Great! So, being a very busy guy (and I am) I have lots of time to
1) recompile my kernel, with a new tree (using 2.4.x installed via yum/rpm)
2) recompile VMWare with a new kernel tree (good F'ing luck)
3) Futz with numerous config files so that I can
4) Read slashdot at starbucks.
Perhaps you should note my (broken) link to "http://ipw2200.sf.net"... ?
Sorry, but the IPW2200 drive would cause me to twitch uncontrollably - and you don't want to be merging on the freeway next to me when this twitch hits me.... it's not stable, doesn't support the version(s) of Linux I use, and is feature - incomplete - in an environment where you have to edit text files to connect to a wide-open hotspot.
Sorry. I love Linux and all for it's stability, but for ease-of-use it generally sucks pretty hard.
1) You are using perl right now. How else could you post on slashdot? Who says it has to run on the computer in front of you? Also, are you will to state for the record that you aren't using Windows, X11, Apple's Quartz, or any similar widget-based GUI? What, are you posting in LYNX, with Linux 1.x kernel? I'm really curious to find out what you are REALLY USING...
2) I wish I had a link - somebody wrote a DVD decoder as a perl regular expression that could decompress a DVD in real-time on a >2 Ghz P4. Although a bit unrealistic today, in 3 short years a 2 Ghz P4 will cost $80 on EBay.
3) The quote: "That's strange because I am having a hell of a time playing back video on my 286. Where is the lighening fast program that will play it at the same speed I do now?" Doesn't make sense when compared against what I said. Please read what I wrote again. There were video options on the '286 - they just sucked, were proprietary, and very expensive. (but they weren't bloated!)
4)Additionally, you can't even argue that a java video player is fancier than a native video player. The java player is really less fancy, and less feature-packed. Gee - I thought that somebody as smart as you would be able to understand that being able to play video without installing *anything* special on multiple platforms without having a "Windows version, Mac version, Linux Glib X version, Linux Glib Y version...." would qualify as a "feature". Oh, well. I guess a "feature" to somebody with your mind-set only includes a fancy volume button....
4) Why are boot times a rediculous comparison? Thee fact is, it's about as fast to bring up a customer record using Access on WinXP on a multi-Ghz Athlon as it took to bring up similar records on the '286 using FoxPro and MSDOS 5.0. But, I'd choose the Access-based package over the FoxPRO/DOS one any day of the week...
The point is really this - what you call "BLOAT" I call "features". There is UN-NECESSARY BLOAT, and that we should fight with verve and energy. But, take a look at the damn article I quoted in my original post. Then, I'd like to see what your response actually is.
I've wanted this for months now. A "laptop" that instead of advertising the newest P4 processor for Barbecues (R) gives you low power, ARM (XScale) computing at the right price.
Which sounds nice - until you decide that you want to run VMWare. And XMMS. And 27 applications. At once. And run two monitors. And you want to load the database from the server to help find a bug.
Oh, and since you spend 8+ hours/day in front of it, every little delay really counts. More than you thought.
Suddenly, you realize that your computer really NEEDS all that processing power.
When I bought my Dell Inspiron 600M, I thought I could get away with merely 512 MB of RAM. Boy, was I wrong. I now have 1.5 GB of RAM and couldn't be happier. It's 1.6 Ghz Centrino, and it generates a fair amount of heat.
Oh, and I love it! It's fast, portable, reasonably Linux compatable (no 802.11, and Power Mgmt is a bit weak) and very, very functional.
Whatever I miss from my desktop Athlon 2000+, I wouldn't trade for my laptop! I dual-boot into WinXP (as now) for 802.11 support since the Intel 2200 B/G wireless is not yet well supported.
I do not agree. Having a java codec for browsers may as well be having no codec at all. Reasoning:
1) The only users that allow their browser to run java are those that either don't know how to disable it, or don't know what it is....<SNIP>
And I would put you squarely into the LATTER category. Or, were you not aware of what a JVM "sandbox" is?
2. Java is slow and gobbles up resources....
So is Windows. So is KDE. So is perl, PHP, Ruby, GLibc, and about a zillion others. Perhaps you should read up on the realities of so-called "BLOAT"?
The fact is that faster computers have not really resulted in us running the same programs faster. It's resulted in us running bigger, fancier programs at the same speed we always have.
It took about 3 minutes for my 20 Mhz 286 to boot up. It takes about that long for my 2 Ghz Athlon to do the same.
