Re:I hear lots of negative criticism about Linux.
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I recently had to fill in for our Windows administrator and create a few user accounts. Naively, I selected 'Copy' on an existing user account in the AD MMC snap-in. I was happy to see that Microsoft apparently thought it was a logical thing to do to use an existing user as a template, as a dialog popped up asking me to fill in only the user specific attributes (full name, username). Imagine my surprise that the tool in question did stupidly copy the users' profile path verbatim from the template user.
How long has AD been in existence? And this was the 2003 admin pack, so in 5 bloody years they haven't even implemented a basic user templating mechanism correctly. So much for AD working fine. If this is Enterprise quality, having to manually click together new users, what can be scripted in literally minutes on Unix+Kerberos+LDAP, then I suggest Microsoft has a lot to learn.
Let me laugh out loud at the ToughBook suggestion. I have a CF-18 convertible, and the combination of the small size and ruggedized exterior creates an 'Ugly Duckling' effect that has women go 'Aww, cute'. As it so happens, I agree. Practical and tough as it may be, it is cute, and I have no trouble acknowledging that.
Mart
Re:Islamic groups are pushing censorship worldwide
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You still haven't answered my question. You're close though. Now produce what I actually asked, and I may take you seriously. Until then, I'm just going to assume that you drank the Kool-Aid that equates all Muslims with idiots in Yemen.
Now that would be a feat. CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Anyone trying to dispute that belongs with the flat-earthers, the creationists and the inventors of the perpetuum mobile.
Rule number one in climate debates: if you can't distinguish between climate and weather, you should STFU. And I shouldn't have to explain why, just as I don't have to explain why the Sun rises in the East.
Mart
Re:Islamic groups are pushing censorship worldwide
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Find me one modern imam who advocates sex with minors. Heck, find me even one willing to consider a marriage with a 9-year old valid. Just one fatwah will do.
Until you can do that, the previous poster was right: what Mohammed did was considered valid in his time, not today.
So, logically, it would follow from your statement that restricting some forms of political expression (i.e. ones that are contrary to a democratic state), would be a good thing.
Welcome to modern political philosophy, where there is more than simple soundbites ('Free speech good! Islam bad!').
SOx only pertains to financial information. And it does have a way to get company officers off scott-free. As long as the company can point to an individual disregarding controls, and there is an audit trail pointing to the individual, the officers of the company have discharged their obligation. That's why SOx is so hairy to implement: everyone wants as many controls as possible to put liability as low down the personnel chain as possible.
It surprised me when I got SOx training how simple the concept of the law is, and how complicated implementations can become in a large corporation with a CYA culture.
This is actually what Sarbanes-Oxley does for financial matters: it requires the officers of the company to personally sign off on all procedures and controls followed in handling financial information, so that the only defense against personal liability is some underling disregarding procedure. In fact, the easiest SOx policy to implement would be a document signed by the CEO taking personal responsibility for all actions of the corporation. Only because no-one has the spine to do so does SOx get its reputations for being hard to implement, because everyone is scrambling to implement CYA controls.
I say SOx gets extended to all acts of a corporation. That would nicely have covered the Sony rootkit debacle.
I wasn't particularly blaming you, just curious because what you described didn't fit my view of what a properly adminned system should be. But I have dealt with legacy systems as well, I know they can be messy;)
Hmmm. strace only depends on glibc, so if there's a glibc update, it'll pull that in. And if the update is incompatible, everything relying on glibc will be pulled in as well. On the other hand, if this is a 'stable' server, any glibc updates are security updates, and they should have been pulled in already, or you should have known about them. And 'stable' is meant to have live updates without issues, that's the whole point.
So, either that server was not running stable, in which case you got what you asked for (unstable packaging), or it was running 'stable', in which case your post would indicate sloppy admin work.
