I did the same a while ago. My email registered with eBay is ebay@myname.name etc. You can add all valid addresses to/etc/mail/access.db and return a message to the rest user doesnt exist. You can then dynamically adjust that list whenever adding or removing hostnames to the email address. For instance resume@myname.name is treated with priority.
For some reason its a whole lotta work and recently Ive just been using one basic email. You just need to stay on top of things.
I'm not excited about the microbes. The size of the lakes suggest some pretty bizarre fish could be found in the lake. Strange alien-looking freaky fish are found in other trenches (read: high pressure), and this place has been completely isolated. Are we too crazy to expect creatures bigger than people deep down there?
The temperature might be a problem though.
And so would our equipment contaminating the lake and killing off the fish, so we'd only find bodies of the awesome creatures.
I think its the quality of the core to begin with. For embedded designs, IBM pushes PowerPC, along with Motorolla, which also pushes dragonball and 68H11 etc... Intel had been pushing the 8051 along with dozens of other companies.
But the ARM architecture is RISC, the core is small, tiny even (check Samsung and National's smallest 32-bit MCUs), flexible, and pervasive enough to have many tools ready for it everywhere. 8051 and the 8086 are also pervasive, and so is the 680x0, but theyre older cores and cant be made as small and powerful as ARM.
So no matter how good the business on any side is, development teams made to sit down and decide on a core would prefer the ARM. There ARE other embedded companies willing to bend over backwards, and provide good customer and engineering services, they cant make good MCUs, or establish their instruction set in the market the way these guys have. Yes its a monopoly just like Intel, but we hate Intel because we pay quite a bit for their CPUs, we just dont KNOW how much we're paying ARM when purchasing the latest Plasma screen (not much, which also loses another reason to hate them).
Just remember the 6502 was popular at one time, and the current ARM designs will lose favor as another design fits the industry's bill. ARM is just trying to be at the innovation edge to be the owner of that new core.
Depending on your company size, the switch might not be worth it. Say there are 50 to 250 users, just putting in a firewall, and disabling ActiveX, ftp downloads,.exe,.cmd,.msi downloads, jacking up the 'security' settings would do. Installing and supporting a beta product from the Linux world on Windows takes away more man-hours even if reduces security man-hours.
IE on win32 is pretty bad in security, but with the prevention steps, we've kept the support man-hours lower than what would be required for a complete switch and support.
We're spending that extra time in bugging our application developers to release Linux binaries, testing their Linux binaries and trying out openoffice etc. Looks like in 3 years, we should be able to make that gigantic switch to OpenLDAP + Linux workstations, all involved binaries should have good Linux versions, well supported.
Till then, converting in parts will only add to the pain. Reasonably speaking, just convert your firewall, custom application database to Linux+Postgresql, and develop all new applications in a language + library thats easily portable so youre ready when the time comes.
This could be in a seperate article, but didnt the trailers before the movie came out, give out a bit too much? I hate it when you can piece together the story from the trailer, hate it even more when the best action parts are shown in the ever-lengthening trailers.
I've even avoided some movies because the trailers were so descriptive.
So in Spiderman, when they got onto the train I knew: (1) The would fight for a while and Spiderman would try to stop the train, (2) and will be thrown through a bridge.
When Peter was in the coffeeshop I knew (1) car will be thrown at them (2) Peter will grab MJ and jump sideways. That was awesome action, unfortunately I'd already seen it.
Many Spiderman fans avoided the trailers so they could enjoy the movie. People love Spiderman, they know whats coming, and most people decide to go watch it from their friends' reviews. So I hope they'd quit compressing the movie into a long trailer, to the point the audience would go 'I know whats gonna happen here'.
that I caught was when Spiderman swoops away the two little girls (or a girl and a boy) from in front of the truck in the opening scenes. Check the velocity of the swoop, definitely faster than the speed the truck was travelling.
So Spiderman would've caused more damage to the kids than the truck would have.
But is all good. They did work hard to make it close to the comic scenes which I appreciate, and PREFER, rather than bastardizing the movie to their own taste.
Heres another one: when spiderman near the end was trying to pull out the cables from the computers, he was like uprooting plans from the ground, at 90 degree angle. But his feet and back were'nt at an angle to use all his force. Weight lifers keep a straight back and flat feet when lifting weights, and so do most people using all their strength....
