And on the other hand you have people like myself that like to see how much use you can get out of aging hardware & enjoy the challenge. But then again, I don't maintain networks/computers for a living anymore.
I used to use a single box for everything at home. Pentium 133, with 128MB of ram. It was my jukebox, firewall, mailserver, database server, web server, etc. Worked fine, but I didn't like having a single point of failure.
These days, that box *was* my mail server (just now replaced it with a P2 550), and I have a separate firewall, and 'everything else' server (PIII... forget the speed). The 'everything else' box is hooked to the tv, and has web browsing, Xine, Xmms, and such. (I'm too lazy to build a real mythtv box:) In addition it is doing dhcp, mysql, apache, etc.
Right now, I am using a P75 with 16MB of ram as a smoothwall firewall (that will be the P133's new function), and of course the other two servers I mentioned.
So, yeah, I know what you mean about older hardware. It's great being able to use it. Heck the stuff I have is way overpowered for the amount of work it has to do (watching videos being the exception).
I also own a Toshiba Libretto...now that thing is 'low power'. I have it overclocked to 266MHz, and it can play Mpeg-1 videos pretty well. It runs firefox respectably too. The real bottlenecks seem to be the non-DMA drive in it, and the 64MByte memory limit. But it is a great little box to use as a car jukebox, wireless stumbler, photo repository, and browser when I need it. I put a 20Gig drive in it, and partitioned the LVM so that I can still hibernate it (the bios dumps hibernation right at the 4 Gig mark).
Having a passion for something, and wanting to work on other people's broken shit is hardly the same thing. It's about moderation. All of the computer stuff I do at home is for myself, or for my cycling team (no charge). For example, setting up mailing lists for them, with mimedefang and spamassassin protection (helps them and myself, since it is my own server).
But like the poster above, the last thing I want to do when I get home from working with computers all day is to touch another computer, even if it is something really cool. Every now and then I'll get hit with inspiration, and that is when I add cool new features to the cycling team database, or to my mail server, or my home jukebox, or whatever. The nice thing about it is that I can do it on MY TERMS. I refuse to do 'tech support' type work, however; even for family members. I didn't STOP using windows years ago just so that I could fix OTHER PEOPLE's problems with that PITA inflexible pile of crap.
Might have to put the SIT tones back on the answering machine. Since registering for the Do Not Call list, I have not gotten many telemarketing calls. Before the list, I used to play the SIT tone at the beginning of my greeting, and that got rid of a lot of the automated stuff. Perhaps that will have to be done again *sigh*
Even worse: Now a bomber can program his bomb to automatically go off when a specific person goes by, or a person from a specific country. No self-sacrifice necessary.
You don't have to be in the tech industry to have a cool tech job. Manufacturing companies, in particular, always need good IT staff. Security is becoming more and more high-profile, as is better ways of managing software on end user pc's. Computer networking is also a great way to work for a large (think international) company, especially with 'new' technologies like IPSec VPNs.
In my job, I get to do all kinds of different things, so it never gets boring. And I don't have to deal with stuff I don't like (managing windows computers). I get to write code, manage certain hardware/software, consult on networking, set policies, create solutions with open source products, etc. FWIW, I am a network security analyst.
It renders fine for me too...when looking at it online. Recently, however, I have started using wget to dump it when I anticipate being in a waiting room somewhere. Reading slashdot from the hard drive causes this problem every single time.
Pixar is successful because they understand their medium. What they make interesting/humorous cannot really be done in any other kind of animation. Also, notice that pixar *can* make things photorealistic, but they don't on purpose. The way things look are a big part of their art.
Have you seen the previews for 'The Polar Express'? Definitely not a pixar creation. It seems they are simply using motion capture. Realistic Rendering alone does not make a good movie, and pixar knows this.
Does disney know this? I doubt it. Pixar are masters of their art, and the sooner they are free of disney, the better. I don't think that disney alone can understand how best to use computer rendering the way pixar has (look at luxor jr, knick knack, for the birds, red's dream, tin toy, or any of the other pixar shorts for example)
For example, on my trusted systems, I regularly use rsync over ssh, or run apps on the remote end using ssh with a passwordless private key. This is obviously easier than having to type a password for each task, and allows me to run, for example, X11 apps seemlessly from a remote server on the local display without messing with manual authentication.
