I'm in the IT department of a small company.. ~70 hosts and ~8 servers. The need arose a while ago to have a seperate database offloading data from the MS SQL server for reporting purposes. I installed linux on a redundant P3 lying around and set things up because I didnt want to hit the management with a bill for some fancy UNIX solution, and I'm just used to linux.
So now theres the need to use a better VPN solution than the one that comes with win2k, and to replace the MS proxy server. Will I hit them with a bill for the cobalt raq server, an RS/6000 or a used Pentium3 with Linux/FreeBSD? I've no beef with FreeBSD, but I had to install something on the RedHat that doesnt install on FreeBSD.
So Linux is eventual. Everyone will have a need for a utility server and not want to pay for it... and the techie who suggests it will be preferred, for saving the small business some money, natural selection of OSes comes with it.
How are You Preventing Mailto-Link Harvesting?
I'm not. I just put up my address on the website and started manually cleaning 40 emails daily. Life was good until I started bothering this guy on eBay to send me my ATM switch 3 months after I paid for it. The day after I threatened him with legal action, and ever since, Ive been receiving 1200+ Microsoft subscription-type spam daily. Short story that particular address has been shut down permanently thus I'm losing possibly good traffic to me.
All of a sudden, I'm interested in Bayesian filtering and legal action against spammers. Face it. Spam is a bigger problem than the small speedbreakers in its path (like riding a motocross bike at high speed over a speedbreaker on a flat road), we all will continue to get irritated until some kind of social, legal or technical revolution fixes things for a while.
Anyone knows about 128MB of RAM costs around $50 or less. You could sell it at $300 and show you're insanely expensive, but exceeding $1200 is like saying we don't want to sell it to you. Its just like someone who doesn't want to sell his house but gives an insanely high price to an inquirer just in case it still gets sold. A hardware vendor is interested in selling their own IP, their own routers and other hardware and has to maintain the warranty and sell its memory just for completeness.
Since they dont want to do that, they put up these crazy numbers to drive customers away and void their warranty, else make a great deal of money. Sad thing is, too many companies don't go the extra mile searching google, yahoo and pricewatch to buy it at $50.
They're also doing that with their IOS software. For a 2501 router you bought at $100, you need a new IOS which you can only get with a smartnet contract as well as license to run it on your system, in total costing thousands of dollars. Looking closely, they're not really saying don't run new IOSes on your router. They're just saying you should copy the IOS from elsewhere without ever bothering cisco with any questions or problems, and we'll always have the upper legal hand.
Whatever you use, remember to use something that has been well-tested and is a standard. For Linux, I would suggest RedHat or SuSE, although at home I use slackware... Solaris is even better in that it doesnt change much even across versions and you can use Solaris 7 packages in Solaris 9, and there are plenty of packages, opensourced and commercial to go around.
If you are worried about performance or really low costs, just go with Linux or FreeBSD. However, as much flame-attracting as it may sound, Solaris is more stable than Linux while being less flexible. It suits large-scale deployment better than Linux.
The real value of antique games has always been underestimated. An entire generation feels nostalgic about Wolf3d, Prince of Persia, Street Fighter, Pong etc, yet the ownership and trademark of these games have been shelved by some company who bought the original company's assets and never explored the potentials.
Other games have been bastardized to extract the last drop of juice from the paying crowds without employing developers who truly feel the obsession with the original titles. Think of the sequels to Price of Persia, Monkey Island etc. Some companies who survived the dotcom bust can now drive their trademarks forward like Sierra and id Software, but the vast majority of the games cannot even be bought anywhere. Downloading ROMS become justified here.
A new booming business has been developing java games for cellphone companies. However developing yet another version of tetris, snakes or pacman just feels too redundant. Emulators like kgens have shown us how all the hard work can still be enjoyed on a desktop, even a palmtop, if only companies saw the potential. An average PDA has enough power, and sufficient space to run Atari2600, Sega Genesis, NEOGEO, 386(DOS) etc games on it, but the two things that have stood in the way have been the unwillingness to develop emulators and the licensing issues of the games whose trademark owners are unknown (who do you talk to, to gain the rights for River Raid in Atari2600?).
If one company can bundle good emulators, plenty of the original titles, the chicken n egg problem of game codebase for consoles is solved. Such a company could beat GBA sales pretty fast. Some people would pay a lot to play the games they played when they were 8... and the trademark owners shouldnt mind making extra bucks.