But then again if that was how the comics depiced it...
Try www.spec.org, you'll find big HTML tables or CSV files for the specs of various computers and CPUs. This is also pretty useful information say if you wanna compare a Pentium1's floating with sparcstation, or if youre looking on eBay to buy a cheap 64-bit cpu machine that can do a decent job of a firewall.
Newer datasets of the specint can help you decide between a Pentium4 CPU and Athlon machines, and their chipsets. So pretty cool and useful information there.
Also heard of telemetry information, on the heights of various spots of ground above sea level against GPS coordinates.... with that data you can build a 3D world thats realistic. Couldnt find the dataset though.
Indeed, this has been the best idea I've read on slashdot in weeks. Take that RIAA. Profits will go straight to the musicians and sadly will shut down the music stores.
So say you bought a $15 CD and paid $1 per song from a store, how much would the artist really get per track? I'd imagine $0.30 or less. This way they can even bypass the record labels, and end up making much more than they used to. I know despite being able to download music off P2P, 0.99 per track is cheap enough for me, given I can play it on any of my personal players rather than being legally bound to one saved location.
The Internet has done this for other businessess too, taking consumers directly to the producers, killing off the middlemen, increasing profits and reducing costs. The middlemen will eventually become either other producers, or part of other service-based business (Mcjobs arent off the list), thereby increasing the capacity of the market.
TFT does not accelerate electrons into your face, and the light is generally much easier on the eyes. Do get a later model version and if you can help it, get one with a DVI connector which makes pixels into tiny boxes rather than fuzzy circles.
My ideal monitor, for which I should start saving, is a 17" samsung at 1600x1200, because I use the 800x600 resolution, which will look bad on 1024x768 or 1280x1024 monitors. Critical also are the refresh rates(should be 20ms or less or something), and contrast (400 or more or something). No other technology can display a picture thats easier on the eyes than the TFT monitor currently... or maybe a good projector with Xenon bulbs on a whitewashed wall.
Youre prefectly correct. I hate C++ but I love C. I do prefer QT (in C++) over GTK, wxwindows MFC and other stuff like visual basic etc.
I've only seen C++ working really well in QT. I can work with it. Beside GUI applications, I'd much rather be programming in pure C just because I understand EVERYTHING about the language, all its keywords are second nature to me, and I cant look at a piece of C code and go 'huh'. I'll just read and understand it.
C++ on the other hand is too big for a language. I honestly neither understand all of C++'s tricks, nor 'get it' in an intuitive way. It takes your abstract concepts and builds different structures/code behind the scenes. you cant always visualize the code in assembly being run when youre working with C++, thats one major reason why most of the Linux kernel is made in C.. These are the people who simply must know understand and conceptualize every bit of it, rather than type in a working code, grab the paycheck and move on.
C++ is easier to program in, and impossible to fully understand. C is harder(hectic) to program in, compared to say using C++'s objects/methods but if you knew assembly language once, and wanted to have a complete 'feel' of the code, or high optimization, or high hardware customization, its for you.
All you have to do is stand straight and announce that we've been 'hacked'. If they ask to what extent, how bad etc, just say we've completely been hacked. Its all gone.
You'll be given all the time and budget to fix it. FUD doesnt always require proof, unless someone calls in some consultant.
Say your manager doesnt run after you with a stick at work, to motivate you. Say youre given 6 months to develop something with no required feedback during that time. Will you develop the way you'd write drivers for the linux kernel?
Its just kinda yucky to put effort into software which will make another man rich. Its like youre told to sculpt the best sculpture you can, which will be snatched by someone else, youll get paid $5 and he'll put his name on it. Even if you couldnt personally sell the sculpture at $5, its still a bad deal.
And then, there are the constraints which REALLY and I mean REALLY demotivate you. Say you absolutely love developing in ANSI C99, using lots of pointers, using the Intel compiler, QT, and making the code portable across BSD, Linux, Win32 and Solaris. Youre put on a VisualC.NET platform, where you have to use C++, not allowed to touch many libraries you'll depend on, not allowed the Intel C compiler, not allowed to port to Linux etc. Say you think the code should be distributed across many small shared libraries to make it neat, and youre told to pack it all in 2 DLLs. It just makes you want to stop working on it. You just push yourself from that point onwards to get the paycheck.
