and 802.11b cards, and Arcnet. Due to lack of these drivers I replaced my FreeBSD 4.6 Server with RedHat, despite its higher stability and software availability (no qmail, courier imap, proftpd for redhat).
I bought an Olicom 3140 PCI TR card just for FreeBSD and hooked it up. Made the whole server very unstable with uptimes of less than two weeks a pop. Plus the lousy kernel error messages.. TR support is alpha in both 4.6 and 4.7 and I wouldnt recommend it for any use at all.
Hope also that FreeBSD will soon enough shoot for a journalled filesystem; hopefully one of the already stable ones like XFS. FreeBSD is lagging behind the Linux trailblazer in features, and despite its stability, people are choosing Linux simply because FreeBSD's options are really limiting.
IRC is simply stated, dying. It is too insecure to begin with, plus people satisfy their needs with aol, yahoo and msn messenger; despite the fact that they install GATOR on people's computers.
IRC should be improved drastically, if only to increase the security so you wouldnt be banned from channels you never visited. Ident should be one of the things removed completely from the next version of the protocol should it ever arrive. For now I'll stick to newsgroups, yahoo messenger and mailing lists.
I recently discovered Lotus Notes Word format (.SAM) is text based just like XML. You could use this, or better go for StarOffice/OpenOffice native formats or SGML.
...which is a lot more mature and thoroughly tested than ext series. Heres howto install RedHat on XFS:
Install redhat on ext3, configure redhat, esp the networking get online, get the latest 2.4 kernel get XFS patch and xfsprogs and install recompile a new kernel with XFS in it and boot. mkfs.xfs/dev/, mount/dev/(xfs) to/mnt cd/ cp -a {bin,usr,etc,... except tmp,mnt,proc}/mnt fix/mnt/etc/fstab to point at new partion for older redhats. reboot.
This still gives some obscure errors on bootup, but maybe because of redundant scripts. works very fast and stable for me. If you get around to fixing those errors, please roll out a HOWTO since noone can take filesystem instability on production servers, yet everyone wants to use 2.4.
Maybe you could enter a list of interests, gender and availibility into your wearable, and have it select a partner for you walking around. I know this has been discussed elsewhere earlier, but not while working as ad-hoc proxies.
I've been thinking of building an ARM based linux-running system, nothing big, something real cheap and with a small passive LCD. The whole system cost should not exceed $100. Better Still if it could take power through the LAN connector, or connect via lan-on-power lines.
This machine seems to come close, but is loaded with unnecessities like the geforce, cdrw and so many others. ARM is suited for making the lowest-cost systems for education and wiring up third-world countries. I'm talking about something resembling slackware 3.0, or something with busybox, flash, ulibc and lynx based-browsers running on low-cost LCDs, unless CRTS turn out to be lower-cost.
I just hope this installer includes options to be started from a DOS prompt and install from isos located on NFS/SMB/FTP shares. Also hope this is NOT a replacement for dselect.
If only they had a hardware config program like Knoppix, this could be the killer distro now.
I'm sure this guy's watched that series a wee bit too much. But I support him completely for making science more fun. Imagine the number of snowboarder teens flocking to colleges to make a career of major spills. Maybe the scientific journal paper by this guy is signed "Awesome Dude". Envy of many PHDs I'm sure.
I think opera has really shewn Mozilla/Netscape the true direction of web browsers. Mozilla is a real bloatware despite its completeness and correctness, for all practical purposes, opera just beats it up.
Instead of reducing the engine, I think it might be better to start from scratch, and making a very quick n small browser, and THEN using enhancements to add functionality step by step for people with different requirements. A lot of people need nothing more than HTML4, not even flash n java, phoenix can accomplish this not by reducing mozilla but by starting from a clean slate.
Secondly I think its version number should be bumped to 1.x. To gather more testing data, the version number should smack of stability. Even opera isnt the most stable of browsers. In fact, I've NEVER experienced a 100% stable browser. Can this be ANOTHER aim of this project?
I tried to figure it out on their site... Data Modelling?? As in flowcharts? Or developing software in a very easy high-level language in an emulated environment to test its functionality? Call me naiive but I'm sure I'm not alone.
Seems a bit on the "strings" side, so I assume the text is not complete.
