Note that my experience comes from both working in a datacenter (a competitor to Rackspace, won't say who), and from having a home rack built out of that wire shelving. There are pros and cons to both sides.
The biggest pro, of course, to the cheap white box and wire shelving way is the cheapness factor. The problem is that this is only an advantage while you have a lot of extra space in the data center. You can only get 9 or 12 white boxes in a rack stacked vertically, you can get 42 1U servers in a single rack. 3 times the density, basically. Plus, in my experience with our legacy cheap whiteboxes, they are far more likely to have hardware failures (power supply, motherboard, etc.) than the higher class hardware (mostly IBM, some Dell and HP). Hard drives fail in everything, but the whiteboxes are a pain in the ass to take apart to replace them. The rackmount servers open right up, and everything is right there where you can get to it. Also, the nonserver motherboards and bioses that were put in the whitebox have various issues with our automated build systems (varying NICs, some supporting PXE boot, some not, different array controllers, etc). You can control some of this by buying the same parts from the same vendors, but consumer systems don't have the build stability that server oriented systems do. Even if you are buying exactly the same model, you can find components (and drivers!) changing from one revision to the next depending on where the manufacturer got the best deal.
Now, as to the home environment, like I said, I have a wire shelf rack, with a bunch of different stuff on it (Suns, PCs, Powermacs). The main reason I am probably going to buy a real rack for the new house I just bought is flexibility. You can't easily move shelves around or add shelves to one of those wire units without taking the whole thing apart. If you only have tower systems, all exactly the same height, this is probably not a big deal. You just make all the shelves the right space for the tower systems, and leave them in place. But if you have a mix of stuff, and you want to maximize your space usage, you really want to put stuff horizontal, each on a separate shelf. This is when a real rack comes into its own. There are a variety of shelves available (some that slide out, some statically mounted, etc). Adding or moving a shelf is just a matter of 4 or 6 bolts. Most server class hardware has available rackmount addons (all of my Suns do). Another factor is cable management, currently I have a mess of wires all velcroed together... good racks come with cable management built in, and it is usually fairly cheap to add to a rack afterwards even if it doesn't come with it. And note that if you shop on ebay, or can find a good local remarketer/recycler (one who buys stuff from closing companies), then rackmount hardware and even the racks can actually be cheaper than buying wire shelving brand new. My 7 foot tall wire shelving unit cost me $350 to build... I have seen full racks, with side panels and everything, for $150 or so on ebay. What kills on these things is the shipping, so finding a local remarketer or ebay seller like another poster mentioned is definitely a good idea. You could double the price of a rack with the shipping charges.
There are people who agree with you, and are working on something similar to what you are asking for. Note that I am not an expert on this, but I thought it was an interesting and valid question, as I have a penchant for running Linux on old/retired (mostly non-x86 though) hardware. I am a professional sysadmin, so I don't think too much about getting something up and running on a weird machine, as that is what interests me. But I am also aware of the ease of use/installation issue, because I have supported Macs and Windows machines for years, and used Macs at home for years as well. You can't beat the "stick a CD in the drive, click a button, walk away, and when you come back there is a working system" model of installation.
Anyway, for a project that seems to be aligned to what you are asking for, you might want to check out the RULE project. I just found out about them recently, and I don't know how up to date they are, but they seem to have similar goals to what you have described. They claim that one of their installers can run in 12Mb of RAM, and the other in 6Mb. They install mainly a stock copy of Redhat, but with the package list stripped down to make a smaller profile. In addition, it appears that they are doing some work on the Kdrive X server, which is a very small XFree86 replacement.
Unfortunately, my lowest spec Intel machine (a p133 laptop), that I used to test and run things to make sure it worked on slower machines, was stolen when somebody broke into my house, so I have no way at the moment to test the RULE project out. Most of my other machines are SPARCs or Powerpcs, so they don't work with this project. You might want to check out your local Linux user group, as in my experience they are usually packrats, and have lots of old machines, and a willingness to help.
Note that OpenRBL is back up, using a distributed proxy system to weather the DDOS (which I'm currently trying to find more info about, it is technically very interesting). You can search spamhaus records (among many others) from there.