What's the difference? Go on back and USE that 80286 AT for a while, and tell me what that software "bloat" really got you...
It's late in this thread, so I'm sure this will really go nowhere, but just in case, I'm donning the asbestos...
Ok, he's being charged with propogating a worm. Which, in/.land, makes him second only to the RIAA. But is there *anyone* who wonders why it's taken 4 MONTHS after he was arrested to be CHARGED with the crime?
Notice, the trial hasn't begun. This 18 y.o. kid (I know, legally adult, yadda yadda - 18y is but a kid) has been in the clink for 4 MONTHS before he's even charged?!!??!
Even a dirtbag should have a right to a reasonably speedy trial! It's better for him, and cheaper for the rest of us. (Jails aren't cheap, you know)
As an actively employed "Linux Systems Administrator" (my real job title) I must concur with "damiangerous." While I was a windows admin I set up multiple linux boxes out of curiosity, slackware, rh5, and it was interesting and educational, but once I was done I just sort of looked at them and was like "Now What?"
Only after I attended a 3 night a week month long class did it all come together.
Well, as "an actively employed "Linux Systems Administrator" (my real job title)" I can say that I followed a different path. There just weren't any decent classes anywhere near me unless I was willing to drive several hours each way, twice a week.
It started with me getting rid of Windows on my personal workstation, and using only Linux. I bought every book I thought might help, and became an avid reader of sites like http://rootprompt.org/ and http://www.linuxtoday.com (though the latter is mostly advocacy)
It also helps to know a few other people - I've offered and received useful tips from other experienced techs.
It was about a year before I truly "got" Linux - I noticed it when I sat down at a Windows system and immediately felt "cramped" because of all the limitations on what I was doing.
The single book that helped me most get going was "Red Hat Linux Unleashed".
We really haven't figured out a good way to reward inventors and innovators.
Oh, we've figured that out. There are some areas (EG: Music Industry) that are going through some market corrections, but, most especially in computing technology, innovators get paid for their efforts. Nicely. How else can you justify the extremely innovative computing machine you used to write this innane post?
The problem is that you aren't an innovator, but think you are.
You think YOU are the innovator when you clock in at a job, building somebody else's dream in exchange for regular hours, medical benefits and instant money?
If what you have is real innovation, and not just "code to spec", then start your own damn company and make a real go of it. If needed, talk to somebody who might want to partner or VC your idea.
Yes, it's a hard row to hoe. There *has* to be resistance to new ideas, or precious capital gets blown on stuff that goes nowhere. (Anybody remember the days of the late '90s when resistance to new ideas was virtually non-existent? How much of society's capital was blown to smithereens then?)
If you have real ideas, that pass the sniff test, and the real ambition it takes to make a real idea a real reality, you will be rewarded. Richly, unless you are stupid and give it all away. (note: if you don't have decent legal counsel, stay with your day job)
So, if you are really convinced you have something good, then quit looking for a "JOB" and start looking at how your great idea could actually make some money.
Otherwise, the noise you're making is just your ass cheeks flapping from the hot air escaping.
This is one of those cases where justifying "abandonware" sites becomes much more difficult.
Just because they aren't selling it today, doesn't mean that they never will.
Abandonware sites work on logic somewhat like: "Well, you have this car, but since you've left it parked in the driveway for 6 months without using it, you shouldn't complain if we hotwire it and go joyriding in it... we'll return it so you don't lose anything!"
So long as there is a concept of "Intellectual Property", however fictitious in reality, these issues will remain. It's either the law, or it's not - and if you don't like it, change the law!
Some of the things that they say about Longhorn (the fact that they need to roll it out on clients and servers at the same time, in particular) makes me think that they will modify the networking protocols enough that Linux servers will no longer be able to play with Microsoft desktops.
And, this would be one of those things that would probably vault Linux forward rapidly. If it's all new, what's the advantage of Windows?
Take a look here for an interesting article on how Microsoft is losing the "API war"...
Why should someone who commits crimes against someone in another country not be held liable for those crimes simply because of geographic boundaires?
Probably the most-quoted phrase in this thread... a true troll if ever I saw one. That said, I'm biting...
Let's say you have a nice, WWII bomb shell. It might still be active, it might not. But, it's decorated your grand-uncle's porch for 30-some-odd years. Grand uncle dies, and you get it.
You sell it on EBay. Now, it's not illegal to own this shell in the US.
Suddenly, somebody from France extradites you for attempting to sell "military munitions to civil personnel". But wait a minute... it's not illegal to own that in the US! But, it is/was being sold to people IN FRANCE!
