It had limitations, but still every object had 3 coordinates.
"Illusion of 3D" my ass. Every 3d game is "an illusion of 3d".
Not quite. The reason it's not a true 3d engine is because of how the map is represented. The map is composed of 2 dimensional planes each with a specific height. This might sound like 3d, but it's not. For example, no two planes can overlap in the x, y dimension--no bridges or tunnels with floors above them. So it's like flat 2d map but subdivided in to pieces (sectors in doom speak) that each have a height projected up from them.
I maintain packages for 300 or so programs for Solaris. I've compiled all of them using Sun's compiler, Forte from SunONE Studio 7. Although I agree that some programs are more difficult than others to compile under sSolaris, I've been able compile nearly anything I've attempted using forte 7. I used to use gcc but the speed improvements that forte adds make it very attractive.
I compiled GNOME and KDE and although I wouldn't say they were easy to compile I did get them working. And no I didn't compile any of it as the root user. I even was able to compile libavcodec something that supposedly runs on Solaris but is coded in a very very gcc specific way.
So I'm not really sure what difficulties you're refering to. So long as you have a sane build environment, gnu make, autoconf, automake, m4, a good compiler, gcc or forte, and know your compiler well you shouldn't have any problems.
Although i am a Solaris admin professionally and am a bit biased, my main reason for using Solaris x86 on one of my machine's is for its nfs preformance. Its preformed considerably better than linux at the task. Even under very heavy load it hasn't broken. I was surprised when i loaded 9 and found it even supported my 64bit pci adaptec ultra-160 scsi card.
I just wanted to say thank you to Patrick and all the other fine slackware developers. You got me started with Linux. It has been a hobby, a passion and now a career. Thank you.
I've used the scp-wrapper perl script and it works excellently. I add a dsa key for the client and in the key in authorized_keys i add command="/usr/sbin/scp-wrapper"......
Basically what the script does is clean the environment. The requested command is stored in SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND environmental variable. Its checked to make sure it is in fact the command you intend. The options are then checked. Finally the script exec()'s the hardcoded path to the command with arguments supplied.
Although it comes written for scp i've used it for securing an account so they can't log in, and they can only execute one or two commands of my choosing.
from what i understand sftp just exec's/usr/libexec/sftp-server. i don't see why you couldn't alter the script to only allow that command.
also you'll want to make sure the client's ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile, etc.--all its login scripts--are empty and owned by root so that they don't upload their own "special" login script and undo all your work.
On Solaris 7 and 8 I use a kernel space/dev/random from Andreas Maier. I have successfully compiled it on both 32bit and 64bit machines using the SunPRO 5.0 compiler. To use it with OpenSSH, install the package, recompile OpenSSL and OpenSSH.
In my opinion using the kernel space/dev/random removes most of the negative issues associated with running OpenSSH on Solaris.
Have a project no one wants to work on? Need help? Easy. Release a email stating that all previous versions are vulernerable to a root exploit unless your feature X is implemented. Sit back and watch the code roll in.
Since when was it a right to receive what ever you want on a freely provided information channel. For example when you walk in to your public library you don't expect to go to the magazine section and pick up a copy of the lastest Swank. Prehaps i'm oversimplifing the matter, but I'm of the opinion that if you don't like it and its free go elsewhere.
I don't know how many of you are seeing this but in the last 5 days we've had several main machines hit including our main nfs home directory server. All Solaris 8 machines.:-(
We've noticed that all are from a group called "NSDAP" something like the Nazi propaganda arm of the Third Reich.
The files we've found left behind (hacker droppings) are/usr/lib/vold/nsdap which contains bunches about the group./usr/bin/ls and all the other likely canidates, ps, find, su, ssh, sh, etc. are replaced. They ran a shell on port 77.
All logs and sniffer dumps etc. were emailed to angelz1578@usa.net
Rather juvenile in my opinion. Oh well its always something.
