I'd hate for the technologies behind opensolaris/solaris to go away, but I'm all for cutting the excess in efforts to achieve the same goal.
If we can only get all the opensolaris things (kernel stuff, some of the user-space stuff) neatly bundle into Linux... Kind of some weird breed of Nexenta+Linux(kernel)+Ubuntu (which Nexenta already does since it's mostly based on it).
I just HATE the way everything is so different on Solaris/OpenSolaris. And I LOVE some of the kernel specific things that Solaris brings (dtrace, zfs,... take your pick).
Kudos for Oracle if they get this done and focus on other things that works better for them. Next stop: MySQL. Yes, this also needs to be on its own community (like Debian), not controlled by a single entity.
For a second I thought this was going to end with "and this is why we use Nagios". A properly configured Nagios system can do what you mention here. Heck, you can combine it with Cfengine and have a self-healing network environment.
I've done this very solution you mention with Nagios. Granted, it's not easy to configure at first. However, it's a free software! We could make it so it sucks less to configure it and release the code back to the community.
I don't see a reason why... My system never (ever) swaps. 4G of RAM here./tmp gets cleaned on reboot. If you are truly paranoid I'd guess you would clean/tmp before you shutdown but I don't see the benefit of the extra paranoia.
Encrypting home is more important for my purpose.
Re:Software RAID completely broken in Jaunty
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odd... I installed a raid1 desktop using PXE with a preseed...
I never got asked anyquestions (well, except for the encryption of HOME on the user I created).
Left on a Friday night and by Monday morning my system was up and running with 9.04. RAID1 and cfengine took care of initializing/installing all my crap.
All I needed to do was copy my HOME from a backup server (after adding a new user with --encrypt-home of course).
Way to go. This inspires me to upgrade from Hardy!
Aside from the improvements noted, these are things to consider:
My favorite are these security improvements:
* sha256 passwords (shadow)
* encrypted home directory with ecryptfs (adduser --encrypt-home... username)
Evolution now supports PST files! This is a plus for people ditching Outlook. Also, you can tight Google Addressbook, Google Gmail, Google Calendar into Evolution. Eliminating the need for Exchange altogether (if your company is willing to pay $25 a year per user for 25G of data. Awesome deal).
Please do a Fresh Install. Do not bother upgrading. That way your passwords will be store with a better hash.
sorry to enlighten you here, but 15-to-life is not less than 25-to-life in practice. after the 15 years are done, he can try to get parole. all is needed is for some member of the family of the victim to keep reporting that this person should be kept in prison for X or Y reason. he might never come out of jail.
look at the guy who killed John Lennon for a good example of what "to life" means.
How about using the same ideas that has worked well for spreading software like Firefox's "Spread*" campaign?
It would be very nerdy to have things like: - seti@home/boinc projects to calculate a lot of nonesense relating to a given candidate - screensavers that use RSS feeds to display whatever news or other cool stuff (podcast, etc...) - de.li.ci.us or any other bookmark sharing...?
Get more people to use Ubuntu and all vendors (3rd party) will provide packages for it. Look at Skype, LimeWire, etc... The trend is there now...
I'm converting everybody I know to Ubuntu because it's easy and it just works. Whoever comes to me with a virus problem (windows) or any type of problem that requires me to re-install the OS, i simply tell them: it's free for you if I install Ubuntu. And I give them the choice that if in 2 weeks of using it they don't like it, I'll restore their Windows stuff for free as well.
I have not heard a single complaint. The first few days people ask me "how do I install foo" and I point them to the right menus. Simple.
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And that's not confusing... I like Gnome releases. 2.2 is 2.2. 2.20 is 2.20. No ifs or buts.
Instead of taking the "suicide pill" why not take a mini-greenhouse with you and plant your own stuff in Mars! You will need to find water though, but you should be alright until the next visitors from Earth come to pick you up (40 years or so later)...
This makes me feel that's time to take the plunge and re-write my apps in Perl. Perl will always be around and it works flawless on webapps (as it has worked for a very long time).
Moving from PHP4 to a more robust and secure PHP5 is necessary. (though IMHO very stupid)
The right thing would've been, of course, to write something that's simple to use, but also very secure, from scratch (Python, Perl, etc come to mind). With the availability of an almost infinite possibilities brought by Class::DBI, Template Toolkit and other nice modules, I don't think there is any need in PHP any longer. At least not for me.
I'll start my slow migration right now, that way my apps will survive the test of time...
Slashdot Mirror
Bravo!
I'd hate for the technologies behind opensolaris/solaris to go away, but I'm all for cutting the excess in efforts to achieve the same goal.
If we can only get all the opensolaris things (kernel stuff, some of the user-space stuff) neatly bundle into Linux... Kind of some weird breed of Nexenta+Linux(kernel)+Ubuntu (which Nexenta already does since it's mostly based on it).
I just HATE the way everything is so different on Solaris/OpenSolaris. And I LOVE some of the kernel specific things that Solaris brings (dtrace, zfs, ... take your pick).
Kudos for Oracle if they get this done and focus on other things that works better for them. Next stop: MySQL. Yes, this also needs to be on its own community (like Debian), not controlled by a single entity.
