The best way is through NFS. Put the iso images (no need to loopback-mount them) in a folder on an NFS server. On the first CD, in the iso/ folder, is a small boot.iso CD image. Burn that onto a CD, and choose NFS as the installation method. Enter the name of the server and the full path of the folder where the isos are.
Side note: does anyone know why it's necessary to re-burn the boot.iso every release? They seem to have some check that verifies the boot.iso is from the same version as the installation isos. I can't imagine the boot iso changes very frequently, it's basically just a stub for launching the actual installation from the main isos.
Also, there's a bug which was fixed on 10/1 where it wasn't possible to do NFS installs from a DVD iso. Hopefully that fix made it into FC3, because I'm doing the DVD download now and plan to install that way.
Can you add LDAP records in Thunderbird? I tried to switch to LDAP for my personal contacts, but the only app I could find which would create new LDAP records from scratch was the Turba Horde web app. Ideally I would like to keep my standard Thunderbird contacts in LDAP.
You can't really compare automatic spreading of worms with manual hacking attempts. However, you can compare percentage of manual attacks with percentage of worms written. For example, if we say that "67% of attacks are on Linux servers because most servers are Linux servers", it's valid to say that "95% of worms are written for Windows because 95% of desktops run Windows".
I'm not arguing that a hacking attempt is as bad as a worm. The article does state that the economic impact of worms is much greater. However, worms are written because of known vulnerabilities in systems, which is the same reason for manual security intrusions.
In small to mid stakes games, most people don't know odds well enough, and just playing 'mathematically' will win often enough. But every single top-level player I've ever heard asked has said that the mathematics of it are relatively simple comparing to knowing (and 'playing') the players.
A friend of mine is a lead compositor at ILM. He worked on the Special Edition of Empire, and did the Cloud City scenes (among other things). To make some of the interior shots more realistic, he added slight reflections on the windows. He showed it to Lucas, who said thoughtfully,
'Lose the reflections. In Cloud City, they use force fields to keep the bugs out.'
The AIX Running Man has got to be the silliest GUI thing ever. For those who haven't seen it, when you run a task in the GUI version of SMIT (the system administration tool for AIX), while the script is running, a horrible cartoon man in the upper right corner runs. It's like someone told the world's worst GUI designer, "put something on the screen to tell people it's running," and they took it far too seriously.
The best part is that when the command you're trying fails, the man falls down.
The article is still subscriber-only, but Linux Weekly News has a good summary of some discussion on the LKML about InfiniBand. Greg K-H's original posting can be found here. Basically, he feels that it's impossible to implement the specification for InfiniBand in a free/open source product without violating the licensing agreement of the spec, because of patent infringement.
The existence of the code in the main kernel, regardless of whether it is enabled at compile time, affects everybody. It's not like you're going to have a single place with
#ifdef REAL_TIME_KERNEL
...lots of code
#endif
It's going to change a lot of things in a lot of places. Ideally, it will make infrastructure changes which benefit everyone, by abstracting certain elements of the code, which then makes its own specific features fit in nicely. Unfortunately, this is very difficult to do with real-time scheduling.
We have BSD-licensed Unix variants, and we have a GPL-licensed one. How is this different from what you're proposing?
The problem is that the people who have contributed to Linux have specified the GPL. They do this, because in return they get anyone else's improvements to their code, and they also benefit from the entire GPL community. It isn't altruism.
It's interesting to note that Linux picked up a large set of talented developers very quickly. When Linux was starting up, BSD was mired in some legal battles, which certainly hampered it. But since then, developers have worked on GPL projects like Linux more than on BSD-licensed projects. There are many possible explanations for this, but it's a strong indicator that the GPL is more attractive to developers.
Yep, I bought a 4MP ('personal' size with the postscript option) a few years ago for about $200. I had to replace the toner soon thereafter (which cost almost as much as the printer) but I expect both the toner and printer to last forever. Since it's Postscript, getting drivers for it is trivial.
