...every morning, after the sun has come up, the radio officer
performs a ceremony of burning a single sheet of paper in front of the
transmitter shack, and then rubbing the withered leaf of ash between his hands.
CIFS/SMB for filesharing, since I have 2 Windows machines, and haven't taken
the time to learn AFS/Coda. (samba, native windows implimentations)
Secure IMAP for sharing email. (courier-imap-ssl)
ssh, scp, and sftp for controlling, moving a few files, and forwarding
X connections between machines. (openssh)
SMTP and NNTP proxies for mail and news. (exim in smarthost mode,
leafnode/slrnpull)
midentd for forwarding identd requests in the NAT.
iptables for NATting the network, and xinetd to forward posts in.
Hmmm, I think that covers most of the information that my machines pass
around to each other.:) You were probably just looking for imformation on
sharing files though.
Er, SCSI-Emulation for CDRWs is horribly misnamed. An IDE ATAPI CD drive
is not a run-of-the-mill 1980s IDE drive, it has commands such as 'eject'
that IDE has never heard of. Therefore, the ATAPI spec was layered on top
of the IDE spec, and ATAPI includes several SCSI commands, such as
'eject'. Now, if they named it ATAPI-IDE instead of SCSI-emulation, we
wouldn't have these problems.:)
That being said, in recent kernels (2.4.18+, IIRC), the IDE drivers should
work with ATAPI burners.
I am not an audiophile. Far from it, actually. I'm *proud* of the fact
that I am happy with relatively cheap sound systems.
However, I do know someone who is both an audiophile/DJ and works with
computers, and he claims that some of the onboard audio systems have
lower latency then non-onboard systems. [Unfortunately, I forget the
specific motherboard he was referring to]
Don't know if its true or not, but I believe he uses at least one onboard
audio setup, since he claims its not the poorest link.
I'm not fond of Microsoft, and some of their marketing practices were found
illegal, but for the most part, Microsoft combined a decent product for a
decent price with good marketing. Anyways, Microsoft is not Bill Gates.
So Bill Gates will be a billion dollars richer? Who cares. At least he's
been donating some of his money to charity [such as the campaign to eradicate
polio within the next decade], and he has stated that he will give away the
majority of his fortune before he dies.
There are worse people in the world to give a billion dollars to.
To assign Window hotkey functions to winamp, I use a free winamp plugin
called Flexplug.
Its a free (beer) stripped down version of their Flextouch software, and
has no ads or spyware that I am aware of. Works well for me.
By now, xmms users are probably feeling left out, so here are a few links for
them: xmms-shell which
allows us to control xmms from the command line, gkrellmms[1] a plugin to control
xmms from gkrellm, and xvfb [no link available], which allows us to use
xmms without it cluttering the main x session [all exist as packages in
debian-stable: xmms-shell, gkrellmms, and xvfb]. I tend to use screen within
rxvt alot, so I do a quick 'xvfb-run xmms &>/dev/null &' and use
gkrellmms to supervise what's playing. Then I have aliases (actually
shell scripts) named mp3[z|x|c|v|b] which use 'xmms-shell -e <command>"
to go back, play, pause, stop, or go forward. mp3i is another shell script
that runs the following command: 'xmms-shell -e status | head -n 1 |
sed "s/Playing:\//g" | sed s/channels/ch/g' [displays song name and
a bit of information]. That way, in a majority of the programs I can quickly
use a shell escape and control the song (no, I'm not really fond of the mouse).
It might seem like a bit of work, but I tend to play a lot of music on my
computer - why not make it easy to use?
[1] For those of you who don't use gkrellm, there is wmusic
[apt-get install wmusic] and wmxmms.
Er, what do you mean the Window key is useless? There are several shortcuts
associated with it (a
Short
List), and its useful to map to other apps as well. For example,
Win+Z|X|C|V|B is set up on my MS Windows machine to control winamp,
regardless of whatever app is focused at the time.
