so if Mars is so fscking close (2400 miles, someone posted) then why does it take months for a craft to get there. I realize that its not quite a straight shot, but heres the thought.
I drive from Houston, TX to Appleton, WI and its 1,297 miles. that trip takes rougly 20hrs. Given that I'm only driving 70mph (roughly).
These spacecraft are travelling much faster than I am, but lets be cynical and say that they travel at 100mph. It should only take 24hrs to complete the entire trip. Lets add in a couple of extra hundred miles for course corrections, and say 3000mi.
So why does it take months to get a craft over there. How slow are they really moving, and why aren't we taking more advantage of frictionless atmosphere.
While I believe myself to have some linux background, when I first started my current job, I went straight down to the LAN team (I started in desktop support, which still blows) and asked for any workstations that still turned on, and that were being thrown away to be sent to my cube. By the end of the week, I had 4 p2/333 with 128mb each. I brought in a 10/100 switch (5port) and started cranking away at installing openmosix.
Before I knew it, I had Samba installed, MRTG, and was sniffing anything that came accross the network. A few weeks into, after compressing all my CDs (And a few others) using the openmosix cluster, someone asked me if they could install some software for testing, before you know it (right now in fact) I'm lead tech in a project to bring linux file servers to our clients instead of pushing the Win2k3 servers. Samba is working great as a replacement for the Win2k/2k3 servers that are in our market place.
I think its great, and it simply started by asking for junk hardware.
Pardon the obvious response, but what is wrong with VNC? You've already stated that you're using a graphical intereface, so why not use VNC, or UltraVNC. All work with the same functionality that you are referring to.
I hadn't read about this case, but I'm glad to see that the boys in Australie are not alone. Kudos to anyone standing up against SCO.
I can't wait for the trial to come about. I'm curious to a couple of things:
1. What will it do to the current prices of both the IBM and SCO stock?
2. Assuming that SCO does win, what would be a guestimate time frame to correct the Linux kernel. Are we looking at a kernel freeze so that just these corrections could be made? Is it serious enough to warrant that?
3. Assuming IBM wins, from a legal standing, where does that leave SCO?
This is truly welcome news. The community there is actually standing up, which, honestly, is more than I can say for the general LUGs here in the states. I am not referencing IBM, I know that they've got to keep quite until their day in court. But aside from the random ranting, I haven't read very much about Linux standing up against SCO. Understandably, there is little to defend, since SCO has been too vague.
Additionally, I really enjoy Linus' comments in his recent interview.
I am a volunteer with the local fire department, and we use a 5 gallon cooler with ice water and a fan on top of it. It can truly cool the room immediatly. Its a special design what basically pulls water into the fan, and acts as a mister. It can immediately cool the room, you'd be surprised at how fast you'll cool the room. I would maybe setup two of these in the center of the room, with extra fans to keep the air circulating, low power, and work great. Can probably find them at Sams.
As someone stated in an earlier thread, the case is against the code contributions that IBM made to Linux that have been contributed to the Linux 2.4.x kernel tree. While I can see the forward problems that this possibly might have, and assuming that SCO actually wins, it should be as simple as yanking the code from the Linux 2.6 kernel tree, and rewriting it. Additionally, from what I've read about the claims from SCO, it primarily discusses SMP. Assuming that you're server isn't compiled with SMP turned on (only one of mine are) then you are not using any code with they say belong to them.
I seem to recall another note regarding code contributions to JFS, and while I'm sure that the IBM JFS is very well designed, I am instead using SGI Journalling XFS and ResierFS in my boxen.
SCO is purely in it for the money at this point, which is very apparent from yesterday's (and prior days) stock jumps.
I can't blame them either, I have now bought some of the stock and will ride it out, it'll help me buy my plasma screen by the time this is all over!
This is my 39 cents, 2 cents for my thoughts, and 37 to get it into the postal system.
