I've got a TiBook running OSX too. I really want multiple desktops (I normally run as a non-priveledged user and it be nice to be able to fire up an admin session without losing my primary session).
All my Linux experience so far has been CLI instead of GUI so I can't really compare.
But I'll say that my 667Mhz TiBook is the most amazing machine I've worked on. Speed is great (I moved from a 300Mhz G3 iBook) and the screen width is awesome.
I don't think linux's firewire support is far enough along to support some of my devices (firewire video capture, hard drive and cd burner -- I think support for hard drives is it)
As far as file sharing goes, SMB support sucks. I haven't tried NFS. Appletalk with a Linux server seems to work ok (not great, but better than previously).
I'm really interested in seeing if I can do file sharing via WebDAV with a linux box like iTools does with Apple's servers.
i've been hacking on autorip to support a multi-cd tower (mines on scsi so at least that part is easy).
autrip is a perl front-end to cdparanoia/freedb/ and a wav to mp3/ogg converter.
it's written for one device, but easily hacked for multiple (even if just the cheap way of forking it a bunch of times)
it does track at a time converting so you don't need to worry about a disk full of wav's that need to be converted.
unfortunately i've put the project on hold -- i can't get a stable 2.4 kernel on my PPC box that supports XFS. Currently when I launch cdparanoia the kernel bombs.
I go to another town and hear advertising for that town! Yeah!
Of course for some reason the radio stations don't seem to need to track my every movement, or make me pay to recieve their ads, but hey this is progress!
a) price -- I think the price is mainly set by the cost of the 1.8" drive it uses (as opposed to the cheaper and physically larger 2.5" drives in laptops and the nomad). Hopefully the cost of these drives drops and the cost of the iPod does too. If it was $100 cheaper I'd seriously consider getting one.
b) doesn't play OGG encoded music. the iPod has an updatable firmware so they can add other formats, hopefully ogg is added next.
on the plus side it does NOT play WMA encoded music!
I love Daniel Pinkwater's books. Great non-idiot children books (probably for kids a bit older than this book is intended for -- junior high or a bit earlier).
WIth Windows 2000, when people talk about installing Terminal Services they are invariably talking about installing the administrative (2 connection only) version -- virtually everyone turns this on their servers, even IIS boxes and file servers.
Well to counter point 1 - we had a user take windows 2000 laptop home, get infected with code red, then bring it back in the office and start infecting IIS that hadn't been patched because "they weren't exposed to the internet"
ION is a great service. For a few more weeks at least.
My cost is $150 a month here's what I get:
8Mbps/1Mbps DSL (mine actually clocked out at 6M/800K)
2 static IP addresses
4 phone lines (on one pair wires)
Voice mail
750 minutes of US long distance
1-800 number (well 1-888 number)
In addition, the DSL does NOT use PPOE. The service agreement was very lienient, allowing me to run my own web/mail/etc... services. I couldn't resell any of those services (couldn't become my own ISP) and they had a lot of CYA notes for copyright infringement.
During code red/nimda inbound port 80 was never blocked.
Initial install was a typical DSLHell story, and the whole system for about 4 months. I went through 4 ION boxes before the system stablized. Its been rock solid for the last year and half.
I'm going to miss my ION. It was worth every penny.
No self respecting sysadmin would want Dell to preload Linux or FreeBSD for their companies desktops (or servers)
Well for desktops I would as long as the pre-install image was one I had setup. Dell offers this service to it's larger business customers (at least for Windows desktops). We design the image configured the way we want and they put it on all the desktops. saves a lot of time.
servers i do from hand.
No, GPL does not prevent running of non-open source in conjuntion or on top of a GPL product (nor do other open source licenses.)
If, in order to compile pine, it had to be linked against GPL libraries then pine would be required to be GPL, or use it's own libraries. Note that it can link against LGPL libraries without issues.
This is the same FUD microsoft is trying to push, one app being GPL does not require the OS to be GPL. Nor does the OS being GPL require apps to GPL.
Debian has a policy that non-free software can't be distributed with their GNU/Linux distribution -- that's their policy, not a requirement of GPL.
Nope. Getting an MCSE won't cover what the hell the ident protocol (or port 113) is used for. Heck, it barely covers what a port is. Even the TCP/IP test doesn't cover log checking.
You'll have to blame more than the newly minted MCSE -- they don't know enough to check logs.
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There's also a set of CD's from an American dramatization that isn't nearly as good.
The BBC version is awesome.
Kevin
I've got a TiBook running OSX too. I really want multiple desktops (I normally run as a non-priveledged user and it be nice to be able to fire up an admin session without losing my primary session).
All my Linux experience so far has been CLI instead of GUI so I can't really compare.
But I'll say that my 667Mhz TiBook is the most amazing machine I've worked on. Speed is great (I moved from a 300Mhz G3 iBook) and the screen width is awesome.
I don't think linux's firewire support is far enough along to support some of my devices (firewire video capture, hard drive and cd burner -- I think support for hard drives is it)
As far as file sharing goes, SMB support sucks. I haven't tried NFS. Appletalk with a Linux server seems to work ok (not great, but better than previously).
I'm really interested in seeing if I can do file sharing via WebDAV with a linux box like iTools does with Apple's servers.
Kevin
recommend the smart thing - disable Windows XP. Just disabling Universal PnP isn't going to help.
http://autorip.sourceforge.net/
i've been hacking on autorip to support a multi-cd tower (mines on scsi so at least that part is easy).
autrip is a perl front-end to cdparanoia/freedb/ and a wav to mp3/ogg converter.
it's written for one device, but easily hacked for multiple (even if just the cheap way of forking it a bunch of times)
it does track at a time converting so you don't need to worry about a disk full of wav's that need to be converted.
unfortunately i've put the project on hold -- i can't get a stable 2.4 kernel on my PPC box that supports XFS. Currently when I launch cdparanoia the kernel bombs.