Its possible to use the windows key in a similiar fashion under XFree86,
hotkeying combos to certain actions.
"Formless protoplasm able to mock and reflect all forms and organs and
processes - viscous agglutinations of bubbling cells -- rubbery
fifteen-foot spheroids infinately plastic and ductile -- slaves of
suggestion, builders of cities -- more and more sullen, more and more
intelligent, more and more amphibious, more and more imitative! Great
God! What madness made even those blasphemous Old Ones willing to use
[...] such things?
"At the Mountains of Madness", by H. P. Lovecraft
I'm waiting for the next slashdot story: "Decapitated, Slime-Covered
Body of Researcher Found!"
I've heard horror stories from Army Majors about Windows PCs that refused to
boot after failing to find a C drive.
Isn't this to be expected? Hell, I don't yank out/dev/hda in my linux box
and expect it to boot either.
Computers 101: If an OS expects to find operating files in a certain
location, removing that location is going to confuse the operating system
bigtime when booting.
Windows does boot from primary-master, primary-slave, secondary-master,
and secondary-slave HDD positions. (I'll test with SCSI as soon as someone
donates some new hardware). What more do you want?
Next week: Criticizing cars because some refuse to run without gasoline.
*Gasp!*
The nice thing about Linux/BSD (compared to Windows) is that for older
laptops, Linux gets you more bang for the buck.
I'm not sure what your typical laptop usage is for, but I tend to use
my laptop for email, news, coding and light web browsing.
Either I'm stuck with older windows OSes and unpatched software, or I
can throw in a debian cd, install only what I need, and have a fast enough
system for 90% of what I do.
Similiar setup here, but I keep my HDDs running. Old P166, with a newer
80 gig HDD. It sits in the basement, running exim / leafnode / samba /
imaps / bogofilter / iptables / NAT / DHCPd / CUPS / ident / sshd. Planning
to throw a caching DNS server on their pretty quick, so I don't have to
remember machine IPs on the local network, as well as setting up a ntp
server for the house.
One bit of advice though: In my current system, the bottle neck seems to
be the onboard IDE. If you do a lot of file transfers, buy a new IDE
controller. Also, you might want to check out a 256M stick of memory if
you access the same files constantly - you'll probably require a 6th gen
board for that though.
Since I mainly stream movies and mp3s from my server, I've stayed with the
P5 and onboard IDE controllers - its fast enough for my purposes, and when
I'm cycling through gigs of data in my playlists, 512M won't help that much.
Of course, YMMV - but before you spend money on a new system, consider an
old tower with quiet fans hidden in a closet.
PS: I've gotten my system configured so that a login session is launched
on ttyS0 and ttyS1 - instead of keeping a keyboard and monitor hooked up to
it, I use minicom and a crossover serial cable whenever I screw up the system
so bad that ssh doesn't work.
What happens if everyone stood their ground against the RIAA/MPAA in
these lawsuits. From the stories on Slashdot, they end up taking your
life savings anyways, so why not cause some pain to the bastards.
Represent yourself or hire a cheap lawyer. Drag the litigation out for
as long as possible. For your time (and maybe the cost of a cheap lawyer),
you end up making the RIAA/MPAA pay for their expensive lawyers.
If you win, fine. If not, well, your lawyer is paid, and you can
declare bankrupcy. Was going to happen anyways.
Lets not make it profitable for them to sue people.
Integrity of data? Er, please read up on ext3 - a journelling
filesystem, same as reiserfs, that seems to have the same (or slightly
better) filesystem integrity as reiserfs.
The correct answer would be along the lines that reiserfs is better at
handling some files then ext3 - especially small files. I have a ton
of text files on an 80 gig shared drive - all small files. Since I'm
using ext3, a lot of space is being wasted.
I've never heard of it as the "Japanese" system (then again, I never looked
for it), but the YY.MM.DD thing makes perfect sense to me, especially when
I'm naming computer files.
