i highly recommend this to anyone that hasn't done it yet, i don't care how old you are.
grab a backpack, and an open ended round trip ticket to europe. travel and stay off the beaten, touristy paths. go by yourself, you will never be alone. staying in youth hostels is the best way to meet people, and you will meet a lot of great people this way.
run out of money? so what? grab a job as a bartender or work the front desk at a youth hostel until you have enough money to continue again. some people have actually been living this way for 10 years and more.
i can't tell you enough how much these experiences will help give you wisdom and insight in being a better person.
i started traveling this way when i was 27, seeing almost every country in europe. i've been going at least once a year. i'm 32 now, and ill be in finland, russia and germany next month... just me and my backpack, woohoo!
it's likely that the sysadmins had you replace your open source products with a commercial one for blame/fault purposes. big corporation sysadmins like to point fingers when something fucks up..otherwise, it's their head. by sticking to commercial software, corporate sysadmins can keep that shitball rolling, all the way back to the product company.
I agree. just because RMS is very passionate about our rights as individuals doesn't make him and extremist. i'm getting really tired of the 14 year old slashdot community posting trash about RMS because they think it's 'the cool thing to do'. fuck them. and to them i say, have you ever talked, really talked to RMS about why he is so passionate about his ideals? he's not doing this for himself, he's doing it for you!
if RMS acts the way he does so his voice is heard, then what's wrong with that? i mean, for fuck sake, RMS is doing this for us, computer enthusiests, so big corporate players don't take our hobby and flush it down the toilet. give the man some respect!
these 2 lists are completely rediculous. why would they include this only on the *nix side? they wrote "# U10 General Unix Authentication -- Accounts with No
Passwords or Weak Passwords" jeez!
i can imagine all those US gub'mnt schmucks sitting around saying:
Jim: Well, come on guys we can't make MS look too bad..they'll stop paying us! Bob: ok ok, i got an idea.. let's put 10 vulnerabilities on each platform, that way they look equally bad! Jim: ya! good idea! ok, i'll do the MS list, and you do the *nix list. ok?
5 minutes later..
Jim: whew, those MS vulnerabilities were easy, and i even had leftovers! i just picked the best outta 50. what about you, Bob. are you done yet? Bob: fuck no, i'm on like, number 5. you know, most *nix vulnerabilities happened years ago and are long patched. here, help me out.. Jim: um, oh, i got it! how about users not given passwords, that could be a vulnerability! Bob: ya, ok. oh! and those damn foreigners! they're always tinkerin with that open source stuff. what a threat to national security! Jim: yes! yes! and um...oh!. most *nix computers have keyboards attached to them! a total security risk! woohoo, number 8 and almost done!
in my opinion, RedHat is doing the correct thing. there is nothing wrong with them taking open source software (kde, gnome, etc) and modifying them to fit their look and feel for their OS release. i'm tired if hearing the KDE team moan and whine about RedHat modifying their source. if this is such a problem, perhaps KDE should close up their code? ya ya, call this flamebait or whatever, but before modding it that way, think about it and you'll know it to be true: based on my experience meeting the gnome team, reading their monthly summaries and hearing them speak on newsgroups, i feel that the gnome team is a group of very professional people, and it shows. however, after meeting KDE teammembers, reading their posts and reading their press releases, it's hard for me to imagine some of them as being anything but crybabies that whine and scream about every little things that doesn't taste sweet.
i wonder if the original film was converted using the newly developed technology by RedHat called IMAX DMRTM using Dell PowerEdge servers. at the last LinuxWorld show in San Francisco, i was able to catch bits of a converted Apollo 13 to IMAX format. holy crap, the launch scene was absolutely incredible and shots from the moon actually brought a tear to my eye. with this technology, any movie can be converted to IMAX format. here's a blurb from RedHat: "IMAX's new patent-pending technology, IMAX® DMRTM (Digital Re-mastering), uses the processing power of Dell PowerEdge servers to re-purpose individual frames of 35mm film into IMAX films are projected on screens eight-stories high and 120-feet wide with high caliber sound and image quality. Apollo 13 is the first theatrical live-action film to be digitally re-mastered for The IMAX Experience.