OGG guys dual licensed their libraries and SDK's under GPL and BSD for the same reason.
http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp#flic
I go to another town and hear advertising for that town! Yeah!
Of course for some reason the radio stations don't seem to need to track my every movement, or make me pay to recieve their ads, but hey this is progress!
Even if Apple doesn't do the right thing, the patent expires next year (patents are only good for 10 years right?)
I usually just start lying. "Oh yeah, I'm running windows" "check my ip? certainly. lookie there it's just fine"
why borrow a box with windows? Just feed them the answers that force them to bump the call up to the next level.
what a load of crap. what verification do they use that you're a real business? Wasn't it VeriSign that issued 2 bogus Microsoft certificates?
Probably harder to fake a passport/driver's license than it is to fake being a business.
The lower reach of bluetooth is somewhat of an advantage security-wise. do you really want your laptop to sync with every cell phone that walks by?
they also aren't battery powered and are physically much larger and heavier.
the ipod is based on the 1.8" drive, not the 2.5" drive so it's much smaller and lighter.
kevin
It can only auto-sync with one computer. You can manually sync music (via iTunes) with any number of computers.
In data drive mode the music is in a hidden folder (like that's going to be hard to find).
Apple is trying to prevent casual piracy -- if you're going to pirate music they want to make sure you really want to 8-)
there's only 2 things really wrong with the iPod:
a) price -- I think the price is mainly set by the cost of the 1.8" drive it uses (as opposed to the cheaper and physically larger 2.5" drives in laptops and the nomad). Hopefully the cost of these drives drops and the cost of the iPod does too. If it was $100 cheaper I'd seriously consider getting one.
b) doesn't play OGG encoded music. the iPod has an updatable firmware so they can add other formats, hopefully ogg is added next.
on the plus side it does NOT play WMA encoded music!
I love Daniel Pinkwater's books. Great non-idiot children books (probably for kids a bit older than this book is intended for -- junior high or a bit earlier).
Maybe you should re-read your own point 1:
You don't expose your Datacenter servers to the Internet -- never.
The internal network is not the Internet. Now you're saying not to expose your data center to the internal network -- valid, but not your first point.
Kevin
WIth Windows 2000, when people talk about installing Terminal Services they are invariably talking about installing the administrative (2 connection only) version -- virtually everyone turns this on their servers, even IIS boxes and file servers.
I waiting for the first exploit of this.
Kevin
Well to counter point 1 - we had a user take windows 2000 laptop home, get infected with code red, then bring it back in the office and start infecting IIS that hadn't been patched because "they weren't exposed to the internet"
So that is no protection.
Kevin
ION is a great service. For a few more weeks at least.
My cost is $150 a month here's what I get:
8Mbps/1Mbps DSL (mine actually clocked out at 6M/800K)
2 static IP addresses
4 phone lines (on one pair wires)
Voice mail
750 minutes of US long distance
1-800 number (well 1-888 number)
In addition, the DSL does NOT use PPOE. The service agreement was very lienient, allowing me to run my own web/mail/etc... services. I couldn't resell any of those services (couldn't become my own ISP) and they had a lot of CYA notes for copyright infringement.
During code red/nimda inbound port 80 was never blocked.
Initial install was a typical DSLHell story, and the whole system for about 4 months. I went through 4 ION boxes before the system stablized. Its been rock solid for the last year and half.
I'm going to miss my ION. It was worth every penny.
No self respecting sysadmin would want Dell to preload Linux or FreeBSD for their companies desktops (or servers) Well for desktops I would as long as the pre-install image was one I had setup. Dell offers this service to it's larger business customers (at least for Windows desktops). We design the image configured the way we want and they put it on all the desktops. saves a lot of time. servers i do from hand.
weird, wget isn't working in my 10.0.4 install. Oh well, guess I'll just recompile when I get my 10.1.
isn't gcc included with the developer tools or does BSD use it's own compilier?
Nah, 10.1 was a major rewrite of certain sections of aqua (the finder mainly). applescript finally works too and I think that was a major overhaul.
Apple is trying to hide how much changing they needed by using a small increment number. 10.5 would've been more appropriate.
I think they broke the apache install that comes with OS X. Probably a config file issue, but I don't have my own copy of 10.1 to verify yet.
Breaking of X on X doesn't surprise me, I don't think it was intentional. But I don't think they worried about it either.
Kevin
Picked up a set of these from thinkgeek. They stream analog from a 1/8" stereo jack to RCA jacks. Works fine. At $69 it's hard to beat.
Since I have wireless ethernet too, I can control the output on the server from my laptop anywhere in the house (or outside).
No, GPL does not prevent running of non-open source in conjuntion or on top of a GPL product (nor do other open source licenses.)
If, in order to compile pine, it had to be linked against GPL libraries then pine would be required to be GPL, or use it's own libraries. Note that it can link against LGPL libraries without issues.
This is the same FUD microsoft is trying to push, one app being GPL does not require the OS to be GPL. Nor does the OS being GPL require apps to GPL.
Debian has a policy that non-free software can't be distributed with their GNU/Linux distribution -- that's their policy, not a requirement of GPL.
Kevin
so does mutt, and it's imap works a heck of a lot better than pine's did when i tried that.
i still stumble on pine key mappings, but i still prefer mutt.
You'll have to blame more than the newly minted MCSE -- they don't know enough to check logs.
I should know, I've got one.