I was gonna suggest the same thing. If price is your word, I see no problems with simple IDEs on simple PC clones running simple Linux slackware. If RAID cards are too expensive, I know a bunch of IDE controllers and a serious serious powersupply should do. Just make sure the drives are quite and low power.
Just a suggestion, you might want to switch your home network to gigabit ethernet. That will make things run nicely and schmoodly.
What do the average windows admin do? problems arise, reghost the image from the second partition, apply all new patches and youre set to go.
What do korean Cyber Cafe owners do? Theres some korean software better than PCSecure that allows access to all programs but renders the entire system read-only except the directories where you need to write. And then the admin remotely deletes those directories.
So admining over 70 systems, I can really understand your need to be in full control of all those systems without hiring a team of highschoolers. Its much worse if various clients need different software, many expect full control of their system and noone tolerates a slow boot. UNIX fixes these problems so beautifully.
I did some research years ago on remote-booting Windows98 maybe on gigabit ethernet and powerful servers. Theres a linux howto on how windows can be copied on a freshly made partition after a net boot, then booted. So it all really depends on each situation.
You mentioned XP. To decrease maintenance on hundereds of machines, use something more reliable and tested, like Windows98 or Win2k.
We use terminal services on all the 70 workstations with about 20 working at any time, and it works perfectly. To be fair, I'll tell you the server is an IBM eSeries with 2x PentiumIIIs and 2gigs of ram and 10k cheetah disks. On Pentium1 clients, the apps run much better on TS than native.
For any network based solution make sure your pipes are fat. Get good switches, tune them and do ethereal to test the switch-based traffic, make sure all clients have the good 3com NICS, should be all PCI 100 speed at least, and if you can help it, start with gigabit ethernet.
Oh yeah, since you're asking slashdot for help, if you do succeed in a new solution, you're obliged to submit a howto.
Is reading and writing for everyone? Do we need it? We're doing quite well after knowing how to read and write, but we could possibly do without. People in poorer countries find it easier to live without knowing how to read or write, compared to countries which depend more on written information. The same is quite true of the Internet. Some countries like South Korea are almost entirely dependent on the Internet now. When all voting billpaying communications official documents banking etc go online in a country, the Internet pretty much becomes a need. If you dont own a computer you'll need to visit cybercafes. If you dont know how to use one, you'll need a friend to help you through it. Chances are, theres no way in hell you can avoid using the Internet at least once a month unless everyone you know is Amish and you have occupations likewise.
Where ANSI C is the jeep of them all. C++ is a two-door which looks nicer but is slightly less useful. C can be used and abused by anyone anywhere and will obviously outlast Java, but anyone with money to throw and show off (at the cost of wasting enormous resources) will get the SUV. Smaller programmers here and there (not smaller in importance) will use the bicycle which would be Perl. For now, I'll just take a walk (BASIC)
I havent seen one company out there that makes small BGA chips for handheld markets and PDAs. The chip must be taking VERY low power, should support OpenGL, and must have drivers including OpenGL 1.4 support in Linux, NetBSD, QNX, QTopia and WindowsCE.
I was trying to look for such a chip and found only the embedded versions of NVidia and Radeon which are obscenely grotesque for handheld devices. For resolutions maximum of which are 640x480 and color depths of max 16bits, there must be a 3d video chip that supports OpenGL 1.4. It will at least be used in the next GBA, NGage and other handhelds and cellphones.
well here in Toronto, both the major ISPs, Rogers and Sympatico have a nice habit of overcharging these days. Bills of $100 per month and over are not un heard of. There are over 50 broadband providers but many are small-name untested services I wouldnt wanna risk trying. But since the Rogers and Sympatico both have started bandwidth caps, it is time to give the ones without such caps a chance. Let capitalism take its course.
I work at one, with about 100 employees and 70 workstations. We've got Windows 2000 servers and windows 2000 workstations, and the ERP system with all the reports, backups, research etc that goes into it all.
Therefore theres a lot of stomping on problems as they flare up while I'm trying to push back the projects into the priority list. For extensions to the reports, We installed postgresql on linux and are trying to move the VPN server from windows2000 to linux or cisco pix.
