He's got Win98 running under VMWare.
(Did you even look at the links?)
Cool setup, actually. Too bad he had to have M$ just for the GPS support (DeLorme).
I just skimmed through a bunch of the articles and can't find any mention, anywhere, of what software is running their site.
(Kind of annoying, actually, crappy sysadmins or not it would be nice to know.)
If anybody finds a mention, please post a link to the specific article.
I've never programmed Cyclades boxes but I've used them off and on over the years as terminal and print servers and I can say they're well nigh indestructible!
The company's been around forever and their product quality (and tech support) has always been excellent.
Their website always has useful stuff too.
...is great for detecting if somebody got through your defenses/detection. It's by no means the first or only line of defense, but it's definitely a must-have.
(Plus if you have over-eager assistant admins it'll catch them mucking about as well.:)
I hate MS as much as the next guy, but in supporting several hundred business clients I have to work with their products all day every day.
In short, if Win2K is locking daily then yes, something is misconfigured (try setting your CMOS to safe defaults) or actually broken (bad RAM or mbd) or you have a virus.
Sorry!
Understood, but the same answer applies. What the poster is requesting is extreme overkill unless there are far more complex functions which were not mentioned.
I have worked on a few embedded systems projects myself and have found that, in general, the KISS principle is quite applicable. Especially when somebody else has already done the development legwork for you.
Everything mentioned in the question is faster and cheaper in ASIC format with perhaps a PIC or two for display and key enterfacing.
Not until one gets into a system whose future use is uncertain, or the quantity of inputs and outputs exceeds a given number (depending on the ASIC's used) does the flexibility of a true embedded system become worthwhile.
E.g. a PDA, definitely! A microwave oven, on the other hand, only qualifies because a manufacturer will have many models and it is cheaper to have a single core which can be reprogrammed with different features.
Why? It would be much cheaper and simpler to simply design an I/O interface to do that (or use any of the generic designs published by most of the big chip houses. E.g. NEC, Motorola, Maxim, etc.)
Unless you're talking a RAID chassis or something (which be insanely stupid to hang off USB), it isn't much more than serial/parallel conversion/buffering with some voltage matching and a little driver code.
Using embedded Linux for this would be like converting a laptop into a trip-computer for your bicycle. Major overkill.
Aren't those little crunchy candies?
But seriously.
I am A+, CNE 3/4, HPUX 9x/10x, AT&T Sys-V and I have various odd little programming and hardware certs (e.g. ISPF/PDF, HP-CZ etc.)
The only cert which has really meant anything is the CNE. In today's job market though, I'm noticing that a lot more head-hunters are scanning for certs just as a way of winnowing the mass of resume's which flood in for every position. (There's several thousand IT pro's out of work here in the Seattle area).
As such, I've done a bit of research myself, including some salary analysis and talking to various headhunters and have come up with the following list (which I hope to have acquired by June of 2002):
These are in no particular order, and please note that my experience is abnormally broad. I would normally recommend a much narrower selection based on a given individual's interests.
I just happen to have the background to pick these up with a minimum of studying so, hey, why not?:) For what it's worth, I am also going back to school for my MBA in 2003, but that's more to let me break into management (everybody and their dog's got an MBA around here!)
And MS campus security is half-way decent. Cameras everywhere, little radio-card-readers for everybody and it's all hooked up in one hardened, redundant (and isolated) network. They can pretty much catch anybody slipping in unauthorized and zero in on any MS employee. Thank goodness I don't work there any more, [shudder]. Though it was the management rather than the work environment that bothered me.
And ya know what? There's a ton more!!!!! (The only reason I spent even this amount of time was to satisfy my own curiosity). So, why don't you, my dear Ask-Slashdotter, go forth and use the resources available to you!!
Let's pretend you're APNIC. Now let's pretend you've got 100 million geeks clamoring for IP's. How much of your resources do you spend on customer-service and hand-holding before you throw up your hands in despair and start setting some limits?
Perzackly.
Now, consider the fact the Joe and Jane Geek have to have a connection to use those nice shiny new IP addresses. And you soon see why we have the present hierarchy of telco's and ISP's.
