When it comes to testing the software, it must be done against a baselined distribution.
Sure, but by the same token you wouldn't have one baseline system. In our software development lab, we have a couple of supported RH versions, SUSE, Debian, Mandrake, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris.
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The X-15 engine was an XLR-99 single chamber rocket. It produced 60,000 pounds of thrust and it burned 18,000 pounds of liquid oxygen and anhydrous ammonia in 85 seconds. The propellants were fed by a steam driven turbopump; the source of the steam was hydrogen peroxide decomposed by passing through a silver screen catalyst bed.
What they tested today doesn't carry oxygen, instead scooping it out of the atmosphere.
Rather than claim that closed source products don't incur these costs, I'd say the are invariant.
1. support
Have you used the (offshore) support that comes with shrink-wrapped software? Give me a break. In addition to the mailing list that every software package comes with, the mailing list that the authors reads, if you're interested in paying someone for support, try IBM.
I hear all about connections between SPAM and organized crime. However, I don't see how SPAM is much different from other forms of information pollution, e.g., ads. For cleaning up email, there's Bayesian filtering. For the web, there's pop-up blockers. For TV, there's Tivo. And in each case the info-polluters have their counter measures.
I've been on both sides here. I've done the OpenLDAP database of users, with OS X desktops an Samba fileservers, Sendmail / QPopper / IMAP mail setups for a few thousand users. I've also done the Win2k3 servers with AD and Exchange, and WinXP desktops, again for a few thousand users. The bottom line is that they both serve the same roles: user management, mail, fileserving.
You've got a great point, there. The MS way is tightly integrated, and that really shows off in the provisioning/de-provisioning functions. You'll never get that kind of tight integration in the Open Source world, but you can get close with "standards". Sadly, standards for leveraging LDAP for mail and file service lag way behind. For account provisioning, we have the experimental RFC 2307 for storing NIS information as objectClass posixAccount. There are only a couple of expired Internet-Drafts for mail. For file servers, there's basically nothing.
All this is not to say that standardization is not the way to go, it's just that there's still a ways to go. And the people who know how to make this sort of solution work -- people with lots of practical, large-scale, real-world experience -- are just not the people working on "standards."
Apple has focused on their AFS protocol (which is insanely fast).
I assume you mean AFP, not AFS. That's Apple Filing Protocol v Andrew File System. I'm pretty sure Apple's not very focused on AFS, today. Nor does anyone describe AFS as "insanely fast."
What I'd like to see is a way to, by simply double-clicking on the RPM, install it to the directory of my choice (e.g. have it bring up an installer similar to the ones commonly used in Windows). Also, the directory structure in Linux is relatively confusing to work with. How about a single, unified folder for my programs, like Windows' Program Files folder?
Well, Mac OS X does a pretty good job of this. It maintains all the Unix-y stuff in the typical Unix-y places, and has a whole secondary structure for GUI-crap. For instance, there's a/bin,/usr,/var, etc; along with a/Applications,/Library, etc.
Obviously you've never heard of the Unix Rosetta Stone. It's certainly the case that you don't know all Unix systems by knowing one. However, I found when I learned my second Unix system, that I understood much better what made it "Unix" as opposed to Solaris, Linux, BSD, whatever. Flexibility is hard, but worth learning.
Somebody please point me to a Linux distribution that offers that duration of support at any price.
Given that Linux distributions are open source, if there were a market for such long support, someone would sell it. Much like a company other than RedHat is supporting old RedHat distributions. I like to call this effect "free market done right."
Germany has a weak military compared to both the UK and France.
References? Germany and UK spent $38.8 billion and $31.7 billion on the military in 2002. France spent $46.5 billion. Perhaps you're referring to Germany's lack of nuclear weapons?
However, the
University I work for is preparing to have a meeting for which version of Linux to standardize on and get support for... Red Hat (I'm assuming Enterprise), SuSe, or Fedora.
That's interesting. So's the University that I work for. Some people have even suggested working on a distribution supported by universities, e.g., EduNix.