I help manage a bunch of CentOS servers, and my personal laptop runs Debian, so here's my perspective: yum is slightly slower than apt; It takes a little longer to do dependency resolution. I'd say it is about twice as slow. yum is also a tad more verbose.
Practically speaking, the differences are minimal. 10 seconds instead of 5 seconds is not a big deal if it means I can seamlessly install software with all dependencies. The amount of time it saves more than weighs up to the speed differential with apt, especially considering that apt doesn't have an equivalent for localinstall, which is a lifesaver if, for example, you're building your own rpms from CPAN modules.
But yeah, strictly speaking yum is still inferior, if not by much, if my experience is any indication.
If you had paid any attention, you would have noticed that Theodore Tso provided patches to make the open/write/rename path safe (i.e. behave the same as in ext3) before he pointed out that relying on ext3 ordered mode is not safe.
Think before you call others names. Otherwise you only show yourself up as a moron.
Bullshit. The number one predictor of survival is what vehicle is best able to absorb the shock without transmitting it to the passengers or bursting into flame. That has nothing to do with mass, but everything with design. Stop parroting Detroit marketing, and start thinking for yourself.
Let's be fair here: it is common knowledge that Roddenberry did everything to get as much credit for Star Trek as possible, including shenanigans like minor rewrites to get a writer's credit. Harlan is not the only one to complain about this.
Despite all Roddenberry's good points, he was no Saint Gene. Funnily enough, all his many and deep faults make his good points shine even more, which is why I don't understand why the fanbois want to keep them out of sight.
[...] you're much more likely to survive in a larger, heavier, stiffer vehicle than in a sporty little sedan.
See, if you start your argument with a statement like that, you have already proven that all your opinions on automotive safety come from the Detroit Marketing Handbook. Unfortunately for you, over 30 years of engineering and cold hard accident statistics say you're dead wrong.
A heavier, stiffer vehicle is more dangerous, because it will transmit the shock of a crash almost entirely to the occupants. That's why modern cars have crumple zones; the wreck after a crash may look as if no-one could have survived, but because most of the shock was absorbed by all but the passenger compartment, chances are the occupants of the car got out alive.
Even the most brilliant programmer is going to need to get their specs from somewhere. Finding out what a program is supposed to do can only be done by, you know, communicating with the people that asked for it to be written.
Last I looked, communication is a people skill. Now, whether or not the given percentages make sense is debatable, but even if you don't take them as hard numbers, the real insight is there: without communication, there will be no useful software.
Take any linux binary compiled 10 years ago and run it today on a shipping kernel.
Since running applications is dependent on your C library version more than on your kernel version, and this has been so for just about forever on *nix, I think we can now surmise that your 'years of industry experience' is mere bluster.
The UI needs to encourage this more, as the default behavior. Why is he being shown this big list if unchecking items is an action only power users should be taking?
Yes. Exactly.
This is what the Gnome devs mean when they harp on 'options bring complexity'. The developers should think long and hard on the goals of their software, and pick a sensible default, putting the options away in a place where the power user or the sysadmin can still get at them, but keeping them out of sight for normal daily operations.
Even as a sysadmin, I don't want to make every desktop operation into a full blown change procedure, looking at all the options and doing a risk assesment. The package manager has a repository, ideally the distro has a policy that updates won't break existing functionality, so it should just go ahead and do the updates without bothering me. I have to bother enough about reading release notes and running through lists of proposed updates when I maintain servers, my desktop should get out of the way and let me concentrate on the real work.
Apple is pretty good at this too (Gnome 'stole' the idea from them), but they're a bit anal about hiding the options, and sometimes their choices are lazy as well. Witness the mandatory reboot on doing updates: if the software is programmed well, it should recognise what services can be restarted without a reboot, and just restart them, instead of putting the responsibility on the user.
