You might THINK that's a good idea but Windows Update for instance, changes the name of the downloaded file per host and also tells squid NOT to cache. You could get around it as we tried but it doesn't matter since the objects will do nothing more than fill up your cache beyond disk space.
Technically you don't have to rot13 it at all with newer builds of firefox. That's just how netscape implemented it in the old days of the netscape deployment kit or whatever it was called. Notice I did say encoded and not encrypted;)
The real problem is blanket deployments of firefox as is.
You wouldn't deploy IE without locking it down so why not firefox?
We have a deployment of about 2000 workstations with a highly customized build of firefox out there. I say customized but what I mean is that it's had various GUI elements stripped, keyboard shortcuts stripped and implements locked preferences. One of those preferences is software install. The only site that can install software is our internal update site.
Somebody paid him to write this, possibly as part of an internal migration plan but he failed to notice that in a corporate environment, a well thought-out mozilla implementation would implement things like locked preferences and other customization. Combine this with workstation security and his point is probably moot. I'm not going to spend 50 bucks to find out.
My wife and I were talking about this issue just this morning.
I told her this and I'm probably wrong:
These shows are being broadcast over the air for anyone to pick up (excluding the cable shows of course).
Time-shifting is legal so who is to say the shows I have downloaded aren't ones that I didn't pick up over the air? Especially with hdtv going over the air?
The only clue that the show I have on dvd is not the same one I originally watched is the fact that it has a overlay from the television station it was broadcast from originally.
The only thing I've taken to downloading online are some television shows that I missed the previous episodes because I wasn't originally interested. Will I buy the DVD box set when it comes out? I don't know. If I had them sitting on a tivo or on older vhs tapes I probably wouldn't.
The lesson is also that if you pay, they'll know you'll pay more.
There's a point where they keep coming back with higher numbers. If you look, they only guaranteed the protection for a year.
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I agree. I actually read "The Scar" and thought that it was a WONDERFUL work. THe characters and the storyline were so well done.
I picked up "Iron Council" and soaked it up but the ending really put me off. Spiral Jacbos and the golum maker (can't be bothered right now to go look it up) were the coolest characters.
Meiville has a wonderful universe on his hands and I plan on going back and reading "Perdido Street Station" but I would only reread "The Scar" for a bit of filler for the next book, whatever that may be.
The original license holder can do whatever he wants with it. Take a look at mozilla or any other hybrid license product. The original license holder can make a commercial version of his own GPL project at the same time as GPL version.
If he has approval of the committers, he can actually import all the changes to the opensource version into the commercial product. He can even add proprietary features to his commercial version at will without adding them to the GPL version.
Well the problem was that the wedding was in Michigan and we live in Georgia. We talked about doing something simple and in most respects it was. Everyone in the family contributed to things like flowers and the arch we used was built by family friends.
The reason we had it in Michigan is:
a) Her family and friends are all up there b) we had a reception/house warming party in Georgia for my friends who couldn't come (I still flew my family up though) c) We had it at her parent's place on Lake Huron so that part was free. d) We got alot of the stuff for the wedding on the BTE (a barter org. up there) so why not have a bigger wedding.
And I agree that people go through alot of pointless shit for a wedding but it meant alot to us. Either way, we decided that without a TV we could actually focus on this like stuffing invitations and scheduling other resources.
I just checked the circuit city website and the cheapest STB i can get is around $250US. And I'll still need the antennae.
I'm sure the prices will come down some but this $50-$100 cost better be close to $50 before I'll buy.
We ditched cable last year because we were in and out of town so much planning for our wedding. We've not hooked it back up yet. We keep talking about it but never actually do it. I kind of like not shelling out $80 a month on shit I hardly watch.
I remember when I called to cancel, the cable company asked me while I was cancelling. The tried every trick in the book. I finally told them "The day you provide a package where I can get local channels and pick a few of the others like Discovery, BBC and TLC is the day I'll reactivate my service. Disconnect me please."
The woman gave in at that point.
The only time my wife uses the rabbit ears now is to watch Law and Order. The only other use the TV gets is DVDs and game consoles.
