Well I thought the shots looked pretty badass, but I know better than to expect DVD movie quality graphics from a game. And really, that's not the point, the point is will the game be fun to play? I'm willing to bet it will. Just like Dungeon Keeper rules because of how entertaining it is and the personality it has. If the game is anything remotely close to what it's been played up as, it's popularity will have no problem resting on the storyline and interaction.
Same thing with the PS2, I got one and can't stop playing SSX, which I think looks really good too, because it's addicting, not because of how well rendered the riders are. --
I'm running test10 and LFS seems to be in there, although I _think_ the reiserfs patch I used broke it, havn't looked into it thought since I don't need LFS on my wkst.
Anyway if you need LFS on 2.2.X download the src.rpm for the Enterprise kernel from RedHat, extract it with something like alien and tar, it contains the LFS patch and a few others.
Or you could always run Linux on 64-bit platfor like Alpha, I've got Debian Potato on a AlphaServer 1000A and it works fine. --
You're saying 1 TS box has between 25-30 copies of word running on it?
I find that ubelievable, or maybe it's just terribly slow for the users and you don't care. We have a Dual PIII 600 with 1.25G ram running NT4 TS and Metaframe 1.8, and it has a hard time coping with ~20 users at a time.
I'm not the one who admins it(thank god) so I can't personally vouche for it's "correctness" but I do know the people who do and they're complete MS psychos and they know what they're doing.
Oh and you might want to install SP1 if those boxes are exposed to the net directly, there's a UDP fragment exploit that causes the box to freeze until the traffic stops(it's just like time stopped for however long the exploit is run), it's very entertaining to watch. --
I'm not sure why Debian 2.2 is acting that way for you but I've been using it for some time on 2 i386 boxes and an Alpha and have had none of the problems you mention.
The only issue I had was not having the non-US entries in my sources.list file, which was my fault anyway, so certain things like ssh wouldn't apt-get at all, after adding that line everything was hunky-dory. --
Any decent distro *cough*Debian*cough* sets up sulogin to spawn from single user bootup, not just bash. So you're prompted for the root password or it starts up normally.
Actually I don't think it's silly at all, where I work we have a very heterogenous network with >1000 clients, NetWare and NDS are a big part of it. NDS has ~8 years of proven usage, does what it's supposed to very well and is crossplatform to boot.
One of the big things Novell is pushing with eDirectory(new cheesy name for NDS) is that you can manage NetWare, Linux, Windows, etc from one NDS tree and if IBM gets ahold of NDS I'm sure that'll include everything they market also, which is very appealing to large companies.
If this is true it's probably just a move against Microsoft/AD by IBM, and what better person to take down MS than the former heavy weight champ =) --
Exactly, the format of the package is totally irrelvant. The main things users need are icons, not enough packages create icons for themselves on the KDE/Gnome menus and this is the fault of the package creator.
I do prefer.deb because I've had much better luck with them than I ever had with RPMs, and apt-get rocks.
We don't need a better package format we need better packages. --
Actually ping of death and OOB to port 139, more commonly known as WinNuke, are differnt things.
OOB data is supposedly "urgent" data that should be looked at first, IIRC. Send some of that to port 139 on a Win9X (don't remember if it affected NT) box and it BSOD's and you need to reboot to get network connectivity back. That they did not fix quickly, I remember using that on IRC users for months.
Also IIRC ping of death affected Linux too, but was fixed very quickly. --
Exactly, but atleast their calls make for funny stories most of the time.
For instance, this week a lady in our accounting deptartment called our help desk every day because she forgot her password, sometimes multiple times per day. It got to the point where we wrote down her password and gave it to her manager so she'd stop calling us, heh. --
What I think he was trying to say is "More commercial programs for Linux is a good thing, it gives Linux more overall credibility and makes the chances for normal priced commercialware ports higher", not that he keeps Win98 around for things like Toonz and Maya. --
You mention Win2K as using drive letters, and while that's basically true you only really need 1 for the system partition. If you use NTFS you can mount other NTFS partitions into folders and not even bother giving them a drive letter.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like to use Windows for anything more than games, but I wanted to set the record straight. --
Actually the problem on BugTraq was that the MS Active Setup program used in WindowsUpdate and things doesn't prompt you before it install MS signed software. You still get prompted before you install ActiveX Controls(assuming you didn't click the always trust button) --
The company that I work at has ordered several server boxes with NetWare pre-installed, that's not to say we keep the installation. As soon as the thing is first powered on the first thing we do is wipe the drives and redo the drive/array and NOS setup.
