That said, he's pretty much of an arrogant asshole and Reiser4 is crap. Why would IBM pick it up when they sponsor the totally superior JFS?
I say Reiser4 is crap from experience. It ran our system load through the roof and paralyzed us for 3 days until we pulled an all night session to move 1Tb of data to JFS, which has yet to cause a system freeze.
Now instead of yelling "God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve!", the creationists will have to yell "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Chim-Chim!"
Why the hell would they want to sell Zenworks? That's probably still the best mass software deployment engine out there and it has been for over 6 years. Likewise Groupwise is another product that has a huge base and cements a Novell presence in the workplace.
I'm all for doing more for Linux, etc. But Novell would be stupid to give up a couple of their secondary jewels. (The prime jewel being NDS of course...)
Actually, there are a few pages that wil gelp you find blocks from rogue countries. But first on to the ethical questions--
I'm the admin for a company with around 70 employees, we maintain our own website, and mail systems. We had been getting pounded with spam and a lot of ssh attempts.
Before taking any action, we found that China (predominately) and Korea were the source of most of our break-in attempts and spam sources. Given that we do _some_ international business, but not there, that was an easy call. Other countries soon followed. Our criteria has been that if there is any chance that someone will travel to a particular country or if the country has useful information to be had via someone with email, we don't block. I know it sounds judgmental, but it has cut our spam/scams down by about 75%. I would prefer to block all cable access to mail, but that would potentially hurt our road warriors with SMTP-AUTH. The slippery slope comes in when you say "Screw anyone on Wannadoo or BTI or Time Warner, etc. running a mail server." I know I quit running a mail server at home just because my stuff was blocked. Our compromise is that spam sources are individually blocked (rather than by range) in places where we travel or may do business.
Further if you have a good firewall scheme you don't have to block web access. You can block the ports that give you trouble and still allow http access if you need the Chinese comsumer market to see your site. I have found that an invaluable tool to use in conjuntion with iptables is IPSet. It allows for very quick processing of ranges or hashes of individual addresses.
If you want info on blocking countries (sorry if I offend anyone) look here:
I for one trust it (and use it). Pat serves as the same sort of benevolent dictator as Linus does on the distribution level. He has constructed a rock solid concept that could survive him, as Linux would survive the loss of Linus.
The point is that Pat has put together a system with a strong guiding philosophy holding it together, and as a result it has a lot of devotees who wouldn't let it go under.
IT pros who use it utilise it do so because it's not tied to any sort of BS abstraction layer (ie dependency checking systems), and as a result it gives administrators more flexibility for configuration.
As for viability, lets go down the list: Red Hat-- Pay a lot for Enterprise, or use the (newly created) user community. Suse-- Same RPM hell, albeit now with different corporate flagging (Not that Novell is bad, but there is an added complexity layer.) Mandriva-- Strength through consolidation? Debian/Ubuntu/Xandros-- Which community or corporation do you want making your decisions for you?
The point is, Slackware is as stable a choice (check longevity and changes to structure) as any Distro, if not the MOST stable.
Yeah, it's interesting and fun too, because it makes "viability" a whole hell of a lot easier for those with a clue...
Darwin _is_ opensource, but Aqua, the GUI is not. I wouldnt' be surprised if people could boot up Darwin, but then fail to have Aqua start because of the (hypothetical) missing chip. And really, why would anyone want a command line only Darwin? It's easier to run any of the BSDs or Linux.
So, buy the Mac with the chip (or buy the haxored PCI card that emulates it) and get the shiny happy Aqua GUI.
I have no problem with Darwinian concepts like survival of the fittest, or the adaptability of species. I have a problem with attempting to make them explain the Origin of life.
Darwinian theory (evolution) is menat to explain the origin of life, but rather Origin of Species. In other words, what variations helped life forms adapt and what which changes made for successful continued existence.
Things produce "after their kind", as Scripture states. Mate two dogs, they make a dog, not a cat. When an apple tree drops it's seed, another apple tree blooms, not a grape vine.
