What run of bad luck are you referring to?
according to orbitals website:
"30 missions conducted; flawless record since late 1996"
Either their website is not up to date or their record is phenomenol.
1) Think about directories.
LDAP and PAM should be able to do the job
2. remote access. freeswan, CIPE, ssh
3. open standards for file formats should be ncouraged. PDF if nothing else.
4. college is where they should learn, linux is great if you want to learn about computers, not so great if you just want to memorized one way of doing things.
5) which features are missing? If you find linux/postgres inadequate stick with oracle on solaris. you can still dump NT. Stay away from SQL server.
6)wierd hardware - case by case.
linux is the platform of choice for open source software development.
Don't go into this planning on replacing every MS box but you should be able to get rid of most of the servers painlessly. Just make sure you don't upgrade any desktops to later more restrictive licensing from MS. Take labs and individuals on a case by case basis. Setup a mirror and manage updates automatically. (autorpm, autoupdate, up2date) Mass deploy staroffice on linux/windows and solaris. upgrade to staroffice 6.0 when released.
First thing to do is isolate whether it is the camera driver or the application. Try the camera with different video applications. (xawtv etc)
Check out different camera models with gnomemeeting. I didn't think many logitech cams were well supported. Last I heard they refused to release the programming specs.
Check out
http://www.linux-usb.org/
for more info.
Follow the links to this url to get cameras that work well.
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdevices.php3? id =9
Bad analogy. A website defacer is more akin to graffiti.
No one is suggesting that if you cause the death of another person using a computer that you get off without punishment.
There are already laws on the books that cover killing someone whatever means you use.
just because a murder/manslaughter might involve a computer doesn't mean we need special laws to cover it. If you kill someone driving a car down the sidewalk you are still held accountable. There don't need to be laws specific to each method.
You are not free to drive down the sidewalk crushing people with a bulldozer. Still accountable.
Canon wasn't releasing programming info last time I checked. Just got an Epson 1200U photo.
Excellent picture quality and speed. Works well under linux
After downloading and compiling 2.2.1 I had problems with the printer as well.(RH5.2)
I had to do two things to fix it, the new kernel printer drivers get installed as/dev/lp0 for the first parallel port regardless of the I/O, interrupt settings. Change your printer configuration to point to/dev/lp0 instead of/dev/lp1.
The other problem was in my selection of the kernel config. I selected Parallel Port support/pc style hardware from the General setup menu but I missed "parallel printer support" under the character devices menu.
checkout http://www.smarthome.com for some options.
I would stay away from running all the A/V over the LAN. (of course you want all your LINUX boxes networked together though)
Maybe one central box that controls all A/V, Power HVAC etc.
My main system has an X10 interface to control power devices throughout the home. I can dialin, enter a passcode (DTMF), and have my system turn my routers on or off, dialback to ISP etc. The X10 device can also receive and act on wireless motion detectors...
With IR recording and transmitting I can control most consumer devices in the home from my computer. This requires IR distribution throughout the house.
The easiest way to do Video distribution is to modulate your line level video to a unused channel on your cable TV wiring. Then you can simply tune any tv in your house to channel 61 and see your computer screen.:-)
Check out smarthome's website. The may have a computer controlled A/V distribution system, if not I remember one in an old "circuit cellar" article (back in the byte days)
The following software is available: (all free (beer) and open source)
1. vgetty - controls voicemodem to allow a single phone line to take care of ISP connectivity, voicemail, fax with hook for scripting using touch tone decoding
2. heyu - software to drive serial X10 interface for power control. CLI
3. LIRC - linux project for IR remote control, recording and playback of IR commands from existing remotes
Excellent response. I am trying to decide which email addresses at IEEE to send my complaints about the original article to. I am a member and have been for 10 years.
I wonder if this kind of shoddy journalism would be tolerated if the victim was a company that would sue? I hope they get a lot of responses from members.
Chuck
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I have. Both as an employee and a consultant.
When I am asked to sign a contract as an independent consultant the companies usually have a stock contract the give you to sign. I read through all the legalese(sp?) and explain any problems I have with the contract. Usually it involves non-compete clauses or IP. If you ask them to rewrite those sections to address your concerns you can usually get them to just strike those clauses.
Doesn't this remind you of a dilbert cartoon where they were supposed to sign over their rights to their DNA and all derivative works.
I think in most states the non-compete clauses and they ownership of projects tend to non-enforcable in court. I hope this case turns out that way, AND SOON!
I don't see how they can claim ownership to an idea that was developed 80% before he became employed. Maybe he could turn over just the 20% (hopefully useless) that was developed while with DSC?
I think this case would have been thrown out long ago except if the idea was less lucrative. With so much money involved (potentially) the courts want to back the company that could affard to sue them later. If they would go ahead and get the case over with maybe the government could be using the approach to solve y2k issues?
In my experience Dell has built some very solid high performance machines.
