Ghost, DriveImage, PartitionImage, whatever you want to use fer godsakes people make a backup of some kind.
I don't know how often I've had to explain to people that backup software is only really useful if you make the backups BEFORE the problem occurs. waiting until you have a problem does absolutely no good....but still not one person I know has a proper backup of their machine. Not even the ones who already have the software to do it.
especially on the U70 which had a 1 Ghz Pentium M People severely underestimate the Pentium M because they are stuck on comparing Ghz ratings rather than real benchmarks.
1Ghz is pretty standard for the new "Centrino" Pantium M laptops. 1.8Ghz is I think the highest they go, but they are good fast machines at that speed.
Anyone know if they will provide a seperate download to enable Raw sockets like they did in the old days via MSDN or something? it is still important to have RAW sockets available for some types of development work....or will all new protocols have to be developed on non-MS boxes in the future?
I like Gentoo, I used it for quite a while, but people have to stop using Gentoo just because they think it will make their computer faster.
Gentoo is what I'd term an "Extreme OS" (Linux from scratch and Slackware also fit this bill) It compiles the whole system from scratch and allows you to configure everything. This is a good thing, but only if you actually understand how everything works, or are willing to make a fair number of sacrifices of your time to learn how it all works *when* (not if) things go wrong.
Gentoo is great for teaching average sysadmins to be great sysadmins, and it is good for developers in the community, but it is not the ricer system that it's often promoted as. It makes no difference if you save a few CPU cycles opening OO.o if you wasted thousands compiling it from scratch and bogging down your system for 1/2 an hour.
It also doesn't save you space like some would imagine, because even though you only install what you want you also install all the source for it. Sure you can remove the sources from the system once it is installed, but I'd venture that most people don't. My Gentoo system took 12GB of disk space when I removed it, the Debian system with the same software installed takes 3GB.
I'm not saying Gentoo is bad, Debian is good. For me and I imagine many others Gentoo is good for learning, but for stability you want something else. By stability I mean not so many huge critical changes that can potentially break the system if you aren't paying attention, and a good system of testing BEFORE release to the general populus. Gentoo is getting there, but other distros are still way ahead in this respect.
I started off where most people do with Red Hat, then Mandrake for more up to date packages, I moved to Gentoo to learn more and try to make my system more mine, but in the end I settled on Debian as being somewhere in the middle between Mandrake's simplicity and Gentoo's cusomizability.
I would never recommend that someone without a degree in CS or heavy programming experience jump straight into Gentoo. Good as it is it is just too much to deal with for even your average admin.
I certainly wouldn't recommend it for production servers in any type of business environment, but for development systems it kicks butt.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents on the issue. Back to work.
For the best damed explaination of how different CD and DVD media are actually put together take a look at this: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/ CDandDV DCareandHandlingGuide.pdf
I'm sure I'll be doing that in 10 years. I do that with my music now.
Go to record store, buy CD. Come home drop CD into drive and allow Grip to rip&encode CD and add ID3 tags. Put CD away unti I want to use it in the car, then burn a copy for the car. (hopefully I'll be able to afford to replace the CD changer with a HD soon.)
That's ok, they placed me in Houston TX (I'm in Oshawa, ON... not even the right country) and they gave the wrong IP address... methinks there is something screwy with their system.
They haven't won this geek over. Sorry boys, try again when you've hired someone competent. (or fixed your DNS problems.)
sounds like your IT dept. could use a shake-up.... new tech and or new staff.... Win2k servers shouldn't go down except when planned, if they do the IT staff needs more training, or better hardware.
In any case, it's nice to see that someone out there has users that believe in Linux's stability.
I've seen both Win2k+ and Linux servers at both ends of the reliability scale, and I'd have to say that the biggest factor seems to be the staff's understanding of the tech they've deployed, next biggest factor is flaky hardware.
Not running non-server software on the windows server helps a lot. Linux tends to deal better with application problems, but most of the problems in the windows world stem from applications that don't belong on a server in the first place.
Go with it, your users are pushing in the right direction.
Install a fileserver. Your users will love you for it. Next step... provide daily backups to the file server so they can step back to a previous day's version of a file they messed up.
Never, ever upgrade your workstation's hard disks, and start moving light users to xterminals or LTSP terminals.
It'll solve a lot of headaches. Most people here would envy you with your users who WANT centralized computing and Linux.
Not sure I understand what you are talking about... why would you need to change the 3G card's MAC# to match the card connected to the DSL? or am I getting it all wrong? Is this not how it is set up?
