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  1. Re:Unstable on Ubuntu Unity: The Great Divider · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with Ubuntu for servers?

    The reason I ask is I'm setting up some servers, and Ubuntu generally has better packages than Fedora/RHEL/Centos.

    What problems have you encountered? And what are you using instead? Debian? Is there much of a difference between Ubuntu and Debian for servers?

    I agree re: Ubuntu for workstations becoming unviable.

  2. Power users make the distro on Ubuntu Unity: The Great Divider · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >Mark Shuttleworth where he apparently said that perhaps power users should switch to a different distro.

    Mark, Mark, Mark:

    If power users switch to another distro, who is going to answer 1st-day newbs' questions on ubuntuforums.org? 2nd-day newbs?

    And who's going to do all that free Ubuntu development and package management work for you on launchpad?

  3. Re:This is very bad design on VMware Causes Second Outage While Recovering From First · · Score: 1

    Well, if you have rm -Rf / in the terminal, and the key you hit is Enter ...

  4. Re:But a lot of people don't. on Assange: Facebook 'the Most Appalling Spy Machine' Ever · · Score: 1

    Feels good to have America be a role model for once

  5. Re:again? on Ask Slashdot: How To Monitor Your Own Bandwidth Usage? · · Score: 1

    Whaa?

    It's easier to do stuff when you only have 1/300th the customer base? What happened to economies of scale.

    Forget that, can anybody explain why you can't get totally awesome broadband in New York City?!

  6. Re:Open source names on Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing · · Score: 1

    Well, the only product Google seems to show for "enlive" is nutritional supplements, I think we should be good, since it's in a different industry category:

    http://abbottnutrition.com/Products/Enlive

  7. Re:Make our own on Tom Tom Sells GPS Info To Dutch Cops · · Score: 1

    Well, but that's what I'm saying, let's make our own replacement for Tomtom, Garmin, etc.

    Yeah, there won't be satellite maps, but we'd have crowdsourced location markers.

    And we wouldn't have to give our location data to the cops (without a subpoena).

  8. Re:Does anyone know... on MIT Blackjack King Takes SMTP Public · · Score: 1

    I'll have my business consultants "/dev/random" get right on it, without waiting for anything else.

  9. Re:Passing on Viruses on Tasmanian Dept. of Education Wants Anti-Virus for Linux, OS X · · Score: 1

    An example from the config file:

    query = SELECT forw_addr FROM mxaliases WHERE alias='%s' AND status='paid'

    http://www.postfix.org/MYSQL_README.html

  10. Make our own on Tom Tom Sells GPS Info To Dutch Cops · · Score: 1
  11. Google SPDY protocol on The Features That Make Each Web Browser Unique · · Score: 1

    What do you think of the SPDY protocol, listed as Chrome's unique feature?

    Even if it's faster, is it a good idea for the unity of the web Google to have come up with, and push this idea all on their own?

    What would we think if M$ or Compu$erve had come up with their own protocol, to be accessed by their own application program?

  12. Re:vnstat on Ask Slashdot: How To Monitor Your Own Bandwidth Usage? · · Score: 1

    FYI for anybody trying this out:

    The Ubuntu package (likely the same as the Debian package) doesn't create a database when you install.

    So after installing, do this:

    $ sudo vnstat -u -i eth0

    Then start the service:
    $ sudo service vnstat start

    Check stats:
    $ vnstat

  13. Re:Does anyone know... on MIT Blackjack King Takes SMTP Public · · Score: 1

    Oh, yeah?

    Well, my new company, "UDP" is going to let people send messages when you don't want to get a reply.

  14. SMTP trademark? on MIT Blackjack King Takes SMTP Public · · Score: 1

    The guy seems well-meaning, I guess, but does anybody else object to the trademarking of a common acronym?

    Same with FTP Software.

    The fact is corps have a mind of their own. Are we going to see suits demanding people stop calling their email servers "SMTP servers"?

  15. Re:vnstat on Ask Slashdot: How To Monitor Your Own Bandwidth Usage? · · Score: 2

    I'll make a note of vnstat for cumulative usage.

    For point-in-time bandwidth usage, I often use nethogs.

    It breaks down current bandwidth usage by program, much handier than by host.

    Click here to install (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint)

  16. Re:Open source names on Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing · · Score: 1

    It's unfortunate your original post was marked troll.

    Hopefully you can open up a bug on the kdenlive.org website to put a bigger focus on the "enlive" part of the name. And I'll second it.

  17. Re:Passing on Viruses on Tasmanian Dept. of Education Wants Anti-Virus for Linux, OS X · · Score: 2

    Well, I'm not up-to-date on the latest in Windows malware, but let's say you get a custom-crafted PDF that does "blah" in Acrobat on Windows. You read the PDF. You're unaffected in Linux. You forward it to your Windows colleague.

    He is now affected.

  18. Re:Passing on Viruses on Tasmanian Dept. of Education Wants Anti-Virus for Linux, OS X · · Score: 1

    No, this was most certainly not a troll. I'm setting up email, and I'm amazed at the complexity. I'm certainly learning a lot, including about A records, MX records, Postfix, etc.

    Thanks for the mention of iRedMail; I hadn't known about it previously.

    One thing I'm antsy about is: SQL injection.

    Larger Postfix installations have their users in MySQL, accessed via configurable SQL query. So what if some smart-aleck sends mail to some version of:

    RCPT TO:

    Anybody know if Postfix does proper SQL quoting?

  19. Re:Last Resort on Tasmanian Dept. of Education Wants Anti-Virus for Linux, OS X · · Score: 1

    Even though that might be true, I think they want to scan all email to prevent viruses being passed around to Windows users, say from a Linux user whom it doesn't affect.

  20. Re:Passing on Viruses on Tasmanian Dept. of Education Wants Anti-Virus for Linux, OS X · · Score: 2

    Do have it set up to receive mail from Postfix, and then pass it on to Dovecot for distribution?

    Or does ClamAV get a crack at mail first before Postfix?

    Is there a way to scan an email as you're receiving it, and then stop in the middle of the process, making it look like you have a bad SMTP server, which hopefully spammers won't bother with again?

    Oh, and, are you running Amavis, and SpamAssasin, too?

  21. Re:Open source names on Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing · · Score: 1

    Follow-up: Enlive is in the dictionary:

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/enlive
    n*live"\, v. t. [Pref. en- + live, a.] To enliven

  22. Re:Open source names on Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing · · Score: 1

    "k-den-live"

    Really?

    I'd say "Kay Dee Enlive", which, imho, also gets across the point of it having to do with art/multimedia.

  23. Re:Open source names on Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing · · Score: 1

    Woe that I commented in this thread!

    Somebody mod this funny.

  24. Re:Open source names on Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing · · Score: 1

    >In 2001 apple begins selling the iPod building on the success of the "i" prefix trademark.

    Wait, Apple has a trademark on the letter i? When did that happen? And why did Apple have to give consideration in order to get the iPhone mark from Cisco if it already owned the letter I?

    I have to say it was quite generous of Apple to let us non black turtleneck wearers have the other 25 letters of the alphabet so we can still talk about e-mail, e-commerce, m-commerce, a-bombs, h-bombs, and so on.

  25. Re:Open source names on Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing · · Score: 1

    rdf, bro