The IMAX DMR technology resides at IMAX's Toronto data center which processes several hundred gigabytes of data daily and is one of the largest rendering farms in Canada. IMAX uses dozens of Dell PowerEdge 2550 servers running Red Hat Linux for its DMR process, as well as an additional cluster of Dell PowerEdge 2550 servers for testing. IMAX chose Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Linux for its IMAX DMR process because of the easy-to-use industry-standard platform, outstanding price and performance, and superior Dell support."
let me give you a quick example: let's say i live in Australia amd purchase $5000 worth of DVD's there. then, i move to california. normally, because of the regional encryption nature of DVD's, all of my DVD's would now be completely useless. now, let's say i'm smart and decide to break the encryption method of DVD's so that i could watch my own, purchased DVD's. under the DMCA, that would be illegal. so my rights to fair use are in the toilet. get the picture now? if we don't make a stand today, these laws will clamp down even tighter in the future, probably throwing our fair right use completely and utterly out the window.
i bet back in the mid 1700's, you were the guy saying, 'hey everyone, english tea is really, really good. let's not rock the boat. is it really so bad paying them unrepresented taxes? c'mon everyone, the english really are nice people afterall...'
by the way, i followed the felton case very carefully examining every detail. your rendition of the justice departments' views are warped and untrue. shame on you.
yes, yes let Allan Adler badmouth the EFF all day long. but, if what he says is true, than one might ask what the EFF's motive is to do such a thing.
look, the bottom line is that money is driving this whole thing. money is enough to take away our consitutional rights little by little. if we don't put a stop to this in the beginning, then we will all me telling our grandsons how much freedom we had in the 'golden days'.
oh? are you russian? they've sent some 14 landing probes to mars in the last 15 years. all of them failed. i'm just surprised they didn't decide to throw a man on one of 'em for shits and grins.
i couldn't agree with the parent of this thread more. this is exactly the meaning i felt while reading his answer to question #9. he was truly speaking from the heart, and i believe his attitude about the subject is neither cruel or even illegal.
Piers Anthony's style and attitude in his commentary is exactly how i remembered it.from his Editor's Note in the back of each Xanth novel. in these notes, he was always honest and extremely real; enough for true enlightenment.
i remember reading the rape scene found in the first Bio of a Space Tyrant novel. i was about 14 when i read it and yes, i was shocked. this changed me somehow, but for the better. Piers didn't glorify this experience at all. he made it real, so real that it shows people how terrible rape really is. there is no one who can read the same rape scene and come away wanting to rape; in fact it's just the opposite.
i've read many of his books. i stopped counting somewhere after 50. i think that the people ridiculing Piers are the same people who have lost touch with human emotion and quite possibly their feelings. to these people i say: go on a trip, see something beautiful and facinating! read some poetry! do not be afraid if a good movie or book actually moves you. it's supposed to!
perhaps the reason for this is that newbies need to learn something before switching to windows.
when i was a windows user, i would download a program, run SETUP.EXE, click NEXT,NEXT,FINISH then run the installed program.
of course, the unix version of this is./configure; make; make install, but sometimes the installation will barf. with linux, there are so many more options to the installation process, that one should read the README or INSTALL before doing anything.
you see, windows users are like, 'huh, i gotta read something, what? reading sucks man!' -- and i see their point of view. i was there once.
but once you try this new philosphy of reading about install options and such before installing, you will be much happier (and more proud) of the results.
anways, my point here is that READING IS GOOD. oh, and GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND.
In conclusion, I'd just like to make it known that I haven't completely abandoned the Linux community.
abondon it? please do! for the sake of all that is holy!
go back to windows where you belong and stay there. most of the arguments you have against linux are half-baked concepts that you've done little or no research on.
perhaps this paper was written as a publicity stunt; shame on slashdot editors for letting this one thru.
I remember in many of your 'end-of-book' Author's Note, you detailed a fan of yours that threatened to kill herself and needed your help.