If you are really that concerned with buying DVD hardware now, then do one of two things:
1) buy a decent video card for your computer (hardware decoder) and put it in a cheap p166 box with a dvd drive. my Hollywood Magic PCI card in an old dell p166/32mb ram works great. And I spent all of $100 for the whole thing. Then you can eventually put it in your bedroom, whereever, doesn't matter because its still cheap. also, put an ethernet card in it and vnc, boot on all errors, no login screen, windows 98, and auto start the player software, whamo, instant console dvd player.
2) buy a cheap dvd player from walmart. I got one the other day (samsung) for $70, could've spent less and got the akai? for $50, but even I have my standards.
-or-
3) wait forever because you'll always be too concerned with the investment cost to purchase. something better is always going to come out. you just have to live with not being on the bleeding edge all the time. it costs too much money!/rant
I remember back from an MS SQL class I took (back at SQL 6.5), and one of the things we did in the class was put the database on a drive without a partition. Now I know what you're saying, "shutup, you can't do that". But you can. I don't recall the specific way, but it was well documented at the time. Look under file systems, or the like for details.
Additionally, look at solid state devices for use as swap. I've seen a PCI based RAM Drive, that was essentially a PCI card with dimm slots on it, you load it up with RAM (1gb max i think) and use it as a swap device.
From the article, they've already been to court and lost. Sosa was one of five of the co-plaintiffs that have now been stuck with an additional $100k in legal fees. The decision is being appealed but doesn't mean it'll get over turned. It seems kinda late for someone to try and fight 'after' they already payed.
This Sosa guy really makes a bad case for anyone else. He's a doctor with money, his loss!
I was thinking about a similar setup with smart card verification for server access, to release the keyboard, and use it as the login. now I have to rethink this idea.
Not being a stock man myself, but being very intersted in teh SCOX stock in particular, when you say 'sell-off', meaning the price is about to plumit, or skyrocket? As in, everyone is going to start buying this stock, which ultimately leaves it set for an upset.
Will be great for moving people away from MS desktops. Coupled with Abiword or even OpenOffice is really giving me goosebumps.
One way that I'm encouraged by alot of the desktop push is by companies (some) moving to browser based applications. The company that I work for is developing their next application to be completely browser based. While this is no big deal, the interesting part, is that it 'should' work well with mozilla, thus paving the way for full linux desktops. NICE
No actually, the account is given to the client for period of not more than 1 hour at a time, (does vary on file size). And the password is read to the client via telephone.
Typically, we log in at the same time, when they have completed uploading/downloading the file, we do our part and either download and delete or just delete it.
I was reading and just waiting for the reference. You should be working for the Marketing company of Ursa Minor. At least that way you'll be up against the wall when the revolution comes.
has anyone been paying attention to the SCOX stock, and watched how it has been climbing. Does anyone else think that this all might just be a setup for the years to come.
Think about it like this, its a win/win situation for SCO.
a. If they win, they're set for some serious time to come, they can claim all kinds of proprietary rights and live off licensing - or be bought out by a larger corporation, ala IBM.
-or-
b. If they lose, (personal feeling) IBM will pick up the license from SCO and they'll be bought out anyway, possibly remaining an independant, but under new ownership.
Either way, the SCO CEOs stand to make a buttload of money. I think its interesting to see the amount of FUD that SCO has been putting out. I think the case will probably get dropped before it gets too far, and that IBM will probably just brush off SCO like a bad cold.
I work for a bank processing company, I won't say which one, but I can ensure you thats its one of the largest. And while we can transfer some files via email, we've started switching to a policy that almost all files that are sent to/from clients are done via FTP.
much more secure, and ensures that the file(s) actually get to the client.
even better...
I got slashdotted and all I got was this stupid T-shirt
-or-
Downloading Matrix Reloaded - $5000 fine......
Being Slashdotted in record time - priceless.
Your forgetting about IPSec. VPN is quite easy to setup, and there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to set it up. Personally, I've got my 'internet' boxen on its own DMZ away from my personl boxes.