On the other hand I still have a bitter taste in my mouth from Michael Dell testifying on behalf of MS. Remember how he said that they had always offered to install Netscape or IE?
I forget which senator(?) had his assistants call dell 5 times asking if they could get netscape installed on a new machine. The answer was no each time.
On the one hand you can be sure that MS is looking for articles that support their contention that they are not a monopoly.
On the other hand they don't want to add any legitimacy to any real competition.
I don't think this article would do their case any good. How can you explain the ability to charge $800+ for a file server that is outperformed (2.5x) by a $50 linux distribution!
MS is in a position where they want to portray Linux as immature potential future competitor. To do this they don't need any articles that actually include facts. They want articles that talk about how great it is if you are a Unix genius but otherwise it's impossible to install.
The arguements stated in the article definitly aren't the real reasons behind the proposal. They don't make sense. You can't track a thief if he can disable the ID transmission with a patch.
You could just as easily embed the clock speed the chip was sold at as you could embed a serial number (much easier actually)
the e-commerce possibilities could only be realized with a standard that ALL hosts adhered to.
IMO the whole reason intel is doing this is for Intel. They want to enable node locked software licensing. If they are the only ones that support this "feature" then you will only be able to run PC-nodelocked software on INTEL PCs.
I am not completely against hardware IDs for systems although it doesn't seem to make sense in the home PC market where a large number of users regularly upgrade CPUs and motherboards. If all your software was node-locked you would need to contact each vendor for new licenses with each CPU upgrade.
For a commercial UNIX workstation you are usually only running one or two nodelocked apps per machine. With PCs you run many different software packages. What a pain if your machine running turbo tax crashes in the middle of the night on April 15th.
If Intel succeeds in this, what are the chances that it would slow down the upgrade cycle?
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mod the parent down. Completely incorrect.
The pegasus is not carried under one wing.
It is centered on the fuselage of the plane.
What run of bad luck are you referring to?
according to orbitals website:
"30 missions conducted; flawless record since late 1996"
Either their website is not up to date or their record is phenomenol.
1) Think about directories.
LDAP and PAM should be able to do the job
2. remote access. freeswan, CIPE, ssh
3. open standards for file formats should be ncouraged. PDF if nothing else.
4. college is where they should learn, linux is great if you want to learn about computers, not so great if you just want to memorized one way of doing things.
5) which features are missing? If you find linux/postgres inadequate stick with oracle on solaris. you can still dump NT. Stay away from SQL server.
6)wierd hardware - case by case.
linux is the platform of choice for open source software development.
Don't go into this planning on replacing every MS box but you should be able to get rid of most of the servers painlessly. Just make sure you don't upgrade any desktops to later more restrictive licensing from MS. Take labs and individuals on a case by case basis. Setup a mirror and manage updates automatically. (autorpm, autoupdate, up2date) Mass deploy staroffice on linux/windows and solaris. upgrade to staroffice 6.0 when released.
First thing to do is isolate whether it is the camera driver or the application. Try the camera with different video applications. (xawtv etc)
? id =9
Check out different camera models with gnomemeeting. I didn't think many logitech cams were well supported. Last I heard they refused to release the programming specs.
Check out
http://www.linux-usb.org/
for more info.
Follow the links to this url to get cameras that work well.
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdevices.php3
Bad analogy. A website defacer is more akin to graffiti.
No one is suggesting that if you cause the death of another person using a computer that you get off without punishment.
There are already laws on the books that cover killing someone whatever means you use.
just because a murder/manslaughter might involve a computer doesn't mean we need special laws to cover it. If you kill someone driving a car down the sidewalk you are still held accountable. There don't need to be laws specific to each method.
You are not free to drive down the sidewalk crushing people with a bulldozer. Still accountable.
Here are the tools I have used in the past and recommend. Don't have URLs handy:
Big brother
opennms
mrtg
sendpage
Opennms is under heavy development. Grand plans, great progress
Looked at, never implemented. seemed promising:
gxsnmp
hnms (hierarchical network management system?)
Canon wasn't releasing programming info last time I checked. Just got an Epson 1200U photo. Excellent picture quality and speed. Works well under linux
After downloading and compiling 2.2.1 I had problems with the printer as well.(RH5.2)
/dev/lp0 for the first parallel port regardless of the I/O, interrupt settings. Change your printer configuration to point to /dev/lp0 instead of /dev/lp1.
I had to do two things to fix it, the new kernel printer drivers get installed as
The other problem was in my selection of the kernel config. I selected Parallel Port support/pc style hardware from the General setup menu but I missed "parallel printer support" under the character devices menu.
Hope this helps,
Chuck Moss
checkout http://www.smarthome.com for some options.
:-)
I would stay away from running all the A/V over the LAN. (of course you want all your LINUX boxes networked together though)
Maybe one central box that controls all A/V, Power HVAC etc.
