It's always "the breakthrough free software has been waiting for"... free software has been growing over the years, but these sorts of things never seem to make the big global impact that the news reports they will. (Not saying this is a bad thing, though!)
...and to add to that, all servers have an Apt proxy setting pointing them to a squid proxy, so security.debian.org doesn't get hit hard either - this is something that anyone can do, even without a local mirror.
The whole system was not described in one measly little/. post...
As another "sub 7-digit guy" - there is a reason for this... There is no way I'm going to let over 60 servers automatically install patches without me checking them first! Download, yes. Install, no.
At work we use cfengine to manage the servers, with a home-built script that allows servers to install packages (of a specified version). Package is checked and OK? Add it to the bottom of the text file, GPG sign it, and push it into the repository. cfengine takes care of the rest (our cf system is slightly non-standard, so everything has to be signed and go through subversion to actually work).
What I really lack is a way / program to move a video stream from one container format to another without transcoding the video stream. For example, the Ogg format hosts MPEG4 steams fairly well, so why can't I simply "lift" Microsoft MPEG4 or Apple MPEG4 videos from their respective proprietary containers to the open Ogg container?
Can you not use mencoder/mplayer with the "-oac copy" and/or "-ovc copy" options?
Click on "Go to Google.com" or "Google.com in English" on the home page (bottom right)? Otherwise, try going to www.google.com/ncr (where these links go to). You'll need to allow cookies so that Google doesn't redirect you back to your country page again.
You can also set your preferred language for search results in the Preferences page.
That may be a joke, but in reality IPv6 is ready. My UK ADSL provider, Andrews & Arnold, provide me with an entire block of IPv6 addresses. They will even route it to you natively if your router will support it, otherwise you have to use a 6-over-4 tunnel. My network uses it by default over IPv4; it's kind of neat when e-mail has IPv6 addresses in the headers.;-)
Depends what mail server you use... I have configured exim so that it will accept suffixes on e-mail addresses, provided that the folder exists already. That way to create a xxx-YYY@domain suffix, I just create the YYY folder in my maildir. Works nicely.
The '.' character in an email address violates RFC, but no one seems to really care.
er, no. Only that if you want to begin or end the local part with a ".", then you have to quote the local part. i.e. some.body@domain.example is fine, but.somebody@domain.example must be stated as ".somebody"@domain.example
An addr-spec is a specific Internet identifier that contains a
locally interpreted string followed by the at-sign character ("@",
ASCII value 64) followed by an Internet domain. The locally
interpreted string is either a quoted-string or a dot-atom. If the
string can be represented as a dot-atom (that is, it contains no
characters other than atext characters or "." surrounded by atext
characters), then the dot-atom form SHOULD be used and the
quoted-string form SHOULD NOT be used. Comments and folding white
space SHOULD NOT be used around the "@" in the addr-spec.
> (I wish they would explain to me who Cain and Abel married)
Their sisters. Adam and Eve had daughters too (Gen. 5:4), and incest was not illegal until the law introduced in Moses time. The genetic makeup would have been near perfect at that time, so close marriage would not have produced the same problems as it does today.
Try Andrews and Arnold. I've had IPv6 (via a tunnel from their network) for the last two years with them. Native IPv6 (without a tunnel) is integrated into the new router they are developing, and should be live by the end of the year (only problem is finding an ADSL router that will support it, but you can use an ADSL modem and Linux, for example).
Follow the instructions here to download windows update files and save them to disk. Write them to CD, and then install them on your new machine. Finally, connect to the network...
Unfortunately, this doesn't work if you don't have another windows box around, but it can be very useful.
You probably want to install the latest service pack first, if you've got that on CD somewhere, and then only download updates from that service pack onwards.
I had this issue just the other day. I found out that Microsoft provide a "hidden" option on Windows Update to allow downloading all patches for a certain operating system.
Basically, go to Windows Update, click on "Personalize Windows Update", and then turn on "Display the link to the Windows Update Catalog", and save. You then go back to the main page, where you can access the windows update catalog and download to disk all current patches for a particular OS automatically.
When I found that I was very pleased.
I think there is software to automatically install it all from disk, too, but I haven't had time to look for that, yet.
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It's always "the breakthrough free software has been waiting for"... free software has been growing over the years, but these sorts of things never seem to make the big global impact that the news reports they will. (Not saying this is a bad thing, though!)
