I'm new the linux stuff. I've used unixes (AIX,,VMS, Solaris, SunOS, Digital UX) as a user, but I feel like I have to be a sys admin to figure out all these linux configurations. What goes where/bin/usr/local (although no less cluttered than windows). where is that x windows config file? If they can make it easier bless them.
I had to set up an NT server at my last job. It was way easier (although much less powerfull). What is the price of power though. How much time do I have to spend learning linux to make everything easy..? Maybe its just tht linux documentation that is confusing but I don't think it needs to be as difficult as it is.
I'm pretty familiar with Unix, heck I even know how to pipe. But this difficulty in administoring linux is going to hold it back..
I'm running suse 6.1 on virtual PC. I miss the mac extension manager that tells you everything thats loaded and run on boot, and you can shut it on or off with a click. I find it hard to tell linux to stop loading httpd and ftp servers. (keep in mind I've only been at this a couple weeks part time.)
We had a lecture from a MIT (jeff schiller) networking guy and network security. He said the biggest problem was ISPs not configuring there routers to do this.. Cisco now ships with these checks ON as default (or is supposed to be..) Most people don't configure routers correctly anyway..
I can't find the slides from the lecture... They were good all about smurf/dos attacks etc..
http://web.mit.edu/afs/net.mit.edu/mit/jis/jis.htm l
I installed SuSe 6.1 on virtual PC 3.0. It worked pretty well considering it was my first linux install. I had to learn a few things to get it working right, but that was to be expected. (I do have some unix experience)
I had to figure out about the boot partion and lilo. I did have to configure X manually (load additional video driver) and then reconfigure Xserver. Also had to configure DNS too. The manual they provide is pretty good. It runs well (X could run faster though. i'm on a 400 mhz G3, and its kinda sluggish in a way emulated NT isn't)..
Yast configured most stuff out of the box..Its was a good experience though, and I've got my "running Linux book" and am going to town learning what everything is (they're is a lot of stuff going on in linux and it isn't really intuitive). This is the price of power.
Next up is linuxPPC when they release a new version (CD Bootable it is rumored)
I have a minidic player and its been great. I use it alot, cary about 5 to 10 of those little disc with me when I leave the apartment in the AM. And the discs are cheap enough so I have about 40 or so and don't have to worry about downloading the music I want.
The quality is fantastic (way better than 160 kbps mp3). 9 hours per rechargable battery charge too.
And the coolest thing is the little remote that hangs off the end of the headphone cable. (actually kinda in the middle of the cable with the headphones attached). You can change songs/volume while keeping the unit in your pocket.
How do you think web pages and those who create them pay for them..?
I can't you believe all the pages you view were put on the web at a cost of nothing. Ads help pay for them in the same way they keep the prices of magazines and newspapers low. So in a way they are paying you to view them because you want to view the content (unlike unsolisited email). Yeah adds are annoying, but they're necessary.
They'res also the question as "click through" rates fall as they are, whos is going to pay for serving all this content.
As for thinking those add are immoral?? Its an advertisment. Do you stop wathcing TV because of ads (which actually waste your time..)
On the otherside, doubleclick is a devious company trying to match real address to web cookiew.
Its obvious those that create movies do not want it togo the way of MP3s with hundreds of ftp servers serving up illegal MP3s. There reaction is total perdicatable, they want to nip this in the bud.
That being said, I think they're being ridiculous in there attemt to stop DeCSS.
I think back to the old days of "locksmith" and "Copy//+" and "Disc Muncher" all programs that were for sale that allowed you to make copies of apple//e flopies, even those that were copy protected. I don't think we need to go back to that era where each disc had its own copy protection which made them more likely to crash and made it more necessary to back them up. Those copy programs were for sale and legal. How was that different? (besides apple program writers didn't have a strong lobby?)
That being said, stop pirating MP3s. Although tempting, it makes it way worse when anyone looks at the potential for piracy for a new medium and may be why the Riaa is totally overreacting. Now we have lawsuits and someone in jail..
Not buying DVDs wouldn't hurt either, but the picture is so good and the sound....
I'm just curious. Aren't the number of lines on british TVs greater than on american TVs? (Pal vs NTSC). So are British DVDs having more data and a better picture? The country code is an annoyance.
I agree this whole DSS is getting well out of hand.
As a formal civil engineer who had to write specs, we found that often companies would send you a "sample spec" along with their product literature..
