7.3 has a few things missing, and I'm still dreaming of the day RH ship a distro which does everything I need out of the box.
This release comes without linuxconf. While linuxconf did have its faults, and apacheconf, bindconf et al look very nice under xwindows, I need something I can admin remotely with a modem over ssh. While I do apache and bind with a text editor, it's nice to have a gui for admining user accounts, rc scripts etc.
Apache 2.0 came too late to QC in this release. I'm half tempted to build my own, with PHP, mod_bandwidth etc, but I'd rather stay in sync with RH. Multithreaded webserver looks really handy for persistent pooled SQL connections.
Analog is something my customers always like for looking at http logs. It used to be on the powertools disk. Remember powertools?
At least we now have a system with posfix available in the default install. Guess I will install 7.3, and do a kickstart script to grab stuff that's missing.
Linuxconf must be out of it by now, which is a real shame.
Apacheconf and Bindconf look very pretty, but if I'm not running X they're as much use as a porkpie at a Jewish picnic. Even running something over https would be slightly better, though I always liked linuxconf/controlpanel over ssh. So how are we meant to deal with sendmail now? RTFM? I could die tommorow and life is too short.
Which brings me to the next bit. Where is Powertools? I want Linuxconf, Analog, Libsafe etc.
But there's some good stuff now, like getting to choose between Postfix and Sendmail. I made my choice a while back, but this makes installation easier. Also, nice to see a kernel beyond 2.4.9. Once they got to 2.4.9v.31 I thought they were going to fork completly.
Considering how poorly they've handled their acquisiton of Netscape, this would certainly be bad news for Red Hat. I'm sure any 'hardcore' Linux users would simply choose another distro (im sure many already have), I can also see many companies no longer wanting to use Redhat due to this. IBM, HP, etc the companies associated with Redhat right now, all have a hardline tough as nails tech image. AOL, on the otherhand is known by everyone to be the lowest common denominator of internet service providers.
Then again, iPlanet isn't seen as AOL by most serious Java people.
You can actually ask which porgrams you want on your disk for a few cents more. Not just the Adobe font collection, which is retails for 1000s, but serious software like Oracle. Personally my fave place (just to look at, not to buy, honest officer) was Panthip Plaza in Bangkok, which does occasionally get raided by the police. 5 floors of dodgy CDs, where Windows retails for the same price as Linux.
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Operation Grapes of Wrath 1996, in which while attempting to take out Hezbollah guerrilas in Lebanon, Israel bombed a UN coumpound, killing over 100 civilians who were sheltering there. During all this a (US supplied) drone was circling, directing artillery. There's an account here.
This is a pretty wierd thing to run an article on. I've been to trade shows where you can buy this kit - pictures here. And I've seen some of the kit in active use in town and cities in the West Bank, and I don't even know if I can find words to describe how strange I find civilians spouting opinions can be. Sorry Katz, some kinds of journalism you can't do virtually.
Under existing Israeli anti-terror laws, they can be held for 6 months without trial. Administrative Detention can be renewed for a further 6 months with the signature of a judge. Though as they aren't Arabs the police probably will be lenient.
What's the point of using XHTML on MSN? Looking at their code it's full of tags etc. Surley the promise of xhtml/xml was the ability to separate content from formating - to get rid of using tables for layout using decent stylesheet support. If you're going to continue to use tables for layout you may as well keep backward compatibility by using HTML 4.01.
Also had it at the London college of Printing. They have these banner ads on login screens on the public access machines in the library. Advertising some dot-coms whose names I already forgot. Ironically, they have appaling computing facilities. God knows how much they are being paid.
Aren't the US looking for control? See this article at the guardian , which says that the US has plans, involving installing 86 year old King Zahir Shah as ruler.
Whenever a tragedy happens in the US, someone has to be to blame. Sure, it can't be the personal responsiblity of the direct perpertrators. Must be guns/music/dressing in black. Why do I get the feeling the x-files is far too popular?
They played this quite a bit during the 91 Gulf War in London for some reason. Read Albert Camus "L'etranger" if you really want to know what the words are about.
Anyone else noticed this? US policy favors smart bombs over smart soldiers, signals intelligence (Carnivore type stuff, see janes analisis), balistic missle defence over convertional (patriot style) measures.
Rear Admiral Kathleen Turner, who works on Star Wars II, said yesterday (I'm gatecrashing an arms fair) that "Threats come from many sources" and that a balistic defence should be a part of US defence. She did cut her talk short in light of WTC. Wonder how many people in the US actually speak Arabic, and how many of those work for the govt. in relavant fields. This goes for the UK too (my country), that as we speak English we never bother to learn other languages. When I'm working in the West Bank I find almost everyone - except Jewish settlers - speaks 3 languages, Arabic, Hebrew and English. Then there are a lot of Christian schools in the area who teach French, Spanish, Greek, Latin etc.