Maybe I should get an Ubuntu install going and see if I can tweek that stuff.
the URL for remote cups printers is ipp://hostname/printers/PrinterName
The reason that you get all the printers is probably because once they enable the broadcasting stuff, printers.conf automatically gets populate with all the printers it finds until they time out.
What would be a better option is to do the following behind the scenes:
- enable listening for other CUPS servers. - restart cups - Get the remote list - Allow user to select the printer - store URL for printer - disable broadcast - restart cups - run lpadmin to add remote printer
Then you would only have the remote printer added. but not using the method built-in to cups to automatically discover and add all printers.
Maybe a dialog or option to share all local printers or just a specific printer.
Sadly enough, short of using URL restrictions in cupsd.conf, you probably couldn't restrict access and broadcast your printers at the same time. That would be an interesting test to try and implement.
I think that maybe the unix admin had a problem coming from the lpr world. The commands are almost backwards compatible but you would need to know the URI for the printer type (i.e. usb:// or socket:// or lpd://)
That and the fact that the LPD backend all but bites donkey cock ( mostly due to the fact that LPD is donkey cock)
is the same cock-up who said legalizing homosexuality would lead to beastiality and kiddie porn legalization.
That's about as clueless as it gets. I could probably buy him off myself.
The question does beg itself, does the government have a role in dispensing this data to the public? I say yes but I can see where someone might think not.
You make a good point. I think we can do better in this regard but at some point you have to provide for user interaction.
Do you assume that the user always wants to print color or b/w? Landscape or Portrait? Legal or Letter?
I honestly blame Microsoft for making people THINK that computers require no input from the user. And apple while I'm at it but not to the same extent.
Apple makes it easier for the minimal input people and harder for the control freaks.
Microsoft makes it hard for both the minimal input people and the show me every option people.
Linux is flexible enough to find that middle ground and that's really what we need to do.
Those would be print filters/drivers for CUPS. OS X does all of this behind the scenes but does a very good job of wrapping cups up in a nice interface.
As to your printing problem, if you're configuring CUPS to CUPS printing, it couldn't be easier. The problem is that Debian may disable printer discovery by default. This is similar to what ESR bitched about a few months back in regards to user-unfriendliness.
A default install of CUPS will discover all CUPS server's printers on your network automatically.
And this doesn't help your printing problem or your original gripe but the print filters have been around since the days of lpr. As you may or may not know, not every printer speaks the universal postscript and even those that do sometimes fuck it up.
So basically you may submit a print job and watch it come out on the printer but CUPS has probably done the following:
You tell me when you can plug a printer in a Windows machine and have it automatically become the default with no interaction with the user?
The only time that happens is on a par. port printer. At least the no interaction bit. You still have to go detect this printer.
Read the guide that comes with almost every USB device on the planet. It says to install the driver BEFORE plugging in the device. This myth that adding things to Windows requires no interaction is just that, a myth.
I'm the first to rip on CUPS interface but as everyone always says "if you don't like it, change it yourself".
I do have a problem with the Admin GUI included by default.
I've been pretty frequently posting to the cups-bugs/cups-general because of our environment.
We basically have two cups servers with almost 1500 printers each now. That number will continue to grow. At that number of printers, printer replication fails between servers and loading/printers.cgi takes around a minute and a half.
We've basically developed a series of scripts for managing the printers via a mysql database and some command line tools that export to csv and builds shell scripts with the lpadmin command. This at least allows us to update both servers with the same information. These CUPS servers are
Mind you we've not had a problem with the print jobs themselves...just managing the printers.
You know what the sickest fucking part of that story is?
"Improve the speed, the weight, the aerodynamics, to reach the ultimate goal of completely phasing out children used as jockeys," Sheik Abdullah said.
This is something that needs to be fucking phased out? Christ, just fucking stop doing it.
Not that I care what these countries do. I'm sure we'll find a reason to invade them soon enough but goddamn. This is not rocket science (robot science maybe? heh).
