I just recently did this same thing, and I finally landed on Suse 9.1.
I tried the following, listed in order of preference:
Libranet 2.8.1 - very nice commercial Debian system, but apt-get doesn't work like magic 100% of the time.
Fedora Core 2 - very nice, but some immediate stability problems with Gnome Nautilus (crashes while trying to do Samba client things). Samba Active Directory features do not work as the pretty GUI tools would suggest. I'm sure with ample configuration of smb.conf and other conf files it may work.
Knoppix 3.4 - very slick, but actually using it off CDROM is painfully slow. HD install not flawless, but once you mkswap manually you fix the one problem. Installs too much crap.
Debian Sarge - same as Libranet, without the handy Adminmenu and other Libranet goodies. Same apt-get issues.
FreeBSD 4.10 - nice, but building non-bin-supported products from ports gets old quickly. Firefox took ages to build on a 2GHz workstation class machine.
Then I tried Suse 9.1 Personal when the ISOs were released free. Very very nice. High quality, great polish. YaST is quite good, but not perfect. Package installation using YaST is nice when it works (usually does), but when it fails you get no details about why it failed. You end up doing rpm from command line anyway, and as with all Linuxes you find that the reason for the failure was a missing dependency or a conflict.
Ramming (force) the latest Samba server and client software down rpm magically got me a system that can painlessly connect to Active Directory network shares via Konquerer file manager, and after manually starting smbd and nmbd, I have a working Samba host. Very pleasant.
My great desire is to find a distro that automagically does Active Directory membership/browsing, as well as hosting of shares within the domain. I also long for some kind of package management system that doesn't have every package fighting with every other package, or doom me to using several old version software.
I'm sure this is naive, but I'd be happy with every package/app going in its own directory, and including (or automatically downloading) every library it needs and storing it in its own dir.
If there's one huge huge rough spot in Linux/BSD desktop adoption, it's package management. None of the existing systems - ports, rpm, apt/dpkg work in all cases.
Oh speaking of childish things, you give away your age (or your youth, in this case) by using the sad modern insulting name "fucktard" -- a word which incidentally makes the user (you) seem exactly like what the word makes one envision.
Submitter states that Bryan Mack created the hoax while at University of Houston. According to the article, Bryan Mack went to Iowa State.
*BZZZZZZT* wrong.
Article says
I found the same text preserved by an amateur Internet archivist named Martin Miller, a University of Houston student who'd saved every copy of the hoax he received over a seven-year period and posted the collection on his Web site (where he was also selling calendars for Lent). He informed me this version was sent to him in late 1997 and that he believes it's the first. When it got to him, there were just 10 names on the recipient list. The first was Bryan Mack at Iowa State.
Bryan Mack was no longer a student by the time I came calling. He'd graduated in 2001 and had taken a job programming databases at the Colorado School of Mines. He's a regular guy. He answers his own phone. "I wasn't trying to trick people," he told me. "It was just a joke between a couple friends." Then he described how the joke got a little out of hand.
It's not a big deal, but if you're going to go to the trouble of pumping up your submission with a lovely URL to a school, get the right one.
Hell I really doubt education reviewers of theses actually read them all. Given the number of masters and PhD theses generated each year at some institutions, there's no way they are all read and reviewed with any significant focus.
Join the Movement! Shorter Theses For All!...if you can't say it in 30 pages, why bother...:P
I'd have to take a substitution on the circuit licking myself.
I've sent suspected-bad UARTs to their fiery deaths with the aid of a tough little punch board and a variable power supply...
Did you know you can actually cause a small jet of flames to shoot out of the center of a heat-induced crack in a UART chip? It's most impressive, if only for 1.5 seconds.
And I'm sure you know that all UARTs go to heaven. For ours, heaven was the gpysum ceiling tiles in the lab. They punch down nicely, and they'll stay there for years if your professors are short and rarely look straight up.
Re:SSID rebroadcast is NOT a solution
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heh, well I didn't count that suggestion since it was already present in the original article.