My main system has an X10 interface to control power devices throughout the home. I can dialin, enter a passcode (DTMF), and have my system turn my routers on or off, dialback to ISP etc. The X10 device can also receive and act on wireless motion detectors...
With IR recording and transmitting I can control most consumer devices in the home from my computer. This requires IR distribution throughout the house.
The easiest way to do Video distribution is to modulate your line level video to a unused channel on your cable TV wiring. Then you can simply tune any tv in your house to channel 61 and see your computer screen.
Check out smarthome's website. The may have a computer controlled A/V distribution system, if not I remember one in an old "circuit cellar" article (back in the byte days)
The following software is available: (all free (beer) and open source)
1. vgetty - controls voicemodem to allow a single phone line to take care of ISP connectivity, voicemail, fax with hook for scripting using touch tone decoding
2. heyu - software to drive serial X10 interface for power control. CLI
3. LIRC - linux project for IR remote control, recording and playback of IR commands from existing remotes
Excellent response. I am trying to decide which email addresses at IEEE to send my complaints about the original article to. I am a member and have been for 10 years.
I wonder if this kind of shoddy journalism would be tolerated if the victim was a company that would sue? I hope they get a lot of responses from members.
Chuck
I have. Both as an employee and a consultant.
When I am asked to sign a contract as an independent consultant the companies usually have a stock contract the give you to sign. I read through all the legalese(sp?) and explain any problems I have with the contract. Usually it involves non-compete clauses or IP. If you ask them to rewrite those sections to address your concerns you can usually get them to just strike those clauses.
Chuck
Doesn't this remind you of a dilbert cartoon where they were supposed to sign over their rights to their DNA and all derivative works.
I think in most states the non-compete clauses and
they ownership of projects tend to non-enforcable in court. I hope this case turns out that way, AND SOON!
I don't see how they can claim ownership to an idea that was developed 80% before he became employed. Maybe he could turn over just the 20% (hopefully useless) that was developed while with DSC?
I think this case would have been thrown out long ago except if the idea was less lucrative. With so much money involved (potentially) the courts want to back the company that could affard to sue them later. If they would go ahead and get the case over with maybe the government could be using the approach to solve y2k issues?
Good Luck,
Chuck
In my experience Dell has built some very solid high performance machines.
On the other hand I still have a bitter taste in my mouth from Michael Dell testifying on behalf of MS. Remember how he said that they had always offered to install Netscape or IE?
I forget which senator(?) had his assistants call dell 5 times asking if they could get netscape installed on a new machine. The answer was no each time.
On the one hand you can be sure that MS is looking for articles that support their contention that they are not a monopoly.
On the other hand they don't want to add any legitimacy to any real competition.
I don't think this article would do their case any good. How can you explain the ability to charge $800+ for a file server that is outperformed (2.5x) by a $50 linux distribution!
MS is in a position where they want to portray Linux as immature potential future competitor. To do this they don't need any articles that actually include facts. They want articles that talk about how great it is if you are a Unix genius but otherwise it's impossible to install.
CM
The arguements stated in the article definitly aren't the real reasons behind the proposal. They don't make sense. You can't track a thief if he can disable the ID transmission with a patch.
You could just as easily embed the clock speed the chip was sold at as you could embed a serial number (much easier actually)
the e-commerce possibilities could only be realized with a standard that ALL hosts adhered to.
IMO the whole reason intel is doing this is for Intel. They want to enable node locked software licensing. If they are the only ones that support this "feature" then you will only be able to run PC-nodelocked software on INTEL PCs.
I am not completely against hardware IDs for systems although it doesn't seem to make sense in the home PC market where a large number of users regularly upgrade CPUs and motherboards. If all your software was node-locked you would need to contact each vendor for new licenses with each CPU upgrade.
For a commercial UNIX workstation you are usually only running one or two nodelocked apps per machine. With PCs you run many different software packages. What a pain if your machine running turbo tax crashes in the middle of the night on April 15th.
If Intel succeeds in this, what are the chances that it would slow down the upgrade cycle?
They could be shooting themselves in the foot.
ok, If you don't want to run it as a general purpose linux site how about a for sale sign?
:-)
Maybe include a link to linux.org, kernel.org, etc?
I am sure we could compile a list of top 100 linux sites to include on your page.
The crash kit gives the wrong impression. Only for redhat5.0???
Chuck
p.s. is the previous post for real?
Anyone notice that the netscape security module is
;-)
rated as FIPS-140 Level 2 with Level 2 with Sun Sparc 5 w/ Sun Solaris version 2.4SE
and only level 1 with NT workstation in single user mode?
Maybe there is an alternative.
p.s. isn't fips the tool we use to shrink our windoze partition down to 50 MB before we install linux.
Chuck
Overall Level: 2
They have a list of certification products and levels at
http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/140-1/1401val.htm