Consider daily backups, with the name $DATE_name.tar.bz2. With the American
system, it will sort by month first, then day, then year. So, when I'm
looking for backups, June 7th, 2003 will be right next to June 7th, 2002.
With the European system, the backups will be listed by day first, then
month, then year. So June 7th, 2003 will be next to May 7th, 2003.
The "Japanese" system works perfectly. An alphanumeric listing will group
years together, then months together, then days.
`ls -t`? What's that?:)
Mwa ha! I will be king of the fpers!
on
Camouflage in Motion
·
· Score: 3, Funny
x <- Moderators, keep staring at this point.
Everone else can look here -> x
Now, if my calculations are correct, I should be able to
get away with this:
Imagine a beowulf cluster of F1r5t P05t!
Mwa ha ha!
Oh wait, you mean that I'm too big to be a dragonfly?
So, after getting infected again and again and again, why
don't you go see an expert who can scan your computer,
figure out what administrative shares are accessable from
the internet, close them, and firewall the machine?
Btw, what channels are you hanging out in? I'm sitting back,
in warez&Iso, trying to get hacked, and only have recieved a
port 445 (Microsoft-DS) probe so far.
The parent poster writes:
Windows has checkboxes for things that take the hacking of scripts and
textfiles in Linux. You cannot pop in a CD in Linux, have an autoplay menu,
and install away, adding an uninstaller to the "start menu." I could go on
and on.
A CD? No. But with at least one distribution (Debian), there is a GUI
application (Synaptic) that allows easy installation and uninstallation of
apps from the web. All 8000+ packages that debian has is available that way,
they should all work fine if you are running the stable distribution, and
all cleanly uninstall.
Now that I think about it, if you pop in a RH9 CD, don't you get an
add/remove programs dialog? Haven't used Redhat in awhile, but I saw a
RH9 machine recently, and it looked very MS Windows-like.
The main different between Windows and Linux is that Windows is catered
towards more casual users of the OS doing predefined tasks. However, as
soon as you deviate from those predefined tasks, Windows becomes as difficult,
if not more difficult, then Linux.
[comment type="grammical" degree="anal"]
"The Olde Compton", not "Ye Olde Compton".
There used to a letter that represented the 'th' sound named
thorn in the English language. A stylized version of it looked
similiar to 'y', and that's why old signs often appear to have
'y' on them. (When the printing press came over from Germany,
'y' was used instead of thorn since thorn is a Scandanavian
letter, absent from the Germanic languages - thus printing presses
didn't have the letter.
[/comment]
Er, if the problem of too many window managers under linux confuses you,
just go with your distro default.
Its not like the many windows shells out there (Lite/Darkstep, etc) ends up
making windows less useful.
Distros tend to choose defaults to make a working system, and defaults are
often good enough for casual users of a system. But please, understand why
some people would want different window managers for different tasks.
Just because there is a choice doesn't mean that you have to choose. The
first desktop environment I ever used was KDE for a year or two, then
bouts of Gnome, afterwords going with pure window managers such as
Blackbox, Ratpoison, and currently Fluxbox. I'm currently
considering switching to fvwm for a few features. Did this hurt my
productivity? Probably not - Mozilla under fluxbox acts the same as Mozilla
under KDE.
If you are trying to utilize your space efficiency, are you using
intensive agriculture? [Has several names, basically, instead of planting
your crops in rows, you plant them in wide beds.]
If so, what successes have you had? I've discovered that peas tend to crowd
out the light on the inner plants (but that might have been too dense),
however, loose leaf lettuce works very well when planted in a 4"x4" grid -
after a few initial weedings, they'll crowd out all light and stop the
weeds, and tend to keep themselves cooler, thus preventing bolting.
