hehe... they don't 'support' anything but a straight windows box, or their own special router. Ahh well. It's been decent since I finally got everything set.
Congrats on working around the problem for yourself, sounds like a fine solution for the home user since you get to learn more about networking, internet, and an os.
Well, hehe:) I already do that stuff for work:) Did learn a bit about OpenBSD, though(had mostly stuck with Solaris and Linux before that) It was just a matter of not wanting to do any more work-related things at home, and taking the cheap/easy way out, and getting the little d-link.
I have actually heard reports of similar problems from other people, but I'm guessing it was the firmware on the router. A co-worker had trouble with a linksys getting slower and slower, as well... Quite likely it's a problem with Ameriwreck DSL/d-link/linksys routers, was just wondering if anyone else had had anything similar, or a solution to it. At the time(about two months ago, I was using the latest firmware, and it actually fixed a few problems from the previous one, but not all of them...)
I wonder if this is related... I had for awhile used a D-Link 'router, just a little one, on a PPPoE line. Well, for the most part it worked well, but sometimes it would just drop connections. (very annoying that several times a night ssh sessions would die.) I finally narrowed it down to certain pages/streams(streaming mp3) would cauase it(the dlink) to reset. I also have heard of somewhat similar problems with the linksys versions of the same.
So, my question would be, did anyone else have these problems? Is it maybe related, or just a bad PPPoE setup in those 'routers'?
On another related note, I replaced the D-Link with an OpenBSD firewall, and haven't looked back... performance increase was moderate, and control I have over it is just great... Will never try to get out easy on a firewall/NAT thing again, just do it right the first time:)
Another thing I've heard (from a pilot friend) is that automotive engines are designed to change RPM's quite effectively(accelerate well, etc.) where as plane engines are more about getting at a speed(RPM), and being able to stay there all day.
The "from the....-dept." line reminded me of an old game... does anyone else remember Life and Death? (I think that was the name, but I could be wrong.) It was for either an Amiga, or circa 286 PC...
It was pretty terrible, but had you performing surgery on people and such... I dunno, it was kind of amusing for awhile, though(especially for the sadistic... I remember they would throw you out of the OR after abour 3 or 4 wrong incisions... also fun was forgetting the anastetic.)
Anyone else remember that one? (and while we're at it with old Amiga games, how about.. "Weird Dreams" was it? I think that was the name... That was a cool game... with the giant cotton candy machine and all.)
Screw it, no point in trying to make this sound on-topic:)
"We has two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... A quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls..."
and a linux desktop to review... We can't stop here, this is daemon country!
I also know that the woman at my Motorcycle shop has many better skills than they do. She's not at the shop for the glamour or the discount on bike parts;
Whoa! she's into programming and motorcycles? Where do I find one like that?
You're right on that, I suppose, but I would think it is a matter of interpretation...
Behold now, I have two bdaughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
I'd say that it's pretty clear what he's offering, and although not commanded by God, he is held to be a good and righteous man. I guess that a big thing comes in, too, between what is good in the Old Testament, and the New...
Where in the Bible does God sanction raping?
Please let me know...
Genesis, fairly early--Lot, who is held to be a good man, offers his two virgin daughters to the men who(as I understand it) have invaded his home.
Lot is held to be a pretty righteous man, and is the only one saved from Sodom(IIRC, I may be a bit off here)
Well, I kind of fell into it(as I've done with most stuff in life)...
I happened to get a job as an assistant to the sysadmin for the CS department, and about 4 months later, he left. I learned a lot from him in the time I worked with him, and then pretty much took over the sysadmin stuff.
Now, onto the other part of being a sysadmin--I'm sure someone else will have posted this already, but hey:
see alt.sysadmin.recover faq Of particular interest:
2.1) I want to be a sysadmin. What should I do?
Seek professional help.
also good are: 2.2) So, I've just "volunteered" to be a sysadmin. What do I do?
See 5.3
(Actually 5.4 --they're error, not mine:)
5.4) Should I slit my wrists across or downwards?