The "Intarweb thingar" had made a mess of the legal system in many respects - with courts and jurisdictions the world over scrambling to remain relevant.
In the above cases, many courts have chosen to construe the act of selling happening whereever the sale "took place" - in other words, where the customer is.
So, are you ready to defend yourself in a French court?
I work as the CTO of a small educational software company. I'm one of 4 partners in the company. I make it a point to start late, and work late. This is because:
1) Customers call during business hours;
2) Customers rarely need to be contacted immediately - but need software delivered on time,
3) Customers stop calling at around 3:00, and
4) I need several hours in a day without interruptions in order to focus and write quality software. I get this time typically between 3:00 and 8:00, I'm available for "customer relations" from about 11:00 or noon on, and this lets me provide a satisfactory customer experience, while still allowing me to optimize my schedule for software development.
The bottom line is that customers pay for software, not for questions answered. Questions answered is part of the sales cycle, but if software doesn't get written, customers will not buy. Send me an email, and you'll generally get a response in 24-48 hours.
If I were to shift my schedule back to something "normal", I'd probably see a 50% reduction in software development from all the interruptions I'd get...
Actually, Remote Desktop I would imagine to be better for Windows to Windows then VNC, there are clients for it on Linux
You've just jacked into a DSL line in the lobby of a hotel somewhere in Central California. You have a customer on the phone with a tech support issue. You need to take a look at his computer.
What do you do? You are most certainly behind a NAT firewall - and so is the customer. Do you have a solution for this problem? Well, I do. I bought this back when it was called "Expert VNC". I've used it day in, day out for a year and a half. It's based on OSS software, and I paid $500 for it. It was well worth it. I save that in travel expenses every few days - and it works almost anywhere.
No, I don't get amy $$ for this ringing endorsement, but I do save $$ everytime I use the product.
How nice it is to have customers thousands of miles away who feel as though they've had somebody over the shoulder take care of them! How nice it is, when debugging a problem, to have full access tothe system in question! How nice it is to never wonder what the customer actually sees on the screen!
If $500 is "too expensive" to pay for these kinds of capabilities, you really don't matter, yet. So, "RD" in Windows is just the pits compared to this!
The answer is redundancy. Every day, thousands of cells in your body are screwed up due to interference from background radiation. Your body contains numerous mechanisms to detect cells with screwed up DNA and termminate them.
Your IT technology must do the same. Here's what I use in keeping data safe for a hosted application:
1) The primary server is configured with RAID1 - either hard drive fails, I can pull the bad one and continue working while I replace the primary drive. It has 3 independant redundant network feeds.
2) There's a hot backup server, mirrored nightly that I can switch to in about 4 hours. It's on a diffferent network, in a different city, several hundred miles away from the primary.
3) There's a 3rd backup site containing full backups (incremental backups that emulate full backups a la rsync) going back a full month, at any time. Again, different city, different network.
4) The database is dumped to disk every hour, on the hour. Thus, I not only have a current copy of the databae, but in the event of a programming failure, I can roll the database back to any point on the hour going back 4 days.
5) The application in mind is client-based, with periodic updates to the server. Most of the relevant data could be deleted from the server at any time, and most users wouldn't even notice, since their client applications would update the server with the relevant data periodically!
With this setup, to lose data you must:
1) Not allow the client to "talk" to the server, and
2) the client must suffer a catastrophic failure (EG: HDD failure)
3) The server must have both HDD and all 3 network feeds die, and
4) The hot backup server must be dead, and
5) the 3rd location server/HDD must be dead and
6) the client software must be installed on only one machine (it seldom is!)
Pretty dammn unlikely set of circumstances. If you build your network-capable software right, it is damn near impossible to suffer catastrophic losses.
Does it matter? Hell yeah! I may soon be adding yet *another* layer of redundancy since Postgres replication is now *finally* a real option! But, my business could suffer several catastrophes in a row and we'd *still* continue operating smoothly!
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He must be a script coder. For example:
$a=$b=$c=10;
Is a perfectly valid statement in PHP - this would assign the value of 10 to variables a, b, and c.
Perhaps we should provide a full, workable statement like this:
$nukeplant<=($asteroid=$vw);
which is the full, logical statement of his words.
Unlike VNC which essentially takes a picture of you desktop and sends that, so its easy to see why NX works so much better.
Except that VNC is cross platform. I can see a 'doze system on my Fedora Workstation and I can monitor processes on my Fedora workstation from a 'doze laptop.
