kde is C++ and while they have made improvements in makeing things strart up faster there are inherent problems in C++ that make it slower than C. Gnome is a little faster than kde (IMHO) , but with only 32Megs of RAM both are dogs.
Windowmaker is a little better, but fvwm is probably going to be your quickest bet. There is also blackbox and if you install lestiff you can use mwm. I have also heard that there is a window manager that does not allow windows to draw over each other, but forget its name. Many bsders I used to work with loved it as it was quick and easy.
The company I am working for needs a new Sun box and money is tight. We could use one.;-) We are actually looking on ebay. If you want to sell it ebay or some other site would be good. If you want to keep it it would be good to run Sun OS on or Linux possibly. Then you could set it up as a mail server, web server, gateway, firewall, whatever. Or even a test box for students who need more freedom on a box.
in 2.4.15 you just can't umount your system. There is a workaround I found the other day.
How to shutdown 2.4.15
Bring your machine to init 1 on the command line. Make sure that there are no files in/var/lock and/tmp/.X11* if you are running X. Then umount -n/var and/tmp if you have them on seperate partitions. Then umount -n al other mount points. And then shutdown. This will help prevent the nasty fsck. However it is a real PIA.
There should also be noted that there is a nasty bug in ECP in 2.4.14 adn 2.4.15 and 2.5.0 that may cause problems with devices that need ecp like webcams.
Hmm what song is that from, I think it was weaser??? I wonder how much truth there is in that. Are we breeding dumber Americans? Sure seems that way when I get on the road and people can't figure out how to use their turn signals properly or how to drive....
Try using proximotron (sp) it is a proxy that is used for filtering. It does however mask your user agent and things. Also using mozilla will allow you to prevent unwanted cookies. Basically between mozilla and proximitron (or another proxy) you could essentially mask who you are except your IP address. Things like user-agent and other headers going into and out of your machine are masked. Rejecting cookies and preventint companies like doublecluck from setting cookies or images on your machine also puts up a 'wall of fire' between you and the internet. Lastly I'd put up a firewall and reject all new connections from outside sources (unless your running a service like httpd or ftp or ssh). Many webservers for some reason like to make new connections to my machine after the transaction is done. This is a known issue, so my firewall rules just drop those packets to the floor and it does not hurt my system.
I guess without these types of services people will have to learn how to protect themselves on the web. Besides how long do you think many of these services can stay free on the web? I'm kinds supprised/. has not talked about charging to post yet....
QT has a socket code, I think it has thread code, and much else. If you have already decidede to use QT as the GUI, I'd suggest using them for everything else. It should be cross platform compile okay.
When do you see yourself taking over 2.4 from Linus? has he told you when he plans on opening up 2.5?
Also how do you see yourself handling issues like that in 2.4.11 and 2.4.14 where simple drivers would not compile or would not run, because of obsolete function calls in the kernel? I.E. Wait till 2.4.15 to fix this or release 2.4.15 with just that fix?
This explains how packet travers the filters which I though was easier than ipchains to learn. It also talks about using the ipchains module in 2.4 which means you can upgrade you kernel and keep your old firewall rules. It also goes over some of the basic options. This guide is mainly geared for using ip masquarading or now know as nat, but it is a great place to start. Also pick up a copy of last months Linux journal as they had an article on iptables.
However I must warn you that once you go to iptables you may find it difficult to want to ever think of ipchains again. I know I do.
If a tree falls in the woods and noone has a sound card, does it make a sound?
You can always disable your sound plugins. Unless you are going to download a movie they really should not be doing that. I know that when I worked at a web portol we had strick guidlines about sound on the site. If it existed it should play only once and the user should be able to disable the sound. If this site does not do that I'd like to know what the name of the sites that are doing this are and then I can avoid them, which is what I'd really suggest you'd do unless there is something that you MUST have from that site and cannot get elsewhere.
If it were me, the cover of the cdrom woudl have my name, my email address, my address and phone just like that which is on your resume. On the cdrom I'd have an interactive resume that they could pull up in a web browser and a copy in word. If they looked at my resume I would have images of various apps that I have created as links.