Virtual users most definitely do not have to have individual local accounts with postfix. I have set up a corporate mail server, with 3 different mailing domains, and 60 different users spread throughout the domains. The user info is stored in MySQL, and postfix and courier-imap pick up their info from there. None of the mail users have local accounts, all are mail only.
I also have blacklists/whitelists, spam & virus filtering, and dns blocklist checking set up. I was able to do all of this without patching the source (I used debian's default.deb), and was able to reuse my previous sendmail installation's/etc/aliases (which I needed to support the mailing list manager I had previously set up).
AT&T wireless online and my local AT&T wireless have the following Bluetooth capable phones in stock:
Sony Ericsson T68i
Nokia 6310i
Nokia 3650
A friend of mine has the T68i through AT&T and uses the Bluetooth capability of it extensively (there is software for Mac OS X that allows you to use Sony Ericsson bluetooth phones to control various functions on the Mac).
Note that this doesn't mean that I dont' agree with you -- I would prefer their to be far more handset choice than there is.
Note that Namco recently released Namco Museum for Game Boy Advance. Includes Ms. Pac Man, Pole Position, Dig Dug, Galaga, and Galaxian. I picked it up for $15 at a local Best Buy. Sadly, the buttons of the GBA, while pretty good for a handheld system, don't quite have the same "ergonomics" as a standup cabinet (my thumb got quite sore just after playing through the first couple of levels of Galaga). I badly needed a "pickup" game for my GBA though (one I could pick up for 5-15 minutes to blow off steam without worrying about saves or levels) and any of the games on here fit that bill nicely. Especially Galaga:)
Note that there is a button in the Preferences dialog (under the security tab) to show your cookies. From there you can select and delete the ones you don't want.
Note that freshmeat started as a directory of opensource unix software. For many people (including myself) that is still it's primary function. There are already a million search sites for Win32 free and shareware applications; there is no need for freshmeat to turn into another one.
As to windows opensource software, the most important entry, Cygwin , is there. Additionally, there are a lot of other crossplatform programs that happen to compile and work on windows listed under the Trove Windows category.
And a somewhat facetious aside... Windows NT/2000/XP whatever, despite their somewhat POSIX compliance, and the availability of Cygwin/DJGPP, are still not an acceptable Unix to some of us (meaning me:). The primary lack is that of a decent terminal (one that supports vector fonts, full VT100 emulation, easy window size changes, etc.). Note that I am talking about a local terminal... for remote connections, you can use Putty, which is relatively decent. The two "best" ways that I have found to get a decent term on Windows are:
Install Cygwin, setup up sshd and ssh in to localhost with Putty.
Install X11 of one kind or another, and use an XTerm
I don't find either of those a very satisfactory or clean solution, but they can make working on Windows a little more livable to Unix head like myself. Note that Mac OS X has a decent terminal application installed by default,/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app, which supports TrueType fonts, multiple encodings, easy window resizing, saved settings, etc. This makes Mac OS X a much more usable Unix system out of the box.
Note that Bayesian mail filters use a probabilistic analysis of the word distribution in the email you feed it during the training process in order to classify email as spam, or nonspam (and in the case of popfile, any other category you want to create).
As long as the spam you receive remains sufficiently different from the nonspam email you receive, Bayesian filters should still flag it properly. To put it another way, it doesn't test for the presence of specific words to categorize as spam (like SpamAssassin does), instead it uses the probability database built up during the training process to determine how similar the prospective email is to either the spam you have received and trained upon or to your regular email that you have trained upon. Thus it is much less susceptible to spammers changing their wording in order to defeat the filter.
This link
might be of interest to you... it's about a binary installation of Tcl & Aqua Tk 8.4.0 for Mac OS X.
It is possible to build python under Mac OS X with TK support as well... I have been running this build, from the WxPython folks, with these instructions from Tony Lownds on how to build the Tkinter module.
I have a poor, dejected Cobalt Qube that I don't even use anymore because the software on it is so full of holes that it would be suicide to use it as a server. The last updates to the unit were posted by Sun in 2000.
In general, when you are thinking to yourself "Gee, the vendor stopped supportings this Foo... the hardware still has life in it, but the software is no longer being updated... how can I use it when I can't trust it on the network with no security updates?" (where Foo is an older, possibly non-x86 machine) then the answer is usually one of the above two...