Is it just me or is the "slingshit" typo in a discussion about "black holes" entirely too apropos?
Next thing you know people will think Uranus is a black hole...
The unplayable CD may well still be readable due to the quality of the tracks which were written. I.e. if the writer (and subsequent reader) have a fairly narrow read path (beam) and fairly sensitive pickup, then they can read even a shoddy job of writing. (Note that higher-speed equates to a narrower and spectrally shallower track).
As such, the drive which can't read it probably has a wider beam and/or a less sensitive pickup.
But if you put that same disk back in a CDRW drive (like the one which wrote it) you'll find that it reads just fine. (Kind of like a floppy drive being out of alignment, only in this case the "alignment" is a matter of quality of beam reflection rather than magnetic field).
To move on...
Media is, as mentioned elsewhere, only made by a couple of manufacturers, BUT they also make a number of different levels of quality which are then sold and branded by anybody/everybody.
So how do you tell? Most cd-burning software nowadays will tell you what the media is, but that doesn't help much in the store. (Er, excuse me, can I burn one of these just as a test? Yeah, I'll tape the box back up nice and neat if they suck...)
So you have to judge by color. Unfortunately many of the top-side decals/coatings used in the branding process have a color of their own (hence light-green phthalocyanine dye often appearing blue or dark-green).
In general, a CDRW will give MUCH better cross-drive compatibility than a simple CDR due to the higher sensitivity of the dyes and the better quality reflective surface behind.
Which brings me to cheap CD's. Real CD's have an aluminum surface sandwiched between two plastic disks. A CDR actually needs an extra set of layers because the dye isn't reflective! It has a silver backing which is laid on top of the second layer of plastic. Now a few people will disagree and say it's on the same layer as the dye which is sometimes true, but most of the manufacturers have switched to having it be on the other side (outside) of the plastic sandwich as it makes for a much lower level of defects. But this means that you really have to have the final decal with the cutesy branding/artwork/whatever to protect the silver!
Super cheap (blank silver) CD's will very often scratch very easily on the top surface. I've even seen a few that you could smear the silver off with a firm rub of your finger tip.
Evil...
Bad...
Stay away...
So cheap is fine s'long as they're CDRW's (or at least the darker CDR's) and they have a top decal (or 3rd layer of real plastic for the fancy-schmancy folks).
Finally, burn slower! Cut 20% off your drive's rated speed (or the CDR's rated speed if it's slower) and you'll get much better burns. Manufacturers of drives and media alike advertise the best possible numbers they can get away with. If your drive's beam is a little under-powered and the dye on that batch of CD's is a little thin, then a reduction in speed will make for a lot fewer toasters, er, coasters.
(I've been playing with OSX too much, I can tell!)
That's a great idea! (No, seriously, it is!) 'Course since mice don't have pressure sensors, (yet, anyway), might need for it to be a chorded click or using some alternate keystroke. Make an OSX version too, would you please?:)
Novell's eDirectory does pretty well under Linux, and it stomps all over Active Directory on NT/2000.
It is, in fact, the best directory solution out there.
Take a look at CNN's web-site sometime and see the little Novell logo in the bottom right-hand corner. eDirectory was the only thing which could handle their subscriber base.
I've heard rumors that Yahoo's using it too, but can't confirm.
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He's got Win98 running under VMWare.
(Did you even look at the links?)
Cool setup, actually. Too bad he had to have M$ just for the GPS support (DeLorme).
I just skimmed through a bunch of the articles and can't find any mention, anywhere, of what software is running their site.
(Kind of annoying, actually, crappy sysadmins or not it would be nice to know.)
If anybody finds a mention, please post a link to the specific article.
...I don't see how a spare key installed by the dealership is any more secure than one installed by the owner. :)
I think we need two new moderation categories. "Wrong" and "Stupid" (or "Dumb"). Be nice to be able to apply them to articles too...
I've never programmed Cyclades boxes but I've used them off and on over the years as terminal and print servers and I can say they're well nigh indestructible!
The company's been around forever and their product quality (and tech support) has always been excellent.
Their website always has useful stuff too.