I've recently rediscovered cups. For my printing needs, mixed unix and some windows it beats everything else hands down. It provides easy web based administration or if you're fimilar with the bsd or sysv (big bonus for me since i primarly use solaris) style command line tools it has those as well. But the number one thing that makes me choose cups overy anything else is its support for using PPD drivers. Need a driver for that freaky printer, Xerox DocuCenter 332ST in our case? Download the PPD stick it in/usr/share/cups/model and off you go. Now i can use all the features of the printer. Not just simply print to it. Eg. now i can colate, staple, duplex print etc. Couple this with kups or xpp which are "print setup" like programs that let you adjust your print settings and its almost as easy as on a mac. So aside from support for "winprinters" how is turbo print different from cups?
First of all. This is seriously OT and Flame bait (this meaning the above comment and my relpy.) Oh well.
Your first point "linux requires a *lot* of maintenance" Yes linux requires time and expertise. You can also go out a pay big bucks for a commerical unix and it will _still_ require lots of time.
Ext2 is generally considered quite stable, but as with any OS. Backup backup backup! Hard drives die, admins do stupid things, people break in. In general shit happens and one of the best ways to prepare for it is to backup. You do have backups of your data don't you? Or were you going to trust your .
You don't want crashes run one of the more mature kernels. 2.2.x is quite stable. And i had a machine that had an uptime of a year and a half on 1.2.13. Crashes and I mean kernel oops not seg faults are fairly rare. I've only seen a few kernel oops (10) but then again I don't run the bleading edge stuff.
Although each distribution of linux has differnet ways of doing things, placing files etc. most of it is very unixish. Its usually understood that Unix is not an OS that you use without some learning. If its too hard then don't use it. As far as linux having broken tools i've found many of the gnu utils to be far superior to their commerical equivilants. Take Solaris tar, awk, make, etc...
"spit out the most childish and unprofessional messages" you mean like your post? Most 14yo I know don't have the skill to write the tools used in linux. Thats not to say they very talented youths don't exist; its just that most younger people using linux don't code for it yet.
Linux probably is not a good choice for a company seeking a reliable unix, but not for the reasons you've given. Solaris is a very mature Unix and quite dependable (excluding solaris x86). If you want a single entity with 24/7 tech support and big bucks behind it then fork out the cash. And for god sakes if you don't like it then don't use it.
Thats all well and good, but this is not encryption. Noise is intentionally added that 'hopefully' won't be heard when you play the cd but will prevent a copy from taking place. If you forget the piracy aspect for a moment and think of this clearly as a quality issue the record companies are reducing the quality of the product you are purchasing and not informing you about it. The price is already seriously over inflated you'd think that would already be able to account for their losses.
Even if apple chooses not to support hypercard in macos X, i'd still like to thank apple especially the core group of programers that wrote the first version of hypercard. Hypertalk was the first language I learned and I feel that it taught me the core concepts of programming.
Hypertalk featured an event driven instruction scheme that is similar to several programming api's in use today (gtk and qt come to mind.)
It was one of the early languages to have "english like" syntax, and it used the idea of objects extensively. Later as I moved to C I still continued using hypercard through the of xcmd's. I still have my books somewhere, all dog-eared, riped and wrinkled. Thanks.
At the end are some good links. Skip to those if you must.
Ah, you're still with me. I've read the Dune series several times. Each time I glean something new from the stories, almost parables. Frank Herbert had a deep understanding of people and this is what his works spoke of to me. Leaders, gods, religion, economy, technolgy, government all were important parts of what he tried to impart to his reader. His vision, his golden path, was understanding. I believe that this was the essence of Frank Herbert's Dune.
When Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson set out to continue the telling of Dune epic they did so for their own motivations. Whether it was out of desire for profit, recognition, or reconciliation--I think Frank Herbert was not the easiest person to be the son of--is known only to them I can only speculate, but what is most aparent and much easier to prove is that the two of them are completely wrapped up even mystified with the plot of Dune that they've missed the underlying messages.