If someone asked Da Vinci to put a smile on Mona Lisa, he'd probably spend only a few hours on it, PREFER not to have his name signed on it, and he'll paint another personal copy with passion, just for the satisfaction.
Just put 12 developers together, make a list of their IDEAL development environment, OS, language, tools, algorithm etc, and you'd know how hard it is for the employers to instill motivation into the work. Many people have preferences on 'just because' rather than reason, for example I just hate Java and want to use C, perl, OpenBSD, Postgresql, QT everywhere.
This post has been modded funny, but I can see a good market for such developments, using maybe svgalib or sdllib. At least java, javascript, frames, css in svgalib can be made into small binaries, and will be much more lightweight than X + mozilla.
I know I'd lose attitude control if say I lose altitude control. But its not very professional for an astronaut to lose attitude control without losing any other control. Heck astronauts are screened and selected from thousands just so they would never have attitude control at that altitude.
The strength of BSD over linux has been stability, maturity and predictibility. Linux has more features than any OS out there, and BSD has been a humbler, older, more serious OS with its developers looking less at the market and more at the buglist.
Of the BSDs, OpenBSD has been the most BSD of them all. FreeBSD is itself a bit of a Linux, slackware to be precise. It has enough 'features' to be usable on most hardware, highly ported, yet strong and reliable too. OpenBSD however has been the simplest, aiming for cleaner code, more security and the ultimate in stability. Thats the whole appeal of OpenBSD, not to run it on a dreamcast or playstation, or to run it on a 16-CPU unisys, or to make a TiVO out of it. Its as simple as modern UNIX can be. Its nice to have at least one OS out there where developers spend more than 90% of the time cleaning things up rather than adding mess you dont need.
So I'm not sure if adding the SMP is all that much of a great idea. SMP is tough as Linux can testify with its years of threading library woes and interrupt locks. Few OSes have SMP really pinned down well, Linux only realy stabilized that, and OpenBSD is now getting involved. I hope they start out with no threading, only full processes per CPU. We dont need performance or portability or scalability out of OpenBSD, there are other BSDs for that. We need it to keep its minix-like simplicity. OK bad example. UNIX-like simplicity.
Theres this thing called the fear of the unknown. I came to my company with a love of qmail and hate of Exchange, and here I had a complex Lotus Domino beast managing email. Looked like bloat to me and I started looking for reasons to replace it, only there arent any good groupware anywhere.
So I had to learn the thing the hard way. To be honest I really like it now, very intuitive and robust for all the things it does. Scaling Postfix, Qmail, Sendmail or Exim would require learning tricks, adding applications, testbox, lots of recompiling and possibly a bit of programming, at least scaling to what Domino can easily do. Between Domino, Windows2000 Active Directory and SQL2000, Ive discovered Ive been very prejudiced against proprietary OSes for years.
Ive been spending my recent times discovering the pleasures of AIX, Veritas and more Active Directory.
Most readers visiting your site have used computers long enough to laugh at Microsoft claims of security TCO and stability. Linux grew and became strong because of grassroots support not because of directed propaganda, biased websites and censorship of the likes that you want to see implemented.
If Microsoft pays for the high bandwidth of your website, all the better.
We have one sprinkler directly on top of the perforated server cage in the smallish computer room. The whole office's sprinklers are interconnected, so if theres a fire in the kitchen,we're down till IBM brings us new machines. If our disks go bad too, I'll have to start browsing dice.com again.
Considering one full days downtime will cost us an estimated 80,000 $$$, the sprinklers have been high on my priority list to push for change.
I dont think other companies on our street are in less hazard. Someone wardrove the street and could browse NetBIOS shares.
insert into invoice_payable values ('myname','address',9000.00,USD,'urgent');
When I was learning Linux, I visited the Guides and HOWTOs every 5 minutes. www.linuxdoc.org and click on the sysadmin guide, networking guide etc.
To learn Linux itself, do a very basic install of a simple distro like slackware, or just a basic install of redhat on a test box, goto each directory like/etc,/sbin,/usr/sbin and read the man pages of every file you dont understand... for example you run into tune2fs, want to know what the heck is it, so you read the man page.