Give me that portability with a lower bandwidth constraint, and I'm a convert. Portability is a deal-breaker.
For now, I use VNC, and for Windows-Windows connectivity, I use TightVnc. Usable over a modem, and nice over broadband. Even with a VPN (to enable remote desktop from anywhere, a la VMWare) it's decent almost anyplace.
Well it's not so much time as it is experience that gets you to know what you like. In college you can have more sex in one year than the average man has in two or three - certainly enough sex to determine what you find good and what you really dislike.
Sorry, pal. I ain't buyin' it. You get married and have a decent relationship with your spouse, you have sex on a daily basis. As in, it's part of your daily routine.
Like, "Wake up in the morning, roll over, wait till the missus is awake, and try that move you read about in Cosmo at the grocery store yesterday, brush your teeth, shower......."
I cannot picture a single life, however adventurous, with a sex life as rigorous as that. Sorry, you have to add in the time to exchange phone numbers, convince her that you're a worthwhile partner for the night, figure out where, and then try to wing it to figure out what each other likes, before you even really get warmed up.
What a hassle!
Happily married people get more. If you get it right, you can do little more than snap your fingers, and your spouse is ready to go because of all the past experiences you have together. No talking, no "convincing", just make a few moves and get down to business.
I honestly just don't understand why anybody would think that single life is preferable!
This is expected to be Doohan's last public appearance as he suffers from Parkinson's disease, diabetes and lung fibrosis as well as recently diagnosed Alzheimer's disease."
I just wish there was some way to make it work at boot time so I could ditch my KVMs.
You wouldn't want to do that. I can't see how this would be more reliable than openssh - In 5 years as a full time admin, I've seen only ONE CASE where openssh wasn't working - and that's when I typed "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd stop"...
KVMs are there for when there's a severe software problem - the system won't boot because of filesystem corruption, a hard disk won't initialize, memory parity errors, etc.
KVM over IP raises a number of VERY SERIOUS security issues. For example, with most default installs of RedHat, you can reset the password from grub. Get control of the KVM, and you might as well have just put them inside the colo facility, given them a key to the rack, and handed them your root password. So I've not yet been able to bring myself to trust it... yet.
If I need a true KVM, I call the hosting facility and pay $0.80 per minutte. It's well worth my peace of mind... and it's rare (less than once/year) that it ever becomes an issue.
Ok, so here's what you did: You went to Yahoo groups, and registered a new group, wherein you posted a single
ADVERTISEMENT The idea of Open Technology is to keep the growth of technology open from legislation that can impair its continual evolution. Please, feel free to help come up with a better mission statement, and ideas for starting a real organization, this Yahoo! Group is only a placeholder.
...?
What next? How are you going to promote your ideals? How are you going to get people to join? It might be as simple as a/. sig, but you are goinig to have to come up with something in the meantime to keep your 1 interested party doing something.
See, it takes REAL WORK to get anything done. It's not easy, and it's usually unappreciated. It's almost never glamorous.
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." ~Thomas Edison
If you are going to make the group you created mean anything more than the kazilions of others that nobody posts anything to, you are going to have to work.
See, it's one thing to whine on an online forum that makes it all easy. It's another thing entirely to caitalize on a social movement to create something with real power. (A La/., wired, and a few others)
I wish you the best of luck with your Yahoo! group - I sincerely hope it turns out better than I expect.
Sex. Women do all their freaky stuff in college, so have an open mind and hit as much of it as you possibly can.
WTF?!?! Freaky stuff is neat and all, but the really, REALLY hot things for me didn't happen until after 5-6 years of marriage. The kind of things you think about and just purrrr...
It takes TIME to get to know what you really, REALLY like - time and close attention. Forget the "college" years where most chicks are busy just trying to fit in, trying not to be insecure.
Get someone in their 30s and up - then you get somebody who know what the !@# to do with themselves, and aren't too embarrased to do it, either, instead of jiggle in weird, boring ways.
Just wait. If you don't see it, it's because you're single.
You mean, you didn't volunteer for the position? You don't even have a Paypal account to accept donations?
No domain name, no website, no mailing address?
Oh, so you posted to slashdot - great and all, but if you really wanted to matter, you'd do something more.
I chose my battle - alternative education. See, I think kids need a good education in order to make wise decisions as adults. And, there are lots of tough decisions coming in the next 100 years. So, I'm part of a company that facilitates alternative education in California. Many thousands of kids benefit, and the company is growing both rapidly and profitably.