Stable releases
kernel 2.4.1 with ReiserFS
apache 1.2.17
Software you always have to install by hand Postfix, or something easier to configure than Sendmail Cyrus IMAP proftp webmail software - my fave is squirrelmail mailing list manager like majordomo libsafe analog for going through webserver logs
This would be nice tux 2.0 for the fastest out of the box webserver ever libraries and compilers which work
We had a few words to say when the legislation was going through.
http://www.ripserve.com/rip/ Basically, they can't use any of the evidence in court, most of the government's intelligence targets are exempt, and honest companies will end up paying. But at least we get to sniff staff email - I thought that was sysadmin's job. With governments like this... No, it's been said already.
Obliging OEMs to pay for a MS liscence, regardless of wether or not an MS OS is needed, is illegal in the US. Misrosoft paid $155 million to find that one out. (Caldera vs MS 1996)
Interesting question wether its OK to just ask. This kind of thing, combined with Microsoft's "Innovation" campaign, show just how much they've lost their way. No, buying Hotmail, DOS, Explorer, PowerPoint, and ASP is hardly innovative. Nor is defending a monopoly. How many first rate coders do they have now?
Remember the AOL-Netscape deal? All AOL really wanted was Netscape's customer list. they were hardly quick to support Navigator on the the AOL connection disk. Look at all the eyeballs they got with Netcenter though.
Similarly, Sun will want this deal so they have customers using their kit in low-end web serving again. They want the customers, they're quite keen on the "for dummies" web interface, and the boxes are pretty. (They'd still look nice with an embedded SPARC chip though.) It will be interesting to see how much they end up keeping. My bets are on Solaris relacing Linux, Java replacing Perl for admin, with Apache being the only constant. Netscape is too expensive for this kit.
OS X comes w/apache 1.3.12. You set it up with a similar interface to the web sharing control panel under OS 9. The problem with Apple's version is the modlules it comes with - while webdav is there, there's no mod_perl, no php, and no mod_ssl. God knows how you'd add them, I'd be happier just compiling the whole thing from scratch. Tenon's value added is mostly from the perl/cgi it ships. Htdig, a webmail client, and a web based admin setup.
Not sure what their bind distribution is like. OS X comes with bind and sendmail, but you'll have to work out netinfo to get wither to work properly as netinfo overrides the hostname.
You can choose UFS or HFS+. HFS+ already has support for unix style permissions. The only "significant" filenames are the . files, like.htaccess. Folders can be executable (i.e. they can call executable programs), which means you can have a folder with 3 executable resouces for x86, PPC and Sparc, with all the libraries/multilingual versions contained together. Just like next. No more looking though/usr/lib trying to work out if...
It seems they've got rid of those Solaris mailservers they had back in July. Anyone heard of Microsoft SMTPSVC?
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According to my calculations a 20 million user liscence for Exchange costs around $23 billion. Maybe they do a volume discount.
Ironic that while Apple have opensourced QuickTime server, and ported it to Linux, they havn't produced a player. Windows Media Player is a nice client app, but just think how much money they make from liscencing their server streams. No mistake, MS already have their next revenue stream in sight, and it's the net. Not the clients, but the servers.
I'm meant to be a moderator today but I just can't keep quiet about this one.
Microsoft has not been tried for attempting to dominate the server market yet. This is way overdue. While they haven't got round to integrating IIS and Expolrer yet (just wait for.NET) they've been up to some fun tricks anyway:
NT Workstation/NT Server/Netscape server IP row. Microsoft limited scalability in the NT Workstation IP stack after customers bought NT Workstation to use with Netscape's web server. By forcing customers to buy NT Server with "free" IIS, cost of NT/Netscape server combo rose sharply. And why would anyone need another webserver if they had IIS anyway?
Samba Kerebos row. This one is in the past, but Jeremy Alison and the Samaba crew were very upset that Microsoft were denying them access to a formerly open protocol used by Windows 2000.
Netware. Whatever happened to them? I lost track after Microsoft intoduced one way directory migration tools with Windows 2000.
Java. Remember that?
Pricing and licencing irregularities (see here for example).
The net belongs to everyone and it's good to see the EU stand up and say so.
Grrr. Took me ages to find. Try ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test/rpm-4.0-0.62.i386.r pm. Worked Ok for me from 3.something. You'll have lots of libraries to update.
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7.3 has a few things missing, and I'm still dreaming of the day RH ship a distro which does everything I need out of the box.
