Soekris boxes are exactly what you're looking for.
I'll second that. I bought one of these about 6 months ago and it has been amazing. I plan on getting at least one more so I can have a highly customizable WAP.
The linux kernel has grown enourmously over the years.
Yes, you need to support new hardware and stuff but it's not sustainable to keep adding it into the core product. If you do, you end up with something like MS Office - how many gigabytes is Office now ?
There's a world of difference between hiding a 3D maze inside of Excel and the Linux kernel having *optional* support for hardware that you dont' own. The kernel source code may contain - what you unjustifiably call bloat - but that "bloat" isn't being used by your system at runtime if you don't have a need for that particular part of the kernel.
And it's not fair to call it bloat just because you don't have a particular piece of hardware. The Linux kernel would be completely useless if it only supported 1 network card and 1 motherboard chipset. Sure it would be tiny, but it would be useless to 99.99% of the population.
That flaw in most firms' network security leaves a vulnerability that can be used by hackers to sneak intellectual property outside a company, communicate with a compromised server inside the company,
In other security news alerts, there was a major hole disocvered in SSH. It turns out if a hacker installs a rogue SSH daemon on the server, he can do nefarious things with it.
Those logs are on your own machine. And you can tell gaim not to log locally anything if you want.
But if your messages are passing through a centralized server, you can't control what gets logged other than to just simply NOT send messages that you don't want your boss reading. Which is arguably what you should be doing anyway.
Of course it is. And if she were using Mandrake, that would "simply be the problem". And if she were using RedHat, that would "simply be the problem". And if she were using [insert name of distro here], that would "simply be the problem".
My previous board was an NF2 (now in my wife's PC...funny how we all do the same thing, isn't it;)
hehe... yeah. I put Mandrake on my wife's machine and set everything up for her. (E-Mail, bookmarks, address book, home page, instant messenger, Open Office, etc...) She has requested that I put Windows back on it several times. Her main complaint with Linux is that she can't play a lot of stupid little games that she runs into online. (Which I always argue is an advantage to Linux. No spyware/malware. But end users don't understand [and don't care].) And she too complains that's it's slower. Which I obviosuly can't debate. And the funny thing is, her Desktop is a LOT faster (more responsive) than mine because she only has 1 screen.
now I have a KT600 which I picked up mainly for the flawless Linux support (and a pretty decent feature set as well
I'll have to keep that in mind. After all I've bought 5 different video cards in my quest to have a fast dual-head Linux Desktop experience. Motherboards are cheap in comparison.
I've never had Linux hard lock on me though (I've used Gentoo as my day-to-day desktop for about eight months now and various other distos before that). I've had issues, but no true hard locks.
The lockups I'm experiencing are apparently due to a known bug with the nForce2 chipset. The 2.6.6 kernel release addressed the issue, but it's still a problem. Some info about it.
Yea, sort of at least... I've got a TV permanently attached as well as a 19 in monitor. The TV is setup as the second head (:0.1) for movies and the like.
Hmm... I've never tried a setup like that. But here's the thing. With a single screen, X is slow - but usable. With dual-head, it's just painful. When was the last time you took a good look at Win(98/2K/NT/XP)? Maybe you've forgotten how responsive it really is. I know I did. I knew X was sluggish on my system, but when I dual booted over to Windows recently (for the first time in so many months), I was completely blown away at how responsive everything was.
I'm *seriously* considering switching back. I don't want to... but... trying to convince myself that Linux is somehow "better" is becoming a more ridiculous argument all the time. I can protect myself from viruses... and in my experience WinXP was at least as stable as Linux has been for me. In my opinion, WinXP was more stable actually. Linux will hard-lock on me fairly regularly and I'll have to unplug my computer to reboot it. So... I don't know what the benefits are any more. Just a sense of idealism I guess.
Actually - as I was going to go download the older driver, I noticed there was a new NVidia driver for Linux.. as of today. (In fact - within the last couple of hours because I've already checked today.) I think I'll try it first. Just thought I'd let you know about the new driver though.