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I recently had to fill in for our Windows administrator and create a few user accounts. Naively, I selected 'Copy' on an existing user account in the AD MMC snap-in. I was happy to see that Microsoft apparently thought it was a logical thing to do to use an existing user as a template, as a dialog popped up asking me to fill in only the user specific attributes (full name, username). Imagine my surprise that the tool in question did stupidly copy the users' profile path verbatim from the template user.
How long has AD been in existence? And this was the 2003 admin pack, so in 5 bloody years they haven't even implemented a basic user templating mechanism correctly. So much for AD working fine. If this is Enterprise quality, having to manually click together new users, what can be scripted in literally minutes on Unix+Kerberos+LDAP, then I suggest Microsoft has a lot to learn.
Mart
Let me laugh out loud at the ToughBook suggestion. I have a CF-18 convertible, and the combination of the small size and ruggedized exterior creates an 'Ugly Duckling' effect that has women go 'Aww, cute'. As it so happens, I agree. Practical and tough as it may be, it is cute, and I have no trouble acknowledging that.
Mart
You still haven't answered my question. You're close though. Now produce what I actually asked, and I may take you seriously. Until then, I'm just going to assume that you drank the Kool-Aid that equates all Muslims with idiots in Yemen.
Mart
Now that would be a feat. CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Anyone trying to dispute that belongs with the flat-earthers, the creationists and the inventors of the perpetuum mobile.
Mart
Rule number one in climate debates: if you can't distinguish between climate and weather, you should STFU. And I shouldn't have to explain why, just as I don't have to explain why the Sun rises in the East.
Mart
Find me one modern imam who advocates sex with minors. Heck, find me even one willing to consider a marriage with a 9-year old valid. Just one fatwah will do.
Until you can do that, the previous poster was right: what Mohammed did was considered valid in his time, not today.
Mart
So, logically, it would follow from your statement that restricting some forms of political expression (i.e. ones that are contrary to a democratic state), would be a good thing.
Welcome to modern political philosophy, where there is more than simple soundbites ('Free speech good! Islam bad!').
Mart
SOx only pertains to financial information. And it does have a way to get company officers off scott-free. As long as the company can point to an individual disregarding controls, and there is an audit trail pointing to the individual, the officers of the company have discharged their obligation. That's why SOx is so hairy to implement: everyone wants as many controls as possible to put liability as low down the personnel chain as possible.
It surprised me when I got SOx training how simple the concept of the law is, and how complicated implementations can become in a large corporation with a CYA culture.
Mart
This is actually what Sarbanes-Oxley does for financial matters: it requires the officers of the company to personally sign off on all procedures and controls followed in handling financial information, so that the only defense against personal liability is some underling disregarding procedure. In fact, the easiest SOx policy to implement would be a document signed by the CEO taking personal responsibility for all actions of the corporation. Only because no-one has the spine to do so does SOx get its reputations for being hard to implement, because everyone is scrambling to implement CYA controls.
I say SOx gets extended to all acts of a corporation. That would nicely have covered the Sony rootkit debacle.
Mart
Nokia N-series. Enough said.
What, those models aren't available in the USA? Too bad. The world is bigger than that.
Mart
I wasn't particularly blaming you, just curious because what you described didn't fit my view of what a properly adminned system should be. But I have dealt with legacy systems as well, I know they can be messy ;)
Mart
Hmmm. strace only depends on glibc, so if there's a glibc update, it'll pull that in. And if the update is incompatible, everything relying on glibc will be pulled in as well. On the other hand, if this is a 'stable' server, any glibc updates are security updates, and they should have been pulled in already, or you should have known about them. And 'stable' is meant to have live updates without issues, that's the whole point.
So, either that server was not running stable, in which case you got what you asked for (unstable packaging), or it was running 'stable', in which case your post would indicate sloppy admin work.
Mart
I help manage a bunch of CentOS servers, and my personal laptop runs Debian, so here's my perspective: yum is slightly slower than apt; It takes a little longer to do dependency resolution. I'd say it is about twice as slow. yum is also a tad more verbose.