I think that if I (a lowly network analyst, not even an engineer) can map out in my head a way to do it based just on the description given by slashdot, not even the article, let alone the patent filing... it's too bloody obvious for a patent.
Solution to akamai problems: go to <a href="http://www.dnsstuff.com/">your favorite DNS lookup page</a> and lookup the akamai hosted site. (getting the real address rather than the akamized version) Now open your hosts file and add that in.
Now you will always get the non-akamized version of that site. Akamai problem solved.
I keep google in my hosts just so I can be sure that DNS issues like this won't cut me off from my favorite search engine.
That's what I get all too often browsing Bank websites. Banks are the worst for insisting you use whatever their webdeveloper's favorite version of IE is.
My bank (CIBC) recently (in the last 8 months or so...) overhauled their site. and now says: "Important: CIBC Online Banking supports the following browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x or better, Netscape Navigator 6.x or better and Safari 1.0. If your browser doesn't meet the above-mentioned requirements, please select the "Browser security and cookie information" link below to find out the benefits of upgrading your browser."
Before it said something akin to "IE4.0 or Netscape 4.0 or better", but if you tried to use IE6, Netscape6, or Mozilla (any version) you were directed to the "you must upgrade to IE4.0 or Netscape 4.0 or better" page....then if you call to complain they say they haven't tested the page for security flaws in the new browsers yet. (which I could under stand in the first few weeks of a new browser's life, but when it's getting to the point where it's impossible to download a browser that still works with it...
Most banks I've dealt with are bastards about browsers.
On the other side of the coin, I have a paypal account BECAUSE I don't like giving out my credit card info. Whenever possible I use online merchant's paypal option instead of their inhouse credit card processing because I would rather only one company that I know a bit about had my credit info than 12 companies on different servers each of which I know nothing about beyond what they sell and how I found them on Google.
You are forgeting that IOS has to support a fairly wide range of harware and feature sets. Every router, switch, acesspoint etc. that cisco makes or has ever made has to have drivers in IOS
For comparison, the Linux Kernel (2.6.6) is 34MB Bziped, 47MB unziped. It's likely that they are talking about 800MB of un-compressed code. Add on the size of all the userland programs like freeswan, webmin, telnet, openssh, openssl, tftpd, dhcpd, dpcpcd, ntpd, an ftpd, shorewall, etc. that would be needed for linux to have all the functionality of IOS and I think eventually you'll find that 800MB of source isn't as much as you might have thought.
Well, for some it isn't worth it. I have a PS2, and I'm not into FPS games, so Xbox alone is not worth it.
I have an Eprom burner and a small supply of SST 49LF020 chips (the kind needed to make a mod chip) so with a used Xbox hovering around the $150 Canadian mark it is looking tempting to buy one as a media center machine that would do what Qcast (GameShark MediaPlayer) promised but didn't pull off so well.
I think that if you compare all the manual transmissions against each other you will notice there is not a lot of difference but for the automatics in those cahrts the hybrid shows a big improvement, and reality is more and more cars over the last 20 years have been automatics.
I hope that they do get the product to market. I thing $199 ia a decent price for the hardware included, and once used ones hit ebay these will be nice to mod into "regular" PCs.
Assuming we ever see these hit the market in real life, who wants to take bets on how long till it runs Linux?
This is all the computer most people need and in a nice case to boot.
What killed it for me wasn't that it was compatible, but that it wasn't compatible enough. OS/2 had me completly hooked before win95 came out, but as time went on there were more and more apps I needed to run that were coded for win32 and OS/2 only had win16 compatability (by running Win3.1 inside it) at the time. Mind you things have changed a lot since then, but there are still windows apps I'd like to run in Linux that I can't yet, and yes in some cases there are competitors in Linux, but I want to be able to use both....so I unfortunately have to run both. (though I try not to use Windows if I can avoid it at all.)
I simply prefer Linux, but sometimes I'm forced to use tools that are only available for Windows.
I don't know how others feel, but 45mins for a perfect DVD-9 copy vs 15mins to burn 2 DVD-5s plus an hour sorting out what goes on which disc beforehand or 8 mins burning one dvd-5 and several hours of recompression... I think I'll take the 45min dvd-9 burn thanks.
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Ghost, DriveImage, PartitionImage, whatever you want to use fer godsakes people make a backup of some kind.
...but still not one person I know has a proper backup of their machine.
I don't know how often I've had to explain to people that backup software is only really useful if you make the backups BEFORE the problem occurs. waiting until you have a problem does absolutely no good.
