Yumex is very nice for GUI-lovers. It's just a front-end for Yum, but it's easier than explaining all the ways to grep what packages are available for a certain feature (say games).
This is my point exactly... even when I say "How do I install Sun's Java" I still get someone telling me to install something else. What if I have a business requirement that needs Sun's Java? Why mess around with other stuff that may not work.
This is precisely the situation of the official Cisco VPN Client vs. OSS versions.
Just today I was on #fedora on irc.freenode.net to get assistance / make sure I was doing things "the right way" to install Java support in RedHat Fedora Core 5. Mind you, Fedora Core is for "developers" or those who want more cutting edge and don't want to pay for RH Enterprise Linux, so it is going to have a bit of a learning curve which you always have to keep up with as things change.
I'd already done some homework in researching at a popular Fedora FAQ website. However, as with many things with Linux, things were out of date, or talking about the wrong version (in this case, that FAQ is still for Fedora Core 4, not FC5).
I checked in at #fedora and asked, "Is the method to install Java at http://www.fedorafaq.org/#java still the best way?" A few folks said yes, another guy (ignacio, who is the classic example of a linux snob with a, "Live free or die" attitude) said, "Not best, use gij" to which someone else fought the battle for me and asked, "Is there plugin support with gij?" and ignacio had to reply, "No." Well, pointless, as the only reason I need Java is for plugin support with my online bank.
So, what I did wrong was that I should have know to ask, "Is this the best way to install Sun's Java?" You already have to almost know the answer to ask the question with some folks. While I can understand trying to do a bit of research and be prepared, it's not that simple. Googling sometimes gives you the answers, but again, there is always that out of date / old version problem that gets in the way. You could spend hours following the "old" method with old versions that don't apply and won't work anymore.
Anyway, I ended up just taking the original FC4 Java install notes and modifying them and put them on my own site for others to hopefully find via my webpage when searching for Fedora Core 5 and Sun's Java: http://jason.roysdon.net/?p=819
Bittorrent usually has a slow ramp-up period where everyone is still leaching and not much data is available yet (no full seeds). My ds3 connection has been running for 45 minutes and has 1.1gb downloaded, so things are looking much better now...
# Filename Size Download Upload 1 bordeaux-binary-i386 3.1GiB389.3KiB/s323.4KiB/s (34.8%) ETA in 2:57:10 - 75 peers 4 seeds 5 dist copies - 2.1GiB up 1.1GiB dn
Mind you I have it rate-limited to 15mbit/sec for upload, but there still is plenty of room.
The problem is usually most slower uploaders have a chicken-and-the-egg problem. You can't get a spot on a fast download peer unless you're uploading (which requires you to already have data to upload). You'll get dropped when the slots fill up and other uploading peers connect.
Once you have a bunch of data to upload, you'll start downloading faster and then have more data to upload, and generally see your upload/download rates max out.
So, like you said, you really need to find some good seeds to latch on to, since they don't require you to upload anything. Here's the stats changes while I was uploading... I found another couple seeds too:
# Filename Size Download Upload 1 bordeaux-binary-i386 3.1GiB453.9KiB/s321.1KiB/s (38.6%) ETA in 2:38:17 - 74 peers 6 seeds 4 dist copies - 2.2GiB up 1.2GiB dn
"Only experienced Red Hat/Fedora Core users should attempt this, as the upgrade process may cause problems.
Theoretically, you should be able to upgrade from any Red Hat Linux/Fedora Core release to any Red Hat Linux/Fedora Core release with a yum-compatible repository (i.e. containing yum "header" files). I have successfully upgraded the following operating system releases using yum:
* Red Hat Linux 7.2 to 9
* Red Hat Linux 8.0 to 9
* Red Hat Linux 8.0 to Fedora Core 2
* Red Hat Linux 9 to Fedora Core 1
* Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2
* Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 3
* Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4 "
Uhm, pass, I think I'll just do the traditional upgrade method. It's enough trouble dealing with the stuff that it breaks... I don't need extra work.