Sadly, I also take care of engineering drawing stuff and the phone lines among other things. I think I would spend about 40% of my time on the formal projects. Take today for example. One critical computer on the factory floor crashed and replacing it took half the day, and phone line problems took another half. I'm only getting back to the project now... 30 minutes left to the end of the day and I'm wasting that on slashdot.
In any company with more than 1 IT employee, its always good to divide them among errand boys/troubleshooters and project people. Those minor interruptions usually cost you the whole day
There were sites online I saw around 1997 that detailed rewiring Atari 2600 controllers, you know the ones with a stick in the middle of a square box and one red button, they hooked two of those using a PC Y-connector to play them on the PC.
Recently I saw some people alter Sega Genesis controllers to work on the same PC running KGens etc to emulate sega games so they could play the same games on their PCs. Newer Genesis emulators allow two players to play multiplayer across the Internet, if they hooked their TVs on both sides of the Atlantic to their PCs, and use Genesis controllers to play Mortal Kombat3 multiplayer, that would be cool.
And if someone can get a Genesis emulator to run on a PDA and hook up the controller to run off of it, and physically fix the PDA right on top of the controller to make a new kind of GBA, now THAT would be cool.
(1) Replace Gentoo with RedHat. Gentoo is wonderful for a learner and enthusiast trying to squeeze the last drop of performance, but for a production machine, run an OS that is widely used and its problems discussed. You might later want to use other apps on the mail server and RedHat expands your horizon (Ive known all too many proprietary apps that are released for RedHat and SuSE only).
(2) Reconsider using Ms Outlook and contemplate using a webmail solution for virus and worm protection. MS Outlook (or other client side MS-based mail clients) are the only reason to insist on getting an IMAP server I'm assuming.
(3) Get Qmail or Postfix for MTAs both of which also come with built-in IMAP servers. At least Qmail has (squirrel) a webmail solution that you could use....I know I'm talking crap. Its been a long day. Sorry.
More scientists that are involved with psychology theories in video game playing are coming from a childhood of game playing. Older generations who have seen their kids rot in front of the consoles they gave to them on some Christmas have much more hatred of gaming than the ones who received those consoles on Christmas.
So from proponents of banning violent games and limiting playing time for kids to proponents shouldn't take much time. So we'll finally start seeing papers on how good gaming really is for the mind and body. And how parents should maximize gaming exposure to reduce the risk of certain diseases and disabilities.
I suppose it is exactly the fact that they were paying $29.95 why she was sued. When you sign up for a subscription like that, you are offering your personal data as well. How else could they know it was Brianna and not her mother or brother downloading the files? They would just have to sue the head of the household or whoever signed up with the ISP.
So if you pay for songs online, theres a chance you might get sued. So RIAA is teaching us not to subscribe, use P2P software that makes it hard to track, exchange files with friends rather than strangers and keep files in an encrypted filesystem. All the while never enter personal data, and only then you can be among the millions who have NOT gotten sued yet.
At best, RIAA is portraying themselves as a wicked beauraucracy that must me opposed and fought. Most people I know do not bend and break under such kind of 'fear', and this will make P2P software more sophisticated, the listeners more determined.
I'll be honest. I'm impressed with the amount of work already put in there. I wonder if ELF/COFF support means such binaries can be run if all those calls are supported in SkyOS.
Now I just hate to see yet another OS that attempts to replace BeOS out there... so SkyOS will have to have an extremely simple programming interface, hopefully all in ANSI C 99, and not too much graphical overhead (as in KDE and GNOME), and most importantly, a COMPLETE support of OpenGL 1.4 and soon OpenGL 2.0.
I've always wondered if it was possible to create a BeOS lookalike OS that can use the drivers source code from the linux kernel (or X11) to be able to fully use all those network adapters and graphic cards.That will give that OS a huge lead in development of drivers which is usually the stumbling block against many new OSes.
If SkyOS REALLY has a tiny footprint, complete hardware-backed OpenGL support and drivers for as many hardware as is supported in say OpenBSD and has apps like QT, SDL, mozilla, perl, MPlayer, xmms, svgalib etc, I think this OS has a real chance. I just think the BeOS niche is open for any OS for the taking, which can shed the enormous overhead involved in running for example Linux + X11 + graphics binary drivers + Mesa + qt + gtk+ + KDE. At least some developers appreciate the relative simplicity BeOS had and will develop for such an OS if free.
