Us Solaris peeps do *exactly* this. Take a snapshot immediately after install, take another snapshot after configuring the system, take any additional snapshots later...
I would post an output from zfs list showing all the snapshots taken on the root filesystem, but unfortunately slashdot's lameness filter REFUSES to cooperate telling me to use fewer junk characters:(
FreeBSD http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS and MacOSX http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/ will soon have proper ZFS with boot support.... and Linux's ZFS-Fuse Implementation is great. Hell, it won't be long before Windows will be the only (worthwhile) OS that will be without ZFS soon.... maybe Microsoft should abandon WinFS (oh yeah, they did) and just port ZFS over.
Or as someone posted earlier, "Either live with your idiot bosses and stop complaining, or ditch that miserable excuse for an employer."
We use OSS almost exclusively where I work... the only commercial software we use is Microsoft, and even that we try to avoid as much as possible.. (there's only a very few window's pc's with MS office for example.)
ZOMG if I move to Melbourne get me a job:) Adelaide is such a hole, though I have a job I absolutely love.
Its more than likely I will be moving country to NZ, however... but who knows where I may end up.
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I'm in Australia (Adelaide) Looking to move countries too!
Canada and New Zealand are the two places I have been seriously considering, and it looks like Auckland, New Zealand has won me over. (I have a really close friend there for one, and NZ is a beautiful country.)
I'm a Software Engineer and Systems Administrator in my current role. Anyway, guess I should read what people post as that stuff my apply to me too;).
I bet Americans are wondering why on earth we would want to leave Australia.....
I'm positive I remember reading something about that too...
Personally, I think they should mass produce more of those rovers and blast them off to mars.... spirit and opportunity were sent to two very boring places on mars that were deemed as safe as possible to land after so many previous failures.
We should be sending rovers nearer to the poles, to olympus mobs, to valles marineris... etc. Think of the fascinating stuff we'd find if we actually sent rovers somewhere INTERESTING.
I've used bittorrent for this purpose many times in years gone by.
Especially with our slow links, or worse yet, on dialup (if I go enough years back) in Australia.
Before bittorrent I would use rsync. That required me to download the large file to a server in the US on a fast connection, then rsync my copy to the server's copy to fix what is corrupt in my copy.
Nope. If it were a bank, the merchant would pay for the loss or the bank will bear it. As banking laws go, once the money is in your account, nobody (except by court order) can debit your account except you. Nobody. Similarly, they can't suddenly block access to your account without informing you in writing. PayPal OTOH can debit your account and drain it fully and then refuse to explain why plus put you in call waiting. And this is PRECISELY what is the problem with paypal.
I sold an item for over $1000 USD on ebay. Recieved payment by paypal. Sent item off. Payment went into bank account.
A few weeks later paypal contacts me saying that I was paid using a stolen paypal account, and to please return the money.
How about, ummm, get fucked? To this day paypal still wants to get this money back from me, so I refuse to use them. Its not my fault paypal has terrible security and lets everyone's accounts be phished and sellers get screwed by this?
Well, I guess its definitely time to look for an alternative, and pull my highly rated account from ebay:(
I refuse to use paypal due to having bad experiences with it in the past.
In Australia i'd say paypal for paying for ebay auctions is hardly use AT ALL since in Australia its far easier and quicker and cheaper to pay using direct deposit with netbanking. That is THE standard pay to pay here. Why use a middle man? And now to be FORCED to use one? I don't think so.
But yeah, times are constantly changing. I got an absolutely awesome job 5 to 6 months back doing what I love, and well... I haven't worked a day yet. I just go in and have fun every day, playing with Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, doing a bit of coding in Perl or Java... its truely awesome.
And I agree with what you said about degrees. Wow. I went through University and did a 4 year Software Engineering degree. Most of the people there that went through were damn clueless..... they were studying software development / comp sci / etc, and didn't use computers at home, had never toyed with unix, etc.... like wow. What are you doing here if you're not interested in this stuff?
I really am embarassed by this nickname now, and wish i could change it, but its used in SO many damn places, and its my main domainname, and its my email address everywhere, and its embarassing when people ask for my email address on the phone or whatever, like when i'm applying for jobs.... oh man.
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For example, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as US president last week, all traces of George W. Bush disappeared from the White House website.
One could argue that was a good thing...
If only Windows ran on ZFS :(
Us Solaris peeps do *exactly* this. Take a snapshot immediately after install, take another snapshot after configuring the system, take any additional snapshots later...
I would post an output from zfs list showing all the snapshots taken on the root filesystem, but unfortunately slashdot's lameness filter REFUSES to cooperate telling me to use fewer junk characters :(
FreeBSD http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS and MacOSX http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/ will soon have proper ZFS with boot support.... and Linux's ZFS-Fuse Implementation is great. Hell, it won't be long before Windows will be the only (worthwhile) OS that will be without ZFS soon.... maybe Microsoft should abandon WinFS (oh yeah, they did) and just port ZFS over.
Don't bother. Go get another job elsewhere.
Or as someone posted earlier, "Either live with your idiot bosses and stop complaining, or ditch that miserable excuse for an employer."
We use OSS almost exclusively where I work... the only commercial software we use is Microsoft, and even that we try to avoid as much as possible.. (there's only a very few window's pc's with MS office for example.)