I found out while attending a wedding this weekend, that my cousin (professinal diver/underwater surveyor) is on this. That's, unfortunately, all that I know:(
You can do this under linux, it's just a matter of implementation. For example, under rox-filer, I would just make a roxapp folder that I could drag links into, and associate whatever filetype with firefox. Make the roxapp a template for creating as many subfolders as you want. I'm sure other browsers, like nautilus, have this ability (but I don't use nautilus, so don't really know what is involved).
I agree. For at least one of the OSS projects I use on a regular basis (rox filer), I did not have the time to re-learn C in order to contribute, but I *did* make suggestions to the development team (and did contribute a couple of perl scripts). They implemented pretty much everything I suggested, and later implemented even more of it.
So, yes, if you have an opinion about how something should work, by all means let the developers know. It definitely makes the software better.
Of course, we shouldn't need spam-specific laws to fight this. Notice that the main reason this case was tried was the fact that the spammer was using fraudulent IP addresses, hostnames, from addresses, etc. It's simple fraud. It is good that there are harsh penalties for this. At the very least it will force spammers to take more consideration into whether it is worth it to do what they do. Imagine if spammers never forged where they come from...
Some great humor in half life at the beginning of the game, after you initially blow things up. If you look through one of the windows as you run down the hallway after crawling back up the elevator shaft, you will see a scientist push a filing cabinet over onto one of the 'chicken crabs'. He jumps up and down and points at it, as if to say "ha ha ha! I got you!", and then one jumps on his face. I found that pretty humorous. It is easy to miss if you aren't looking for it:)
Well, to be fair, mountainbikers often fall off of their mountainbikes. Of course, we are doing a bit more than riding it down the sidewalk. On a related note, I just ordered an '05 Fox Talas for my Heckler:-D
Get rid of them both. Stick with straight GTK+ apps, and a nice filer like ROX, with your window manager of choice. Both Gnome and KDE have become too messy. Sure wish we had an 'environment' for linux that was more like OS/2's WPS.
I dunno. The way I see it, if he has the rights to install software, then it is implied that he is trusted to install whatever he sees fit. If you don't want people installing stuff on a computer, you don't give them the ability. Are you sure you are a sysadmin?
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DNS is *NOT* a search engine!
Don't forget .Xdefaults. You can group things there (ie, aterm also uses xterm's settings)
I used to use a single box for everything at home. Pentium 133, with 128MB of ram. It was my jukebox, firewall, mailserver, database server, web server, etc. Worked fine, but I didn't like having a single point of failure.
These days, that box *was* my mail server (just now replaced it with a P2 550), and I have a separate firewall, and 'everything else' server (PIII ... forget the speed). The 'everything else' box is hooked to the tv, and has web browsing, Xine, Xmms, and such. (I'm too lazy to build a real mythtv box :) In addition it is doing dhcp, mysql, apache, etc.
Right now, I am using a P75 with 16MB of ram as a smoothwall firewall (that will be the P133's new function), and of course the other two servers I mentioned.
So, yeah, I know what you mean about older hardware. It's great being able to use it. Heck the stuff I have is way overpowered for the amount of work it has to do (watching videos being the exception).
I also own a Toshiba Libretto...now that thing is 'low power'. I have it overclocked to 266MHz, and it can play Mpeg-1 videos pretty well. It runs firefox respectably too. The real bottlenecks seem to be the non-DMA drive in it, and the 64MByte memory limit. But it is a great little box to use as a car jukebox, wireless stumbler, photo repository, and browser when I need it. I put a 20Gig drive in it, and partitioned the LVM so that I can still hibernate it (the bios dumps hibernation right at the 4 Gig mark).
But like the poster above, the last thing I want to do when I get home from working with computers all day is to touch another computer, even if it is something really cool. Every now and then I'll get hit with inspiration, and that is when I add cool new features to the cycling team database, or to my mail server, or my home jukebox, or whatever. The nice thing about it is that I can do it on MY TERMS. I refuse to do 'tech support' type work, however; even for family members. I didn't STOP using windows years ago just so that I could fix OTHER PEOPLE's problems with that PITA inflexible pile of crap.