Damn Straight. Using any port is a fundamental human right (the list of which only keeps growing:)
I liked another posters idea of having a web interface and selfcontrolling the port blocks.
But it should be possible to have ISPs or options in their services which tend to joe schmoe and blocks ports like 135 and any other RPC or other ports during a virus attack. That option should b kept for the customers who do not know what a port is. The rest can use cheap Linux firewalls at home and do their own portblocking while paying for the junk bandwidth.
Until recently many packages required gcc2.x for compilation simply because 3.x has been relatively untested. Will this bring some kind of instability in NetBSD if say the compilation is successful but with tonnes of warning messages? Are gcc 2.x and 3.x really that different?
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Intel's IA-64 emulates 32-bit unlike AMD's 64-bit chips which have 32-bit hardware. So we can expect AMD to beat Intel easily in 32-bit stuff.
64-bit would be Intels own turf and we can expect Intel to be quite competitive against AMD there. I think the benchmark results would be quite close.
So my CD is gathering scratches or is simple deteriorating. I cant back it up? Or how about our ERP system on the server, along with 12 other applications and databases run our company. I cant back that up?
You know what will happen? People WILL back their files up regardless. They WILL produce copies at will and not feel criminal about it. Such laws will only make it more acceptable to break laws in general, making them less relevant. They should've learned from bringing down highway speed limits to 100kmph. Everyone still drives at 120, and cops only stop the ones driving at 125 or higher. The legal authority becomes a joke.
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I would try my best as usual to avoid both. Say I have to produce distributed networked applications that are portable. I'll just use QT. Say it has to be used in embedded systems too. I'll use ANSI C using gcc compilers everywhere, and use #ifdefs to make up for the difference.
Therefore, I'll save my company big bucks, since they'll use less ram and storage to save and run the code. They'll also need lesser CPU/MPUs.
Say I have to work on an ERP system. The same combination comes up. I'll use a good database that runs on many platforms (DB2? Firebird? pgsql?) and the GUI frontend will use QT or glib or fltk or the likes.
I havent found abstraction layers (virtual machines?) like.NET and Java to be efficient enough to be worth it. I'd rather hire more expensive coders who can do C/C++. I know it is 2003, but even for the most complex applications, I enjoy trying to run it on my Pentium 200MHz 48mbRAM 2GB hdd system with Windows 95 to check how lean and mean the code is. Just compare Opera with Mozilla and tell me what you like.
.. with the reusable spacecraft not being the safest. If we can go ahead with the spacecraft designs where the vehicle is not blasted off, rather takes off like an airplane, flies to high altitudes, and then starts its rockets to escape the atmosphere, such a plan would be far more safe.
Airplanes and their design have been well tested for over a century now. Rather than strapping people on humungous rockets filled with colossal amounts of liquid and solid fuel, we could send them high in the atmosphere in huge sailplanes and THEN the rockets can be attached to boost further to the outer space. These plans were detailed earlier in Scientific American but even disasters like these cannot shift the current policies enough.
It seems clear some big changes will have to be in place now to 'improve' NASA, but going back to unreusable rockets seems less safe to me. It is just too much explosive fuel too close to people, and it takes enormous amounts of power for the initial liftoff(with many pieces flying off, big temperature and pressure changes, high vibration etc). Attaching rockets in the stratosphere (maybe transported there via other sailplanes) will not require such big rockets, will not require solid fuel rockets and starting rockets on a vehicle already flying at several machs is relatively safe. It might be a little more expensive , more complicated, but then the Columbia wasn't exactly a simple machine either.
We should start a slashdot-backed project where the LUGs in Philly would use donations from the Linux community to print big posters of a Penguin and a red Devil stick it on the walls around that school. In a Metallica concert with kids wearing Napster T-shirts, I would want those kids to be Linux and Metallica be Microsoft than the other way round.
Hey its a war remember? We should try to win this battle without spending the same amount of money.
The Linux community can fight back MUCH better by releasing Linux distros and all the LDP documentation in languages of much poorer countries. Microsoft couldnt fight back if they sold Windows 2003 at $5 a copy. That would be too expensive there.
