I highly recommend O'Reilly's LDAP System Administration. That's where I started when I was interested in setting up LDAP. When I started, I knew nothing. By the time I was through the book, I had a working LDAP directory with TLS encryption and master-slave duplication, and I actually understood what how I got there.
Oddly enough, I just finished adding sIFR elements to our website today. Our situation is that the University paid for an "official" font that needs to be used for page headers, etc. This font cannot be distributed, so we were limited to using images for these areas of the page.
With sIFR, we can bundle the font in a flash object (I don't know the details, the University web guy bundled it up for me) and use it without distributing it. This means that we no longer have to use images. This is mostly useful because our department houses a number of projects, all of which will be moving to the official University look & feel, so we don't have to build header images for all of these projects.
We're still working out the kinks for the printing stylesheets, but otherwise, it works great! http://calmit.unl.edu
Unless you're using Solaris, where killall does just that...kills *all* processes. It only took one time before I never used that again on the Sun boxes:)
When I took my current position, I implemented a new password policy (changed every 120 days, among other rules). There was the usual resistance, and somebody pointed out that this would just lead to people putting post-it notes on their monitor, and anybody with a key to the building could get that password.
My response was that somebody trusts these people well enough to give them a *key to the building*. I think I can trust them better than I can trust the people on the internet.
We've had zero successful break-ins since the new policy was implemented a few years ago. Before that, I'm told that we were hacked at least once every 6 months, always because of a cracked password. I can't say that the password policy was the sole reason for the change in that trend, because I implemented a number of other security measures as well (like using ssh instead of telnet), but I'm sure it helped!
I actually work for a small department at UNL, and we have officially adopted firefox as our primary browser last fall. We have also started deleting the IE shortcuts on all new machines.
I'm mostly just surprised to see UNL mentioned on/. especially a close neighbor (We're in NE Hall, fwiw). I'm glad to hear that other departments are moving in the same direction that we are.
This is really quite simple. When I send an HTTP request, I expect to receive the file requested, or some message stating why it was not returned (ie, 404, etc.). When your browser requests a page, all of it's content is returned by the webserver. Images, or other embedded media, are just hyperlinks to another file. In order to get any of that data, another HTTP request must be sent.
Why should I be obligated to send another request to retrieve information that I might not want? I sent the original request for the web page, and I got the web page. If I want more, I'll ask for it.
Being required to follow hyperlinks to other media is crazy. Where would the line be drawn? Would I be required to follow all of the <a href=... tags, too? After all, they're hyperlinks, just like images are. Following that logic, I would have to download the entire internet in order to read one page...
I recently did this. My DSL was becoming very unstable, and I never used my landline. I ended up going with business-class cable internet for the TOS (gotta keep that mail server running), and pretty much had two choices:
* Pay the same for cable internet as I did for landline+DSL and get a faster connection (1536/384 => 5120/768)
* Or, pay $50 less and get comparable speeds (1536/384 => 1024/256)
I ended up opting for the cheaper, slightly slower speed, and I couldn't be happier.
I recommend you read O'Reilly's "LDAP System Administratrion" book.
I've had a few failed attempts at LDAP, but this book really explains the system well. I'm now running openldap on 2 servers, one master & one slave, thanks to this book.
Gnome is still IMHO immature and has a feel to it that I can't cope with. It's unintuitive and brutish ugly no matter what theme or color scheme you use. Too bad...
I thought the same thing until I tried Ximian's Industrial theme. IMO, that is the smoothest look I've ever seen.
Disclaimer: I'm using Redhat 9 as my reference here.
This can already be done with linux's virtual consoles (ctrl+alt+F1 - ctrl+alt+F12). F1-F6 are text consoles, but F7-F12 are graphics consoles.
When using The X login, you only have one X console by default on F7 (aka:0) To start another session on F8, open an Xterm and run 'X:1'. 'X:2' F9, 'X:3' is F10, etc. It works like you described, and you just have to use ctrl+alt+F* to switch. I'm sure there is a way to specify which WM you want to run, but I haven't messed with it.
This is a very handy feature, and I use it a lot at work for remote X sessions on different machines ('X:1 -query ' for example).