Thinds do produce after their own kind. Parents tend to make offspring similar to themselves, rather than exact duplicates. Throughout history, those children with better ability to fight against disease tended to survive. Likewise, those children smart enough to be able to provide sustenance tended to survive. This same principal applies on a macro level. Those societies that encourage survival of the group tend to survive over the long haul. One could say evolution explains the continued survival of a relatively small group of people from ancient Palestine after 4000 years.
Of course evolution does not disprove the existence of God. Nothing does. However, the existence of God does not disprove evolution either. It seems to be a pretty "Intelligent Design"...
Well, it's enough to say they should show the religious propaganda to be fair, but is the religious propaganda made for Imax? If, not, is it a film that warrants a large screen in order to ge a better representation of its photographed content? Or is this simply showing lots of text with interludes by actors. (Please inform me.)
By and large Imax films are those which are meant to appeal visually. On a personal note, some guy telling me he believes, that settles it and I (for not agreeing) am going to hell probably won't make for stimulating Imax viewing.
for all that unaccounted for money in the economy (you know, the largesse that if actually counted that would make the economy not seem to suck so much) it's only fair that we penalize them...
I stand corrected -- I forgot about that CD, but it still wasn't default. I so loved that default sh prompt instead of bash before the Software Companion got installed (sic).
Plus the GNOME and KDE on those disks were always 3 revs behind.
I never have to worry about RPMS or any crap like that with Slack. Either pat or th eLinuxPackages guys usually have what I need, and if I need to compile it's not going to Bork anything else up.
Long Live the King.
(and if you use it, throw Pat a subscription or cough up for a CD, mm kay?)
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but that is rarely the case after a month...
That said, he's pretty much of an arrogant asshole and Reiser4 is crap. Why would IBM pick it up when they sponsor the totally superior JFS?
I say Reiser4 is crap from experience. It ran our system load through the roof and paralyzed us for 3 days until we pulled an all night session to move 1Tb of data to JFS, which has yet to cause a system freeze.
"It's wafer thin..."
Dead on. What telco stooge marked the parent as flamebait?
Now instead of yelling "God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve!", the creationists will have to yell "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Chim-Chim!"
By that criteria his script is as good as Diebold's software.
Why the hell would they want to sell Zenworks? That's probably still the best mass software deployment engine out there and it has been for over 6 years. Likewise Groupwise is another product that has a huge base and cements a Novell presence in the workplace.
I'm all for doing more for Linux, etc. But Novell would be stupid to give up a couple of their secondary jewels. (The prime jewel being NDS of course...)
What if you can't afford an XP license?
Actually, there are a few pages that wil gelp you find blocks from rogue countries. But first on to the ethical questions--
I'm the admin for a company with around 70 employees, we maintain our own website, and mail systems. We had been getting pounded with spam and a lot of ssh attempts.
Before taking any action, we found that China (predominately) and Korea were the source of most of our break-in attempts and spam sources. Given that we do _some_ international business, but not there, that was an easy call. Other countries soon followed. Our criteria has been that if there is any chance that someone will travel to a particular country or if the country has useful information to be had via someone with email, we don't block. I know it sounds judgmental, but it has cut our spam/scams down by about 75%. I would prefer to block all cable access to mail, but that would potentially hurt our road warriors with SMTP-AUTH. The slippery slope comes in when you say "Screw anyone on Wannadoo or BTI or Time Warner, etc. running a mail server." I know I quit running a mail server at home just because my stuff was blocked. Our compromise is that spam sources are individually blocked (rather than by range) in places where we travel or may do business.
Further if you have a good firewall scheme you don't have to block web access. You can block the ports that give you trouble and still allow http access if you need the Chinese comsumer market to see your site. I have found that an invaluable tool to use in conjuntion with iptables is IPSet.
It allows for very quick processing of ranges or hashes of individual addresses.
If you want info on blocking countries (sorry if I offend anyone) look here:
http://okean.com/asianspamblocks.html
and http://blackholes.us/ (when it's up...)
Personally, I find blocking unwanted guests akin to allowing only people on your chat list to talk to you...
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The inventors of the concept...
I for one trust it (and use it). Pat serves as the same sort of benevolent dictator as Linus does on the distribution level. He has constructed a rock solid concept that could survive him, as Linux would survive the loss of Linus.
The point is that Pat has put together a system with a strong guiding philosophy holding it together, and as a result it has a lot of devotees who wouldn't let it go under.