The ONLY kernel bug I've ever experienced on a production box was on an 8-way 2.4 kernel on Redhat 2.1. When the system would flush it would hold everything up until it finished flushing. It was fixed in a release that we hadn't implemented yet because of driver issues but once we got updated drivers, we upgraded and everything has been peachy since then.
And I honestly mean that is the only kernel bug I've seen in a production system.
I think what we're seeing now is more vendors working to get hardware support included in the native kernel instead of forcing customers to have to fight with x distro to get the driver installed after the fact. In my mind that's a VERY GOOD THING.
Well I was simply using power5 as an example. And I was using i386 in a generic sense to cover commodity pc architechure (allthough the term "PC Architecture" is slowly loosing identity.
The point is really that based on what he said in a later post about the purpose, interconnects COULD be fastenough depending on the budget. An IP over infiniband solution would kill the latency issue dead. And I would argue that even latency at gigE copper is fine with the proper infrastructure. Then again he could go to a FiberIP solution and really get solid.
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You might THINK that's a good idea but Windows Update for instance, changes the name of the downloaded file per host and also tells squid NOT to cache. You could get around it as we tried but it doesn't matter since the objects will do nothing more than fill up your cache beyond disk space.
Technically you don't have to rot13 it at all with newer builds of firefox. That's just how netscape implemented it in the old days of the netscape deployment kit or whatever it was called. Notice I did say encoded and not encrypted ;)
I'm actually working on a guide specific to our install.
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We're running an older version and the pushing of the application is still manual but we have it running on Linux and Windows workstations.
I simply used the guides available online. Here's a few of them:
http://tln.lib.mi.us/~amutch/pro/phoenix/kiosk.ht
Basically we have everything stripped out (context menus, menu bars) and at least under linux, we disable the right mouse button entirely.
There only browser icons are back,forward, print, home and refresh.
The locked prefs are done with a rot13 encoded (netscape idea - not mine) customized prefs file.
The real problem is blanket deployments of firefox as is.
You wouldn't deploy IE without locking it down so why not firefox?
We have a deployment of about 2000 workstations with a highly customized build of firefox out there. I say customized but what I mean is that it's had various GUI elements stripped, keyboard shortcuts stripped and implements locked preferences. One of those preferences is software install. The only site that can install software is our internal update site.
Somebody paid him to write this, possibly as part of an internal migration plan but he failed to notice that in a corporate environment, a well thought-out mozilla implementation would implement things like locked preferences and other customization. Combine this with workstation security and his point is probably moot. I'm not going to spend 50 bucks to find out.
My wife and I were talking about this issue just this morning.
I told her this and I'm probably wrong:
These shows are being broadcast over the air for anyone to pick up (excluding the cable shows of course).
Time-shifting is legal so who is to say the shows I have downloaded aren't ones that I didn't pick up over the air? Especially with hdtv going over the air?
The only clue that the show I have on dvd is not the same one I originally watched is the fact that it has a overlay from the television station it was broadcast from originally.
The only thing I've taken to downloading online are some television shows that I missed the previous episodes because I wasn't originally interested. Will I buy the DVD box set when it comes out? I don't know. If I had them sitting on a tivo or on older vhs tapes I probably wouldn't.
The lesson is also that if you pay, they'll know you'll pay more.
There's a point where they keep coming back with higher numbers. If you look, they only guaranteed the protection for a year.
I agree. I actually read "The Scar" and thought that it was a WONDERFUL work. THe characters and the storyline were so well done.
I picked up "Iron Council" and soaked it up but the ending really put me off. Spiral Jacbos and the golum maker (can't be bothered right now to go look it up) were the coolest characters.
Meiville has a wonderful universe on his hands and I plan on going back and reading "Perdido Street Station" but I would only reread "The Scar" for a bit of filler for the next book, whatever that may be.
The original license holder can do whatever he wants with it. Take a look at mozilla or any other hybrid license product. The original license holder can make a commercial version of his own GPL project at the same time as GPL version.
If he has approval of the committers, he can actually import all the changes to the opensource version into the commercial product. He can even add proprietary features to his commercial version at will without adding them to the GPL version.