While I'm all for IPv6 as well, and I've been trying to play with it at home, what we really need is for large portions of the 'net industry to start adopting it. bring it on!
What I'm really waiting for is more widespread implementation of IPv6. I know that I don't need 1,000 ip adresses for my apartment, but thats not the point. From an article that I read before, IPv6 was supposed to support a better performance because of less complex routing (did I say that?)
what I'm really curious is about, is when can I get an IPv6 protocol for my windows boxen at home. I haven't seen IPv6 protocols for end user.
or, is IPv6 intended to be used for only the 'internet' and use IPv4 for use on all the internal networks, seems a lot cheaper to be able to use existing hardware, assuming the end router can differintiate it.
I had a similar problem when using my KVM. However, the more I played with it the more I found that it was due to not having the KVM set to the linux box when booting the machine.
I know I know.. it sounds ludicrous (not to be confused with extra cooky coco puffs). But it works. Try it.
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I don't subscribe, although i am a member, and I saw the article, it was displayed in a red title bar. neat.
Harryk
If you want to mount the windows file system on your linux box, stick with Samba. This is a proof of concept, and I feel is intended for use in special applications where the only way to get to a different filesystem is available via SSH. There are other possibly less secure/efficient options. While I think its cool to play with, I personally don't have a real need for this. I can see where using this is an NFS would work well. But as someone else posted before, there is an option already for NFS over SSH.
Check it here http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/snfs/
my 2cents for what its worth.
I just installed this, width poor results. I am able to mount the remote file system, although the performance is slow, compared to ssh directly.
A question though, what is the benefit of running the filesystem like this. Is the program executed on the server or the client?
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so if Mars is so fscking close (2400 miles, someone posted) then why does it take months for a craft to get there. I realize that its not quite a straight shot, but heres the thought.
I drive from Houston, TX to Appleton, WI and its 1,297 miles. that trip takes rougly 20hrs. Given that I'm only driving 70mph (roughly).
These spacecraft are travelling much faster than I am, but lets be cynical and say that they travel at 100mph. It should only take 24hrs to complete the entire trip. Lets add in a couple of extra hundred miles for course corrections, and say 3000mi.
So why does it take months to get a craft over there. How slow are they really moving, and why aren't we taking more advantage of frictionless atmosphere.
inquiring minds want to know!
While I believe myself to have some linux background, when I first started my current job, I went straight down to the LAN team (I started in desktop support, which still blows) and asked for any workstations that still turned on, and that were being thrown away to be sent to my cube. By the end of the week, I had 4 p2/333 with 128mb each. I brought in a 10/100 switch (5port) and started cranking away at installing openmosix.
Before I knew it, I had Samba installed, MRTG, and was sniffing anything that came accross the network. A few weeks into, after compressing all my CDs (And a few others) using the openmosix cluster, someone asked me if they could install some software for testing, before you know it (right now in fact) I'm lead tech in a project to bring linux file servers to our clients instead of pushing the Win2k3 servers. Samba is working great as a replacement for the Win2k/2k3 servers that are in our market place.
I think its great, and it simply started by asking for junk hardware.
Pardon the obvious response, but what is wrong with VNC? You've already stated that you're using a graphical intereface, so why not use VNC, or UltraVNC. All work with the same functionality that you are referring to.
I hadn't read about this case, but I'm glad to see that the boys in Australie are not alone. Kudos to anyone standing up against SCO.
I can't wait for the trial to come about. I'm curious to a couple of things:
1. What will it do to the current prices of both the IBM and SCO stock?
2. Assuming that SCO does win, what would be a guestimate time frame to correct the Linux kernel. Are we looking at a kernel freeze so that just these corrections could be made? Is it serious enough to warrant that?