I believe there is some what of a discount if we get the NOS bundled, and with the prices of NetWare's licenses every dollar counts =) --
This is still one area that NT kinda shows linux up
I know NTFS is a journaling fs, but I thought one of the main advantages of journaling was so that in the event of a drive not getting unmounted properly the journal could be checked to see what is lost, etc and do what it needs to get it back up to where it left off without running fsck/chkdsk, but NT chkdsk runs over the whole drive as if there was no journaling, am I missing something?
The only problem with that is that _REAL_ computer users are not the majority, the avg joe thinks the bigger the version number the better.
I know numerous people who say things like "I just got SomeSoftware 2000, you have to try it" and when I ask what's changed since SomeSoftware 99, they almost always say "ummm, I dunno", and they seems baffled when I say "nah the last version works great for me I think I'll pass".
If the user doesn't know anything about the software(ie. Linux) when they go to buy it they grab the one with the biggest version thinking it has to be the newest/best in the bunch.
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Debian of course, for a few months now.
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If I had any mod points I'd mod you up just for working in an A Team reference =)
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I went to disable ftp and telnet by outcommenting /etc/inetd.conf. Guess what? There is no inetd.conf!
Redhat: Please leave the standard config files in place! Stop molesting /etc!
Quote from the RedHat 7 Features/Enhancements page:
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Well I thought the shots looked pretty badass, but I know better than to expect DVD movie quality graphics from a game. And really, that's not the point, the point is will the game be fun to play? I'm willing to bet it will. Just like Dungeon Keeper rules because of how entertaining it is and the personality it has. If the game is anything remotely close to what it's been played up as, it's popularity will have no problem resting on the storyline and interaction.
Same thing with the PS2, I got one and can't stop playing SSX, which I think looks really good too, because it's addicting, not because of how well rendered the riders are.
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I'm running test10 and LFS seems to be in there, although I _think_ the reiserfs patch I used broke it, havn't looked into it thought since I don't need LFS on my wkst.
Anyway if you need LFS on 2.2.X download the src.rpm for the Enterprise kernel from RedHat, extract it with something like alien and tar, it contains the LFS patch and a few others.
Or you could always run Linux on 64-bit platfor like Alpha, I've got Debian Potato on a AlphaServer 1000A and it works fine.
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You're saying 1 TS box has between 25-30 copies of word running on it?
I find that ubelievable, or maybe it's just terribly slow for the users and you don't care. We have a Dual PIII 600 with 1.25G ram running NT4 TS and Metaframe 1.8, and it has a hard time coping with ~20 users at a time.
I'm not the one who admins it(thank god) so I can't personally vouche for it's "correctness" but I do know the people who do and they're complete MS psychos and they know what they're doing.
Oh and you might want to install SP1 if those boxes are exposed to the net directly, there's a UDP fragment exploit that causes the box to freeze until the traffic stops(it's just like time stopped for however long the exploit is run), it's very entertaining to watch.
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OT and all but don't use wu-ftpd, if they have problems(not really an if) use ProFTPd or something else.
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I'm not sure why Debian 2.2 is acting that way for you but I've been using it for some time on 2 i386 boxes and an Alpha and have had none of the problems you mention.
The only issue I had was not having the non-US entries in my sources.list file, which was my fault anyway, so certain things like ssh wouldn't apt-get at all, after adding that line everything was hunky-dory.
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Any decent distro *cough*Debian*cough* sets up sulogin to spawn from single user bootup, not just bash. So you're prompted for the root password or it starts up normally.
