I have no issue with the command-line program. That's fine. But the parent of my original comment posted about a GUI counterpart to the command-line version. I don't see the point.
The First Rule of Program Optimization: Don't do it. The Second Rule of Program Optimization -- For experts only: Don't do it yet.
-- Michael Jackson (not the molestor one)
offers a lot better control for the sys admin to lock down the OS (relative WinXP for example)
I know Linux systems can be pretty effectively locked down, but have you ever seen an XP system that's been locked down by someone who knows what they're doing? You can hardly breathe on it. It did a great job of foiling my former office mate who installed a filesharing client on his NT system and hosed his network connection. I heard him grumbling for days after they upgraded him to XP.
When I first saw "X800" I thought my eyes were missing "10" in there. I guess they figures 4 digits was enough and decided to start over.
Another thing -- who pays $400 for a video card? I understand being cutting edge, I guess I can just wait a little while until the price drops, even if it means not playing the very newest games. But kudos to those of you that do pay up -- you're driving the PC industry forward, realize it or not.
This tells us the obvious: that slashdot only talks about the bad things about Microsoft products.
Not saying they don't have their bad aspects, and that Linux and OSX (dude, Macs is not an OS) don't have their stronger suits. But look at where you're posting.
I was going to say this same thing, thanks for saving me the time.
In other news, television, magazines, radio stations, newspapers, taxi cabs, and sporting events may soon have to turn to advertising to help cover costs.
Anyone know exactly what the issues with SELinux by default were?
Perhaps it had something to do with problems experienced by people like me that just went with the default install, and were greeted with pages upon pages of security violations just trying to start init.
This particular book is currently out of stock there, but I just thought I'd mention one of my favorite sites, bookpool.com. This particular book costs 15% of the list ($6) less than Barnes and Noble. They have great service and fast shipping (often free if you purchase enough).
No affiliation whatsoever, just thought I'd share.
Anyway, I suspect that rather than blacklist bad people, I'd much preferto have the module tags be done as counted strings instead. It should be easy enough to do by just having the macro prepend a sizeof(xxxx)" thing or something.
Great idea, for this hack, anyway. Problem is, they'll come up with something else next time. I think this one really is up to the lawyers, unfortunately.
That first paragraph is cute and all, but you forget one important point: no one gives a shit. The good old days of profit sharing are gone, and no one really cares about saving a company money if it means that a) you're getting paid and b) the company isn't going out of business.
While I see your point, I respectfully disagree, at least in my situation. I recently started with an organization and am trying to get Linux integrated into their operations. I'm getting some machines together that just beg to run something completely ground-up like Gentoo. And I keep fighting, even though I'm never going to be able to sell it to upper management. Why? I can't sell them the idea of predictability. They need someone to blame when something goes wrong. So, much to my chagrin, Red Hat it is.
Mind you, this is a decent-sized organization, and their bread and butter runs on these systems. And BTW, you can get a bugfix practically overnight from a commercial vendor. There's a small catch though: that vendor is Sun and you spend tens of millions a year on their hardware. Other vendors, I don't know, you could be correct.
Since I've been out working in the real world for a few years now, I've realized something that wasn't apparent to me at first: one of your dollars != one of your company's dollars. If you truly work at an organization with 100,000 employees, $6.7 million is pocket change.
Perl (also love it or hate it) was almost synonymous with website programming.
Love Perl for most anything, hate it for web "programming". There's a good reason it was synonymous with website programming. It's because there now exist more flexible, robust, easy-to-use platforms for web development.
Sun really doesn't want large coperations using the free version.
This isn't a worry for corporations. They don't care about open source, they don't care about cost. The name of the game is support. If there's no support, it's not going to fly.
I work for a not-for-profit company that qualifies Microsoft's charity licensing. I haven't ever seen the actual prices, but from what I hear, the per-seat costs for Office are less than even the highest-tiered volume licensing.
Kinda hard for me to fulfill my conquest of moving our mail away from Exchange.:-(
A $600 DLP projector on ebay will give you a very reasonable picture.
You're correct of course, but the reason I mentioned that one is because it's like 1/3 off the new retail price. I don't know what the target price is, but in the $5k range, that one is a steal.
Even though higher end DLP projectors are near or at CRT brightness levels (but for a pretty hefty premium)
The one mentioned above is 1000 ANSI lumens, 1400:1 contrast.
CRT's suck because they're huge and they have to be tweaked regularly to get the best picture
Amen to that. I have a rear-projection HDTV, and it's hell to maintain the picture. I can't imagine further multiplying the distance between the CRT and the screen.
Link to a Yahoo group, and their bandwidth is exceeded even before the story is posted. Niiiice...
The "homebrew" ones are a joke if you want something with a decent picture. And the contraption itself looks riduculous. Forget it.
There is a good deal on a refurbed DLP projector for about $3500 -- check gotapex.com (great site for deals). Read around for more info on what DLP is, but that and LCD are preferable to CRT projectors these days.
Anyway, you're more likely to get better information from someplace that deals directly with home theater equipment. The forum at Home Theater Spot has great information, despite their gestapo posting rules.
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I have no issue with the command-line program. That's fine. But the parent of my original comment posted about a GUI counterpart to the command-line version. I don't see the point.
Yeah. A GUI front-end for the comand-line order program. That would rule!
Or, you could just use any web browser and do it the normal way.
Sometimes people doing stuff just because they can is irritating.
Um. You realize that you can leave the wifi enabled and still use your own access point, right?
The First Rule of Program Optimization: Don't do it.
The Second Rule of Program Optimization -- For experts only: Don't do it yet.