I tried to sign in at the site and get the same thing you get at Orkut: "Joga is unique, because it's an organically growing network of trusted friends. It is one of a kind network that focuses solely on a common interest around the game of soccer. Joga will help you connect to people who share the same passion for the game and also access exclusive content around athlete profiles, video clips and photos.
If you know someone who is a Joga member, he or she can invite you to join as well. If you don't know a Joga member, you will still be able to join the network by visiting www.joga.com.
We look forward to having you join us in the Joga community."
Uhm, ok, so I have to find someone who is on Orkut/Joga to even get into the community? But how can I find someone if I can't get into the community to do a search?
Then I recall that Gmail account invites were for sale on eBay, and sure enough, you can get Orkut on eBay. It's only a matter of time before Joga account invites are available on eBay.
Anyway, if you have a Joga account, I'd love an invite. My first dot last name @ google.com.
I use MBNA's random-generated "Shop Safe" credit card numbers. Citibank has the same thing that they call "Virtual Account Numbers." Essentially they let you set a limit and experation date on a temporary CC number (it is of coursed temporarilly tied back to your real account with them). It works great, and keeps sites that store your account info from screwing you up when they get hacked.
The concept is great for online, but I don't know why a "smart" CC couldn't do the same thing: allow you punch in a limit and download (bluetooth from your phone) a one-time credit card for un-trusted in-person merchants to bill against. You could have to put in your pin or whatever, but it wouldn't transmit across the store's machine, but via your cell phone back only to your bank.
Some sucker wants to double-swipe your card and store your info? It's worthless as the card number is going to expire in a month and is already maxed out (you'd set the limit to the amount of the purchase).
It's not ready for the masses who can't program their VCR's or the time on their microwave, but I've never had any CC fraud with online accounts since I started using MBNA's "Shop Safe" 4 years ago.
10pm EST & PST on New Years Eve, a night tons of children will be staying up late, for one. Second, it was aired at 9PM CST & MST, which is what I believe got them in the most trouble.
Here is a story mentioning the New Years and 9pm time info. "... the FCC requires that no indecent programs be aired between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m."
Here is another story stating the same thing and more details. "The Dec. 31 episode was actually a rerun, but the PTC's complaint the first time around wasn't addressed because it fell under CBS parent Viacom's $3.5 million deal with the FCC to clear up all indecency fines. The PTC's latest complaint is on behalf of viewers in the Central and Mountain time zones, because on the East Coast the show aired at 10 p.m., within the FCC's 10 p.m.-6 a.m. window of relaxed indecency standards."
Once you've had someone open up a bogus account with your info, you can have a notice put on your account that all new accounts must be verified by calling your number. It blocks new accounts from instantly going through as they have to call and verify - but that's what you want.
It's lame that you have to wait until someone screws with your credit before you can make any creditor verify by calling your number.
However, more than once I've turned up phone installs that had incorrect ANI. Either wrong numbers, which often list wrong company names, or at least wrong addresses. It's not as if you can "order" messed up ANI or change it, but if you had one of these circuits, I don't know how easily, or even if, the telco could back track it.
Most of your credit card companies use CallerID to verify a new credit card activation. All you need is the 16 digit number and fake the CallerID of the cardholder and you can activate most cards.
I'm not paranoid because I shred everything with my name/address/account info on it before I put it in the trash. Before starting that practice, I had 3 different accounts at two different residences opened and abused before I even knew about them.
I've been using Gnucash for close to two years now. It was the final step to me ditching my Windows install, since I was using Quicken before.
Gnucash isn't perfect, but it's got everything I need to keep track of things. I do all my entry manually, although I have imported a few times just testing (I prefer my own formatting and such and don't care which gas station, etc., just that it was a gas station).