Downward. For more information on interesting methods, see the alt.suicide.holiday faq.
Gotta love the good-old asr faq.... and pull out some copies of BOFH, as well.
I work half-time, 8am - 12, generally, with very flexible hours. The pay isn't great(even considering it's part time), but it's enough to pay my bills and get a few toys(although not too many)
The nice part is having all the extra time off during the day. It is great to get out of work at noon and not be overly tired.
Some of the drawbacks are:
some people don't seem to realize that I'm only part time, and expect me to be working 40+
sometimes things just have to get done one way or another, so whether it's overtime(unpaid) or not, I have to fix things.
(BTW--I'm a sysadmin--supporting a few more users than is really good for half-time--and a few more PITA's.)
Ahh well.
For now, (I'm also a student--sometimes) it's nice. The benefits are nice, I make enough to live on fairly comfortably...not great, but I haven't spent next week's paycheck yet, at least. I guess it's the kind of thing that if you can do it, and not go nuts/work too much for free/get bored, it's pretty nice... Oh yea, other thing I noticed:
The more time you have, the more you spend money, whether you should or not:)
hehe... Epee is my favorite too. I just like how(often-times, anyways) it is more of a stratedgy, and not so much run-in-and-attack-first kind of thing.
All the equipment is finnicky. I have two epee's, rewired them, went to a tournament, neither passed inspections-- with brand-new parts.
True enough, I stand corrected, however, I do think that part of the Japanese armor/weapon issue comes from armor not being really effective against a katana. (Leather/wood would, I suppose even be a bit more effective since it is generally more or slash.)
As to rapiers, yes, they are pretty ineffective on a battlefield, being better for a duel, however, I believe that a part of their design is to slip in between the small cracks in armor and such. I could be wrong, though. (A good deal of the point of a rapier is to look nice, though:), which I feel they do very well.)
I believe(more meant to one of the later replies, but I don't want to answer all of them individually, and it is related to this:) that gunpowder did change things, as when people are shooting at you, it is probably more important to be mobile. The pike probably helped a bit, but that has been around far longer than gunpowder, since before the times of heavy armor.
The way I have always believed it, and I don't have time to check on it right now, is that, following the fall of the Roman empire, armor started getting better(oftentimes meaning bigger, but not always). So, you would make a bigger sword, thus being more able to damage the armor(usually breaking the pins/ties that held it together.) So, make bigger armor... bigger sword... (anyone see a parallel to the arms races of today and the recent past?) Eventually, you get to the point where making a sword any larger is not going to be effective(zwei-hander -- BIG two handed weapons) At this point, you start looking for ways to get through the armor, hence the smaller, faster swords such as a rapier, which wouldn't be (as someone has pointed out) effective in battle, but were probably starting to pop-up. Then, comes gun-powder. I don't think that cross-bows really played as big a role as that. I could be wrong, though.
Eh, we don't use those practice weapons too much:) (I am a fencer--sport fencing, for those 'in the know') mostly electric, in which you have a small metal plunger in the tip, with a wire running down the blade, to the body, and then to a reel, then to a scoring machine. In fact, I no longer have any practice weapons at all.
On another note, though, a little bit about fencing: There are three weapons, foil, epee, and sabre, each with their own rules. Foil is historically the learning weapon, epee is a dueling weapon. Sabre of late has been really poor, as it is *GENERALLY* (not all are like this) two guys grunt, run at each other, both hit, and the one who made the biggest noise/action gets the touch. This is not the way it is supposed to be. As to what they can do, injuries are not uncommon, although mostly leg problems. Most injuries from the weapons are limited to bruises and welts, with occasional abrasions. For more information, check out fencing.net This is a really cool site with lots of information. All in all, fencing gets a bad name because of being 'slow' (ie: lots of time between short, fast, actions,) but it is a VERY fun and fulfilling sport(a bit more than a sport to many, as well.) There are quite a few rules, but when you think about them, they make sense. They all basically come back to not getting killed in a sword-fight.
Well, I'm no expert on katanas, but my guess would be, not a whole lot.