After a while you'll get the feel of Linux. You really dont have to know each command or how to use it.. man pages are available everywhere.
Try to compile your own kernel. That in itself teaches you alot about Linux and its capabilities. Beside that its the tools you have to know, such as apache, php, mysql, samba, nfs, ftpd, nmap, snort, sendmail/qmail/exim/postfix etc. Know the HOWTOs, guides, and man pages and youll never really need to buy books.
Any major problem you run into has already been fixed in the newsgroups. Goto groups.google.ca, and find your problem. Remember not to run Beta versions of services on your server for now... I'd even stay away from the 2.6 kernels until youve really tested the hardware on your side and are sure of it.
I hope in a sick way, that the cisco code or its analysis is posted somewhere online. People can then compile it for x86 machines under Linux/BSD/someother crap to turn it into a high-performance cisco router.
I know Linux has its own routing tools, but the IOS has more features and too many net admins are used to its syntax. zebra is a nice attempt at cloning IOS, which itself is far more advanced.
Does anyone here remember why Firefox/Thunderbird was born? To escape Mozilla's bloat. I think the Opera browser influenced its initial design, which in earlier versions even fitted on a floppy while being IE6 compatible for the most part. The whole appeal of firefox over mozilla and others is the simplicity and therefore the speed and efficiency.
It can be used as a platform for other browser technologies, but they should be renamed, and firefox vanilla should always be as simple portable and small as reasonable possible for general browsing.
Theres nothing wrong with Someone with a lousy sparcstation 5 running NetBSD and using Firefox. With Mozilla, you couldnt work with an Ultra 60.
This was reported for Quake2 a while ago. It was too blocky and the niose generated on th screen was very distracting. I dont know if these guys use softer fractal-based images but I'd keep away from this if it looks like that earlier Quake2 project
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I did the same a while ago. My email registered with eBay is ebay@myname.name etc. You can add all valid addresses to /etc/mail/access.db and return a message to the rest user doesnt exist. You can then dynamically adjust that list whenever adding or removing hostnames to the email address. For instance resume@myname.name is treated with priority.
For some reason its a whole lotta work and recently Ive just been using one basic email. You just need to stay on top of things.
I'm not excited about the microbes. The size of the lakes suggest some pretty bizarre fish could be found in the lake. Strange alien-looking freaky fish are found in other trenches (read: high pressure), and this place has been completely isolated. Are we too crazy to expect creatures bigger than people deep down there?
The temperature might be a problem though.
And so would our equipment contaminating the lake and killing off the fish, so we'd only find bodies of the awesome creatures.
I think its the quality of the core to begin with. For embedded designs, IBM pushes PowerPC, along with Motorolla, which also pushes dragonball and 68H11 etc... Intel had been pushing the 8051 along with dozens of other companies.
But the ARM architecture is RISC, the core is small, tiny even (check Samsung and National's smallest 32-bit MCUs), flexible, and pervasive enough to have many tools ready for it everywhere. 8051 and the 8086 are also pervasive, and so is the 680x0, but theyre older cores and cant be made as small and powerful as ARM.
So no matter how good the business on any side is, development teams made to sit down and decide on a core would prefer the ARM. There ARE other embedded companies willing to bend over backwards, and provide good customer and engineering services, they cant make good MCUs, or establish their instruction set in the market the way these guys have. Yes its a monopoly just like Intel, but we hate Intel because we pay quite a bit for their CPUs, we just dont KNOW how much we're paying ARM when purchasing the latest Plasma screen (not much, which also loses another reason to hate them).
Just remember the 6502 was popular at one time, and the current ARM designs will lose favor as another design fits the industry's bill. ARM is just trying to be at the innovation edge to be the owner of that new core.
Depending on your company size, the switch might not be worth it. Say there are 50 to 250 users, just putting in a firewall, and disabling ActiveX, ftp downloads, .exe, .cmd, .msi downloads, jacking up the 'security' settings would do. Installing and supporting a beta product from the Linux world on Windows takes away more man-hours even if reduces security man-hours.
IE on win32 is pretty bad in security, but with the prevention steps, we've kept the support man-hours lower than what would be required for a complete switch and support.
