machine then send tech support out.
Also, if changes need to be made to the distro, you could make them and create a new image. Distribute the improved image to your machines and everyone is up to date. You could probably even have the image server at each location poll the RedHat network to check for updated images.
It's a system like this that allows only me and my office mate to support ~500 computers 24/7 with no stress. Just remember that there are few ways of getting around hardware problems.
If I didn't fall victim to a troll before, I have most certainly fallen victim to my own ignorance. I was prepared to march into this replay with "Well, I'm sitting in front of a stock RH 7.2 and it's symlinked!", but, unlike before, I did enough research to find out I'm wrong. I did at least open a shell and check on the box I was on at work (a RH 7.1 box), and it was symlinked. However, I failed to remember that just a few weeks prior I had hand compiled and installed Apache myself, only to symlink /var/www to /usr/local/apache/htdocs myself. I guess my subconscious knew the correct answer, it just wasn't sharing it with me or I wasn't paying attention.
/var. Theoretically, you could transplant all of that data into a different location and then symlink it back, slowly deprecating/changing configuration files that point to the old locations. I guess it would be nice if RPMs were rigged to offer you a choice of installation points.
So: A formal apology to the forum for letting my ego get the best of me.
Regardless, you make a more valid point with the mention of the other data stores inside
On eBay once in a while, but, yes, they are available.
I'm at work now and and rereading this thread and have realized that I may have fallen victim to a troll trap. If I have, you got me. If not, you have natural troll like ablities and should consider applying for troll status.
/var/www directory for html data do not actually store it there. /var/www/html is a symlink to /usr/local/apache/htdocs by default.
Anyway the point of this post is just to mention that all distros that I'm aware of that use the
Please stop this trend before it is too late.
I should have recognized that on the first go.
I've been slowly reading these posts and it seems like, while there are a few genuine issues, there are also a lof of lazy complainers out there. Aren't we all goofy for our favorite operating system because it's 'open' and we can 'do what we want'? We'll then freakin' do it.
/var (available in pretty much any *nix book), yet fails miserably when it comes to understanding that there is no gun to his head forcing home to keep html in /var/www. I agree, I think /var/www is an odd place for html data, but there's always the option of changing your http root directory, moving it somewhere else and symlinking back to /var/www, or a few other options.
/winnt or /winnt/system(32) directories or add to your PATH. I hate it when I'm uninstalling and it asks something like "Would you like to remove C:\Winnt\System32\SGF32.DLL? Some programs may still be using it!" It turns into a lose-lose situation: I'm either going to break some software or create complete bloat. And with Windows you're pretty much stuck with what you got. Even if there were symlinks in Windows you still wouldn't be able to create a makeshift /usr/bin for yourself. Most of the programs keep their own libraries in their own directories and would require a "working path" pointing to it to operate.
The parent poster, for example, is trying so hard to impress with his knowledge of the history of
As for the posters mentioning how the Dark Side (Windows) does it, remember that even though Windows has the Progra~1 structure to keep things seperated, if any of that stuff is needed at a system level or if any of those programs need to call proprietary libraries, many times they will dump bloat into your
There are a few people in here that seem to have found personal solutions for getting around FSS quirks. Quirks there are, but with a few symlinks, #!'s, and other toys it's possible to build a very comfortable and logical system.
Just be careful you're not turning into Twoface. It's not really effective to preach about Open Source virtues and then turn around and bitch about something when it's those same virtues that will solve your problems.
Any X-Box owners out there that can testify to the existance or absence of any sort of EULA for the hardware? Microsoft is somewhat famous for their software EULAs, would it be so supricing to find one on the X-Box?
I've looked at the boxes they come in, but short of buying one I haven't been able to check out the included liturature. Perhaps one of you can stop gaming/hacking for a moment and actually read the paper waste that came with the box.
Not that it will make a difference one way or the other. But you figure they have to know there's a hacker community out here just waiting to rip this thing apart. If not, I'm sure it will be a real i-opening experience!
I'd moderate this up if I could! It's completely true.
I also have an I8K with a G2Go. And I get the same FPS scores as mentioned above. I'm a big fan of nVidia, but I think they've pulled out the hype machine a little to much on this one.