This release comes without linuxconf. While linuxconf did have its faults, and apacheconf, bindconf et al look very nice under xwindows, I need something I can admin remotely with a modem over ssh. While I do apache and bind with a text editor, it's nice to have a gui for admining user accounts, rc scripts etc.
Apache 2.0 came too late to QC in this release. I'm half tempted to build my own, with PHP, mod_bandwidth etc, but I'd rather stay in sync with RH. Multithreaded webserver looks really handy for persistent pooled SQL connections.
Analog is something my customers always like for looking at http logs. It used to be on the powertools disk. Remember powertools?
At least we now have a system with posfix available in the default install. Guess I will install 7.3, and do a kickstart script to grab stuff that's missing.
Linuxconf must be out of it by now, which is a real shame.
Apacheconf and Bindconf look very pretty, but if I'm not running X they're as much use as a porkpie at a Jewish picnic. Even running something over https would be slightly better, though I always liked linuxconf/controlpanel over ssh. So how are we meant to deal with sendmail now? RTFM? I could die tommorow and life is too short.
Which brings me to the next bit. Where is Powertools? I want Linuxconf, Analog, Libsafe etc.
But there's some good stuff now, like getting to choose between Postfix and Sendmail. I made my choice a while back, but this makes installation easier. Also, nice to see a kernel beyond 2.4.9. Once they got to 2.4.9v.31 I thought they were going to fork completly.
Considering how poorly they've handled their acquisiton of Netscape, this would certainly be bad news for Red Hat. I'm sure any 'hardcore' Linux users would simply choose another distro (im sure many already have), I can also see many companies no longer wanting to use Redhat due to this. IBM, HP, etc the companies associated with Redhat right now, all have a hardline tough as nails tech image. AOL, on the otherhand is known by everyone to be the lowest common denominator of internet service providers.
Then again, iPlanet isn't seen as AOL by most serious Java people.
You can actually ask which porgrams you want on your disk for a few cents more. Not just the Adobe font collection, which is retails for 1000s, but serious software like Oracle. Personally my fave place (just to look at, not to buy, honest officer) was Panthip Plaza in Bangkok, which does occasionally get raided by the police. 5 floors of dodgy CDs, where Windows retails for the same price as Linux.
Operation Grapes of Wrath 1996, in which while attempting to take out Hezbollah guerrilas in Lebanon, Israel bombed a UN coumpound, killing over 100 civilians who were sheltering there. During all this a (US supplied) drone was circling, directing artillery. There's an account here.
This is a pretty wierd thing to run an article on. I've been to trade shows where you can buy this kit - pictures here. And I've seen some of the kit in active use in town and cities in the West Bank, and I don't even know if I can find words to describe how strange I find civilians spouting opinions can be. Sorry Katz, some kinds of journalism you can't do virtually.
Under existing Israeli anti-terror laws, they can be held for 6 months without trial. Administrative Detention can be renewed for a further 6 months with the signature of a judge. Though as they aren't Arabs the police probably will be lenient.
What's the point of using XHTML on MSN? Looking at their code it's full of tags etc. Surley the promise of xhtml/xml was the ability to separate content from formating - to get rid of using tables for layout using decent stylesheet support. If you're going to continue to use tables for layout you may as well keep backward compatibility by using HTML 4.01.
Also had it at the London college of Printing. They have these banner ads on login screens on the public access machines in the library. Advertising some dot-coms whose names I already forgot. Ironically, they have appaling computing facilities. God knows how much they are being paid.
Aren't the US looking for control? See this article at the guardian , which says that the US has plans, involving installing 86 year old King Zahir Shah as ruler.
Whenever a tragedy happens in the US, someone has to be to blame. Sure, it can't be the personal responsiblity of the direct perpertrators. Must be guns/music/dressing in black. Why do I get the feeling the x-files is far too popular?
They played this quite a bit during the 91 Gulf War in London for some reason. Read Albert Camus "L'etranger" if you really want to know what the words are about.
Anyone else noticed this? US policy favors smart bombs over smart soldiers, signals intelligence (Carnivore type stuff, see janes analisis), balistic missle defence over convertional (patriot style) measures.
Rear Admiral Kathleen Turner, who works on Star Wars II, said yesterday (I'm gatecrashing an arms fair) that "Threats come from many sources" and that a balistic defence should be a part of US defence. She did cut her talk short in light of WTC. Wonder how many people in the US actually speak Arabic, and how many of those work for the govt. in relavant fields. This goes for the UK too (my country), that as we speak English we never bother to learn other languages. When I'm working in the West Bank I find almost everyone - except Jewish settlers - speaks 3 languages, Arabic, Hebrew and English. Then there are a lot of Christian schools in the area who teach French, Spanish, Greek, Latin etc.