For a second I thought this was going to end with "and this is why we use Nagios". A properly configured Nagios system can do what you mention here. Heck, you can combine it with Cfengine and have a self-healing network environment.
I've done this very solution you mention with Nagios. Granted, it's not easy to configure at first. However, it's a free software! We could make it so it sucks less to configure it and release the code back to the community.
I don't see a reason why... My system never (ever) swaps. 4G of RAM here. /tmp gets cleaned on reboot. If you are truly paranoid I'd guess you would clean /tmp before you shutdown but I don't see the benefit of the extra paranoia.
Encrypting home is more important for my purpose.
odd... I installed a raid1 desktop using PXE with a preseed...
I never got asked anyquestions (well, except for the encryption of HOME on the user I created).
Left on a Friday night and by Monday morning my system was up and running with 9.04. RAID1 and cfengine took care of initializing/installing all my crap.
All I needed to do was copy my HOME from a backup server (after adding a new user with --encrypt-home of course).
No complaints here.
Way to go. This inspires me to upgrade from Hardy!
Aside from the improvements noted, these are things to consider:
My favorite are these security improvements: ... username)
* sha256 passwords (shadow)
* encrypted home directory with ecryptfs (adduser --encrypt-home
Evolution now supports PST files! This is a plus for people ditching Outlook.
Also, you can tight Google Addressbook, Google Gmail, Google Calendar into Evolution. Eliminating the need for Exchange altogether (if your company is willing to pay $25 a year per user for 25G of data. Awesome deal).
Please do a Fresh Install. Do not bother upgrading. That way your passwords will be store with a better hash.
The original link was dead. This is from howtoforge:
http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu-using-apt-p2p-for-faster-upgrades-from-hardy-to-intrepid
I couldn't agree more. My time is worth a lot more these days.
Let the n00bs test the new releases ;-)
I like that when you click on the Privacy notice on the DoD Network Information Site (http://www.nic.mil/), you get a 404 page:
http://www.disa.mil/info/secpriv.html
Ah, the irony of it... I guess there is not a single privacy statement that would protect anybody from just clicking through publicly available pages?
sorry to enlighten you here, but 15-to-life is not less than 25-to-life in practice.
after the 15 years are done, he can try to get parole. all is needed is for some member of the family of the victim to keep reporting that this person should be kept in prison for X or Y reason.
he might never come out of jail.
look at the guy who killed John Lennon for a good example of what "to life" means.
How about using the same ideas that has worked well for spreading software like Firefox's "Spread*" campaign?
It would be very nerdy to have things like: ...?
- seti@home/boinc projects to calculate a lot of nonesense relating to a given candidate
- screensavers that use RSS feeds to display whatever news or other cool stuff (podcast, etc...)
- de.li.ci.us or any other bookmark sharing
The sky is the limit!
Same for me. I asked for 10 regular and 5 64bit and got all of them.
I've installed Ubuntu in everybody I know from Long Island (NY) to Allentown (PA).
That's about 50 newbies. And I'm just getting started!
Well, you saved me from RTFA ;-) Thanks!
/. we don't RTFA. We just troll and troll.
Oh, I forgot, here at
Would Google become a super giant in the online business if it were to buy Yahoo before MS? C'mon Google, beat them at their own game!
Get more people to use Ubuntu and all vendors (3rd party) will provide packages for it. Look at Skype, LimeWire, etc... The trend is there now...
I'm converting everybody I know to Ubuntu because it's easy and it just works. Whoever comes to me with a virus problem (windows) or any type of problem that requires me to re-install the OS, i simply tell them: it's free for you if I install Ubuntu. And I give them the choice that if in 2 weeks of using it they don't like it, I'll restore their Windows stuff for free as well.
I have not heard a single complaint. The first few days people ask me "how do I install foo" and I point them to the right menus. Simple.
And that's not confusing... I like Gnome releases. 2.2 is 2.2. 2.20 is 2.20. No ifs or buts.
ROFL
Good one
54.1 + 50.2 + 35.2 = 100 ?
/. math! First it was the dups and now this?
/. after all...
Talk about
Of course, I have NOT RTFA... This is
now this is why i luv reading /.
ROFL
And you can also just watch the movie "Wag the dog" :-P
This must be a joke.
Is it April 1st yet? Jesus...
Instead of taking the "suicide pill" why not take a mini-greenhouse with you and plant your own stuff in Mars! You will need to find water though, but you should be alright until the next visitors from Earth come to pick you up (40 years or so later)...
just a thought... LOL
Yep. These are the kinds of things that inspire people to make movies.
But wait, isn't this the same subject they use over and over... Scratch that.
The funniest of all things i've ever read on /.! Good gracious!!
Youtube works for everybody...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stIL4I64TNo
I couldn't agree more.
This makes me feel that's time to take the plunge and re-write my apps in Perl. Perl will always be around and it works flawless on webapps (as it has worked for a very long time).
Moving from PHP4 to a more robust and secure PHP5 is necessary. (though IMHO very stupid)
The right thing would've been, of course, to write something that's simple to use, but also very secure, from scratch (Python, Perl, etc come to mind). With the availability of an almost infinite possibilities brought by Class::DBI, Template Toolkit and other nice modules, I don't think there is any need in PHP any longer. At least not for me.
I'll start my slow migration right now, that way my apps will survive the test of time...