After 4 or 5 mentions of this girl in various books, my question is this: did you help this girl in someway? did she ever attempt or succeed at suicide?
on a side note, thanks for the many hours of pleasure i had as a teenager reading your books. i lost count somewhere after 50.
the russians have a better chance at this project than the americans. why? because safety america wouldn't allow a NASA ship to go to mars without backup systems backing up other systems backing up other systems, which costs a LOT of money for all that redundancy.
the russians have a less altrusitic attitude towards their cosmonauts; perhaps a bit like their military personnel.
i mean, when the russians are ready to launch this mission, and it blows up on the pad, their attitude is like, 'whelp, that sucks. here, stick 6 more guys in that other rocket and lets try it again'.
not to bash slashdot, but why is it that Linux Today always posts the latest linux stories at least half a day before slashdot does?
anyways, on a side note, i think zimmerman is in the wrong here. if he is so concerned about the concept of pgp, then why isn't he focusing his efforts on GnuPG, which is a completely open version of the PGP concept?
i disagree. in order for your comment to be correct, one would have to say, 'XBox boxen'. otherwise, one could say Xboxes or possibly even XBoxs.
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haha, it's funny to see what comes around goes around. case in point: the USA team completely and utterly outplayed Germany, taking a higher shot and posession figure; but they lost because of lucky german shot and a bad ref call. know what? i love Germany and everything.. i lived there during the 1990 World Cup Germany win over Argentina. completely awesome!
but the damn germans made themselves look stupid this time around. what was with them knocking the ball back to their own goalie like 5 times in a row?
Brazil came out in the World Cup with the thoughts of winning on their minds. Germany came out with the thoughts of trying to injure as many Brazillian players as possible...
no, the problem with this year's World Cup was the fact that Germany was in it.
basically, ransom love is rallying behind this concept:
windows admins can now be linux admins without the learning curve of compiling, libraries and linking. binaries are guarenteed to work so any dummy should be able to install anything.
I have Win2k boxes under my control with 400 days of uptime, but average about 95% availability (bandwidth, software defects from 3rd parties, etc).
huh? how do you apply all of your security patches on win2k without rebooting?? i have a mandrake linux machine with almost 500 days uptime, and the only thing it needs is a kernel upgrade. oh, and this machine runs NIS/NFS, samba, apache, sendmail and cvs for a 20+ man company... so this machine isn't exactly idle.
Anyone who claims to offer five 9's availability for an applicatio without taking alot of your money first is probably smoking something - it requires redudant power, physical locations, bandwidth, cooling/heating, best of breed software and administrators, and a healthy dash of luck.
well, i agree that hardware plays a large part in total availbility time, but so does the software (OS). we have recently installed vmware's GSX server on an IBM netfinity server. we have 3 virtual win2k servers running under linux. the other day, one of the win2k machines locked up after 3 weeks of uptime, so the virtual machine had to be restarted. when our IT department heard about this, most of the windows admins were like, 'cool, 3 weeks without a reboot.. we rock!' in other words, the windows admins were not surprised that win2k only lasted 3 weeks before a dump.
on a side note, vmware's GSX server completely kicks ass, and i highly recommend it to all linux admins that have whiny windows IT depts breathing down their necks.
After showing them usuage charts, they realized. Our customers all use the system during normal business hours, all in EST time zone, all very predictably. After a few late stragglers NO ONE had ever logged in between the hours of 1:30 am and 4:30 am. Ever. It had never happenned. So that became maintenance time, everday. Instead of rushing off closely timed scripts to make maintenenace work, I spread it out, did a bit more maintenance than needs to be done daily.
jesus christ, daily maintenence? you really are a windows admin, aren't you? in linux, it's sometimes hard to get a service configured just right (sendmail anyone?).. but once you do, you never have to mess with it again. using windows, it's easy to configure anything, but then you find yourself reconfiguring over and over and over..how disgusting..
The bottom line is that very few places need five nines. Very, very, very few. And you're not going to get it for free (or for $800 from redhat).
no, you won't get it for free, but i guarentee you can get it cheaper using linux than with windows. that really is the bottom line.
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i highly recommend this to anyone that hasn't done it yet, i don't care how old you are.
grab a backpack, and an open ended round trip ticket to europe. travel and stay off the beaten, touristy paths. go by yourself, you will never be alone.
staying in youth hostels is the best way to meet people, and you will meet a lot of great people this way.
run out of money? so what? grab a job as a bartender or work the front desk at a youth hostel until you have enough money to continue again. some people have actually been living this way for 10 years and more.
i can't tell you enough how much these experiences will help give you wisdom and insight in being a better person.
i started traveling this way when i was 27, seeing almost every country in europe. i've been going at least once a year. i'm 32 now, and ill be in finland, russia and germany next month... just me and my backpack, woohoo!
