Have you filed bug reports (on the index)? catting 2 mpegs is not supported officially, but it sometimes works, if and only if all the setttings are the same in both. (not to mention that atm I would not suggest using mplayers mpeg output container as opposed to avi output container (the default).)
One example I would not be proud of comparing to mplayer is OpiePlayer2. As the person who originally ported mplayer to the zaurus:) I have found that OpiePlayer2's (xine-based) playback is very choppy, and while the sound sounds good, trying to watch videos on it is mostly just a pain. Xmms-embedded, which uses mplayer to play video on the other hand is just great, very little skips if the file isn't messed up.
I will give Xine points for getting a hell of a lot better, but frankly compared to mplayer it's slow (and when working with 100~500 MHz machines it makes a big difference) and has only a few video outputs (vs mplayer's ability to play video to practically anything that has a screen, and interface to it). It also does dvd-nav which mplayer currently can't, but will be able to in mplayer-g2, which has a new architechure which doesn't have the limitations which currently make dvd-nav impossible, or at least highly difficult to implement.
Good luck to the Xine team catching up to mplayer though.
Hmmm.... I have seen this at a university where they switched to windows (old VAX, and shuffled som stuff off an IBM mainframe) it took hours for email to move sometimes
I always put it down to misconfiguration (and general incompetence from them) of the software, is this sad state normal?!?!
I found it a couple of days ago, and it looks very interesting.
It is a program to 'tar-pit' worms. When something (Code Red was the initial reason) scans an ip address that isn't there, it sends an ack back spoofed to be from that machine, thus causing the worm to have to time out before it goes on, and it can knock the connection into persistant mode, thus locking up the thread on the attacking machine until the thread is killed.
Looks nasty, and there is a debian package. If it works as well as hoped, Linux users could save the networks some trouble.
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I have gotten into (among them: deleting a windows computer from a domain and forgetting to reenable the local admin, or forgetting a root password) many computers (legitimately), and frankly I have never ever had to remove the hard drive (aside from one time, but that was because the rest of the machine was down) to either redo the settings or get the data.
1) easiest: floppy or CD boot (you can get floppies to change windows admins passwords/enabled(disabled) settings many places, same with linux, or most unixes, though risc based unixes are generally safer, and don't have physical access)
2) if that is locked out: messing with lilo/grub, or windows startup
3) bios passwd (enable floppy or CD see step 1)
4) assuming they have all that, clear the cmos, then go to step 3
5)encrypted: WOW! either they care about security, or have too much time on their hands, which means to get in you will have to brute force it.
6)check for the encryption key in different places
Essentially, you can't keep someone out, and almost all of those steps can be completed (up till 5 or 6) in about 10 minutes (maybe slightly more or less) and none of that requires disconnecting the hard drive.
Either you have constant survelence, the threat of survelence, or you trust the people working with the computers if they have physical access.
Bad UI design. Heres why: When I (or anyone else) login, they want to do work of some sort, windows update (as opposed to up2date) often requires that you reboot. This is very bad, because if someone is in a hurry, or doesn't want to wait forever, they will remember that last time it rebooted the machine, and cause them trouble. Unlike up2date which can work in the background, and won't affect the user on 90% of the stuff (even then it won't bug them till next login).
If they wanted it done, they should provide the option logout and update. That would make sense, and provide the least inconviniece to people. Add it in addition to the log-in reminder, then more people would do it.
I have never had a virus(*that affected me, you should see the virus folder in my mail), yet I have been on the internet since 1989, and often run no virus scanner, even when I used to run windows. If you aren't stupid, ignorant, patch, and use firewalls, disable crap you don't need, it will be perfectly fine. (I think the 2nd and 5th account for 90% of the recent problems)
I noticed this: During the migration from NT to Linux, his staff insisted that because they had been running RAID disk mirroring and striping on NT they should buy SCSI RAID controllers for the Linux servers. ?It was like $1,000 per box extra that I hadn?t planned on.?
What the heck are they smoking? Unless the admins wanted linux to look better (hardware raid is better than software), I have no idea why anyone would do this?
I run RAID arrays, and I am looking into a cheap RAID-5 UW SCSI controller (as in the used $5-$40 type:) helps to have friends at shops) but is it going to be worth $1000? I don't think so.
