I've never had an easier time setting up printers on Linux than with Ubuntu and Kubuntu Dapper. The Kubuntu print manager even lets you scan your network for IPP print servers. No more hunting around for IP addresses for me. On my corporate LAN, I have 3 different printers that I use: A Konica, a Sharp, and an HP. All were easy to set up and work very well.
>> Who says you have to upgrade instantly? I know a bunch of people running FC1, >> or even RH9 or 7.3. If it works, you don't have to touch it
> It's not a good idea to run systems, especially if they're Internet-facing, > on old releases that don't get security updates.
The Fedora Legacy Project provides security updates for RedHat and Fedora releases that have been end-of-lifed by RedHat. Currently, they support RH 7.3 and 9, and Fedora 1-3.
But to even use sudo, you have to have already logged into the system. An attacker running sudo would have already had to compromise whatever authentication you're using for logins. And I would guess that the user's private key is stored on said machine, as well. I don't know that public key authentication does much in a local context.
I am just a couple year older than you. I just took up the violin a couple months ago, and am having a blast. I played clarinet in high school, but wasn't really into it. I was never considered talented at any sort of music.
I've long wanted to take up a new instrument that really interested me, and finally decided that I wasn't getting any younger, so I may as well just do it. Go for it!
If I were king for a day I'd remove the insert key from every keyboard on earth. Nobody needs it and most people can't figure it out.
That's simply not true. It seems like every keyboard I buy lately has a different arrangement of the Insert/Delete/Home/End/PgUp/PgDn block of keys. And I tell ya, it's killing me in Counterstrike.:-P
Seriously, though. I just want a consistent keyboard layout. I don't generally look at the keyboard (including the Insert/PgDn block), and when I get a keyboard with a different layout, it throws me off no matter whether I'm gaming or editing text. (In vi, openoffice, whatever.)
What you say is true. However, Debian has in the past gone years without getting new packages in the stable branch. That's why I switched.
What? Just run the testing branch? And get loads of new package versions every time you update. And have no guarantee of security.
I just wanted something that (1) was up to date, (2) wasn't updating constantly (once every 6 months is nice), and (3) was Debian. Debian doesn't always do so well at (1) (though the new leadership is working hard on that). Ubuntu does all that. It's not revolutionary, but it's just right.
The funny thing is, this gave me the same impression as reading the old "TCP/IP stack released for TRS-80". You know, nothing practical, just somebody messing around with their old hardware.
Yes, throw random bodies, rather than someone who has specific experience.
Yeah, at work we got a different brand of server in, and had to install our custom stuff on it. New kernel, etc. They gave it to a software guy who had been running Linux for a little over year, but always on the same hardware. He was doing basically the right stuff, but his attempts to fix things were trampling each other.
After two weeks, they gave up and gave me the box. It was up and running in a day.
I've been using using the 2.0 prerelease builds for quite a while now. I've switched to 2.0 (pre) exclusively, rather than the 1.X series. It's very stable now, and the Miscrosoft document support is infinitely better.
The "13 years" was determined in answer to the question of "how long will it take people to forget I made this promise", not "how long will it take to get there".
I think it's more along the lines of "Someone (hopefully a Democrat) is bound to derail this if we put it far enough out, and we can blame it on them. And if they don't, then I get to take credit for all their hard work."
I picked up one of HP's multifunction PSC1315 print/scan/fax jobs (USB). Running FC3, the scanner Just Worked. Without doing anything beyond plugging it in and turning it on, it showed up in Gimp's acquire/scan dialog and successfully scanned images.
Can't speak about the quality, though. I don't really have any references. But it is nice to be able to copy stuff w/o running to the copy shop. And all in the same space as my previous HP inkjet.
The print function wasn't quite as easy to set up. There was a PSC1310 in FC3's printer list, which supposedly workd with the PSC1315. But I just went ahead and downloaded the PPD for the 1315 and told FC3 to use that. (Not much different than installing a driver on Windows.) Works well.
'Brian Freed, an analyst who covers StorageTek for Morgan, Keegan & Co. Inc., in Memphis, Tenn., said it wouldn't surprise him if Sun moved the StorageTek employees to its campus.'
'StorageTek's Louisville site is "probably something they'll sell," he said.'
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Silly tourist. Hadrian's Wall was built to keep out the Scots and Celts, not the Mexicans!
I dunno. I think that Hadrian's Wall is actually drawing tourists at this point, rather than keeping people out.
I've never had an easier time setting up printers on Linux than with Ubuntu and Kubuntu Dapper. The Kubuntu print manager even lets you scan your network for IPP print servers. No more hunting around for IP addresses for me. On my corporate LAN, I have 3 different printers that I use: A Konica, a Sharp, and an HP. All were easy to set up and work very well.
I'm sorry. Please don't mod that up as "informative". It's supposed to be "funny". Postfix is not derived from sendmail.