They've already pretty much past their peak in evolution, and I doubt that one could even be made today that would match up to the old ones. It's pretty sad, really, 'cause they are a truly wonderful weapon.
Remember that Katanas have a significantly different philosophy of use than European swords. The katana is light, (a stainless one doesn't count, that's just a big knife, IMHO,) because it can be. It's a lot more about finesse, and when you have a sword that is that sharp, it doesn't matter if it is not heavy, because it will do more damage, and be easier to use than the heavier ones, anyways. This lead to a number of interesting things, for instance, Japanese armor is often times more of a decorative nature than for protection. European armor (and weapons) on the other-hand, evolved together, in a bigger-armor, bigger-sword kind of way, until the advent of gun-powder, at which time you could take down a knight no matter what he was wearing, so he might as well be able to move around. A huge sword is not nearly as effective when you are worried about getting hit, and so came the rapier.
Disclaimer: I may have afew (or a lot) of the facts wrong here, please correct me if this is the case.
I would tend to think it would be closer to the 5-10lbs. Of the swords that I have looked at, (and own,) none are that large. AT 40-50 lbs, it is more of a two-hander, and actually more of a club. Here's a greatsword, (43" blade), that weighs in just under 6 lbs, and this is a REAL sword, (this is about the finest manufacturer I have found, I have a long sword from them) Great Sword The main thing I see, is that you really can't weild a 40lb sword effectively for much of anything. Perhaps one horseback, but even then it becomes very unweildy, and generally the balance is not going to be very good on a weapon of that size(well, the balance may be good, but it won't be superb just because of the size of it.)
The slackware website had a good explanation for that with their last release... It went something like "..everyone else is doing it, so we figured why not:)"
It does, however, seem like there have been some huge advances lately, that sometimes do need a new major version number... ie: kernel 2.2 was a big change, going to XFree 4 or something like that might be another.
It seems like a lot of packages and such do ahve inflated versions, however, some of them still don't, so that's good at least.
Slashdot Mirror
hehe... they don't 'support' anything but a straight windows box, or their own special router. Ahh well. It's been decent since I finally got everything set.
Well, hehe:) I already do that stuff for work:) Did learn a bit about OpenBSD, though(had mostly stuck with Solaris and Linux before that) It was just a matter of not wanting to do any more work-related things at home, and taking the cheap/easy way out, and getting the little d-link.
I have actually heard reports of similar problems from other people, but I'm guessing it was the firmware on the router. A co-worker had trouble with a linksys getting slower and slower, as well... Quite likely it's a problem with Ameriwreck DSL/d-link/linksys routers, was just wondering if anyone else had had anything similar, or a solution to it. At the time(about two months ago, I was using the latest firmware, and it actually fixed a few problems from the previous one, but not all of them...)
I wonder if this is related... I had for awhile used a D-Link 'router, just a little one, on a PPPoE line. Well, for the most part it worked well, but sometimes it would just drop connections. (very annoying that several times a night ssh sessions would die.) I finally narrowed it down to certain pages/streams(streaming mp3) would cauase it(the dlink) to reset. I also have heard of somewhat similar problems with the linksys versions of the same.
So, my question would be, did anyone else have these problems? Is it maybe related, or just a bad PPPoE setup in those 'routers'?
On another related note, I replaced the D-Link with an OpenBSD firewall, and haven't looked back... performance increase was moderate, and control I have over it is just great... Will never try to get out easy on a firewall/NAT thing again, just do it right the first time:)
I think it was the von Neumann cycle
(sorry, bad joke, just couldn't help it.)
Another thing I've heard (from a pilot friend) is that automotive engines are designed to change RPM's quite effectively(accelerate well, etc.) where as plane engines are more about getting at a speed(RPM), and being able to stay there all day.
The "from the ....-dept." line reminded me of an old game... does anyone else remember Life and Death? (I think that was the name, but I could be wrong.) It was for either an Amiga, or circa 286 PC...