They would always speciy the one thing about they're product that was unique hoping you'd cut and paste their spec in. We always wrote our own specs , but one could see how if pressed for time you could spec a single product when it should be bid.
(ie computer, x86 compatiable, black case, with a "start" button in lower left corner.)
I hope it can read/ write other file formats properly.. then I'll switch.
I think the world needs a universal word processing file format (html doesn't count niether does pdf). That way the wp programs could stand on their own merit, not just compatability with.doc .
Every office from time to time needs to read others documents and that seems why Word does so well. PDF is a major player on the web because the reader is free.
A good universal presentation/spreadsheet/ database format would be usefull too.
I have ADSL and a radio..The radio is near the ADSL modem thing. I turned on the radio and it didn't work... till I hooked up an AM antena.. Then it seemed to work fine.
My DSL seems to work great (as advertised) except when Bell-Atl removes my dial tone for no apparent reason as they've done from time time (Just to keep me on my toes?) . The fact that I'm really close to the CO might have something to do with it.
Thats the reason that The CFO of apple gave for keeping the price the same.
Although with Apples fat margins you would think they would just bite the bullet on this one to make people happy. I can understand canceling the 500 though if you can't ship.
Motorolla is really bitting the big one on this..
On the plus side IBM said it will begin making G4s with altivec in the first half of 2000. I think the new Nintendo will use them. SOI/copper should help the clock speed of the G4and IBM has good new fabs.
Thats the reason that The CFO of apple gave for keeping the price the same.
Although with Apples fat margins you would think they would just bite the bullet on this one to make people happy. I can understand canceling the 500 though if you can't ship.
Motorolla is really bitting the big one on this..
On the plus side IBM said it will begin making G4s with altivec in the first half of 2000. I think the new Nintendo will use them. SOI/copper should help the clock speed of the G4and IBM has good new fabs.
Its really easy for prople to print these days. Infomation that used to written on a notepad in the old days is now printed out via PDF/HTML in 15 + pages. The laser printer is fast and effective paper spouting machine. Statistics bear this out, we're using more paper.
Also documentation on CD is still a pain to use. I wonder if the amount saved in not printing manuals is made up printing them out in 8.5 x 11???
If your even thinking about it, because you don't want to take it later.
I took the (EIT) exam and passed. I don't remeber half the stuff on it and its only been 4 years. I wouldn't want to take it now and have to refresh all that knowledge.
Bear in mind the test covers all disciplines in engineering, not just EE. The PE exam will cover just material similar to the field you've been working in.
If your a civil engineer (dams, bridges,roads, buildings) you need you PE license or "Stamp" on drawings before any builder will touch them (or build anything on the drawings. ) Thats because they want people with some experience designing these things, which makes good sense.
I think for Electrical engineers It is important for wiring power drawings.
For computer engineers I think its next to useless.
I think part of the requirement for maintaining your PE is "Proffessional development" , which means learning and keeping up to date.
the steps in obtaining a PE are
1. Pass Engineer in Training(EIT) exam 2. work for 4 years in design 3. Take PE exam in your engineering discipline. 4. Get cool stamp for drawings.
PEs are only good in the state there issued in. Although most states will "Cross license you"
/Aram
Intel is an investor in Be
on
Be on the G4
·
· Score: 1
I'm prety sure Intel made a heavy investment in BE before they went IPO. I wonder who's chips there going to support????
Slashdot Mirror
I'm new the linux stuff. I've used unixes (AIX, ,VMS, Solaris, SunOS, Digital UX) as a user, but I feel like I have to be a sys admin to figure out all these linux configurations. What goes where /bin /usr/local (although no less cluttered than windows). where is that x windows config file? If they can make it easier bless them.
I had to set up an NT server at my last job. It was way easier (although much less powerfull). What is the price of power though. How much time do I have to spend learning linux to make everything easy..? Maybe its just tht linux documentation that is confusing but I don't think it needs to be as difficult as it is.
I'm pretty familiar with Unix, heck I even know how to pipe. But this difficulty in administoring linux is going to hold it back..
I'm running suse 6.1 on virtual PC. I miss the mac extension manager that tells you everything thats loaded and run on boot, and you can shut it on or off with a click. I find it hard to tell linux to stop loading httpd and ftp servers. (keep in mind I've only been at this a couple weeks part time.)
at infoworld
http://www.infoworld.com/ucita
Almost like that great upstate NY city Utica, but I don't think people are protesting against them.
and other fun stuff.