Again, he's the original license holder.
that I would chalk it up to the MSN beta search engine just plain sucking.
;)
Or at least the criteria it uses to determine matches is not as strong as it should be.
What interests me is that apache is still the top web server
Well the problem was that the wedding was in Michigan and we live in Georgia. We talked about doing something simple and in most respects it was. Everyone in the family contributed to things like flowers and the arch we used was built by family friends.
The reason we had it in Michigan is:
a) Her family and friends are all up there
b) we had a reception/house warming party in Georgia for my friends who couldn't come (I still flew my family up though)
c) We had it at her parent's place on Lake Huron so that part was free.
d) We got alot of the stuff for the wedding on the BTE (a barter org. up there) so why not have a bigger wedding.
And I agree that people go through alot of pointless shit for a wedding but it meant alot to us. Either way, we decided that without a TV we could actually focus on this like stuffing invitations and scheduling other resources.
I just checked the circuit city website and the cheapest STB i can get is around $250US. And I'll still need the antennae.
I'm sure the prices will come down some but this $50-$100 cost better be close to $50 before I'll buy.
We ditched cable last year because we were in and out of town so much planning for our wedding. We've not hooked it back up yet. We keep talking about it but never actually do it. I kind of like not shelling out $80 a month on shit I hardly watch.
I remember when I called to cancel, the cable company asked me while I was cancelling. The tried every trick in the book. I finally told them "The day you provide a package where I can get local channels and pick a few of the others like Discovery, BBC and TLC is the day I'll reactivate my service. Disconnect me please."
The woman gave in at that point.
The only time my wife uses the rabbit ears now is to watch Law and Order. The only other use the TV gets is DVDs and game consoles.
Maybe I should get an Ubuntu install going and see if I can tweek that stuff.
the URL for remote cups printers is ipp://hostname/printers/PrinterName
The reason that you get all the printers is probably because once they enable the broadcasting stuff, printers.conf automatically gets populate with all the printers it finds until they time out.
What would be a better option is to do the following behind the scenes:
- enable listening for other CUPS servers.
- restart cups
- Get the remote list
- Allow user to select the printer
- store URL for printer
- disable broadcast
- restart cups
- run lpadmin to add remote printer
Then you would only have the remote printer added. but not using the method built-in to cups to automatically discover and add all printers.
Maybe a dialog or option to share all local printers or just a specific printer.
Sadly enough, short of using URL restrictions in cupsd.conf, you probably couldn't restrict access and broadcast your printers at the same time. That would be an interesting test to try and implement.
I think that maybe the unix admin had a problem coming from the lpr world. The commands are almost backwards compatible but you would need to know the URI for the printer type (i.e. usb:// or socket:// or lpd://)
That and the fact that the LPD backend all but bites donkey cock ( mostly due to the fact that LPD is donkey cock)
is the same cock-up who said legalizing homosexuality would lead to beastiality and kiddie porn legalization.
That's about as clueless as it gets. I could probably buy him off myself.
The question does beg itself, does the government have a role in dispensing this data to the public? I say yes but I can see where someone might think not.
You make a good point. I think we can do better in this regard but at some point you have to provide for user interaction.
Do you assume that the user always wants to print color or b/w? Landscape or Portrait? Legal or Letter?
I honestly blame Microsoft for making people THINK that computers require no input from the user. And apple while I'm at it but not to the same extent.
Apple makes it easier for the minimal input people and harder for the control freaks.
Microsoft makes it hard for both the minimal input people and the show me every option people.
Linux is flexible enough to find that middle ground and that's really what we need to do.
Those would be print filters/drivers for CUPS. OS X does all of this behind the scenes but does a very good job of wrapping cups up in a nice interface.
As to your printing problem, if you're configuring CUPS to CUPS printing, it couldn't be easier. The problem is that Debian may disable printer discovery by default. This is similar to what ESR bitched about a few months back in regards to user-unfriendliness.
A default install of CUPS will discover all CUPS server's printers on your network automatically.
