I'm the admin at a modestly-sized education-related organization (phew!) and we decided on 7.3 for our web, e-mail, DNS, and backup file servers. For us it was a nice mix of:
available documentation, including security-related material,
OEM support for our hardware (Compaq),
stability,
familiarity among the tech masses (we have a fairly high turnover rate),
and keeping it up to date is easy enough between freshrpms and making our own RPM packages
While I run Slackware, Debian, and Gentoo at home, Red Hat just made more sense for the workplace. And in my experience there's not much difference from 7.3 -> 8.0 -> 9 except when run as a workstation, so you might as well stick with something a little more tried-and-true.
As far as the server versions are concerned, they provide the ability to support your favorite "free" software with your company's capital, and also someone "accountable" if something goes wrong. A lot of companies won't use FOSS because there's no one to sue in the event of a catastrophe.
I updated my 8.1 install from the current branch, including kernel 2.4.20 and GCC 3.2 and everything worked fine. Just make sure you update your solibs and pkgtool before anything else.
Just out of curiousity, do you update by hand or using some sort of script?
Let's say I'm a fairly experienced Linux user and part-time admin willing to front $20 for Solaris 8 and give it a try. Is there a good book or tutorial out there to get me started and help explain some of the differences between a Linux and Solaris?
Guitarists have similar problems, although mostly when learning. Specifically on acoustic... barre chords require a good amount of strength and endurance and can reduce your wrist to a writhing mass of pain in short order. I've been playing for two years and I still can't make it straight through "And I Love Her" without stretching my chording hand.:-)
It really depends on the person, though. Some people naturally have stronger hands than others and can handle the strain. After a time you build a callous on the edge of your finger and don't have to press quite as hard... that helps. Electric guitarists don't have a lot to worry about because the neck is so thin and the strings are so light. Just my two cents.
With regards to typing, I've found the thing to watch out for is arching. Don't rest your wrists at the base of the keyboard because then you have to arch up and over to reach the keys (unless you have big hands). I try to elevate my hands while I'm typing to keep that part of my wrists straight. Armrests on your chair help. At least use the little stand-ups under the keyboard for that 15 degree angle, it helps immensely. And take breaks periodically... stretch your arms and back. Get away from the computer -- take a quick walk or something. That also helps your eyes.
Filtering spam does absolutely no good. Even if it prevents you from seeing it, the sender remains at large and no action is taken towards removing the "spam threat."
You can register at SpamCop for a free reporting account. This simple tool parses the header from your spam, gathers information about hosts, admins, and open relays, and reports said information to said admins. All you have to do is forward your spam to the email address they give you, then follow the link they send back. It's very easy, if you know what you're doing (ie, you know a bit about mail).
How does it work? By reporting open relays to router admins, business solicitating sites on personal web hosts to server admins, and provider-specific (AOL, etc.) TOS violations.
Testimonial: I have an account that I use for personal correspondence that used to be spammed about 1-2 times per week. I also have a Yahoo! account that I give to the public at large... that used to be spammed 5-10 times per DAY, OVER AND ABOVE what Yahoo! filters automatically into the Bulk Mail folder. I've been using SpamCop for about three months now, and I'm down to 1-2 spams per MONTH on my personal account, and 1-2 spams per day on my Yahoo! account. Not bad, eh?
So it takes some effort and some time, but it's far worth it. Filtering is the wrong way to go.
I do kind of agree, but there has been, and still is a niche for Nintendo for the HS/Univ ages. I know that my friends and I played Goldeneye and Super Smash Bros. straight through high school and onward. We're in our 2nd year of college now, getting set to tackle Melee. I know from word of mouth (and various Smash Bros. tourneys) that this type of console behaviour is not typical, but not atypical either.
The situation in Chicagoland is not so good. I'm connected through the Romeoville/Joliet hub, which services a large fraction of the south suburbs, and absolutely nothing is working. My friend in Bolingbrook (a bit farther north) is having a similar experience. The cable light on the modem is out, the mail servers report my account as inactive, et al.