Slashdot Mirror
~ Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson, Page 696
CIFS/SMB for filesharing, since I have 2 Windows machines, and haven't taken the time to learn AFS/Coda. (samba, native windows implimentations)
Secure IMAP for sharing email. (courier-imap-ssl)
ssh, scp, and sftp for controlling, moving a few files, and forwarding X connections between machines. (openssh)
SMTP and NNTP proxies for mail and news. (exim in smarthost mode, leafnode/slrnpull)
midentd for forwarding identd requests in the NAT.
iptables for NATting the network, and xinetd to forward posts in.
Hmmm, I think that covers most of the information that my machines pass around to each other. :) You were probably just looking for imformation on
sharing files though.
Er, SCSI-Emulation for CDRWs is horribly misnamed. An IDE ATAPI CD drive is not a run-of-the-mill 1980s IDE drive, it has commands such as 'eject' that IDE has never heard of. Therefore, the ATAPI spec was layered on top of the IDE spec, and ATAPI includes several SCSI commands, such as 'eject'. Now, if they named it ATAPI-IDE instead of SCSI-emulation, we wouldn't have these problems. :)
That being said, in recent kernels (2.4.18+, IIRC), the IDE drivers should work with ATAPI burners.
I'd take all the playstations and use them to develope Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.
Actually, snail mail could be faster. Assuming you're on dialup, 56k, and a friend snail mails you a pack of 20 CDs, filled with data.
Assume the same friend sends them to you over 56k.
I am not an audiophile. Far from it, actually. I'm *proud* of the fact that I am happy with relatively cheap sound systems.
However, I do know someone who is both an audiophile/DJ and works with computers, and he claims that some of the onboard audio systems have lower latency then non-onboard systems. [Unfortunately, I forget the specific motherboard he was referring to]
Don't know if its true or not, but I believe he uses at least one onboard audio setup, since he claims its not the poorest link.
I'm not fond of Microsoft, and some of their marketing practices were found illegal, but for the most part, Microsoft combined a decent product for a decent price with good marketing. Anyways, Microsoft is not Bill Gates.
So Bill Gates will be a billion dollars richer? Who cares. At least he's been donating some of his money to charity [such as the campaign to eradicate polio within the next decade], and he has stated that he will give away the majority of his fortune before he dies.
There are worse people in the world to give a billion dollars to.
To assign Window hotkey functions to winamp, I use a free winamp plugin called Flexplug. Its a free (beer) stripped down version of their Flextouch software, and has no ads or spyware that I am aware of. Works well for me.
A quick google search also turns up hotplug [seems open source], hotkey RC, and Winamp KeyController 4.0 [freeware]. Winamp KeyController seems to be the most popular one in my brief search.
By now, xmms users are probably feeling left out, so here are a few links for them: xmms-shell which allows us to control xmms from the command line, gkrellmms[1] a plugin to control xmms from gkrellm, and xvfb [no link available], which allows us to use xmms without it cluttering the main x session [all exist as packages in debian-stable: xmms-shell, gkrellmms, and xvfb]. I tend to use screen within rxvt alot, so I do a quick 'xvfb-run xmms &>/dev/null &' and use gkrellmms to supervise what's playing. Then I have aliases (actually shell scripts) named mp3[z|x|c|v|b] which use 'xmms-shell -e <command>" to go back, play, pause, stop, or go forward. mp3i is another shell script that runs the following command: 'xmms-shell -e status | head -n 1 | sed "s/Playing:\ //g" | sed s/channels/ch/g' [displays song name and
a bit of information]. That way, in a majority of the programs I can quickly
use a shell escape and control the song (no, I'm not really fond of the mouse).
It might seem like a bit of work, but I tend to play a lot of music on my computer - why not make it easy to use?
[1] For those of you who don't use gkrellm, there is wmusic [apt-get install wmusic] and wmxmms.
Er, what do you mean the Window key is useless? There are several shortcuts associated with it (a Short List), and its useful to map to other apps as well. For example, Win+Z|X|C|V|B is set up on my MS Windows machine to control winamp, regardless of whatever app is focused at the time.