I installed 4363 and my video was back to normal speed. I tried several Nvidia drivers and everything above 4363 was unbearably slow.
I didn't think to downgrade my video driver. But I've tried so many other desperate things that seemed like a complete waste of time (and were) so downgrading is worth a shot too. I'll try it now.
Are you sure you had everything setup correctly? My desktop is roughly the same speed in X as in XP...
Are you running a dual head configuration?
Frozen Bubble is written in Perl, I doubt your graphics board was the slow part;)
Check my message again.:) I didn't say Frozen Bubble was slow on that machine. I was making a joke that the only thing my wife does on her computer is play Frozen Bubble. A game that hardly requires the power that the ATI 9800 Pro has.
Linux support is sketchy for dual-view in my experience
No doubt. I had a Matrox Parhelia triple-head card with 3 LCD monitors. (Screenshot/PhotoScreenshot/Photo) [MS Flight Simulator 2004 under WinXP Pro]
Linux support for the Matrox card was deplorable, so I sold it and bought an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. The ATI card's dual monitor capabilities were very quirky. Too much B.S. to explain. Plus the UT2K4-demo ran like crap under Linux (low framre rate) and looked like ass compared to Windows.
I was told NVidia was the best option for Linux. Their drivers were allegedly way better than ATI's. Sounded good to me.
So I got rid of the ATI card. (It burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.) Actually I didn't get rid of it, I just put it in my wife's computer. Let me tell you, Frozen Bubble and LBreakout really stress out that card. What a great value. (I'm kidding, in case you couldn't tell.)
So then I bought an NVidia 5700 Ultra GeForceFX for my machine. The dual-head video works (basically), but X has never been slower. I can't believe how DOG slow X is. I dual booted over to WinXP a couple of weeks ago - the first time I had seen Windows in many, many months. I was sickened at how increadibly fast it is. Almost enough to make me give up on my Linux fantasy.
Fortunately for me, I'm so blinded by my hatred for Microsoft that I'll continue to suffer under Linux. Things will get better some day. Right? [sigh...]
Trying to get your office to adapt to a new browser is hard enough when they are afraid to use software that doesn't "come in a box" much less when it keeps changing it's name.
I did a clean install of 0.9.1 (didn't see any reason not to). I relinked my flash and java plugins like normal, but when I tried to load up firefox, I got this error.
----
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: No manager for initializing factory?
System error?:: Success
----
After trying a few other things first, I ended up removing the java plugin link in the plugins directory and now it works.
I've been going at the gmail machine for over 8 hours... now that slashdot has picked it up, it's probably a waste of time to continue. I was able to refresh every 3 or 4 seconds... now I'm getting 10, 12, 20 second delays.
Why don't you just run windows if you need to run windows applications? They'd probably run better.
Actually I've been using Win4Lin for a few months now and I'm genuinely impressed with it. It's not Open Source, and it's not free (as in beer), but I feel it was worth my money. I run Win4Lin full screen on another X session by running "fwin -auth" and in my opinion there is no perceivable difference in performance for the programs I run.
Win4Lin doesn't emulate the way VMware does. Win4Lin works at the Kernel level and transparently passes 90-something percent of all the Windows "calls" directly to the CPU to be executed. So most of the time, Windows isn't even exactly running "under" Linux. The only time code isn't executed directly on the CPU is when said code would conflict with something that Linux needs complete control of. For example, certain hardware calls have to be trapped by Win4Lin, interpretted, and then executed. (Check netraverse.com for more exact details.)
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Soekris boxes are exactly what you're looking for.
I'll second that. I bought one of these about 6 months ago and it has been amazing. I plan on getting at least one more so I can have a highly customizable WAP.
Check my little tutorial for more info. (Several pictures included.)
if I had a dollar for every windows box that crashed....
What good would 1 dollar do you every time a windows machine crashed? I've probably had at least a dollar every time my windows machine crashed.
am i the only person that finds ever changing interfaces an annoyance??
Why does it have to be ever changing? Find the look you like and stick with it. If that happens to be the default, great.
The linux kernel has grown enourmously over the years.
