LDAP/Samba/Kerbros on Suse works real well out of the box in the latest Suse Server offerings. I don't play with many distros so I can't recommend it against others.
But for professional use on networks of any real size, I really try to push my customers to NDS. Say what you want about Novell, but I have yet to find a beter DS that Novell's.
When I was going through the checkout process the other week the guy ahead of me had phone changes. The guy behind the counter sounded stunned as he asked "You have a phone bill here. Is that right?"
The customer responded that he had to send some faxes from his laptop and forgot the cord to go to his cel phone....
But there are just as many who feel that the US should just pull out from the rest of the world. Become isolationist and let the rest of the world see how good it was when we dominated them.
Microsoft didn't sign the letter sent by the concerned tech companies and civil liberties groups.
And if MS isn't against this bill, how can any reasonable thinking person be against it?
Against the DMCA?
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From the article:
"The group gathered around the dinner table then managed to get a copy of the worm and began disassembling its code"
Doesn't looking at the code and trying to figure a way around the usage of this program violate the DMCA? I think that those at this conference should be held accountable.
I've been a Dr. Who fan since I was 10 years old or so. I remember rushing home from school so I could catch the last 20 minutes of the half hour episode on PBS. Now that I have seen them all, I will watch it if I get home early on a Saturday night.
I think that it will be fun to have a radio drama of the show. It's great listening to the old radio shows that you can get on tape and CD's.
I love just sitting back, listening to the story, and picturing what is going on. It's so much more relaxing to hear a good story that you can see in your mind rather than having to watch on tv. TV stories seem to get lost in the visuals and forgets to put a good story in at times.
I listened to the broadcast earlier and thought something was strange. Then it hit me. Linus' accent has thinned out a bit. Or is it just my imagination?
How can this be redundant? I liked Timothy's article better. I thought it was better written than Hemo's. That had not been mentioned until I said it, as it was my opinion.
I've always thought that there are bugs in all software. Can the software to the basic tasks that it sould? For the "features" to occur is it something that people would do on a regular basis? By this I mean do you have to do 10 different things that would not be a normal occurence in the software for these things to activate.
As long as I can use the software in a reasonable manner, it's all good.
I still haven't made it through the first reading....
I don't see the conspiricy
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This is part of the beauty of open source. You don't have to accept all the parts. If there is something that you don't want, take the code out. From the article, it sounds like the NSA's MAC stuff is pretty neat. But it is not something that will break your system if you don't install it. I know that as a home user I would probably never implement the functionality. On some of the servers that I manage, I might. If I were running servers taking credit cards, for instantance, I would use this feature. If someone were working for, or lived in, another country, I would really look at the code. It all depends on your point of view.
But to just say no becouse it is the NSA, well that just does not make sense at all. If you know of another, better solution for this type of code, I would love to hear it. Or if there is a better reason than "it's the NSA" please let me know that also.
That is the problem I face with "internet ready" devices. I have a home lan with broadband access. But yet for my "internet ready" devices that connect out for things, they all want a phone line. Would it be so difficult to put on a ethernet port?
I learned a long time ago that no matter your position in a company, you need to take time for yourself.
I am guessing that you have friends in the industry at some level. Those that you go out with after work talking about what you did with your network. One or more of them may be a consultant that you can say to your boss "While I'm on vacation my friend Bob may be able to fix things for you for $X an hour."
Or get an agreement in writing before hand that states for every 15 minutes of time I work while on vacation I get that much back in comp time. That way, even if you do decide to be incredibly loyal while away, you don't entirely loose that much vacation time.
If it uses the same kernel as the rest? The best distro is always the one that you like the most. Not what the guy next to you says is the best.
The only time this is not true is if you don't know anything about linux or distros. Then you have to trust your friend that knows more than you do to choose a distro for you.
I did some more research into this and discovered something. It is not the US government that has designed and built these things. RIAA and MPAA got together to find a way to enforce thier copyrights. So if you don't submit to thier wishes on not using napster or similiar programs, they will launch one of these in your general vicinity.
How do you feel being compared to a "Katz character"? As many of the readers here would associate this description as being a kid on the brink of a breakdown and shooting up his/her high school.
And before I get modded down, this is a serious question. The way Jon Katz describes smart high schoolers, he seems to think they are all taunted for being nerdy or geeky.
You miss the point of what I was saying. I am not saying that I roll out RedHat then change to Debian. I mean that if I roll out RedHat at my current empolyer, then change jobs to a place that uses Debian. That is when the lack of standards comes into play.
It's really the only way to get something like this to work. Windows has made it to where it is becouse I can go to any Winbox and know that there is a registry in the \windows directory. I know that hitting the "start" button will bring up the menu, etc.
With Linux, I can roll out and maintain (with a team) an enterprise of RedHat boxen. I can keep it going for years. Then I decide to leave that company and go elsewhere. The next place I go has an enterprise of Debian boxen. Well, now I have to spend time learning how the Debian system works. The basics are all the same, true, but the specifics are different. And then what about the previous admin? Did he document all the little things that he modified to get things working?
The flexibility of Linux is it's greatest strength and it's greatest weakness. If the major distributors can get together and come up with basic standards, if Gnome and KDE can bring us consistant menu options, and we (the user base) can stop bashing each others distros, I think we have something that we can move into enterprise wide situations.
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LDAP/Samba/Kerbros on Suse works real well out of the box in the latest Suse Server offerings. I don't play with many distros so I can't recommend it against others.
But for professional use on networks of any real size, I really try to push my customers to NDS. Say what you want about Novell, but I have yet to find a beter DS that Novell's.
