He would be better off just hiring a customs broker to make the problem go away. It's $100 but that tends to be the only way I've gotten things through customs sometimes.
That depends on the decisions. Personally I'm good at knowing what to buy and knowing how much to spend on it. But I totally suck at buisness decisions. And it also helps to have someone who asks "do we really need to spend that much on this?"
I need a boss who knows what I don't know/don't care about. I'm a good sysadmin but a sucky buisnessman and I'm not afraid to admit it.
What I don't like is being overuled on every last purchase request. I *do* need to have a boss that listens to me. A former employer waffed on the purchase on a new drive "but SCSI drives are expensive" Until after the old one crapped out resulting in 6 hours work instead of 30 mins.
Complete BS.. I've yet to see any testing that manages to find 100% of the bugs.
Through my time as a sysadmin I've come accross bugs in both open and closed source software and have definatly come to appreciate being able to fix the bugs on my own.
Example: Last weeks helpdesk software installation. The software was incompatable with qmail. Fix: 5 minutes. Any guesses how long it would have taken to get the closed source equivelant fixed?
The only option is to hunt the spammers and make as much trouble for them as possible. But then that's a full time job in itself.
I had my spam down to 3 or 4 a week before this way but now that I've taken a break for that it's up to 20+ per day. Mind you Alan Ralsky adding me to his lists after I quit my last job hasn't helped that any. (I think hes pissed but oh well)
That's true actually.. most of the flaming I see tends to be from people who don't contribute. And it's not restricted to Linux either I've seen the same in the FreeBSD camp.
Real programmers shut up and let their work speak for them.
Actually Passport has been compromised on several occasions.
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CVS doesn't do what Linus wants.. hes worked in the past with the bitkeeper folks to make that do what he wants and he might even switch to it one day.
It's still important to note that CVS or another other revision control system have nothing at all to do with the problem at hand.
The problem? People like to send patches directly to Linus instead of the correct maintainer.
As "anti engineering biases" that's complete BS.
if he had followed "best practices" at the time we would have a hurd clone wich I might add is older than Linux and *still* not even close to useful.
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So a month later hes backlogged in unmerged branges that hes not had a chance to look at yet? How exactly does that help?
It's been done and the idea *failed*. CVS cannot solve the problem at hand.
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It simply won't help the problem... source management isn't the problem. Making sure useless crap doesn't make it into the tree is the problem. CVS doesn't have any sort of means to make sure that what goes in is quality code.
"In the battle between Unix/Linux and Microsoft, scalability, performance, and unit of work costs all favor the Microsoft platform."
This should be the first hint at what the rest of this is worth. I won't aregue price but MS *used* to be more scaleable. Linux has much improved since the famous Mindcraft stats.
As for the rest of it they almost had me.. up until I realised that they dind't mention all of the exploits for Windows2000. CERT is not a good place to find exploit stats.
And then theres the problem of the author spending all of it's time blasting SUN and IBM then sort of linking Linux in by saying Unix/Linux and going on to call RedHat a worst offender.
The artical also oversimplifies how easy it is to find buffer overflows. I wonder how long that bug in telnetd has been there. It took them how many years to find it?
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AMD's 64 bit cpu doesn't need it. If the OS doesn't support it then the extra features doen't get used.
It's backward compatable at the application level if the OS bothers to keep 32 bit compatabillity around.
Try a bios update or better yet take the board back and trade it for one that works.
But wait... just use 2.4.18-rc4!
chaos agent: I don't have an accent; before I had an accent now I speak normally.
Seriously, I didn't realise I say aboot either until I went down to the US and had people make fun of my accent.
Alan Ralsky is a special sort of problem though. He tells the ISP how much money he makes and implies they will get rich working with him.
In the end they take a tiney fraction of the income in return for taking all of the risk.
Check my journal for his interaction with my former employer.
Loading windows programs from Wine is only one way to make use of it. You can also compile windows software using Wine to provide a translation layer.
I imagine the second option would be a lot more attractive if they could do that with proprietary apps with non GPL licences.
