Webserver logs for one of our clients. For some reason the little cron job type thingy didn't rotate the logs for a week or so, and they grew too large.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention... I don't think NT supports files up to 16 terrabytes. I had a log file which grew to 4GB, and wouldn't grow any more, and my filesystem had plenty of space on it. No matter what I did, I couldn't pack any more data into that file. This was NT4, SP5.
Actually, I have a machine right here that has a 2GB swap partition, and also supports Terrabyte size files with a kernel patch I got from ftp://mea.tmt.tele.fi/linux/LFS/.
About the desktop machines... I've run linux as my primary desktop machine for the last 3.5 years, and so has everyone in my house. Even my mom uses it, I set her up with an account that starts KDE, put StarOffice on her desktop, and she loves it. Contrary to what MS just said, NIS+ allows me to add users to all of my machines at once without going into each one.
When you have as much money as Microsoft, you don't have to create your own technology, you just buy it from whoever will sell it to you. Pretty sad really.
If any Microsoft employees are reading this, tell us what the policy is over there. I am curious to know what they think of using OSS software, especially Linux, or BSD. What would happen if you brought your own laptop into work and it had Linux on it, and you were caught?
That's about the same size as my Sony Picturebook. Except my picture is a Pentium 266, has 128MB ram, and a 4 GB drive. Not to mention that CompUSA is now selling the picturebook for $1599. Spend the extra $600 and get all the extra cool stuff with the Sony. It's even the same size.
What I really want is something about the size of a palm pilot that can run ssh and has a decent way to type on it, and has a touch screen. Too bad Digital's Itsy isn't going to come to market. However, someone once mentioned an open project that was trying to figure out the schematics of Itsy, and find the suppliers and sell a kit to build it. Does anyone know where this might be?
Actually, there was something on Slashdot awhile back about handwriting recog that involved a square with 9 sections arount the outside, and 1 section in the middle. Each of the 9 section had 5 or so letters and numbers in it. Basically, you moved the pen from the center, to one of the sections, and then to another to type each letter. The page it was on had an applet that let you test it out with your mouse. It worked quite well with my trackball, it would surely be much better and faster with a stylus.
Even though this machine is outside a firewall (supposedly), it must have some sort of software firewalling running on it. When I did a portscan, I noticed it taking an unusually long time, and when it tries to connect to a port, it's not even getting the response that it cannot connect. Connections are being ignored on these ports. Does win2k have software firewalling built in (like Linux)?
Anyway, that was as much effort as I'm going to put into it. If MS wants to pay me a normal consulting rate, I'll be happy to mess with it some more. I've got better things to do on my Linux box...
Did anyone get sick during the movie? I heard stories of people puking because of the jerky movement of the camera the whole time. I went to see it, and I was fine, but my girlfriend kept her eyes closed half of the movie. She walked out to the lobby, and they told her that if she got sick, she would be number 50. There were chairs in the theater covered with plastic because people had puked all over them.
The University of MN hosts over 75,000 email accounts using sendmail running on Solaris. I'm not sure how big the Solaris box is though, but buying yourself $100,000 worth of Sun equipment and using sendmail is still going to be *WAY* cheaper than going with Exchange.
Qmail is fast and easy to set up, but lacks many options that are available with Sendmail. Sendmail also has built in support for the Realtime Blackhole to filter out spam. Sendmail is definitely the way to go. As for the machine you run it on, you can always get some Sun Ultra 2's, and cluster them together. Maybe an A5000 fibre channel file library too.
You could try running it on a 4 processor Xeon running Linux, but I don't know if x86 processors could handle the load. I seriously doubt it, especially in the morning when everyone is checking their mail. Go with a RAID setup to speed up disk access. And you may want to turn off logging for the mail, syslogd take up an awful lot of CPU when we turn on logging for mail. If I was on a very restricted budget, I would try Linux on a 4 processor box from VA Research with sendmail compiled with pentium optimizations, a really big RAID array, an optimized kernel, and lots of memory and no mail logging. Of course, I'd be ready to plug the old mail system back in very quickly just in case.
