Oh come on, what's more insane, voting for some politician you don't want in office because you think he'll win, or voting for the guy who you actually want running the country?
I don't know when people started feeling that voting was about picking the winner, it's not a horse race and there's no prize at the end for voting for the wrong guy. Really, I can't imagine any more wasted vote than for Gore or Bush, regardless of who wins.
One small correction, samba has been able to act as an NT4.0 PDC for a loooong time, ever since the first 2.0 release. it's not a complete replacement, but I've been using it for over a year to handle logins for NT4 workstations and shares.
There were two main branches in the samba group. These guys wanted samba to be a complete replacement for Windows NT/2000. The other group just wanted samba to be able to interact with a windows network and felt that if you wanted a Windows PDC, you should get a windows machine. I was hoping this stuff would work itself out, but it sounds like the two groups could not agree on the future of samba so they split. The PDC folks are a minority anyway, so they broke off. The Samba folks want win2k support and it works anyway, but they don't want to support all the functionality of a win2k server, whereas the TNG group did.
Sendmail and Postfix both have SSL capabilities (Postfix requires a patch) and UW Imap2000 can do SSL imap and pop. These are not widely adopted though... Really, I think if there were cheap certificates available, SSL would be more widespread. Equifax recently came out with a $40 certificate but the clients don't recognize it's authority unless the server supports a CA certificate as well which can verify it through some sort of funky magic:)
So I don't have to fire up VNC to get a remote display for my linux box when I work on my powerbook. I don't even have a monitor on my linux box, it's tucked away in a closet, and if I ever want a GUI there, I use VNC. It would be nice to just be able to export my display to my powerbook...
You add them just like you do with RedHat's installed apache under linux....
(open terminal)
cd php-4.0.2
./configure --with-apxs
make
make install
apachectl restart
and you're done. Of course, you can always reinstall, just specify --with-layout=(whatever layout they're calling it these days) if you want the same layout as apple's (which you probably don't because it puts stuff all over the place)
Most of these requirements stem from the fact that to run older applications, it has to run an emulator. If you don't plan to run classic apps, you can probably run it on any G3 with 64 megs of ram. Hell, you could probably put it on a PowerPC too as long as they still leave that unsupported option in the installer.
Yes yes, this sucks for some people, but life is tough. Everyone wanted apple to modernize their OS, so they did. I think they did a pretty good job with it. I'm not happy that it took so long, and I'm not happy that it's a pain to migrate too, but I would rather have a cool rock solid OS that makes it a bit harder to run my older software than some half assed attempt at updating MacOS. Change? Yes, I'm ready for a change.
I've always though what's important about school in general is not to memorize how to code, etc, but rather to learn how to work. Thinks like how to manage time effectively, how to get the job done even if you don't want to, how to effectively use available resources, how to ask for help, etc. These are things that do you a lot more good in the real world than a class on C...
Gnome has Objective-C bindings, which IMHO would be a much better choice than C++. It's a much cleaner and simpler language, and a much easier switch from C.
If you do webdesign on a mac, and you're good, you use IE on mac/pc/unix, Netscape on Mac/PC/Unix, Opera on PC/Unix, lynx, iCab, Mozilla, etc etc. That's right, you make damn sure your site works in any browser.
I'll admit IE5 on the mac is a damn fine browser, however the problem I've had is that while the rendering is blazingly fast, the app itself is not. So, pages draw very quickly, but if you're doing say 5 window browsing, the time it takes for windows to activate and for the app to respond to buttons, etc get's annoying. iCab is still my main mac browser, it doesn't render as fast as IE5 but overall the app has better response speed and I prefer the interface, not to mention the image filtering and per site javascript permissions.
Patent lawyers aren't really the people to find prior art on technical computer concepts... Let's just say, maybe this person is trying to determine if this is even an issue before getting lawyers too involved...
Where did you get LinuxPPC blowing x86 out of the water??? While MacOS on PPC may be much faster than x86 for some things, LinuxPPC is not... The compile tools are nowhere near mature enough and they do not produce optimized binaries. I tried a ton of benchmarks, and on almost all of them my PIII-350 beat my G3-400 handily...
He wasn't complaining about companies making money, or non open source software for linux. He was complaining (as I do frequently) that almost all commercial apps for linux are x86 only. Linux also runs on PPC, 68k, Sparc, Alpha, ARM, Mips, various handhelds, and probably more. Any well written linux app should be able to be recompiled on most of the platforms, yet the companies put out x86 binaries only... This is another benefit of open source, you release the code, people can make it work on other platforms...
Perhaps you should change your statement to say that MySQL is not a RDBMS, as an RDBMS != database. A database is simply a collection of data organized for easy retrival. Hell, most anyone will agree that MySQL isn't an RDBMS (cuz it's not...), but they're next response, and mine, is likely to be "So what?"