SSID rebroadcast is NOT a solution
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That will allow the machine to quickly reconnect, but it doesn't solve the actual problem. It just remedies the symptom a bit.
It is unacceptable to be disconnected, even if you are immediately reconnected. This is the situation of one of my clients.
His PC bounces while his two laptops, both on the same desk, all of which are no more than 5 feet without obstruction from the wireless router, never have a problem.
Plus his PC didn't always do that. And changing router frequency channels doesn't solve it.
Dumping the MS config and moving to a manufacturer connector is the only solution for hosed XP machines like this.
it will take many software generations to start seeing appreciable results in security.
one of the biggest difficulties is to increase security while simultaneously adding features. once products and operating systems reach a certain level of feature maturity, the ernest improvement of security can happen.
at the same time, the building blocks are getting safer. simply eliminating buffer overflow vulnerabilities greatly strengthens security.
give it time, and keep working toward smarter development practices. software is still young.
it's much easier to do invasively than non-invasively, as they state. in this article they sort of market invasive as being superior, but that depends on your perspective. it is superior in its ease of understanding signals, but it is inferior to those who object to direct tinkering with the brain.
ideally we could accurately decipher signals non-invasively to get the same result. invasive is inherently more dangerous, and certainly more complicated from a medical point of view.
I imagine it was modded up in preparation for the anti-blunte negative moderator party.
Usually what happens is my comment gets modded up a couple of points, and then is swiftly modded "overrated" or some other useful mod.
Anyway,/. moderation is a crap shoot. Most comments (including many of mine) are just drivel, but at the same time most moderators are not qualified to judge the value of comments, either due to lack of knowledge on the subject, lack of practical experience, or just simply lack of general intelligence.
Plus, some attitudes are in vogue here, while others are very much not. Any anti-Bush comment is a definite winner, while any defence of Bush is a loser. Anything that suggests a non-liberal view is bad, while any anti-US view is good.
I'm neither liberal nor conservative (at least as the two parties represent themselves), but nor am I incapable of evaluating political decisions and outcomes.
Back on topic, Sun's relationship to Microsoft is awkward and unusual, as is their relationship to SCO. Sun has been anti-Linux, but it has alternately embraced Linux. So it's really not out of the realm of possibility that part of the MS -> Sun $$$ settlement involved Sun sabotaging Linux in some way. This open sourcing of Solaris, of which Sun has already agreed (by license) is related to SCO's Unix IP, could not have been done in ignorance with respect to how SCO would respond.
Thus, I think it was either specifically designed to give SCO an excuse to delay the conclusion of the case, or at minimum to give SCO an opportunity to spout "new" PR (and regain some SCOX value).
1 - MS "funds" SCO to sue IBM (but really to screw Linux) 2 - Sun adds to SCO fund via license agreement 3 - Time passes, SCOX drops like a rock, party nearly over 4 - MS settles with Sun over long standing issue ($$$ -> Sun) 5 - Sun offers (threatens?) to open source Solaris, allowing SCO to delay the inevitable, all while generating more new PR
Perhaps the ultimate solution would be to encrypt data as it is entered, before it is saved into RAM, and arrange for programs that use it to decrypt it first.
I love this. Be sure your program encrypts the password before it ever enters RAM! Of course this could be tricky, but I'm sure you'll work out the magic (hint - solution involves clairvoyance, but I hear Alienware's top machines can do that).
Yes of course it does, since "nerd news" as a phrase isn't terribly common. But searching for "slashdot" gives an entire first page of Google that only goes to/. (actually, one page goes to some student's protest against/., but it is of course the same slashdot.)
Slashdot Mirror
That's why IT management, starting from the top down, needs to plan better.
There is nothing revolutionary, even using ActiveX, that can be done in IE that cannot be done by other means with non-IE browsers.
The only significant benefit to doing IE-only development is the streamlined development tools.
This reminds me of a story I heard as a kid... The Three Little Pigs. Sure you can build a straw house quickly, but is it a long-term solution?
I just recently did this same thing, and I finally landed on Suse 9.1.