I figure if I'd been upgrading Quicken versions, I'd have spent at least $50. Plus, I would like be able to link to a Windows port on my Free GPL Programs page which I list all the apps I use that others should check out on Windows.
I decided to donate to the cause. Hopefully others who use Gnucash will consider tipping the developers. I'm sure even $5, especially if it's dozens of folks, will help motivate them.
I wish I had the time to bug-test v1.9, but I don't, so I'll tip a little more;-)'
If a firewall has many PCs PNAT'd behind it and appearing as one single public IP, it's going to look like many per second. I suspect that is the problem.
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Comment spam is exactly why I switched to WP. I'd been using an add-on module with MovableType to help filter it... mt-blacklist. But then the maintainer stopped hosting/taking input for the blacklist. WP is a bit different and take some figuring out compared to MT, but the user community is there, and it's a great solution. I'd been wanting to switch from MT (not free) to WP (GPL) for some time... but as WP was working, I hadn't bothered to switch.
Just how in the world would you route this? The current BGP tables of just ISPs and "Big" dual-homed customers is already too big as it is.
While I open the idea of geographical routing (so I could connect to both my telco, cable company, and local wifi provider and have packets make it here the fastest way), you can't give everyone a/24, and even if you could (giving out/48s with IPv6), you can't maintain routing tables (which is why IPv6 ties your IP to your ISP and is non-portable).
That's a "view" of the ISPs they are connected with to maintain routing tables (~50) and ~175K routing prefixes (or network paths) that each ISP is announcing ("their" view of the internet).
805mb is in use to maintain this. Technically "BGP using 551510205 total bytes of memory" (from show ip bgp) but then those routes must be used to find the best paths and inject that into the actual routing table and they have to be constantly checked and modified whenever new announcements come in.
I'm sure this will be addressed and who knows exactly what the ManyOne browser will be used for (if it will be required to view all pages, or just certain content or what), but this Digital Universe page talks about the browser.
Looking at the link they provide: "Minimum System Requirements:...
* Microsoft® Windows XP or Windows 2000..."
Ewww. It almost sounds like a custom Mozilla + Macromedia Flash browser: "Licenses
ManyOne Application Suite
Mozilla Public License The ManyOne Application Suite software and source code fall under the Mozilla Public License v.1.1.
I don't argue that non-techies will learn about this soon enough. However, Donald Parris is hardly a non-techie. He wrote Pengiun in the Pew, a pro-Linux book for churches.
The book has a Creative Commons license (Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0), and I've a copy linked on my GPL Programs page.
If they stiffle Black Hat, the speakers will just move to a new venue. "Black Hat" will die and a new conference just like it, but with a new name, will spring up.
Costco Photocenter online rocks (snapfish's service, developed at your local Costco in an hour). Upload and specify when you want them and go shopping an a couple hours. Plus you can share with your friends and family and they can order and get them at their own local Costco (or they can pay to have them mailed).
I always loved the idea of getting photos developed online, but balked at the shipping costs, especially if I want just a few prints. Now, I do it all the time.
Not true. Fedora Test releases are like Betas. Actual Fedora releases are rather solid. Specifically, FC2 & FC3, which I've used exclusively on all my servers, home systems, and work laptops in the last year.
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Yumex is very nice for GUI-lovers. It's just a front-end for Yum, but it's easier than explaining all the ways to grep what packages are available for a certain feature (say games).
Here's a screenshot.
This is my point exactly... even when I say "How do I install Sun's Java" I still get someone telling me to install something else. What if I have a business requirement that needs Sun's Java? Why mess around with other stuff that may not work.
This is precisely the situation of the official Cisco VPN Client vs. OSS versions.
Just today I was on #fedora on irc.freenode.net to get assistance / make sure I was doing things "the right way" to install Java support in RedHat Fedora Core 5. Mind you, Fedora Core is for "developers" or those who want more cutting edge and don't want to pay for RH Enterprise Linux, so it is going to have a bit of a learning curve which you always have to keep up with as things change.