Ofcourse there are ways around that too...
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Actually I don't think it's silly at all, where I work we have a very heterogenous network with >1000 clients, NetWare and NDS are a big part of it. NDS has ~8 years of proven usage, does what it's supposed to very well and is crossplatform to boot.
One of the big things Novell is pushing with eDirectory(new cheesy name for NDS) is that you can manage NetWare, Linux, Windows, etc from one NDS tree and if IBM gets ahold of NDS I'm sure that'll include everything they market also, which is very appealing to large companies.
If this is true it's probably just a move against Microsoft/AD by IBM, and what better person to take down MS than the former heavy weight champ =)
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Exactly, the format of the package is totally irrelvant. The main things users need are icons, not enough packages create icons for themselves on the KDE/Gnome menus and this is the fault of the package creator.
.deb because I've had much better luck with them than I ever had with RPMs, and apt-get rocks.
I do prefer
We don't need a better package format we need better packages.
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Actually ping of death and OOB to port 139, more commonly known as WinNuke, are differnt things.
OOB data is supposedly "urgent" data that should be looked at first, IIRC. Send some of that to port 139 on a Win9X (don't remember if it affected NT) box and it BSOD's and you need to reboot to get network connectivity back. That they did not fix quickly, I remember using that on IRC users for months.
Also IIRC ping of death affected Linux too, but was fixed very quickly.
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Exactly, but atleast their calls make for funny stories most of the time.
For instance, this week a lady in our accounting deptartment called our help desk every day because she forgot her password, sometimes multiple times per day. It got to the point where we wrote down her password and gave it to her manager so she'd stop calling us, heh.
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What I think he was trying to say is "More commercial programs for Linux is a good thing, it gives Linux more overall credibility and makes the chances for normal priced commercialware ports higher", not that he keeps Win98 around for things like Toonz and Maya.
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You mention Win2K as using drive letters, and while that's basically true you only really need 1 for the system partition. If you use NTFS you can mount other NTFS partitions into folders and not even bother giving them a drive letter.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like to use Windows for anything more than games, but I wanted to set the record straight.
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A beowulf cluster of slashdot addicts? Now that's scary...
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I believe he was talking about the NetBSD and OpenBSD split.
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Not really, MS has alot more trouble squashing bugs than it does competitors =)
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The script itself is not executable, the interpreter that actually compiles and runs the code is.
Therefore scripts are free speech also.
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The company I work for uses a semi-large(to me anyway) VMS/OpenVMS cluster for data warehousing and processing.
I personally don't like them but the guys who run them are pretty much in love with them, it's eerie at times.
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Actually the problem on BugTraq was that the MS Active Setup program used in WindowsUpdate and things doesn't prompt you before it install MS signed software. You still get prompted before you install ActiveX Controls(assuming you didn't click the always trust button)
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The company that I work at has ordered several server boxes with NetWare pre-installed, that's not to say we keep the installation. As soon as the thing is first powered on the first thing we do is wipe the drives and redo the drive/array and NOS setup.
I believe there is some what of a discount if we get the NOS bundled, and with the prices of NetWare's licenses every dollar counts =)
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This is still one area that NT kinda shows linux up
I know NTFS is a journaling fs, but I thought one of the main advantages of journaling was so that in the event of a drive not getting unmounted properly the journal could be checked to see what is lost, etc and do what it needs to get it back up to where it left off without running fsck/chkdsk, but NT chkdsk runs over the whole drive as if there was no journaling, am I missing something?
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The only problem with that is that _REAL_ computer users are not the majority, the avg joe thinks the bigger the version number the better.
I know numerous people who say things like "I just got SomeSoftware 2000, you have to try it" and when I ask what's changed since SomeSoftware 99, they almost always say "ummm, I dunno", and they seems baffled when I say "nah the last version works great for me I think I'll pass".
If the user doesn't know anything about the software(ie. Linux) when they go to buy it they grab the one with the biggest version thinking it has to be the newest/best in the bunch.
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And I thought Athlon and Itanium were corney...
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