well, lessee. I work for a global company. We happen to have offices and plants in china. Those offices are connected directly to the rest of our WAN via IPSec. I'm sure we are part of the majority of American companies in this respect. Do you really think the government that favors corporations over individuals is going to cut those corporations off?
The shred utility in linux does this. The way that I wipe drives is to boot with the knoppix STD CD without the gui, and then just run shred. Doing a whole drive is as simple as 'shred -n 2 -z -v $device' (increase the n value to match your level of paranoia, but be prepared to wait for it).
I download the package from the mozilla site itself. Actually, now that I think of it, I don't think firefox does need it, but if you run without it, fonts change the first time you run something that *does* automatically load the g-s-d. Annoying:(.
The problem, of course, is that many apps these days require the gnome libs to run. Look at firefox as an example. Pretty much any GTK2 app will want gnome-settings-daemon running. I personally use Windowmaker with ROX, but I still have to have the gnome daemons running to ensure that fonts and such are rendering properly. This combined with rox now using a window for its pinboard (this is apparently the new standard way to do things... KDE does it too) instead of the root window is annoying. Now I can't have a screen saver or movie running on the root while I work, nor can I easily pin up a windowmaker menu, since releasing the button now makes the menu disappear (I know, don't use a pinboard).
I'd be happy if all of the 'framework' crap just went away and developers would just use standard communication methods between programs. XDnD and XDS are plenty for me, and don't require a friggin' background process.
Yeah, it's ok if car engines just spontaneously combust under normal use some percentage of the time. And it's ok if that bridge collapses, or that airplane's wings fall off. It'll get better in the next version. We promise.
Learn perl and bash. Learn some of the more common unix command line utilities (you learn these just by learning bash) Mix in some windowmaker dynamic menus and rox appdirs. Reconfigure gtk2 to allow you to dynamically set shortcuts for all of your apps. Learn to use rox's minibuffer. productivity++
Definitions again become problematic. What defines 'child friendly' content? On the local cable, for example, religious shows are rated 'G'!!! If there's ANYTHING that should require adult supervsion, it is certainly religion. No, this would not work your way either.
who looks down at their mouse anyway? In the past, my mail server used to sit beneath my stereo anyway, so I just ran one of the keyboard LED programs you can easily find with a little bit of searching to see how many messages I had in my inbox when I got home. The server, of course, was headless. What I did was rip the logic board out of an old keyboard, drill some holes in a front drive bay panel, plug the 'keyboard' into the back of the computer using another hole drilled in the back, and voila..instant status lights on a budget. I used the other two for network traffic (the mail server happened to also be my firewall).
In USA, that would be a problem due to our cities being poorly designed for actually living in/near. Urban sprawl occurs for a reason. With it, your only choice is to drive to work or to shop.
Also, don't run your normal user accounts with admin privileges. I don't know the details, but wouldn't this silently try to install in the default windoze program directories?
easier and quicker to deploy? Compared to what? Any shop using, say, redhat enterprise, can deploy a box in a few minutes, including a full lockdown, using kickstart. What similar technology even exists in windowsland?
We use lametime here too. Blech. Before that came around, however, my little group set up an IRC server (about 3 years ago now). Some things our little perlbot does:
channel operator status (duh) !ph firstre lastre (phone lookups...db dump of lotus notes address book) !subnet net/mask (very useful) !makenet number (shows net/mask to use for number hosts) !cidr netmask (cidr bitmask) yeah, we are lazy, why think if the bot can do it?:)
We recently also did a 'CEO webchat' We used IRC with a moderated channel as the backend, a java front end (could have used CGI::IRC too), and a little bit of perl to create a moderator bot (managed the message queue). It was a success and we will likely do more. The moderator easily handled over 200 users in the channel for our guest.
So, yeah, bots are extremely helpful and more importantly much more efficient for little informational tasks than even a web page (since we are in the channel all day exchanging info anyway).
He said hardwoods. I don't think that includes paper tree farms. There is a market for hardwoods rescued from the bottom of lake ontario, for example, when the virgin forests were cut down. Those trees are 100's of years old. Not exactly renewable.
Country codes are far more scalable than.com, anyway.
Not really. International companies, for example. I already get annoyed at there being an entire domain for every friggin' movie that comes out (hey, what's wrong with http://entertainment.company.com/movie????). With country codes, a company would have to register a domain for every country they have a presence in. Stupid.
It's easier for me to copy a file using a passwordless ssh key than it is to use ftp. It's easier for me to remotely run a X11 app over ssh than it is to manually telnet into the box and run the app. It's easier for a client to have a client side certificate to authenticate to a web site than to have them remember a userid and password.
the examples you cite sound a lot like OS/2's WPS back in 1993:) Too bad the two most popular environments on linux/X11 choose to chase windoze ui conventions rather than do things as powerfully as they *could*. Rox is a little guilty of this (Send To), but overall It's the best example of a file manager done right that I've seen in a very long time. What's really nice is that when you select something in rox, it goes into your cut buffer, so you can use it to make yourself more efficient even with programs that don't support xdnd...just highlight, then when opening the "do foo with file" dialog, just mid-click. This is a huge timesaver with using M$ Sharepoint here at work.
I agree with your disagreement. In fact, I really don't know wtf gnome and kde have their own way when xdnd has been around for quite some time, and doesn't require any daemons running in the background to work. In addition, you have xds (think drag/drop in reverse...instead of dragging a file to a program to open, think of dragging from a file dialog within a program to a location to save/change icon/change theme/whatever). Rox uses this very well, and it is incredibly intuitive and useful. Again, another nice way of doing things that I wish was *THE* standard on X11 desktops. Oh well.