...is great for detecting if somebody got through your defenses/detection. It's by no means the first or only line of defense, but it's definitely a must-have. :)
(Plus if you have over-eager assistant admins it'll catch them mucking about as well.
I hate MS as much as the next guy, but in supporting several hundred business clients I have to work with their products all day every day.
In short, if Win2K is locking daily then yes, something is misconfigured (try setting your CMOS to safe defaults) or actually broken (bad RAM or mbd) or you have a virus.
Sorry!
Understood, but the same answer applies. What the poster is requesting is extreme overkill unless there are far more complex functions which were not mentioned.
:)
I have worked on a few embedded systems projects myself and have found that, in general, the KISS principle is quite applicable. Especially when somebody else has already done the development legwork for you.
Everything mentioned in the question is faster and cheaper in ASIC format with perhaps a PIC or two for display and key enterfacing.
Not until one gets into a system whose future use is uncertain, or the quantity of inputs and outputs exceeds a given number (depending on the ASIC's used) does the flexibility of a true embedded system become worthwhile.
E.g. a PDA, definitely! A microwave oven, on the other hand, only qualifies because a manufacturer will have many models and it is cheaper to have a single core which can be reprogrammed with different features.
Just my $.02.
Why? It would be much cheaper and simpler to simply design an I/O interface to do that (or use any of the generic designs published by most of the big chip houses. E.g. NEC, Motorola, Maxim, etc.)
Unless you're talking a RAID chassis or something (which be insanely stupid to hang off USB), it isn't much more than serial/parallel conversion/buffering with some voltage matching and a little driver code.
Using embedded Linux for this would be like converting a laptop into a trip-computer for your bicycle. Major overkill.
Aren't those little crunchy candies?
:) For what it's worth, I am also going back to school for my MBA in 2003, but that's more to let me break into management (everybody and their dog's got an MBA around here!)
But seriously.
I am A+, CNE 3/4, HPUX 9x/10x, AT&T Sys-V and I have various odd little programming and hardware certs (e.g. ISPF/PDF, HP-CZ etc.)
The only cert which has really meant anything is the CNE. In today's job market though, I'm noticing that a lot more head-hunters are scanning for certs just as a way of winnowing the mass of resume's which flood in for every position. (There's several thousand IT pro's out of work here in the Seattle area).
As such, I've done a bit of research myself, including some salary analysis and talking to various headhunters and have come up with the following list (which I hope to have acquired by June of 2002):
MCSA, MCSE, MCDBA, Network+, Linux+, LPI,
i-Net+, CNE 5/6, CCNA and CCDA
These are in no particular order, and please note that my experience is abnormally broad. I would normally recommend a much narrower selection based on a given individual's interests.
I just happen to have the background to pick these up with a minimum of studying so, hey, why not?
Hope this helps. Best of luck!
And MS campus security is half-way decent. Cameras everywhere, little radio-card-readers for everybody and it's all hooked up in one hardened, redundant (and isolated) network. They can pretty much catch anybody slipping in unauthorized and zero in on any MS employee.
Thank goodness I don't work there any more, [shudder]. Though it was the management rather than the work environment that bothered me.
...let's see here...
n dex.shtml
-tappity-tappity-tappity-
In less than ten minutes of Google/Freshmeat and Sourceforge searching we have the following:
Links to commercial software, some of which has functional demos:
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Graphics/CAD/i
Some FreshMeat projects which fit the bill:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/varicad/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cycas/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/brl-cad/
And some SourceForge stuff to pick through:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/k3studio/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/k3dcad/
And ya know what? There's a ton more!!!!! (The only reason I spent even this amount of time was to satisfy my own curiosity). So, why don't you, my dear Ask-Slashdotter, go forth and use the resources available to you!!
Do those look like arms to you?!? :)
('Course they don't look like her legs either...
...she still doesn't have any arms.
...yes, they work. All of the above is handled in hardware and transparent to the OS.
Good luck finding any cheap ones though, try ebay I guess.
Let's pretend you're APNIC. Now let's pretend you've got 100 million geeks clamoring for IP's. How much of your resources do you spend on customer-service and hand-holding before you throw up your hands in despair and start setting some limits?