Admittedly that's a bunch, but when you consider 1 copy of MS Office is somewhere around $500 new, and upgrades are $330, that really isn't much (about 2.5x and 4x respectively)
Eliminating windows would be about $100 (an upgrade) for $2500 for XP's replacement.
Overall (and rounding) 3000-1300 = $700 saved on 25 machines, contacing codeweavers would probably get about the same rate on the others (5 more at about 30$ (actually 700/25 saved a machine)
This assumes that the admins are competent in both, which of course is often not the case.
I live in the US and dislike software patents (how the hell can you sell an idea?), but a thought just occured to me: given all the copyright, etc standardization by treaties would this include patents, and therefore the US's already large (and stupid) collection of software patents? I can see all sorts of problems competitively for the EU, where US companies use patents already obtained to legally tie up any EU firm they don't like.
As an example, if this were true someone could sue Suse, because unlike RedHat (which has a bunch of defensive patents) they hace no way to defend themselves, aside from getting the stupidity revoked (or better yet: not have it pass at all!)
You mean throwing a Nvidia geforce fx5ti5000 at it won't help ? or an Ati all-in-heat-production 9950 pro wont?
Sorry, I do know someone who is contemplating building a very cheap (relatively cool and non-power hungry) cluster out of them. Which will (sadly) beat the SGI "High performance" system (either easily parallelizable, or single-threaded, non-super memory bandwidth (though they wouldn't do that bad on that either, considering the age of the SGI)) for a very small fraction of the price. (and it should even fit in something the size of a filing cabinet!)
And to back up your above statement, they make GREAT workstations. (esp if you have a cluster in the back to help out:) )
just wondering why to "stay away from Windows and MPlayer" ?
Mplayer plays dvds quite well (but then again I also know more about it) for me. I just wanted to know if there was a large reason (mplayer is not the most friendly to some sound hardware)
I could go on, these just happen to be ones I selected. I abreviated some names (HP=Hewlett-Packard Company) and procs (P4) etc, but did not change the information, the numbers for apple were taken from http://www.apple.com/powermac/
But will it update your custom compile of Apache with a module you downloaded from hacker joe which makes use of the latest Perl tarball you nabbed from CVS? You see what I'm saying?
If you are using CVS, etc, on a server you had better know what the heck you are doing, or you shouldn't be using it. Also why custom compile it (if not using gentoo)?
I have done something similar, and all it took was a shell script to fetch the (samba) source rpm, a sed script to add the configure option (--with-ldapsam) and then to rebuild it and install it. Not hard to do, and if I wanted to it could have been completely automated (admittedly it wasn't automated)
sure Microsoft has a monopoly and supplies all these components themselves, but it gives you a single place to get well tested updates from. You dont have to subscribe to a hundred different mailing lists and read every mail to make sure you dont miss an update to some obscure kernel module you have to patch in manually....
Why the heck would you be using obscure kernel modules if you don't have a good background on them in the first place? The distros all have their kernels (so can use nice package management) patched up. If you are compiling the kernel from source, again, you should know what the heck you are doing.
I realize that I am talking about people knowing what they are doing, but lets face it, if one runs a windows server they had better go in and clean up all the mess, and frankly if you stick to the updates, Linux will do much better, than windows, especially from the point of the whole OS (and installed apps-as mentioned in my post above-you can update all the software, not just the microsoft software).
I am not running a Windows NT domain, so perhaps you can point out how it is done in a winNT/200x domain. Does it require user-interaction? I admit ignorance, but for someone who can't go out and drop $255 for 2000 & 10 CALs. (best price on pricewatch for retail box (may be used, and therefore illegal according to Microsoft), about $750 on a site that I would believe it was new.) I would like to know if this is just a stick updater on fileserver, and wait for schedule, or if this actually makes the clients go get it (internet or fileserver).
1) Microsoft typically has patches out only after exploits (or detailed description) is posted.
2) The automated downloading of patches can be done by just about any linux disto (excuse my ignorance, but the only 'major' (redhat, suse, mandrake, debian, gentoo, slack) distro that I am not sure about is slack (due to my lack of experence with it). apt-get, emerge, up2date, etc can be scheduled in crontab (and have been able to be for many years before a decent 'windowsupdate')
3) Windowsupdate ONLY DOES MICROSOFT PRODUCTS (and a very few other things, such as drivers) Using Corel WP? Lotus 123? etc? You have to find some way to update them (admittedly they either aren't as buggy or no one cares about them)
4) REMOTE installs... with ssh + the a linux package management system (apt, emerge, up2date, etc) all computers can be updated remotely with all of their packages. You can do this in windows but only for critical updates via SUS.
