First, for people who don't know what they're doing, standardize on Red Hat or some other distribution with a good package manager and the ability to do kick-start network installs. (People who do have a clue should of course be able to use whatever they want.)
Then, set up a kickstart install with good default packages and a post-install script that changes security settings to be appropriate for your site. In this, include AutoRPM, pointing at a patch server you maintain. This runs out of cron, and keeps all systems up to date.
Then make sure no one breaks into your patch server.:)
But with intellectual property, things are different. If you have an idea, can't I independently have the same idea? Even if you had it first? "No, I'm sorry, that's my thought. You have to pay me to think that now."
Rob -- being able to turn off the moderation is one thing, but what about adding killfiles? Let people set regexes of subjects/usernames that won't get displayed - not just in the initial story, but for comments too.
In trademark law, there's the concept that trademarks only apply within certain catagories. For example, a trademark on something computer-related doesn't interfere with a trademark for a food product. But since the DNS is one big namespace, clashes happen really quickly -- "hey, that's my.com domain!". More TLDs helps better distinguish between unrelated trademarks.
There are plans underway to eventually add a few more top-level domains, but there's NO good reason we couldn't just allow any and all TLDs (up to a reasonable length limit) to be created. This'd save so much trouble, and stop the silliness where people try to register "their" domain under every TLD.
We don't yet use Samba extensively at the university where I work -- but then, we (thank goodness) don't use NT extensively either. We've found that Samba makes NT administration way easier -- for example, you can do things like log messages to different files depending on severity, instead of making them pop up annoyingly on administrators' screens.
Yahoo sells ads based on keywords (I think everyone does this), but they don't sell search order. Alta Vista has a way you can buy keywords, but the "purchased" ones are obviously seperated from the rest of the results.
Ok, a patent on a better mousetrap I understand. These people are patenting the concept of catching mice. Geez.
It wouldn't be so bad if patents didn't last for so damn long. I realize that disallowing software patents probably isn't gonna happen, so I'd like to see a compromise: patents on computer software and algorithms should last for two years.
I dunno, the pkids are pretty damn geeky. They were high-end flight-sim programmers before quitting to be a band. And they still write the enhanced stuff on their cd, and do their own web site. (Check out the tour reports especially.)
As for frat boy sound -- it's certainly not the typical 4/4 simplistic drek that implies. If you don't like it, you should check out Salaryman, the Pkids' alter ego, for a totally different sound from the same people.
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Where would we be today had these not been invented?TELNET SUBLIMINAL-MESSAGE Option
A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
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That's not true. They make nice mice. (Although not enough buttons.)
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Then, set up a kickstart install with good default packages and a post-install script that changes security settings to be appropriate for your site.
In this, include AutoRPM, pointing at a patch server you maintain. This runs out of cron, and keeps all systems up to date.
Then make sure no one breaks into your patch server.
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You should check out LUGnet (the newsgroups especially) and Lego Mindstorms Internals.
LUGnet, incidentally, runs on all open-source/Free software.
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You'll need to change your networking scripts a bit, though.
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It wouldn't be so bad if patents didn't last for so damn long. I realize that disallowing software patents probably isn't gonna happen, so I'd like to see a compromise: patents on computer software and algorithms should last for two years.
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As for frat boy sound -- it's certainly not the typical 4/4 simplistic drek that implies. If you don't like it, you should check out Salaryman, the Pkids' alter ego, for a totally different sound from the same people.
MoA is pretty damn geeky too. And also cool.
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