Just an observation from a news photographer.
Stable releases
kernel 2.4.1 with ReiserFS
apache 1.2.17
Software you always have to install by hand
Postfix, or something easier to configure than Sendmail
Cyrus IMAP
proftp
webmail software - my fave is squirrelmail
mailing list manager like majordomo
libsafe
analog for going through webserver logs
This would be nice
tux 2.0 for the fastest out of the box webserver ever
libraries and compilers which work
We had a few words to say when the legislation was going through.
http://www.ripserve.com/rip/
Basically, they can't use any of the evidence in court, most of the government's intelligence targets are exempt, and honest companies will end up paying. But at least we get to sniff staff email - I thought that was sysadmin's job. With governments like this... No, it's been said already.
Obliging OEMs to pay for a MS liscence, regardless of wether or not an MS OS is needed, is illegal in the US. Misrosoft paid $155 million to find that one out. (Caldera vs MS 1996)
Interesting question wether its OK to just ask. This kind of thing, combined with Microsoft's "Innovation" campaign, show just how much they've lost their way. No, buying Hotmail, DOS, Explorer, PowerPoint, and ASP is hardly innovative. Nor is defending a monopoly. How many first rate coders do they have now?
Remember the AOL-Netscape deal? All AOL really wanted was Netscape's customer list. they were hardly quick to support Navigator on the the AOL connection disk. Look at all the eyeballs they got with Netcenter though.
Similarly, Sun will want this deal so they have customers using their kit in low-end web serving again. They want the customers, they're quite keen on the "for dummies" web interface, and the boxes are pretty. (They'd still look nice with an embedded SPARC chip though.) It will be interesting to see how much they end up keeping. My bets are on Solaris relacing Linux, Java replacing Perl for admin, with Apache being the only constant. Netscape is too expensive for this kit.
OS X comes w/apache 1.3.12. You set it up with a similar interface to the web sharing control panel under OS 9. The problem with Apple's version is the modlules it comes with - while webdav is there, there's no mod_perl, no php, and no mod_ssl. God knows how you'd add them, I'd be happier just compiling the whole thing from scratch. Tenon's value added is mostly from the perl/cgi it ships. Htdig, a webmail client, and a web based admin setup.
Not sure what their bind distribution is like. OS X comes with bind and sendmail, but you'll have to work out netinfo to get wither to work properly as netinfo overrides the hostname.
Yup, the BBC has been asked to stop its news webcasts because there might be something about the Olympics. Details here:
t oday/index.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/europe/europe
You can choose UFS or HFS+. HFS+ already has support for unix style permissions. The only "significant" filenames are the . files, like .htaccess. Folders can be executable (i.e. they can call executable programs), which means you can have a folder with 3 executable resouces for x86, PPC and Sparc, with all the libraries/multilingual versions contained together. Just like next. No more looking though /usr/lib trying to work out if...
Yup. They've used the Debian system.
Ironic that while Apple have opensourced QuickTime server, and ported it to Linux, they havn't produced a player. Windows Media Player is a nice client app, but just think how much money they make from liscencing their server streams. No mistake, MS already have their next revenue stream in sight, and it's the net. Not the clients, but the servers.
Microsoft has not been tried for attempting to dominate the server market yet. This is way overdue. While they haven't got round to integrating IIS and Expolrer yet (just wait for
- NT Workstation/NT Server/Netscape server IP row. Microsoft limited scalability in the NT Workstation IP stack after customers bought NT Workstation to use with Netscape's web server. By forcing customers to buy NT Server with "free" IIS, cost of NT/Netscape server combo rose sharply. And why would anyone need another webserver if they had IIS anyway?
The net belongs to everyone and it's good to see the EU stand up and say so.Samba Kerebos row. This one is in the past, but Jeremy Alison and the Samaba crew were very upset that Microsoft were denying them access to a formerly open protocol used by Windows 2000.
Netware. Whatever happened to them? I lost track after Microsoft intoduced one way directory migration tools with Windows 2000.
Java. Remember that?
Pricing and licencing irregularities (see here for example).
True bollocks. When there are 2 Windows 2000's, one by Microsoft and one by Office Corps., can we count bugs that occur on both twice too?
Looking at that list how many times do you see the same wu-ftp problems come up? Do they teach journalists to count these days?
Grrr. Took me ages to find. Try ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test/rpm-4.0-0.62.i386.r pm. Worked Ok for me from 3.something. You'll have lots of libraries to update.