THEY didn't currupt your data-.1q adds extra bits onto a packet so that it can "tunnel" data from source to destination- with- you VLAN info etc intact... thus it has to add data to the packet- which can make it bigger (jumbo) than intermediate devices expect/allow... it's normal bevahior and you just need to tell those intermediate devices to allow bigger MTU size without dropping the frame as being too big... Maybe this was a while back or something.
You can't blame Cisco for a missing config line...
1.0PR was much more stable for me as well. Usually it's a complex page with a plugin (flash, pdf, etc.) that crashes me out, but it's much more often in 1.0 than the PR release for me.
Read the article- it's (will be) based on 2.2. I'd say that with the polish and finish that 2.2 has brought vs. 2.0 that this was a lot of the code maturity and consistency that Ximian was waiting for. - you have to remember that although they are not up to CVS speed for getting this out.. (I know I know it's taken them freakin forever) that they wanted to wait for a good solid "Gnome Distro" to be tested and ready. They don't target this neccesarily towards the techie crowd- but more as a corporate (easy to roll out and maintain via Red Carpet (and RC enterprise) desktop solution WITH a company in the back to optionally support it (important seling point to some mgrs.). Also it's an easy to install/maintain and 'fairly' quick intro to Gnome for a lot of folks who won't/can't/don't want to compile and put up with problems with bleeding edge code...
MSCS allows for application failover. MS bought WLBS/NLBS and released it (formerly was called convoy cluster server) to allow for LOAD BALANCED TCP/IP APPLICATIONS (web, proxy, DNS, etc). Beoulf as we know, is usually for massive computation.
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Sony Aibo - $1500
For the newer ERS-220
75 spoken commands -
wireless navigation
read email and websites (needs $150 addon SW)
If you can put up with the high price, fact that it WONT lick your face, WILL run out of battery power in a couple hours, and sony's practices of shutting down cool attempts at SW for making it better due to supposed copyright infringments... Its pretty cool.
"communism nor capitalism are instictive manners"
I disagree. Capitalism is instinctive. The idea of barter, or out and out selling is natural. Go to a kidergarden lunch table. You see capitalism in a raw format. (No I won't trade my Jello for brocolli). "Inevitable growing of inequality among rich and poor." Give me a break. Sure there are rich, and sure there are poor, but with few exceptions many of the poor I knew made decisions like..."I think I'll smoke pot instead of doing my 11th grade Algerbra." Meanwhile many rich I knew put in 80 and 90 hours aweek building their buisness, so people can come back in a few years and say "They're lucky to be able to go on vacation a month of the year."
It's not rich and poor. It's stupid and smart; and Lazy and industrious.
By the way...Plato questioned capitalism too, I guess that time thing pretty long, huh?
StarOffice will NOT bw open source until the 6.0 release upcoming. As for most of the rest.. RH usually tries for a STABLE server-ready platform, that doesn't include things quite as unstable as the 2.4 test kernel... I would REALLY like to see ReiserFS and some of the LVM packages included, at least as options though.
I wonder what exactly MS will tout as the true differentiation, other than better advertising, of.net vs. Oracles internet file system? It allows basically the same thing. Its a client side redirector that lets the client see a "local" drive that really resides inside an Oracle DB that sits "anywhere". One large difference is that is is here, supports multpile platforms, and you can implement it yourself within your own LAN or WAN. Not uploading to MS... Same kind of idea from 2 very different/similiar/successful companies. Could this be a trend that will continue- the assisted death or at least coma of the desktop- replaced by appliances and smaller clients? Or will it die off as a fad? I think it has been and will continue to be the trend for devices to get smaller and bandwidth to get bigger, allowing this sort of thing to proliferate. But, ONLY once sufficient privact and security procedures are in place. Let's face it, if someone wants your data from a net connected server (be it.com,.us, or.net...) they eventually will get it- by social engineering, or by poor security. Maybe the safest place for your data IS a powered down laptop sitting on you nightstand, but it may not be the most useable... Security Vs. Useability... Age ol war.