If you're into Trading the Forex Market, there's Oanda. Their FXTrade and FXGame platform work amazingly well on Linux :)
omfg, thats disgusting. :O
Thank god you ditched him, and you should have done it alot sooner than you did :(
ZOMG if I move to Melbourne get me a job :) Adelaide is such a hole, though I have a job I absolutely love.
Its more than likely I will be moving country to NZ, however... but who knows where I may end up.
I'm in Australia (Adelaide) Looking to move countries too!
;).
Canada and New Zealand are the two places I have been seriously considering, and it looks like Auckland, New Zealand has won me over. (I have a really close friend there for one, and NZ is a beautiful country.)
I'm a Software Engineer and Systems Administrator in my current role. Anyway, guess I should read what people post as that stuff my apply to me too
I bet Americans are wondering why on earth we would want to leave Australia.....
OMG, I can't believe I made that typo :)
:)
Yes, I really am a wow addict, been playing since 2004
Olympus MONS!
I'm positive I remember reading something about that too...
Personally, I think they should mass produce more of those rovers and blast them off to mars.... spirit and opportunity were sent to two very boring places on mars that were deemed as safe as possible to land after so many previous failures.
We should be sending rovers nearer to the poles, to olympus mobs, to valles marineris... etc. Think of the fascinating stuff we'd find if we actually sent rovers somewhere INTERESTING.
Very Cool Indeed.
:) Countdown is currently at 1day, 15 hrs...
Lets hope the Phoenix Lander finds something too
So I tried to download the book... and its going at a few bytes per second... I think we slashdotted his poor server. :(
I've used bittorrent for this purpose many times in years gone by.
:)
Especially with our slow links, or worse yet, on dialup (if I go enough years back) in Australia.
Before bittorrent I would use rsync. That required me to download the large file to a server in the US on a fast connection, then rsync my copy to the server's copy to fix what is corrupt in my copy.
It works beautifully.
Its been here in australia for years and years too.
I don't know anyone who uses it either.
Watching TV on your phone is just one of the stupidest things i've ever heard of...
Somewhat stupid, sure, like the first post talking about banning headlights so we can't blind other drivers.
But then after stories like this on salshdot: http://slashdot.org/articles/07/08/09/0412215.shtml, I'm not the least bit surprised?
I just found http://www.oztion.com.au/, but I dunno...
As banking laws go, once the money is in your account, nobody (except by court order) can debit your account except you.
Nobody.
Similarly, they can't suddenly block access to your account without informing you in writing.
PayPal OTOH can debit your account and drain it fully and then refuse to explain why plus put you in call waiting. And this is PRECISELY what is the problem with paypal.
Look up paypalsucks.com and other related sites.
Except paypal fucks the sellers.
I sold an item for over $1000 USD on ebay. Recieved payment by paypal. Sent item off. Payment went into bank account.
A few weeks later paypal contacts me saying that I was paid using a stolen paypal account, and to please return the money.
How about, ummm, get fucked? To this day paypal still wants to get this money back from me, so I refuse to use them. Its not my fault paypal has terrible security and lets everyone's accounts be phished and sellers get screwed by this?
Well, I guess its definitely time to look for an alternative, and pull my highly rated account from ebay :(
I refuse to use paypal due to having bad experiences with it in the past.
In Australia i'd say paypal for paying for ebay auctions is hardly use AT ALL since in Australia its far easier and quicker and cheaper to pay using direct deposit with netbanking. That is THE standard pay to pay here. Why use a middle man? And now to be FORCED to use one? I don't think so.
To update to SP1, get the following download: http://staff.neowin.net/skyypunk/VistaSP1WU.zip
/f > NUL 2>&1 /f > NUL 2>&1
/v Beta1 /t REG_SZ /d dcf99ef8-d784-414e-b411-81a910d2761d /f
It simply enabled SP1 to appear in Windows Update, exactly how the Release Candidates were enabled.
Specifically, the code is:
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSp1
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSP1
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSp1
I think its the same in other countries, too. People just aren't aware of it...
*smiles*
I graduated back in 97.
But yeah, times are constantly changing. I got an absolutely awesome job 5 to 6 months back doing what I love, and well... I haven't worked a day yet. I just go in and have fun every day, playing with Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, doing a bit of coding in Perl or Java... its truely awesome.
And I agree with what you said about degrees. Wow. I went through University and did a 4 year Software Engineering degree. Most of the people there that went through were damn clueless..... they were studying software development / comp sci / etc, and didn't use computers at home, had never toyed with unix, etc.... like wow. What are you doing here if you're not interested in this stuff?
And I thought i'd add....:
I really am embarassed by this nickname now, and wish i could change it, but its used in SO many damn places, and its my main domainname, and its my email address everywhere, and its embarassing when people ask for my email address on the phone or whatever, like when i'm applying for jobs.... oh man.
What was I thinking back in 94??
And I decided that writing it as 'DiSKiLLeR' was cool, once upon a time, some 14 years ago :(
Hmmmm.
That would be nice, but only if our communication was secure with encryption.
Personally, I think its great that skype encrypts everything and think it should be standard with more software.
About about No.
P2P is being used more and more, Blizzard uses bittorrent to distribute every wow patch and has done so for years now.
If anything, we need more real world legitimate reasons for P2P to prove its crazy to shut it down.