Frankly, I don't think the Palm community get enough credit for the *heaps* of quality, free, and often open-source software that is produced. All of the add-on apps for my pdQphone are free-beer and most are open-source. I can use an open-source palm telnet or SSH client to access client routers from a moving vehicle (and I think that is both pretty cool and pretty handy, and no not while I'm driving:^).
Great. I want my BSD or Linux box to operate as a peer on my NDS or ActiveDirectory architecture.
OK, am I missing something? You want a Linux or BSD box to participate in a NDS or AD tree (rather than just be a client)? For NDS on Linux go get Novell Account Management or Novell eDirectory. For everything else use LDAP.
As an aside, hadn't Corel been contributing to the WINE project quite a bit? Of course they did it to allow them to sell their consumer applications as "Linux" versions without really having to port them. But it seems that they did (and maybe still are) contributing code back to the community for a big, gnarley project that many folks are glad to see moving forward.
If I'm wrong I'm sure the people here will correct me...
I did run Corel Linux for a time, but eventually scrapped it. It was OK, and a lot of the end-user eye-candy type stuff was well-done and easy to use. But I need to know how to setup and maintain Linux servers, so back to RedHat and Debian...
I'm so glad that you posted this. As a decade-long NetWare guy I've never been able to understand why UNIX permissions seem so limited. For so long I've simply thought that my lack of understanding was keeping me from implementing UNIX permissions the way that I want to.
It's just so *easy* in NetWare to lay out filesystem (and NDS) access across multiple groups, users, etc. I mean is it too much to ask to be able to assign RO access to a directory to one group and RW to a different group? There's probably a way to do this, but it doesn't readily present itself to the novice.
but Deja's archive apparently goes back to only 1995, and that's about when the Usenet became essentially useless due to spam and poor s/n ratio.
That may be true of Usenet in general, but I mainly use Deja to do a narrow, targeted search. For that Deja can't be beat. Almost all of the hits from a well-constructed search are at least in the ballpark, rarely do I come across *any* spam or trolls. I've probably learned more about linux via Deja than any book I own.
Bonsai cats? Not offensive. In fact it's fucking hilarious. Especially if you're a cat owner. I've watched my cats stick their heads into various cups, bags, boxes, and vessels more times than I can count. That site almost could be made by simply lying various containers on the floor and just waiting for your cats to get curious.
I tried. I really did. But I couldn't help myself. I just *had* to tweak these people. I can't wait to see what kind of response shows up in my fake e-mail address. Maybe I can forward the best ones to bonsaikitten.com for them to post...
It isn't so surprising that smaller ISPs are getting scooped up by larger ones. It's a quick way to build a company. Especially if you're looking to go into a geographic area where you currently have no presence.
But in St. Louis, my company has had to scramble to cover our clients in the face of ISPs that just roll over and die without so much as a notice. This has happened at least four times in the past three months and each time the provider simply pulled up stakes, and turned off their service. And each time we get panicked calls from mutual clients that their Internet service is down. Then, of course, it's a mad dash to route them to a new ISP in a reasonable time.
And very often it isn't dial-up services that disappear. It seems that DSL oriented providers are biting it as well. Soon, there will probably be only three or four providers suitable for business Internet access in my area. The biggest? SouthWestern Bell.
OK, I know everyone here has a million of these, but here's my Funny Support Story Involving A Phone:
I was doing network admin for a large bank in St. Louis when one day I received a voice mail. "Joe, I just *can't* get logged in. Can you come and help?" Well, this is one of the VPs and not a guy I had worked with much, so I didn't know what to expect. So I go into his office and tell him to restart his computer and login as he normally would so that I can see what's going on. He dutifully typed in his username and then goes ahead and types his all-numeric password *on the nearby touch-tone phone*. Stifiling laughter I calmly say "I don't think that's going to work, sir." Thankfully he realized his mistake without anymore prompting from me and was good-natured about it.
Thank god for end-users, or I'd be out of a job!
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OK, I fucked up. But why in the hell does he have to change the subject *every time*? For those of us trying to get above the noise the Re: is an indication that it's a reply to a post rather than a new thread.
Oh well.
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Um, Jon. You *do* understand the whole threaded discussion thing that's going on at Slashdot, right? Like when you see a post that you would like to reply to, you reply to *that* post, not the top of the discussion, right? There are about 10 posts from you here that are replies to your original story, rather than under whatever it is that you're talking about. Either that or you have some sort of keyboard Turrett's Syndrome that just spews random strings into Slashdot. So you either need 1) Education as to how Slashdot works or 2) medical attention. Please go and seek out the appropriate assistance because *god knows* I want you to get better!
You clearly haven't looked at the web site. If you purchase Starband service from RadioShack with a new PC *then* it's MSN. You can purchase Starband directly or in conjunction with DishNetwork and then the ISP is Starband themselves. Look here and here .