What I wanted to read on was how to create modular programs with C, as in function pointer arrays and how to generally modularize the application. My attempts at building larger apps have resulted in instability, and I do not want to get into C++. Maybe some details on howto allocate mem less frequently in larger chunks would be also useful....just my rusty 2c.
This release of intellectual property sounds a lot like MIT's OpenCourseWare. Hopefully future publishers will start the timebomb license: This book is copyrighted till 2005, after which it becomes completely free (public domain). After all, this would be better than rotting in libraries.
These free releases have bigger implications than it might first seem. Its competition value will push the quality of future text (unless say, its an obsolete text on pre-Quantum Mechanics physics in 1910s language). Such releases should also popularize the author.
Now I'll get back to my project of Home Cyclotron...
I meant I used those in the languages. Anyone can do echo 2+2 in any language, implementing them in SSL+DB+IMAP webservers and between each other from different hosts is on a different complication level.
I've used these languages in many scenarios and none can be called 'universal', although perl comes close.
OK Dont tell me. This ones funded by a UNIX compan
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I've done it all: PHP ASP Javascript, Java applets, mod_perl and the likes. I am still open to possibly a new lang that beats em all. Something thats
(1) Open (2) Open source (3) Works for LOTS of databasen IMAP SSL LDAP etc (4) Flexible (5) Compilable on everything (6) plugs nicely into apache (7) Possibly compiles (8) Supports languages (i18) (9) Doesnt blindly try to follow C++ (10) Is not so concept-based that its workings cannot be understood.
For one it is the combination of packages. Slackware always gives you 'joe' editor, while others wont. You cant find cfdisk in every distro.
Secondly its the granularity of the packages. Ones like me who really need to know every little package going in will like debian. Lindows and mandrake have larger package clumps..
Thirdly it is the combination of the packages. Some distros are bleeding edge. Some are graphics-intensive but do not provide all the console utils. Some are cheap on the documentation. Others shove sources of everything down your throat.
Fourthly and quite importantly, its those special packages like rpm and linuxconf for redhat and that wonderful hardware detection prog in knoppix. apt-get click-n-whatever.
Linux comes from the opensource world and is a massive amalgam of crazy patches and many little progs of various quality. It is how organization is given to it for the widest variety of audience. Different distros have different ideas for different parts of that audience. Eventually, I think just a few distros will lead, and they will be kept on their toes since the license ensures a quick fork over to another distro as soon as quality slumps on one.
do you think the answer to having a massive and unreliable network is to build a second identical network?"
The answer is to build reliable networks in the first place. From each computer to the other there should be multiple routes. Firewalls should be kept between departments to stop NetBIOS and ICMP broadcast storms and Linux be used to replace M$ systems. All DBASE 5 apps should be replaced with mysql/ncurses equivalents on RAID 1/XFS filesystems. A central computer with daily backups be kept, with multiple power sources for each department.
Having a full-time network administrator, and shielding him from Sys admin tasks while he keeps a list of network analysers/ monitors the servers and keeps extra routers and cables, helps.
Quantity is still no alternative to quality. Install 4 networks in parallel and a DDoS attack will take it out. Else something like the slapper worm or even unplugging an important server will still break the system. Install good quality hardware and dont be understaffed in the IT sector.
But I havent landed anywhere. I have a tokenring + ethernet + wireless setup at home with 8 machines. DNS server, virtualhost apache, virtualhost email, with a custom-made webmail made in php, guestbooks custommade in perl, chilisoft ASP, SAMBA, mysql has guestbook entries, etc etc. One server is FreeBSD another is Debian. Two others not 24/7 are Solaris and RedHat. I have the Linux Certified Admin and LPI level 2, but 4 months constant searching online/newspapers/agencies and not a single phone call.
For years since grade 6 or so, Ive tried to program Commodore 64, learn C and cluster Linux. I even made sure I know the nearby areas like I got my MCSE and CCNA and learned basic XSLT, while building a simple Opengl 1.4 game.
But I just cant seem to land work. I came to Canada recently and its been maybe 4 months I've been granted work papers. But neither IT job agencies work, nor newspapers/workopolis. They all say I have to 'bug' them. How? How can I just call someone at work and say hi I'm bugging you so I can make inroads into your company possibly replacing you. Damn straight I have bad social skills but arent geeks supposed to? Are HR managers that ill trained in that work whereby they hire a sucky technician one he knows or has been bothered on the phone by alot, but not make a quick check in the real market to get a better bang for his buck??