Yes, House Atreides and House Harkonne do have things to say. Duncan's trip to the Ginaz Islands had some interesting points about warfare. Not everyone plays by the rules which gave good argument against the idea that there are no rules in war. But even this pales in comparison to Frank Herberts teachings.
Is it fair or should we even compare Brian Herbert's and Kevin Anderson's writing to Frank Herbert's. Realistically I don't think so. Writing is a glimpse at the mind of the author. They are different people and by the very nature of that fact they will write differently. But, being of the same story changes that a bit. I find Brian Herbert's and Kevin Anderson's Dune stories to be very much in the style of Frank Herbert. House Harkonne seems to be even more so than House Atreides. They have followed the "forms." I do not think that is enough. Of course this is the hardcore Dune fanatic in me speaking. There is also a part of me that is glad to see these stories written.
The Dune epic for all its worth is very convoluted. There are portions that are left out, unexplored, or not finished. I enjoy being able to fill in the gaps. In this respect the stories are very exciting for me. Even more exciting is prospect of being able to finish the epic. (What was with the honored maters and the scattered face dancers? More Teg!) Its all plot but its like reading a good Clancy book. Its exciting. My only hope is that they: 1. do not screw up the Dune story too much, 2. progress enough in their writing abilities and understanding to give Dune 7 the respect it deserves, 3. ditch Kevin Anderson. Actually, I think Brian Herbert could have chosen better. After all he's probably doing this to resolve some long standing conflict with his father.
To get a little better understanding of who Kevin Anderson is i suggest reading one of his books. Won't take more than one though. He does strike me as someone with a great depth of character. Maybe once he's been knocked around enough he'll figure himself out better. This interview is definitely worth a watch.
Also this one with Alec Newman. I think he will do a fine job as Paul in the mini series. Although don't get me started about the Dune mini series. Damnit Leto has a beard!
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I always thought a foon was more fork than spoon, and a spork more spoon than fork.
It had limitations, but still every object had 3 coordinates.
"Illusion of 3D" my ass. Every 3d game is "an illusion of 3d".
Not quite. The reason it's not a true 3d engine is because of how the map is represented. The map is composed of 2 dimensional planes each with a specific height. This might sound like 3d, but it's not. For example, no two planes can overlap in the x, y dimension--no bridges or tunnels with floors above them. So it's like flat 2d map but subdivided in to pieces (sectors in doom speak) that each have a height projected up from them.
Pffft. lynx. elinks rocks lynx's world. http://elinks.or.cz/
I believe you're refering to "Desk Accessories" I had these on my MacSE running System 5. I don't know but they were probably around before that.
Weren't you paying attention? Whats the first rule of mahjong fight club? You do not talk about mahjong fight club.
Sorry Adam.
I had heard it as "A survey once showed that 50% of all statistics are wrong 90% of the time." :-D
Phibz
I maintain packages for 300 or so programs for Solaris. I've compiled all of them using Sun's compiler, Forte from SunONE Studio 7. Although I agree that some programs are more difficult than others to compile under sSolaris, I've been able compile nearly anything I've attempted using forte 7. I used to use gcc but the speed improvements that forte adds make it very attractive.
I compiled GNOME and KDE and although I wouldn't say they were easy to compile I did get them working. And no I didn't compile any of it as the root user. I even was able to compile libavcodec something that supposedly runs on Solaris but is coded in a very very gcc specific way.
So I'm not really sure what difficulties you're refering to. So long as you have a sane build environment, gnu make, autoconf, automake, m4, a good compiler, gcc or forte, and know your compiler well you shouldn't have any problems.
Phibz
phibz
Last time i bought some replacement electric razor blades (little round blades and screens) it cost $25.