I've been using the Qualcomm (now Kyocera) pdq Smartphone for about 8 months now, and I love it. It's a Sprint PCS phone wrapped around a PalmIII. It includes a Palm Modem that's internally attached between the phone and the Palm, so I can dial to just about anywhere, not just the Internet. And it has a fully functioning TCP/IP stack, so I can telnet, etc.
The phone comes with all the Palm goodies, plus the Eudora pdqSuite which includes a nice, text-only, Web browser and an e-mail client. With this, plus AvantGo, I have mobile Web pretty well covered.
Sprint's PCS data service was pretty expensive at first (30-something cent per min.), but now it's just the cost of regular phone time. Although, the phones *are* $800 a whack.
I keep thinking that this will be obsolete any minute now, but I still haven't found anything better...
OK, setting the "is this a worthwhile port" issues aside for a moment, should two separate teams even be working on this? It doesn't appear that TL and SuSE are exactly teaming up to tackle this. Does this mean that these ports won't be released as GPL? Or are they just trying to out do each other to say "we did it first"? Either way, this doesn't sound good to me...
This is neat, but I'm still waiting for a good, free WAP browser for my Palm III / pdqPhone. AvantGo and the pdqSuite are good for rendering real HTML, but being able to use WAP would allow access to even lighter weight sites.
1. Embattled by the DOJ, GNU/Linux, etc. M$ is being pushed to open their source and APIs for all the world to see.
2. M$ dusts off the ol' embrace and extend trick to add a proprietary extension to an open specification.
3. Open source advocates go, predicably, nuts.
4. M$ publishes said extension in such a way that it appears to be open and useful, but really isn't.
5. Open source type folks grab up copies of spec documentation and attempt to discuss it in an open forum. In the process parts of the proprietary spec get published.
6. M$ cries foul and attempts to get the genie back into the bottle.
7. Open sourcers balk.
8. DOJ asks M$ to open source code and / or APIs as part of remedy in anti-trust case.
9. M$ says "Are you nuts, we tried that once... look what happened!!"
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OK, for the hell of it...
If you want httpd for a PDA, look here.
Frankly, I don't think the Palm community get enough credit for the *heaps* of quality, free, and often open-source software that is produced. All of the add-on apps for my pdQphone are free-beer and most are open-source. I can use an open-source palm telnet or SSH client to access client routers from a moving vehicle (and I think that is both pretty cool and pretty handy, and no not while I'm driving :^).
Great. I want my BSD or Linux box to operate as a peer on my NDS or ActiveDirectory architecture.
OK, am I missing something? You want a Linux or BSD box to participate in a NDS or AD tree (rather than just be a client)? For NDS on Linux go get Novell Account Management or Novell eDirectory. For everything else use LDAP.
They're the ones *buying* all the servers nowadays...
As an aside, hadn't Corel been contributing to the WINE project quite a bit? Of course they did it to allow them to sell their consumer applications as "Linux" versions without really having to port them. But it seems that they did (and maybe still are) contributing code back to the community for a big, gnarley project that many folks are glad to see moving forward.
If I'm wrong I'm sure the people here will correct me...
I did run Corel Linux for a time, but eventually scrapped it. It was OK, and a lot of the end-user eye-candy type stuff was well-done and easy to use. But I need to know how to setup and maintain Linux servers, so back to RedHat and Debian...
I'm so glad that you posted this. As a decade-long NetWare guy I've never been able to understand why UNIX permissions seem so limited. For so long I've simply thought that my lack of understanding was keeping me from implementing UNIX permissions the way that I want to.
It's just so *easy* in NetWare to lay out filesystem (and NDS) access across multiple groups, users, etc. I mean is it too much to ask to be able to assign RO access to a directory to one group and RW to a different group? There's probably a way to do this, but it doesn't readily present itself to the novice.
OK, I'm guessing my birth time:
2001-04-16 22:31:00
(At least that's what my birth certificate says, who knows how accurate that really is...)
I'm betting on more delays from our vodka-swilling buddies.
but Deja's archive apparently goes back to only 1995, and that's about when the Usenet became essentially useless due to spam and poor s/n ratio.
That may be true of Usenet in general, but I mainly use Deja to do a narrow, targeted search. For that Deja can't be beat. Almost all of the hits from a well-constructed search are at least in the ballpark, rarely do I come across *any* spam or trolls. I've probably learned more about linux via Deja than any book I own.
Bonsai cats? Not offensive. In fact it's fucking hilarious. Especially if you're a cat owner. I've watched my cats stick their heads into various cups, bags, boxes, and vessels more times than I can count. That site almost could be made by simply lying various containers on the floor and just waiting for your cats to get curious.
Carnivore? Now *that's* offensive.
Damn. Banned after two hours. Oh well...
I tried. I really did. But I couldn't help myself. I just *had* to tweak these people. I can't wait to see what kind of response shows up in my fake e-mail address. Maybe I can forward the best ones to bonsaikitten.com for them to post...