This I dont understand. "Lifes like that". Shouldnt be. What if I were the CEO of a small firm needing maybe 2 sysadmins? I'd definitely aim for the wider market and filter out the 'good' ones. After all I'd be working so hard to make the company succeed right? Why doesnt it work that way?
You might think I just dont have the needed skills. Heres a hint: I only have 2 years of a 4-year college. But my OS experience includes QNX and Plan9. I can do fancy stuff with vbscript + ADSI and have benchmarked 8 different relational databases. I can program in QT3.0, Perl, ANSI C Visual Basic, Assembly. Do I have to produce massive breakthrough OpenSource apps to enter the market? I really dont know people in this new country and the last one was a third-world country not worth going back to.
Does anyone have a simple answer to this beside "hey live with it"??? I dont think people in other fields of work go through this much jobsearch wrangling. I understand the market is crapshoot now, but what about the very lousy Sysadmins Ive met who managed pServers and didnt know what a WINS server is? People who land J2EE contracts.. and THEN start learning the damn thing. People who setup a website in IIS + Windows because "Microsoft is the biggest company" and say "Linux is just like DOS".
The usual home connection is 1.2mbps down and 256k upload. Ive see SDSL thats 3.2 mbps up and 3.2 mbps download. Since this is theoretically faster than a T1 and cheap for not requiring a local loop + CSU/DSU, I'll say its worth the geek's craving. A T1 last time i checked was about $600 per month. This should be that price too but it gives more speed.
By simply getting a better upload speed, you'll notice a difference and major improvement.. eg 1.2/512 vs 1.2/128.
Thirdly.. just remember the time when 9600 bytes per second was good.. and cherish this connection. Remember when 14.4 modem was awesome?Remember the first time popping in windows 3.1 into the comp with a pile of floppies?? Take it from me man, leave the p2p crap alone, download stable versions instead of nightly snapshots and put your focus on your linux box.
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and 802.11b cards, and Arcnet. Due to lack of these drivers I replaced my FreeBSD 4.6 Server with RedHat, despite its higher stability and software availability (no qmail, courier imap, proftpd for redhat).
I bought an Olicom 3140 PCI TR card just for FreeBSD and hooked it up. Made the whole server very unstable with uptimes of less than two weeks a pop. Plus the lousy kernel error messages.. TR support is alpha in both 4.6 and 4.7 and I wouldnt recommend it for any use at all.
Hope also that FreeBSD will soon enough shoot for a journalled filesystem; hopefully one of the already stable ones like XFS. FreeBSD is lagging behind the Linux trailblazer in features, and despite its stability, people are choosing Linux simply because FreeBSD's options are really limiting.
IRC is simply stated, dying. It is too insecure to begin with, plus people satisfy their needs with aol, yahoo and msn messenger; despite the fact that they install GATOR on people's computers.
IRC should be improved drastically, if only to increase the security so you wouldnt be banned from channels you never visited. Ident should be one of the things removed completely from the next version of the protocol should it ever arrive. For now I'll stick to newsgroups, yahoo messenger and mailing lists.
At least try to mix computers, algos and empty casings with your stuff to make it sound like it.
Even your 4-word post took a 2-point score. Hope they find better material.
I recently discovered Lotus Notes Word format (.SAM) is text based just like XML. You could use this, or better go for StarOffice/OpenOffice native formats or SGML.
Install redhat on ext3,
configure redhat, esp the networking
get online, get the latest 2.4 kernel
get XFS patch and xfsprogs and install
recompile a new kernel with XFS in it and boot.
mkfs.xfs
cd
cp -a {bin,usr,etc,... except tmp,mnt,proc}
fix
reboot.
This still gives some obscure errors on bootup, but maybe because of redundant scripts. works very fast and stable for me. If you get around to fixing those errors, please roll out a HOWTO since noone can take filesystem instability on production servers, yet everyone wants to use 2.4.
Maybe you could enter a list of interests, gender and availibility into your wearable, and have it select a partner for you walking around. I know this has been discussed elsewhere earlier, but not while working as ad-hoc proxies.