Perzackly.
Now, consider the fact the Joe and Jane Geek have to have a connection to use those nice shiny new IP addresses. And you soon see why we have the present hierarchy of telco's and ISP's.
Is it just me or is the "slingshit" typo in a discussion about "black holes" entirely too apropos?
:)
Next thing you know people will think Uranus is a black hole...
Go ahead, mod me down, it's still funny!
That would be like putting a brick on top of a house of cards.
Cute, but don't trust it any longer than you can hold your breath...
The unplayable CD may well still be readable due to the quality of the tracks which were written. I.e. if the writer (and subsequent reader) have a fairly narrow read path (beam) and fairly sensitive pickup, then they can read even a shoddy job of writing. (Note that higher-speed equates to a narrower and spectrally shallower track).
As such, the drive which can't read it probably has a wider beam and/or a less sensitive pickup.
But if you put that same disk back in a CDRW drive (like the one which wrote it) you'll find that it reads just fine. (Kind of like a floppy drive being out of alignment, only in this case the "alignment" is a matter of quality of beam reflection rather than magnetic field).
To move on...
Media is, as mentioned elsewhere, only made by a couple of manufacturers, BUT they also make a number of different levels of quality which are then sold and branded by anybody/everybody.
So how do you tell? Most cd-burning software nowadays will tell you what the media is, but that doesn't help much in the store. (Er, excuse me, can I burn one of these just as a test? Yeah, I'll tape the box back up nice and neat if they suck...)
So you have to judge by color. Unfortunately many of the top-side decals/coatings used in the branding process have a color of their own (hence light-green phthalocyanine dye often appearing blue or dark-green).
In general, a CDRW will give MUCH better cross-drive compatibility than a simple CDR due to the higher sensitivity of the dyes and the better quality reflective surface behind.
Which brings me to cheap CD's. Real CD's have an aluminum surface sandwiched between two plastic disks. A CDR actually needs an extra set of layers because the dye isn't reflective! It has a silver backing which is laid on top of the second layer of plastic. Now a few people will disagree and say it's on the same layer as the dye which is sometimes true, but most of the manufacturers have switched to having it be on the other side (outside) of the plastic sandwich as it makes for a much lower level of defects. But this means that you really have to have the final decal with the cutesy branding/artwork/whatever to protect the silver!
Super cheap (blank silver) CD's will very often scratch very easily on the top surface. I've even seen a few that you could smear the silver off with a firm rub of your finger tip.
Evil...
Bad...
Stay away...
So cheap is fine s'long as they're CDRW's (or at least the darker CDR's) and they have a top decal (or 3rd layer of real plastic for the fancy-schmancy folks).
Finally, burn slower! Cut 20% off your drive's rated speed (or the CDR's rated speed if it's slower) and you'll get much better burns. Manufacturers of drives and media alike advertise the best possible numbers they can get away with. If your drive's beam is a little under-powered and the dye on that batch of CD's is a little thin, then a reduction in speed will make for a lot fewer toasters, er, coasters.
(I've been playing with OSX too much, I can tell!)
Enjoy!
That's a great idea! (No, seriously, it is!) 'Course since mice don't have pressure sensors, (yet, anyway), might need for it to be a chorded click or using some alternate keystroke. Make an OSX version too, would you please? :)
No sig. Sigh. Oh, wait... Doh!
Let's have that little LEGO robot (covered here) duke it out with NASA's space droid a'la BattleBots!
Any bets on the winner?
I knew a hooker who was a Chem. major before she dropped out. Does that count?
...pr0n sites could be two-way. :)
But the strippers would get dizzy.
(Think about it.
Novell's eDirectory does pretty well under Linux, and it stomps all over Active Directory on NT/2000.
It is, in fact, the best directory solution out there.
Take a look at CNN's web-site sometime and see the little Novell logo in the bottom right-hand corner. eDirectory was the only thing which could handle their subscriber base.
I've heard rumors that Yahoo's using it too, but can't confirm.
Ignore my posts above. For an iPaq you'll need CorporateSync