When I was going through the checkout process the other week the guy ahead of me had phone changes. The guy behind the counter sounded stunned as he asked "You have a phone bill here. Is that right?"
The customer responded that he had to send some faxes from his laptop and forgot the cord to go to his cel phone....
Let some private companies come up with the billions.
Ultimately the private companies are the ones who will profit off of the research anyway....
Pretty Colors.
You'd like to think that, but the reality of it is as an american I can say what I want in a sentence and you have to accept it for what it is.
But there are just as many who feel that the US should just pull out from the rest of the world. Become isolationist and let the rest of the world see how good it was when we dominated them.
Microsoft didn't sign the letter sent by the concerned tech companies and civil liberties groups.
And if MS isn't against this bill, how can any reasonable thinking person be against it?
"The group gathered around the dinner table then managed to get a copy of the worm and began disassembling its code"
Doesn't looking at the code and trying to figure a way around the usage of this program violate the DMCA? I think that those at this conference should be held accountable.
Better at that time than the time slot it now posesses, at 11:45 pm on saturday night...
I've been a Dr. Who fan since I was 10 years old or so. I remember rushing home from school so I could catch the last 20 minutes of the half hour episode on PBS. Now that I have seen them all, I will watch it if I get home early on a Saturday night.
I think that it will be fun to have a radio drama of the show. It's great listening to the old radio shows that you can get on tape and CD's.
I love just sitting back, listening to the story, and picturing what is going on. It's so much more relaxing to hear a good story that you can see in your mind rather than having to watch on tv. TV stories seem to get lost in the visuals and forgets to put a good story in at times.
I listened to the broadcast earlier and thought something was strange. Then it hit me. Linus' accent has thinned out a bit. Or is it just my imagination?
How can this be redundant? I liked Timothy's article better. I thought it was better written than Hemo's. That had not been mentioned until I said it, as it was my opinion.
I've always thought that there are bugs in all software. Can the software to the basic tasks that it sould? For the "features" to occur is it something that people would do on a regular basis? By this I mean do you have to do 10 different things that would not be a normal occurence in the software for these things to activate.
As long as I can use the software in a reasonable manner, it's all good.
I still haven't made it through the first reading....
This is part of the beauty of open source. You don't have to accept all the parts. If there is something that you don't want, take the code out. From the article, it sounds like the NSA's MAC stuff is pretty neat. But it is not something that will break your system if you don't install it. I know that as a home user I would probably never implement the functionality. On some of the servers that I manage, I might. If I were running servers taking credit cards, for instantance, I would use this feature. If someone were working for, or lived in, another country, I would really look at the code. It all depends on your point of view.
But to just say no becouse it is the NSA, well that just does not make sense at all. If you know of another, better solution for this type of code, I would love to hear it. Or if there is a better reason than "it's the NSA" please let me know that also.
That is the problem I face with "internet ready" devices. I have a home lan with broadband access. But yet for my "internet ready" devices that connect out for things, they all want a phone line. Would it be so difficult to put on a ethernet port?
I learned a long time ago that no matter your position in a company, you need to take time for yourself.
I am guessing that you have friends in the industry at some level. Those that you go out with after work talking about what you did with your network. One or more of them may be a consultant that you can say to your boss "While I'm on vacation my friend Bob may be able to fix things for you for $X an hour."
Or get an agreement in writing before hand that states for every 15 minutes of time I work while on vacation I get that much back in comp time. That way, even if you do decide to be incredibly loyal while away, you don't entirely loose that much vacation time.
If it uses the same kernel as the rest? The best distro is always the one that you like the most. Not what the guy next to you says is the best.
The only time this is not true is if you don't know anything about linux or distros. Then you have to trust your friend that knows more than you do to choose a distro for you.
I did some more research into this and discovered something. It is not the US government that has designed and built these things. RIAA and MPAA got together to find a way to enforce thier copyrights. So if you don't submit to thier wishes on not using napster or similiar programs, they will launch one of these in your general vicinity.
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How do you feel being compared to a "Katz character"? As many of the readers here would associate this description as being a kid on the brink of a breakdown and shooting up his/her high school.
And before I get modded down, this is a serious question. The way Jon Katz describes smart high schoolers, he seems to think they are all taunted for being nerdy or geeky.
Oh come on, that wasn't a troll, it was a joke! You know funny, ha ha ha...
Now when the US implements national health care, they can use this as a blue print and make it affordable for us without raising taxes:)
I think that the first concession I would have them make is opening up the cable lines at a resonable price.
I mean, opening up the AIM protocol is not something that I would hinge a deal this big on.
You miss the point of what I was saying. I am not saying that I roll out RedHat then change to Debian. I mean that if I roll out RedHat at my current empolyer, then change jobs to a place that uses Debian. That is when the lack of standards comes into play.
It's really the only way to get something like this to work. Windows has made it to where it is becouse I can go to any Winbox and know that there is a registry in the \windows directory. I know that hitting the "start" button will bring up the menu, etc.
With Linux, I can roll out and maintain (with a team) an enterprise of RedHat boxen. I can keep it going for years. Then I decide to leave that company and go elsewhere. The next place I go has an enterprise of Debian boxen. Well, now I have to spend time learning how the Debian system works. The basics are all the same, true, but the specifics are different. And then what about the previous admin? Did he document all the little things that he modified to get things working?
The flexibility of Linux is it's greatest strength and it's greatest weakness. If the major distributors can get together and come up with basic standards, if Gnome and KDE can bring us consistant menu options, and we (the user base) can stop bashing each others distros, I think we have something that we can move into enterprise wide situations.