Just as a "hacker" to most of the general public is one who breaks into computers, a "DJ" to most of the general public is one who stands in front of a crowd and plays music. Trying to fight popular usages is a fruitless endeavor. You will never convince most people that that guy playing music at their bar/bat mitzah, wedding, whatever is not called a "DJ" -- most likely, the only thing you will convince them of is that you are an elitist idiot...
The vast majority of DJ's, the ones that are playing tracks at your local bar, at the local small time club, etc. don't "beat mix, scratch, and meld tracks in such a way that the end product becomes the dj's 'own' track"... they have a bunch of records, cds, mp3's, and they play the music that the crowd wants... and everybody except you includes those people in the term "DJ".
Pollonius is giving a fatherly speach to his son Laertes (the brother of Ophelia):
... Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!
Newer versions of CPAN won't try to upgrade Perl itself (or a few other critical dependencies, can't remember exactly which) unless explicitely requested (using a command like the one mentioned earlier in the thread).
To fix this, you need to upgrade only your CPAN module (not bundle-cpan) before trying to install other modules.
Then you can use CPAN to install other modules, and it shouldn't try to install the new Perl. It might, however, refuse to install a new module version that requires or depends on the new Perl.
Just to combat some of the misinformation that has been spreading around here:
privsep is not a "new" feature... it has been available since OpenSSH 3.1p was released, almost 2 months ago. In that two months none of the various vendors and users who are whinging now appear to have bothered to help the openssh team test the privsep code and develop patches to make it work better.
With privsep enabled, this hole, and any future root hole are made much more difficult, sometimes even impossible, to exploit. Privilege separation is just the right way to code network daemons -- postfix does it, apache does it, courier imap does it, qmail does it -- and now, openssh does it. It is a bit more complicated for openssh to do it because it needs to interface directly with some operating system facilities like authentication, PAM, etc that require root privileges.
I installed 3.3p yesterday on all of my network facing systems, and will be upgrading to 3.4 as soon as Debian has it available -- I firmly believe in the concept of privilege separation, and will always seek out network daemons that use it.
I thank the Debian team, OpenBSD/OpenSSH teams, Wietse Venema and the rest of the Postfix hackers, the mailman team, the GNU project, all the Linux kernel hackers, and anybody else who has contributed free software that I rely on to do my job for making my job as a sysadmin smoother than it might otherwise be. I know the alternative, because I am also responsible for an Exchange server, and I spend far more time patching that and making sure it is up to date than I do with any of my Debian servers.
Don't complain too much folks... you could have to do without a robust free ssh implementation.
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Dude, who peed in your coffee?
I have an iBook 600, and an iBook DVD SE 466, which I have handed down to my wife. Mac OS X is quite usable on both of them... at least as usable as Windows 2000 on the Pentium III 500 Dell that I used to own (sold it to buy the iBook).
I get around the same encoding rate (3x-4x) with LAME that I got on my Pentium III, I get around the same frame rate in Quake II, and Mozilla renders slashdot at about the same speed.
The most important factor in getting OS X to a usable performance level in my experience is the amount of RAM... both of the iBooks have more than 128MB of memory, the 466 has...
So according to my own (admittedly anecdotal) experience, you're full of shit... Mac OS X is very usable on an iBook 600. True, it would be even more usable on a dual 1Ghz G4 with 1.5Gb of RAM... but then again, so would everything else... and I can't fit one of those in my backpack:)
hee hee.. and 10-15 years ago, Macintosh Power Users (at that time, mostly programmers) would have said that they already have a Powerful Command Line Interface.
:-P
And, because Google Is Fun, here's a little message from the Guido (Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python) burbling happily about it way back in 1986...
Now, don't that just poke holes in your preconceptions:)
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dude, you are so misinformed (or you're trolling, in which case you are misinforming others):
Photoshop upgrades are only $150. They usually have at least 1 or 2 significant new features that make the upgrade worth buying (like 5.5->6 added a full vector type engine). Plus, when I was doing photo retouching for a living, $150 was the target price for a single small retouching/restoration job (about 1 1/2 hours of work).
Some people aren't satisfied/can't work with a point-and-shoot camera. A decent, professional level digital camera, that works with existing pro lens systems is way more than $600... the Nikon D1x is over $5000. If you don't need the flexibility of a full digital system, but still want the flexibility of interchangeable lenses, it is still cheaper to buy an N90 or N100, some decent lenses, and a film scanner (total of around $1500-2000).