3. Assuming IBM wins, from a legal standing, where does that leave SCO?
This is truly welcome news. The community there is actually standing up, which, honestly, is more than I can say for the general LUGs here in the states. I am not referencing IBM, I know that they've got to keep quite until their day in court. But aside from the random ranting, I haven't read very much about Linux standing up against SCO. Understandably, there is little to defend, since SCO has been too vague.
Additionally, I really enjoy Linus' comments in his recent interview.
Good work guys!
literally :)!
I am a volunteer with the local fire department, and we use a 5 gallon cooler with ice water and a fan on top of it. It can truly cool the room immediatly. Its a special design what basically pulls water into the fan, and acts as a mister. It can immediately cool the room, you'd be surprised at how fast you'll cool the room. I would maybe setup two of these in the center of the room, with extra fans to keep the air circulating, low power, and work great. Can probably find them at Sams.
As someone stated in an earlier thread, the case is against the code contributions that IBM made to Linux that have been contributed to the Linux 2.4.x kernel tree. While I can see the forward problems that this possibly might have, and assuming that SCO actually wins, it should be as simple as yanking the code from the Linux 2.6 kernel tree, and rewriting it. Additionally, from what I've read about the claims from SCO, it primarily discusses SMP. Assuming that you're server isn't compiled with SMP turned on (only one of mine are) then you are not using any code with they say belong to them.
I seem to recall another note regarding code contributions to JFS, and while I'm sure that the IBM JFS is very well designed, I am instead using SGI Journalling XFS and ResierFS in my boxen.
SCO is purely in it for the money at this point, which is very apparent from yesterday's (and prior days) stock jumps.
I can't blame them either, I have now bought some of the stock and will ride it out, it'll help me buy my plasma screen by the time this is all over!
This is my 39 cents, 2 cents for my thoughts, and 37 to get it into the postal system.
harryk
-nuff said
If you are really that concerned with buying DVD hardware now, then do one of two things:
/rant
1) buy a decent video card for your computer (hardware decoder) and put it in a cheap p166 box with a dvd drive. my Hollywood Magic PCI card in an old dell p166/32mb ram works great. And I spent all of $100 for the whole thing. Then you can eventually put it in your bedroom, whereever, doesn't matter because its still cheap. also, put an ethernet card in it and vnc, boot on all errors, no login screen, windows 98, and auto start the player software, whamo, instant console dvd player.
2) buy a cheap dvd player from walmart. I got one the other day (samsung) for $70, could've spent less and got the akai? for $50, but even I have my standards.
-or-
3) wait forever because you'll always be too concerned with the investment cost to purchase. something better is always going to come out. you just have to live with not being on the bleeding edge all the time. it costs too much money!
joey
Use this link to check out the Cenatek solidstate drives, now upto 4gb!
I remember back from an MS SQL class I took (back at SQL 6.5), and one of the things we did in the class was put the database on a drive without a partition. Now I know what you're saying, "shutup, you can't do that". But you can. I don't recall the specific way, but it was well documented at the time. Look under file systems, or the like for details.
Additionally, look at solid state devices for use as swap. I've seen a PCI based RAM Drive, that was essentially a PCI card with dimm slots on it, you load it up with RAM (1gb max i think) and use it as a swap device.
Just some thoughts
From the article, they've already been to court and lost. Sosa was one of five of the co-plaintiffs that have now been stuck with an additional $100k in legal fees. The decision is being appealed but doesn't mean it'll get over turned. It seems kinda late for someone to try and fight 'after' they already payed.
This Sosa guy really makes a bad case for anyone else. He's a doctor with money, his loss!
I was thinking about a similar setup with smart card verification for server access, to release the keyboard, and use it as the login. now I have to rethink this idea.
No good.
Not being a stock man myself, but being very intersted in teh SCOX stock in particular, when you say 'sell-off', meaning the price is about to plumit, or skyrocket? As in, everyone is going to start buying this stock, which ultimately leaves it set for an upset.
Please elaborate, I'm curious to your opinion.