Are these people kidding? If they want the web sanitized, prehaps they should remember how effective book burning has been. They might change their minds...
It isn't so surprising that smaller ISPs are getting scooped up by larger ones. It's a quick way to build a company. Especially if you're looking to go into a geographic area where you currently have no presence.
But in St. Louis, my company has had to scramble to cover our clients in the face of ISPs that just roll over and die without so much as a notice. This has happened at least four times in the past three months and each time the provider simply pulled up stakes, and turned off their service. And each time we get panicked calls from mutual clients that their Internet service is down. Then, of course, it's a mad dash to route them to a new ISP in a reasonable time.
And very often it isn't dial-up services that disappear. It seems that DSL oriented providers are biting it as well. Soon, there will probably be only three or four providers suitable for business Internet access in my area. The biggest? SouthWestern Bell.
OK, I know everyone here has a million of these, but here's my Funny Support Story Involving A Phone:
I was doing network admin for a large bank in St. Louis when one day I received a voice mail. "Joe, I just *can't* get logged in. Can you come and help?" Well, this is one of the VPs and not a guy I had worked with much, so I didn't know what to expect. So I go into his office and tell him to restart his computer and login as he normally would so that I can see what's going on. He dutifully typed in his username and then goes ahead and types his all-numeric password *on the nearby touch-tone phone*. Stifiling laughter I calmly say "I don't think that's going to work, sir." Thankfully he realized his mistake without anymore prompting from me and was good-natured about it.
Thank god for end-users, or I'd be out of a job!
OK, I fucked up. But why in the hell does he have to change the subject *every time*? For those of us trying to get above the noise the Re: is an indication that it's a reply to a post rather than a new thread.
Oh well.
Um, Jon. You *do* understand the whole threaded discussion thing that's going on at Slashdot, right? Like when you see a post that you would like to reply to, you reply to *that* post, not the top of the discussion, right? There are about 10 posts from you here that are replies to your original story, rather than under whatever it is that you're talking about. Either that or you have some sort of keyboard Turrett's Syndrome that just spews random strings into Slashdot. So you either need 1) Education as to how Slashdot works or 2) medical attention. Please go and seek out the appropriate assistance because *god knows* I want you to get better!
>>This is prepakaged with MSN, period. (FEH!!)
You clearly haven't looked at the web site. If you purchase Starband service from RadioShack with a new PC *then* it's MSN. You can purchase Starband directly or in conjunction with DishNetwork and then the ISP is Starband themselves. Look here and here .
OK, gotta say it:
What, no Odyssey 2?
Pick Axe Pete *rulz*!
:^)
Prehaps consumption of free beer has caused Emmett's speech to become free ...
Joe Wells
I've been using the Qualcomm (now Kyocera) pdq Smartphone for about 8 months now, and I love it. It's a Sprint PCS phone wrapped around a PalmIII. It includes a Palm Modem that's internally attached between the phone and the Palm, so I can dial to just about anywhere, not just the Internet. And it has a fully functioning TCP/IP stack, so I can telnet, etc.
The phone comes with all the Palm goodies, plus the Eudora pdqSuite which includes a nice, text-only, Web browser and an e-mail client. With this, plus AvantGo, I have mobile Web pretty well covered.
Sprint's PCS data service was pretty expensive at first (30-something cent per min.), but now it's just the cost of regular phone time. Although, the phones *are* $800 a whack.
I keep thinking that this will be obsolete any minute now, but I still haven't found anything better...
Joe Wells
OK, setting the "is this a worthwhile port" issues aside for a moment, should two separate teams even be working on this? It doesn't appear that TL and SuSE are exactly teaming up to tackle this. Does this mean that these ports won't be released as GPL? Or are they just trying to out do each other to say "we did it first"? Either way, this doesn't sound good to me...
Joe Wells
This is neat, but I'm still waiting for a good, free WAP browser for my Palm III / pdqPhone. AvantGo and the pdqSuite are good for rendering real HTML, but being able to use WAP would allow access to even lighter weight sites.
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OK, it goes something like this:
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1. Embattled by the DOJ, GNU/Linux, etc. M$ is being pushed to open their source and APIs for all the world to see.
2. M$ dusts off the ol' embrace and extend trick to add a proprietary extension to an open specification.
3. Open source advocates go, predicably, nuts.
4. M$ publishes said extension in such a way that it appears to be open and useful, but really isn't.
5. Open source type folks grab up copies of spec documentation and attempt to discuss it in an open forum. In the process parts of the proprietary spec get published.
6. M$ cries foul and attempts to get the genie back into the bottle.
7. Open sourcers balk.
8. DOJ asks M$ to open source code and / or APIs as part of remedy in anti-trust case.
9. M$ says "Are you nuts, we tried that once... look what happened!!"
Hmmm..
Joe Wells
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