Plus, while cameras like the D1x are able to rival some 35mm film stocks in quality, they aren't even close to the quality of a 2-1/4 or 8x10 transparency.
So, basically what I am saying is that there are still a lot of people scanning from transparencies, and that some really good retouching tools (plus being able to deal with large files) are worth the price of Photoshop.
If all you ever have to deal with are teeny RGB images targeted to the web, by all means, use the GIMP... it'll get the job done. But if you ever have a need to edit a 75Mb CMYK image (a 2 page 8/-1/2x11 full bleed spread at 150 line screen), and you'll get fired (or not get another contract from the same people) if the color is off or if there is a huge scratch right through the middle of the model's face, then $150 for a Photoshop upgrade, or even $600 for the full version of Photoshop, starts to look quite reasonable.
Actually, every single HTML email sent by a Microsoft Mail client is at least twice the size of the equivalent plain text message...
Why is that, you say? Because the email messages are actually sent as multipart/alternative... meaning usually that there is a complete (quoted-printable) text copy of the messages, as well as a complete html copy of the same message. Add the mime delimeters, the html tags, the doctype, the microsoft specific meta tags... and you usually end up at 3 times or more the size of the text/plain messages...
The Mac Classic was quite a few years from the first all-in-one that Apple shipped (seven, to be exact)... the first was the Apple Lisa (shipped June 1983), and then released several months later, the Macintosh (January of 1984, note, no model designation). After they released the first revision, the Mac 512k, they started calling the first one the Macintosh 128k (the amount of memory it had:) ).
Following that, they released the 512ke, the Macintosh Plus (the first with external SCSI, and the one I owned), the Macintosh SE (the first Mac with internal expansion slots and an internal hard drive), then the SE/30 (the first to use the 68030 processor) and then in October of 1990, they released the Classic.
More info for the terminally curious is available at Lowendmac.com
Ironically enough, this mentality locks the end user out of using traditionally Mac-only type of hardware (consumer SCSI devices).
And if it is important to the user to use their SCSI device, they can buy this OrangeMicro Firewire to SCSI converter which has drivers built into Mac OS X (completely plug and play), and works with most scanners, CD Burners, Zip drives, etc...
And every possible peripheral device that I want to use with my iBook (running OS X 10.1.2), I have been able to. My scanner and printer are USB, as is my Rio 500... my SCSI zip drive and CD burner connect through the orange converter (the CD burner is even supported in iTunes that way!). When I buy a digital camera, there are USB SmartMedia and CompactFlash readers... I am using my Airport card to connect to an SMC wireless access point...
USB 2.0 has no interest for me, because all of it's intended benefits and devices are already available to me through a combination of existing USB and FireWire devices
The only possible thing I might want to add is a faster wireless connection... and that card is easily replacable.
And if we get farther in the future than that, then I will want to buy a new laptop anyway, for the increased processor spead and storage.
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Yeah, well, sometimes you get what you pay for :(
Note that my experience comes from both working in a datacenter (a competitor to Rackspace, won't say who), and from having a home rack built out of that wire shelving. There are pros and cons to both sides.
The biggest pro, of course, to the cheap white box and wire shelving way is the cheapness factor. The problem is that this is only an advantage while you have a lot of extra space in the data center. You can only get 9 or 12 white boxes in a rack stacked vertically, you can get 42 1U servers in a single rack. 3 times the density, basically. Plus, in my experience with our legacy cheap whiteboxes, they are far more likely to have hardware failures (power supply, motherboard, etc.) than the higher class hardware (mostly IBM, some Dell and HP). Hard drives fail in everything, but the whiteboxes are a pain in the ass to take apart to replace them. The rackmount servers open right up, and everything is right there where you can get to it. Also, the nonserver motherboards and bioses that were put in the whitebox have various issues with our automated build systems (varying NICs, some supporting PXE boot, some not, different array controllers, etc). You can control some of this by buying the same parts from the same vendors, but consumer systems don't have the build stability that server oriented systems do. Even if you are buying exactly the same model, you can find components (and drivers!) changing from one revision to the next depending on where the manufacturer got the best deal.