AFIK WordPerfect for Linux was compiled using Wine.
Nah customs is just being it's petty anal self.
He would be better off just hiring a customs broker to make the problem go away. It's $100 but that tends to be the only way I've gotten things through customs sometimes.
In other words if somone shows up with a warrent everything gets handed over and you can't sue them for it.
Seems reasonable.
This is why I've always tended to run snmp on a non routable address block. It's saved me a few times.
That depends on the decisions. Personally I'm good at knowing what to buy and knowing how much to spend on it. But I totally suck at buisness decisions. And it also helps to have someone who asks "do we really need to spend that much on this?"
I need a boss who knows what I don't know/don't care about. I'm a good sysadmin but a sucky buisnessman and I'm not afraid to admit it.
What I don't like is being overuled on every last purchase request. I *do* need to have a boss that listens to me. A former employer waffed on the purchase on a new drive "but SCSI drives are expensive" Until after the old one crapped out resulting in 6 hours work instead of 30 mins.
Complete BS.. I've yet to see any testing that manages to find 100% of the bugs.
Through my time as a sysadmin I've come accross bugs in both open and closed source software and have definatly come to appreciate being able to fix the bugs on my own.
Example: Last weeks helpdesk software installation. The software was incompatable with qmail. Fix: 5 minutes. Any guesses how long it would have taken to get the closed source equivelant fixed?
I meant voting in place of whoever the ballots belonged to.
Unfortunatly I don't see how they would make sure some jerk doesn't steal the ballots from the street and vote for several people at once.
Feel free to fill me in on how they prevented that.
The only option is to hunt the spammers and make as much trouble for them as possible. But then that's a full time job in itself.
I had my spam down to 3 or 4 a week before this way but now that I've taken a break for that it's up to 20+ per day. Mind you Alan Ralsky adding me to his lists after I quit my last job hasn't helped that any. (I think hes pissed but oh well)
My co workers seem to stop by my office a lot less since I showed them the bofh series.
There are seperate forks: 2.2.x and 2.4.x. Neither are maintained by Linus.
That's true actually.. most of the flaming I see tends to be from people who don't contribute. And it's not restricted to Linux either I've seen the same in the FreeBSD camp.
Real programmers shut up and let their work speak for them.
This should be a wakeup call to RedHat to fix their distro. They are making everyone else look bad.
It's time to get rid of apps with bad security records. This means you Bero!
Honestly? I don't think I would trust anyone with that info.
Actually Passport has been compromised on several occasions.
CVS doesn't do what Linus wants.. hes worked in the past with the bitkeeper folks to make that do what he wants and he might even switch to it one day.
It's still important to note that CVS or another other revision control system have nothing at all to do with the problem at hand.
The problem? People like to send patches directly to Linus instead of the correct maintainer.
As "anti engineering biases" that's complete BS.
if he had followed "best practices" at the time we would have a hurd clone wich I might add is older than Linux and *still* not even close to useful.
So a month later hes backlogged in unmerged branges that hes not had a chance to look at yet? How exactly does that help?
It's been done and the idea *failed*. CVS cannot solve the problem at hand.
It simply won't help the problem... source management isn't the problem. Making sure useless crap doesn't make it into the tree is the problem. CVS doesn't have any sort of means to make sure that what goes in is quality code.
"In the battle between Unix/Linux and Microsoft, scalability, performance, and unit of work costs all favor the Microsoft platform."
This should be the first hint at what the rest of this is worth. I won't aregue price but MS *used* to be more scaleable. Linux has much improved since the famous Mindcraft stats.
As for the rest of it they almost had me.. up until I realised that they dind't mention all of the exploits for Windows2000. CERT is not a good place to find exploit stats.
And then theres the problem of the author spending all of it's time blasting SUN and IBM then sort of linking Linux in by saying Unix/Linux and going on to call RedHat a worst offender.
The artical also oversimplifies how easy it is to find buffer overflows. I wonder how long that bug in telnetd has been there. It took them how many years to find it?