One interesting thing (maybe this is true of all laser printers) is that the lights in my apartment flicker noticeably when I print. It's an old apartment, I guess the power to my building is a little flaky...
I'm pretty sure the union official who says that it requires a reboot to avoid 'data overload' misspoke, and meant 'data overflow'. 49.7 days is 2^32 milliseconds.
It's done in Java, so why not use Java as the scripting language? I imagine with Java security managers, you could give programmers access to a small set of ant-related classes, and disallow access to everything else, including lots of the standard built-in classes, even HashTable and List, so you can't build particularly complex code. At least it would be in a standard syntax, instead of their custom state-machine language.
Formicidae source files consist of a sequence of constant and state definitions. They have the form:
(DEFINE-CONSTANT ) (DEFINE-STATE...)
STATE-EXPRESSION is any of:
(-> )
Unconditional jump to the state named by STATE-NAME>
(BEGIN...)
Sequencing of states.
(STATES ((...)...)...)
Local & recursive (a la LETREC) binding of state names to their
respective state sequences.
(IF
)
State branches. CONDITION may be a simple branch -- a Formicidae
state whose operator takes multiple continuations, {PICK-UP, MOVE,
SENSE, FLIP}, which would not be otherwise usable outside of IFs --
or uses one of the three boolean logic operators {NOT, OR, AND},
whose meanings are obvious.
(COND (...)...
(ELSE...))
Syntactic sugar for nested conditionals. This is exactly as COND
in Scheme...
He's passed on (hence the joke, I get it) but in his TCP/IP Illustrated books, he discusses IPv6 thoroughly, including how to write applications to use either protocol seamlessly.
Apart from the number of addresses, how signifigant are the changes in IPv6? Are our routers going to collapse soon under the weight of routing tables, and will v6 really fix that? Will subnetting be easier? The article mentions less (or no) reliance on DHCP; is this simply because there will be enough addresses to hand them out algorithmically (based on MAC?) or is there a replacement for dynamically requested IP addresses in v6?
But the biggest thing of all, supported by both SQL Express, Standard, and Enterprise editions is what has always set Oracle ahead of the pack: Versioned rows. By turning SET SNAPSHOT ISOLATION on when User A locks in a table and User B tries to read data, instead of blocking user B the database serves up the row versions as they existed prior to A starting a transaction.
Incidentally, InterBase (aka FireBird) has always had this versioned rows as well. It was one of their strong points.
The fact that you're talking about "shoehorning" Debian in, using "anecdotal evidence that most of it can be persuaded to work" should answer your question.
This isn't a PHB issue, either. Anyone with a real production system should be scared off by language like that.
Since RealPlayer is available for Linux, I went to your online music store to download some music. It informed me that the tracks are available for download only to Windows users. Is this going to change?
Absoutely great game. I figured out the "see nothing, taste nothing..." one on my own, most of the others I had to get some help on. The babel fish, the intelligent door (most of the puzzles actually) were too much for me (or anyway I was too impatient) as a 8-year old kid.
How do you get by not feeding the dog? As I remember, you end up in someone's brain, with synapses all around. Could you get out of that?
If early in the game you had typed "turn on ligt", the game responded "I don't know what a ligt is." Then later, it describes that two alien races are sitting down to a truce after a million years of war. Through a freak wormhole, the words "turn on ligt" are heard, which happens to be the worst insult ever to one of the alien races. They fight each other for another million years, but eventually they realize that it was an Earthling who said it, and they amass a fleet to destroy Earth.
No, it's not the Vogons, it's a race of microscopic (to our eyes) aliens. They appear, and are eaten by a dog outside a pub five minutes before the Vogons actually do destroy Earth.
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The Minehune are a little people who lived in Hawaii and were famous for building technical projects in a single night.
Perhaps the Gentoo people should hook up with them.
Imperial Earth was the original title. One of my all-time favorite science fiction novels.
The best way is through NFS. Put the iso images (no need to loopback-mount them) in a folder on an NFS server. On the first CD, in the iso/ folder, is a small boot.iso CD image. Burn that onto a CD, and choose NFS as the installation method. Enter the name of the server and the full path of the folder where the isos are.