Ever see those big silver fire extinguishers at your local K-mart hanging all over the place? They shoot about a 1/4"-3/8" wide stream of water about 50 feet. Most come filled with some chemical, but if you clean them out, you can fill them with water, and you pressurize it with an air hose. It will need around 100psi, however, they are tested to 300 psi for safety. I've put 220 psi in mine and it worked great. If you plan on using this in water fights, there is a small metal clip towards the bottom which is meant to hold the hose when you're not using it... break it off. Otherwise when you run with it, it will stick into your ankle and it will hurt like hell. I still have a scar from it.
Look in your yellow pages under Fire Prevention or something like that. Call a place that advertises used equipment and you can pick one up for around $25. They hold 2.5 gallons of water and you can empty it in about 10 seconds.
We had two of them in my car one 4th of July, and we were cruising along the beach. Traffic was moving about 1 mph, and 3 guys with supersoakers were sitting in their chairs along side the road shooting into everyone's car window. We saw them long before we got to them, so we got the fire extinguishers ready, and as soon as that first stream of water went through my window, we put the hoses out the window and hit the release valves. All three fell over trying to get out of their chairs and were soaked from head to toe in about 5 seconds. Lots of cheering from the cars behind us.
The difference is that those messages were trying to get money out of you. It's advertising.
Red Hat emailing developers of open source software telling them about a *FAVOR* they just did for them is not spam, unless it was something to the effect of "Since you are an open source developer you can receive a 10% discount on any product we sell".
Isn't spam the junkmail of the internet? I don't consider Redhat's informative email "junkmail".
Quit your bitching!!!! I can't believe you're calling redhat spammers... Sure they sent out emails to many people, but they are doing these people a favor. They are not getting any personal gain out of it.
Here's what happens: 1. Red Hat emails a bunch of developers to tell them about their IPO and how they can get in early. 2. Developer chooses to open an etrade account (initial $1000 DEPOSIT, not a fee, you can get your money back by closing the account) 3. Red Hat's IPO happens. The price will (probably 99.9% chance) shoot up way above the initial offering, and then eventually drop off a little (or possibly alot). 4. Developer sells off stock at much higher price than he bought it for and makes lots of money, or chooses to hold on to it expecting it to climb higher sometime in the future.
Hmmm, who wins at this???? Well, the developer makes some money (looks like a good way for RedHat to give a little extra thanks back to the Open Source community), and etrade gets 29.90 for executing the trades for you (BFD, you just made a bunch of cash). Red Hat doesn't really gain anything out of it except maybe a short-lived bias towards their distribution.
Red Hat doesn't necessarily make the best distribution, but they definitely don't make the worst. They've had to put up with a lot of shit over the last few months because many people in the Linux community seem to adopt the idea that making money is evil and Red Hat is turning into Microsoft. Just because they try to turn a buck doesn't make them evil. Suse made more money last quarter than RedHat and they don't seem be criticized as much. Quit your complaining about this and take it for what it is... a simple thank you from Red Hat to the developers of open source software.
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The shell script would have to be run as root though, otherwise it wouldn't be able to edit/etc/inetd.conf. inetd also needs to be restarted for the change to take effect.
I suggest if anyone is really worried about it that you get yourself a copy of tripwire and figure out how to use it properly.
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How? Tell me how NT's security model is stronger than a Unix security model.
Think about it... how the hell could your finger's typing produce enough energy to power your laptop?
This has to be a marketing ploy. Compaq advertises this feature, people say "cool", and they buy it. I'm sure they can incorporate this little feature into the machine, but it may only extend your battery life by.002 seconds. It's still doing what it was advertised to do, and Compaq sells more laptops because of this worthless feature.