If you are serious, start the damn tech group. Get the required membership, get the paypal account working, get a website put together. (Hint: both techrally.org and techinnovation.org are not registered) Otherwise, you're wasting time, and the power used to run your mother's computer.
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Great! So, being a very busy guy (and I am) I have lots of time to
1) recompile my kernel, with a new tree (using 2.4.x installed via yum/rpm)
2) recompile VMWare with a new kernel tree (good F'ing luck)
3) Futz with numerous config files so that I can
4) Read slashdot at starbucks.
Perhaps you should note my (broken) link to "http://ipw2200.sf.net"... ?
Sorry, but the IPW2200 drive would cause me to twitch uncontrollably - and you don't want to be merging on the freeway next to me when this twitch hits me.... it's not stable, doesn't support the version(s) of Linux I use, and is feature - incomplete - in an environment where you have to edit text files to connect to a wide-open hotspot.
Sorry. I love Linux and all for it's stability, but for ease-of-use it generally sucks pretty hard.
1) You are using perl right now. How else could you post on slashdot? Who says it has to run on the computer in front of you? Also, are you will to state for the record that you aren't using Windows, X11, Apple's Quartz, or any similar widget-based GUI? What, are you posting in LYNX, with Linux 1.x kernel? I'm really curious to find out what you are REALLY USING...
2) I wish I had a link - somebody wrote a DVD decoder as a perl regular expression that could decompress a DVD in real-time on a >2 Ghz P4. Although a bit unrealistic today, in 3 short years a 2 Ghz P4 will cost $80 on EBay.
3) The quote: "That's strange because I am having a hell of a time playing back video on my 286. Where is the lighening fast program that will play it at the same speed I do now?" Doesn't make sense when compared against what I said. Please read what I wrote again. There were video options on the '286 - they just sucked, were proprietary, and very expensive. (but they weren't bloated!)
4)Additionally, you can't even argue that a java video player is fancier than a native video player. The java player is really less fancy, and less feature-packed. Gee - I thought that somebody as smart as you would be able to understand that being able to play video without installing *anything* special on multiple platforms without having a "Windows version, Mac version, Linux Glib X version, Linux Glib Y version...." would qualify as a "feature". Oh, well. I guess a "feature" to somebody with your mind-set only includes a fancy volume button....
4) Why are boot times a rediculous comparison? Thee fact is, it's about as fast to bring up a customer record using Access on WinXP on a multi-Ghz Athlon as it took to bring up similar records on the '286 using FoxPro and MSDOS 5.0. But, I'd choose the Access-based package over the FoxPRO/DOS one any day of the week...
The point is really this - what you call "BLOAT" I call "features". There is UN-NECESSARY BLOAT, and that we should fight with verve and energy. But, take a look at the damn article I quoted in my original post. Then, I'd like to see what your response actually is.
I've wanted this for months now. A "laptop" that instead of advertising the newest P4 processor for Barbecues (R) gives you low power, ARM (XScale) computing at the right price.
/day in front of it, every little delay really counts. More than you thought.
Which sounds nice - until you decide that you want to run VMWare. And XMMS. And 27 applications. At once. And run two monitors. And you want to load the database from the server to help find a bug.
Oh, and since you spend 8+ hours
Suddenly, you realize that your computer really NEEDS all that processing power.
When I bought my Dell Inspiron 600M, I thought I could get away with merely 512 MB of RAM. Boy, was I wrong. I now have 1.5 GB of RAM and couldn't be happier. It's 1.6 Ghz Centrino, and it generates a fair amount of heat.
Oh, and I love it! It's fast, portable, reasonably Linux compatable (no 802.11, and Power Mgmt is a bit weak) and very, very functional.
Whatever I miss from my desktop Athlon 2000+, I wouldn't trade for my laptop! I dual-boot into WinXP (as now) for 802.11 support since the Intel 2200 B/G wireless is not yet well supported.
The fact is that faster computers have not really resulted in us running the same programs faster. It's resulted in us running bigger, fancier programs at the same speed we always have.
It took about 3 minutes for my 20 Mhz 286 to boot up. It takes about that long for my 2 Ghz Athlon to do the same.
What's the difference? Go on back and USE that 80286 AT for a while, and tell me what that software "bloat" really got you...
It's late in this thread, so I'm sure this will really go nowhere, but just in case, I'm donning the asbestos...
/.land, makes him second only to the RIAA. But is there *anyone* who wonders why it's taken 4 MONTHS after he was arrested to be CHARGED with the crime?