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I'm in the IT department of a small company.. ~70 hosts and ~8 servers. The need arose a while ago to have a seperate database offloading data from the MS SQL server for reporting purposes. I installed linux on a redundant P3 lying around and set things up because I didnt want to hit the management with a bill for some fancy UNIX solution, and I'm just used to linux.
So now theres the need to use a better VPN solution than the one that comes with win2k, and to replace the MS proxy server. Will I hit them with a bill for the cobalt raq server, an RS/6000 or a used Pentium3 with Linux/FreeBSD? I've no beef with FreeBSD, but I had to install something on the RedHat that doesnt install on FreeBSD.
So Linux is eventual. Everyone will have a need for a utility server and not want to pay for it... and the techie who suggests it will be preferred, for saving the small business some money, natural selection of OSes comes with it.
Switch? No I think Ive lost the $50. I'm budgeting for a new one.
How are You Preventing Mailto-Link Harvesting? I'm not. I just put up my address on the website and started manually cleaning 40 emails daily. Life was good until I started bothering this guy on eBay to send me my ATM switch 3 months after I paid for it. The day after I threatened him with legal action, and ever since, Ive been receiving 1200+ Microsoft subscription-type spam daily. Short story that particular address has been shut down permanently thus I'm losing possibly good traffic to me. All of a sudden, I'm interested in Bayesian filtering and legal action against spammers. Face it. Spam is a bigger problem than the small speedbreakers in its path (like riding a motocross bike at high speed over a speedbreaker on a flat road), we all will continue to get irritated until some kind of social, legal or technical revolution fixes things for a while.
Anyone knows about 128MB of RAM costs around $50 or less. You could sell it at $300 and show you're insanely expensive, but exceeding $1200 is like saying we don't want to sell it to you. Its just like someone who doesn't want to sell his house but gives an insanely high price to an inquirer just in case it still gets sold. A hardware vendor is interested in selling their own IP, their own routers and other hardware and has to maintain the warranty and sell its memory just for completeness.
Since they dont want to do that, they put up these crazy numbers to drive customers away and void their warranty, else make a great deal of money. Sad thing is, too many companies don't go the extra mile searching google, yahoo and pricewatch to buy it at $50.
They're also doing that with their IOS software. For a 2501 router you bought at $100, you need a new IOS which you can only get with a smartnet contract as well as license to run it on your system, in total costing thousands of dollars. Looking closely, they're not really saying don't run new IOSes on your router. They're just saying you should copy the IOS from elsewhere without ever bothering cisco with any questions or problems, and we'll always have the upper legal hand.
Whatever you use, remember to use something that has been well-tested and is a standard. For Linux, I would suggest RedHat or SuSE, although at home I use slackware... Solaris is even better in that it doesnt change much even across versions and you can use Solaris 7 packages in Solaris 9, and there are plenty of packages, opensourced and commercial to go around.
If you are worried about performance or really low costs, just go with Linux or FreeBSD. However, as much flame-attracting as it may sound, Solaris is more stable than Linux while being less flexible. It suits large-scale deployment better than Linux.
The real value of antique games has always been underestimated. An entire generation feels nostalgic about Wolf3d, Prince of Persia, Street Fighter, Pong etc, yet the ownership and trademark of these games have been shelved by some company who bought the original company's assets and never explored the potentials.
Other games have been bastardized to extract the last drop of juice from the paying crowds without employing developers who truly feel the obsession with the original titles. Think of the sequels to Price of Persia, Monkey Island etc. Some companies who survived the dotcom bust can now drive their trademarks forward like Sierra and id Software, but the vast majority of the games cannot even be bought anywhere. Downloading ROMS become justified here.
A new booming business has been developing java games for cellphone companies. However developing yet another version of tetris, snakes or pacman just feels too redundant. Emulators like kgens have shown us how all the hard work can still be enjoyed on a desktop, even a palmtop, if only companies saw the potential. An average PDA has enough power, and sufficient space to run Atari2600, Sega Genesis, NEOGEO, 386(DOS) etc games on it, but the two things that have stood in the way have been the unwillingness to develop emulators and the licensing issues of the games whose trademark owners are unknown (who do you talk to, to gain the rights for River Raid in Atari2600?).