Its possible to use the windows key in a similiar fashion under XFree86, hotkeying combos to certain actions.
"Formless protoplasm able to mock and reflect all forms and organs and processes - viscous agglutinations of bubbling cells -- rubbery fifteen-foot spheroids infinately plastic and ductile -- slaves of suggestion, builders of cities -- more and more sullen, more and more intelligent, more and more amphibious, more and more imitative! Great God! What madness made even those blasphemous Old Ones willing to use [...] such things?
"At the Mountains of Madness", by H. P. Lovecraft
I'm waiting for the next slashdot story: "Decapitated, Slime-Covered Body of Researcher Found!"
I've heard horror stories from Army Majors about Windows PCs that refused to boot after failing to find a C drive.
Isn't this to be expected? Hell, I don't yank out /dev/hda in my linux box
and expect it to boot either.
Computers 101: If an OS expects to find operating files in a certain location, removing that location is going to confuse the operating system bigtime when booting.
Windows does boot from primary-master, primary-slave, secondary-master, and secondary-slave HDD positions. (I'll test with SCSI as soon as someone donates some new hardware). What more do you want?
Next week: Criticizing cars because some refuse to run without gasoline. *Gasp!*
For a real slingshot (not space elevators), I recall (off the top of my head):
Not one of his better books though...
The nice thing about Linux/BSD (compared to Windows) is that for older laptops, Linux gets you more bang for the buck.
I'm not sure what your typical laptop usage is for, but I tend to use my laptop for email, news, coding and light web browsing.
Either I'm stuck with older windows OSes and unpatched software, or I can throw in a debian cd, install only what I need, and have a fast enough system for 90% of what I do.
Similiar setup here, but I keep my HDDs running. Old P166, with a newer 80 gig HDD. It sits in the basement, running exim / leafnode / samba / imaps / bogofilter / iptables / NAT / DHCPd / CUPS / ident / sshd. Planning to throw a caching DNS server on their pretty quick, so I don't have to remember machine IPs on the local network, as well as setting up a ntp server for the house.
One bit of advice though: In my current system, the bottle neck seems to be the onboard IDE. If you do a lot of file transfers, buy a new IDE controller. Also, you might want to check out a 256M stick of memory if you access the same files constantly - you'll probably require a 6th gen board for that though.
Since I mainly stream movies and mp3s from my server, I've stayed with the P5 and onboard IDE controllers - its fast enough for my purposes, and when I'm cycling through gigs of data in my playlists, 512M won't help that much.
Of course, YMMV - but before you spend money on a new system, consider an old tower with quiet fans hidden in a closet.
PS: I've gotten my system configured so that a login session is launched on ttyS0 and ttyS1 - instead of keeping a keyboard and monitor hooked up to it, I use minicom and a crossover serial cable whenever I screw up the system so bad that ssh doesn't work.
Consider this:
What happens if everyone stood their ground against the RIAA/MPAA in these lawsuits. From the stories on Slashdot, they end up taking your life savings anyways, so why not cause some pain to the bastards.
Represent yourself or hire a cheap lawyer. Drag the litigation out for as long as possible. For your time (and maybe the cost of a cheap lawyer), you end up making the RIAA/MPAA pay for their expensive lawyers.
If you win, fine. If not, well, your lawyer is paid, and you can declare bankrupcy. Was going to happen anyways.
Lets not make it profitable for them to sue people.
Integrity of data? Er, please read up on ext3 - a journelling filesystem, same as reiserfs, that seems to have the same (or slightly better) filesystem integrity as reiserfs.
The correct answer would be along the lines that reiserfs is better at handling some files then ext3 - especially small files. I have a ton of text files on an 80 gig shared drive - all small files. Since I'm using ext3, a lot of space is being wasted.