Now, as to the home environment, like I said, I have a wire shelf rack, with a bunch of different stuff on it (Suns, PCs, Powermacs). The main reason I am probably going to buy a real rack for the new house I just bought is flexibility. You can't easily move shelves around or add shelves to one of those wire units without taking the whole thing apart. If you only have tower systems, all exactly the same height, this is probably not a big deal. You just make all the shelves the right space for the tower systems, and leave them in place. But if you have a mix of stuff, and you want to maximize your space usage, you really want to put stuff horizontal, each on a separate shelf. This is when a real rack comes into its own. There are a variety of shelves available (some that slide out, some statically mounted, etc). Adding or moving a shelf is just a matter of 4 or 6 bolts. Most server class hardware has available rackmount addons (all of my Suns do). Another factor is cable management, currently I have a mess of wires all velcroed together... good racks come with cable management built in, and it is usually fairly cheap to add to a rack afterwards even if it doesn't come with it. And note that if you shop on ebay, or can find a good local remarketer/recycler (one who buys stuff from closing companies), then rackmount hardware and even the racks can actually be cheaper than buying wire shelving brand new. My 7 foot tall wire shelving unit cost me $350 to build... I have seen full racks, with side panels and everything, for $150 or so on ebay. What kills on these things is the shipping, so finding a local remarketer or ebay seller like another poster mentioned is definitely a good idea. You could double the price of a rack with the shipping charges.
Don't give up completely yet!
There are people who agree with you, and are working on something similar to what you are asking for. Note that I am not an expert on this, but I thought it was an interesting and valid question, as I have a penchant for running Linux on old/retired (mostly non-x86 though) hardware. I am a professional sysadmin, so I don't think too much about getting something up and running on a weird machine, as that is what interests me. But I am also aware of the ease of use/installation issue, because I have supported Macs and Windows machines for years, and used Macs at home for years as well. You can't beat the "stick a CD in the drive, click a button, walk away, and when you come back there is a working system" model of installation.
Anyway, for a project that seems to be aligned to what you are asking for, you might want to check out the RULE project. I just found out about them recently, and I don't know how up to date they are, but they seem to have similar goals to what you have described. They claim that one of their installers can run in 12Mb of RAM, and the other in 6Mb. They install mainly a stock copy of Redhat, but with the package list stripped down to make a smaller profile. In addition, it appears that they are doing some work on the Kdrive X server, which is a very small XFree86 replacement.
Unfortunately, my lowest spec Intel machine (a p133 laptop), that I used to test and run things to make sure it worked on slower machines, was stolen when somebody broke into my house, so I have no way at the moment to test the RULE project out. Most of my other machines are SPARCs or Powerpcs, so they don't work with this project. You might want to check out your local Linux user group, as in my experience they are usually packrats, and have lots of old machines, and a willingness to help.
Note that OpenRBL is back up, using a distributed proxy system to weather the DDOS (which I'm currently trying to find more info about, it is technically very interesting). You can search spamhaus records (among many others) from there.
Virtual users most definitely do not have to have individual local accounts with postfix. I have set up a corporate mail server, with 3 different mailing domains, and 60 different users spread throughout the domains. The user info is stored in MySQL, and postfix and courier-imap pick up their info from there. None of the mail users have local accounts, all are mail only.
.deb), and was able to reuse my previous sendmail installation's /etc/aliases (which I needed to support the mailing list manager I had previously set up).
I also have blacklists/whitelists, spam & virus filtering, and dns blocklist checking set up. I was able to do all of this without patching the source (I used debian's default
AT&T wireless online and my local AT&T wireless have the following Bluetooth capable phones in stock:
A friend of mine has the T68i through AT&T and uses the Bluetooth capability of it extensively (there is software for Mac OS X that allows you to use Sony Ericsson bluetooth phones to control various functions on the Mac).
Note that this doesn't mean that I dont' agree with you -- I would prefer their to be far more handset choice than there is.
Note that Namco recently released Namco Museum for Game Boy Advance. Includes Ms. Pac Man, Pole Position, Dig Dug, Galaga, and Galaxian. I picked it up for $15 at a local Best Buy. Sadly, the buttons of the GBA, while pretty good for a handheld system, don't quite have the same "ergonomics" as a standup cabinet (my thumb got quite sore just after playing through the first couple of levels of Galaga). I badly needed a "pickup" game for my GBA though (one I could pick up for 5-15 minutes to blow off steam without worrying about saves or levels) and any of the games on here fit that bill nicely. Especially Galaga :)
Note that there is a button in the Preferences dialog (under the security tab) to show your cookies. From there you can select and delete the ones you don't want.
