Having a phone is nearly a necessity for the modern world (how do you call out sick when you can't place calls?), and often a landline just does not cut it (need to be locatable 24/7?)
Ubuntu is ubiquitous? That's a laugh. Ubuntu is popular on the desktop, but last I checked, it was Red Hat derivatives that were dominant in the server market.
Yes, in the U.S. Suse seems more popular in Europe. However anyone that has previously admined any linux box professionally will be able to deal with the Ubuntu/Debian way of doing things.
We don't employ those people. We aren't a computer company, we're a broadcaster, we employ broadcast engineers. They are most likely to have experience with Windows XP on the desktop, maybe OSX on the desktop. If they have ANY unix experience, it will be ubuntu, not Redhat.
We have so many interdependant systems that even when we have specialists, they lack the overall knowledge of the whole system to help.
Really though, good point about support contracts being a reason to choose one distro over another. That's what the article misses: for a lot of IT shops, support contracts are very cost effective.
We haven't got a single support contract with Canonical at the moment. Just the fact that it's possible is good enough my the layers of management across the 4 divisions and one outsourcer in my corporation that have their say whenever we connect a new server.
Ubuntu support contracts are available, same as Redhat, which is the reason we use ubuntu as our standard server, not debian. The other reason being our in house engineers are more likely to have ubuntu experience than redhat, as it's free and ubiquitous.
3) Emergencies occur. If I need to take my kid to the ER and shell a large amount of money so that he'll have an eye tomorrow, I shouldn't have to call the electric company to get them to stop the payment so I can do it.
They don't download robots.txt, so how would they know. A Robot should also pay attention to User-agent: * as well. Finally, the robot masquerades as Internet Explorer.
Blocking the IP range would seem to be the best solution.
We see countless higher-level workarounds for this, such as the security mechanisms in Java and.NET - move it down a bit farther and we'd have a lot less problems.
gedit shouldn't be able to delete my home directory. Solitaire shouldn't be able to spy on me with my mic.
So, apparmor?
It can work when software (or at least a hash of the software and a list of permissions) comes from central repositories, and you trust those repositories, but the culture of the (complex) find-a-site/find-a-download-page/click/click/click download applications, or go-to-shop/buy-package/insert-cd/click/click/click software wont work. The software will say "This software requires all features, Allow/Cancel?", and the average user wont give a monkeys.
You're modded funny, but this IS another valid reason it's false advertising. If they want to decide what runs on the phone, they really can't claim it supports the whole internet.
If there's an app available for the iphone that can create and receive raw ip packets, then the entire internet is available (with that app). TCP and the other user-friendly protocols are icing on the cake, the internet is IP, if you can send and receive unfiltered packets you have more access than most.
We've been waiting for years for DNF. I used to play DN3D on a 486 laptop with a serial crossover cable, for hours a day, for about 2 years. Rarely has a game been that fun
During those 12 years we've heard all about DN4. The Quake 2 engine, but with a fun story? Killer.
Then you played chase-the-engine for a decade, and the world is fed up. We want results, not hopes.
MythTV in and of itself is still free. You do have to pay for listing now though through Schedules Direct. A whopping $20 a year. Not a $1.67 a month, sweet jesus monkey balls, what capitalist pigs!
MythTV also works fine in the non-US parts of the world where DVB-T is pretty much standard for digital terrestrial broadcasts.
Mine worked fine with my sky box too -- RS232 cable to receive what channel the ox is on, and an IR-blaster like box to change it down the second RF input.
I then tried upgrading the hard drive, and accidentally short-circuited my PSU. Doesn't work now... Mythtv will never win until it's immune from dropping a screwdriver between 12V and 0 rails while the machine's on.
thinking CmdrTaco has hit some hard times? I mean, let us look back of the past few months...
1. No funny April Fool's this year. 2. Various off hand comments about stuff. (Java, Olympics, etc.) 3. Just up above he's kinda of an ass. I mean, some people are probably working pretty hard. I know End of Fiscal year for some people is going on. 4. I dunno, maybe getting tired of being squeezed by other sites like reddit or digg or other stuff?