Your PII processor running at full load takes about 25 watts of power. At the science museum of Minnesota, they have an exercise bike hooked up to a generator that powers a 25 watt light bulb, a radio, a tv, and other assorted devices. You use a switch to switch between them. I know from experience that to light that 25 watt bulb, you have to pedal at a pretty good pace. There is no way in hell that your fingers could produce enough power to light that damn bulb. Even if you stored up the energy from your finger tips and released it into the bulb, you probably couldn't get enough.
It seems a little too Mac like for me. I'll stick with my Windowmaker. I ditched GNOME/Enlightenment because it was too Windowsy. But now I miss my true virtual desktop. Maybe someday if I get a wild hair up my ass I'll try to make a virtual desktop (pager) capability for Windowmaker. "Workspaces" are a poor excuse.
This story is completely true. They do the same thing where I work, free pop, free beer, wear what you want, lots of little perks. It's all done to keep you at work longer, and it works. I usually work until 8 every night. But I like my job, and without those little perks which tend to keep me here for 11-12 hours at a time, I would probably not enjoy my job as much. I'm sure I would be only spending 8 hours here and be very eager to leave by mid-afternoon.
Yeah, for many companies, it's a ploy to make you work longer, but I think I'd rather work a little longer than have to wear a suit, drink shitty coffee, and live in a cubicle field for 8 hours a day.
Bob Metcalfe (metcalfe@idg.net) is one of very few people who've ever successfully recompiled an operating system. But not recently, not Linux, not Windows, nor his trusty Macintosh. Neither has he performed brain surgery on himself.
Exactly what point is he trying to convey here? Is he trying to say that it's nearly impossible to compile a kernel? Or is he trying to imply that the majority of computer users will not have to compile a kernel, and that should be left up to the programmers?
If you're using Linux in a server environment, and you're the sysadmin, chances are you will have the need to compile yourself a kernel. He is arguing that Linux will never make it in the server market right?
I hope he's not trying to imply that compiling a kernel is hard. If so, he's obviouly either stupid (which I highly doubt since he created ethernet), or he has never tried it. The configuration and compiling of the kernel has been extremely simple ever since you could do a 'make menuconfig' or a 'make xconfig'. And even if you don't know what certain options do, just click on the help button and it will basically tell you if you need it or not.
I guess I just don't get what his point is. I recompile, and know many others who recompile their kernels to apply patches, get rid of features they don't need, add features, and to speed up their OS on a regular basis. I can honestly say that is probably the best features about Linux/*BSD. After you untar the source tree and read the first 20 lines of the README file, you should know how to recompile it. I have *NEVER* had a kernel compile fail on me, EVER.
Maybe he just can't get over the fact that you can get something good for free.
I just ordered a case off the website. I figured I might as well find out what Bawls taste like. I called the number instead to order it though, their website is getting hammered on.
It's $35/case of 24. Not too bad considering shipping is included, and shipping is probably aroudn $8 or so. So it ends up being just over $1/bottle.
It looks to me like @home seriously oversubscribed, and now they have to put bandwidth limits in place to be able to service all of those customers. Can you say "class-action lawsuit"? AOL made the same mistake a while back and ended up shelling out million of dollars in refund money. Maybe @Home should upgrade their equipment for future customers, instead up "upgrading" their customer base first. If you are paying for 3Mbps down, and 1Mbps up, you should be able to use it for whatever you want. @Home needs to set up their network so you down/upload speeds are burstable to 3/1Mbps. That way, the average user will not notice a difference, but people running warez/mp3 servers will have their bandwidth limited after so many seconds of sustained transmission.
I got myself a DSL line from USWest, and I've gone through my share of hell with it, but from the sound of it, @Home should be paying its customers for the inconvenience. If customers are not getting the speeds that they are promised, they should be compensated for it. If "prime-time" last 3 hours each evening, and nothing is accessible, @Home should refund 3 hours*30 days worth of a customer's bill.