Practically speaking, the differences are minimal. 10 seconds instead of 5 seconds is not a big deal if it means I can seamlessly install software with all dependencies. The amount of time it saves more than weighs up to the speed differential with apt, especially considering that apt doesn't have an equivalent for localinstall, which is a lifesaver if, for example, you're building your own rpms from CPAN modules.
But yeah, strictly speaking yum is still inferior, if not by much, if my experience is any indication.
Mart
If you had paid any attention, you would have noticed that Theodore Tso provided patches to make the open/write/rename path safe (i.e. behave the same as in ext3) before he pointed out that relying on ext3 ordered mode is not safe.
Think before you call others names. Otherwise you only show yourself up as a moron.
Mart
You must be new here...
operagost is well-known for his extreme right-wing views. Just about everything is Socialism to him. The allusion in his post is fairly obvious.
Mart
Bullshit. The number one predictor of survival is what vehicle is best able to absorb the shock without transmitting it to the passengers or bursting into flame. That has nothing to do with mass, but everything with design. Stop parroting Detroit marketing, and start thinking for yourself.
Mart
Let's be fair here: it is common knowledge that Roddenberry did everything to get as much credit for Star Trek as possible, including shenanigans like minor rewrites to get a writer's credit. Harlan is not the only one to complain about this.
Despite all Roddenberry's good points, he was no Saint Gene. Funnily enough, all his many and deep faults make his good points shine even more, which is why I don't understand why the fanbois want to keep them out of sight.
Mart
See, if you start your argument with a statement like that, you have already proven that all your opinions on automotive safety come from the Detroit Marketing Handbook. Unfortunately for you, over 30 years of engineering and cold hard accident statistics say you're dead wrong.
A heavier, stiffer vehicle is more dangerous, because it will transmit the shock of a crash almost entirely to the occupants. That's why modern cars have crumple zones; the wreck after a crash may look as if no-one could have survived, but because most of the shock was absorbed by all but the passenger compartment, chances are the occupants of the car got out alive.
Mart
And neither of these two types of drivers belong on a public road.
Mart
Even the most brilliant programmer is going to need to get their specs from somewhere. Finding out what a program is supposed to do can only be done by, you know, communicating with the people that asked for it to be written.
Last I looked, communication is a people skill. Now, whether or not the given percentages make sense is debatable, but even if you don't take them as hard numbers, the real insight is there: without communication, there will be no useful software.
Mart
There's a bug in your example. isChangingTimeZones is not being used, so why bother assigning to it? I presume this is a typo?
Mart
Since running applications is dependent on your C library version more than on your kernel version, and this has been so for just about forever on *nix, I think we can now surmise that your 'years of industry experience' is mere bluster.
Mart
How about some examples? And preferably from end-user applications?
I say you're full of shit.
Mart
Yes. Exactly.
This is what the Gnome devs mean when they harp on 'options bring complexity'. The developers should think long and hard on the goals of their software, and pick a sensible default, putting the options away in a place where the power user or the sysadmin can still get at them, but keeping them out of sight for normal daily operations.
Even as a sysadmin, I don't want to make every desktop operation into a full blown change procedure, looking at all the options and doing a risk assesment. The package manager has a repository, ideally the distro has a policy that updates won't break existing functionality, so it should just go ahead and do the updates without bothering me. I have to bother enough about reading release notes and running through lists of proposed updates when I maintain servers, my desktop should get out of the way and let me concentrate on the real work.
Apple is pretty good at this too (Gnome 'stole' the idea from them), but they're a bit anal about hiding the options, and sometimes their choices are lazy as well. Witness the mandatory reboot on doing updates: if the software is programmed well, it should recognise what services can be restarted without a reboot, and just restart them, instead of putting the responsibility on the user.
Mart
Depends on the genre. Classical? Hell yes. Rock and Pop? I wouldn't bet money on it.
Mart