I'm not even arguing if something is legal -- I'm dealing with what I consider right and wrong. If you pirate software, as far as I'm concerned, you've stolen it. The fact that the guy you copied it from still has a copy doesn't enter into the equation -- it's still stealing.
Agreed.
In the analogy, the company selling the car didn't get their money for the car
They sold it to the original owner, didn't they? They most definitely got the money for that car.
and the company selling the software didn't get their money for the software.
Very true, which is why the analogy doesn't work. The car manufacturer did not lose out on a sale, they sold the car. It's the owner of the car that loses his property. Very different from the company not making a sale, which is the case of software piracy.
The fact that one of those pieces of property has more "physical" cost associated with it doesn't matter.
But what does matter is where that cost lies. In the physical case, it's the original owner who incurs the cost. In the 'virtual' case, the manufacturer loses out on a sale, but doesn't really *lose* any additional money. That is where the difference is, and that is where the analogy doesn't work.
You can say it does until you're blue in the face, but you won't convince me otherwise.
I think we might be trying to prove different points. You seem to be trying to say, "piracy is stealing", which I agree with 100%. I just don't think that the car-theft analogy fits very well. It's difficult to use an analogy in this case becase nothing really fits. There's no other medium that really compares to software...except other software, which doesn't really work for comparison.
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I highly recommend O'Reilly's LDAP System Administration. That's where I started when I was interested in setting up LDAP. When I started, I knew nothing. By the time I was through the book, I had a working LDAP directory with TLS encryption and master-slave duplication, and I actually understood what how I got there.
Oddly enough, I just finished adding sIFR elements to our website today. Our situation is that the University paid for an "official" font that needs to be used for page headers, etc. This font cannot be distributed, so we were limited to using images for these areas of the page.
With sIFR, we can bundle the font in a flash object (I don't know the details, the University web guy bundled it up for me) and use it without distributing it. This means that we no longer have to use images. This is mostly useful because our department houses a number of projects, all of which will be moving to the official University look & feel, so we don't have to build header images for all of these projects.
We're still working out the kinks for the printing stylesheets, but otherwise, it works great! http://calmit.unl.edu
or better yet, "killall -9 lp"
:)
Unless you're using Solaris, where killall does just that...kills *all* processes. It only took one time before I never used that again on the Sun boxes
Of course, I don't get to tell as many PEBKAC stories as some of my cow orkers, but the ones I do collect tend to be duesies.
:)
Example(s)?
Does it do presentations as well?
Actually, yes, it does presentations very well. In fact, some of the best looking presentations I have seen were generated with LaTeX.
It doesn't. But if it does get cracked, it is only useful for a limited time.
When I took my current position, I implemented a new password policy (changed every 120 days, among other rules). There was the usual resistance, and somebody pointed out that this would just lead to people putting post-it notes on their monitor, and anybody with a key to the building could get that password.
My response was that somebody trusts these people well enough to give them a *key to the building*. I think I can trust them better than I can trust the people on the internet.
We've had zero successful break-ins since the new policy was implemented a few years ago. Before that, I'm told that we were hacked at least once every 6 months, always because of a cracked password. I can't say that the password policy was the sole reason for the change in that trend, because I implemented a number of other security measures as well (like using ssh instead of telnet), but I'm sure it helped!
What happens when the guy who stole one of the keys beats you to it, and disables the key that you still have?
Am I the only one who read that as "Intelligent Roller Coasters Keep Beer Mugs Full?"
My only thought was, "I can take my beer with me on the roller coaster, and it won't spill? Sweet!"
I thought that they were really on to something. Then, I read the summary...
On the other hand, being a network admin, I download the setup file once, and install it on many machines.
but it's not user friendly :-(
Sure it is, it's just more picky about who its friends are.
I actually work for a small department at UNL, and we have officially adopted firefox as our primary browser last fall. We have also started deleting the IE shortcuts on all new machines.
/. especially a close neighbor (We're in NE Hall, fwiw). I'm glad to hear that other departments are moving in the same direction that we are.
I'm mostly just surprised to see UNL mentioned on
This is really quite simple. When I send an HTTP request, I expect to receive the file requested, or some message stating why it was not returned (ie, 404, etc.). When your browser requests a page, all of it's content is returned by the webserver. Images, or other embedded media, are just hyperlinks to another file. In order to get any of that data, another HTTP request must be sent.