I've never heard of it as the "Japanese" system (then again, I never looked for it), but the YY.MM.DD thing makes perfect sense to me, especially when I'm naming computer files.
Consider daily backups, with the name $DATE_name.tar.bz2. With the American system, it will sort by month first, then day, then year. So, when I'm looking for backups, June 7th, 2003 will be right next to June 7th, 2002.
With the European system, the backups will be listed by day first, then month, then year. So June 7th, 2003 will be next to May 7th, 2003.
The "Japanese" system works perfectly. An alphanumeric listing will group years together, then months together, then days.
`ls -t`? What's that? :)
x <- Moderators, keep staring at this point.
Everone else can look here -> x
Now, if my calculations are correct, I should be able to get away with this:
Imagine a beowulf cluster of F1r5t P05t!
Mwa ha ha!
Oh wait, you mean that I'm too big to be a dragonfly?
So, after getting infected again and again and again, why don't you go see an expert who can scan your computer, figure out what administrative shares are accessable from the internet, close them, and firewall the machine?
Btw, what channels are you hanging out in? I'm sitting back, in warez&Iso, trying to get hacked, and only have recieved a port 445 (Microsoft-DS) probe so far.
The parent poster writes:
Windows has checkboxes for things that take the hacking of scripts and textfiles in Linux. You cannot pop in a CD in Linux, have an autoplay menu, and install away, adding an uninstaller to the "start menu." I could go on and on.
A CD? No. But with at least one distribution (Debian), there is a GUI application (Synaptic) that allows easy installation and uninstallation of apps from the web. All 8000+ packages that debian has is available that way, they should all work fine if you are running the stable distribution, and all cleanly uninstall.
Now that I think about it, if you pop in a RH9 CD, don't you get an add/remove programs dialog? Haven't used Redhat in awhile, but I saw a RH9 machine recently, and it looked very MS Windows-like.
The main different between Windows and Linux is that Windows is catered towards more casual users of the OS doing predefined tasks. However, as soon as you deviate from those predefined tasks, Windows becomes as difficult, if not more difficult, then Linux.
[comment type="grammical" degree="anal"]
"The Olde Compton", not "Ye Olde Compton".
There used to a letter that represented the 'th' sound named thorn in the English language. A stylized version of it looked similiar to 'y', and that's why old signs often appear to have 'y' on them. (When the printing press came over from Germany, 'y' was used instead of thorn since thorn is a Scandanavian letter, absent from the Germanic languages - thus printing presses didn't have the letter.
[/comment]
Er, if the problem of too many window managers under linux confuses you, just go with your distro default.
Its not like the many windows shells out there (Lite/Darkstep, etc) ends up making windows less useful.
Distros tend to choose defaults to make a working system, and defaults are often good enough for casual users of a system. But please, understand why some people would want different window managers for different tasks.
Just because there is a choice doesn't mean that you have to choose. The first desktop environment I ever used was KDE for a year or two, then bouts of Gnome, afterwords going with pure window managers such as Blackbox, Ratpoison, and currently Fluxbox. I'm currently considering switching to fvwm for a few features. Did this hurt my productivity? Probably not - Mozilla under fluxbox acts the same as Mozilla under KDE.
Just my two cents.
Loved the book, loved the movie.
Had the nicest moral to the story as well: "Be careful what you pretend to be, because that is what you become" (IIRC).
I believe, however, that Munich is the capital...
Let me guess, you must be an American, right?
No, Americans know that the capital of Europe is London. :)
If you are trying to utilize your space efficiency, are you using intensive agriculture? [Has several names, basically, instead of planting your crops in rows, you plant them in wide beds.]
If so, what successes have you had? I've discovered that peas tend to crowd out the light on the inner plants (but that might have been too dense), however, loose leaf lettuce works very well when planted in a 4"x4" grid - after a few initial weedings, they'll crowd out all light and stop the weeds, and tend to keep themselves cooler, thus preventing bolting.