"Look mom, I got these 2 pet snails from our last trip to Africa" Mom: "Oh my, throw that stuff away!" Kid goes to nearest pond and dumps them... no natural predators around, fast-forward a few months and boooom! Huge agricultural disaster, yaddah yaddah...
I accidentally became a Linux security expert by being in the right place when hackers attacked.
*/me gets job as Network Engineer * Evil hackers attack network * FBI calls us (we were an ISP) * Boss gives me full access to all Linux servers and firewalls
The rest is history.
I do not believe in certifications. People should study the material and use it on a daily basis.
I'm a vegetarian who would not mind eating eggs or drinking milk or even eating honey. Killing animals is where I stop. Now plants on the other hand, I have no regards to "killing" them and eating them.
There is no easy argument to adhere to here. A lot of people eat dead animals and they seem to live just as long as those who don't eat animals. We all eat plants of course and I don't think we can easily avoid that until we develop some form of skin pigment to allow the production of energy directly from the sun (or whatever other source).
For the meantime, people should continue to be happy with whatever choice they make. I just hope that choice doesn't involve killing or supporting the killing of animals, which is just my opinion of course.
I can see why you posted as anonymous as this is completely bogus and naturally your own opinion. There is no mention of any empirical data showing what you say is true.
I used it for about 6 months. my machine crashed and i had to hard power off, after that some files were size 0 no matter what i did. recreating any files in any part of the filesystem with the same name will make them size 0 in about 1 min or if you run "sync". Like pointed out by somebody else, there is NO fsck and therefore you should not use this for anything other than playing around;)
... And especially the comments. In my opinion they should go back to Gnome 3 and make that better (better and faster than gnome 2). I've stopped installing Ubuntu in friends and family PCs because of this mess. I tried Unity for a month and I had to bite my fingers to avoid uninstalling Linux altogether! Then I went to Gnome 3 and although not perfect, I like it much more.
If he/she does pay the bills, then let them take the responsibility for this decision. Simple. If you know Redhat, you already know CentOS so no big deal. Go with their choice and move on.
Personally, I do not like the idea of.gov sites using addthis.com to add/manage content to their site. There are plenty of scenarios where this can be abused by third party sites (see addthis.com "partners" page).
FCC.gov's privacy page does not clearly mention this, nor does it provide links to opt-out from advertising networks (yes, I know, another cookie to opt you out, but something is better than nothing: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp (yes, I submitted this information to them as well)
It is a noble effort to modernize things. I just hope they approach this with caution.
Just wanted to say that we have 3 CentOS servers left and it's because of Fedora DS (now 389).
The minute we move the LDAP systems from that to any Ubuntu version, we will drop the 3 CentOS crap from the network.
The advantage is having cfengine rules that works for all desktops and servers in the environment (since they are all the same operating system flavor, though they can be at different revisions).
Testing stuff from one OS to the next, with different permutations of architectures and other hardware stuff, is something that belongs in our past history. We are too tired for that now.
Better yet, imagine you finally have a chance to get a promotion that will put you over that $50,000 mark. And the person who has to decide whether to give it to you or the next guy has just finished reading some slashdot post about how the other guy deserves it and you don't. I'm just saying.
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I'd allow this if the price is cheaper and they give me free hardware to do it.
I'd still keep my network on a different VLAN (just like I do now with my cisco WAP)
"Look mom, I got these 2 pet snails from our last trip to Africa"
Mom: "Oh my, throw that stuff away!"
Kid goes to nearest pond and dumps them... no natural predators around, fast-forward a few months and boooom! Huge agricultural disaster, yaddah yaddah...
Neil is that you? I didn't know you were a slashdotter :)
something for geeks to wear on a t-shirt as the pattern has some geek creds ;)
Well, perhaps that will put a stop at the number of folks who simply went back to Debian. I'm considering that myself, but I'll wait and see...
I accidentally became a Linux security expert by being in the right place when hackers attacked.
* /me gets job as Network Engineer
* Evil hackers attack network
* FBI calls us (we were an ISP)
* Boss gives me full access to all Linux servers and firewalls
The rest is history.
I do not believe in certifications. People should study the material and use it on a daily basis.
Ah but we all know who Linus is. He's a nutter
They can suspend all they want. Who uses this thing seriously?
Well said. Spoken like a Buddhist :)
I'm a vegetarian who would not mind eating eggs or drinking milk or even eating honey. Killing animals is where I stop. Now plants on the other hand, I have no regards to "killing" them and eating them.
There is no easy argument to adhere to here. A lot of people eat dead animals and they seem to live just as long as those who don't eat animals. We all eat plants of course and I don't think we can easily avoid that until we develop some form of skin pigment to allow the production of energy directly from the sun (or whatever other source).
For the meantime, people should continue to be happy with whatever choice they make. I just hope that choice doesn't involve killing or supporting the killing of animals, which is just my opinion of course.
I can see why you posted as anonymous as this is completely bogus and naturally your own opinion. There is no mention of any empirical data showing what you say is true.
My hand is full of salt now...
Steve is pretty clear about the USB disk situation. SpinRite is meant for disks with actual heads. The magnetic media and that kind of storage.
or go to someone else's who aliases r to rails ;)
I used it for about 6 months. my machine crashed and i had to hard power off, after that some files were size 0 no matter what i did. recreating any files in any part of the filesystem with the same name will make them size 0 in about 1 min or if you run "sync". Like pointed out by somebody else, there is NO fsck and therefore you should not use this for anything other than playing around ;)
well said!
... And especially the comments. In my opinion they should go back to Gnome 3 and make that better (better and faster than gnome 2). I've stopped installing Ubuntu in friends and family PCs because of this mess. I tried Unity for a month and I had to bite my fingers to avoid uninstalling Linux altogether! Then I went to Gnome 3 and although not perfect, I like it much more.
If he/she does pay the bills, then let them take the responsibility for this decision. Simple. If you know Redhat, you already know CentOS so no big deal. Go with their choice and move on.
You said it well
Personally, I do not like the idea of .gov sites using addthis.com to add/manage content to their site. There are plenty of scenarios where this can be abused by third party sites (see addthis.com "partners" page).
FCC.gov's privacy page does not clearly mention this, nor does it provide links to opt-out from advertising networks (yes, I know, another cookie to opt you out, but something is better than nothing: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
(yes, I submitted this information to them as well)
It is a noble effort to modernize things. I just hope they approach this with caution.
Now officially released http://ubuntu.com/
another dup. but this is /. after all...
very well said
awesome post.
i'm also behind RMS on this one. GNU works well, why change from something that works to what we already know that leads to other kinds of issues.
I hope GNOME devels don't permit this.
Just wanted to say that we have 3 CentOS servers left and it's because of Fedora DS (now 389).
The minute we move the LDAP systems from that to any Ubuntu version, we will drop the 3 CentOS crap from the network.
The advantage is having cfengine rules that works for all desktops and servers in the environment (since they are all the same operating system flavor, though they can be at different revisions).
Testing stuff from one OS to the next, with different permutations of architectures and other hardware stuff, is something that belongs in our past history. We are too tired for that now.
Better yet, imagine you finally have a chance to get a promotion that will put you over that $50,000 mark. And the person who has to decide whether to give it to you or the next guy has just finished reading some slashdot post about how the other guy deserves it and you don't. I'm just saying.
LOL
And they will find this post!
Well said