I'd already done some homework in researching at a popular Fedora FAQ website. However, as with many things with Linux, things were out of date, or talking about the wrong version (in this case, that FAQ is still for Fedora Core 4, not FC5).
I checked in at #fedora and asked, "Is the method to install Java at http://www.fedorafaq.org/#java still the best way?" A few folks said yes, another guy (ignacio, who is the classic example of a linux snob with a, "Live free or die" attitude) said, "Not best, use gij" to which someone else fought the battle for me and asked, "Is there plugin support with gij?" and ignacio had to reply, "No." Well, pointless, as the only reason I need Java is for plugin support with my online bank.
So, what I did wrong was that I should have know to ask, "Is this the best way to install Sun's Java?" You already have to almost know the answer to ask the question with some folks. While I can understand trying to do a bit of research and be prepared, it's not that simple. Googling sometimes gives you the answers, but again, there is always that out of date / old version problem that gets in the way. You could spend hours following the "old" method with old versions that don't apply and won't work anymore.
Anyway, I ended up just taking the original FC4 Java install notes and modifying them and put them on my own site for others to hopefully find via my webpage when searching for Fedora Core 5 and Sun's Java: http://jason.roysdon.net/?p=819
Geeks have girlfriends and eventually geek-wives too.
Bittorrent usually has a slow ramp-up period where everyone is still leaching and not much data is available yet (no full seeds). My ds3 connection has been running for 45 minutes and has 1.1gb downloaded, so things are looking much better now...
# Filename Size Download Upload
1 bordeaux-binary-i386 3.1GiB389.3KiB/s323.4KiB/s
(34.8%) ETA in 2:57:10 - 75 peers 4 seeds 5 dist copies - 2.1GiB up 1.1GiB dn
Mind you I have it rate-limited to 15mbit/sec for upload, but there still is plenty of room.
The problem is usually most slower uploaders have a chicken-and-the-egg problem. You can't get a spot on a fast download peer unless you're uploading (which requires you to already have data to upload). You'll get dropped when the slots fill up and other uploading peers connect.
Once you have a bunch of data to upload, you'll start downloading faster and then have more data to upload, and generally see your upload/download rates max out.
So, like you said, you really need to find some good seeds to latch on to, since they don't require you to upload anything. Here's the stats changes while I was uploading... I found another couple seeds too:
# Filename Size Download Upload
1 bordeaux-binary-i386 3.1GiB453.9KiB/s321.1KiB/s
(38.6%) ETA in 2:38:17 - 74 peers 6 seeds 4 dist copies - 2.2GiB up 1.2GiB dn
"Only experienced Red Hat/Fedora Core users should attempt this, as the upgrade process may cause problems.
Theoretically, you should be able to upgrade from any Red Hat Linux/Fedora Core release to any Red Hat Linux/Fedora Core release with a yum-compatible repository (i.e. containing yum "header" files). I have successfully upgraded the following operating system releases using yum:
* Red Hat Linux 7.2 to 9
* Red Hat Linux 8.0 to 9
* Red Hat Linux 8.0 to Fedora Core 2
* Red Hat Linux 9 to Fedora Core 1
* Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2
* Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 3
* Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4
"
Uhm, pass, I think I'll just do the traditional upgrade method. It's enough trouble dealing with the stuff that it breaks... I don't need extra work.
I tried to sign in at the site and get the same thing you get at Orkut:
"Joga is unique, because it's an organically growing network of trusted friends. It is one of a kind network that focuses solely on a common interest around the game of soccer. Joga will help you connect to people who share the same passion for the game and also access exclusive content around athlete profiles, video clips and photos.
If you know someone who is a Joga member, he or she can invite you to join as well. If you don't know a Joga member, you will still be able to join the network by visiting www.joga.com.
We look forward to having you join us in the Joga community."