Not even the ones who already have the software to do it.
especially on the U70 which had a 1 Ghz Pentium M
People severely underestimate the Pentium M because they are stuck on comparing Ghz ratings rather than real benchmarks.
1Ghz is pretty standard for the new "Centrino" Pantium M laptops. 1.8Ghz is I think the highest they go, but they are good fast machines at that speed.
Anyone know if they will provide a seperate download to enable Raw sockets like they did in the old days via MSDN or something? it is still important to have RAW sockets available for some types of development work. ...or will all new protocols have to be developed on non-MS boxes in the future?
I like Gentoo, I used it for quite a while, but people have to stop using Gentoo just because they think it will make their computer faster.
Gentoo is what I'd term an "Extreme OS" (Linux from scratch and Slackware also fit this bill) It compiles the whole system from scratch and allows you to configure everything. This is a good thing, but only if you actually understand how everything works, or are willing to make a fair number of sacrifices of your time to learn how it all works *when* (not if) things go wrong.
Gentoo is great for teaching average sysadmins to be great sysadmins, and it is good for developers in the community, but it is not the ricer system that it's often promoted as. It makes no difference if you save a few CPU cycles opening OO.o if you wasted thousands compiling it from scratch and bogging down your system for 1/2 an hour.
It also doesn't save you space like some would imagine, because even though you only install what you want you also install all the source for it. Sure you can remove the sources from the system once it is installed, but I'd venture that most people don't. My Gentoo system took 12GB of disk space when I removed it, the Debian system with the same software installed takes 3GB.
I'm not saying Gentoo is bad, Debian is good. For me and I imagine many others Gentoo is good for learning, but for stability you want something else. By stability I mean not so many huge critical changes that can potentially break the system if you aren't paying attention, and a good system of testing BEFORE release to the general populus. Gentoo is getting there, but other distros are still way ahead in this respect.
I started off where most people do with Red Hat, then Mandrake for more up to date packages, I moved to Gentoo to learn more and try to make my system more mine, but in the end I settled on Debian as being somewhere in the middle between Mandrake's simplicity and Gentoo's cusomizability.
I would never recommend that someone without a degree in CS or heavy programming experience jump straight into Gentoo. Good as it is it is just too much to deal with for even your average admin.
I certainly wouldn't recommend it for production servers in any type of business environment, but for development systems it kicks butt.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents on the issue. Back to work.
Why not just install Vstream on the Tivo and Tivo-Mplayer on the remote PC?
...or FTP the video off the Tivo and watch it in regular Mplayer?
share with whomever you want.
Should be:
CD&DVD Care and Handling Guide
Don't know how that got a space in it the first time.
For the best damed explaination of how different CD and DVD media are actually put together take a look at this:/ CDandDV DCareandHandlingGuide.pdf
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc
I'm sure I'll be doing that in 10 years. I do that with my music now.
Go to record store, buy CD.
Come home drop CD into drive and allow Grip to rip&encode CD and add ID3 tags.
Put CD away unti I want to use it in the car, then burn a copy for the car. (hopefully I'll be able to afford to replace the CD changer with a HD soon.)
...and a second search for the same domain turned up "US(UNITED STATES)-WASHINGTON-BELLINGHAM"
Not even consistant wrong answers.
That's ok, they placed me in Houston TX (I'm in Oshawa, ON... not even the right country) and they gave the wrong IP address... methinks there is something screwy with their system.
They haven't won this geek over.
Sorry boys, try again when you've hired someone competent. (or fixed your DNS problems.)
sounds like your IT dept. could use a shake-up.... new tech and or new staff.... Win2k servers shouldn't go down except when planned, if they do the IT staff needs more training, or better hardware.
In any case, it's nice to see that someone out there has users that believe in Linux's stability.
I've seen both Win2k+ and Linux servers at both ends of the reliability scale, and I'd have to say that the biggest factor seems to be the staff's understanding of the tech they've deployed, next biggest factor is flaky hardware.
Not running non-server software on the windows server helps a lot. Linux tends to deal better with application problems, but most of the problems in the windows world stem from applications that don't belong on a server in the first place.
Best of luck with our IT dilema.
Go with it, your users are pushing in the right direction.
... provide daily backups to the file server so they can step back to a previous day's version of a file they messed up.
Install a fileserver.
Your users will love you for it.
Next step
Never, ever upgrade your workstation's hard disks, and start moving light users to xterminals or LTSP
terminals.
It'll solve a lot of headaches. Most people here would envy you with your users who WANT centralized computing and Linux.
Not sure I understand what you are talking about... why would you need to change the 3G card's MAC# to match the card connected to the DSL? or am I getting it all wrong?