-- Michael Jackson (not the molestor one)
I know running Linux is cool and all, but does anyone really spend $650-700 on a PDA? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm really curious.
offers a lot better control for the sys admin to lock down the OS (relative WinXP for example)
I know Linux systems can be pretty effectively locked down, but have you ever seen an XP system that's been locked down by someone who knows what they're doing? You can hardly breathe on it. It did a great job of foiling my former office mate who installed a filesharing client on his NT system and hosed his network connection. I heard him grumbling for days after they upgraded him to XP.
When I first saw "X800" I thought my eyes were missing "10" in there. I guess they figures 4 digits was enough and decided to start over.
Another thing -- who pays $400 for a video card? I understand being cutting edge, I guess I can just wait a little while until the price drops, even if it means not playing the very newest games. But kudos to those of you that do pay up -- you're driving the PC industry forward, realize it or not.
This tells us the obvious: that slashdot only talks about the bad things about Microsoft products.
Not saying they don't have their bad aspects, and that Linux and OSX (dude, Macs is not an OS) don't have their stronger suits. But look at where you're posting.
Unsurprisingly, this also works great for smelly sports gear that's washing machine safe.
You obviously don't play hockey.
I was going to say this same thing, thanks for saving me the time.
In other news, television, magazines, radio stations, newspapers, taxi cabs, and sporting events may soon have to turn to advertising to help cover costs.
but it's hardly fair to damn a whole distro based on one buggy machine, is it?
Works for Windows in a lot of cases, why not Fedora?
Anyone know exactly what the issues with SELinux by default were?
Perhaps it had something to do with problems experienced by people like me that just went with the default install, and were greeted with pages upon pages of security violations just trying to start init.
This particular book is currently out of stock there, but I just thought I'd mention one of my favorite sites, bookpool.com. This particular book costs 15% of the list ($6) less than Barnes and Noble. They have great service and fast shipping (often free if you purchase enough).
No affiliation whatsoever, just thought I'd share.
Anyway, I suspect that rather than blacklist bad people, I'd much preferto have the module tags be done as counted strings instead. It should be easy enough to do by just having the macro prepend a sizeof(xxxx)" thing or something.
Great idea, for this hack, anyway. Problem is, they'll come up with something else next time. I think this one really is up to the lawyers, unfortunately.
Actually, the place that disillusioned me has recently become my former employer. So things are looking up. But thanks for the good wishes. :-)
That first paragraph is cute and all, but you forget one important point: no one gives a shit. The good old days of profit sharing are gone, and no one really cares about saving a company money if it means that a) you're getting paid and b) the company isn't going out of business.
I'm not poorly educated, just disillusioned.
While I see your point, I respectfully disagree, at least in my situation. I recently started with an organization and am trying to get Linux integrated into their operations. I'm getting some machines together that just beg to run something completely ground-up like Gentoo. And I keep fighting, even though I'm never going to be able to sell it to upper management. Why? I can't sell them the idea of predictability. They need someone to blame when something goes wrong. So, much to my chagrin, Red Hat it is.
Mind you, this is a decent-sized organization, and their bread and butter runs on these systems. And BTW, you can get a bugfix practically overnight from a commercial vendor. There's a small catch though: that vendor is Sun and you spend tens of millions a year on their hardware. Other vendors, I don't know, you could be correct.
Since I've been out working in the real world for a few years now, I've realized something that wasn't apparent to me at first: one of your dollars != one of your company's dollars. If you truly work at an organization with 100,000 employees, $6.7 million is pocket change.
Perl (also love it or hate it) was almost synonymous with website programming.
Love Perl for most anything, hate it for web "programming". There's a good reason it was synonymous with website programming. It's because there now exist more flexible, robust, easy-to-use platforms for web development.
Sun really doesn't want large coperations using the free version.
This isn't a worry for corporations. They don't care about open source, they don't care about cost. The name of the game is support. If there's no support, it's not going to fly.
Sad, but true.
I work for a not-for-profit company that qualifies Microsoft's charity licensing. I haven't ever seen the actual prices, but from what I hear, the per-seat costs for Office are less than even the highest-tiered volume licensing.
:-(
Kinda hard for me to fulfill my conquest of moving our mail away from Exchange.
unless I win the lottery then I'm going with the Infocus SP7200 (~$5k)
Heh, thanks for backing me up, maybe without realizing it. The projector I mentioned for $3500 is the Infocus SP7200, rebadged as Toshiba.
A $600 DLP projector on ebay will give you a very reasonable picture.
You're correct of course, but the reason I mentioned that one is because it's like 1/3 off the new retail price. I don't know what the target price is, but in the $5k range, that one is a steal.
Even though higher end DLP projectors are near or at CRT brightness levels (but for a pretty hefty premium)
The one mentioned above is 1000 ANSI lumens, 1400:1 contrast.
CRT's suck because they're huge and they have to be tweaked regularly to get the best picture
Amen to that. I have a rear-projection HDTV, and it's hell to maintain the picture. I can't imagine further multiplying the distance between the CRT and the screen.
Link to a Yahoo group, and their bandwidth is exceeded even before the story is posted. Niiiice...
The "homebrew" ones are a joke if you want something with a decent picture. And the contraption itself looks riduculous. Forget it.
There is a good deal on a refurbed DLP projector for about $3500 -- check gotapex.com (great site for deals). Read around for more info on what DLP is, but that and LCD are preferable to CRT projectors these days.
Anyway, you're more likely to get better information from someplace that deals directly with home theater equipment. The forum at Home Theater Spot has great information, despite their gestapo posting rules.
a) I was only kidding.
b) Some of those "cracked down upon" were most certainly crackers.