Ok, so i just installed those RPMS and all i can say is..
BEAUTIFUL!!
i highly recommend all RH8.0 users to upgrade your mozilla to the above link. you won't regret it!
if you have redhat 8.0, and don't want to get your hands dirty,
here are Redhat 8.0 RPMS for binaries with Xft2 already compiled in
M. O. O. N.
that spells toolkit!
it's likely that the sysadmins had you replace your open source products with a commercial one for blame/fault purposes.
big corporation sysadmins like to point fingers when something fucks up..otherwise, it's their head.
by sticking to commercial software, corporate sysadmins can keep that shitball rolling, all the way back to the product company.
I agree. just because RMS is very passionate about our rights as individuals doesn't make him and extremist.
i'm getting really tired of the 14 year old slashdot community posting trash about RMS because they think it's 'the cool thing to do'. fuck them. and to them i say, have you ever talked, really talked to RMS about why he is so passionate about his ideals? he's not doing this for himself, he's doing it for you!
if RMS acts the way he does so his voice is heard, then what's wrong with that?
i mean, for fuck sake, RMS is doing this for us, computer enthusiests, so big corporate players don't take our hobby and flush it down the toilet. give the man some respect!
wow, they hit that nail right on the head. that's my exact salary as a linux admin!
these 2 lists are completely rediculous. why would they include this only on the *nix side? they wrote "# U10 General Unix Authentication -- Accounts with No
Passwords or Weak Passwords" jeez!
i can imagine all those US gub'mnt schmucks sitting around saying:
Jim: Well, come on guys we can't make MS look too bad..they'll stop paying us!
Bob: ok ok, i got an idea.. let's put 10 vulnerabilities on each platform, that way they look equally bad!
Jim: ya! good idea! ok, i'll do the MS list, and you do the *nix list. ok?
5 minutes later..
Jim: whew, those MS vulnerabilities were easy, and i even had leftovers! i just picked the best outta 50. what about you, Bob. are you done yet?
Bob: fuck no, i'm on like, number 5. you know, most *nix vulnerabilities happened years ago and are long patched. here, help me out..
Jim: um, oh, i got it! how about users not given passwords, that could be a vulnerability!
Bob: ya, ok. oh! and those damn foreigners! they're always tinkerin with that open source stuff. what a threat to national security!
Jim: yes! yes! and um...oh!. most *nix computers have keyboards attached to them! a total security risk! woohoo, number 8 and almost done!
in my opinion, RedHat is doing the correct thing. there is nothing wrong with them taking open source software (kde, gnome, etc) and modifying them to fit their look and feel for their OS release.
i'm tired if hearing the KDE team moan and whine about RedHat modifying their source. if this is such a problem, perhaps KDE should close up their code?
ya ya, call this flamebait or whatever, but before modding it that way, think about it and you'll know it to be true:
based on my experience meeting the gnome team, reading their monthly summaries and hearing them speak on newsgroups, i feel that the gnome team is a group of very professional people, and it shows.
however, after meeting KDE teammembers, reading their posts and reading their press releases, it's hard for me to imagine some of them as being anything but crybabies that whine and scream about every little things that doesn't taste sweet.
perhaps you are right.. i was under the impression that RedHat helped develop the technology.
i wonder if the original film was converted using the newly developed technology by RedHat called IMAX DMRTM using Dell PowerEdge servers.
at the last LinuxWorld show in San Francisco, i was able to catch bits of a converted Apollo 13 to IMAX format.
holy crap, the launch scene was absolutely incredible and shots from the moon actually brought a tear to my eye.
with this technology, any movie can be converted to IMAX format. here's a blurb from RedHat:
"IMAX's new patent-pending technology, IMAX® DMRTM (Digital Re-mastering), uses the processing power of Dell PowerEdge servers to re-purpose individual frames of 35mm film into IMAX films are projected on screens eight-stories high and 120-feet wide with high caliber sound and image quality. Apollo 13 is the first theatrical live-action film to be digitally re-mastered for The IMAX Experience.