I recently took the 253 course (admin and security) at Redhat in Durham as well. I also agree that it was targeted at a lower level than I expected. Some areas were very informative (the ones I never had a call to do in the past) while others were boring. Overall the security information was primarily conceptual, and much of the admin work was as well. Contrary to my tone here, I would give the training a definent thumbs up. They had good facilities (minus the lack of internet access--which may have been for my own good:) and the courseware was as neutral as possible to still be "Red-Hat". I think that one misconception a lot of people make is that everyone coming through will be a guru. The beginning courses should concentrate on this, I know, but also the series may very well be the 1st linux contact that someone has. It may be a disgruntled MCSE who wants an OS minus the blue screens. I've taught the MCSE tracks for a few years now, and plenty of career changers with little or no experience come through these looking to get into IT. Luckily, I think that most of the car dealers - turned - IT guys haven't heard of linux yet, but, if we want linux to succeed, you've got to have trained people and companies that see a means TO train people to implement it. I think that in any course, a certification is a good goal for the students, and HOPEFULLY a gauge for the employer--- unfortunately, cheap study guides lead to cheap certified people. IE> paper CNE/MCSE. Anyway- All in all I also reccomend the RHCE courses. Red Hat understands that for linux to really succedd- it must act like some of the people we hate-- (big businesses--MS) sometimes - in some ways. A cert, is not evil, it just hopefully is a goal. If employers are stupid enough to hire based solely on it and NOT the interview process-- then they are to blame for an industry of janitors with the administrator/supervisor/root password...
Personally, KDE looks like a cheap windoze knockoff. It IS more usable, and stable right now, but it doesn't feel right. Also, there is NOW a story on the KDE 1.9 release. If you don't like/. then go read news and rants elsewhere. Freedom of web browser. Gnome is moving very fast and I just really (like a lot of others), like the project. KDE has had more time to refine its internals but with companies like Miguel's Helix and Easel working together with coders like RH labs, its moving pretty damn fast. The old addage of KDE today and Gnome tomorrow still holds. I can't stand KDS, but it's good for novice users who can't stand to get dirty. KDE is SO windows like that you can really sit a secretary down at a Corel box and maybe get some work out of her. Gnome is moving fast though. I like the Gnome support and news. I hope it continues. --not to the exclusion of KDE, but to each his own. The best choice is having one. L0ki
After pulling nails to compile all packages in their correct locations, I've got it working and pulling my POP3 accounts in. Looks like a beautiful interface and very functional application. Obviously an Outlook knockoff, but who cares? One thing I love about the Gnome team is their willingess to embrace/copy/steal heterogenous ideas from different apps and OS's and combine them for something even better. Caveats to install: remember to read the README. RTFM. In particular, when installing the required packages it will be a lot easier for you if you are already running helix. If you are, you'll just need the gtk,bonobo,lib-unicode, and gnome-vfs packages. When doing your make on these, be sure to pass the config of:./configure --prefix:/usr --installconfdir:/etc (it was close to that anyway) You can pull your own parameters out first with gnome-session, (ITS ALL IN THE README!!!) Anyway, this is VERY early in the apps lifetime- if you don't believe me, just read their disclaimer, it's kinda amusing. It will defineately be one hell of an app when its done though. It's crashed 4 or 5 times already- but it just dumped core, didn't actually bomb the whole app. core dump happened but app survived. I'm going to run it for day to day now and be brave. Submit some bug reports.