Will be great for moving people away from MS desktops. Coupled with Abiword or even OpenOffice is really giving me goosebumps.
One way that I'm encouraged by alot of the desktop push is by companies (some) moving to browser based applications. The company that I work for is developing their next application to be completely browser based. While this is no big deal, the interesting part, is that it 'should' work well with mozilla, thus paving the way for full linux desktops. NICE
No actually, the account is given to the client for period of not more than 1 hour at a time, (does vary on file size). And the password is read to the client via telephone.
Typically, we log in at the same time, when they have completed uploading/downloading the file, we do our part and either download and delete or just delete it.
Keeps things efficient.
I was reading and just waiting for the reference. You should be working for the Marketing company of Ursa Minor. At least that way you'll be up against the wall when the revolution comes.
has anyone been paying attention to the SCOX stock, and watched how it has been climbing. Does anyone else think that this all might just be a setup for the years to come.
Think about it like this, its a win/win situation for SCO.
a. If they win, they're set for some serious time to come, they can claim all kinds of proprietary rights and live off licensing - or be bought out by a larger corporation, ala IBM.
-or-
b. If they lose, (personal feeling) IBM will pick up the license from SCO and they'll be bought out anyway, possibly remaining an independant, but under new ownership.
Either way, the SCO CEOs stand to make a buttload of money. I think its interesting to see the amount of FUD that SCO has been putting out. I think the case will probably get dropped before it gets too far, and that IBM will probably just brush off SCO like a bad cold.
I guess we'll see.
I work for a bank processing company, I won't say which one, but I can ensure you thats its one of the largest. And while we can transfer some files via email, we've started switching to a policy that almost all files that are sent to/from clients are done via FTP.
much more secure, and ensures that the file(s) actually get to the client.
just one way things are better...
harryk
even better... I got slashdotted and all I got was this stupid T-shirt -or- Downloading Matrix Reloaded - $5000 fine ... ...
Being Slashdotted in record time - priceless.
I can just see the Generals walking around grunting in their Tim 'tha ToolMan' Taylor flannel shirts boasting 'More Power' ...
Your forgetting about IPSec. VPN is quite easy to setup, and there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to set it up. Personally, I've got my 'internet' boxen on its own DMZ away from my personl boxes.
While I'm all for IPv6 as well, and I've been trying to play with it at home, what we really need is for large portions of the 'net industry to start adopting it. bring it on!
What I'm really waiting for is more widespread implementation of IPv6. I know that I don't need 1,000 ip adresses for my apartment, but thats not the point. From an article that I read before, IPv6 was supposed to support a better performance because of less complex routing (did I say that?)
.. enough talk .. gibber me standardised IPv6!
what I'm really curious is about, is when can I get an IPv6 protocol for my windows boxen at home. I haven't seen IPv6 protocols for end user.
or, is IPv6 intended to be used for only the 'internet' and use IPv4 for use on all the internal networks, seems a lot cheaper to be able to use existing hardware, assuming the end router can differintiate it.
bah
I had a similar problem when using my KVM. However, the more I played with it the more I found that it was due to not having the KVM set to the linux box when booting the machine.
.. it sounds ludicrous (not to be confused with extra cooky coco puffs). But it works. Try it.
I know I know
I don't subscribe, although i am a member, and I saw the article, it was displayed in a red title bar. neat. Harryk
If you want to mount the windows file system on your linux box, stick with Samba. This is a proof of concept, and I feel is intended for use in special applications where the only way to get to a different filesystem is available via SSH. There are other possibly less secure/efficient options. While I think its cool to play with, I personally don't have a real need for this. I can see where using this is an NFS would work well. But as someone else posted before, there is an option already for NFS over SSH. Check it here http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/snfs/ my 2cents for what its worth.
I just installed this, width poor results. I am able to mount the remote file system, although the performance is slow, compared to ssh directly. A question though, what is the benefit of running the filesystem like this. Is the program executed on the server or the client?