I totally agree on giving nice looking and sounding names to machines. I used to give names related to music (coz' I l0ve music =) like "funky", "dance", "bossa" or whatever.
My experience as a sysadmin (was Good Time back then) is that everything is prettier if you use a fixed name length, 5 chars is a good choice. It helps you having well formatted config and log files, thus making sysadmin tasks easier.
>Many organisations are very lax on security, >mostly due to the fact that management are >clueless
That's a pretty good point. I work as a security engineer and I have to deal with people who only consider security as something really annoying, not allowing them to use the latest trendy technique. This is valid for management and for some techies too, as long as security is seen as a completely separated discipline. Thus my position is often incomfortable. I sometimes would like to send a Usenet message saying : "Hey guys, here is an IP (xx.yy.zz.tt), crack this box just to make everyone conscious !". But I won't, I don't want to loose my job. Nevertheless, this kind of violent electroshock may be needed...
Hey guys, these drivers are provided as source code (and GPLed oh dear !). It shouldn't bee too hard to have them work with vanilla Linux kernel (to which I think general purpose distro suppliers should stick - don't you think so ?).
Will they eventually get their to the core linux kernel ?
Well, I used to be an AIX sysadmin and I wonder how you can expect Linux to be inferior. AIX is rather fat and offers a lot of non standard "features" such as the ODM (Object Data Manager) which makes me think of the Windoze registry, or the way you build shared libs which seems prehistorical to me compared to what we do under Linux. OTOH, AIX seemed rather stable despite its bloat, and may be superior (at the beginnning) thanks to its optimization to the platform.
Please don't consider this as an anti IBM flame, it's just that I really enjoy working with Linux and Free Software.
Something similar happened in France recently. The story involved altern.org, a free web hosting server (30000 sites, IIRC) which had been closed by a court because of the publication of nude pictures of a TV celebrity and altern's owner had to pay a pretty big amount of money. A support campaign was lanched and gathered ~ $5000 (a lot lesser than the amend requested by the court). After several weeks of interruption, an agreement has been settled between altern's owner and the celeb. Altern finally gave the $5000 to the girl and reopened his site.
This story pointed out the gap between French justice's way of thinking and the reality of the Internet. I hope this will change on the future.
The Secure Remote Password protocol (SRP) provides a supposedly secure login session as well as an encrypted channel if you wish. The web site is well documented. Has anybody used this in the Real World ?
Your comment goes straight to the main point : all of the hard work of the community is bound to the same direction, writing and using a free (freedom+gratis) computing environment, for the benefits of freedom, quality and equality. Actually, the GPL is the main cement between these efforts.
Are we building GNU ? Well, looks like. Should we use the name GNU/Linux ? Well, too late, the name Linux has already been widely accepted, but we shouldn't forget the overall direction shown years ago by visonnary people like RMS and the FSF.
Whatever you call it, Free Sofware is destined to let us enter a better computing world. Think of the countries of the Third World, there is no better way than Free Software to get them to live in the same world as ours, as far as computing means are concerned.
This is what really matters, the name flamewar is peripheral white noise that should not take us out of the innovative road we are walking on.
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I totally agree on giving nice looking and sounding names to machines. I used to give names related to music (coz' I l0ve music =) like "funky", "dance", "bossa" or whatever.
My experience as a sysadmin (was Good Time back then) is that everything is prettier if you use a fixed name length, 5 chars is a good choice. It helps you having well formatted config and log files, thus making sysadmin tasks easier.
hope this helps
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>Many organisations are very lax on security,
>mostly due to the fact that management are
>clueless
That's a pretty good point. I work as a security engineer and I have to deal with people who only consider security as something really annoying, not allowing them to use the latest trendy technique. This is valid for management and for some techies too, as long as security is seen as a completely separated discipline. Thus my position is often incomfortable. I sometimes would like to send a Usenet message saying : "Hey guys, here is an IP (xx.yy.zz.tt), crack this box just to make everyone conscious !". But I won't, I don't want to loose my job. Nevertheless, this kind of violent electroshock may be needed...
A+
Hey guys, these drivers are provided as source code (and GPLed oh dear !). It shouldn't bee too hard to have them work with vanilla Linux kernel (to which I think general purpose distro suppliers should stick - don't you think so ?).
Will they eventually get their to the core linux kernel ?
Have a nice day
Well, I used to be an AIX sysadmin and I wonder how you can expect Linux to be inferior. AIX is rather fat and offers a lot of non standard "features" such as the ODM (Object Data Manager) which makes me think of the Windoze registry, or the way you build shared libs which seems prehistorical to me compared to what we do under Linux. OTOH, AIX seemed rather stable despite its bloat, and may be superior (at the beginnning) thanks to its optimization to the platform.
Please don't consider this as an anti IBM flame, it's just that I really enjoy working with Linux and Free Software.
Have a nice day
Something similar happened in France recently. The story involved altern.org, a free web hosting server (30000 sites, IIRC) which had been closed by a court because of the publication of nude pictures of a TV celebrity and altern's owner had to pay a pretty big amount of money. A support campaign was lanched and gathered ~ $5000 (a lot lesser than the amend requested by the court). After several weeks of interruption, an agreement has been settled between altern's owner and the celeb. Altern finally gave the $5000 to the girl and reopened his site.
This story pointed out the gap between French justice's way of thinking and the reality of the Internet. I hope this will change on the future.
Sorry for my poor english. Happy Slashdotting !
The Secure Remote Password protocol (SRP) provides a supposedly secure login session as well as an encrypted channel if you wish. The web site is well documented. Has anybody used this in the Real World ?
Your comment goes straight to the main point : all of the hard work of the community is bound to the same direction, writing and using a free (freedom+gratis) computing environment, for the benefits of freedom, quality and equality. Actually, the GPL is the main cement between these efforts.
Are we building GNU ? Well, looks like. Should we use the name GNU/Linux ? Well, too late, the name Linux has already been widely accepted, but we shouldn't forget the overall direction shown years ago by visonnary people like RMS and the FSF.
Whatever you call it, Free Sofware is destined to let us enter a better computing world. Think of the countries of the Third World, there is no better way than Free Software to get them to live in the same world as ours, as far as computing means are concerned.
This is what really matters, the name flamewar is peripheral white noise that should not take us out of the innovative road we are walking on.
Unite !
Well, I was not logged in, sorry. I don't want to be an anonymous coward, just a stupid0 poster !
I'm GDON from France.