I, and my company teach most of these classes to aspiring geeks. We ALSO teach linux- (- that's me proving I'm not totally assimilated:) ). As a person who has to find VB and C++ programmers from the MS world, I can tell you that if you want a really talented one, you're going to need to offer a very good salary package. I running your own ad on MonsterBoard, and American Job Bank (also any other job board you like), maybe a newspaper ad in your area, AND check with your local MS Training center (CTEC). You never know, they may be churning out a fresh crop of programmers- of varying skill levels. This si how I find MS programmers and Network personnel. It's worked for me for 7 years, should be universal. http://www.monsterboard.com http://www.ajb.dni.us http://www.panurgy.com above=(company I work for that does this sort of thing. One of our programmers did work on the NT4 Kernel) l0ki
Although NT's security model is easily vulnerable to a plethora of attacks, -As are all the Backoffice products, are they any more vulnerable than most other OS's? If you have the most secure OS in the world (I, know, NetBSD) and it is set up incorrectly and most importantly administered incorrectly, then you'll never achieve a level of security that is satisfactory. One _downfall_ of NT is it's useability. I know this is an advantage to many, but also it lets a NOVICE admin guy set up a server any time. If NT OR Linux, Or nearly any other OS is set up by some fool who clicks "next,next,next", you are not going to have the best performing or secure OS in the world. I will say that NT's defaults are some of the worst choices that could ever be made, but these are intended again - to produce an OS thats optimized out of the box - for an idiot. Do you think that "EVERYONE" Full Control is a great default permission? It Sucks. MS Has PLENTY of resources to fix this though. If your NT Server, BSD Server, or Linux Server is working like a sick horse- or being routinely cracked from the web, don't criticize MS or anyone else- RTFM, and then RTFM again. That box is there because someone made a choice to install it. They chose to install it and run whatever backoffice application that your now concerned with. I've worked with NT, Linux, FreeBSD, OS2, BeOS, and many others for as many years as I can remember. If the admin on any of these is lazy in his/her auditing and PRO-active security measures, then the OS is vulnerable. New cracks WILL be found- Its evolution. People with more time on their hands than me spend it finding them. WHEN the company fixes the holes - the Admin has to apply the fix.... Any way- NT is optimized for a half-wit out of the box. If you leave it so, then its your choice. MS neads quicker response time, but SO do most network administrators. Check out http://www.ntsecurity.net http://www.ntfaq.com RTFM. Regards, L0ki
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.1q adds extra bits onto a packet so that it can "tunnel" data from source to destination- with- you VLAN info etc intact... thus it has to add data to the packet- which can make it bigger (jumbo) than intermediate devices expect/allow... it's normal bevahior and you just need to tell those intermediate devices to allow bigger MTU size without dropping the frame as being too big... Maybe this was a while back or something.
THEY didn't currupt your data-
You can't blame Cisco for a missing config line...
1.0PR was much more stable for me as well. Usually it's a complex page with a plugin (flash, pdf, etc.) that crashes me out, but it's much more often in 1.0 than the PR release for me.
Read the article- it's (will be) based on 2.2. I'd say that with the polish and finish that 2.2 has brought vs. 2.0 that this was a lot of the code maturity and consistency that Ximian was waiting for. - you have to remember that although they are not up to CVS speed for getting this out.. (I know I know it's taken them freakin forever) that they wanted to wait for a good solid "Gnome Distro" to be tested and ready. They don't target this neccesarily towards the techie crowd- but more as a corporate (easy to roll out and maintain via Red Carpet (and RC enterprise) desktop solution WITH a company in the back to optionally support it (important seling point to some mgrs.). Also it's an easy to install/maintain and 'fairly' quick intro to Gnome for a lot of folks who won't/can't/don't want to compile and put up with problems with bleeding edge code...
MSCS allows for application failover. MS bought WLBS/NLBS and released it (formerly was called convoy cluster server) to allow for LOAD BALANCED TCP/IP APPLICATIONS (web, proxy, DNS, etc). Beoulf as we know, is usually for massive computation.
Sony Aibo - $1500
For the newer ERS-220
75 spoken commands -
wireless navigation
read email and websites (needs $150 addon SW)
If you can put up with the high price, fact that it WONT lick your face, WILL run out of battery power in a couple hours, and sony's practices of shutting down cool attempts at SW for making it better due to supposed copyright infringments... Its pretty cool.
My question is why not use a fuel cell, then I saw the date. That's why.