Side note: does anyone know why it's necessary to re-burn the boot.iso every release? They seem to have some check that verifies the boot.iso is from the same version as the installation isos. I can't imagine the boot iso changes very frequently, it's basically just a stub for launching the actual installation from the main isos.
Also, there's a bug which was fixed on 10/1 where it wasn't possible to do NFS installs from a DVD iso. Hopefully that fix made it into FC3, because I'm doing the DVD download now and plan to install that way.
Can you add LDAP records in Thunderbird? I tried to switch to LDAP for my personal contacts, but the only app I could find which would create new LDAP records from scratch was the Turba Horde web app. Ideally I would like to keep my standard Thunderbird contacts in LDAP.
You can't really compare automatic spreading of worms with manual hacking attempts. However, you can compare percentage of manual attacks with percentage of worms written. For example, if we say that "67% of attacks are on Linux servers because most servers are Linux servers", it's valid to say that "95% of worms are written for Windows because 95% of desktops run Windows".
I'm not arguing that a hacking attempt is as bad as a worm. The article does state that the economic impact of worms is much greater. However, worms are written because of known vulnerabilities in systems, which is the same reason for manual security intrusions.
In small to mid stakes games, most people don't know odds well enough, and just playing 'mathematically' will win often enough. But every single top-level player I've ever heard asked has said that the mathematics of it are relatively simple comparing to knowing (and 'playing') the players.
A friend of mine is a lead compositor at ILM. He worked on the Special Edition of Empire, and did the Cloud City scenes (among other things). To make some of the interior shots more realistic, he added slight reflections on the windows. He showed it to Lucas, who said thoughtfully,
'Lose the reflections. In Cloud City, they use force fields to keep the bugs out.'
The AIX Running Man has got to be the silliest GUI thing ever. For those who haven't seen it, when you run a task in the GUI version of SMIT (the system administration tool for AIX), while the script is running, a horrible cartoon man in the upper right corner runs. It's like someone told the world's worst GUI designer, "put something on the screen to tell people it's running," and they took it far too seriously.
The best part is that when the command you're trying fails, the man falls down.
The article is still subscriber-only, but Linux Weekly News has a good summary of some discussion on the LKML about InfiniBand. Greg K-H's original posting can be found here. Basically, he feels that it's impossible to implement the specification for InfiniBand in a free/open source product without violating the licensing agreement of the spec, because of patent infringement.
The existence of the code in the main kernel, regardless of whether it is enabled at compile time, affects everybody. It's not like you're going to have a single place with
...lots of code
#ifdef REAL_TIME_KERNEL
#endif
It's going to change a lot of things in a lot of places. Ideally, it will make infrastructure changes which benefit everyone, by abstracting certain elements of the code, which then makes its own specific features fit in nicely. Unfortunately, this is very difficult to do with real-time scheduling.
We have BSD-licensed Unix variants, and we have a GPL-licensed one. How is this different from what you're proposing?
The problem is that the people who have contributed to Linux have specified the GPL. They do this, because in return they get anyone else's improvements to their code, and they also benefit from the entire GPL community. It isn't altruism.
It's interesting to note that Linux picked up a large set of talented developers very quickly. When Linux was starting up, BSD was mired in some legal battles, which certainly hampered it. But since then, developers have worked on GPL projects like Linux more than on BSD-licensed projects. There are many possible explanations for this, but it's a strong indicator that the GPL is more attractive to developers.
Clearly you don't have much experience with the sort of systems where absolutely nothing takes a 'few hours' of testing.
Yep, I bought a 4MP ('personal' size with the postscript option) a few years ago for about $200. I had to replace the toner soon thereafter (which cost almost as much as the printer) but I expect both the toner and printer to last forever. Since it's Postscript, getting drivers for it is trivial.
One interesting thing (maybe this is true of all laser printers) is that the lights in my apartment flicker noticeably when I print. It's an old apartment, I guess the power to my building is a little flaky...