We're spending that extra time in bugging our application developers to release Linux binaries, testing their Linux binaries and trying out openoffice etc. Looks like in 3 years, we should be able to make that gigantic switch to OpenLDAP + Linux workstations, all involved binaries should have good Linux versions, well supported.
Till then, converting in parts will only add to the pain. Reasonably speaking, just convert your firewall, custom application database to Linux+Postgresql, and develop all new applications in a language + library thats easily portable so youre ready when the time comes.
This could be in a seperate article, but didnt the trailers before the movie came out, give out a bit too much? I hate it when you can piece together the story from the trailer, hate it even more when the best action parts are shown in the ever-lengthening trailers.
I've even avoided some movies because the trailers were so descriptive.
So in Spiderman, when they got onto the train I knew: (1) The would fight for a while and Spiderman would try to stop the train, (2) and will be thrown through a bridge.
When Peter was in the coffeeshop I knew (1) car will be thrown at them (2) Peter will grab MJ and jump sideways. That was awesome action, unfortunately I'd already seen it.
Many Spiderman fans avoided the trailers so they could enjoy the movie. People love Spiderman, they know whats coming, and most people decide to go watch it from their friends' reviews. So I hope they'd quit compressing the movie into a long trailer, to the point the audience would go 'I know whats gonna happen here'.
that I caught was when Spiderman swoops away the two little girls (or a girl and a boy) from in front of the truck in the opening scenes. Check the velocity of the swoop, definitely faster than the speed the truck was travelling.
So Spiderman would've caused more damage to the kids than the truck would have.
But is all good. They did work hard to make it close to the comic scenes which I appreciate, and PREFER, rather than bastardizing the movie to their own taste.
Heres another one: when spiderman near the end was trying to pull out the cables from the computers, he was like uprooting plans from the ground, at 90 degree angle. But his feet and back were'nt at an angle to use all his force. Weight lifers keep a straight back and flat feet when lifting weights, and so do most people using all their strength....
But then again if that was how the comics depiced it...
Try www.spec.org, you'll find big HTML tables or CSV files for the specs of various computers and CPUs. This is also pretty useful information say if you wanna compare a Pentium1's floating with sparcstation, or if youre looking on eBay to buy a cheap 64-bit cpu machine that can do a decent job of a firewall.
Newer datasets of the specint can help you decide between a Pentium4 CPU and Athlon machines, and their chipsets. So pretty cool and useful information there.
Also heard of telemetry information, on the heights of various spots of ground above sea level against GPS coordinates.... with that data you can build a 3D world thats realistic. Couldnt find the dataset though.
Indeed, this has been the best idea I've read on slashdot in weeks. Take that RIAA. Profits will go straight to the musicians and sadly will shut down the music stores.
So say you bought a $15 CD and paid $1 per song from a store, how much would the artist really get per track? I'd imagine $0.30 or less. This way they can even bypass the record labels, and end up making much more than they used to. I know despite being able to download music off P2P, 0.99 per track is cheap enough for me, given I can play it on any of my personal players rather than being legally bound to one saved location.
The Internet has done this for other businessess too, taking consumers directly to the producers, killing off the middlemen, increasing profits and reducing costs. The middlemen will eventually become either other producers, or part of other service-based business (Mcjobs arent off the list), thereby increasing the capacity of the market.
Awesome!!!
TFT does not accelerate electrons into your face, and the light is generally much easier on the eyes. Do get a later model version and if you can help it, get one with a DVI connector which makes pixels into tiny boxes rather than fuzzy circles.
My ideal monitor, for which I should start saving, is a 17" samsung at 1600x1200, because I use the 800x600 resolution, which will look bad on 1024x768 or 1280x1024 monitors. Critical also are the refresh rates(should be 20ms or less or something), and contrast (400 or more or something). No other technology can display a picture thats easier on the eyes than the TFT monitor currently... or maybe a good projector with Xenon bulbs on a whitewashed wall.
Convince your boss to get THAT.
Youre prefectly correct. I hate C++ but I love C. I do prefer QT (in C++) over GTK, wxwindows MFC and other stuff like visual basic etc.