Ok, he's being charged with propogating a worm. Which, in
Notice, the trial hasn't begun. This 18 y.o. kid (I know, legally adult, yadda yadda - 18y is but a kid) has been in the clink for 4 MONTHS before he's even charged?!!??!
Even a dirtbag should have a right to a reasonably speedy trial! It's better for him, and cheaper for the rest of us. (Jails aren't cheap, you know)
WTF?
As an actively employed "Linux Systems Administrator" (my real job title) I must concur with "damiangerous." While I was a windows admin I set up multiple linux boxes out of curiosity, slackware, rh5, and it was interesting and educational, but once I was done I just sort of looked at them and was like "Now What?"
Only after I attended a 3 night a week month long class did it all come together.
Well, as "an actively employed "Linux Systems Administrator" (my real job title)" I can say that I followed a different path. There just weren't any decent classes anywhere near me unless I was willing to drive several hours each way, twice a week.
It started with me getting rid of Windows on my personal workstation, and using only Linux. I bought every book I thought might help, and became an avid reader of sites like http://rootprompt.org/ and http://www.linuxtoday.com (though the latter is mostly advocacy)
It also helps to know a few other people - I've offered and received useful tips from other experienced techs.
It was about a year before I truly "got" Linux - I noticed it when I sat down at a Windows system and immediately felt "cramped" because of all the limitations on what I was doing.
The single book that helped me most get going was "Red Hat Linux Unleashed".
We really haven't figured out a good way to reward inventors and innovators.
Oh, we've figured that out. There are some areas (EG: Music Industry) that are going through some market corrections, but, most especially in computing technology, innovators get paid for their efforts. Nicely. How else can you justify the extremely innovative computing machine you used to write this innane post?
The problem is that you aren't an innovator, but think you are.
You think YOU are the innovator when you clock in at a job, building somebody else's dream in exchange for regular hours, medical benefits and instant money?
If what you have is real innovation, and not just "code to spec", then start your own damn company and make a real go of it. If needed, talk to somebody who might want to partner or VC your idea.
Yes, it's a hard row to hoe. There *has* to be resistance to new ideas, or precious capital gets blown on stuff that goes nowhere. (Anybody remember the days of the late '90s when resistance to new ideas was virtually non-existent? How much of society's capital was blown to smithereens then?)
If you have real ideas, that pass the sniff test, and the real ambition it takes to make a real idea a real reality, you will be rewarded. Richly, unless you are stupid and give it all away. (note: if you don't have decent legal counsel, stay with your day job)
So, if you are really convinced you have something good, then quit looking for a "JOB" and start looking at how your great idea could actually make some money.
Otherwise, the noise you're making is just your ass cheeks flapping from the hot air escaping.
We're about 7 comments in, it's 10:40 PM PST, and the site is /.ed.
Mirrors? Anybody?
This is one of those cases where justifying "abandonware" sites becomes much more difficult.
Just because they aren't selling it today, doesn't mean that they never will.
Abandonware sites work on logic somewhat like: "Well, you have this car, but since you've left it parked in the driveway for 6 months without using it, you shouldn't complain if we hotwire it and go joyriding in it... we'll return it so you don't lose anything!"
So long as there is a concept of "Intellectual Property", however fictitious in reality, these issues will remain. It's either the law, or it's not - and if you don't like it, change the law!
Some of the things that they say about Longhorn (the fact that they need to roll it out on clients and servers at the same time, in particular) makes me think that they will modify the networking protocols enough that Linux servers will no longer be able to play with Microsoft desktops.
And, this would be one of those things that would probably vault Linux forward rapidly. If it's all new, what's the advantage of Windows?
Take a look here for an interesting article on how Microsoft is losing the "API war"...
Why should someone who commits crimes against someone in another country not be held liable for those crimes simply because of geographic boundaires?
Probably the most-quoted phrase in this thread... a true troll if ever I saw one. That said, I'm biting...
Let's say you have a nice, WWII bomb shell. It might still be active, it might not. But, it's decorated your grand-uncle's porch for 30-some-odd years. Grand uncle dies, and you get it.
You sell it on EBay. Now, it's not illegal to own this shell in the US.
Suddenly, somebody from France extradites you for attempting to sell "military munitions to civil personnel". But wait a minute... it's not illegal to own that in the US! But, it is/was being sold to people IN FRANCE!