The shitty thing is, I just migrated my entire family over to @home from mediaone not two months ago. Just as we're starting to return to normalcy, this happens. I'll be reconfiguring computers and informing friends and clients about YAEA (yet another email address) in short order. Bitch bitch bitch, I know, but is it too much to ask for some stable connectivity for $45/mo.?
Anyone else on Chicagoland cable feeling my pain?:-)
Are there any mirrors of the AtheOS downloads? Every time I make to install it from an @home connection, the files download halfway then bork. Anybody with similar experience?
And why do the AtheOS parrots look disturbingly like the ViewSonic parrots?
Also, has anyone else noticed that we are getting more and more in front of movies
these days? I went and saw K-Pax last weekend. 23 minutes of commercials and
previews. Monsters was not as bad, but was still up over 17 minutes of previews.
By the time the movie starts, I frequently have forgetten what I came to see.
I don't care for the commercials too much, but I've come to treat the previews as the best part of the movie. I derived more pleasure from seeing the Ep1 trailers than the movie itself, just because it gets my adrenaline and imagination going crazy.
Ep2 looks like it will be good, if for no other reason than Liam Neelson has a scene. Also, the impression I got from the Harry Potter trailer was not good. Terrible, actually, even as a children's movie. Granted, I haven't read the books, but what the heck is the plot? Kid displays odd properties, gets sent to wizard's school, nefarious hijinks ensue? Oh brother...
Re:A great example of open-source at work.
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I realize I might be starting a flame war, but you can't really say that. If you're just going to look at the GUI, then Microsoft didn't change all that much from 95 to XP... and besides, that's 6 years (late 1995 to late 2001) not 5.
If you're going to look beyond the GUI then you can't ignore the development of the Windows NT kernel, which begat the WinXP kernel. So I think it's fair to say that Microsoft developed a stable graphical operating system from the ground up (ignoring BSD code, etc.) in 10-15 years, versus KDE developing a stable graphical user interface in 5 years. =)
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Oh yes, that was the best cartoon growing up. They were alway chasing after the TriForce. It was a riot!
My childhood consisted of: Play Super Mario Bros. 3 (remember the racoon tail and frog suit?), play Zelda II, take a break to watch the cartoon, beg parents for Super Nintendo, repeat...
I installed it on XP RC2 (so I don't know if it's a global thing, or specific because I was running XP) and it made me sign up for a Netscape.net account before I could use the software. Maybe there was a way to circumvent it, but I was too in-shock at the time think about it.
It's the same exact thing as Passport, just Netscape instead of Microsoft.
On the downside, my play Linux webserver is reduced to worthlessness (not really, but my friend who's sites I host will not be happy when he reads this article) because it can no longer serve websites on port 80. I suppose we could play around with ports and serve pages...
On the upside, I am now downloading (on average) at between 300-500MB/sec from a wide variety of sites as opposed to 50-120 before the filtering. That's insane.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm the admin at a modestly-sized education-related organization (phew!) and we decided on 7.3 for our web, e-mail, DNS, and backup file servers. For us it was a nice mix of:
While I run Slackware, Debian, and Gentoo at home, Red Hat just made more sense for the workplace. And in my experience there's not much difference from 7.3 -> 8.0 -> 9 except when run as a workstation, so you might as well stick with something a little more tried-and-true.
As far as the server versions are concerned, they provide the ability to support your favorite "free" software with your company's capital, and also someone "accountable" if something goes wrong. A lot of companies won't use FOSS because there's no one to sue in the event of a catastrophe.
"i mean, if you're going to chose a language, why the heck not chose tolkiens elvish!?"
I don't understand why people learn Spanish instead of Italian... Che male! But it just goes to show that what you think is cool only goes so far...
BURNINATING THE PEOPLE!!
Oh wait, that's not funny.