I've only seen C++ working really well in QT. I can work with it. Beside GUI applications, I'd much rather be programming in pure C just because I understand EVERYTHING about the language, all its keywords are second nature to me, and I cant look at a piece of C code and go 'huh'. I'll just read and understand it.
C++ on the other hand is too big for a language. I honestly neither understand all of C++'s tricks, nor 'get it' in an intuitive way. It takes your abstract concepts and builds different structures/code behind the scenes. you cant always visualize the code in assembly being run when youre working with C++, thats one major reason why most of the Linux kernel is made in C.. These are the people who simply must know understand and conceptualize every bit of it, rather than type in a working code, grab the paycheck and move on.
C++ is easier to program in, and impossible to fully understand. C is harder(hectic) to program in, compared to say using C++'s objects/methods but if you knew assembly language once, and wanted to have a complete 'feel' of the code, or high optimization, or high hardware customization, its for you.
I wouldnt develop GUI apps in C though.
All you have to do is stand straight and announce that we've been 'hacked'. If they ask to what extent, how bad etc, just say we've completely been hacked. Its all gone.
You'll be given all the time and budget to fix it. FUD doesnt always require proof, unless someone calls in some consultant.
Say your manager doesnt run after you with a stick at work, to motivate you. Say youre given 6 months to develop something with no required feedback during that time. Will you develop the way you'd write drivers for the linux kernel?
Its just kinda yucky to put effort into software which will make another man rich. Its like youre told to sculpt the best sculpture you can, which will be snatched by someone else, youll get paid $5 and he'll put his name on it. Even if you couldnt personally sell the sculpture at $5, its still a bad deal.
And then, there are the constraints which REALLY and I mean REALLY demotivate you. Say you absolutely love developing in ANSI C99, using lots of pointers, using the Intel compiler, QT, and making the code portable across BSD, Linux, Win32 and Solaris. Youre put on a VisualC.NET platform, where you have to use C++, not allowed to touch many libraries you'll depend on, not allowed the Intel C compiler, not allowed to port to Linux etc. Say you think the code should be distributed across many small shared libraries to make it neat, and youre told to pack it all in 2 DLLs. It just makes you want to stop working on it. You just push yourself from that point onwards to get the paycheck.
If someone asked Da Vinci to put a smile on Mona Lisa, he'd probably spend only a few hours on it, PREFER not to have his name signed on it, and he'll paint another personal copy with passion, just for the satisfaction.
Just put 12 developers together, make a list of their IDEAL development environment, OS, language, tools, algorithm etc, and you'd know how hard it is for the employers to instill motivation into the work. Many people have preferences on 'just because' rather than reason, for example I just hate Java and want to use C, perl, OpenBSD, Postgresql, QT everywhere.
Just because.
This post has been modded funny, but I can see a good market for such developments, using maybe svgalib or sdllib. At least java, javascript, frames, css in svgalib can be made into small binaries, and will be much more lightweight than X + mozilla.
even my favorite editor joe had a facelift recently.
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Really? I havent noticed much during the past 8 years, and then, I never used it to the max. I'd love to see more development on the macros.
I know I'd lose attitude control if say I lose altitude control. But its not very professional for an astronaut to lose attitude control without losing any other control. Heck astronauts are screened and selected from thousands just so they would never have attitude control at that altitude.
The strength of BSD over linux has been stability, maturity and predictibility. Linux has more features than any OS out there, and BSD has been a humbler, older, more serious OS with its developers looking less at the market and more at the buglist.
Of the BSDs, OpenBSD has been the most BSD of them all. FreeBSD is itself a bit of a Linux, slackware to be precise. It has enough 'features' to be usable on most hardware, highly ported, yet strong and reliable too. OpenBSD however has been the simplest, aiming for cleaner code, more security and the ultimate in stability. Thats the whole appeal of OpenBSD, not to run it on a dreamcast or playstation, or to run it on a 16-CPU unisys, or to make a TiVO out of it. Its as simple as modern UNIX can be. Its nice to have at least one OS out there where developers spend more than 90% of the time cleaning things up rather than adding mess you dont need.
So I'm not sure if adding the SMP is all that much of a great idea. SMP is tough as Linux can testify with its years of threading library woes and interrupt locks. Few OSes have SMP really pinned down well, Linux only realy stabilized that, and OpenBSD is now getting involved. I hope they start out with no threading, only full processes per CPU. We dont need performance or portability or scalability out of OpenBSD, there are other BSDs for that. We need it to keep its minix-like simplicity. OK bad example. UNIX-like simplicity.