The IMAX DMR technology resides at IMAX's Toronto data center which processes several hundred gigabytes of data daily and is one of the largest rendering farms in Canada. IMAX uses dozens of Dell PowerEdge 2550 servers running Red Hat Linux for its DMR process, as well as an additional cluster of Dell PowerEdge 2550 servers for testing. IMAX chose Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Linux for its IMAX DMR process because of the easy-to-use industry-standard platform, outstanding price and performance, and superior Dell support."
you mean the WOPR?
let me give you a quick example:
let's say i live in Australia amd purchase $5000 worth of DVD's there. then, i move to california. normally, because of the regional encryption nature of DVD's, all of my DVD's would now be completely useless. now, let's say i'm smart and decide to break the encryption method of DVD's so that i could watch my own, purchased DVD's. under the DMCA, that would be illegal. so my rights to fair use are in the toilet. get the picture now? if we don't make a stand today, these laws will clamp down even tighter in the future, probably throwing our fair right use completely and utterly out the window.
i bet back in the mid 1700's, you were the guy saying, 'hey everyone, english tea is really, really good. let's not rock the boat. is it really so bad paying them unrepresented taxes? c'mon everyone, the english really are nice people afterall...'
by the way, i followed the felton case very carefully examining every detail. your rendition of the justice departments' views are warped and untrue. shame on you.
yes, yes let Allan Adler badmouth the EFF all day long. but, if what he says is true, than one might ask what the EFF's motive is to do such a thing.
look, the bottom line is that money is driving this whole thing. money is enough to take away our consitutional rights little by little. if we don't put a stop to this in the beginning, then we will all me telling our grandsons how much freedom we had in the 'golden days'.
oh? are you russian? they've sent some 14 landing probes to mars in the last 15 years. all of them failed. i'm just surprised they didn't decide to throw a man on one of 'em for shits and grins.
or did they?
someone please mod this moron down. if you're glad that the challenger blew up, then you are a sick fuck.
i couldn't agree with the parent of this thread more. this is exactly the meaning i felt while reading his answer to question #9.
he was truly speaking from the heart, and i believe his attitude about the subject is neither cruel or even illegal.
Piers Anthony's style and attitude in his commentary is exactly how i remembered it.from his Editor's Note in the back of each Xanth novel. in these notes, he was always honest and extremely real; enough for true enlightenment.
i remember reading the rape scene found in the first Bio of a Space Tyrant novel. i was about 14 when i read it and yes, i was shocked. this changed me somehow, but for the better. Piers didn't glorify this experience at all. he made it real, so real that it shows people how terrible rape really is. there is no one who can read the same rape scene and come away wanting to rape; in fact it's just the opposite.
i've read many of his books. i stopped counting somewhere after 50. i think that the people ridiculing Piers are the same people who have lost touch with human emotion and quite possibly their feelings. to these people i say: go on a trip, see something beautiful and facinating! read some poetry! do not be afraid if a good movie or book actually moves you. it's supposed to!
perhaps the reason for this is that newbies need to learn something before switching to windows.
./configure; make; make install, but sometimes the installation will barf.
when i was a windows user, i would download a program, run SETUP.EXE, click NEXT,NEXT,FINISH then run the installed program.
of course, the unix version of this is
with linux, there are so many more options to the installation process, that one should read the README or INSTALL before doing anything.
you see, windows users are like, 'huh, i gotta read something, what? reading sucks man!'
-- and i see their point of view. i was there once.
but once you try this new philosphy of reading about install options and such before installing, you will be much happier (and more proud) of the results.
anways, my point here is that READING IS GOOD. oh, and GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND.
In conclusion, I'd just like to make it known that I haven't completely abandoned the Linux community.
abondon it? please do! for the sake of all that is holy!
go back to windows where you belong and stay there. most of the arguments you have against linux are half-baked concepts that you've done little or no research on.
perhaps this paper was written as a publicity stunt; shame on slashdot editors for letting this one thru.