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Webserver logs for one of our clients. For some reason the little cron job type thingy didn't rotate the logs for a week or so, and they grew too large.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention... I don't think NT supports files up to 16 terrabytes. I had a log file which grew to 4GB, and wouldn't grow any more, and my filesystem had plenty of space on it. No matter what I did, I couldn't pack any more data into that file. This was NT4, SP5.
Actually, I have a machine right here that has a 2GB swap partition, and also supports Terrabyte size files with a kernel patch I got from ftp://mea.tmt.tele.fi/linux/LFS/.
About the desktop machines... I've run linux as my primary desktop machine for the last 3.5 years, and so has everyone in my house. Even my mom uses it, I set her up with an account that starts KDE, put StarOffice on her desktop, and she loves it. Contrary to what MS just said, NIS+ allows me to add users to all of my machines at once without going into each one.
They reduce my efficiency.
"Get off your computer....",
"You love your computer more than me",
"Quit banging on your keyboard and come bang on me for awhile..."
When you have as much money as Microsoft, you don't have to create your own technology, you just buy it from whoever will sell it to you. Pretty sad really.
If any Microsoft employees are reading this, tell us what the policy is over there. I am curious to know what they think of using OSS software, especially Linux, or BSD. What would happen if you brought your own laptop into work and it had Linux on it, and you were caught?
That's about the same size as my Sony Picturebook. Except my picture is a Pentium 266, has 128MB ram, and a 4 GB drive. Not to mention that CompUSA is now selling the picturebook for $1599. Spend the extra $600 and get all the extra cool stuff with the Sony. It's even the same size.
What I really want is something about the size of a palm pilot that can run ssh and has a decent way to type on it, and has a touch screen. Too bad Digital's Itsy isn't going to come to market. However, someone once mentioned an open project that was trying to figure out the schematics of Itsy, and find the suppliers and sell a kit to build it. Does anyone know where this might be?
Linux on this little thing would rock ass. Does anyone know how usable the port is for the current Psion?
Actually, there was something on Slashdot awhile back about handwriting recog that involved a square with 9 sections arount the outside, and 1 section in the middle. Each of the 9 section had 5 or so letters and numbers in it. Basically, you moved the pen from the center, to one of the sections, and then to another to type each letter. The page it was on had an applet that let you test it out with your mouse. It worked quite well with my trackball, it would surely be much better and faster with a stylus.
mmmmmmm..... interns......
Oh yeah... piss off the aliens with SPAM. They're gonna snuff us out for sure. We're doomed.
Even though this machine is outside a firewall (supposedly), it must have some sort of software firewalling running on it. When I did a portscan, I noticed it taking an unusually long time, and when it tries to connect to a port, it's not even getting the response that it cannot connect. Connections are being ignored on these ports. Does win2k have software firewalling built in (like Linux)?
Anyway, that was as much effort as I'm going to put into it. If MS wants to pay me a normal consulting rate, I'll be happy to mess with it some more. I've got better things to do on my Linux box...
Did anyone get sick during the movie? I heard stories of people puking because of the jerky movement of the camera the whole time. I went to see it, and I was fine, but my girlfriend kept her eyes closed half of the movie. She walked out to the lobby, and they told her that if she got sick, she would be number 50. There were chairs in the theater covered with plastic because people had puked all over them.
The University of MN hosts over 75,000 email accounts using sendmail running on Solaris. I'm not sure how big the Solaris box is though, but buying yourself $100,000 worth of Sun equipment and using sendmail is still going to be *WAY* cheaper than going with Exchange.
Qmail is fast and easy to set up, but lacks many options that are available with Sendmail. Sendmail also has built in support for the Realtime Blackhole to filter out spam. Sendmail is definitely the way to go. As for the machine you run it on, you can always get some Sun Ultra 2's, and cluster them together. Maybe an A5000 fibre channel file library too.