"Mr Peabody, set the way-back machine"
"communism nor capitalism are instictive manners" I disagree. Capitalism is instinctive. The idea of barter, or out and out selling is natural. Go to a kidergarden lunch table. You see capitalism in a raw format. (No I won't trade my Jello for brocolli). "Inevitable growing of inequality among rich and poor." Give me a break. Sure there are rich, and sure there are poor, but with few exceptions many of the poor I knew made decisions like..."I think I'll smoke pot instead of doing my 11th grade Algerbra." Meanwhile many rich I knew put in 80 and 90 hours aweek building their buisness, so people can come back in a few years and say "They're lucky to be able to go on vacation a month of the year." It's not rich and poor. It's stupid and smart; and Lazy and industrious. By the way...Plato questioned capitalism too, I guess that time thing pretty long, huh?
StarOffice will NOT bw open source until the 6.0 release upcoming. As for most of the rest.. RH usually tries for a STABLE server-ready platform, that doesn't include things quite as unstable as the 2.4 test kernel... I would REALLY like to see ReiserFS and some of the LVM packages included, at least as options though.
I wonder what exactly MS will tout as the true differentiation, other than better advertising, of .net vs. Oracles internet file system? It allows basically the same thing. Its a client side redirector that lets the client see a "local" drive that really resides inside an Oracle DB that sits "anywhere". One large difference is that is is here, supports multpile platforms, and you can implement it yourself within your own LAN or WAN. Not uploading to MS... Same kind of idea from 2 very different/similiar/successful companies. Could this be a trend that will continue- the assisted death or at least coma of the desktop- replaced by appliances and smaller clients? Or will it die off as a fad? I think it has been and will continue to be the trend for devices to get smaller and bandwidth to get bigger, allowing this sort of thing to proliferate. But, ONLY once sufficient privact and security procedures are in place. Let's face it, if someone wants your data from a net connected server (be it .com,.us, or .net...) they eventually will get it- by social engineering, or by poor security. Maybe the safest place for your data IS a powered down laptop sitting on you nightstand, but it may not be the most useable... Security Vs. Useability... Age ol war.
I recently took the 253 course (admin and security) at Redhat in Durham as well. I also agree that it was targeted at a lower level than I expected. Some areas were very informative (the ones I never had a call to do in the past) while others were boring. Overall the security information was primarily conceptual, and much of the admin work was as well. Contrary to my tone here, I would give the training a definent thumbs up. They had good facilities (minus the lack of internet access--which may have been for my own good :) and the courseware was as neutral as possible to still be "Red-Hat". I think that one misconception a lot of people make is that everyone coming through will be a guru. The beginning courses should concentrate on this, I know, but also the series may very well be the 1st linux contact that someone has. It may be a disgruntled MCSE who wants an OS minus the blue screens. I've taught the MCSE tracks for a few years now, and plenty of career changers with little or no experience come through these looking to get into IT. Luckily, I think that most of the car dealers - turned - IT guys haven't heard of linux yet, but, if we want linux to succeed, you've got to have trained people and companies that see a means TO train people to implement it. I think that in any course, a certification is a good goal for the students, and HOPEFULLY a gauge for the employer--- unfortunately, cheap study guides lead to cheap certified people. IE> paper CNE/MCSE. Anyway- All in all I also reccomend the RHCE courses. Red Hat understands that for linux to really succedd- it must act like some of the people we hate-- (big businesses--MS) sometimes - in some ways. A cert, is not evil, it just hopefully is a goal. If employers are stupid enough to hire based solely on it and NOT the interview process-- then they are to blame for an industry of janitors with the administrator/supervisor/root password...