And this doesn't help your printing problem or your original gripe but the print filters have been around since the days of lpr. As you may or may not know, not every printer speaks the universal postscript and even those that do sometimes fuck it up.
So basically you may submit a print job and watch it come out on the printer but CUPS has probably done the following:
printjob->converttoxformat->convertopostscript->po stscripttopostscript->postscripttoprinterlanguage- >print
not very pretty and it usually happens really fast. You can write filters in pretty much any language.
Slashdot stripped my information in the command line. Here it is:
/path/to/driver/file.ppd.gz -L printerlocation -D "printer description"
lpadmin -h localhost -p printername -E -v socket://printerip:9100 -P
The system is not only configurable via the GUI.
/path/to/driver/file.ppd.gz -L -D "printer description"
/etc/cups/ppd as printername.ppd
I avoid the GUI as much as possible.
Let me show you how to add a printer via the command line in CUPS:
lpadmin -h localhost -p -E -v socket://:9100 -P
Guess what? You can leave most of the descriptive stuff out if you don't need it.
And adding printers to printers.conf does not make the printer work. CUPS has to copy the ppd file over to
Just so you know, cupsd.conf is ONLY configurable via the command line. You can't configure it via the web interface at all.
That might be an argument for another day but your original point is without and merit at all.
You tell me when you can plug a printer in a Windows machine and have it automatically become the default with no interaction with the user?
The only time that happens is on a par. port printer. At least the no interaction bit. You still have to go detect this printer.
Read the guide that comes with almost every USB device on the planet. It says to install the driver BEFORE plugging in the device. This myth that adding things to Windows requires no interaction is just that, a myth.
I'm the first to rip on CUPS interface but as everyone always says "if you don't like it, change it yourself".
I do have a problem with the Admin GUI included by default.
/cups-general because of our environment.
/printers.cgi takes around a minute and a half.
I've been pretty frequently posting to the cups-bugs
We basically have two cups servers with almost 1500 printers each now. That number will continue to grow. At that number of printers, printer replication fails between servers and loading
We've basically developed a series of scripts for managing the printers via a mysql database and some command line tools that export to csv and builds shell scripts with the lpadmin command. This at least allows us to update both servers with the same information. These CUPS servers are
Mind you we've not had a problem with the print jobs themselves...just managing the printers.
I think that you should enhance the word public there to give it the true sound.
PUB-lick
might work.
You know what the sickest fucking part of that story is?
"Improve the speed, the weight, the aerodynamics, to reach the ultimate goal of completely phasing out children used as jockeys," Sheik Abdullah said.
This is something that needs to be fucking phased out? Christ, just fucking stop doing it.
Not that I care what these countries do. I'm sure we'll find a reason to invade them soon enough but goddamn. This is not rocket science (robot science maybe? heh).
The tapes probably should not have been shipped with UPS or FedEx.
Use Iron Mountain or one of the dozens of other data protection companies. Then you can go after them for a problem like this.
Iron Mountain allows us to have tapes delivered to alternate addresses with the proper authorization as part of a DR scenario.
The ONLY kernel bug I've ever experienced on a production box was on an 8-way 2.4 kernel on Redhat 2.1. When the system would flush it would hold everything up until it finished flushing. It was fixed in a release that we hadn't implemented yet because of driver issues but once we got updated drivers, we upgraded and everything has been peachy since then.
And I honestly mean that is the only kernel bug I've seen in a production system.
I think what we're seeing now is more vendors working to get hardware support included in the native kernel instead of forcing customers to have to fight with x distro to get the driver installed after the fact. In my mind that's a VERY GOOD THING.
Well I was simply using power5 as an example. And I was using i386 in a generic sense to cover commodity pc architechure (allthough the term "PC Architecture" is slowly loosing identity.
The point is really that based on what he said in a later post about the purpose, interconnects COULD be fastenough depending on the budget. An IP over infiniband solution would kill the latency issue dead. And I would argue that even latency at gigE copper is fine with the proper infrastructure. Then again he could go to a FiberIP solution and really get solid.