Might have to put the SIT tones back on the answering machine. Since registering for the Do Not Call list, I have not gotten many telemarketing calls. Before the list, I used to play the SIT tone at the beginning of my greeting, and that got rid of a lot of the automated stuff. Perhaps that will have to be done again *sigh*
Even worse: Now a bomber can program his bomb to automatically go off when a specific person goes by, or a person from a specific country. No self-sacrifice necessary.
You can use adblock in firefox do block embedded objects on a per-site basis.
I dunno. I found his latest book very boring to read. I liked Marcus Ranum's Myth of Homeland Security book though.
In my job, I get to do all kinds of different things, so it never gets boring. And I don't have to deal with stuff I don't like (managing windows computers). I get to write code, manage certain hardware/software, consult on networking, set policies, create solutions with open source products, etc. FWIW, I am a network security analyst.
It renders fine for me too...when looking at it online. Recently, however, I have started using wget to dump it when I anticipate being in a waiting room somewhere. Reading slashdot from the hard drive causes this problem every single time.
Have you seen the previews for 'The Polar Express'? Definitely not a pixar creation. It seems they are simply using motion capture. Realistic Rendering alone does not make a good movie, and pixar knows this.
Does disney know this? I doubt it. Pixar are masters of their art, and the sooner they are free of disney, the better. I don't think that disney alone can understand how best to use computer rendering the way pixar has (look at luxor jr, knick knack, for the birds, red's dream, tin toy, or any of the other pixar shorts for example)
For example, on my trusted systems, I regularly use rsync over ssh, or run apps on the remote end using ssh with a passwordless private key. This is obviously easier than having to type a password for each task, and allows me to run, for example, X11 apps seemlessly from a remote server on the local display without messing with manual authentication.
I found out while attending a wedding this weekend, that my cousin (professinal diver/underwater surveyor) is on this. That's, unfortunately, all that I know :(
You can do this under linux, it's just a matter of implementation. For example, under rox-filer, I would just make a roxapp folder that I could drag links into, and associate whatever filetype with firefox. Make the roxapp a template for creating as many subfolders as you want. I'm sure other browsers, like nautilus, have this ability (but I don't use nautilus, so don't really know what is involved).
So, yes, if you have an opinion about how something should work, by all means let the developers know. It definitely makes the software better.
Of course, we shouldn't need spam-specific laws to fight this. Notice that the main reason this case was tried was the fact that the spammer was using fraudulent IP addresses, hostnames, from addresses, etc. It's simple fraud. It is good that there are harsh penalties for this. At the very least it will force spammers to take more consideration into whether it is worth it to do what they do. Imagine if spammers never forged where they come from...
Some great humor in half life at the beginning of the game, after you initially blow things up. If you look through one of the windows as you run down the hallway after crawling back up the elevator shaft, you will see a scientist push a filing cabinet over onto one of the 'chicken crabs'. He jumps up and down and points at it, as if to say "ha ha ha! I got you!", and then one jumps on his face. I found that pretty humorous. It is easy to miss if you aren't looking for it :)
I voted for him last time, and bitch about him all the time now.
Mainly because using them is somewhat an art form.
Seems there will be a market for shielded wallets/cardholders in the very near future.
Also, there are some windoze apps that insist on having console, so rdesktop is not an option.
Well, to be fair, mountainbikers often fall off of their mountainbikes. Of course, we are doing a bit more than riding it down the sidewalk. On a related note, I just ordered an '05 Fox Talas for my Heckler :-D
Get rid of them both. Stick with straight GTK+ apps, and a nice filer like ROX, with your window manager of choice. Both Gnome and KDE have become too messy. Sure wish we had an 'environment' for linux that was more like OS/2's WPS.
I dunno. The way I see it, if he has the rights to install software, then it is implied that he is trusted to install whatever he sees fit. If you don't want people installing stuff on a computer, you don't give them the ability. Are you sure you are a sysadmin?
I'd mod you up if I had the points today and you weren't already at 5. You stated what I was thinking perfectly.