I can't stress #4 enough, and I have been looking for something that will do many of them, but the best solution someone has come up with, aside from write your own, is to repackage installed programs.
Where are the windows admins who admin 100s of windows clients? Bring out your package management tools! (even the expensive ones!)
Some portions do (don't have access to a 2k box atm) because iexplore is a very (can't think of the word-small executable that relies on the system to do it's work) which means that html rendering is not part of the iexplore process (though I can't remember which it is). Basically it's a shell game where iexplore is suddenly very-small (look ma, no bloat, not that anybody believes it...) and is 'tied into' the operating system.
In essence, they are running mozilla as a user, but gecko as suid system.
Unless you can find some documentation that says otherwise, and if you want I will look up documentation, and post links here in the morning, if you post asking for them.
I would agree on some of that... (provided of course that access was filtered)... it could be pretty secure.
And I would agree with it, that the default setup is the thing... anyone remember the flack redhat (among others) got?
Another thing to point out is the lack of ability to update multiple windows boxes with anything approaching apt-get, up2date, emerge, etc... Windows simply does not have a standard package management system worth anything. All those, just click and install, are fine... ON ONE computer, but without something expensive (ala Norton Ghost Enterprise Edition, which comes closest) there is not an ability to do that EXCEPT for Microsoft's stuff (via windows update). No auto update of Netscape, Games, etc. Unless they provide their own.
Of course, most security holes on windows are not with the apps (or third party servers) but with Microsoft products themselves, so this is less of a security issue, and more of a deployment issue.
If anyone can tell me of some remote package management system, I would love to hear about it.
Which means that sometime when non-Microsoft worms/virii/etc happen in a big way, they will be hammering the Microsoft Windows Platform just as bad as anything else... on top of Microsoft vulnerabilites
What your hardware isn't in the standard kernel? perhaps one of the many gentoo patched kernels will have it, if not emerge vanilla-sources and patch.
Or wait, were you talking about hardware detection? or Archs suppored?
Debian might win on the arch, but certainly not on the detection.
Want to use Redhat's kudzu: emerge kudzu
no yast though. Anything else?
Detection, you may survive on, but arch (aside from Debian, you want to find a CURRENT (which wouldn't include debian-stable sometimes) linux distro that supports alphas, sparcs, x86, PA-RISC, and powerpc (at least)?
A bit overboard, but frankly that comment deserved it, perhaps automated hardware detection, and installation for the installed system would be better? (not "hardware support" because it's as good as pretty much everything else)
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I will give Xine points for getting a hell of a lot better, but frankly compared to mplayer it's slow (and when working with 100~500 MHz machines it makes a big difference) and has only a few video outputs (vs mplayer's ability to play video to practically anything that has a screen, and interface to it). It also does dvd-nav which mplayer currently can't, but will be able to in mplayer-g2, which has a new architechure which doesn't have the limitations which currently make dvd-nav impossible, or at least highly difficult to implement.
Good luck to the Xine team catching up to mplayer though.
I always put it down to misconfiguration (and general incompetence from them) of the software, is this sad state normal?!?!
It is a program to 'tar-pit' worms. When something (Code Red was the initial reason) scans an ip address that isn't there, it sends an ack back spoofed to be from that machine, thus causing the worm to have to time out before it goes on, and it can knock the connection into persistant mode, thus locking up the thread on the attacking machine until the thread is killed.
Looks nasty, and there is a debian package. If it works as well as hoped, Linux users could save the networks some trouble.
because it wouldn't get put on /.!
1) easiest: floppy or CD boot (you can get floppies to change windows admins passwords/enabled(disabled) settings many places, same with linux, or most unixes, though risc based unixes are generally safer, and don't have physical access)
2) if that is locked out: messing with lilo/grub, or windows startup
3) bios passwd (enable floppy or CD see step 1)
4) assuming they have all that, clear the cmos, then go to step 3
5)encrypted: WOW! either they care about security, or have too much time on their hands, which means to get in you will have to brute force it.
