I was in the corps for four years as a "small computer systems specialist" and started as phone support after all of the entry level training, and worked my way up to banyan vines administrator/ network tech towards the end of my enlistment, but after I got out I worked for a year at a small ISP, and unlike the corps, most people are not willing to share their knowledge of what they know, and the management structures in the small business is totally different than the military, at least as far as job accomplisment and efficiency are concerned. I really got burned out
in that years time, and left that job for a job at
a wastewater treatment plant. To go from 100% stress to 0.5% stress, is a feeling that I cannot describe, and I'll never go back. I love computers, and especially linux, but the stress of working in that environment is too much, and now I get to enjoy my hobby and spend time learning about what I want, not what I have to.
I don't understand how digital based crime can even be considered close to the same damage as bombings, hostage taking, kidnapping, murder, ect.
I think corporate america has us confused about what really matters, isn't it life, not profit, which is supposed to be most important?
I don't think you guys get it at all, but I'm gonna say this again. Suse is a mature, stable distro. Give it a try, Out of the box with a copy of sysadmin and suse 7, I set up two 3 gig disks formated with reiserfs and striped em with lvm and set them up as my/usr partition in a snap. The only snag I've had is that the lvm tools aren't compatible with kernel 2.4's lvm code, so when I downloaded the fresh kernel, I had to extract the two different versions of lvm to my ext2fs root partition and run the necessary version until I got my 2.4 compile just right. Also the X setups with Sax and Sax2 are superb and I haven't seen anything better yet. Suse is worth a try, and I try to tell every linux user that I know.
Even though it's a Microsoft world, I love linux. I like typing at the terminal, I like using a gui, I like recording music, burning cd's, and playing video games with it, but I don't like the Idea of a kazillion geeks hooking up with Redhat Linux because it's pushed hard commercially. I've mixed and matched slakware, freebsd, openbsd, redhat, mandrake, debian, and I finally broke down and bought a copy of Suse Linux 7.0 Pro and Found my distro of choice. The last os I was running before this was Redhat 6.2, and was pretty damn unsatisfied. I didn't like the half assed documentation and the buggy software combo's. Suse out of the box had more than I have ever desired and then some. Anyways, blah blah blah everybody thinks, but just give something else a try before you spread out some more hard earned dough on a media whored distro that lacks depth and IMHO doesn't live up the the server level stability that linux is famous for.
Flame At Will.
I know that quality of sound is important to most folks, but I use mpg123 simply because it doesn't suck memory like xmms, for an example, I fired up gtop and xmms, started playing an mp3, and xmms sucked up 37 Megs of memory, what a waste. Mpg123 uses a little over a megabyte while playing the same mp3. I like the gui, but until it gets a little more conservative with my precious resources, I'll stick to the command line.
Re:Athalons Rule, but no smp...yet
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What do you mean why, because it's cool, just kidding, i'm not really interested in buying a prepackaged system from gateway or any other lame ass vendor, i'd much rather build, so at least I know what the hell is going into my system, but i can build a pretty good dual p2 or celery system for fairly inexpensive pricing, whereas that 1GHz processor is a little over 1100.00 , enough for me to buy a mobo, 256mb ram, 2 p3 500s, and a shake.
Athalons Rule, but no smp...yet
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I agree with almost everyone else who states that the athalons kick ass, but despite single processor benchmarks, they don't compete in the smp area because they don't have any smp capable boards/chipset's yet for athalon's, so i'm gonna stick to intel for now. There are some nice dual boards for the Alpha architecture, but damn those suckers are pricey.
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I was in the corps for four years as a "small computer systems specialist" and started as phone support after all of the entry level training, and worked my way up to banyan vines administrator/ network tech towards the end of my enlistment, but after I got out I worked for a year at a small ISP, and unlike the corps, most people are not willing to share their knowledge of what they know, and the management structures in the small business is totally different than the military, at least as far as job accomplisment and efficiency are concerned. I really got burned out
in that years time, and left that job for a job at
a wastewater treatment plant. To go from 100% stress to 0.5% stress, is a feeling that I cannot describe, and I'll never go back. I love computers, and especially linux, but the stress of working in that environment is too much, and now I get to enjoy my hobby and spend time learning about what I want, not what I have to.
I don't understand how digital based crime can even be considered close to the same damage as bombings, hostage taking, kidnapping, murder, ect.
I think corporate america has us confused about what really matters, isn't it life, not profit, which is supposed to be most important?
I don't think you guys get it at all, but I'm gonna say this again. Suse is a mature, stable distro. Give it a try, Out of the box with a copy of sysadmin and suse 7, I set up two 3 gig disks formated with reiserfs and striped em with lvm and set them up as my /usr partition in a snap. The only snag I've had is that the lvm tools aren't compatible with kernel 2.4's lvm code, so when I downloaded the fresh kernel, I had to extract the two different versions of lvm to my ext2fs root partition and run the necessary version until I got my 2.4 compile just right. Also the X setups with Sax and Sax2 are superb and I haven't seen anything better yet. Suse is worth a try, and I try to tell every linux user that I know.
I'm not sure, but I could tell ya that suse 7.0 has it and lvm support on the install.
Even though it's a Microsoft world, I love linux. I like typing at the terminal, I like using a gui, I like recording music, burning cd's, and playing video games with it, but I don't like the Idea of a kazillion geeks hooking up with Redhat Linux because it's pushed hard commercially. I've mixed and matched slakware, freebsd, openbsd, redhat, mandrake, debian, and I finally broke down and bought a copy of Suse Linux 7.0 Pro and Found my distro of choice. The last os I was running before this was Redhat 6.2, and was pretty damn unsatisfied. I didn't like the half assed documentation and the buggy software combo's. Suse out of the box had more than I have ever desired and then some. Anyways, blah blah blah everybody thinks, but just give something else a try before you spread out some more hard earned dough on a media whored distro that lacks depth and IMHO doesn't live up the the server level stability that linux is famous for. Flame At Will.
I know that quality of sound is important to most folks, but I use mpg123 simply because it doesn't suck memory like xmms, for an example, I fired up gtop and xmms, started playing an mp3, and xmms sucked up 37 Megs of memory, what a waste. Mpg123 uses a little over a megabyte while playing the same mp3. I like the gui, but until it gets a little more conservative with my precious resources, I'll stick to the command line.
What do you mean why, because it's cool, just kidding, i'm not really interested in buying a prepackaged system from gateway or any other lame ass vendor, i'd much rather build, so at least I know what the hell is going into my system, but i can build a pretty good dual p2 or celery system for fairly inexpensive pricing, whereas that 1GHz processor is a little over 1100.00 , enough for me to buy a mobo, 256mb ram, 2 p3 500s, and a shake.
I agree with almost everyone else who states that the athalons kick ass, but despite single processor benchmarks, they don't compete in the smp area because they don't have any smp capable boards/chipset's yet for athalon's, so i'm gonna stick to intel for now. There are some nice dual boards for the Alpha architecture, but damn those suckers are pricey.