Why should I be obligated to send another request to retrieve information that I might not want? I sent the original request for the web page, and I got the web page. If I want more, I'll ask for it.
Being required to follow hyperlinks to other media is crazy. Where would the line be drawn? Would I be required to follow all of the <a href=... tags, too? After all, they're hyperlinks, just like images are. Following that logic, I would have to download the entire internet in order to read one page...
What if this is its depressive state?
I recently did this. My DSL was becoming very unstable, and I never used my landline. I ended up going with business-class cable internet for the TOS (gotta keep that mail server running), and pretty much had two choices:
* Pay the same for cable internet as I did for landline+DSL and get a faster connection (1536/384 => 5120/768)
* Or, pay $50 less and get comparable speeds (1536/384 => 1024/256)
I ended up opting for the cheaper, slightly slower speed, and I couldn't be happier.
I recommend you read O'Reilly's "LDAP System Administratrion" book.
I've had a few failed attempts at LDAP, but this book really explains the system well. I'm now running openldap on 2 servers, one master & one slave, thanks to this book.
Oh, and it works great!
That always annoyed me, too.
.bashrc file will take care of it. If you want it to be system-wide, put it in /etc/profile.
alias emacs='emacs -nw'
in your
because twm is super light-weight, and the kiosk will probably only be running firefox/mozilla. No need for a full blown desktop environment.
Heck, for that matter, they could do without a window manager all together & just have moz/ff in full screen mode.
So, what these ad-blockers should really be doing, is actually requesting the ads, but not showing them on the screen...
I don't think we're going to slashdot Microsoft.
;)
This sounds like a challange
Gnome is still IMHO immature and has a feel to it that I can't cope with. It's unintuitive and brutish ugly no matter what theme or color scheme you use. Too bad...
I thought the same thing until I tried Ximian's Industrial theme. IMO, that is the smoothest look I've ever seen.
4) Power and bandwidth - How are you going to plug it all in? If appearance is an issue, what about all that ugly cat5 cabling?
:)
cat5? ugly? I *like* how that wad of cat5 looks going into my server closet
horde.org
Gotta use the CVS code for photo album, etc. but it's pretty stable.
Disclaimer: I'm using Redhat 9 as my reference here.
:0) To start another session on F8, open an Xterm and run 'X :1'. 'X :2' F9, 'X :3' is F10, etc. It works like you described, and you just have to use ctrl+alt+F* to switch. I'm sure there is a way to specify which WM you want to run, but I haven't messed with it.
:1 -query ' for example).
This can already be done with linux's virtual consoles (ctrl+alt+F1 - ctrl+alt+F12). F1-F6 are text consoles, but F7-F12 are graphics consoles.
When using The X login, you only have one X console by default on F7 (aka
This is a very handy feature, and I use it a lot at work for remote X sessions on different machines ('X
I'm not even arguing if something is legal -- I'm dealing with what I consider right and wrong. If you pirate software, as far as I'm concerned, you've stolen it. The fact that the guy you copied it from still has a copy doesn't enter into the equation -- it's still stealing.
Agreed.
In the analogy, the company selling the car didn't get their money for the car
They sold it to the original owner, didn't they? They most definitely got the money for that car.
and the company selling the software didn't get their money for the software.
Very true, which is why the analogy doesn't work. The car manufacturer did not lose out on a sale, they sold the car. It's the owner of the car that loses his property. Very different from the company not making a sale, which is the case of software piracy.
The fact that one of those pieces of property has more "physical" cost associated with it doesn't matter.
But what does matter is where that cost lies. In the physical case, it's the original owner who incurs the cost. In the 'virtual' case, the manufacturer loses out on a sale, but doesn't really *lose* any additional money. That is where the difference is, and that is where the analogy doesn't work.
You can say it does until you're blue in the face, but you won't convince me otherwise.
I think we might be trying to prove different points. You seem to be trying to say, "piracy is stealing", which I agree with 100%. I just don't think that the car-theft analogy fits very well. It's difficult to use an analogy in this case becase nothing really fits. There's no other medium that really compares to software...except other software, which doesn't really work for comparison.