It was pretty terrible, but had you performing surgery on people and such... I dunno, it was kind of amusing for awhile, though(especially for the sadistic... I remember they would throw you out of the OR after abour 3 or 4 wrong incisions... also fun was forgetting the anastetic.)
Anyone else remember that one? (and while we're at it with old Amiga games, how about.. "Weird Dreams" was it? I think that was the name... That was a cool game... with the giant cotton candy machine and all.)
Screw it, no point in trying to make this sound on-topic:)
Whoa! she's into programming and motorcycles? Where do I find one like that?
( ) Simpson's Road Rage(at least it had some sound clips
( ) X-Files game
( ) Star Trek
...
For that matter, what about video games becoming TV series?
Bumper sticker in a history prof's office down the hallway from mine:
"Yes, I majored in humanities. Would you like fries with that?"
Well, I kind of fell into it(as I've done with most stuff in life)...
I happened to get a job as an assistant to the sysadmin for the CS department, and about 4 months later, he left. I learned a lot from him in the time I worked with him, and then pretty much took over the sysadmin stuff.
Now, onto the other part of being a sysadmin--I'm sure someone else will have posted this already, but hey:
see alt.sysadmin.recover faq Of particular interest:
2.1) I want to be a sysadmin. What should I do?
Seek professional help.
also good are:
2.2) So, I've just "volunteered" to be a sysadmin. What do I do?
See 5.3 (Actually 5.4 --they're error, not mine:)
5.4) Should I slit my wrists across or downwards?
Downward. For more information on interesting methods, see the alt.suicide.holiday faq.
Gotta love the good-old asr faq.... and pull out some copies of BOFH, as well.
I believe that with fencing more than one cup of coffee is considered doping.
I work half-time, 8am - 12, generally, with very flexible hours. The pay isn't great(even considering it's part time), but it's enough to pay my bills and get a few toys(although not too many)
The nice part is having all the extra time off during the day. It is great to get out of work at noon and not be overly tired.
Some of the drawbacks are:
some people don't seem to realize that I'm only part time, and expect me to be working 40+
sometimes things just have to get done one way or another, so whether it's overtime(unpaid) or not, I have to fix things.
(BTW--I'm a sysadmin--supporting a few more users than is really good for half-time--and a few more PITA's.)
Ahh well.
For now, (I'm also a student--sometimes) it's nice. The benefits are nice, I make enough to live on fairly comfortably...not great, but I haven't spent next week's paycheck yet, at least. I guess it's the kind of thing that if you can do it, and not go nuts/work too much for free/get bored, it's pretty nice... Oh yea, other thing I noticed:
The more time you have, the more you spend money, whether you should or not:)
has anyone else noted that the size of the named binary for BIND 8 is rather large?
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 11391688 Jan 30 09:50 named*
I suppose just stripping it may help... (This is on Solaris 8)
Any recommendations on making the changes between BIND 8 and 9 quick and painless?
So, anyone know how many votes went to Frank Zappa this year? he usually seems to get at least a few:)
hehe... Epee is my favorite too. I just like how(often-times, anyways) it is more of a stratedgy, and not so much run-in-and-attack-first kind of thing.
All the equipment is finnicky. I have two epee's, rewired them, went to a tournament, neither passed inspections-- with brand-new parts.
Oh man, now this is really off-topic:)
True enough, I stand corrected, however, I do think that part of the Japanese armor/weapon issue comes from armor not being really effective against a katana. (Leather/wood would, I suppose even be a bit more effective since it is generally more or slash.)
As to rapiers, yes, they are pretty ineffective on a battlefield, being better for a duel, however, I believe that a part of their design is to slip in between the small cracks in armor and such. I could be wrong, though. (A good deal of the point of a rapier is to look nice, though:), which I feel they do very well.)
I believe(more meant to one of the later replies, but I don't want to answer all of them individually, and it is related to this:) that gunpowder did change things, as when people are shooting at you, it is probably more important to be mobile. The pike probably helped a bit, but that has been around far longer than gunpowder, since before the times of heavy armor.