Oh, sorry, I meant: GONDOR!!!
I updated my 8.1 install from the current branch, including kernel 2.4.20 and GCC 3.2 and everything worked fine. Just make sure you update your solibs and pkgtool before anything else.
Just out of curiousity, do you update by hand or using some sort of script?
Was anybody here in a Yserbius clan called TnT?
Just curious.
Let's say I'm a fairly experienced Linux user and part-time admin willing to front $20 for Solaris 8 and give it a try. Is there a good book or tutorial out there to get me started and help explain some of the differences between a Linux and Solaris?
...or does Gentoo sound like something I stepped in?
Guitarists have similar problems, although mostly when learning. Specifically on acoustic... barre chords require a good amount of strength and endurance and can reduce your wrist to a writhing mass of pain in short order. I've been playing for two years and I still can't make it straight through "And I Love Her" without stretching my chording hand. :-)
It really depends on the person, though. Some people naturally have stronger hands than others and can handle the strain. After a time you build a callous on the edge of your finger and don't have to press quite as hard... that helps. Electric guitarists don't have a lot to worry about because the neck is so thin and the strings are so light. Just my two cents.
With regards to typing, I've found the thing to watch out for is arching. Don't rest your wrists at the base of the keyboard because then you have to arch up and over to reach the keys (unless you have big hands). I try to elevate my hands while I'm typing to keep that part of my wrists straight. Armrests on your chair help. At least use the little stand-ups under the keyboard for that 15 degree angle, it helps immensely. And take breaks periodically... stretch your arms and back. Get away from the computer -- take a quick walk or something. That also helps your eyes.
Filtering spam does absolutely no good. Even if it prevents you from seeing it, the sender remains at large and no action is taken towards removing the "spam threat."
You can register at SpamCop for a free reporting account. This simple tool parses the header from your spam, gathers information about hosts, admins, and open relays, and reports said information to said admins. All you have to do is forward your spam to the email address they give you, then follow the link they send back. It's very easy, if you know what you're doing (ie, you know a bit about mail).
How does it work? By reporting open relays to router admins, business solicitating sites on personal web hosts to server admins, and provider-specific (AOL, etc.) TOS violations.
Testimonial: I have an account that I use for personal correspondence that used to be spammed about 1-2 times per week. I also have a Yahoo! account that I give to the public at large... that used to be spammed 5-10 times per DAY, OVER AND ABOVE what Yahoo! filters automatically into the Bulk Mail folder. I've been using SpamCop for about three months now, and I'm down to 1-2 spams per MONTH on my personal account, and 1-2 spams per day on my Yahoo! account. Not bad, eh?
So it takes some effort and some time, but it's far worth it. Filtering is the wrong way to go.
Thanks for your time. =)
Someone mentioned in a reply to an earlier article that the casting for Boromir was poorly done, because the actor really wanted the role of Aragorn.
:)
Well, having just finished reading Two Towers, I'd like to point out that Boromir himself was jealous of Aragorn's status.
The casting seems appropriate then, doesn't it?
I do kind of agree, but there has been, and still is a niche for Nintendo for the HS/Univ ages. I know that my friends and I played Goldeneye and Super Smash Bros. straight through high school and onward. We're in our 2nd year of college now, getting set to tackle Melee. I know from word of mouth (and various Smash Bros. tourneys) that this type of console behaviour is not typical, but not atypical either.
Over 2500 hours logged in SSB can't be wrong!
The situation in Chicagoland is not so good. I'm connected through the Romeoville/Joliet hub, which services a large fraction of the south suburbs, and absolutely nothing is working. My friend in Bolingbrook (a bit farther north) is having a similar experience. The cable light on the modem is out, the mail servers report my account as inactive, et al.
:-)
The shitty thing is, I just migrated my entire family over to @home from mediaone not two months ago. Just as we're starting to return to normalcy, this happens. I'll be reconfiguring computers and informing friends and clients about YAEA (yet another email address) in short order. Bitch bitch bitch, I know, but is it too much to ask for some stable connectivity for $45/mo.?