You could try running it on a 4 processor Xeon running Linux, but I don't know if x86 processors could handle the load. I seriously doubt it, especially in the morning when everyone is checking their mail. Go with a RAID setup to speed up disk access. And you may want to turn off logging for the mail, syslogd take up an awful lot of CPU when we turn on logging for mail. If I was on a very restricted budget, I would try Linux on a 4 processor box from VA Research with sendmail compiled with pentium optimizations, a really big RAID array, an optimized kernel, and lots of memory and no mail logging. Of course, I'd be ready to plug the old mail system back in very quickly just in case.
Ever see those big silver fire extinguishers at your local K-mart hanging all over the place? They shoot about a 1/4"-3/8" wide stream of water about 50 feet. Most come filled with some chemical, but if you clean them out, you can fill them with water, and you pressurize it with an air hose. It will need around 100psi, however, they are tested to 300 psi for safety. I've put 220 psi in mine and it worked great. If you plan on using this in water fights, there is a small metal clip towards the bottom which is meant to hold the hose when you're not using it... break it off. Otherwise when you run with it, it will stick into your ankle and it will hurt like hell. I still have a scar from it.
Look in your yellow pages under Fire Prevention or something like that. Call a place that advertises used equipment and you can pick one up for around $25. They hold 2.5 gallons of water and you can empty it in about 10 seconds.
We had two of them in my car one 4th of July, and we were cruising along the beach. Traffic was moving about 1 mph, and 3 guys with supersoakers were sitting in their chairs along side the road shooting into everyone's car window. We saw them long before we got to them, so we got the fire extinguishers ready, and as soon as that first stream of water went through my window, we put the hoses out the window and hit the release valves. All three fell over trying to get out of their chairs and were soaked from head to toe in about 5 seconds. Lots of cheering from the cars behind us.
The difference is that those messages were trying to get money out of you. It's advertising.
Red Hat emailing developers of open source software telling them about a *FAVOR* they just did for them is not spam, unless it was something to the effect of "Since you are an open source developer you can receive a 10% discount on any product we sell".
Isn't spam the junkmail of the internet? I don't consider Redhat's informative email "junkmail".
Quit your bitching!!!! I can't believe you're calling redhat spammers... Sure they sent out emails to many people, but they are doing these people a favor. They are not getting any personal gain out of it.
Here's what happens:
1. Red Hat emails a bunch of developers to tell them about their IPO and how they can get in early.
2. Developer chooses to open an etrade account (initial $1000 DEPOSIT, not a fee, you can get your money back by closing the account)
3. Red Hat's IPO happens. The price will (probably 99.9% chance) shoot up way above the initial offering, and then eventually drop off a little (or possibly alot).
4. Developer sells off stock at much higher price than he bought it for and makes lots of money, or chooses to hold on to it expecting it to climb higher sometime in the future.
Hmmm, who wins at this???? Well, the developer makes some money (looks like a good way for RedHat to give a little extra thanks back to the Open Source community), and etrade gets 29.90 for executing the trades for you (BFD, you just made a bunch of cash). Red Hat doesn't really gain anything out of it except maybe a short-lived bias towards their distribution.
Red Hat doesn't necessarily make the best distribution, but they definitely don't make the worst. They've had to put up with a lot of shit over the last few months because many people in the Linux community seem to adopt the idea that making money is evil and Red Hat is turning into Microsoft. Just because they try to turn a buck doesn't make them evil. Suse made more money last quarter than RedHat and they don't seem be criticized as much. Quit your complaining about this and take it for what it is... a simple thank you from Red Hat to the developers of open source software.
The shell script would have to be run as root though, otherwise it wouldn't be able to edit /etc/inetd.conf. inetd also needs to be restarted for the change to take effect.
I suggest if anyone is really worried about it that you get yourself a copy of tripwire and figure out how to use it properly.
How? Tell me how NT's security model is stronger than a Unix security model.
Think about it... how the hell could your finger's typing produce enough energy to power your laptop?
.002 seconds. It's still doing what it was advertised to do, and Compaq sells more laptops because of this worthless feature.