Note that freshmeat started as a directory of opensource unix software. For many people (including myself) that is still it's primary function. There are already a million search sites for Win32 free and shareware applications; there is no need for freshmeat to turn into another one.
As to windows opensource software, the most important entry, Cygwin , is there. Additionally, there are a lot of other crossplatform programs that happen to compile and work on windows listed under the Trove Windows category.
And a somewhat facetious aside... Windows NT/2000/XP whatever, despite their somewhat POSIX compliance, and the availability of Cygwin/DJGPP, are still not an acceptable Unix to some of us (meaning me :). The primary lack is that of a decent terminal (one that supports vector fonts, full VT100 emulation, easy window size changes, etc.). Note that I am talking about a local terminal... for remote connections, you can use Putty, which is relatively decent. The two "best" ways that I have found to get a decent term on Windows are:
- Install Cygwin, setup up sshd and ssh in to localhost with Putty.
- Install X11 of one kind or another, and use an XTerm
I don't find either of those a very satisfactory or clean solution, but they can make working on Windows a little more livable to Unix head like myself. Note that Mac OS X has a decent terminal application installed by default,Note that Bayesian mail filters use a probabilistic analysis of the word distribution in the email you feed it during the training process in order to classify email as spam, or nonspam (and in the case of popfile, any other category you want to create).
As long as the spam you receive remains sufficiently different from the nonspam email you receive, Bayesian filters should still flag it properly. To put it another way, it doesn't test for the presence of specific words to categorize as spam (like SpamAssassin does), instead it uses the probability database built up during the training process to determine how similar the prospective email is to either the spam you have received and trained upon or to your regular email that you have trained upon. Thus it is much less susceptible to spammers changing their wording in order to defeat the filter.
This link might be of interest to you... it's about a binary installation of Tcl & Aqua Tk 8.4.0 for Mac OS X.
It is possible to build python under Mac OS X with TK support as well... I have been running this build, from the WxPython folks, with these instructions from Tony Lownds on how to build the Tkinter module.
I have two words for you: Debian and NetBSD.
In general, when you are thinking to yourself "Gee, the vendor stopped supportings this Foo... the hardware still has life in it, but the software is no longer being updated... how can I use it when I can't trust it on the network with no security updates?" (where Foo is an older, possibly non-x86 machine) then the answer is usually one of the above two...
Just a quick note for those who don't already know:
The native SAP DB C/Network API is ODBC... there is no emulation/translation overhead because the database natively speaks ODBC.
When you link against the provided SAP DB ODBC libraries, it is exactly the same thing as linking to the native MySQL or PosteSQL client libraries.
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
The battle is lost already...
Just as a "hacker" to most of the general public is one who breaks into computers, a "DJ" to most of the general public is one who stands in front of a crowd and plays music. Trying to fight popular usages is a fruitless endeavor. You will never convince most people that that guy playing music at their bar/bat mitzah, wedding, whatever is not called a "DJ" -- most likely, the only thing you will convince them of is that you are an elitist idiot...
The vast majority of DJ's, the ones that are playing tracks at your local bar, at the local small time club, etc. don't "beat mix, scratch, and meld tracks in such a way that the end product becomes the dj's 'own' track"... they have a bunch of records, cds, mp3's, and they play the music that the crowd wants... and everybody except you includes those people in the term "DJ".
Hamlet, Act I, Scene III
Pollonius is giving a fatherly speach to his son Laertes (the brother of Ophelia):
For the full scene, see this MIT site.
You have an old version of CPAN.pm.
Newer versions of CPAN won't try to upgrade Perl itself (or a few other critical dependencies, can't remember exactly which) unless explicitely requested (using a command like the one mentioned earlier in the thread).
To fix this, you need to upgrade only your CPAN module (not bundle-cpan) before trying to install other modules.
Example:
Then you can use CPAN to install other modules, and it shouldn't try to install the new Perl. It might, however, refuse to install a new module version that requires or depends on the new Perl.