/printer/devices were very scarse until iMac owners needed printers and new mice/keyboards..
http://www.firewireworld.com/
also EVERY digital videocamera uses firewrie. If you want to hook up a DV camera to a computer you got to use firewire.
If its a mac its got firewire (except ibook)
If its a sony vaio its got i link (firewire with a different name)
Some compaqs offer it too.
Odd though, USB
But any new technology should have a chance. If its worse it will fail (this isn't always true, as marketing counts but I digress.)
check out http://www.infoworld.com/ucita for more details on UCITA.
Its going to be a national fight and its been around since the fall..
Good greif
I can't find the slides from the lecture... They were good all about smurf/dos attacks etc..
http://web.mit.edu/afs/net.mit.edu/mit/jis/jis.htm l
I installed SuSe 6.1 on virtual PC 3.0. It worked pretty well considering it was my first linux install. I had to learn a few things to get it working right, but that was to be expected. (I do have some unix experience)
I had to figure out about the boot partion and lilo. I did have to configure X manually (load additional video driver) and then reconfigure Xserver. Also had to configure DNS too. The manual they provide is pretty good. It runs well (X could run faster though. i'm on a 400 mhz G3, and its kinda sluggish in a way emulated NT isn't)..
Yast configured most stuff out of the box..Its was a good experience though, and I've got my "running Linux book" and am going to town learning what everything is (they're is a lot of stuff going on in linux and it isn't really intuitive). This is the price of power.
Next up is linuxPPC when they release a new version (CD Bootable it is rumored)
Because the lizard in the slashdot logo is facing the wrong way. (is that why SuSe gives you those stickers for your monitor?)
actually the name should work in german and english? Or does he get different names in each language?
I agree. They just aren't there yet.
I have a minidic player and its been great. I use it alot, cary about 5 to 10 of those little disc with me when I leave the apartment in the AM. And the discs are cheap enough so I have about 40 or so and don't have to worry about downloading the music I want.
The quality is fantastic (way better than 160 kbps mp3). 9 hours per rechargable battery charge too.
And the coolest thing is the little remote that hangs off the end of the headphone cable. (actually kinda in the middle of the cable with the headphones attached). You can change songs/volume while keeping the unit in your pocket.
How do you think web pages and those who create them pay for them..?
I can't you believe all the pages you view were put on the web at a cost of nothing. Ads help pay for them in the same way they keep the prices of magazines and newspapers low. So in a way they are paying you to view them because you want to view the content (unlike unsolisited email). Yeah adds are annoying, but they're necessary.
They'res also the question as "click through" rates fall as they are, whos is going to pay for serving all this content.
As for thinking those add are immoral?? Its an advertisment. Do you stop wathcing TV because of ads (which actually waste your time..)
On the otherside, doubleclick is a devious company trying to match real address to web cookiew.
Its obvious those that create movies do not want it togo the way of MP3s with hundreds of ftp servers serving up illegal MP3s. There reaction is total perdicatable, they want to nip this in the bud.
//+" and "Disc Muncher" all programs that were for sale that allowed you to make copies of apple //e flopies, even those that were copy protected. I don't think we need to go back to that era where each disc had its own copy protection which made them more likely to crash and made it more necessary to back them up. Those copy programs were for sale and legal. How was that different? (besides apple program writers didn't have a strong lobby?)
That being said, I think they're being ridiculous in there attemt to stop DeCSS.
I think back to the old days of "locksmith" and "Copy
That being said, stop pirating MP3s. Although tempting, it makes it way worse when anyone looks at the potential for piracy for a new medium and may be why the Riaa is totally overreacting. Now we have lawsuits and someone in jail..
Not buying DVDs wouldn't hurt either, but the picture is so good and the sound....
nothing easy.
I'm just curious. Aren't the number of lines on british TVs greater than on american TVs? (Pal vs NTSC). So are British DVDs having more data and a better picture? The country code is an annoyance.
I agree this whole DSS is getting well out of hand.
As a formal civil engineer who had to write specs, we found that often companies would send you a "sample spec" along with their product literature..
They would always speciy the one thing about they're product that was unique hoping you'd cut and paste their spec in. We always wrote our own specs , but one could see how if pressed for time you could spec a single product when it should be bid.
(ie computer, x86 compatiable, black case, with a "start" button in lower left corner.)
I hope it can read/ write other file formats properly.. then I'll switch.
.doc .