Uhm, ok, so I have to find someone who is on Orkut/Joga to even get into the community? But how can I find someone if I can't get into the community to do a search?
Then I recall that Gmail account invites were for sale on eBay, and sure enough, you can get Orkut on eBay. It's only a matter of time before Joga account invites are available on eBay.
Anyway, if you have a Joga account, I'd love an invite. My first dot last name @ google.com.
I use MBNA's random-generated "Shop Safe" credit card numbers. Citibank has the same thing that they call "Virtual Account Numbers." Essentially they let you set a limit and experation date on a temporary CC number (it is of coursed temporarilly tied back to your real account with them). It works great, and keeps sites that store your account info from screwing you up when they get hacked.
The concept is great for online, but I don't know why a "smart" CC couldn't do the same thing: allow you punch in a limit and download (bluetooth from your phone) a one-time credit card for un-trusted in-person merchants to bill against. You could have to put in your pin or whatever, but it wouldn't transmit across the store's machine, but via your cell phone back only to your bank.
Some sucker wants to double-swipe your card and store your info? It's worthless as the card number is going to expire in a month and is already maxed out (you'd set the limit to the amount of the purchase).
It's not ready for the masses who can't program their VCR's or the time on their microwave, but I've never had any CC fraud with online accounts since I started using MBNA's "Shop Safe" 4 years ago.
Note: Bind9 doesn't fetch glue, ever, but won't error on the fetch-glue statement according to this document.
10pm EST & PST on New Years Eve, a night tons of children will be staying up late, for one. Second, it was aired at 9PM CST & MST, which is what I believe got them in the most trouble.
Here is a story mentioning the New Years and 9pm time info. "... the FCC requires that no indecent programs be aired between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m."
Here is another story stating the same thing and more details. "The Dec. 31 episode was actually a rerun, but the PTC's complaint the first time around wasn't addressed because it fell under CBS parent Viacom's $3.5 million deal with the FCC to clear up all indecency fines. The PTC's latest complaint is on behalf of viewers in the Central and Mountain time zones, because on the East Coast the show aired at 10 p.m., within the FCC's 10 p.m.-6 a.m. window of relaxed indecency standards."
Once you've had someone open up a bogus account with your info, you can have a notice put on your account that all new accounts must be verified by calling your number. It blocks new accounts from instantly going through as they have to call and verify - but that's what you want.
It's lame that you have to wait until someone screws with your credit before you can make any creditor verify by calling your number.
However, more than once I've turned up phone installs that had incorrect ANI. Either wrong numbers, which often list wrong company names, or at least wrong addresses. It's not as if you can "order" messed up ANI or change it, but if you had one of these circuits, I don't know how easily, or even if, the telco could back track it.
Most of your credit card companies use CallerID to verify a new credit card activation. All you need is the 16 digit number and fake the CallerID of the cardholder and you can activate most cards.
I'm not paranoid because I shred everything with my name/address/account info on it before I put it in the trash. Before starting that practice, I had 3 different accounts at two different residences opened and abused before I even knew about them.
SBC and AT&T (so, now, just AT&T) allow it. I see plenty of goofed up phone installs which send just 4 or 7 digit callerid as well.
I've been using Gnucash for close to two years now. It was the final step to me ditching my Windows install, since I was using Quicken before.
;-)'
Gnucash isn't perfect, but it's got everything I need to keep track of things. I do all my entry manually, although I have imported a few times just testing (I prefer my own formatting and such and don't care which gas station, etc., just that it was a gas station).
I figure if I'd been upgrading Quicken versions, I'd have spent at least $50. Plus, I would like be able to link to a Windows port on my Free GPL Programs page which I list all the apps I use that others should check out on Windows.
I decided to donate to the cause. Hopefully others who use Gnucash will consider tipping the developers. I'm sure even $5, especially if it's dozens of folks, will help motivate them.