Phibz
I just wanted to say thank you to Patrick and all the other fine slackware developers. You got me started with Linux. It has been a hobby, a passion and now a career. Thank you.
Trey
Basically what the script does is clean the environment. The requested command is stored in SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND environmental variable. Its checked to make sure it is in fact the command you intend. The options are then checked. Finally the script exec()'s the hardcoded path to the command with arguments supplied.
Although it comes written for scp i've used it for securing an account so they can't log in, and they can only execute one or two commands of my choosing.
from what i understand sftp just exec's /usr/libexec/sftp-server. i don't see why you couldn't alter the script to only allow that command.
also you'll want to make sure the client's ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile, etc.--all its login scripts--are empty and owned by root so that they don't upload their own "special" login script and undo all your work.
scp-wrapper can be found here
Phibz
On Solaris 7 and 8 I use a kernel space /dev/random from Andreas Maier. I have successfully compiled it on both 32bit and 64bit machines using the SunPRO 5.0 compiler. To use it with OpenSSH, install the package, recompile OpenSSL and OpenSSH.
/dev/random removes most of the negative issues associated with running OpenSSH on Solaris.
In my opinion using the kernel space
Trey
Have a project no one wants to work on? Need help? Easy. Release a email stating that all previous versions are vulernerable to a root exploit unless your feature X is implemented. Sit back and watch the code roll in.
T
Is it just me or did anyone else read Dane-Elec as Dan Electro?
T
Since when was it a right to receive what ever you want on a freely provided information channel. For example when you walk in to your public library you don't expect to go to the magazine section and pick up a copy of the lastest Swank. Prehaps i'm oversimplifing the matter, but I'm of the opinion that if you don't like it and its free go elsewhere.
T
We've noticed that all are from a group called "NSDAP" something like the Nazi propaganda arm of the Third Reich.
The files we've found left behind (hacker droppings) are
All logs and sniffer dumps etc. were emailed to angelz1578@usa.net
Rather juvenile in my opinion. Oh well its always something.
Trey
I've recently rediscovered cups. For my printing needs, mixed unix and some windows it beats everything else hands down. It provides easy web based administration or if you're fimilar with the bsd or sysv (big bonus for me since i primarly use solaris) style command line tools it has those as well. But the number one thing that makes me choose cups overy anything else is its support for using PPD drivers. Need a driver for that freaky printer, Xerox DocuCenter 332ST in our case? Download the PPD stick it in /usr/share/cups/model and off you go. Now i can use all the features of the printer. Not just simply print to it. Eg. now i can colate, staple, duplex print etc. Couple this with kups or xpp which are "print setup" like programs that let you adjust your print settings and its almost as easy as on a mac. So aside from support for "winprinters" how is turbo print different from cups?
First of all. This is seriously OT and Flame bait (this meaning the above comment and my relpy.) Oh well.
Your first point "linux requires a *lot* of maintenance" Yes linux requires time and expertise. You can also go out a pay big bucks for a commerical unix and it will _still_ require lots of time.
Ext2 is generally considered quite stable, but as with any OS. Backup backup backup! Hard drives die, admins do stupid things, people break in. In general shit happens and one of the best ways to prepare for it is to backup. You do have backups of your data don't you? Or were you going to trust your .
You don't want crashes run one of the more mature kernels. 2.2.x is quite stable. And i had a machine that had an uptime of a year and a half on 1.2.13. Crashes and I mean kernel oops not seg faults are fairly rare. I've only seen a few kernel oops (10) but then again I don't run the bleading edge stuff.
Although each distribution of linux has differnet ways of doing things, placing files etc. most of it is very unixish. Its usually understood that Unix is not an OS that you use without some learning. If its too hard then don't use it. As far as linux having broken tools i've found many of the gnu utils to be far superior to their commerical equivilants. Take Solaris tar, awk, make, etc...
"spit out the most childish and unprofessional messages" you mean like your post? Most 14yo I know don't have the skill to write the tools used in linux. Thats not to say they very talented youths don't exist; its just that most younger people using linux don't code for it yet.