I've been thinking of building an ARM based linux-running system, nothing big, something real cheap and with a small passive LCD. The whole system cost should not exceed $100. Better Still if it could take power through the LAN connector, or connect via lan-on-power lines.
This machine seems to come close, but is loaded with unnecessities like the geforce, cdrw and so many others. ARM is suited for making the lowest-cost systems for education and wiring up third-world countries. I'm talking about something resembling slackware 3.0, or something with busybox, flash, ulibc and lynx based-browsers running on low-cost LCDs, unless CRTS turn out to be lower-cost.
I just hope this installer includes options to be started from a DOS prompt and install from isos located on NFS/SMB/FTP shares. Also hope this is NOT a replacement for dselect.
If only they had a hardware config program like Knoppix, this could be the killer distro now.
I'm sure this guy's watched that series a wee bit too much. But I support him completely for making science more fun. Imagine the number of snowboarder teens flocking to colleges to make a career of major spills. Maybe the scientific journal paper by this guy is signed "Awesome Dude". Envy of many PHDs I'm sure.
I think opera has really shewn Mozilla/Netscape the true direction of web browsers. Mozilla is a real bloatware despite its completeness and correctness, for all practical purposes, opera just beats it up.
Instead of reducing the engine, I think it might be better to start from scratch, and making a very quick n small browser, and THEN using enhancements to add functionality step by step for people with different requirements. A lot of people need nothing more than HTML4, not even flash n java, phoenix can accomplish this not by reducing mozilla but by starting from a clean slate.
Secondly I think its version number should be bumped to 1.x. To gather more testing data, the version number should smack of stability. Even opera isnt the most stable of browsers. In fact, I've NEVER experienced a 100% stable browser. Can this be ANOTHER aim of this project?
I tried to figure it out on their site... Data Modelling?? As in flowcharts? Or developing software in a very easy high-level language in an emulated environment to test its functionality? Call me naiive but I'm sure I'm not alone.
Seems a bit on the "strings" side, so I assume the text is not complete.
What I wanted to read on was how to create modular programs with C, as in function pointer arrays and how to generally modularize the application. My attempts at building larger apps have resulted in instability, and I do not want to get into C++. Maybe some details on howto allocate mem less frequently in larger chunks would be also useful..
This release of intellectual property sounds a lot like MIT's OpenCourseWare. Hopefully future publishers will start the timebomb license: This book is copyrighted till 2005, after which it becomes completely free (public domain). After all, this would be better than rotting in libraries.
These free releases have bigger implications than it might first seem. Its competition value will push the quality of future text (unless say, its an obsolete text on pre-Quantum Mechanics physics in 1910s language). Such releases should also popularize the author.
Now I'll get back to my project of Home Cyclotron...
Altho its nice to have better cooling for computers, this news is just redundant.
I meant I used those in the languages. Anyone can do echo 2+2 in any language, implementing them in SSL+DB+IMAP webservers and between each other from different hosts is on a different complication level.
I've used these languages in many scenarios and none can be called 'universal', although perl comes close.
Lemme put my Solaris 8 x86 Review up.
I mean hey they happen. Even if TWICE in one artcle, and goes thru the moderators. Even this is statistically possible. Forcus on content please.
I've done it all: PHP ASP Javascript, Java applets, mod_perl and the likes. I am still open to possibly a new lang that beats em all. Something thats
(1) Open
(2) Open source
(3) Works for LOTS of databasen IMAP SSL LDAP etc
(4) Flexible
(5) Compilable on everything
(6) plugs nicely into apache
(7) Possibly compiles
(8) Supports languages (i18)
(9) Doesnt blindly try to follow C++
(10) Is not so concept-based that its workings cannot be understood.
Or even a dirt-cheap digital camera?
For one it is the combination of packages. Slackware always gives you 'joe' editor, while others wont. You cant find cfdisk in every distro.
Secondly its the granularity of the packages. Ones like me who really need to know every little package going in will like debian. Lindows and mandrake have larger package clumps..
Thirdly it is the combination of the packages. Some distros are bleeding edge. Some are graphics-intensive but do not provide all the console utils. Some are cheap on the documentation. Others shove sources of everything down your throat.
Fourthly and quite importantly, its those special packages like rpm and linuxconf for redhat and that wonderful hardware detection prog in knoppix. apt-get click-n-whatever.