Theres this thing called the fear of the unknown. I came to my company with a love of qmail and hate of Exchange, and here I had a complex Lotus Domino beast managing email. Looked like bloat to me and I started looking for reasons to replace it, only there arent any good groupware anywhere.
So I had to learn the thing the hard way. To be honest I really like it now, very intuitive and robust for all the things it does. Scaling Postfix, Qmail, Sendmail or Exim would require learning tricks, adding applications, testbox, lots of recompiling and possibly a bit of programming, at least scaling to what Domino can easily do. Between Domino, Windows2000 Active Directory and SQL2000, Ive discovered Ive been very prejudiced against proprietary OSes for years.
Ive been spending my recent times discovering the pleasures of AIX, Veritas and more Active Directory.
Only someone on slashdot would wonder WHAT TO DO with the SO.
You really dont have to cross any shores to reach the US, unless youre taking that ferry off Toronto across that big lake whateverisitsname.
Most readers visiting your site have used computers long enough to laugh at Microsoft claims of security TCO and stability. Linux grew and became strong because of grassroots support not because of directed propaganda, biased websites and censorship of the likes that you want to see implemented.
If Microsoft pays for the high bandwidth of your website, all the better.
We have one sprinkler directly on top of the perforated server cage in the smallish computer room. The whole office's sprinklers are interconnected, so if theres a fire in the kitchen,we're down till IBM brings us new machines. If our disks go bad too, I'll have to start browsing dice.com again.
Considering one full days downtime will cost us an estimated 80,000 $$$, the sprinklers have been high on my priority list to push for change.
I dont think other companies on our street are in less hazard. Someone wardrove the street and could browse NetBIOS shares.
insert into invoice_payable values ('myname','address',9000.00,USD,'urgent');
This wont work against MY OpenBSD firewall.
When I was learning Linux, I visited the Guides and HOWTOs every 5 minutes. www.linuxdoc.org and click on the sysadmin guide, networking guide etc.
/etc, /sbin, /usr/sbin and read the man pages of every file you dont understand... for example you run into tune2fs, want to know what the heck is it, so you read the man page.
To learn Linux itself, do a very basic install of a simple distro like slackware, or just a basic install of redhat on a test box, goto each directory like
After a while you'll get the feel of Linux. You really dont have to know each command or how to use it.. man pages are available everywhere.
Try to compile your own kernel. That in itself teaches you alot about Linux and its capabilities. Beside that its the tools you have to know, such as apache, php, mysql, samba, nfs, ftpd, nmap, snort, sendmail/qmail/exim/postfix etc. Know the HOWTOs, guides, and man pages and youll never really need to buy books.
Any major problem you run into has already been fixed in the newsgroups. Goto groups.google.ca, and find your problem. Remember not to run Beta versions of services on your server for now... I'd even stay away from the 2.6 kernels until youve really tested the hardware on your side and are sure of it.
I hope in a sick way, that the cisco code or its analysis is posted somewhere online. People can then compile it for x86 machines under Linux/BSD/someother crap to turn it into a high-performance cisco router.
I know Linux has its own routing tools, but the IOS has more features and too many net admins are used to its syntax. zebra is a nice attempt at cloning IOS, which itself is far more advanced.
Does anyone here remember why Firefox/Thunderbird was born? To escape Mozilla's bloat. I think the Opera browser influenced its initial design, which in earlier versions even fitted on a floppy while being IE6 compatible for the most part. The whole appeal of firefox over mozilla and others is the simplicity and therefore the speed and efficiency.
It can be used as a platform for other browser technologies, but they should be renamed, and firefox vanilla should always be as simple portable and small as reasonable possible for general browsing.
Theres nothing wrong with Someone with a lousy sparcstation 5 running NetBSD and using Firefox. With Mozilla, you couldnt work with an Ultra 60.
This was reported for Quake2 a while ago. It was too blocky and the niose generated on th screen was very distracting. I dont know if these guys use softer fractal-based images but I'd keep away from this if it looks like that earlier Quake2 project