If one company can bundle good emulators, plenty of the original titles, the chicken n egg problem of game codebase for consoles is solved. Such a company could beat GBA sales pretty fast. Some people would pay a lot to play the games they played when they were 8... and the trademark owners shouldnt mind making extra bucks.
I was gonna suggest the same thing. If price is your word, I see no problems with simple IDEs on simple PC clones running simple Linux slackware. If RAID cards are too expensive, I know a bunch of IDE controllers and a serious serious powersupply should do. Just make sure the drives are quite and low power.
Just a suggestion, you might want to switch your home network to gigabit ethernet. That will make things run nicely and schmoodly.
What do the average windows admin do? problems arise, reghost the image from the second partition, apply all new patches and youre set to go.
What do korean Cyber Cafe owners do? Theres some korean software better than PCSecure that allows access to all programs but renders the entire system read-only except the directories where you need to write. And then the admin remotely deletes those directories.
So admining over 70 systems, I can really understand your need to be in full control of all those systems without hiring a team of highschoolers. Its much worse if various clients need different software, many expect full control of their system and noone tolerates a slow boot. UNIX fixes these problems so beautifully.
I did some research years ago on remote-booting Windows98 maybe on gigabit ethernet and powerful servers. Theres a linux howto on how windows can be copied on a freshly made partition after a net boot, then booted. So it all really depends on each situation.
You mentioned XP. To decrease maintenance on hundereds of machines, use something more reliable and tested, like Windows98 or Win2k.
We use terminal services on all the 70 workstations with about 20 working at any time, and it works perfectly. To be fair, I'll tell you the server is an IBM eSeries with 2x PentiumIIIs and 2gigs of ram and 10k cheetah disks. On Pentium1 clients, the apps run much better on TS than native.
For any network based solution make sure your pipes are fat. Get good switches, tune them and do ethereal to test the switch-based traffic, make sure all clients have the good 3com NICS, should be all PCI 100 speed at least, and if you can help it, start with gigabit ethernet.
Oh yeah, since you're asking slashdot for help, if you do succeed in a new solution, you're obliged to submit a howto.
Cheers.
Is reading and writing for everyone? Do we need it? We're doing quite well after knowing how to read and write, but we could possibly do without. People in poorer countries find it easier to live without knowing how to read or write, compared to countries which depend more on written information. The same is quite true of the Internet. Some countries like South Korea are almost entirely dependent on the Internet now. When all voting billpaying communications official documents banking etc go online in a country, the Internet pretty much becomes a need. If you dont own a computer you'll need to visit cybercafes. If you dont know how to use one, you'll need a friend to help you through it. Chances are, theres no way in hell you can avoid using the Internet at least once a month unless everyone you know is Amish and you have occupations likewise.
Where ANSI C is the jeep of them all. C++ is a two-door which looks nicer but is slightly less useful. C can be used and abused by anyone anywhere and will obviously outlast Java, but anyone with money to throw and show off (at the cost of wasting enormous resources) will get the SUV. Smaller programmers here and there (not smaller in importance) will use the bicycle which would be Perl. For now, I'll just take a walk (BASIC)
I havent seen one company out there that makes small BGA chips for handheld markets and PDAs. The chip must be taking VERY low power, should support OpenGL, and must have drivers including OpenGL 1.4 support in Linux, NetBSD, QNX, QTopia and WindowsCE.
I was trying to look for such a chip and found only the embedded versions of NVidia and Radeon which are obscenely grotesque for handheld devices. For resolutions maximum of which are 640x480 and color depths of max 16bits, there must be a 3d video chip that supports OpenGL 1.4. It will at least be used in the next GBA, NGage and other handhelds and cellphones.
well here in Toronto, both the major ISPs, Rogers and Sympatico have a nice habit of overcharging these days. Bills of $100 per month and over are not un heard of. There are over 50 broadband providers but many are small-name untested services I wouldnt wanna risk trying. But since the Rogers and Sympatico both have started bandwidth caps, it is time to give the ones without such caps a chance. Let capitalism take its course.
I work at one, with about 100 employees and 70 workstations. We've got Windows 2000 servers and windows 2000 workstations, and the ERP system with all the reports, backups, research etc that goes into it all.
Therefore theres a lot of stomping on problems as they flare up while I'm trying to push back the projects into the priority list. For extensions to the reports, We installed postgresql on linux and are trying to move the VPN server from windows2000 to linux or cisco pix.
