if i was to get a crayon, close my eyes and scribble randomly on a piece of paper like a two year old learning to draw, i would have put more thought into design than went into the linux IP stack.
I have the same experience in running my mission critical gateway machine, an Intel Pentium Pro 180 that is collocated in my parents' basement running linux. You might scoff at my use of the term "mission critical", but you don't want to see how mad mum gets when she can't read her recipes!
That machine does samba, apache, printing, xdm, and NAT. It is always responsive, although it does only serve three people. I could see it powering a large corporation (around 200 users) with a good administrator that keeps open source bloatware away from it.
I refuse to run software like KDE / Gnome (aren't these the same now on redhat?), mozilla, vim, and openoffice. I have ensured that my users are happy with twm, lynx, and emacs - with some hacked up training courses I put together.
Tim, you are wrong, and that explains why you have been moderated into oblivion. I find it so much easier to drive across town and spend NZ$30 on a CD than to download it for free using one of the many P2P apps available. I am sure that the vast majority of slashdotters would hold the same opinion.
just to add to what i said above, slashbots are never original. after all, they idolise people whose sole purpose in life is to imitate (as best they can) microsoft and apple usability innovations on a 30 year old dead horse.
It has come to my attention that slashdot has posted a story with the keywords "windows 98", "volvo", and "safety".
Your "joke" was the first with a funny moderation on it that i saw. I would like to take the opportunity to address the rest of the slashbots and say "all the rest of the windows 98 BSOD jokes are going to suck".
They are not original, and they aren't funny anymore. You are flogging a dead horse. Slashbots are one trick ponies.
I'd like to see linux circa 1998 try and power a car.
Could a giant arise amidst today's insecure and constantly patched linux world that could hold the title of Unbreakable Linux? I doubt it, but it will be fun to try, what are your thoughts?
I've been reading slashdot for 4 years now, and I thought that only Microsoft (or M$ as its known here) had security issues and required the system to be constantly patched.
I just bought myself an athlon XP 1800+, and a day later i am regretting it. AMD markets these processors as 1800Mhz CPUs, when in actual fact they are just 1500Mhz CPUs.
Intel clearly labels the P4 line with its true clock speed. No false advertising there! Just think that a P4 2.2Ghz machine is 50% faster than an athlon 1.5Ghz, now for the same price! Not only that, I don't have to worry about my heatsink falling off!
it costs money to provide data. ISPs that used to offer flat rate 128k up/down DSL in New Zealand have realised that it costs far too much to support P2P piracy and simply allow people an amount of international data. For example, I get 10GB a month.
The 1% that article quotes are subsidised by the other 99%. I, for one, don't want to subsidise them.
I don't understand how Chris Barton can say that P2P users are driving the Internet, and how these people will drive the knowledge economy in years to come.
They are stealing copyrighted media. This is illegal. They should go to somewhere like China where there is no copyright law, and see how they like that knowledge economy.
just to add to my most excellent first post, in New Zealand I am signed up to a DSL plan. We get 10GB international traffic per month for $35, and then pay between 2c and 6c per MB after that. This is a 128kbps up/down service.
To make sure I dont go over the limit I do several things. I read slashdot in light mode. I don't use P2P, and I don't download 650mb ISOs for every damn release.
Capped bandwidth reduces the cost of the service to ordinary users by not making the rest of us pay for what is probably P2P piracy.
YES, thats a FANTASTIC idea, it'll be just like the submissions to the DoJ regarding microsoft, with the content primarily consisting of the not-very-insightful "I Hate Microsoft".
Please don't go writing ANYTHING to ANYONE about this.
One thing I have noticed lately is that the janitors do not update the front page even when obvious spelling and grammar mistakes are pointed out.
Perhaps the janitors are trolling their readers by posting these "articles" and then watching how many people bite at the spelling and grammar.
I've noticed that the posts that point out corrections are moderated as offtopic, encouraging many more readers to point out the same errors as they do not see that it has been done before.
I have just bought a Linksys WAP11 for US$149. I was not impressed with it initially as the access point would go to sleep if there was no wireless traffic on the link (such as what happens when you turn your laptop off for the night) requiring a reset in the morning.
Linksys have a beta firmware available, and the support is reasonably good if you can actually find the appropriate forum. The only reason that I have my WAP11 working well is due to the advice offered in here
there has also been some discussion regarding the point in using 128-bit WEP. Replace WEP with IPSec. I like the linksys because it does everything it needs to and does not include useless features such as modem ports and firewalls that are better done by using a seperate computer acting as a gateway.
granted that it is the microsoft network, but it is still the Internet.
Microsoft is blocking browsers that can render the page correctly and spouting bullshit that their browser is more standards compliant.
Microsoft is also blocking browsers elsewhere saying that they will not work with.NET because of security issues with the browser. This reasoning is flawed and I refuse to take security advice from microsoft or the marketing boys that they employ to spout this bullshit back at me.
they continue to abuse their monopoly position.
this is a pile of bullshit and you know it.