I think the world needs a universal word processing file format (html doesn't count niether does pdf). That way the wp programs could stand on their own merit, not just compatability with
Every office from time to time needs to read others documents and that seems why Word does so well. PDF is a major player on the web because the reader is free.
A good universal presentation/spreadsheet/ database format would be usefull too.
Wasn't XML supposed to solve this?
I have ADSL and a radio..The radio is near the ADSL modem thing. I turned on the radio and it didn't work... till I hooked up an AM antena.. Then it seemed to work fine.
My DSL seems to work great (as advertised) except when Bell-Atl removes my dial tone for no apparent reason as they've done from time time (Just to keep me on my toes?) .
The fact that I'm really close to the CO might have something to do with it.
http://www.insidemacgames.com/downloads/demos/99/q uake3/download3.shtml
I got about 50kB/Sec over ADSL
Fetch.. oh wait.. its a http transfer.
They have more links on the site
Thats the reason that The CFO of apple gave for keeping the price the same.
Although with Apples fat margins you would think they would just bite the bullet on this one to make people happy. I can understand canceling the 500 though if you can't ship.
Motorolla is really bitting the big one on this..
On the plus side IBM said it will begin making G4s with altivec in the first half of 2000. I think the new Nintendo will use them. SOI/copper should help the clock speed of the G4and IBM has good new fabs.
Thats the reason that The CFO of apple gave for keeping the price the same.
Although with Apples fat margins you would think they would just bite the bullet on this one to make people happy. I can understand canceling the 500 though if you can't ship.
Motorolla is really bitting the big one on this..
On the plus side IBM said it will begin making G4s with altivec in the first half of 2000. I think the new Nintendo will use them. SOI/copper should help the clock speed of the G4and IBM has good new fabs.
Sounds like fractal geometry to represent things. Not that exciting and requiring lots of power..
Its really easy for prople to print these days.
Infomation that used to written on a notepad in the old days is now printed out via PDF/HTML in 15 + pages. The laser printer is fast and effective paper spouting machine. Statistics bear this out, we're using more paper.
Also documentation on CD is still a pain to use. I wonder if the amount saved in not printing manuals is made up printing them out in 8.5 x 11???
/Aram
If your even thinking about it, because you don't want to take it later.
I took the (EIT) exam and passed. I don't remeber half the stuff on it and its only been 4 years. I wouldn't want to take it now and have to refresh all that knowledge.
Bear in mind the test covers all disciplines in engineering, not just EE.
The PE exam will cover just material similar to the field you've been working in.
If your a civil engineer (dams, bridges,roads, buildings) you need you PE license or "Stamp" on drawings before any builder will touch them (or build anything on the drawings. ) Thats because they want people with some experience designing these things, which makes good sense.
I think for Electrical engineers It is important for wiring power drawings.
For computer engineers I think its next to useless.
I think part of the requirement for maintaining your PE is "Proffessional development" , which means learning and keeping up to date.
the steps in obtaining a PE are
1. Pass Engineer in Training(EIT) exam
2. work for 4 years in design
3. Take PE exam in your engineering discipline.
4. Get cool stamp for drawings.
PEs are only good in the state there issued in. Although most states will "Cross license you"
/Aram
I'm prety sure Intel made a heavy investment in BE before they went IPO. I wonder who's chips there going to support????
Just a thought.
Your talking at least an extra 350-400 dollars...for a decent fire wire card
/mouse/floppydrive is a little optomistic...
and while your at it:
Win NT which is say about 250$ (I think it might be more..) (Most publishing isn't Linux yet..)
Plus I think there 40$ for a keyboard
Also companies don't buy overclocked chips.
plus you get a cool case with the mac although I will say the keyboard and mouse need to go (add 60$)
And ATI rage 128 isn't the best but its no slouch in 2D (Acceptable in 3d)
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/showcase/education/ wgbh/index.html
Sounds like a good book.
- 7.4.jpg
l
I thought I share some online resources, I've been using.. I posted a rather obscure question on there q/a about my enlarger and got an answer.
anyway...
photo.net is like slashdot but with a camera bend. (check out the archives)
http://www.photo.net/photo/
By background picture is:
http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd1631/chaco-sunset
Bill Gates deconstruction:
http://photo.net/philg/humor/bill-gates-fpx.htm
ICP is the international center for photography.
http://www.icp.org
My photos (self plug):
http://members.aol.com/acomjean3/photo.html
or digitally modified
http://members.aol.com/acomjean2
or
http://members.aol.com/acomjean2/tomfu4.jpg
check em out.