6)check for the encryption key in different places
Essentially, you can't keep someone out, and almost all of those steps can be completed (up till 5 or 6) in about 10 minutes (maybe slightly more or less) and none of that requires disconnecting the hard drive.
Either you have constant survelence, the threat of survelence, or you trust the people working with the computers if they have physical access.
If they wanted it done, they should provide the option logout and update. That would make sense, and provide the least inconviniece to people. Add it in addition to the log-in reminder, then more people would do it.
I have never had a virus(*that affected me, you should see the virus folder in my mail), yet I have been on the internet since 1989, and often run no virus scanner, even when I used to run windows. If you aren't stupid, ignorant, patch, and use firewalls, disable crap you don't need, it will be perfectly fine. (I think the 2nd and 5th account for 90% of the recent problems)
Maybe, unless, you, like their lawyers, were on contingency...
What the heck are they smoking? Unless the admins wanted linux to look better (hardware raid is better than software), I have no idea why anyone would do this?
I run RAID arrays, and I am looking into a cheap RAID-5 UW SCSI controller (as in the used $5-$40 type :) helps to have friends at shops) but is it going to be worth $1000? I don't think so.
Handles Access just fine.
25 licences: $1212.50 US Dollars + shipping
Admittedly that's a bunch, but when you consider 1 copy of MS Office is somewhere around $500 new, and upgrades are $330, that really isn't much (about 2.5x and 4x respectively)
Eliminating windows would be about $100 (an upgrade) for $2500 for XP's replacement.
Overall (and rounding) 3000-1300 = $700 saved on 25 machines, contacing codeweavers would probably get about the same rate on the others (5 more at about 30$ (actually 700/25 saved a machine)
This assumes that the admins are competent in both, which of course is often not the case.
In fact I talked to someone who finds apt + rpm (on rh) better than apt + dpkg (on debian) ( because of the redhat-kde project )
be nice if all rh mirrors were enabled for apt.
On a dual p3-800: up 2 days, 4:19
Pretty snappy, works with nvidia, sb512 (emu10k1) no lockups, or anything, the only thing I haven't tried is the tv capture...
As an example, if this were true someone could sue Suse, because unlike RedHat (which has a bunch of defensive patents) they hace no way to defend themselves, aside from getting the stupidity revoked (or better yet: not have it pass at all!)
Sorry, I do know someone who is contemplating building a very cheap (relatively cool and non-power hungry) cluster out of them. Which will (sadly) beat the SGI "High performance" system (either easily parallelizable, or single-threaded, non-super memory bandwidth (though they wouldn't do that bad on that either, considering the age of the SGI)) for a very small fraction of the price. (and it should even fit in something the size of a filing cabinet!)
And to back up your above statement, they make GREAT workstations. (esp if you have a cluster in the back to help out :) )
Mplayer plays dvds quite well (but then again I also know more about it) for me. I just wanted to know if there was a large reason (mplayer is not the most friendly to some sound hardware)
It is possible to get it to run (via a heavily hacked) 2.4.20.
In other words this is *NOT* reccommended (and I have gotten no response from the maintainer of the package (aec62xx) )
Anyone want to explain that?
Advanced Micro Devices: A4800 (1.4GHz Opterons, 4GB RAM ): 2 CPU: 21.0 base : 22.2 peak
Apple Computer: Dual PowerPC G5 2GHz: 2 CPU: 15.7 base: no peak
Dell: PowerEdge 2650 (3.06 GHz Xeon): 2CPU: 16.7 base:17.0 peak
Dell: Precision WorkStation 350 (3.06 GHz P4): 1 CPU: 12.7 base: 12.8 peak
Or this: http://www.specbench.org/cpu2000/results/cfp2000.h tml
Intel Corporation: D850MD motherboard (2.4 GHz, P4): 1 CPU: 806 base: 812 peak
Apple: G5 2GHz: 1 CPU: 840 base: no peak
HP: ProLiant DL380 G3(3.06GHz, Intel Xeon): 1 CPU: 1150 base: no peak
I could go on, these just happen to be ones I selected. I abreviated some names (HP=Hewlett-Packard Company) and procs (P4) etc, but did not change the information, the numbers for apple were taken from http://www.apple.com/powermac/
If you are using CVS, etc, on a server you had better know what the heck you are doing, or you shouldn't be using it. Also why custom compile it (if not using gentoo)?