The way I have always believed it, and I don't have time to check on it right now, is that, following the fall of the Roman empire, armor started getting better(oftentimes meaning bigger, but not always). So, you would make a bigger sword, thus being more able to damage the armor(usually breaking the pins/ties that held it together.) So, make bigger armor... bigger sword... (anyone see a parallel to the arms races of today and the recent past?) Eventually, you get to the point where making a sword any larger is not going to be effective(zwei-hander -- BIG two handed weapons) At this point, you start looking for ways to get through the armor, hence the smaller, faster swords such as a rapier, which wouldn't be (as someone has pointed out) effective in battle, but were probably starting to pop-up. Then, comes gun-powder. I don't think that cross-bows really played as big a role as that. I could be wrong, though.
Eh, we don't use those practice weapons too much:) (I am a fencer--sport fencing, for those 'in the know') mostly electric, in which you have a small metal plunger in the tip, with a wire running down the blade, to the body, and then to a reel, then to a scoring machine.
In fact, I no longer have any practice weapons at all.
On another note, though, a little bit about fencing:
There are three weapons, foil, epee, and sabre, each with their own rules. Foil is historically the learning weapon, epee is a dueling weapon. Sabre of late has been really poor, as it is *GENERALLY* (not all are like this) two guys grunt, run at each other, both hit, and the one who made the biggest noise/action gets the touch. This is not the way it is supposed to be.
As to what they can do, injuries are not uncommon, although mostly leg problems. Most injuries from the weapons are limited to bruises and welts, with occasional abrasions.
For more information, check out fencing.net This is a really cool site with lots of information.
All in all, fencing gets a bad name because of being 'slow' (ie: lots of time between short, fast, actions,) but it is a VERY fun and fulfilling sport(a bit more than a sport to many, as well.) There are quite a few rules, but when you think about them, they make sense. They all basically come back to not getting killed in a sword-fight.
Well, I'm no expert on katanas, but my guess would be, not a whole lot.
They've already pretty much past their peak in evolution, and I doubt that one could even be made today that would match up to the old ones. It's pretty sad, really, 'cause they are a truly wonderful weapon.
Remember that Katanas have a significantly different philosophy of use than European swords. The katana is light, (a stainless one doesn't count, that's just a big knife, IMHO,) because it can be. It's a lot more about finesse, and when you have a sword that is that sharp, it doesn't matter if it is not heavy, because it will do more damage, and be easier to use than the heavier ones, anyways.
This lead to a number of interesting things, for instance, Japanese armor is often times more of a decorative nature than for protection.
European armor (and weapons) on the other-hand, evolved together, in a bigger-armor, bigger-sword kind of way, until the advent of gun-powder, at which time you could take down a knight no matter what he was wearing, so he might as well be able to move around. A huge sword is not nearly as effective when you are worried about getting hit, and so came the rapier.
Disclaimer: I may have afew (or a lot) of the facts wrong here, please correct me if this is the case.
I would tend to think it would be closer to the 5-10lbs. Of the swords that I have looked at, (and own,) none are that large. AT 40-50 lbs, it is more of a two-hander, and actually more of a club. Here's a greatsword, (43" blade), that weighs in just under 6 lbs, and this is a REAL sword, (this is about the finest manufacturer I have found, I have a long sword from them) Great Sword
The main thing I see, is that you really can't weild a 40lb sword effectively for much of anything. Perhaps one horseback, but even then it becomes very unweildy, and generally the balance is not going to be very good on a weapon of that size(well, the balance may be good, but it won't be superb just because of the size of it.)
Nah, SCA folks would say "That's out of period!" to all this technology:)
As to the second part, you're probably right:)
The slackware website had a good explanation for that with their last release... It went something like "..everyone else is doing it, so we figured why not:)"
It does, however, seem like there have been some huge advances lately, that sometimes do need a new major version number... ie: kernel 2.2 was a big change, going to XFree 4 or something like that might be another.
It seems like a lot of packages and such do ahve inflated versions, however, some of them still don't, so that's good at least.
(stuff like gnome, gcc, kde, etc.)