I wish I had the time to bug-test v1.9, but I don't, so I'll tip a little more
If a firewall has many PCs PNAT'd behind it and appearing as one single public IP, it's going to look like many per second. I suspect that is the problem.
Comment spam is exactly why I switched to WP. I'd been using an add-on module with MovableType to help filter it... mt-blacklist. But then the maintainer stopped hosting/taking input for the blacklist. WP is a bit different and take some figuring out compared to MT, but the user community is there, and it's a great solution. I'd been wanting to switch from MT (not free) to WP (GPL) for some time... but as WP was working, I hadn't bothered to switch.
Just how in the world would you route this? The current BGP tables of just ISPs and "Big" dual-homed customers is already too big as it is.
/24, and even if you could (giving out /48s with IPv6), you can't maintain routing tables (which is why IPv6 ties your IP to your ISP and is non-portable).
...
While I open the idea of geographical routing (so I could connect to both my telco, cable company, and local wifi provider and have packets make it here the fastest way), you can't give everyone a
telnet route-views.oregon-ix.net
username: rviews
password: rviews
route-views.oregon-ix.net>show ip bgp summary
Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd
4.68.0.243 4 3356 1230694 33673 18275949 1 0 3w2d 173031
12.0.1.63 4 7018 1048174 20205 18275949 0 0 3w2d 173313
That's a "view" of the ISPs they are connected with to maintain routing tables (~50) and ~175K routing prefixes (or network paths) that each ISP is announcing ("their" view of the internet).
route-views.oregon-ix.net>show memory
Head Total(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b) Largest(b)
Processor 62C853A0 926395488 805740608 120654880 106935760 78976696
I/O E000000 33554432 3865864 29688568 27898272 28008888
805mb is in use to maintain this. Technically "BGP using 551510205 total bytes of memory" (from show ip bgp) but then those routes must be used to find the best paths and inject that into the actual routing table and they have to be constantly checked and modified whenever new announcements come in.
I'm sure this will be addressed and who knows exactly what the ManyOne browser will be used for (if it will be required to view all pages, or just certain content or what), but this Digital Universe page talks about the browser.
... ..."
Looking at the link they provide:
"Minimum System Requirements:
* Microsoft® Windows XP or Windows 2000
Ewww. It almost sounds like a custom Mozilla + Macromedia Flash browser:
"Licenses
ManyOne Application Suite
Mozilla Public License
The ManyOne Application Suite software and source code fall under the Mozilla Public License v.1.1.
Macromedia License
The ManyOne Application Suite software and installer include Macromedia Flash Player. Copyright © 1995-1999 Macromedia, Inc. All rights reserved. "Macromedia" and "Flash" are trademarks of Macromedia, Inc."
But why require Windows to run it?
I still can't get if they're just trying to push/bundle their ISP service, or what... just what is ManyOne?
I don't see folks downloading a special new browser just to visit their website... unless a bunch of other websites get on that bandwagon.
I don't argue that non-techies will learn about this soon enough. However, Donald Parris is hardly a non-techie. He wrote Pengiun in the Pew, a pro-Linux book for churches.
The book has a Creative Commons license (Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0), and I've a copy linked on my GPL Programs page.
If they stiffle Black Hat, the speakers will just move to a new venue. "Black Hat" will die and a new conference just like it, but with a new name, will spring up.
Costco Photocenter online rocks (snapfish's service, developed at your local Costco in an hour). Upload and specify when you want them and go shopping an a couple hours. Plus you can share with your friends and family and they can order and get them at their own local Costco (or they can pay to have them mailed).
I always loved the idea of getting photos developed online, but balked at the shipping costs, especially if I want just a few prints. Now, I do it all the time.
Firefox supports ever Win32 OS. Win3.1 is not Win32.
"
Not true. Fedora Test releases are like Betas. Actual Fedora releases are rather solid. Specifically, FC2 & FC3, which I've used exclusively on all my servers, home systems, and work laptops in the last year.
fc release schedule