The "Intarweb thingar" had made a mess of the legal system in many respects - with courts and jurisdictions the world over scrambling to remain relevant.
In the above cases, many courts have chosen to construe the act of selling happening whereever the sale "took place" - in other words, where the customer is.
So, are you ready to defend yourself in a French court?
I've seen this behavior on Mac, Windows, and Linux. And there's a bug posted on it in the Firefox bug database.
/. addict, I can say that if /. was having a problemm w/Moz, I'd be the first to know.
Using Moz on Win and Linux. I've never seen this issue. As a
I work as the CTO of a small educational software company. I'm one of 4 partners in the company. I make it a point to start late, and work late. This is because:
1) Customers call during business hours;
2) Customers rarely need to be contacted immediately - but need software delivered on time,
3) Customers stop calling at around 3:00, and
4) I need several hours in a day without interruptions in order to focus and write quality software. I get this time typically between 3:00 and 8:00, I'm available for "customer relations" from about 11:00 or noon on, and this lets me provide a satisfactory customer experience, while still allowing me to optimize my schedule for software development.
The bottom line is that customers pay for software, not for questions answered. Questions answered is part of the sales cycle, but if software doesn't get written, customers will not buy. Send me an email, and you'll generally get a response in 24-48 hours.
If I were to shift my schedule back to something "normal", I'd probably see a 50% reduction in software development from all the interruptions I'd get...
Actually, Remote Desktop I would imagine to be better for Windows to Windows then VNC, there are clients for it on Linux
You've just jacked into a DSL line in the lobby of a hotel somewhere in Central California. You have a customer on the phone with a tech support issue. You need to take a look at his computer.
What do you do? You are most certainly behind a NAT firewall - and so is the customer. Do you have a solution for this problem? Well, I do. I bought this back when it was called "Expert VNC". I've used it day in, day out for a year and a half. It's based on OSS software, and I paid $500 for it. It was well worth it. I save that in travel expenses every few days - and it works almost anywhere.
No, I don't get amy $$ for this ringing endorsement, but I do save $$ everytime I use the product.
How nice it is to have customers thousands of miles away who feel as though they've had somebody over the shoulder take care of them! How nice it is, when debugging a problem, to have full access tothe system in question! How nice it is to never wonder what the customer actually sees on the screen!
If $500 is "too expensive" to pay for these kinds of capabilities, you really don't matter, yet. So, "RD" in Windows is just the pits compared to this!
The answer is redundancy. Every day, thousands of cells in your body are screwed up due to interference from background radiation. Your body contains numerous mechanisms to detect cells with screwed up DNA and termminate them.
Your IT technology must do the same. Here's what I use in keeping data safe for a hosted application:
1) The primary server is configured with RAID1 - either hard drive fails, I can pull the bad one and continue working while I replace the primary drive. It has 3 independant redundant network feeds.
2) There's a hot backup server, mirrored nightly that I can switch to in about 4 hours. It's on a diffferent network, in a different city, several hundred miles away from the primary.
3) There's a 3rd backup site containing full backups (incremental backups that emulate full backups a la rsync) going back a full month, at any time. Again, different city, different network.
4) The database is dumped to disk every hour, on the hour. Thus, I not only have a current copy of the databae, but in the event of a programming failure, I can roll the database back to any point on the hour going back 4 days.
5) The application in mind is client-based, with periodic updates to the server. Most of the relevant data could be deleted from the server at any time, and most users wouldn't even notice, since their client applications would update the server with the relevant data periodically!
With this setup, to lose data you must:
1) Not allow the client to "talk" to the server, and
2) the client must suffer a catastrophic failure (EG: HDD failure)
3) The server must have both HDD and all 3 network feeds die, and
4) The hot backup server must be dead, and
5) the 3rd location server/HDD must be dead and
6) the client software must be installed on only one machine (it seldom is!)
Pretty dammn unlikely set of circumstances. If you build your network-capable software right, it is damn near impossible to suffer catastrophic losses.
Does it matter? Hell yeah! I may soon be adding yet *another* layer of redundancy since Postgres replication is now *finally* a real option! But, my business could suffer several catastrophes in a row and we'd *still* continue operating smoothly!
He must be a script coder. For example:
$a=$b=$c=10;
Is a perfectly valid statement in PHP - this would assign the value of 10 to variables a, b, and c.
Perhaps we should provide a full, workable statement like this:
$nukeplant<=($asteroid=$vw);
which is the full, logical statement of his words.
Unlike VNC which essentially takes a picture of you desktop and sends that, so its easy to see why NX works so much better.