Yes, you need to support new hardware and stuff but it's not sustainable to keep adding it into the core product. If you do, you end up with something like MS Office - how many gigabytes is Office now ?
There's a world of difference between hiding a 3D maze inside of Excel and the Linux kernel having *optional* support for hardware that you dont' own. The kernel source code may contain - what you unjustifiably call bloat - but that "bloat" isn't being used by your system at runtime if you don't have a need for that particular part of the kernel.
And it's not fair to call it bloat just because you don't have a particular piece of hardware. The Linux kernel would be completely useless if it only supported 1 network card and 1 motherboard chipset. Sure it would be tiny, but it would be useless to 99.99% of the population.
That flaw in most firms' network security leaves a vulnerability that can be used by hackers to sneak intellectual property outside a company, communicate with a compromised server inside the company,
In other security news alerts, there was a major hole disocvered in SSH. It turns out if a hacker installs a rogue SSH daemon on the server, he can do nefarious things with it.
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no sig eh? Bummer.
oh yeah? check ~/.gaim/logs
Those logs are on your own machine. And you can tell gaim not to log locally anything if you want.
But if your messages are passing through a centralized server, you can't control what gets logged other than to just simply NOT send messages that you don't want your boss reading. Which is arguably what you should be doing anyway.
Is the problem simply that she uses Fedora Core 2
Of course it is. And if she were using Mandrake, that would "simply be the problem". And if she were using RedHat, that would "simply be the problem". And if she were using [insert name of distro here], that would "simply be the problem".
Because the slashdot staff is dumb and retarted.
:)
I think you mean "retarded".
Wonder why this story was rejected when I mentioned it 4 days ago and then submitted the story.
My previous board was an NF2 (now in my wife's PC...funny how we all do the same thing, isn't it ;)
... yeah. I put Mandrake on my wife's machine and set everything up for her. (E-Mail, bookmarks, address book, home page, instant messenger, Open Office, etc...) She has requested that I put Windows back on it several times. Her main complaint with Linux is that she can't play a lot of stupid little games that she runs into online. (Which I always argue is an advantage to Linux. No spyware/malware. But end users don't understand [and don't care].) And she too complains that's it's slower. Which I obviosuly can't debate. And the funny thing is, her Desktop is a LOT faster (more responsive) than mine because she only has 1 screen.
hehe
now I have a KT600 which I picked up mainly for the flawless Linux support (and a pretty decent feature set as well
I'll have to keep that in mind. After all I've bought 5 different video cards in my quest to have a fast dual-head Linux Desktop experience. Motherboards are cheap in comparison.
I've never had Linux hard lock on me though (I've used Gentoo as my day-to-day desktop for about eight months now and various other distos before that). I've had issues, but no true hard locks.
The lockups I'm experiencing are apparently due to a known bug with the nForce2 chipset. The 2.6.6 kernel release addressed the issue, but it's still a problem. Some info about it.
Are you running a dual head configuration?
... but ... trying to convince myself that Linux is somehow "better" is becoming a more ridiculous argument all the time. I can protect myself from viruses ... and in my experience WinXP was at least as stable as Linux has been for me. In my opinion, WinXP was more stable actually. Linux will hard-lock on me fairly regularly and I'll have to unplug my computer to reboot it. So ... I don't know what the benefits are any more. Just a sense of idealism I guess.
Yea, sort of at least... I've got a TV permanently attached as well as a 19 in monitor. The TV is setup as the second head (:0.1) for movies and the like.
Hmm... I've never tried a setup like that. But here's the thing. With a single screen, X is slow - but usable. With dual-head, it's just painful. When was the last time you took a good look at Win(98/2K/NT/XP)? Maybe you've forgotten how responsive it really is. I know I did. I knew X was sluggish on my system, but when I dual booted over to Windows recently (for the first time in so many months), I was completely blown away at how responsive everything was.
I'm *seriously* considering switching back. I don't want to
Why do I even bother?
(The newer drivers are no better. The older ones won't install.)