If they wanted more then I'd supply a exe's that would be launchable and runnable from the cdrom. Basiclly nothing that they have to install. If your install fails they will likely not hire you. If you are a Java programmer include the jre and some java apps. If you do perl, include perl, and your app. If they are standard windows exe, make sure they can run from the cdrom and no registry editing. Think KISS = "keep it simple stupid". You may end up getting the cdrom to someone who is not computer savy and if you screw up their machine they will likely trash it.
Unfortunately while I am running a Linux box, my ISP wont allow me to connect an SMTP aget to its system. I used to be able to but recently when I tried it came up with a message that dialup users are not allowed to do so. This also defaeats the purpose of server side filters as then my workstation becomes a mailserver. I'd like to see it adopted by the ISP's and them have a way of configuring server side filters for each user.
I am working on a program at this time that displays info in the/proc directory. Eventually it will allow you to set some of this stuff up, but for now it just displays it.
To configure X I'd use XF86Setup, or XF86Config or Redhats Xconfigurator. It is actually pretty good in detecting most video cards, RAM etc.
For Network and other things redhat has some tools to do that. They have modem tool and in RH7.1 they introduced an internet configg tool, I think it is wvdial. They have soundconf for sound, netconf for network, mouseconf for the mouse. I am not sure if they have anything else, but these have worked for me. I also look hard and careful at what hardware is supported by the Linux kernel.
Question: Isn't it MY email address? Like my phone number?
While we all probably get junk mail in our 'snail' mailboxes, it takes no time on our part to sort through it. I usually know what is junk in about two minutes or less and just chuck it in the recucle bin. With spam it can take longer to sort through because it takes MY time to download the mail. I have gotton sometimes over 30 spam emails a day. While my email filters filter out much of it into a special folder, some places are now getting my real email address and spaming that. This ends up in my inbox. Do you know how long it takes to download some of this email? Especially if there is a slow connection. Or if they decide that they are going to send HTML with graphics. Yes I can turn off the html, but aside from setting up 'do not download email that is larger that xxx bytes' how do you stop images?
What I'd like to see is some company come up with server side email filters, like I have in my email app. Where I as a user can set up email filters that say any mail that does not meet this criteria just reject. So I do not have to ever download the email. It would cut my span down by about 50 to 70 percent. Just my solution. The isp can reject the email or just send it to/dev/null for all I care..
It would be interesting if this could be used for language transulation. Turn on Spanish mode (when they get it) and type the spanish words you see into your phone and viola.. it tells you what it means in english. Sort of like a speaking babelfish if you will.
Now all we need are really good speach to text converters....
"You have a choice of what company you give your money to"
Gee did you ever think that maybe I live near my brother and if he can't get it neither can I? NO I DON'T have a choice, there is only 1 cable company and my apartment forbids satellite.I am not going to move just to get satellite and yes I did call them and complain. Life is not always black and white there are so many shades of gray, but people like you can only see binary, maybe you should spend less time with your satellite and computer and more time in the real world.
.. I always thought that it was 10 minutes of commercials for every 30 minute show.
I think that the small logo in the corner is a little annoying but I have seen it get worse. There have been times when I have seen the network, then the US flag and then other logos, all adding up to about 3 to 5 logos on the screen. On a 20 inch TV this makes for small viewing.:-(
What is worse is AT&T's digital cable service now has advertisements in its on line TV guide. It used to be that you could see 12 channels at a time when you press the guide button, but now it is about 8 channels and 4 ad's. This makes it slower to browse the digital TV guide. I called and apparantly noone likes this but they don't care cause what can I do? Get satelite like my brother and then possibly not get the local stations (he doesn't)?
While logos are bad I think that being bombarded with advertisements is worse. Look at yahoo and their new popup window ads.
Their calling shortly after an interview just disturbs me and doesn't help their position at all.