Your biggest worry is keeping them away from your machine. They'll port scan you on a regular basis, install something like port sentry and keep an eye on it, then block their spiders. Unfortunately if they notice any devious attempts to keep them from scanning you, they tend to get more agressive (at least in my area).
As for gnome, just set some firewall rules to block the ports, no biggie.
No, you can't say the same thing about MS Outlook and viruses. That would be a valid comparison if someone else could modify the code for your linux machines... MS Outlooks main security problem is that scripts can set themselves up to automatically attatch themselves to all outgoing mail. Other than that, you could do the same type of viruses in bash that people could run using pine. If your administrator changes something (be it code, software versions, configuration files, or even a registry entry on an NT box) and doesn't document it or tell people who need to know, the problem is with the administrator. I don't see any difference in tweaking code as setting a registry entry. Sure, they are two different things, but in either case all the administrator is doing is changing things to suit his needs. The product is not at fault for allowing customization. The administrator is at fault for not following whatever policies are set by his company for documenting it.
Sure, you can use ObjectiveC for MacOSX development and about any Unix development. I use it whenever my program lends itself to OO since I hate C++. Since GCC supports obj-c and it's just a superset of C, it makes for nice GUI programming for any toolkit with a C library. And who knows, GNUstep might take off one of these days, but now that Cocoa is a moving target, I doubt it will ever really get there...
But I don't know if it's athalon related or not, might be the video card... But I'm getting crappy performance under X... We're talking I click to close a window, and the mouse freezes for a few seconds , then is sluggish, then the window closes and everthing is okay. Launching an app also grinds the system to a crawl. Same behaviour with various window managers, although some seem better than others. The system is a Athalon 850 with 256 megs RAM, a Matrox G400 w/32 megs of RAM, Asus VX133 motherboard, and a Maxtor 7200 RPM UltraDMA-66 drive. If anyone has any idea what might be causing this slowness or how I can track it down to a specific component, please share!
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I installed it, and it works fine when I tried mozilla as root, but for non root users, mozilla locks up hard core when I hit an SSL site. Wierd...
Oh come on, what's more insane, voting for some politician you don't want in office because you think he'll win, or voting for the guy who you actually want running the country?
I don't know when people started feeling that voting was about picking the winner, it's not a horse race and there's no prize at the end for voting for the wrong guy. Really, I can't imagine any more wasted vote than for Gore or Bush, regardless of who wins.
No, it works with any service pack for 4. The only difference I know of is that after SP4, NT4 by default used encrypted passwords.
One small correction, samba has been able to act as an NT4.0 PDC for a loooong time, ever since the first 2.0 release. it's not a complete replacement, but I've been using it for over a year to handle logins for NT4 workstations and shares.
There were two main branches in the samba group. These guys wanted samba to be a complete replacement for Windows NT/2000. The other group just wanted samba to be able to interact with a windows network and felt that if you wanted a Windows PDC, you should get a windows machine. I was hoping this stuff would work itself out, but it sounds like the two groups could not agree on the future of samba so they split. The PDC folks are a minority anyway, so they broke off. The Samba folks want win2k support and it works anyway, but they don't want to support all the functionality of a win2k server, whereas the TNG group did.
Sendmail and Postfix both have SSL capabilities (Postfix requires a patch) and UW Imap2000 can do SSL imap and pop. These are not widely adopted though... Really, I think if there were cheap certificates available, SSL would be more widespread. Equifax recently came out with a $40 certificate but the clients don't recognize it's authority unless the server supports a CA certificate as well which can verify it through some sort of funky magic
So I don't have to fire up VNC to get a remote display for my linux box when I work on my powerbook. I don't even have a monitor on my linux box, it's tucked away in a closet, and if I ever want a GUI there, I use VNC. It would be nice to just be able to export my display to my powerbook...
You add them just like you do with RedHat's installed apache under linux....
(open terminal)
cd php-4.0.2
./configure --with-apxs
make
make install
apachectl restart
and you're done. Of course, you can always reinstall, just specify --with-layout=(whatever layout they're calling it these days) if you want the same layout as apple's (which you probably don't because it puts stuff all over the place)
Most of these requirements stem from the fact that to run older applications, it has to run an emulator. If you don't plan to run classic apps, you can probably run it on any G3 with 64 megs of ram. Hell, you could probably put it on a PowerPC too as long as they still leave that unsupported option in the installer.
Yes yes, this sucks for some people, but life is tough. Everyone wanted apple to modernize their OS, so they did. I think they did a pretty good job with it. I'm not happy that it took so long, and I'm not happy that it's a pain to migrate too, but I would rather have a cool rock solid OS that makes it a bit harder to run my older software than some half assed attempt at updating MacOS. Change? Yes, I'm ready for a change.