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I see some people debating ram disks.
The way I see it, the kernel is smart enough to use ram for buffering when it can - certainly smarter than a user creating a ram disk.
If you need more performance, give your system more ram and let the kernel decide how much of that ram should go to a ram disk.
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if i was to get a crayon, close my eyes and scribble randomly on a piece of paper like a two year old learning to draw, i would have put more thought into design than went into the linux IP stack.
redhat has no spine.
That machine does samba, apache, printing, xdm, and NAT. It is always responsive, although it does only serve three people. I could see it powering a large corporation (around 200 users) with a good administrator that keeps open source bloatware away from it.
I refuse to run software like KDE / Gnome (aren't these the same now on redhat?), mozilla, vim, and openoffice. I have ensured that my users are happy with twm, lynx, and emacs - with some hacked up training courses I put together.
Tim, you are wrong, and that explains why you have been moderated into oblivion. I find it so much easier to drive across town and spend NZ$30 on a CD than to download it for free using one of the many P2P apps available. I am sure that the vast majority of slashdotters would hold the same opinion.
Yes, you are exactly right. Last time I pirated music i made sure it was shit music that I would never even consider purchasing.
Nice logic.
just to add to what i said above, slashbots are never original. after all, they idolise people whose sole purpose in life is to imitate (as best they can) microsoft and apple usability innovations on a 30 year old dead horse.
It has come to my attention that slashdot has posted a story with the keywords "windows 98", "volvo", and "safety".
Your "joke" was the first with a funny moderation on it that i saw. I would like to take the opportunity to address the rest of the slashbots and say "all the rest of the windows 98 BSOD jokes are going to suck".
They are not original, and they aren't funny anymore. You are flogging a dead horse. Slashbots are one trick ponies.
I'd like to see linux circa 1998 try and power a car.
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Have I been wrong all this time?
Intel clearly labels the P4 line with its true clock speed. No false advertising there! Just think that a P4 2.2Ghz machine is 50% faster than an athlon 1.5Ghz, now for the same price! Not only that, I don't have to worry about my heatsink falling off!
it costs money to provide data. ISPs that used to offer flat rate 128k up/down DSL in New Zealand have realised that it costs far too much to support P2P piracy and simply allow people an amount of international data. For example, I get 10GB a month.
The 1% that article quotes are subsidised by the other 99%. I, for one, don't want to subsidise them.
They are stealing copyrighted media. This is illegal. They should go to somewhere like China where there is no copyright law, and see how they like that knowledge economy.
Tell ESR that it is time to upgrade.
just to add to my most excellent first post, in New Zealand I am signed up to a DSL plan. We get 10GB international traffic per month for $35, and then pay between 2c and 6c per MB after that. This is a 128kbps up/down service.
To make sure I dont go over the limit I do several things. I read slashdot in light mode. I don't use P2P, and I don't download 650mb ISOs for every damn release.
Capped bandwidth reduces the cost of the service to ordinary users by not making the rest of us pay for what is probably P2P piracy.
but welcome to the real world.
Please don't go writing ANYTHING to ANYONE about this.
Just keep hoping that Microsoft make security blunders or GNU/Linux will have to try and compete on usability, and you really don't want that.
One thing I have noticed lately is that the janitors do not update the front page even when obvious spelling and grammar mistakes are pointed out.
Perhaps the janitors are trolling their readers by posting these "articles" and then watching how many people bite at the spelling and grammar. I've noticed that the posts that point out corrections are moderated as offtopic, encouraging many more readers to point out the same errors as they do not see that it has been done before.
google really should put the Oh How I envy American Students usenet posts in the timeline.
Linksys have a beta firmware available, and the support is reasonably good if you can actually find the appropriate forum. The only reason that I have my WAP11 working well is due to the advice offered in here
there has also been some discussion regarding the point in using 128-bit WEP. Replace WEP with IPSec. I like the linksys because it does everything it needs to and does not include useless features such as modem ports and firewalls that are better done by using a seperate computer acting as a gateway.
you would have IPv6 addresses left over even if you assigned an address for each byte on that disk.
this is just for perspective - not because you actually would.....
and, by the way, that is the worst analogy i have ever seen.
Microsoft is blocking browsers that can render the page correctly and spouting bullshit that their browser is more standards compliant.
Microsoft is also blocking browsers elsewhere saying that they will not work with .NET because of security issues with the browser. This reasoning is flawed and I refuse to take security advice from microsoft or the marketing boys that they employ to spout this bullshit back at me.
they continue to abuse their monopoly position.
this is a pile of bullshit and you know it.
I see some people debating ram disks.
The way I see it, the kernel is smart enough to use ram for buffering when it can - certainly smarter than a user creating a ram disk.
If you need more performance, give your system more ram and let the kernel decide how much of that ram should go to a ram disk.