Sadly, I also take care of engineering drawing stuff and the phone lines among other things. I think I would spend about 40% of my time on the formal projects. Take today for example. One critical computer on the factory floor crashed and replacing it took half the day, and phone line problems took another half. I'm only getting back to the project now... 30 minutes left to the end of the day and I'm wasting that on slashdot.
In any company with more than 1 IT employee, its always good to divide them among errand boys/troubleshooters and project people. Those minor interruptions usually cost you the whole day
There were sites online I saw around 1997 that detailed rewiring Atari 2600 controllers, you know the ones with a stick in the middle of a square box and one red button, they hooked two of those using a PC Y-connector to play them on the PC.
Recently I saw some people alter Sega Genesis controllers to work on the same PC running KGens etc to emulate sega games so they could play the same games on their PCs. Newer Genesis emulators allow two players to play multiplayer across the Internet, if they hooked their TVs on both sides of the Atlantic to their PCs, and use Genesis controllers to play Mortal Kombat3 multiplayer, that would be cool.
And if someone can get a Genesis emulator to run on a PDA and hook up the controller to run off of it, and physically fix the PDA right on top of the controller to make a new kind of GBA, now THAT would be cool.
You're accomplishments are not.
(1) Replace Gentoo with RedHat. Gentoo is wonderful for a learner and enthusiast trying to squeeze the last drop of performance, but for a production machine, run an OS that is widely used and its problems discussed. You might later want to use other apps on the mail server and RedHat expands your horizon (Ive known all too many proprietary apps that are released for RedHat and SuSE only).
...I know I'm talking crap. Its been a long day. Sorry.
(2) Reconsider using Ms Outlook and contemplate using a webmail solution for virus and worm protection. MS Outlook (or other client side MS-based mail clients) are the only reason to insist on getting an IMAP server I'm assuming.
(3) Get Qmail or Postfix for MTAs both of which also come with built-in IMAP servers. At least Qmail has (squirrel) a webmail solution that you could use.
More scientists that are involved with psychology theories in video game playing are coming from a childhood of game playing. Older generations who have seen their kids rot in front of the consoles they gave to them on some Christmas have much more hatred of gaming than the ones who received those consoles on Christmas.
So from proponents of banning violent games and limiting playing time for kids to proponents shouldn't take much time. So we'll finally start seeing papers on how good gaming really is for the mind and body. And how parents should maximize gaming exposure to reduce the risk of certain diseases and disabilities.
I suppose it is exactly the fact that they were paying $29.95 why she was sued. When you sign up for a subscription like that, you are offering your personal data as well. How else could they know it was Brianna and not her mother or brother downloading the files? They would just have to sue the head of the household or whoever signed up with the ISP.
So if you pay for songs online, theres a chance you might get sued. So RIAA is teaching us not to subscribe, use P2P software that makes it hard to track, exchange files with friends rather than strangers and keep files in an encrypted filesystem. All the while never enter personal data, and only then you can be among the millions who have NOT gotten sued yet.
At best, RIAA is portraying themselves as a wicked beauraucracy that must me opposed and fought. Most people I know do not bend and break under such kind of 'fear', and this will make P2P software more sophisticated, the listeners more determined.
I'll be honest. I'm impressed with the amount of work already put in there. I wonder if ELF/COFF support means such binaries can be run if all those calls are supported in SkyOS.
Now I just hate to see yet another OS that attempts to replace BeOS out there... so SkyOS will have to have an extremely simple programming interface, hopefully all in ANSI C 99, and not too much graphical overhead (as in KDE and GNOME), and most importantly, a COMPLETE support of OpenGL 1.4 and soon OpenGL 2.0.
I've always wondered if it was possible to create a BeOS lookalike OS that can use the drivers source code from the linux kernel (or X11) to be able to fully use all those network adapters and graphic cards.That will give that OS a huge lead in development of drivers which is usually the stumbling block against many new OSes.
If SkyOS REALLY has a tiny footprint, complete hardware-backed OpenGL support and drivers for as many hardware as is supported in say OpenBSD and has apps like QT, SDL, mozilla, perl, MPlayer, xmms, svgalib etc, I think this OS has a real chance. I just think the BeOS niche is open for any OS for the taking, which can shed the enormous overhead involved in running for example Linux + X11 + graphics binary drivers + Mesa + qt + gtk+ + KDE. At least some developers appreciate the relative simplicity BeOS had and will develop for such an OS if free.