Linux probably is not a good choice for a company seeking a reliable unix, but not for the reasons you've given. Solaris is a very mature Unix and quite dependable (excluding solaris x86). If you want a single entity with 24/7 tech support and big bucks behind it then fork out the cash. And for god sakes if you don't like it then don't use it.
Thats all well and good, but this is not encryption. Noise is intentionally added that 'hopefully' won't be heard when you play the cd but will prevent a copy from taking place. If you forget the piracy aspect for a moment and think of this clearly as a quality issue the record companies are reducing the quality of the product you are purchasing and not informing you about it. The price is already seriously over inflated you'd think that would already be able to account for their losses.
Even if apple chooses not to support hypercard in macos X, i'd still like to thank apple especially the core group of programers that wrote the first version of hypercard. Hypertalk was the first language I learned and I feel that it taught me the core concepts of programming. Hypertalk featured an event driven instruction scheme that is similar to several programming api's in use today (gtk and qt come to mind.) It was one of the early languages to have "english like" syntax, and it used the idea of objects extensively. Later as I moved to C I still continued using hypercard through the of xcmd's. I still have my books somewhere, all dog-eared, riped and wrinkled. Thanks.
Ah, you're still with me. I've read the Dune series several times. Each time I glean something new from the stories, almost parables. Frank Herbert had a deep understanding of people and this is what his works spoke of to me. Leaders, gods, religion, economy, technolgy, government all were important parts of what he tried to impart to his reader. His vision, his golden path, was understanding. I believe that this was the essence of Frank Herbert's Dune.
When Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson set out to continue the telling of Dune epic they did so for their own motivations. Whether it was out of desire for profit, recognition, or reconciliation--I think Frank Herbert was not the easiest person to be the son of--is known only to them I can only speculate, but what is most aparent and much easier to prove is that the two of them are completely wrapped up even mystified with the plot of Dune that they've missed the underlying messages.
Yes, House Atreides and House Harkonne do have things to say. Duncan's trip to the Ginaz Islands had some interesting points about warfare. Not everyone plays by the rules which gave good argument against the idea that there are no rules in war. But even this pales in comparison to Frank Herberts teachings.
Is it fair or should we even compare Brian Herbert's and Kevin Anderson's writing to Frank Herbert's. Realistically I don't think so. Writing is a glimpse at the mind of the author. They are different people and by the very nature of that fact they will write differently. But, being of the same story changes that a bit. I find Brian Herbert's and Kevin Anderson's Dune stories to be very much in the style of Frank Herbert. House Harkonne seems to be even more so than House Atreides. They have followed the "forms." I do not think that is enough. Of course this is the hardcore Dune fanatic in me speaking. There is also a part of me that is glad to see these stories written.
The Dune epic for all its worth is very convoluted. There are portions that are left out, unexplored, or not finished. I enjoy being able to fill in the gaps. In this respect the stories are very exciting for me. Even more exciting is prospect of being able to finish the epic. (What was with the honored maters and the scattered face dancers? More Teg!) Its all plot but its like reading a good Clancy book. Its exciting. My only hope is that they: 1. do not screw up the Dune story too much, 2. progress enough in their writing abilities and understanding to give Dune 7 the respect it deserves, 3. ditch Kevin Anderson. Actually, I think Brian Herbert could have chosen better. After all he's probably doing this to resolve some long standing conflict with his father.
To get a little better understanding of who Kevin Anderson is i suggest reading one of his books. Won't take more than one though. He does strike me as someone with a great depth of character. Maybe once he's been knocked around enough he'll figure himself out better. This interview is definitely worth a watch.
Here at the bottom of the page.
Also this one with Alec Newman. I think he will do a fine job as Paul in the mini series. Although don't get me started about the Dune mini series. Damnit Leto has a beard!
Here.