The download is a macbinary file... you have to convert it from macbinary (I used stuffit expander) and then the checksums match.
you might want to take off your red white and blue glasses :)
hint: sometimes different dialects have different meanings for the same words :P
You might want to check out this CERT page...
Remember... all software sucks :)
Meaning this brouhaha, of course...
Just to combat some of the misinformation that has been spreading around here:
Don't complain too much folks... you could have to do without a robust free ssh implementation.
Dude, who peed in your coffee?
I have an iBook 600, and an iBook DVD SE 466, which I have handed down to my wife. Mac OS X is quite usable on both of them... at least as usable as Windows 2000 on the Pentium III 500 Dell that I used to own (sold it to buy the iBook).
I get around the same encoding rate (3x-4x) with LAME that I got on my Pentium III, I get around the same frame rate in Quake II, and Mozilla renders slashdot at about the same speed.
The most important factor in getting OS X to a usable performance level in my experience is the amount of RAM... both of the iBooks have more than 128MB of memory, the 466 has...
So according to my own (admittedly anecdotal) experience, you're full of shit... Mac OS X is very usable on an iBook 600. True, it would be even more usable on a dual 1Ghz G4 with 1.5Gb of RAM... but then again, so would everything else... and I can't fit one of those in my backpack :)
hee hee.. and 10-15 years ago, Macintosh Power Users (at that time, mostly programmers) would have said that they already have a Powerful Command Line Interface.
:-P
And, because Google Is Fun, here's a little message from the Guido (Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python) burbling happily about it way back in 1986...
Now, don't that just poke holes in your preconceptions :)
dude, you are so misinformed (or you're trolling, in which case you are misinforming others):
So, basically what I am saying is that there are still a lot of people scanning from transparencies, and that some really good retouching tools (plus being able to deal with large files) are worth the price of Photoshop.
If all you ever have to deal with are teeny RGB images targeted to the web, by all means, use the GIMP... it'll get the job done. But if you ever have a need to edit a 75Mb CMYK image (a 2 page 8/-1/2x11 full bleed spread at 150 line screen), and you'll get fired (or not get another contract from the same people) if the color is off or if there is a huge scratch right through the middle of the model's face, then $150 for a Photoshop upgrade, or even $600 for the full version of Photoshop, starts to look quite reasonable.
Actually, every single HTML email sent by a Microsoft Mail client is at least twice the size of the equivalent plain text message...
Why is that, you say? Because the email messages are actually sent as multipart/alternative ... meaning usually that there is a complete (quoted-printable) text copy of the messages, as well as a complete html copy of the same message. Add the mime delimeters, the html tags, the doctype, the microsoft specific meta tags... and you usually end up at 3 times or more the size of the text/plain messages...
Dude... you must be younger than me :)
The Mac Classic was quite a few years from the first all-in-one that Apple shipped (seven, to be exact)... the first was the Apple Lisa (shipped June 1983), and then released several months later, the Macintosh (January of 1984, note, no model designation). After they released the first revision, the Mac 512k, they started calling the first one the Macintosh 128k (the amount of memory it had :) ).
Following that, they released the 512ke, the Macintosh Plus (the first with external SCSI, and the one I owned), the Macintosh SE (the first Mac with internal expansion slots and an internal hard drive), then the SE/30 (the first to use the 68030 processor) and then in October of 1990, they released the Classic.
More info for the terminally curious is available at Lowendmac.com
And if it is important to the user to use their SCSI device, they can buy this OrangeMicro Firewire to SCSI converter which has drivers built into Mac OS X (completely plug and play), and works with most scanners, CD Burners, Zip drives, etc...
And every possible peripheral device that I want to use with my iBook (running OS X 10.1.2), I have been able to. My scanner and printer are USB, as is my Rio 500... my SCSI zip drive and CD burner connect through the orange converter (the CD burner is even supported in iTunes that way!). When I buy a digital camera, there are USB SmartMedia and CompactFlash readers... I am using my Airport card to connect to an SMC wireless access point...
USB 2.0 has no interest for me, because all of it's intended benefits and devices are already available to me through a combination of existing USB and FireWire devices
The only possible thing I might want to add is a faster wireless connection... and that card is easily replacable.
And if we get farther in the future than that, then I will want to buy a new laptop anyway, for the increased processor spead and storage.
So what was your point again?