Linux comes from the opensource world and is a massive amalgam of crazy patches and many little progs of various quality. It is how organization is given to it for the widest variety of audience. Different distros have different ideas for different parts of that audience. Eventually, I think just a few distros will lead, and they will be kept on their toes since the license ensures a quick fork over to another distro as soon as quality slumps on one.
do you think the answer to having a massive and unreliable network is to build a second identical network?"
The answer is to build reliable networks in the first place. From each computer to the other there should be multiple routes. Firewalls should be kept between departments to stop NetBIOS and ICMP broadcast storms and Linux be used to replace M$ systems. All DBASE 5 apps should be replaced with mysql/ncurses equivalents on RAID 1/XFS filesystems. A central computer with daily backups be kept, with multiple power sources for each department.
Having a full-time network administrator, and shielding him from Sys admin tasks while he keeps a list of network analysers/ monitors the servers and keeps extra routers and cables, helps.
Quantity is still no alternative to quality. Install 4 networks in parallel and a DDoS attack will take it out. Else something like the slapper worm or even unplugging an important server will still break the system. Install good quality hardware and dont be understaffed in the IT sector.
This guys right.
But I havent landed anywhere. I have a tokenring + ethernet + wireless setup at home with 8 machines. DNS server, virtualhost apache, virtualhost email, with a custom-made webmail made in php, guestbooks custommade in perl, chilisoft ASP, SAMBA, mysql has guestbook entries, etc etc. One server is FreeBSD another is Debian. Two others not 24/7 are Solaris and RedHat. I have the Linux Certified Admin and LPI level 2, but 4 months constant searching online/newspapers/agencies and not a single phone call.
For years since grade 6 or so, Ive tried to program Commodore 64, learn C and cluster Linux. I even made sure I know the nearby areas like I got my MCSE and CCNA and learned basic XSLT, while building a simple Opengl 1.4 game.
But I just cant seem to land work. I came to Canada recently and its been maybe 4 months I've been granted work papers. But neither IT job agencies work, nor newspapers/workopolis. They all say I have to 'bug' them. How? How can I just call someone at work and say hi I'm bugging you so I can make inroads into your company possibly replacing you. Damn straight I have bad social skills but arent geeks supposed to? Are HR managers that ill trained in that work whereby they hire a sucky technician one he knows or has been bothered on the phone by alot, but not make a quick check in the real market to get a better bang for his buck??
This I dont understand. "Lifes like that". Shouldnt be. What if I were the CEO of a small firm needing maybe 2 sysadmins? I'd definitely aim for the wider market and filter out the 'good' ones. After all I'd be working so hard to make the company succeed right? Why doesnt it work that way?
You might think I just dont have the needed skills. Heres a hint: I only have 2 years of a 4-year college. But my OS experience includes QNX and Plan9. I can do fancy stuff with vbscript + ADSI and have benchmarked 8 different relational databases. I can program in QT3.0, Perl, ANSI C Visual Basic, Assembly. Do I have to produce massive breakthrough OpenSource apps to enter the market? I really dont know people in this new country and the last one was a third-world country not worth going back to.
Does anyone have a simple answer to this beside "hey live with it"??? I dont think people in other fields of work go through this much jobsearch wrangling. I understand the market is crapshoot now, but what about the very lousy Sysadmins Ive met who managed pServers and didnt know what a WINS server is? People who land J2EE contracts.. and THEN start learning the damn thing. People who setup a website in IIS + Windows because "Microsoft is the biggest company" and say "Linux is just like DOS".
The usual home connection is 1.2mbps down and 256k upload. Ive see SDSL thats 3.2 mbps up and 3.2 mbps download. Since this is theoretically faster than a T1 and cheap for not requiring a local loop + CSU/DSU, I'll say its worth the geek's craving. A T1 last time i checked was about $600 per month. This should be that price too but it gives more speed.
By simply getting a better upload speed, you'll notice a difference and major improvement.. eg 1.2/512 vs 1.2/128.
Thirdly.. just remember the time when 9600 bytes per second was good.. and cherish this connection. Remember when 14.4 modem was awesome?Remember the first time popping in windows 3.1 into the comp with a pile of floppies?? Take it from me man, leave the p2p crap alone, download stable versions instead of nightly snapshots and put your focus on your linux box.