Personally, KDE looks like a cheap windoze knockoff. It IS more usable, and stable right now, but it doesn't feel right. Also, there is NOW a story on the KDE 1.9 release. If you don't like /. then go read news and rants elsewhere. Freedom of web browser. Gnome is moving very fast and I just really (like a lot of others), like the project. KDE has had more time to refine its internals but with companies like Miguel's Helix and Easel working together with coders like RH labs, its moving pretty damn fast. The old addage of KDE today and Gnome tomorrow still holds. I can't stand KDS, but it's good for novice users who can't stand to get dirty. KDE is SO windows like that you can really sit a secretary down at a Corel box and maybe get some work out of her. Gnome is moving fast though. I like the Gnome support and news. I hope it continues. --not to the exclusion of KDE, but to each his own. The best choice is having one. L0ki
After pulling nails to compile all packages in their correct locations, I've got it working and pulling my POP3 accounts in. Looks like a beautiful interface and very functional application. Obviously an Outlook knockoff, but who cares? One thing I love about the Gnome team is their willingess to embrace/copy/steal heterogenous ideas from different apps and OS's and combine them for something even better. Caveats to install: remember to read the README. RTFM. In particular, when installing the required packages it will be a lot easier for you if you are already running helix. If you are, you'll just need the gtk,bonobo,lib-unicode, and gnome-vfs packages. When doing your make on these, be sure to pass the config of: ./configure --prefix:/usr --installconfdir:/etc (it was close to that anyway) You can pull your own parameters out first with gnome-session, (ITS ALL IN THE README!!!) Anyway, this is VERY early in the apps lifetime- if you don't believe me, just read their disclaimer, it's kinda amusing. It will defineately be one hell of an app when its done though. It's crashed 4 or 5 times already- but it just dumped core, didn't actually bomb the whole app. core dump happened but app survived. I'm going to run it for day to day now and be brave. Submit some bug reports.
I, and my company teach most of these classes to aspiring geeks. We ALSO teach linux- (- that's me proving I'm not totally assimilated :) ). As a person who has to find VB and C++ programmers from the MS world, I can tell you that if you want a really talented one, you're going to need to offer a very good salary package. I running your own ad on MonsterBoard, and American Job Bank (also any other job board you like), maybe a newspaper ad in your area, AND check with your local MS Training center (CTEC). You never know, they may be churning out a fresh crop of programmers- of varying skill levels. This si how I find MS programmers and Network personnel. It's worked for me for 7 years, should be universal. http://www.monsterboard.com http://www.ajb.dni.us http://www.panurgy.com above=(company I work for that does this sort of thing. One of our programmers did work on the NT4 Kernel) l0ki
Although NT's security model is easily vulnerable to a plethora of attacks, -As are all the Backoffice products, are they any more vulnerable than most other OS's? If you have the most secure OS in the world (I, know, NetBSD) and it is set up incorrectly and most importantly administered incorrectly, then you'll never achieve a level of security that is satisfactory. One _downfall_ of NT is it's useability. I know this is an advantage to many, but also it lets a NOVICE admin guy set up a server any time. If NT OR Linux, Or nearly any other OS is set up by some fool who clicks "next,next,next", you are not going to have the best performing or secure OS in the world. I will say that NT's defaults are some of the worst choices that could ever be made, but these are intended again - to produce an OS thats optimized out of the box - for an idiot. Do you think that "EVERYONE" Full Control is a great default permission? It Sucks. MS Has PLENTY of resources to fix this though. If your NT Server, BSD Server, or Linux Server is working like a sick horse- or being routinely cracked from the web, don't criticize MS or anyone else- RTFM, and then RTFM again. That box is there because someone made a choice to install it. They chose to install it and run whatever backoffice application that your now concerned with. I've worked with NT, Linux, FreeBSD, OS2, BeOS, and many others for as many years as I can remember. If the admin on any of these is lazy in his/her auditing and PRO-active security measures, then the OS is vulnerable. New cracks WILL be found- Its evolution. People with more time on their hands than me spend it finding them. WHEN the company fixes the holes - the Admin has to apply the fix.... Any way- NT is optimized for a half-wit out of the box. If you leave it so, then its your choice. MS neads quicker response time, but SO do most network administrators. Check out http://www.ntsecurity.net http://www.ntfaq.com RTFM. Regards, L0ki