Or just use Ant Colony Optimisation, which has been doing this for 18 years.
...and to add to that, all servers have an Apt proxy setting pointing them to a squid proxy, so security.debian.org doesn't get hit hard either - this is something that anyone can do, even without a local mirror.
The whole system was not described in one measly little /. post...
We're a university - we run a local Debian mirror.
As another "sub 7-digit guy" - there is a reason for this... There is no way I'm going to let over 60 servers automatically install patches without me checking them first! Download, yes. Install, no.
At work we use cfengine to manage the servers, with a home-built script that allows servers to install packages (of a specified version). Package is checked and OK? Add it to the bottom of the text file, GPG sign it, and push it into the repository. cfengine takes care of the rest (our cf system is slightly non-standard, so everything has to be signed and go through subversion to actually work).
So that's about 8165 x 6124 at your standard 4:3, and an image of approx 27" x 20" when printed at 300dpi...
How wasn't she an ancestor of Adam and Eve?
Genesis 5:4 "After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters."
Cain's wife was one of his sisters (incest was banned only later during the time of Moses).
Genesis 5:4 - "After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters."
Cain and Able were not Adam and Eve's only two children.
Can you not use mencoder/mplayer with the "-oac copy" and/or "-ovc copy" options?
Click on "Go to Google.com" or "Google.com in English" on the home page (bottom right)? Otherwise, try going to www.google.com/ncr (where these links go to). You'll need to allow cookies so that Google doesn't redirect you back to your country page again.
You can also set your preferred language for search results in the Preferences page.
Heh, that's because Win2k is a legacy system...
That may be a joke, but in reality IPv6 is ready. My UK ADSL provider, Andrews & Arnold, provide me with an entire block of IPv6 addresses. They will even route it to you natively if your router will support it, otherwise you have to use a 6-over-4 tunnel. My network uses it by default over IPv4; it's kind of neat when e-mail has IPv6 addresses in the headers. ;-)
Depends what mail server you use... I have configured exim so that it will accept suffixes on e-mail addresses, provided that the folder exists already. That way to create a xxx-YYY@domain suffix, I just create the YYY folder in my maildir. Works nicely.
er, no. Only that if you want to begin or end the local part with a ".", then you have to quote the local part. i.e. some.body@domain.example is fine, but .somebody@domain.example must be stated as ".somebody"@domain.example
RFC 2822, 3.4.1 "Addr-spec specification" (italics mine):
Surely, that is hell?
> (I wish they would explain to me who Cain and Abel married)
Their sisters. Adam and Eve had daughters too (Gen. 5:4), and incest was not illegal until the law introduced in Moses time. The genetic makeup would have been near perfect at that time, so close marriage would not have produced the same problems as it does today.
See also this for more info.
No they don't ;-)
end of text on current line: $
beginning of non-whitespace on current line: ^
(think of regular expressions...)
also:
beginning of current line: 0
append stuff to end of line: A
insert text at beginning of line: I
iusually is a big problem for me, as I'm so used to vi commands^[o
I just can't stop hitting escape after typing things!^[:wq
Try Andrews and Arnold. I've had IPv6 (via a tunnel from their network) for the last two years with them. Native IPv6 (without a tunnel) is integrated into the new router they are developing, and should be live by the end of the year (only problem is finding an ADSL router that will support it, but you can use an ADSL modem and Linux, for example).
Follow the instructions here to download windows update files and save them to disk. Write them to CD, and then install them on your new machine. Finally, connect to the network...
Unfortunately, this doesn't work if you don't have another windows box around, but it can be very useful.
You probably want to install the latest service pack first, if you've got that on CD somewhere, and then only download updates from that service pack onwards.
I had this issue just the other day. I found out that Microsoft provide a "hidden" option on Windows Update to allow downloading all patches for a certain operating system.
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The following URL describes how to do it: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb
Basically, go to Windows Update, click on "Personalize Windows Update", and then turn on "Display the link to the Windows Update Catalog", and save. You then go back to the main page, where you can access the windows update catalog and download to disk all current patches for a particular OS automatically.
When I found that I was very pleased.
I think there is software to automatically install it all from disk, too, but I haven't had time to look for that, yet.
It can't have been registered properly... www.netbsd(r).org doesn't seem to exist!
Looks like they can be found here (in both HTML and "plain" text).