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So use something like sage. You can keep your live bookmarks and have a sidebar too.
well, lessee. I work for a global company. We happen to have offices and plants in china. Those offices are connected directly to the rest of our WAN via IPSec. I'm sure we are part of the majority of American companies in this respect. Do you really think the government that favors corporations over individuals is going to cut those corporations off?
The shred utility in linux does this. The way that I wipe drives is to boot with the knoppix STD CD without the gui, and then just run shred. Doing a whole drive is as simple as 'shred -n 2 -z -v $device' (increase the n value to match your level of paranoia, but be prepared to wait for it).
...will be a whale.
I download the package from the mozilla site itself. Actually, now that I think of it, I don't think firefox does need it, but if you run without it, fonts change the first time you run something that *does* automatically load the g-s-d. Annoying :(.
The problem, of course, is that many apps these days require the gnome libs to run. Look at firefox as an example. Pretty much any GTK2 app will want gnome-settings-daemon running. I personally use Windowmaker with ROX, but I still have to have the gnome daemons running to ensure that fonts and such are rendering properly. This combined with rox now using a window for its pinboard (this is apparently the new standard way to do things ... KDE does it too) instead of the root window is annoying. Now I can't have a screen saver or movie running on the root while I work, nor can I easily pin up a windowmaker menu, since releasing the button now makes the menu disappear (I know, don't use a pinboard).
I'd be happy if all of the 'framework' crap just went away and developers would just use standard communication methods between programs. XDnD and XDS are plenty for me, and don't require a friggin' background process.
Yeah, it's ok if car engines just spontaneously combust under normal use some percentage of the time. And it's ok if that bridge collapses, or that airplane's wings fall off. It'll get better in the next version. We promise.
Learn perl and bash. Learn some of the more common unix command line utilities (you learn these just by learning bash) Mix in some windowmaker dynamic menus and rox appdirs. Reconfigure gtk2 to allow you to dynamically set shortcuts for all of your apps. Learn to use rox's minibuffer. productivity++
Definitions again become problematic. What defines 'child friendly' content? On the local cable, for example, religious shows are rated 'G'!!! If there's ANYTHING that should require adult supervsion, it is certainly religion. No, this would not work your way either.
who looks down at their mouse anyway? In the past, my mail server used to sit beneath my stereo anyway, so I just ran one of the keyboard LED programs you can easily find with a little bit of searching to see how many messages I had in my inbox when I got home. The server, of course, was headless. What I did was rip the logic board out of an old keyboard, drill some holes in a front drive bay panel, plug the 'keyboard' into the back of the computer using another hole drilled in the back, and voila..instant status lights on a budget. I used the other two for network traffic (the mail server happened to also be my firewall).
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In USA, that would be a problem due to our cities being poorly designed for actually living in/near. Urban sprawl occurs for a reason. With it, your only choice is to drive to work or to shop.
If I do this as the admin user, does it take affect for all of the local users on the system, and any new users that are created?
Also, don't run your normal user accounts with admin privileges. I don't know the details, but wouldn't this silently try to install in the default windoze program directories?
easier and quicker to deploy? Compared to what? Any shop using, say, redhat enterprise, can deploy a box in a few minutes, including a full lockdown, using kickstart. What similar technology even exists in windowsland?
1) postscript
2) networkable without extra hardware
3) ink doesn't dry up if printer isn't used for a few months
We use lametime here too. Blech. Before that came around, however, my little group set up an IRC server (about 3 years ago now). Some things our little perlbot does:
:)
channel operator status (duh)
!ph firstre lastre (phone lookups...db dump of lotus notes address book)
!subnet net/mask (very useful)
!makenet number (shows net/mask to use for number hosts)
!cidr netmask (cidr bitmask) yeah, we are lazy, why think if the bot can do it?
We recently also did a 'CEO webchat' We used IRC with a moderated channel as the backend, a java front end (could have used CGI::IRC too), and a little bit of perl to create a moderator bot (managed the message queue). It was a success and we will likely do more. The moderator easily handled over 200 users in the channel for our guest.
So, yeah, bots are extremely helpful and more importantly much more efficient for little informational tasks than even a web page (since we are in the channel all day exchanging info anyway).
Better would be if somebody with the access could find a way to get them to talk to each other, and post the results :)
'rescued' was a poor choice of words. Salvaged is what I meant.
He said hardwoods. I don't think that includes paper tree farms. There is a market for hardwoods rescued from the bottom of lake ontario, for example, when the virgin forests were cut down. Those trees are 100's of years old. Not exactly renewable.
If only the government would do the right thing more often, eh?
It's easier for me to copy a file using a passwordless ssh key than it is to use ftp. It's easier for me to remotely run a X11 app over ssh than it is to manually telnet into the box and run the app. It's easier for a client to have a client side certificate to authenticate to a web site than to have them remember a userid and password.
the examples you cite sound a lot like OS/2's WPS back in 1993 :) Too bad the two most popular environments on linux/X11 choose to chase windoze ui conventions rather than do things as powerfully as they *could*. Rox is a little guilty of this (Send To), but overall It's the best example of a file manager done right that I've seen in a very long time. What's really nice is that when you select something in rox, it goes into your cut buffer, so you can use it to make yourself more efficient even with programs that don't support xdnd...just highlight, then when opening the "do foo with file" dialog, just mid-click. This is a huge timesaver with using M$ Sharepoint here at work.
I agree with your disagreement. In fact, I really don't know wtf gnome and kde have their own way when xdnd has been around for quite some time, and doesn't require any daemons running in the background to work. In addition, you have xds (think drag/drop in reverse...instead of dragging a file to a program to open, think of dragging from a file dialog within a program to a location to save/change icon/change theme/whatever). Rox uses this very well, and it is incredibly intuitive and useful. Again, another nice way of doing things that I wish was *THE* standard on X11 desktops. Oh well.
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