Anyone know more or want to spread light on the matter?
There was a (not-so)-recent rant on how he hated alexia and other "usage" tracking adverts. I guess its everyone's fault for not subscribing
On the other hand, slashdot used to be a hobby, effectively a blog with decent comments. Does it really need 10 full time members of staff?
And judging by my test here of the idle page, not something I'll be trying until we "upgrade" to IE7 here at work finally:/
Damn I hate IE6...
There's another firm?
My division has blocked IE7 (let alone firefox) from the entire company because some internal sites don't work in IE7.
I wouldn't mind as much, but 1) The sites don't work in IE6 2) The management don't want to fix the sites 3) Due to the unique way we're funded, we shouldn't be a bunch of microsoft shills, let alone shills from 8 years ago
Hmm, the preseident's site seems to be down now, I guess they could handle the attacks, but not slashdot. I wonder if Slashdot should be considered a WMD?
Slashdot Mirror
We need to do enough research to make sure it won't cause a hurricane
One little hurricane? What difference will that make?
Having a phone is nearly a necessity for the modern world (how do you call out sick when you can't place calls?), and often a landline just does not cut it (need to be locatable 24/7?)
Don't you have pay-as-you-go phones in yankland?
Hey, now we can run our applications in a browser, which is really an OS, within a real OS!
Ooh, you would run Vim, in Emacs 2.0, in Chrome, in Emacs 1.0, on a BSD kernel.
Ubuntu is ubiquitous? That's a laugh. Ubuntu is popular on the desktop, but last I checked, it was Red Hat derivatives that were dominant in the server market.
Yes, in the U.S. Suse seems more popular in Europe. However anyone that has previously admined any linux box professionally will be able to deal with the Ubuntu/Debian way of doing things.
We don't employ those people. We aren't a computer company, we're a broadcaster, we employ broadcast engineers. They are most likely to have experience with Windows XP on the desktop, maybe OSX on the desktop. If they have ANY unix experience, it will be ubuntu, not Redhat.
We have so many interdependant systems that even when we have specialists, they lack the overall knowledge of the whole system to help.
Really though, good point about support contracts being a reason to choose one distro over another. That's what the article misses: for a lot of IT shops, support contracts are very cost effective.
We haven't got a single support contract with Canonical at the moment. Just the fact that it's possible is good enough my the layers of management across the 4 divisions and one outsourcer in my corporation that have their say whenever we connect a new server.
Or: buy a Mac, and it works out of the box.
So wait, a Mac comes with apache installed and active by default? That sounds like a pretty dangerous security hole.
Ubuntu support contracts are available, same as Redhat, which is the reason we use ubuntu as our standard server, not debian. The other reason being our in house engineers are more likely to have ubuntu experience than redhat, as it's free and ubiquitous.
3) Emergencies occur. If I need to take my kid to the ER and shell a large amount of money so that he'll have an eye tomorrow, I shouldn't have to call the electric company to get them to stop the payment so I can do it.
What kind of a fucked up country do you live in?
They don't download robots.txt, so how would they know. A Robot should also pay attention to User-agent: * as well. Finally, the robot masquerades as Internet Explorer.
Blocking the IP range would seem to be the best solution.
We see countless higher-level workarounds for this, such as the security mechanisms in Java and .NET - move it down a bit farther and we'd have a lot less problems.
gedit shouldn't be able to delete my home directory. Solitaire shouldn't be able to spy on me with my mic.
So, apparmor?
It can work when software (or at least a hash of the software and a list of permissions) comes from central repositories, and you trust those repositories, but the culture of the (complex) find-a-site/find-a-download-page/click/click/click download applications, or go-to-shop/buy-package/insert-cd/click/click/click software wont work. The software will say "This software requires all features, Allow/Cancel?", and the average user wont give a monkeys.
EVEN clamav?
Man, clamav is better than most.
How can I persuade my info security department of that given things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClamAV#Comparisons ?
Again, I might have misunderstood your meaning of "newsreader".
Anyone miss the old slashdot, when men were geeks, women were pixels, and everyone knew what port 119 was for?