IT pros who use it utilise it do so because it's not tied to any sort of BS abstraction layer (ie dependency checking systems), and as a result it gives administrators more flexibility for configuration.
As for viability, lets go down the list:
Red Hat-- Pay a lot for Enterprise, or use the (newly created) user community.
Suse-- Same RPM hell, albeit now with different corporate flagging (Not that Novell is bad, but there is an added complexity layer.)
Mandriva-- Strength through consolidation?
Debian/Ubuntu/Xandros-- Which community or corporation do you want making your decisions for you?
The point is, Slackware is as stable a choice (check longevity and changes to structure) as any Distro, if not the MOST stable.
Yeah, it's interesting and fun too, because it makes "viability" a whole hell of a lot easier for those with a clue...
Darwin _is_ opensource, but Aqua, the GUI is not. I wouldnt' be surprised if people could boot up Darwin, but then fail to have Aqua start because of the (hypothetical) missing chip. And really, why would anyone want a command line only Darwin? It's easier to run any of the BSDs or Linux.
So, buy the Mac with the chip (or buy the haxored PCI card that emulates it) and get the shiny happy Aqua GUI.
the "Mi"-graine I get whenever I have to work with windows...
Not really. But I should point out my typo (other than "buy"):
My kids'... That has to imply at least twice, right?
Adding to the bloated Symantec suite...
If you want a simpler system that resists spyware (and viruses) by a mac or run linux.
(and yes, my kid's grandmother gets around just fine with KDE...)
I have no problem with Darwinian concepts like survival of the fittest, or the adaptability of species. I have a problem with attempting to make them explain the Origin of life.
Darwinian theory (evolution) is menat to explain the origin of life, but rather Origin of Species. In other words, what variations helped life forms adapt and what which changes made for successful continued existence.
Things produce "after their kind", as Scripture states. Mate two dogs, they make a dog, not a cat. When an apple tree drops it's seed, another apple tree blooms, not a grape vine.
Thinds do produce after their own kind. Parents tend to make offspring similar to themselves, rather than exact duplicates. Throughout history, those children with better ability to fight against disease tended to survive. Likewise, those children smart enough to be able to provide sustenance tended to survive. This same principal applies on a macro level. Those societies that encourage survival of the group tend to survive over the long haul. One could say evolution explains the continued survival of a relatively small group of people from ancient Palestine after 4000 years.
Of course evolution does not disprove the existence of God. Nothing does. However, the existence of God does not disprove evolution either. It seems to be a pretty "Intelligent Design"...
There's a reason they've grown to 53 so quickly.
Well, it's enough to say they should show the religious propaganda to be fair, but is the religious propaganda made for Imax? If, not, is it a film that warrants a large screen in order to ge a better representation of its photographed content? Or is this simply showing lots of text with interludes by actors. (Please inform me.)
By and large Imax films are those which are meant to appeal visually. On a personal note, some guy telling me he believes, that settles it and I (for not agreeing) am going to hell probably won't make for stimulating Imax viewing.
for all that unaccounted for money in the economy (you know, the largesse that if actually counted that would make the economy not seem to suck so much) it's only fair that we penalize them...
Because it was. (A shitty show.)
Sadly, not unexpected. All for wars and the mArs pipe dream.
I stand corrected -- I forgot about that CD, but it still wasn't default. I so loved that default sh prompt instead of bash before the Software Companion got installed (sic).
Plus the GNOME and KDE on those disks were always 3 revs behind.
Slackware, the last I looked, you can't keep current at all easily.
Ummm ftp slack-current to your package directory (rsync if you don't want to cull cruft), upgradepkg --install-new *.tgz.
Done.
(Damn, that was difficult...)
well maybe not god, but pretty cool. Perhaps you meant DOBBS?
Why is that?
It's wonderfully suited for business. Maybe the org I work at isn't big enough...
and the best of all...Simplicity!
I never have to worry about RPMS or any crap like that with Slack. Either pat or th eLinuxPackages guys usually have what I need, and if I need to compile it's not going to Bork anything else up.
Long Live the King.
(and if you use it, throw Pat a subscription or cough up for a CD, mm kay?)