I have done something similar, and all it took was a shell script to fetch the (samba) source rpm, a sed script to add the configure option (--with-ldapsam) and then to rebuild it and install it. Not hard to do, and if I wanted to it could have been completely automated (admittedly it wasn't automated)
sure Microsoft has a monopoly and supplies all these components themselves, but it gives you a single place to get well tested updates from. You dont have to subscribe to a hundred different mailing lists and read every mail to make sure you dont miss an update to some obscure kernel module you have to patch in manually.... Why the heck would you be using obscure kernel modules if you don't have a good background on them in the first place? The distros all have their kernels (so can use nice package management) patched up. If you are compiling the kernel from source, again, you should know what the heck you are doing.
I realize that I am talking about people knowing what they are doing, but lets face it, if one runs a windows server they had better go in and clean up all the mess, and frankly if you stick to the updates, Linux will do much better, than windows, especially from the point of the whole OS (and installed apps-as mentioned in my post above-you can update all the software, not just the microsoft software).
I am not running a Windows NT domain, so perhaps you can point out how it is done in a winNT/200x domain. Does it require user-interaction? I admit ignorance, but for someone who can't go out and drop $255 for 2000 & 10 CALs. (best price on pricewatch for retail box (may be used, and therefore illegal according to Microsoft), about $750 on a site that I would believe it was new.) I would like to know if this is just a stick updater on fileserver, and wait for schedule, or if this actually makes the clients go get it (internet or fileserver).
1) Microsoft typically has patches out only after exploits (or detailed description) is posted.
2) The automated downloading of patches can be done by just about any linux disto (excuse my ignorance, but the only 'major' (redhat, suse, mandrake, debian, gentoo, slack) distro that I am not sure about is slack (due to my lack of experence with it). apt-get, emerge, up2date, etc can be scheduled in crontab (and have been able to be for many years before a decent 'windowsupdate')
3) Windowsupdate ONLY DOES MICROSOFT PRODUCTS (and a very few other things, such as drivers) Using Corel WP? Lotus 123? etc? You have to find some way to update them (admittedly they either aren't as buggy or no one cares about them)
4) REMOTE installs... with ssh + the a linux package management system (apt, emerge, up2date, etc) all computers can be updated remotely with all of their packages. You can do this in windows but only for critical updates via SUS.
I can't stress #4 enough, and I have been looking for something that will do many of them, but the best solution someone has come up with, aside from write your own, is to repackage installed programs.
Where are the windows admins who admin 100s of windows clients? Bring out your package management tools! (even the expensive ones!)
In essence, they are running mozilla as a user, but gecko as suid system.
Unless you can find some documentation that says otherwise, and if you want I will look up documentation, and post links here in the morning, if you post asking for them.
And I would agree with it, that the default setup is the thing... anyone remember the flack redhat (among others) got?
Another thing to point out is the lack of ability to update multiple windows boxes with anything approaching apt-get, up2date, emerge, etc... Windows simply does not have a standard package management system worth anything. All those, just click and install, are fine... ON ONE computer, but without something expensive (ala Norton Ghost Enterprise Edition, which comes closest) there is not an ability to do that EXCEPT for Microsoft's stuff (via windows update). No auto update of Netscape, Games, etc. Unless they provide their own.
Of course, most security holes on windows are not with the apps (or third party servers) but with Microsoft products themselves, so this is less of a security issue, and more of a deployment issue.
If anyone can tell me of some remote package management system, I would love to hear about it.
Which means that sometime when non-Microsoft worms/virii/etc happen in a big way, they will be hammering the Microsoft Windows Platform just as bad as anything else... on top of Microsoft vulnerabilites
Look around for v4l2 (why it isn't in 2.6 (which I thought was planned is beyond me)) most cards seem to have both v4l and v4l2 (via patches) support.
Or wait, were you talking about hardware detection? or Archs suppored?
Debian might win on the arch, but certainly not on the detection.
Want to use Redhat's kudzu: emerge kudzu
no yast though. Anything else?
Detection, you may survive on, but arch (aside from Debian, you want to find a CURRENT (which wouldn't include debian-stable sometimes) linux distro that supports alphas, sparcs, x86, PA-RISC, and powerpc (at least)?
A bit overboard, but frankly that comment deserved it, perhaps automated hardware detection, and installation for the installed system would be better? (not "hardware support" because it's as good as pretty much everything else)