To me this would indicate that they are not interested. If they cut short and interview and do not call you within a few days then they are not probably not interested.
I'd send an email to the HR person and let them know that you enjoyed meeting everyone, and that you look forward to hearing from them about the position. You want to know weather you got it or not, and some will tell you right away. In my experiance many companies have meetings right after the interview and they know right away weather or not they want you.
Uh if you know what you are doing with RedHat you could have done that. In Redhat you can select from individual packages. I think 300M would have been emough, to install the very minimul toolset.
.. the US goverment switched how much we could save tax payers as well. Lest see 200-300 for windows, plus another 300 for office, times how many employees(5000000?) - Retraining(how much is this cost?) = ???
I did the math once now it time that GWB does the math, or can he?
2.4.12 has bugs that prevent certain compile options. 2.4.13 is out and it works really sweet.
Oh an djust becuase there are two different vm's (Alan vs Linus) does not mean that there is an official fork. As well there is already companies like Redhat and Suse that release their own patches to the linux kernel that make them unpatchabe against the main tree.
What hardware will it support? What drivers will it support? Will it be vesa 2.0 expectant for the grafics?
I'll be honest I have not got a lot of respect for the 'academic' types at MIT so I'm not holding my breath for this one. They all seem to think about 'can I do it', but never what is really important and should it be done adn what are the benifits. OODBMS file system. Uh most databases are slower than filesystem access, unless it is a palm style set up. Now that could be neat, a paln type desktop where there is no 'desktop' just icons to do stuff with.
Well see.. go ahead and moderate this down, may your penis fall off or your uterus fill up with yeast and drop out..... ewe that is so gross!!
Um, Bush was not elected really either, the outcome of that election is still in question, however he IS in office, just like Hitler was.
The first thing that this bill does is take away privacy rights of people who are NOT US citizens. What do we do when we find out that some of these terrorists ARE US citizens like the unibomber? Do we then make it easier to prosecute and go after people who are US citizens? Then what do we do next after that? Go after people who are hackers cause they pose a 'terrorist' threat?
Elected / Appointed, he was put into office just like John Ascroft was.
I guess well see, will you be able to vote in the next elction or will they find a way to take away your voting privelige by makeing you a felon???
In some cases I think the developer could work okay. Depends, on what apps the developer uses as some wont work if they cannot modify the registry. Think of it this way, a developer would not be able to change the setting in some of the programs if they cannot access the registry.
I know many developers that do very little outside of what they are told to do. Thus management leads the design process and the developers follow. This leads to people who are not very aware of modern technology designing a 'supposed' to be modern app. With some developers installing new apps, testing new software and doing things like that on their own they would be constantly callin IT for this and that, especially if you have a R&D group. Personally I woudl be against that as I like to install certain of my own favorite editors, icons, tools to make some things I do easier. After that I suppose IT could lock the registry, but ask yourself what does this really gain? IT should just say we support this software and if you install stuff and screw up your machine you just have to wait. In some cases it is just a matter of knowing who can be trusted to know what they are doing in Windos. Some users can install and uninstall and do as they wish and you'll never hear from them while others will be constant problems.
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No we need it for a test box. We ported our app to Sun and while we have one sun box we need another for systems to muck with.
Windowmaker is a little better, but fvwm is probably going to be your quickest bet. There is also blackbox and if you install lestiff you can use mwm. I have also heard that there is a window manager that does not allow windows to draw over each other, but forget its name. Many bsders I used to work with loved it as it was quick and easy.
The company I am working for needs a new Sun box and money is tight. We could use one. ;-) We are actually looking on ebay. If you want to sell it ebay or some other site would be good. If you want to keep it it would be good to run Sun OS on or Linux possibly. Then you could set it up as a mail server, web server, gateway, firewall, whatever. Or even a test box for students who need more freedom on a box.
How to shutdown 2.4.15
Bring your machine to init 1 on the command line. Make sure that there are no files in /var/lock and /tmp/.X11* if you are running X. Then umount -n /var and /tmp if you have them on seperate partitions. Then umount -n al other mount points. And then shutdown. This will help prevent the nasty fsck. However it is a real PIA.