Is this not how it is set up?
DSL ___
-----| | LAN
-----|___|-------
3G
I think that if I (a lowly network analyst, not even an engineer) can map out in my head a way to do it based just on the description given by slashdot, not even the article, let alone the patent filing... it's too bloody obvious for a patent.
All I can say is that's how I got around the Akamai issues this morning.
Solution to akamai problems:
go to <a href="http://www.dnsstuff.com/">your favorite DNS lookup page</a> and lookup the akamai hosted site. (getting the real address rather than the akamized version) Now open your hosts file and add that in.
Now you will always get the non-akamized version of that site. Akamai problem solved.
I keep google in my hosts just so I can be sure that DNS issues like this won't cut me off from my favorite search engine.
That's what I get all too often browsing Bank websites. Banks are the worst for insisting you use whatever their webdeveloper's favorite version of IE is.
...then if you call to complain they say they haven't tested the page for security flaws in the new browsers yet. (which I could under stand in the first few weeks of a new browser's life, but when it's getting to the point where it's impossible to download a browser that still works with it...
My bank (CIBC) recently (in the last 8 months or so...) overhauled their site. and now says:
"Important: CIBC Online Banking supports the following browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x or better, Netscape Navigator 6.x or better and Safari 1.0. If your browser doesn't meet the above-mentioned requirements, please select the "Browser security and cookie information" link below to find out the benefits of upgrading your browser."
Before it said something akin to "IE4.0 or Netscape 4.0 or better", but if you tried to use IE6, Netscape6, or Mozilla (any version) you were directed to the "you must upgrade to IE4.0 or Netscape 4.0 or better" page.
Most banks I've dealt with are bastards about browsers.
you could do it like the pros do and have nothing but microphone cables coming through the WALL between the computer booth and the recording room.
On the other side of the coin, I have a paypal account BECAUSE I don't like giving out my credit card info.
Whenever possible I use online merchant's paypal option instead of their inhouse credit card processing because I would rather only one company that I know a bit about had my credit info than 12 companies on different servers each of which I know nothing about beyond what they sell and how I found them on Google.
You are forgeting that IOS has to support a fairly wide range of harware and feature sets. Every router, switch, acesspoint etc. that cisco makes or has ever made has to have drivers in IOS
For comparison, the Linux Kernel (2.6.6) is 34MB Bziped, 47MB unziped. It's likely that they are talking about 800MB of un-compressed code.
Add on the size of all the userland programs like freeswan, webmin, telnet, openssh, openssl, tftpd, dhcpd, dpcpcd, ntpd, an ftpd, shorewall, etc. that would be needed for linux to have all the functionality of IOS and I think eventually you'll find that 800MB of source isn't as much as you might have thought.
Well, for some it isn't worth it.
I have a PS2, and I'm not into FPS games, so Xbox alone is not worth it.
I have an Eprom burner and a small supply of SST 49LF020 chips (the kind needed to make a mod chip) so with a used Xbox hovering around the $150 Canadian mark it is looking tempting to buy one as a media center machine that would do what Qcast (GameShark MediaPlayer) promised but didn't pull off so well.
I think that if you compare all the manual transmissions against each other you will notice there is not a lot of difference but for the automatics in those cahrts the hybrid shows a big improvement, and reality is more and more cars over the last 20 years have been automatics.
I hope that they do get the product to market.
I thing $199 ia a decent price for the hardware included, and once used ones hit ebay these will be nice to mod into "regular" PCs.
Assuming we ever see these hit the market in real life, who wants to take bets on how long till it runs Linux?
This is all the computer most people need and in a nice case to boot.
What killed it for me wasn't that it was compatible, but that it wasn't compatible enough. ...so I unfortunately have to run both. (though I try not to use Windows if I can avoid it at all.)
OS/2 had me completly hooked before win95 came out, but as time went on there were more and more apps I needed to run that were coded for win32 and OS/2 only had win16 compatability (by running Win3.1 inside it) at the time. Mind you things have changed a lot since then, but there are still windows apps I'd like to run in Linux that I can't yet, and yes in some cases there are competitors in Linux, but I want to be able to use both.
I simply prefer Linux, but sometimes I'm forced to use tools that are only available for Windows.
I don't know how others feel, but 45mins for a perfect DVD-9 copy vs 15mins to burn 2 DVD-5s plus an hour sorting out what goes on which disc beforehand or 8 mins burning one dvd-5 and several hours of recompression ... I think I'll take the 45min dvd-9 burn thanks.