This has to be a marketing ploy. Compaq advertises this feature, people say "cool", and they buy it. I'm sure they can incorporate this little feature into the machine, but it may only extend your battery life by
Your PII processor running at full load takes about 25 watts of power. At the science museum of Minnesota, they have an exercise bike hooked up to a generator that powers a 25 watt light bulb, a radio, a tv, and other assorted devices. You use a switch to switch between them. I know from experience that to light that 25 watt bulb, you have to pedal at a pretty good pace. There is no way in hell that your fingers could produce enough power to light that damn bulb. Even if you stored up the energy from your finger tips and released it into the bulb, you probably couldn't get enough.
It seems a little too Mac like for me. I'll stick with my Windowmaker. I ditched GNOME/Enlightenment because it was too Windowsy. But now I miss my true virtual desktop. Maybe someday if I get a wild hair up my ass I'll try to make a virtual desktop (pager) capability for Windowmaker. "Workspaces" are a poor excuse.
This story is completely true. They do the same thing where I work, free pop, free beer, wear what you want, lots of little perks. It's all done to keep you at work longer, and it works. I usually work until 8 every night. But I like my job, and without those little perks which tend to keep me here for 11-12 hours at a time, I would probably not enjoy my job as much. I'm sure I would be only spending 8 hours here and be very eager to leave by mid-afternoon.
Yeah, for many companies, it's a ploy to make you work longer, but I think I'd rather work a little longer than have to wear a suit, drink shitty coffee, and live in a cubicle field for 8 hours a day.
Bob Metcalfe (metcalfe@idg.net) is one of very few people who've ever successfully recompiled an operating system. But not recently, not Linux, not Windows, nor his trusty Macintosh. Neither has he performed brain surgery on himself.
Exactly what point is he trying to convey here? Is he trying to say that it's nearly impossible to compile a kernel? Or is he trying to imply that the majority of computer users will not have to compile a kernel, and that should be left up to the programmers?
If you're using Linux in a server environment, and you're the sysadmin, chances are you will have the need to compile yourself a kernel. He is arguing that Linux will never make it in the server market right?
I hope he's not trying to imply that compiling a kernel is hard. If so, he's obviouly either stupid (which I highly doubt since he created ethernet), or he has never tried it. The configuration and compiling of the kernel has been extremely simple ever since you could do a 'make menuconfig' or a 'make xconfig'. And even if you don't know what certain options do, just click on the help button and it will basically tell you if you need it or not.
I guess I just don't get what his point is. I recompile, and know many others who recompile their kernels to apply patches, get rid of features they don't need, add features, and to speed up their OS on a regular basis. I can honestly say that is probably the best features about Linux/*BSD. After you untar the source tree and read the first 20 lines of the README file, you should know how to recompile it. I have *NEVER* had a kernel compile fail on me, EVER.
Maybe he just can't get over the fact that you can get something good for free.
I just ordered a case off the website. I figured I might as well find out what Bawls taste like. I called the number instead to order it though, their website is getting hammered on.
It's $35/case of 24. Not too bad considering shipping is included, and shipping is probably aroudn $8 or so. So it ends up being just over $1/bottle.
It looks to me like @home seriously oversubscribed, and now they have to put bandwidth limits in place to be able to service all of those customers. Can you say "class-action lawsuit"? AOL made the same mistake a while back and ended up shelling out million of dollars in refund money. Maybe @Home should upgrade their equipment for future customers, instead up "upgrading" their customer base first. If you are paying for 3Mbps down, and 1Mbps up, you should be able to use it for whatever you want. @Home needs to set up their network so you down/upload speeds are burstable to 3/1Mbps. That way, the average user will not notice a difference, but people running warez/mp3 servers will have their bandwidth limited after so many seconds of sustained transmission.
I got myself a DSL line from USWest, and I've gone through my share of hell with it, but from the sound of it, @Home should be paying its customers for the inconvenience. If customers are not getting the speeds that they are promised, they should be compensated for it. If "prime-time" last 3 hours each evening, and nothing is accessible, @Home should refund 3 hours*30 days worth of a customer's bill.