You're modded funny, but this IS another valid reason it's false advertising. If they want to decide what runs on the phone, they really can't claim it supports the whole internet.
If there's an app available for the iphone that can create and receive raw ip packets, then the entire internet is available (with that app). TCP and the other user-friendly protocols are icing on the cake, the internet is IP, if you can send and receive unfiltered packets you have more access than most.
We've been waiting for years for DNF. I used to play DN3D on a 486 laptop with a serial crossover cable, for hours a day, for about 2 years. Rarely has a game been that fun
During those 12 years we've heard all about DN4. The Quake 2 engine, but with a fun story? Killer.
Then you played chase-the-engine for a decade, and the world is fed up. We want results, not hopes.
MythTV in and of itself is still free. You do have to pay for listing now though through Schedules Direct. A whopping $20 a year. Not a $1.67 a month, sweet jesus monkey balls, what capitalist pigs!
Meh, in the UK listings are free
I find it strange that Linus uses Windows Media Center instead of MythTV...
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MythTV also works fine in the non-US parts of the world where DVB-T is pretty much standard for digital terrestrial broadcasts.
Mine worked fine with my sky box too -- RS232 cable to receive what channel the ox is on, and an IR-blaster like box to change it down the second RF input.
I then tried upgrading the hard drive, and accidentally short-circuited my PSU. Doesn't work now... Mythtv will never win until it's immune from dropping a screwdriver between 12V and 0 rails while the machine's on.
All too often Police confuse "fighting crime" and "protecting the peace" with authoritarian "because I said so and I have a gun" mentality.
I refrain from a rant, but the more police I meet, the more I hate the police.
British police, on the whole, dont have guns
thinking CmdrTaco has hit some hard times? I mean, let us look back of the past few months...
1. No funny April Fool's this year.
2. Various off hand comments about stuff. (Java, Olympics, etc.)
3. Just up above he's kinda of an ass. I mean, some people are probably working pretty hard. I know End of Fiscal year for some people is going on.
4. I dunno, maybe getting tired of being squeezed by other sites like reddit or digg or other stuff?
Anyone know more or want to spread light on the matter?
There was a (not-so)-recent rant on how he hated alexia and other "usage" tracking adverts. I guess its everyone's fault for not subscribing
On the other hand, slashdot used to be a hobby, effectively a blog with decent comments. Does it really need 10 full time members of staff?
And judging by my test here of the idle page, not something I'll be trying until we "upgrade" to IE7 here at work finally :/
Damn I hate IE6...
There's another firm?
My division has blocked IE7 (let alone firefox) from the entire company because some internal sites don't work in IE7.
I wouldn't mind as much, but
1) The sites don't work in IE6
2) The management don't want to fix the sites
3) Due to the unique way we're funded, we shouldn't be a bunch of microsoft shills, let alone shills from 8 years ago
It's vi, Firefox, Gnome, Kirk you mouth-breathing idiot. Go back to idle.slashdot.org!
vim, Firefox, neither, and SISKO
Dear Sir,
How do you know I'm a man
Thank you for taking the Internet Intelligence Test.
Unfortunately, you are not smart enough to use the internet.
What's the internet?
For your own safety,
What safety? PC World say I'm safe on line because I placed this box on top of my tv
please cancel your AOL account immediately
I have an account?
and sell your modem.
What's a modem?
If you do not, you will be mercilessly humiliated by all of the people who actually have a clue.
What clue?
Back in my day, we had green-on-black text.
In *your* day? I run fluxbox, and launch almost everything from rxvt: .fluxbox/keys:Mod1 66 :ExecCommand rxvt -bg black -fg green -sl 10000
Much easier on the eyes
Hmm, the preseident's site seems to be down now, I guess they could handle the attacks, but not slashdot. I wonder if Slashdot should be considered a WMD?
Hmm, Terminus was a nice one, came out 8 to 9 years ago, supported Mac and Linux, fully 3D, first real physics game since Elite.
Haven't played it since my 15 pin joystick went out of fashion.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/13