There should also be noted that there is a nasty bug in ECP in 2.4.14 adn 2.4.15 and 2.5.0 that may cause problems with devices that need ecp like webcams.
Hmm what song is that from, I think it was weaser??? I wonder how much truth there is in that. Are we breeding dumber Americans? Sure seems that way when I get on the road and people can't figure out how to use their turn signals properly or how to drive....
I guess without these types of services people will have to learn how to protect themselves on the web. Besides how long do you think many of these services can stay free on the web? I'm kinds supprised /. has not talked about charging to post yet....
QT has a socket code, I think it has thread code, and much else. If you have already decidede to use QT as the GUI, I'd suggest using them for everything else. It should be cross platform compile okay.
Also how do you see yourself handling issues like that in 2.4.11 and 2.4.14 where simple drivers would not compile or would not run, because of obsolete function calls in the kernel? I.E. Wait till 2.4.15 to fix this or release 2.4.15 with just that fix?
iptables -L will list the tables in the default chain. Then there is iptables -L -t nat and iptables -l -t mangle
The best guide I found was http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/unreliable-guides /packet-filtering-HOWTO/index.html
This explains how packet travers the filters which I though was easier than ipchains to learn. It also talks about using the ipchains module in 2.4 which means you can upgrade you kernel and keep your old firewall rules. It also goes over some of the basic options. This guide is mainly geared for using ip masquarading or now know as nat, but it is a great place to start. Also pick up a copy of last months Linux journal as they had an article on iptables.
However I must warn you that once you go to iptables you may find it difficult to want to ever think of ipchains again. I know I do.
You can always disable your sound plugins. Unless you are going to download a movie they really should not be doing that. I know that when I worked at a web portol we had strick guidlines about sound on the site. If it existed it should play only once and the user should be able to disable the sound. If this site does not do that I'd like to know what the name of the sites that are doing this are and then I can avoid them, which is what I'd really suggest you'd do unless there is something that you MUST have from that site and cannot get elsewhere.
If they wanted more then I'd supply a exe's that would be launchable and runnable from the cdrom. Basiclly nothing that they have to install. If your install fails they will likely not hire you. If you are a Java programmer include the jre and some java apps. If you do perl, include perl, and your app. If they are standard windows exe, make sure they can run from the cdrom and no registry editing. Think KISS = "keep it simple stupid". You may end up getting the cdrom to someone who is not computer savy and if you screw up their machine they will likely trash it.
Now convince my ISP to use that and allow me to set up filters for my own email account and we'd be all set.
Unfortunately while I am running a Linux box, my ISP wont allow me to connect an SMTP aget to its system. I used to be able to but recently when I tried it came up with a message that dialup users are not allowed to do so. This also defaeats the purpose of server side filters as then my workstation becomes a mailserver. I'd like to see it adopted by the ISP's and them have a way of configuring server side filters for each user.
To configure X I'd use XF86Setup, or XF86Config or Redhats Xconfigurator. It is actually pretty good in detecting most video cards, RAM etc.
For Network and other things redhat has some tools to do that. They have modem tool and in RH7.1 they introduced an internet configg tool, I think it is wvdial. They have soundconf for sound, netconf for network, mouseconf for the mouse. I am not sure if they have anything else, but these have worked for me. I also look hard and careful at what hardware is supported by the Linux kernel.
Question: Isn't it MY email address? Like my phone number?
While we all probably get junk mail in our 'snail' mailboxes, it takes no time on our part to sort through it. I usually know what is junk in about two minutes or less and just chuck it in the recucle bin. With spam it can take longer to sort through because it takes MY time to download the mail. I have gotton sometimes over 30 spam emails a day. While my email filters filter out much of it into a special folder, some places are now getting my real email address and spaming that. This ends up in my inbox. Do you know how long it takes to download some of this email? Especially if there is a slow connection. Or if they decide that they are going to send HTML with graphics. Yes I can turn off the html, but aside from setting up 'do not download email that is larger that xxx bytes' how do you stop images?