Damn Straight. Using any port is a fundamental human right (the list of which only keeps growing :)
I liked another posters idea of having a web interface and selfcontrolling the port blocks.
But it should be possible to have ISPs or options in their services which tend to joe schmoe and blocks ports like 135 and any other RPC or other ports during a virus attack. That option should b kept for the customers who do not know what a port is. The rest can use cheap Linux firewalls at home and do their own portblocking while paying for the junk bandwidth.
Until recently many packages required gcc2.x for compilation simply because 3.x has been relatively untested. Will this bring some kind of instability in NetBSD if say the compilation is successful but with tonnes of warning messages? Are gcc 2.x and 3.x really that different?
Intel's IA-64 emulates 32-bit unlike AMD's 64-bit chips which have 32-bit hardware. So we can expect AMD to beat Intel easily in 32-bit stuff.
64-bit would be Intels own turf and we can expect Intel to be quite competitive against AMD there. I think the benchmark results would be quite close.
So my CD is gathering scratches or is simple deteriorating. I cant back it up? Or how about our ERP system on the server, along with 12 other applications and databases run our company. I cant back that up?
You know what will happen? People WILL back their files up regardless. They WILL produce copies at will and not feel criminal about it. Such laws will only make it more acceptable to break laws in general, making them less relevant. They should've learned from bringing down highway speed limits to 100kmph. Everyone still drives at 120, and cops only stop the ones driving at 125 or higher. The legal authority becomes a joke.
I would try my best as usual to avoid both. Say I have to produce distributed networked applications that are portable. I'll just use QT. Say it has to be used in embedded systems too. I'll use ANSI C using gcc compilers everywhere, and use #ifdefs to make up for the difference.
.NET and Java to be efficient enough to be worth it. I'd rather hire more expensive coders who can do C/C++. I know it is 2003, but even for the most complex applications, I enjoy trying to run it on my Pentium 200MHz 48mbRAM 2GB hdd system with Windows 95 to check how lean and mean the code is. Just compare Opera with Mozilla and tell me what you like.
Therefore, I'll save my company big bucks, since they'll use less ram and storage to save and run the code. They'll also need lesser CPU/MPUs.
Say I have to work on an ERP system. The same combination comes up. I'll use a good database that runs on many platforms (DB2? Firebird? pgsql?) and the GUI frontend will use QT or glib or fltk or the likes.
I havent found abstraction layers (virtual machines?) like
.. with the reusable spacecraft not being the safest. If we can go ahead with the spacecraft designs where the vehicle is not blasted off, rather takes off like an airplane, flies to high altitudes, and then starts its rockets to escape the atmosphere, such a plan would be far more safe.
Airplanes and their design have been well tested for over a century now. Rather than strapping people on humungous rockets filled with colossal amounts of liquid and solid fuel, we could send them high in the atmosphere in huge sailplanes and THEN the rockets can be attached to boost further to the outer space. These plans were detailed earlier in Scientific American but even disasters like these cannot shift the current policies enough.
It seems clear some big changes will have to be in place now to 'improve' NASA, but going back to unreusable rockets seems less safe to me. It is just too much explosive fuel too close to people, and it takes enormous amounts of power for the initial liftoff(with many pieces flying off, big temperature and pressure changes, high vibration etc). Attaching rockets in the stratosphere (maybe transported there via other sailplanes) will not require such big rockets, will not require solid fuel rockets and starting rockets on a vehicle already flying at several machs is relatively safe. It might be a little more expensive , more complicated, but then the Columbia wasn't exactly a simple machine either.
We should start a slashdot-backed project where the LUGs in Philly would use donations from the Linux community to print big posters of a Penguin and a red Devil stick it on the walls around that school. In a Metallica concert with kids wearing Napster T-shirts, I would want those kids to be Linux and Metallica be Microsoft than the other way round.
Hey its a war remember? We should try to win this battle without spending the same amount of money.
The Linux community can fight back MUCH better by releasing Linux distros and all the LDP documentation in languages of much poorer countries. Microsoft couldnt fight back if they sold Windows 2003 at $5 a copy. That would be too expensive there.