Anyone else on Chicagoland cable feeling my pain?
Are there any mirrors of the AtheOS downloads? Every time I make to install it from an @home connection, the files download halfway then bork. Anybody with similar experience?
And why do the AtheOS parrots look disturbingly like the ViewSonic parrots?
Also, has anyone else noticed that we are getting more and more in front of movies these days? I went and saw K-Pax last weekend. 23 minutes of commercials and previews. Monsters was not as bad, but was still up over 17 minutes of previews. By the time the movie starts, I frequently have forgetten what I came to see.
I don't care for the commercials too much, but I've come to treat the previews as the best part of the movie. I derived more pleasure from seeing the Ep1 trailers than the movie itself, just because it gets my adrenaline and imagination going crazy.
Ep2 looks like it will be good, if for no other reason than Liam Neelson has a scene. Also, the impression I got from the Harry Potter trailer was not good. Terrible, actually, even as a children's movie. Granted, I haven't read the books, but what the heck is the plot? Kid displays odd properties, gets sent to wizard's school, nefarious hijinks ensue? Oh brother...
I realize I might be starting a flame war, but you can't really say that. If you're just going to look at the GUI, then Microsoft didn't change all that much from 95 to XP... and besides, that's 6 years (late 1995 to late 2001) not 5.
If you're going to look beyond the GUI then you can't ignore the development of the Windows NT kernel, which begat the WinXP kernel. So I think it's fair to say that Microsoft developed a stable graphical operating system from the ground up (ignoring BSD code, etc.) in 10-15 years, versus KDE developing a stable graphical user interface in 5 years. =)
It could be used to power the fan. Oh the implications...
Gee, can you tell that it's been a while since I've posted...
The previous article [satirewire.com] is much funnier (imho), and probably the best I've read from satirewire in a while.
Three reasons:
1) We spend so much time cleaning up after them.
2) We rely on each other for assistance; this open discussion can help a lot.
3) It's funny. (Read: Instead of firebombing Redmond, we're cracking jokes.)
Oh yes, that was the best cartoon growing up. They were alway chasing after the TriForce. It was a riot!
My childhood consisted of: Play Super Mario Bros. 3 (remember the racoon tail and frog suit?), play Zelda II, take a break to watch the cartoon, beg parents for Super Nintendo, repeat...
Oh, and excuuuuuuse me, Princess!
...big f'n slashdot!
See, size does matter.
I love reading the ChangeLogs. Oftentimes they can be quite humorous:
// min(-400, 3) == 3 // ??
- David Miller: undo poll() limit braindamage
This would have helped Bush during the election.
- David Woodhouse: up_and_exit -> complete_and_exit
Up and at'em, Dave!
- me: make return value from do_try_to_free_pages() meaningful
Do try for meaningful return values.
- David Miller: "min()/max()" cleanups. Understands signs and sizes.
Ouch.
- Kevin Fleming: more disks the HPT controller doesn't like
And you have to wonder about this one...
- Ben LaHaise: use down_read, not down_write() in map_user_kiobuf.
We don't change the mappings, we just read them.
Anyone installed Netscape 6.1 yet?
I installed it on XP RC2 (so I don't know if it's a global thing, or specific because I was running XP) and it made me sign up for a Netscape.net account before I could use the software. Maybe there was a way to circumvent it, but I was too in-shock at the time think about it.
It's the same exact thing as Passport, just Netscape instead of Microsoft.
On the downside, my play Linux webserver is reduced to worthlessness (not really, but my friend who's sites I host will not be happy when he reads this article) because it can no longer serve websites on port 80. I suppose we could play around with ports and serve pages...
On the upside, I am now downloading (on average) at between 300-500MB/sec from a wide variety of sites as opposed to 50-120 before the filtering. That's insane.