Is it possible to install Mandrake over the network, bootstrapping it with a floppy then downloading the packages from an ftp or http site like Debian can do? I looked on the Mandrake site but all I see are CD images. The laptop I want to try Mandrake on has a busted CD drive.
Yes, that's quite possible. There's a directory images in the root of the tree (either on the CD-images or on the mirror). There you will find network.img, which is a bootfloppy image.
However, it is certainly more scientifically valid to say that "it's caused by nature" than to say "it's caused by man". It is known that there have been temperature swings before man (which would, presumably, be caused by nature), while no temperature swing in the past can be ascribed to man. This is not to say that man could not cause such temperature swings, but that, given the past, a natural cause is more likely.
Also, spammers tend not to like spamming actual government offices; such spam carries with it the risk that you spam some important person who begins calling for IRS audits of the spammer and so forth. Since the types of scumbags who spam tend to play fast and loose with their taxes, they really don't want to get audited...
Why is it a surprise that Forbes ran this story?
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Forbes, that bastion of neoconservative thought, has rarely met a government granted monopoly they approved of (see telco deregulation, airline dereg, among others).
I figure I could make a jillion email addresses on one of the domains I'm squatt^H^H^H^H^H^H reserving, give 'em all to this company, make some quick cash, and then null-route the emails a few days later.
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That is the way that things tend to work in the magazine world. In this case, since MySQL is not that big a fish, Fortune's editor tells some junior writer, "Forbes and BusinessWeek have run articles on open source software in business. Do something on open source databases." The junior writer then looks at the figures, sees that MySQL is the most popular of the OSS db's, sees that there's an actual company behind them, and calls up MySQL AB's press office. Said PR firm basically sends him an outline, with relevant quotes from luminaries, and junior writer bangs out a story from that outline.
The thing is the DMCA basically requires that; if they fail to shut down at the first complaint, then they're considered to be as guilty of any infringement that occurs as the party that actually infringes.
I run Apache, and I get regular IIS-scans from hosts on the UMass net (128.119.0.0/16). A quick email to some acquaintances of mine at OIT netops and, afaik, the offending MAC addresses are blacklisted until they demonstrate that they're patched.
It actually isn't that difficult. The source packages (src.rpms are already on the mirrors). rpm has the infrastructure to do package compilation (rpm --rebuild). What's needed, as I see it, is adapting the hdlist (the fils Mandrake uses to say what packages are available from a given source and what they provide and so forth) to source compilation (this is complicated by allowing one src.rpm to build multiple binary rpms of different components) and adapting urpmi to know when to fetch src.rpms in lieu of binary rpms.
Oh yeah, I'll also have to learn Perl, since that's what the tools I'm adapting are written in...
There are also some modifications that may need to be made to the way Mandrake currently makes rpms (allowing a greater degree of configurability at --rebuild time).
On Friday, the first 9.1 CDs will be burned by Warly and the gang for internal testing over the weekend. The plan is to release to Club members on Monday. Free ISOs will not be available until after the boxes are in stores.
Mandrake may (if I have anything to say about it... I'm going to write the patches myself) get dependency-checked automatic source recompilation (with the ability to use precompiled packages where you don't want to build from source) in 9.2.
On a related note, Mandrake contribs for current Cooker (and thus for 9.1) has a multimedia-enhanced kernel (low-latency and pre-emptible patches applied to 2.4). One of the major focuses for 9.1 seems to be in audio workstations...
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Yes, that's quite possible. There's a directory images in the root of the tree (either on the CD-images or on the mirror). There you will find network.img, which is a bootfloppy image.
Mandrake dropped automatic detection of ISA cards for a good reason: ISA sucks. There, I said it. ISA sucks big fat hairy moose cock.
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They are in bankruptcy court. Bankrupt != out of business.
I think RH may have upgraded glibc. Mandrake tends to track Red Hat on glibc upgrades, and glibc 2.3 will be under the hood of Mandrake 9.1.
Judging by the number of dupes, not reading /. all day seems to be Rob and the gang's method for keeping their jobs...
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However, it is certainly more scientifically valid to say that "it's caused by nature" than to say "it's caused by man". It is known that there have been temperature swings before man (which would, presumably, be caused by nature), while no temperature swing in the past can be ascribed to man. This is not to say that man could not cause such temperature swings, but that, given the past, a natural cause is more likely.
Also, spammers tend not to like spamming actual government offices; such spam carries with it the risk that you spam some important person who begins calling for IRS audits of the spammer and so forth. Since the types of scumbags who spam tend to play fast and loose with their taxes, they really don't want to get audited...
Forbes, that bastion of neoconservative thought, has rarely met a government granted monopoly they approved of (see telco deregulation, airline dereg, among others).
Who said that the pillars were mutually exclusive?
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There's the way to solve school funding woes!
That is the way that things tend to work in the magazine world. In this case, since MySQL is not that big a fish, Fortune's editor tells some junior writer, "Forbes and BusinessWeek have run articles on open source software in business. Do something on open source databases." The junior writer then looks at the figures, sees that MySQL is the most popular of the OSS db's, sees that there's an actual company behind them, and calls up MySQL AB's press office. Said PR firm basically sends him an outline, with relevant quotes from luminaries, and junior writer bangs out a story from that outline.
Moral of the story: magazine writers are lazy.
The thing is the DMCA basically requires that; if they fail to shut down at the first complaint, then they're considered to be as guilty of any infringement that occurs as the party that actually infringes.
The Koreans are even more into conglomerates (chaebol), though they're breaking them up. Hyundai makes everything from DRAMs to crappy cars.
However, Michael Dell has historically been Andy Grove's bitch...
I dount Dell will ever use an AMD chip, even if it means losing sales.
I run Apache, and I get regular IIS-scans from hosts on the UMass net (128.119.0.0/16). A quick email to some acquaintances of mine at OIT netops and, afaik, the offending MAC addresses are blacklisted until they demonstrate that they're patched.
It actually isn't that difficult. The source packages (src.rpms are already on the mirrors). rpm has the infrastructure to do package compilation (rpm --rebuild). What's needed, as I see it, is adapting the hdlist (the fils Mandrake uses to say what packages are available from a given source and what they provide and so forth) to source compilation (this is complicated by allowing one src.rpm to build multiple binary rpms of different components) and adapting urpmi to know when to fetch src.rpms in lieu of binary rpms.
Oh yeah, I'll also have to learn Perl, since that's what the tools I'm adapting are written in...
There are also some modifications that may need to be made to the way Mandrake currently makes rpms (allowing a greater degree of configurability at --rebuild time).
On Friday, the first 9.1 CDs will be burned by Warly and the gang for internal testing over the weekend. The plan is to release to Club members on Monday. Free ISOs will not be available until after the boxes are in stores.
Or, even better: urpmi.addmedia [name] [mirror]
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Mandrake may (if I have anything to say about it... I'm going to write the patches myself) get dependency-checked automatic source recompilation (with the ability to use precompiled packages where you don't want to build from source) in 9.2.
On a related note, Mandrake contribs for current Cooker (and thus for 9.1) has a multimedia-enhanced kernel (low-latency and pre-emptible patches applied to 2.4). One of the major focuses for 9.1 seems to be in audio workstations...