What I'd like to see is some company come up with server side email filters, like I have in my email app. Where I as a user can set up email filters that say any mail that does not meet this criteria just reject. So I do not have to ever download the email. It would cut my span down by about 50 to 70 percent. Just my solution. The isp can reject the email or just send it to /dev/null for all I care..
Now all we need are really good speach to text converters....
Gee did you ever think that maybe I live near my brother and if he can't get it neither can I? NO I DON'T have a choice, there is only 1 cable company and my apartment forbids satellite.I am not going to move just to get satellite and yes I did call them and complain. Life is not always black and white there are so many shades of gray, but people like you can only see binary, maybe you should spend less time with your satellite and computer and more time in the real world.
I think that the small logo in the corner is a little annoying but I have seen it get worse. There have been times when I have seen the network, then the US flag and then other logos, all adding up to about 3 to 5 logos on the screen. On a 20 inch TV this makes for small viewing. :-(
What is worse is AT&T's digital cable service now has advertisements in its on line TV guide. It used to be that you could see 12 channels at a time when you press the guide button, but now it is about 8 channels and 4 ad's. This makes it slower to browse the digital TV guide. I called and apparantly noone likes this but they don't care cause what can I do? Get satelite like my brother and then possibly not get the local stations (he doesn't)?
While logos are bad I think that being bombarded with advertisements is worse. Look at yahoo and their new popup window ads.
To me this would indicate that they are not interested. If they cut short and interview and do not call you within a few days then they are not probably not interested.
I'd send an email to the HR person and let them know that you enjoyed meeting everyone, and that you look forward to hearing from them about the position. You want to know weather you got it or not, and some will tell you right away. In my experiance many companies have meetings right after the interview and they know right away weather or not they want you.
Doing nothing wont hurt though.
Uh if you know what you are doing with RedHat you could have done that. In Redhat you can select from individual packages. I think 300M would have been emough, to install the very minimul toolset.
I did the math once now it time that GWB does the math, or can he?
Oh an djust becuase there are two different vm's (Alan vs Linus) does not mean that there is an official fork. As well there is already companies like Redhat and Suse that release their own patches to the linux kernel that make them unpatchabe against the main tree.
I'll be honest I have not got a lot of respect for the 'academic' types at MIT so I'm not holding my breath for this one. They all seem to think about 'can I do it', but never what is really important and should it be done adn what are the benifits. OODBMS file system. Uh most databases are slower than filesystem access, unless it is a palm style set up. Now that could be neat, a paln type desktop where there is no 'desktop' just icons to do stuff with.
Well see.. go ahead and moderate this down, may your penis fall off or your uterus fill up with yeast and drop out..... ewe that is so gross!!
The first thing that this bill does is take away privacy rights of people who are NOT US citizens. What do we do when we find out that some of these terrorists ARE US citizens like the unibomber? Do we then make it easier to prosecute and go after people who are US citizens? Then what do we do next after that? Go after people who are hackers cause they pose a 'terrorist' threat?
Elected / Appointed, he was put into office just like John Ascroft was.
I guess well see, will you be able to vote in the next elction or will they find a way to take away your voting privelige by makeing you a felon???
I know many developers that do very little outside of what they are told to do. Thus management leads the design process and the developers follow. This leads to people who are not very aware of modern technology designing a 'supposed' to be modern app. With some developers installing new apps, testing new software and doing things like that on their own they would be constantly callin IT for this and that, especially if you have a R&D group. Personally I woudl be against that as I like to install certain of my own favorite editors, icons, tools to make some things I do easier. After that I suppose IT could lock the registry, but ask yourself what does this really gain? IT should just say we support this software and if you install stuff and screw up your machine you just have to wait. In some cases it is just a matter of knowing who can be trusted to know what they are doing in Windos. Some users can install and uninstall and do as they wish and you'll never hear from them while others will be constant problems.