I tried the following, listed in order of preference:
Libranet 2.8.1 - very nice commercial Debian system, but apt-get doesn't work like magic 100% of the time.
Fedora Core 2 - very nice, but some immediate stability problems with Gnome Nautilus (crashes while trying to do Samba client things). Samba Active Directory features do not work as the pretty GUI tools would suggest. I'm sure with ample configuration of smb.conf and other conf files it may work.
Knoppix 3.4 - very slick, but actually using it off CDROM is painfully slow. HD install not flawless, but once you mkswap manually you fix the one problem. Installs too much crap.
Debian Sarge - same as Libranet, without the handy Adminmenu and other Libranet goodies. Same apt-get issues.
FreeBSD 4.10 - nice, but building non-bin-supported products from ports gets old quickly. Firefox took ages to build on a 2GHz workstation class machine.
Then I tried Suse 9.1 Personal when the ISOs were released free. Very very nice. High quality, great polish. YaST is quite good, but not perfect. Package installation using YaST is nice when it works (usually does), but when it fails you get no details about why it failed. You end up doing rpm from command line anyway, and as with all Linuxes you find that the reason for the failure was a missing dependency or a conflict.
Ramming (force) the latest Samba server and client software down rpm magically got me a system that can painlessly connect to Active Directory network shares via Konquerer file manager, and after manually starting smbd and nmbd, I have a working Samba host. Very pleasant.
My great desire is to find a distro that automagically does Active Directory membership/browsing, as well as hosting of shares within the domain. I also long for some kind of package management system that doesn't have every package fighting with every other package, or doom me to using several old version software.
I'm sure this is naive, but I'd be happy with every package/app going in its own directory, and including (or automatically downloading) every library it needs and storing it in its own dir.
If there's one huge huge rough spot in Linux/BSD desktop adoption, it's package management. None of the existing systems - ports, rpm, apt/dpkg work in all cases.
Good luck.
Who has time for gay video games when there are so many gay pride marches to attend!
My great hope
is that all the companies
(and government agencies)
who created IE-only sites
SUFFER HORRIBLY
when the world moves to SP2
What I want to know is, how does Apple provide "instant" answers to searches?
Are they maintaining frequently-updated indices?
Will it be a constant drag on system performance, as with MS's old Fast Find, or their current full text indexing?
Will all 10 Mac OSX applications support Spotlight?
You can't do much Windows admin work via text/shell connection, and 56k + RDP/Citrix is very painful.
I wonder if you really are GillBates... he would have known that.
Boo Boo?
Oh speaking of childish things, you give away your age (or your youth, in this case) by using the sad modern insulting name "fucktard" -- a word which incidentally makes the user (you) seem exactly like what the word makes one envision.
Your diatribe was lovely... and completely off-topic.
The article was discussing kernels, not desktop interfaces.
Here I am feeling like a loser because I can't make the bug work.
"Damnit! Even the stupid bugs and exploits don't work on this crappy machine!"
*BZZZZZZT* wrong.
Article says
It's not a big deal, but if you're going to go to the trouble of pumping up your submission with a lovely URL to a school, get the right one.
80% of all statistics are made up.
Who really RTFA in its entirety?
...if you can't say it in 30 pages, why bother... :P
Hell I really doubt education reviewers of theses actually read them all. Given the number of masters and PhD theses generated each year at some institutions, there's no way they are all read and reviewed with any significant focus.
Join the Movement! Shorter Theses For All!
Why, live DNA sample, of course. Acquired, analyzed, and compared while you wait.
I didn't really understand anything you said, but I see you managed to mention testicles in a /. post, and that was cool...
[cue Butthead laugh]
that was too easy. was this a trick question?
I'd have to take a substitution on the circuit licking myself.
I've sent suspected-bad UARTs to their fiery deaths with the aid of a tough little punch board and a variable power supply...
Did you know you can actually cause a small jet of flames to shoot out of the center of a heat-induced crack in a UART chip? It's most impressive, if only for 1.5 seconds.