To quote from an interview with Wietse (the author of postfix), "Writing a new mail system from scratch was a change from previous projects." http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/117302/
>> Who says you have to upgrade instantly? I know a bunch of people running FC1,
>> or even RH9 or 7.3. If it works, you don't have to touch it
> It's not a good idea to run systems, especially if they're Internet-facing,
> on old releases that don't get security updates.
The Fedora Legacy Project provides security updates for RedHat and Fedora releases that have been end-of-lifed by RedHat. Currently, they support RH 7.3 and 9, and Fedora 1-3.
That's right folks, LISP stands for "Lost In Stupid Parentheses". (And other variations.)
But to even use sudo, you have to have already logged into the system. An attacker running sudo would have already had to compromise whatever authentication you're using for logins. And I would guess that the user's private key is stored on said machine, as well. I don't know that public key authentication does much in a local context.
I am just a couple year older than you. I just took up the violin a couple months ago, and am having a blast. I played clarinet in high school, but wasn't really into it. I was never considered talented at any sort of music.
I've long wanted to take up a new instrument that really interested me, and finally decided that I wasn't getting any younger, so I may as well just do it. Go for it!
That's simply not true. It seems like every keyboard I buy lately has a different arrangement of the Insert/Delete/Home/End/PgUp/PgDn block of keys. And I tell ya, it's killing me in Counterstrike.
Seriously, though. I just want a consistent keyboard layout. I don't generally look at the keyboard (including the Insert/PgDn block), and when I get a keyboard with a different layout, it throws me off no matter whether I'm gaming or editing text. (In vi, openoffice, whatever.)
Um, they just did. Remember the new bootloader? You can run Windows on any Intel Mac.
Relativity will not make you live longer. It'll just get your time line out of sync with everyone else's.
Everybody's got an iPod killer. Still it lives on.
What you say is true. However, Debian has in the past gone years without getting new packages in the stable branch. That's why I switched.
What? Just run the testing branch? And get loads of new package versions every time you update. And have no guarantee of security.
I just wanted something that (1) was up to date, (2) wasn't updating constantly (once every 6 months is nice), and (3) was Debian. Debian doesn't always do so well at (1) (though the new leadership is working hard on that). Ubuntu does all that. It's not revolutionary, but it's just right.
The funny thing is, this gave me the same impression as reading the old "TCP/IP stack released for TRS-80". You know, nothing practical, just somebody messing around with their old hardware.
At first, I thought this was a reference to DRM features and George Orwell's famous book.
This is somewhat akin to saying that Microsoft's use of paid programmers instead of slaves impedes it more than helps it.
While they might get more or cheaper code with slave labor, there may be social goals beyond just raw dollars.
Similarly, the GPL has alway had goals in addition to popularity.
Yeah, at work we got a different brand of server in, and had to install our custom stuff on it. New kernel, etc. They gave it to a software guy who had been running Linux for a little over year, but always on the same hardware. He was doing basically the right stuff, but his attempts to fix things were trampling each other.
After two weeks, they gave up and gave me the box. It was up and running in a day.
I've been using using the 2.0 prerelease builds for quite a while now. I've switched to 2.0 (pre) exclusively, rather than the 1.X series. It's very stable now, and the Miscrosoft document support is infinitely better.
I think it's more along the lines of "Someone (hopefully a Democrat) is bound to derail this if we put it far enough out, and we can blame it on them. And if they don't, then I get to take credit for all their hard work."
I picked up one of HP's multifunction PSC1315 print/scan/fax jobs (USB). Running FC3, the scanner Just Worked. Without doing anything beyond plugging it in and turning it on, it showed up in Gimp's acquire/scan dialog and successfully scanned images.
Can't speak about the quality, though. I don't really have any references. But it is nice to be able to copy stuff w/o running to the copy shop. And all in the same space as my previous HP inkjet.
The print function wasn't quite as easy to set up. There was a PSC1310 in FC3's printer list, which supposedly workd with the PSC1315. But I just went ahead and downloaded the PPD for the 1315 and told FC3 to use that. (Not much different than installing a driver on Windows.) Works well.
I'm guessing it'll also have ubiquitous wiretapping capability.
Cripes, if they wanted them home safe, why send them in a Shuttle?
Mod me down as insensitive, but for crying out loud, design a new spaceship every few decades!
My wife says my parent comment scooped Boulder's Daily Camera (the local newspaper for Sun and StorageTek in those parts).
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Silly free registration required:
http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/local_business/art
Some choice quotes:
'Brian Freed, an analyst who covers StorageTek for Morgan, Keegan & Co. Inc., in Memphis, Tenn., said it wouldn't surprise him if Sun moved the StorageTek employees to its campus.'
'StorageTek's Louisville site is "probably something they'll sell," he said.'
I'm told the fabs (Building 6?) were scrapped a few years ago already.