I have a serious doubt about their ability to build a Linux distro: The website is completely insecure, they are loading pages from the filesystem straight from the URL...
eeeeeekk!
For example: http://www.college.ch/content.php?link=/etc/passwd brings you their passwd file (unused as its a MacOS X server, but nevertheless quite scary...)
Printing (at least on windows) is kind of a pain:
Some spaces in the printed files are eaten, which makes them barely readable...
If anyone know a solution to this, I'll take it, because I'm planning to use it for a PHP course I will give next month...
In Switzerland, they're running strange ads (half page) in the newspapers: Their ads are made to really look like an informative article, even using the same fonts for titles and body as the ones the paper uses. The ads really looks like an article (they even copy the global look of the paper).
It's really strange and one of the first time I see such ads in swiss newspapers (They're more common in US papers...)
Yeah, I thought I would be the first to make it and get the mod points (added to my story, yup). But you never know when they post the stories, and I was sure I would be sleeping (which was the case...) so I made it.
Please notice that I intentionally didn't make any comment about grits, natalie Portman, RMS and Billy Boy.
From what I read in the discussion, the hot grits/Portman comment is taken...
I'm surprised that nobody mentioned this excellent compilation called OHM. check it here This one covers all the pioneers of electronic music including Cage, Stockhausen, Theremin, Henry, etc and stops at Brian Eno. This could be a good introduction before getting into more contemporary stuff... The included booklet is also quite informative...
I'll take your points in order... I'm swiss so I should know what I talk about...
1) The massive delay in TV bebtween the US and europe. 6 months plud before it even appears on some channels. Some countries dont have voyager 6 or 7 yet! - Not totally true: some of the big stuff (sex and the city for example sometimes is here only a few week after the US. Some channels are even running subtitled english versions of sitcoms (rare, but notable...)
2) The language barrier. Can you speak French? - If you go for biotech it's certainly going to be in Geneva, where many people speak english... You also have english schools for children...
3) Visas (naturally) - agree. Getting a work visa to switzerland is a pain. The best way is to find a job and have the company request the visa. 4) Internet access - you Will need broadband, you'll go insane with 12 channels of porn (Well, my experience in TV in that part of europe suggests this) - DSL is about 30$ a month (256k unlimited)
5) Laws - We dont have a DMCA, and Switzerland is usually OK, not even being a UN member I believe. - To correct you, switzerland just voted to join the UN 6) What about your possesions. Moving permanemtly, or for a year? Sell house/car? Ship car over? - Don't think about shipping your car, you will have to make it compliant to the swiss automobile rules which are, er, strange. You'd better sell it and buy a new in switzerland. (You can try a french car that way...;-) )
FYI SuSE has been a profitable business in Germany since about when Mandrake was only an idea in it's creators heads... check their website for information. If only one linux distro survives, I'll place my bets on them...
The most advanced guys on the subject seem to be the swiss engineering school in Zürich. Here is a list of their publications.
They seem to have developped a replication scheme (Postgres-R) where they have better than linear performance improvement when they add new masters...Quite impressive
Strange:
my username is in the "admin" group (from netinfo)
the sudoers file contains the "admin" group
but I'm asked for my password...
Moreover, the user info window from system preferences says that I'm admin of the machine...
imac owner: Hello! This is John Doe from the Acme Insurance company.
thief: Hello! What do you want?
imac owner (aka John Doe): I've heard you bought a shiny new iMac lately...
thief: Yes, indeed
John Doe: I have a really cheap insurance package for you, that covers everything that can happen to your new computer. Figure that we even give you another one if it gets stolen!
step three: fifth line of the HTML version of the NAT-HOWTO reads like this: This document describes how to do masquerading, transparent proxying, port forwarding, and other forms of Network Address Translations with the 2.4 Linux Kernels.
step four:Wait, there's no step four... there's no step four!
I can add that I have also felt this situation at school: The students who knew a bit of UNIX (mainly Linux) had a really better view of computers as a system. They weren't just crying when the installer for app XY on the windows computers at school was crashing...