And I'm sure you know that all UARTs go to heaven. For ours, heaven was the gpysum ceiling tiles in the lab. They punch down nicely, and they'll stay there for years if your professors are short and rarely look straight up.
heh, well I didn't count that suggestion since it was already present in the original article.
That will allow the machine to quickly reconnect, but it doesn't solve the actual problem. It just remedies the symptom a bit.
It is unacceptable to be disconnected, even if you are immediately reconnected. This is the situation of one of my clients.
His PC bounces while his two laptops, both on the same desk, all of which are no more than 5 feet without obstruction from the wireless router, never have a problem.
Plus his PC didn't always do that. And changing router frequency channels doesn't solve it.
Dumping the MS config and moving to a manufacturer connector is the only solution for hosed XP machines like this.
it will take many software generations to start seeing appreciable results in security.
one of the biggest difficulties is to increase security while simultaneously adding features. once products and operating systems reach a certain level of feature maturity, the ernest improvement of security can happen.
at the same time, the building blocks are getting safer. simply eliminating buffer overflow vulnerabilities greatly strengthens security.
give it time, and keep working toward smarter development practices. software is still young.
it's much easier to do invasively than non-invasively, as they state. in this article they sort of market invasive as being superior, but that depends on your perspective. it is superior in its ease of understanding signals, but it is inferior to those who object to direct tinkering with the brain.
ideally we could accurately decipher signals non-invasively to get the same result. invasive is inherently more dangerous, and certainly more complicated from a medical point of view.
I imagine it was modded up in preparation for the anti-blunte negative moderator party.
/. moderation is a crap shoot. Most comments (including many of mine) are just drivel, but at the same time most moderators are not qualified to judge the value of comments, either due to lack of knowledge on the subject, lack of practical experience, or just simply lack of general intelligence.
Usually what happens is my comment gets modded up a couple of points, and then is swiftly modded "overrated" or some other useful mod.
Anyway,
Plus, some attitudes are in vogue here, while others are very much not. Any anti-Bush comment is a definite winner, while any defence of Bush is a loser. Anything that suggests a non-liberal view is bad, while any anti-US view is good.
I'm neither liberal nor conservative (at least as the two parties represent themselves), but nor am I incapable of evaluating political decisions and outcomes.
Back on topic, Sun's relationship to Microsoft is awkward and unusual, as is their relationship to SCO. Sun has been anti-Linux, but it has alternately embraced Linux. So it's really not out of the realm of possibility that part of the MS -> Sun $$$ settlement involved Sun sabotaging Linux in some way. This open sourcing of Solaris, of which Sun has already agreed (by license) is related to SCO's Unix IP, could not have been done in ignorance with respect to how SCO would respond.
Thus, I think it was either specifically designed to give SCO an excuse to delay the conclusion of the case, or at minimum to give SCO an opportunity to spout "new" PR (and regain some SCOX value).
Anyway, thanks for asking.
Here's a simplified theory :)
1 - MS "funds" SCO to sue IBM (but really to screw Linux)
2 - Sun adds to SCO fund via license agreement
3 - Time passes, SCOX drops like a rock, party nearly over
4 - MS settles with Sun over long standing issue ($$$ -> Sun)
5 - Sun offers (threatens?) to open source Solaris, allowing SCO to delay the inevitable, all while generating more new PR
I love this. Be sure your program encrypts the password before it ever enters RAM! Of course this could be tricky, but I'm sure you'll work out the magic (hint - solution involves clairvoyance, but I hear Alienware's top machines can do that).
Yes of course it does, since "nerd news" as a phrase isn't terribly common. But searching for "slashdot" gives an entire first page of Google that only goes to /. (actually, one page goes to some student's protest against /., but it is of course the same slashdot.)
Ok it wasn't a question above, but you explained one good reason for picking goofy and goofily spelled names - findability on Google.
Would you rather search for "slashdot" on Google, or "nerd news"? Which one will give the most accurate results?
Imagine searching for "VI Editor Plugin". I don't know about you, but I'd rather search for "Yzis".