Unfortunately I still disagree how they constantly persecute mainstream religions and expressions there of as well as minimize the majority to accomodate the minority.
Yeah, me, too! Being a white middle class heterosexual male, I just wish all those other people would just shut the fuck up and deal with their marginal positions in society. Whine whine whine: "Why can't I have a job? Why can't I have health care? Why can't I have a place to live and enough to eat?" Because you're not in the all powerful majority, that's why! So shut up!
Proper URL citations include the date. I'm not worried so much about the page being taken down (since it is presumably archived), as much as changing. If you don't record which version your were referring to, the content can change dramatically.
One: give each student a different assignment. This is really great if, for instance, you know the students well enough to assign each the project they need to round out their education.
Two: assign the whole class one project, something that a smaller number can't complete. This method reflects what I like to call "the real world".
You should check out Radmind for Mac OS X. It won second place for Best Server Solution at Apple's Design Awards. While the underlying technology works for Linux (and Solaris), the wiz-bang GUI is only available for the Mac.
We manage large clusters of both Solaris and Linux machines. We are in the middle of moving all of the UMich central infrastructure to Linux, mostly for cost reasons. The main difference is that Sun hardware is better in a lights-out environment. For a lab environment, this shouldn't be an issue. As far as OS speed, simplicity, and flexibility, I think Linux beats Solaris hands down. And Intel hardware is way cheaper and faster than Sun hardware at the low end.
As far as how we manage our clusters, the answer is the same for Solaris, Linux, and for the matter Mac OS X: radmind. Check it out. It integrates tripwire and filesystem management. We use it for installation, patching, and updating.
What I really would like to know is how they install and configure all those machines. Their method of doing that will be very useful for even the (relatively) smaller networks that don't necessarily have to be clusters.
There are a few common ways this gets done. NetRestore, CCC, and ASR are pretty common.
I really hope they describe how they maintain the operating system on them.
This is the really important question. While it's a pain to visit each machine, you don't want to do that more than once. With a tool like radmind, you just correct filesystem problem without totally re-imaging a machine. In addition to managing Mac OS X, radmind works on Linux (which is what the VT cluster is running), Solaris, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
In my reading, it sounds like AT&T has outsourced their TAP interface to EFI Unimobile. See the EFI Unimobile page on the subject. I guess it will cost, while AT&T's direct TAP number was probably free. However, it does sound like it will still be useful for sending alerts about your network.
I believe the issue is whether the charges are publicly disclosed.
Only if by "public," you mean to the accused. The FBI initially declined to inform him of what he was charged with. He in turn declined to make himself available until the FBI disclosed to him what the charges were. The real question is "Why were the charges sealed?"
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The discussion is whether or not Apple should be communicating more completely the nature of the security problems it is fixing.
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The vulnerabilities are announced on various security lists. If you're paying even any attention, you can't help but notice.
When it comes to testing the software, it must be done against a baselined distribution.
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Sure, but by the same token you wouldn't have one baseline system. In our software development lab, we have a couple of supported RH versions, SUSE, Debian, Mandrake, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris.
What they tested today doesn't carry oxygen, instead scooping it out of the atmosphere.
Rather than claim that closed source products don't incur these costs, I'd say the are invariant.
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1. support
Have you used the (offshore) support that comes with shrink-wrapped software? Give me a break. In addition to the mailing list that every software package comes with, the mailing list that the authors reads, if you're interested in paying someone for support, try IBM.
4. documentation
O'Reilly?
2. installation
3. deployment
5. deploying updates
These three can be done on a massive scale with radmind, a piece of open source software.
I hear all about connections between SPAM and organized crime. However, I don't see how SPAM is much different from other forms of information pollution, e.g., ads. For cleaning up email, there's Bayesian filtering. For the web, there's pop-up blockers. For TV, there's Tivo. And in each case the info-polluters have their counter measures.