Except that VNC is cross platform. I can see a 'doze system on my Fedora Workstation and I can monitor processes on my Fedora workstation from a 'doze laptop.
Give me that portability with a lower bandwidth constraint, and I'm a convert. Portability is a deal-breaker.
For now, I use VNC, and for Windows-Windows connectivity, I use TightVnc. Usable over a modem, and nice over broadband. Even with a VPN (to enable remote desktop from anywhere, a la VMWare) it's decent almost anyplace.
Sorry, pal. I ain't buyin' it. You get married and have a decent relationship with your spouse, you have sex on a daily basis. As in, it's part of your daily routine.
Like, "Wake up in the morning, roll over, wait till the missus is awake, and try that move you read about in Cosmo at the grocery store yesterday, brush your teeth, shower......."
I cannot picture a single life, however adventurous, with a sex life as rigorous as that. Sorry, you have to add in the time to exchange phone numbers, convince her that you're a worthwhile partner for the night, figure out where, and then try to wing it to figure out what each other likes, before you even really get warmed up.
What a hassle!
Happily married people get more. If you get it right, you can do little more than snap your fingers, and your spouse is ready to go because of all the past experiences you have together. No talking, no "convincing", just make a few moves and get down to business.
I honestly just don't understand why anybody would think that single life is preferable!
/Very Happily Married
"I canna take a much moore uv it, captin!"
/Duck and run
I just wish there was some way to make it work at boot time so I could ditch my KVMs.
You wouldn't want to do that. I can't see how this would be more reliable than openssh - In 5 years as a full time admin, I've seen only ONE CASE where openssh wasn't working - and that's when I typed "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd stop"...
KVMs are there for when there's a severe software problem - the system won't boot because of filesystem corruption, a hard disk won't initialize, memory parity errors, etc.
KVM over IP raises a number of VERY SERIOUS security issues. For example, with most default installs of RedHat, you can reset the password from grub. Get control of the KVM, and you might as well have just put them inside the colo facility, given them a key to the rack, and handed them your root password. So I've not yet been able to bring myself to trust it... yet.
If I need a true KVM, I call the hosting facility and pay $0.80 per minutte. It's well worth my peace of mind... and it's rare (less than once/year) that it ever becomes an issue.
What next? How are you going to promote your ideals? How are you going to get people to join? It might be as simple as a
See, it takes REAL WORK to get anything done. It's not easy, and it's usually unappreciated. It's almost never glamorous.
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
~Thomas Edison
If you are going to make the group you created mean anything more than the kazilions of others that nobody posts anything to, you are going to have to work.
See, it's one thing to whine on an online forum that makes it all easy. It's another thing entirely to caitalize on a social movement to create something with real power. (A La
I wish you the best of luck with your Yahoo! group - I sincerely hope it turns out better than I expect.
Sex. Women do all their freaky stuff in college, so have an open mind and hit as much of it as you possibly can.
WTF?!?! Freaky stuff is neat and all, but the really, REALLY hot things for me didn't happen until after 5-6 years of marriage. The kind of things you think about and just purrrr...
It takes TIME to get to know what you really, REALLY like - time and close attention. Forget the "college" years where most chicks are busy just trying to fit in, trying not to be insecure.
Get someone in their 30s and up - then you get somebody who know what the !@# to do with themselves, and aren't too embarrased to do it, either, instead of jiggle in weird, boring ways.
Just wait. If you don't see it, it's because you're single.
that'd be rad.
Let me guess.... you are between 30 and 40 years old?
I'd guess 34. How'd I do?
MacQuarium, baby!!!
Honestly, other than using hard drive platters as chimes in my Computer Store, this has been it.
Great. Where do I send my $50?
You mean, you didn't volunteer for the position? You don't even have a Paypal account to accept donations?
No domain name, no website, no mailing address?
Oh, so you posted to slashdot - great and all, but if you really wanted to matter, you'd do something more.
I chose my battle - alternative education. See, I think kids need a good education in order to make wise decisions as adults. And, there are lots of tough decisions coming in the next 100 years. So, I'm part of a company that facilitates alternative education in California. Many thousands of kids benefit, and the company is growing both rapidly and profitably.
If you are serious, start the damn tech group. Get the required membership, get the paypal account working, get a website put together. (Hint: both techrally.org and techinnovation.org are not registered) Otherwise, you're wasting time, and the power used to run your mother's computer.
If you matter, do something. Otherwise, shut up.