I'm pretty sure the union official who says that it requires a reboot to avoid 'data overload' misspoke, and meant 'data overflow'. 49.7 days is 2^32 milliseconds.
I was under the impression something like the LSB doesn't change much. Does anyone have a summary of the new or changed items?
It's done in Java, so why not use Java as the scripting language? I imagine with Java security managers, you could give programmers access to a small set of ant-related classes, and disallow access to everything else, including lots of the standard built-in classes, even HashTable and List, so you can't build particularly complex code. At least it would be in a standard syntax, instead of their custom state-machine language.
...)
...)
...) ...) ...)
...) ... ...))
Formicidae source files consist of a sequence of constant and state
definitions. They have the form:
(DEFINE-CONSTANT )
(DEFINE-STATE
STATE-EXPRESSION is any of:
(-> )
Unconditional jump to the state named by STATE-NAME>
(BEGIN
Sequencing of states.
(STATES ((
Local & recursive (a la LETREC) binding of state names to their
respective state sequences.
(IF
)
State branches. CONDITION may be a simple branch -- a Formicidae
state whose operator takes multiple continuations, {PICK-UP, MOVE,
SENSE, FLIP}, which would not be otherwise usable outside of IFs --
or uses one of the three boolean logic operators {NOT, OR, AND},
whose meanings are obvious.
(COND (
(ELSE
Syntactic sugar for nested conditionals. This is exactly as COND
in Scheme...
He's passed on (hence the joke, I get it) but in his TCP/IP Illustrated books, he discusses IPv6 thoroughly, including how to write applications to use either protocol seamlessly.
Apart from the number of addresses, how signifigant are the changes in IPv6? Are our routers going to collapse soon under the weight of routing tables, and will v6 really fix that? Will subnetting be easier? The article mentions less (or no) reliance on DHCP; is this simply because there will be enough addresses to hand them out algorithmically (based on MAC?) or is there a replacement for dynamically requested IP addresses in v6?
But the biggest thing of all, supported by both SQL Express, Standard, and Enterprise editions is what has always set Oracle ahead of the pack: Versioned rows. By turning SET SNAPSHOT ISOLATION on when User A locks in a table and User B tries to read data, instead of blocking user B the database serves up the row versions as they existed prior to A starting a transaction.
Incidentally, InterBase (aka FireBird) has always had this versioned rows as well. It was one of their strong points.
The fact that you're talking about "shoehorning" Debian in, using "anecdotal evidence that most of it can be persuaded to work" should answer your question.
This isn't a PHB issue, either. Anyone with a real production system should be scared off by language like that.
And very much backfired, immediately thereafter, assuming you're talking about the Soviets.
Since RealPlayer is available for Linux, I went to your online music store to download some music. It informed me that the tracks are available for download only to Windows users. Is this going to change?
Explorer can do that. In fact, Konq copied it from Windows Explorer. Network places can be FTP sites or (obviously) Windows network shares.
Konq can do more than these three types (it has quite a few VFS backends) however.
Absoutely great game. I figured out the "see nothing, taste nothing..." one on my own, most of the others I had to get some help on. The babel fish, the intelligent door (most of the puzzles actually) were too much for me (or anyway I was too impatient) as a 8-year old kid.
How do you get by not feeding the dog? As I remember, you end up in someone's brain, with synapses all around. Could you get out of that?
If early in the game you had typed "turn on ligt", the game responded "I don't know what a ligt is." Then later, it describes that two alien races are sitting down to a truce after a million years of war. Through a freak wormhole, the words "turn on ligt" are heard, which happens to be the worst insult ever to one of the alien races. They fight each other for another million years, but eventually they realize that it was an Earthling who said it, and they amass a fleet to destroy Earth.
No, it's not the Vogons, it's a race of microscopic (to our eyes) aliens. They appear, and are eaten by a dog outside a pub five minutes before the Vogons actually do destroy Earth.
Unless you feed the dog your ham sandwich.
Vim will do rectangular block cut-and-paste. I imagine there's some way to do the endless-line-of-spaces too.