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I've been on both sides here. I've done the OpenLDAP database of users, with OS X desktops an Samba fileservers, Sendmail / QPopper / IMAP mail setups for a few thousand users. I've also done the Win2k3 servers with AD and Exchange, and WinXP desktops, again for a few thousand users. The bottom line is that they both serve the same roles: user management, mail, fileserving.
:w
You've got a great point, there. The MS way is tightly integrated, and that really shows off in the provisioning/de-provisioning functions. You'll never get that kind of tight integration in the Open Source world, but you can get close with "standards". Sadly, standards for leveraging LDAP for mail and file service lag way behind. For account provisioning, we have the experimental RFC 2307 for storing NIS information as objectClass posixAccount. There are only a couple of expired Internet-Drafts for mail. For file servers, there's basically nothing.
All this is not to say that standardization is not the way to go, it's just that there's still a ways to go. And the people who know how to make this sort of solution work -- people with lots of practical, large-scale, real-world experience -- are just not the people working on "standards."
Who is it that finds all the exploits and reports them to Microsoft in the first place? It sure as hell isn't Microsoft employees!
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If they were giving X shares of Microsoft stock for every vulnerability found, you can bet MS Employees would be finding a lot of holes!
Apple has focused on their AFS protocol (which is insanely fast).
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I assume you mean AFP, not AFS. That's Apple Filing Protocol v Andrew File System. I'm pretty sure Apple's not very focused on AFS, today. Nor does anyone describe AFS as "insanely fast."
What I'd like to see is a way to, by simply double-clicking on the RPM, install it to the directory of my choice (e.g. have it bring up an installer similar to the ones commonly used in Windows). Also, the directory structure in Linux is relatively confusing to work with. How about a single, unified folder for my programs, like Windows' Program Files folder?
/bin, /usr, /var, etc; along with a /Applications, /Library, etc.
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Well, Mac OS X does a pretty good job of this. It maintains all the Unix-y stuff in the typical Unix-y places, and has a whole secondary structure for GUI-crap. For instance, there's a
BBC isn't the only one:
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Globe and Mail in Canada also speculates about "penguinistas" authoring MyDoom.
Old tried and tested tools also aren't available.
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Obviously you've never heard of the Unix Rosetta Stone. It's certainly the case that you don't know all Unix systems by knowing one. However, I found when I learned my second Unix system, that I understood much better what made it "Unix" as opposed to Solaris, Linux, BSD, whatever. Flexibility is hard, but worth learning.
Now let's all sing the company song...
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"Oh, say can you see..."
Somebody please point me to a Linux distribution that offers that duration of support at any price.
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Given that Linux distributions are open source, if there were a market for such long support, someone would sell it. Much like a company other than RedHat is supporting old RedHat distributions. I like to call this effect "free market done right."
Germany has a weak military compared to both the UK and France.
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References? Germany and UK spent $38.8 billion and $31.7 billion on the military in 2002. France spent $46.5 billion. Perhaps you're referring to Germany's lack of nuclear weapons?
Proper URL citations include the date. I'm not worried so much about the page being taken down (since it is presumably archived), as much as changing. If you don't record which version your were referring to, the content can change dramatically.
:w
One: give each student a different assignment. This is really great if, for instance, you know the students well enough to assign each the project they need to round out their education.
:w
Two: assign the whole class one project, something that a smaller number can't complete. This method reflects what I like to call "the real world".
You should check out Radmind for Mac OS X. It won second place for Best Server Solution at Apple's Design Awards. While the underlying technology works for Linux (and Solaris), the wiz-bang GUI is only available for the Mac.
:w
As far as how we manage our clusters, the answer is the same for Solaris, Linux, and for the matter Mac OS X: radmind. Check it out. It integrates tripwire and filesystem management. We use it for installation, patching, and updating.
:w
In my reading, it sounds like AT&T has outsourced their TAP interface to EFI Unimobile. See the EFI Unimobile page on the subject. I guess it will cost, while AT&T's direct TAP number was probably free. However, it does sound like it will still be useful for sending alerts about your network.
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