I've always though what's important about school in general is not to memorize how to code, etc, but rather to learn how to work. Thinks like how to manage time effectively, how to get the job done even if you don't want to, how to effectively use available resources, how to ask for help, etc. These are things that do you a lot more good in the real world than a class on C...
Gnome has Objective-C bindings, which IMHO would be a much better choice than C++. It's a much cleaner and simpler language, and a much easier switch from C.
If you do webdesign on a mac, and you're good, you use IE on mac/pc/unix, Netscape on Mac/PC/Unix, Opera on PC/Unix, lynx, iCab, Mozilla, etc etc. That's right, you make damn sure your site works in any browser.
I'll admit IE5 on the mac is a damn fine browser, however the problem I've had is that while the rendering is blazingly fast, the app itself is not. So, pages draw very quickly, but if you're doing say 5 window browsing, the time it takes for windows to activate and for the app to respond to buttons, etc get's annoying. iCab is still my main mac browser, it doesn't render as fast as IE5 but overall the app has better response speed and I prefer the interface, not to mention the image filtering and per site javascript permissions.
Patent lawyers aren't really the people to find prior art on technical computer concepts... Let's just say, maybe this person is trying to determine if this is even an issue before getting lawyers too involved...
Where did you get LinuxPPC blowing x86 out of the water??? While MacOS on PPC may be much faster than x86 for some things, LinuxPPC is not... The compile tools are nowhere near mature enough and they do not produce optimized binaries. I tried a ton of benchmarks, and on almost all of them my PIII-350 beat my G3-400 handily...
working at the 96 games in Atlanta, the Olympics have very little to do with the glory of the games, and a lot to do with the glory of the revenue...
Go try IE5 on Solaris... Netscape ain't so bad...
He wasn't complaining about companies making money, or non open source software for linux. He was complaining (as I do frequently) that almost all commercial apps for linux are x86 only. Linux also runs on PPC, 68k, Sparc, Alpha, ARM, Mips, various handhelds, and probably more. Any well written linux app should be able to be recompiled on most of the platforms, yet the companies put out x86 binaries only... This is another benefit of open source, you release the code, people can make it work on other platforms...
Perhaps you should change your statement to say that MySQL is not a RDBMS, as an RDBMS != database. A database is simply a collection of data organized for easy retrival. Hell, most anyone will agree that MySQL isn't an RDBMS (cuz it's not...), but they're next response, and mine, is likely to be "So what?"
Your biggest worry is keeping them away from your machine. They'll port scan you on a regular basis, install something like port sentry and keep an eye on it, then block their spiders. Unfortunately if they notice any devious attempts to keep them from scanning you, they tend to get more agressive (at least in my area).
As for gnome, just set some firewall rules to block the ports, no biggie.
Yeah, and openwindows was great!
(please note the sarcasm...)
No, you can't say the same thing about MS Outlook and viruses. That would be a valid comparison if someone else could modify the code for your linux machines... MS Outlooks main security problem is that scripts can set themselves up to automatically attatch themselves to all outgoing mail. Other than that, you could do the same type of viruses in bash that people could run using pine. If your administrator changes something (be it code, software versions, configuration files, or even a registry entry on an NT box) and doesn't document it or tell people who need to know, the problem is with the administrator. I don't see any difference in tweaking code as setting a registry entry. Sure, they are two different things, but in either case all the administrator is doing is changing things to suit his needs. The product is not at fault for allowing customization. The administrator is at fault for not following whatever policies are set by his company for documenting it.
Sure, you can use ObjectiveC for MacOSX development and about any Unix development. I use it whenever my program lends itself to OO since I hate C++. Since GCC supports obj-c and it's just a superset of C, it makes for nice GUI programming for any toolkit with a C library. And who knows, GNUstep might take off one of these days, but now that Cocoa is a moving target, I doubt it will ever really get there...
Really? Can you explain the procedure for rebuilding the kernel remotely for an NT machine?
I don't know about by law... I have a choice of two companies for local service.
But I don't know if it's athalon related or not, might be the video card... But I'm getting crappy performance under X... We're talking I click to close a window, and the mouse freezes for a few seconds , then is sluggish, then the window closes and everthing is okay. Launching an app also grinds the system to a crawl. Same behaviour with various window managers, although some seem better than others. The system is a Athalon 850 with 256 megs RAM, a Matrox G400 w/32 megs of RAM, Asus VX133 motherboard, and a Maxtor 7200 RPM UltraDMA-66 drive. If anyone has any idea what might be causing this slowness or how I can track it down to a specific component, please share!