Actually - as I was going to go download the older driver, I noticed there was a new NVidia driver for Linux .. as of today. (In fact - within the last couple of hours because I've already checked today.) I think I'll try it first. Just thought I'd let you know about the new driver though.
I installed 4363 and my video was back to normal speed. I tried several Nvidia drivers and everything above 4363 was unbearably slow.
I didn't think to downgrade my video driver. But I've tried so many other desperate things that seemed like a complete waste of time (and were) so downgrading is worth a shot too. I'll try it now.
Are you sure you had everything setup correctly? My desktop is roughly the same speed in X as in XP...
;)
:) I didn't say Frozen Bubble was slow on that machine. I was making a joke that the only thing my wife does on her computer is play Frozen Bubble. A game that hardly requires the power that the ATI 9800 Pro has.
Are you running a dual head configuration?
Frozen Bubble is written in Perl, I doubt your graphics board was the slow part
Check my message again.
Linux support is sketchy for dual-view in my experience
No doubt. I had a Matrox Parhelia triple-head card with 3 LCD monitors. (Screenshot/Photo Screenshot/Photo) [MS Flight Simulator 2004 under WinXP Pro]
Linux support for the Matrox card was deplorable, so I sold it and bought an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. The ATI card's dual monitor capabilities were very quirky. Too much B.S. to explain. Plus the UT2K4-demo ran like crap under Linux (low framre rate) and looked like ass compared to Windows.
I was told NVidia was the best option for Linux. Their drivers were allegedly way better than ATI's. Sounded good to me.
So I got rid of the ATI card. (It burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.) Actually I didn't get rid of it, I just put it in my wife's computer. Let me tell you, Frozen Bubble and LBreakout really stress out that card. What a great value. (I'm kidding, in case you couldn't tell.)
So then I bought an NVidia 5700 Ultra GeForceFX for my machine. The dual-head video works (basically), but X has never been slower. I can't believe how DOG slow X is. I dual booted over to WinXP a couple of weeks ago - the first time I had seen Windows in many, many months. I was sickened at how increadibly fast it is. Almost enough to make me give up on my Linux fantasy.
Fortunately for me, I'm so blinded by my hatred for Microsoft that I'll continue to suffer under Linux. Things will get better some day. Right? [sigh...]
Trying to get your office to adapt to a new browser is hard enough when they are afraid to use software that doesn't "come in a box" much less when it keeps changing it's name.
Just tell them the government recommends anything other than what comes in the box (i.e. IE).
I did a clean install of 0.9.1 (didn't see any reason not to). I relinked my flash and java plugins like normal, but when I tried to load up firefox, I got this error.
----
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: No manager for initializing factory?
System error?:: Success
----
After trying a few other things first, I ended up removing the java plugin link in the plugins directory and now it works.
Well ... if you do still own a copy, then I suppose you are within your rights to just snatch up the ROMs and write them to a Flash cartridge
I've been going at the gmail machine for over 8 hours ... now that slashdot has picked it up, it's probably a waste of time to continue. I was able to refresh every 3 or 4 seconds ... now I'm getting 10, 12, 20 second delays.
Why don't you just run windows if you need to run windows applications? They'd probably run better.
Actually I've been using Win4Lin for a few months now and I'm genuinely impressed with it. It's not Open Source, and it's not free (as in beer), but I feel it was worth my money. I run Win4Lin full screen on another X session by running "fwin -auth" and in my opinion there is no perceivable difference in performance for the programs I run.
Win4Lin doesn't emulate the way VMware does. Win4Lin works at the Kernel level and transparently passes 90-something percent of all the Windows "calls" directly to the CPU to be executed. So most of the time, Windows isn't even exactly running "under" Linux. The only time code isn't executed directly on the CPU is when said code would conflict with something that Linux needs complete control of. For example, certain hardware calls have to be trapped by Win4Lin, interpretted, and then executed. (Check netraverse.com for more exact details.)
The link to "Buy One Now" just takes you to a list of store locations. That's not very geeky.
You know in my day DOS3.3 still fit on one 1.44 floppy!
And systems had 128K of RAM, 5MB hard-drives, and 4MHz processors...