I guess this brings us to the more general problem of education...
Looking at my desk, I couldn't agree more:
A Powerbook for all the graphic and media stuff. (Try to get that DV cam recognized on Linux...).
A Linux biprocessor for all dev and technical stuff.
And another linux box as a small router/server...
The best people are always the ones advocating the right tool for the right job, but this rule seems to have been forgotten it the IT field, and that's sad...
Yes, indeed.
You can have your internal LCD screen and another one (connected via the standard VGA plug on the Titanium) making one big virtual desktop.
Once you've worked on a dual screen setup, you feel really bad looking at a single screen...
;-)
Take note that this is not possible with the iBook.
Do yourself a favor and get a lowend Titanium instead of the iBook:
- It has a better processor.
- If you plug a monitor in, you're not limited to doing mirroring of the LCD, you can make a big virtual desktop. It's really a nice setup to develop on. Documentation on one screen (javadoc rules...) and dev tools / editor on the other...
And that's before talking about the LCD size (iBook: 12 inches, G4: 15 inches)
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I have a serious doubt about their ability to build a Linux distro:
d brings you their passwd file (unused as its a MacOS X server, but nevertheless quite scary...)
The website is completely insecure, they are loading pages from the filesystem straight from the URL...
eeeeeekk!
For example: http://www.college.ch/content.php?link=/etc/passw
"And" doesn't count: it's automatically dropped in google queries...
Printing (at least on windows) is kind of a pain:
Some spaces in the printed files are eaten, which makes them barely readable...
If anyone know a solution to this, I'll take it, because I'm planning to use it for a PHP course I will give next month...
Quentin
In Switzerland, they're running strange ads (half page) in the newspapers: Their ads are made to really look like an informative article, even using the same fonts for titles and body as the ones the paper uses.
The ads really looks like an article (they even copy the global look of the paper). It's really strange and one of the first time I see such ads in swiss newspapers (They're more common in US papers...)
Yeah, I thought I would be the first to make it and get the mod points (added to my story, yup).
But you never know when they post the stories, and I was sure I would be sleeping (which was the case...) so I made it.
Please notice that I intentionally didn't make any comment about grits, natalie Portman, RMS and Billy Boy.
From what I read in the discussion, the hot grits/Portman comment is taken...
Quentin
I'm surprised that nobody mentioned this excellent compilation called OHM.
check it here
This one covers all the pioneers of electronic music including Cage, Stockhausen, Theremin, Henry, etc and stops at Brian Eno. This could be a good introduction before getting into more contemporary stuff...
The included booklet is also quite informative...
I'll take your points in order...
;-) )
I'm swiss so I should know what I talk about...
1) The massive delay in TV bebtween the US and europe. 6 months plud before it even appears on some channels. Some countries dont have voyager 6 or 7 yet!
- Not totally true: some of the big stuff (sex and the city for example sometimes is here only a few week after the US. Some channels are even running subtitled english versions of sitcoms (rare, but notable...)
2) The language barrier. Can you speak French?
- If you go for biotech it's certainly going to be in Geneva, where many people speak english... You also have english schools for children...
3) Visas (naturally)
- agree. Getting a work visa to switzerland is a pain. The best way is to find a job and have the company request the visa.
4) Internet access - you Will need broadband, you'll go insane with 12 channels of porn (Well, my experience in TV in that part of europe suggests this)
- DSL is about 30$ a month (256k unlimited)
5) Laws - We dont have a DMCA, and Switzerland is usually OK, not even being a UN member I believe.
- To correct you, switzerland just voted to join the UN
6) What about your possesions. Moving permanemtly, or for a year? Sell house/car? Ship car over?
- Don't think about shipping your car, you will have to make it compliant to the swiss automobile rules which are, er, strange. You'd better sell it and buy a new in switzerland. (You can try a french car that way...
Hope it helps..
Quentin
exactly...
This bug is on the corrections list for MacOS XI
lol
FYI SuSE has been a profitable business in Germany since about when Mandrake was only an idea in it's creators heads...
check their website for information.