I remember in many of your 'end-of-book' Author's Note, you detailed a fan of yours that threatened to kill herself and needed your help.
After 4 or 5 mentions of this girl in various books, my question is this: did you help this girl in someway? did she ever attempt or succeed at suicide?
on a side note, thanks for the many hours of pleasure i had as a teenager reading your books. i lost count somewhere after 50.
the russians have a better chance at this project than the americans. why? because safety america wouldn't allow a NASA ship to go to mars without backup systems backing up other systems backing up other systems, which costs a LOT of money for all that redundancy.
the russians have a less altrusitic attitude towards their cosmonauts; perhaps a bit like their military personnel.
i mean, when the russians are ready to launch this mission, and it blows up on the pad, their attitude is like, 'whelp, that sucks. here, stick 6 more guys in that other rocket and lets try it again'.
not to bash slashdot, but why is it that Linux Today always posts the latest linux stories at least half a day before slashdot does?
anyways, on a side note, i think zimmerman is in the wrong here. if he is so concerned about the concept of pgp, then why isn't he focusing his efforts on GnuPG, which is a completely open version of the PGP concept?
i disagree. in order for your comment to be correct, one would have to say, 'XBox boxen'. otherwise, one could say Xboxes or possibly even XBoxs.
haha, it's funny to see what comes around goes around. case in point: the USA team completely and utterly outplayed Germany, taking a higher shot and posession figure; but they lost because of lucky german shot and a bad ref call.
know what? i love Germany and everything.. i lived there during the 1990 World Cup Germany win over Argentina. completely awesome!
but the damn germans made themselves look stupid this time around. what was with them knocking the ball back to their own goalie like 5 times in a row?
Brazil came out in the World Cup with the thoughts of winning on their minds. Germany came out with the thoughts of trying to injure as many Brazillian players as possible...
no, the problem with this year's World Cup was the fact that Germany was in it.
basically, ransom love is rallying behind this concept:
windows admins can now be linux admins without the learning curve of compiling, libraries and linking.
binaries are guarenteed to work so any dummy should be able to install anything.
lovely...
I have Win2k boxes under my control with 400 days of uptime, but average about 95% availability (bandwidth, software defects from 3rd parties, etc).
huh? how do you apply all of your security patches on win2k without rebooting??
i have a mandrake linux machine with almost 500 days uptime, and the only thing it needs is a kernel upgrade. oh, and this machine runs NIS/NFS, samba, apache, sendmail and cvs for a 20+ man company... so this machine isn't exactly idle.
Anyone who claims to offer five 9's availability for an applicatio without taking alot of your money first is probably smoking something - it requires redudant power, physical locations, bandwidth, cooling/heating, best of breed software and administrators, and a healthy dash of luck.
well, i agree that hardware plays a large part in total availbility time, but so does the software (OS). we have recently installed vmware's GSX server on an IBM netfinity server. we have 3 virtual win2k servers running under linux. the other day, one of the win2k machines locked up after 3 weeks of uptime, so the virtual machine had to be restarted. when our IT department heard about this, most of the windows admins were like, 'cool, 3 weeks without a reboot.. we rock!'
in other words, the windows admins were not surprised that win2k only lasted 3 weeks before a dump.
on a side note, vmware's GSX server completely kicks ass, and i highly recommend it to all linux admins that have whiny windows IT depts breathing down their necks.
After showing them usuage charts, they realized. Our customers all use the system during normal business hours, all in EST time zone, all very predictably. After a few late stragglers NO ONE had ever logged in between the hours of 1:30 am and 4:30 am. Ever. It had never happenned. So that became maintenance time, everday. Instead of rushing off closely timed scripts to make maintenenace work, I spread it out, did a bit more maintenance than needs to be done daily.
jesus christ, daily maintenence? you really are a windows admin, aren't you? in linux, it's sometimes hard to get a service configured just right (sendmail anyone?).. but once you do, you never have to mess with it again.
using windows, it's easy to configure anything, but then you find yourself reconfiguring over and over and over..how disgusting..
The bottom line is that very few places need five nines. Very, very, very few. And you're not going to get it for free (or for $800 from redhat).
no, you won't get it for free, but i guarentee you can get it cheaper using linux than with windows. that really is the bottom line.