If only one linux distro survives, I'll place my bets on them...
Quentin
I'm currently trying to do the same:
there's a nice HOWTO about samba-ldap-windows domain logons.
Then new linux distros like SuSE 7.3 or the latest RedHat automate the usage of ldap for user authentication.
Quentin
Maaaaan
I didn't even get the time to ask for it!
thanx...
Quentin
Postgres Ti:
Done...
I've got 7.1 running on my Titanium Powerbook...
there are really nice MacOS X packages of Postgres at Marc Liyanage's home page
I also take this occasion to thank him for the nice MacOS X packages he's put together...
Quentin
I've recently set up a master-master replication environnement on Oracle 9i and I did some research to check if it was possible with postgres.
In fact there are many solutions available (check techdocs.postgresql.org for a list...)
The most advanced guys on the subject seem to be the swiss engineering school in Zürich. Here is a list of their publications.
They seem to have developped a replication scheme (Postgres-R) where they have better than linear performance improvement when they add new masters...Quite impressive
Quentin
Strange:
my username is in the "admin" group (from netinfo)
the sudoers file contains the "admin" group
but I'm asked for my password...
Moreover, the user info window from system preferences says that I'm admin of the machine...
Any idea?
yeah...
imac owner: Hello! This is John Doe from the Acme Insurance company.
thief: Hello! What do you want?
imac owner (aka John Doe): I've heard you bought a shiny new iMac lately...
thief: Yes, indeed
John Doe: I have a really cheap insurance package for you, that covers everything that can happen to your new computer. Figure that we even give you another one if it gets stolen!
thief:....
and so on...
sudo rm -rf /
And who types your root password at this point?
In OS X, even if you're admin of the machine, you have to enter the root (!=admin) passwd for sudo...
This one's a bit easy:
Step one: go to http://www.netfilter.org
step two: find the HOWTO section
step three: fifth line of the HTML version of the NAT-HOWTO reads like this: This document describes how to do masquerading, transparent proxying, port forwarding, and other forms of Network Address Translations with the 2.4 Linux Kernels.
step four:Wait, there's no step four... there's no step four!
Quentin
Your post is really on the point...
I can add that I have also felt this situation at school: The students who knew a bit of UNIX (mainly Linux) had a really better view of computers as a system. They weren't just crying when the installer for app XY on the windows computers at school was crashing...
I guess this brings us to the more general problem of education...
Quentin
What, for when you absolutely, positively have to access a ton of information very, very slowly?
Yeah, you mean like when surfing the web?
Looking at my desk, I couldn't agree more:
A Powerbook for all the graphic and media stuff. (Try to get that DV cam recognized on Linux...).
A Linux biprocessor for all dev and technical stuff.
And another linux box as a small router/server...
The best people are always the ones advocating the right tool for the right job, but this rule seems to have been forgotten it the IT field, and that's sad...
Quentin
Happy patchy Christmas to all of you XP users!
Yes, indeed.
You can have your internal LCD screen and another one (connected via the standard VGA plug on the Titanium) making one big virtual desktop.
Once you've worked on a dual screen setup, you feel really bad looking at a single screen...
;-)
Take note that this is not possible with the iBook.
Do yourself a favor and get a lowend Titanium instead of the iBook:
- It has a better processor.
- If you plug a monitor in, you're not limited to doing mirroring of the LCD, you can make a big virtual desktop. It's really a nice setup to develop on. Documentation on one screen (javadoc rules...) and dev tools / editor on the other...
And that's before talking about the LCD size (iBook: 12 inches, G4: 15 inches)
Quentin
Kudos to the person who moderated this as "Redundant"
Quentin
I know it's not quite CISCO hardware, but there's this little floppy-based Linux distro called Freesco
I tried it while working for my CCNA and I was quite impressed: It emulates the CISCO command set almost completely, including access lists.
Ok it's not a 2600 but you might want to have a look at it.
Quentin
btw: 2nd post!