You're missing something obvious, which is that list messages come from the list server. The cosmetic header From: is still you, but it's From (no:) the list. The FAQ explains it.
If Nasa-geeks are anything like other geeks, it must've been either martian porn or nethack I guess. The former being more likely.;-)
Hello! McFly! What do you think the MERs are beyond government funded Martian voyeur cams! The whole thing is a massive peep show. If they were getting their Martian porn they wouldn't be worried:)
Actually, since most iPod owners have collections smaller than their iPods its:
Open the door to your house
Go inside
Put the iPod on the charger
Go to sleep
Pick it up with your keys and wallet in the morning
Unless of course you download or rip more music while your home, in which case iTunes automagically syncs it since it's already plugged in.
- RustyTaco
Re:Don't cover the airbag! Safety first.
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Uh, he disabled the airbags, and is even planing on replacing the pasanger side airbag with a MicroITX system with touchscreeen, or something like that.
Minor correction. Sony doesn't use "Firewire", that's an Apple for IEEE1394 with the 6-pin powered connector. Sony uses "i.Link", which is a smaller, 4-pin, unpowered connection. Fine for plugging a DV cam with it's own battery, but completely useless for running an external harddrive or webcam without having to carry and plug in another power brick.
Well, sort-of. Compaq is now providing Linux binary-magic-wrapped-in-a-shell script BIOS updates for some of their servers. I upgraded a Proliant ML530(G1) and it's RAID controler from within Debian/sid rather painlessly. It's not cat new.bios.bin >/dev/mtd0, but it's probably safer that way.
It is unlimited, they (usually) won't stop you from going over your limit. It is not however, dedicated bandwidth. You have no claim to most of it and are only allowed to touch it if you behave yourself. If you want dedicated bandwidth get business DSL, or a T1 or something, you arn't going to get it on cable, at least not more than 256k/256k.
Do you videoconference in your sleep? How about having streaming media playing at home to entertain you cat while you're at work? No? Then your usage is at most 1/3 of that of the "troublemakers". Chill.
Who makes the products that make the corporation money? Hint: it isn't you sysadmins.
Hint: It's the engineers and sales people who do no coding at all, but actually do stuff that's directly relevant to the company. Well, unless you work for the 0.0053% of companies that make their money purely from software development. If you're working for the 0.0086% of "solution providers" it's admins providing a reliable "solution" from what the coder monkeys have put out.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Thank you, this thread has been way to serious, I needed a good laugh. With a year of training by a good mentor you probably could do the job pretty well, but not before.
Debian, check, Asterisk, check, modem, no. Digum single line FXS card, yes. And if you throw a single line FXO card in too you can plug your phone into the FXS, PTSN line into the FXO, and configure asterisk to route what it can (friends, etc) over some sort of VoIP(H323, SIP, IAX, etc) and everything else out the PTSN line.
As an uber bonus you get voicemail and can then to spiffy menus and skrew with people just like call centers like to you, complete with MP3 hold music. "I value your call, please hold." "I'm not answering right now, press one to leave a message, press 2 to page my cell phone with your caller ID info..." etc. Hell, you can even use CallerID to decide how to answer calls. Work=>strait to voicemail, girlfriend (Hey! It could happen) => play a special message and ring the phone with a distinctive ring. Ex-girlfriend=>"This number has been disconnected, or is not in service".
It works on most distributions. (In Debian,/tmp -o noexec does little more than break preinstallation scripts for packages.)
What packages try to exec something from/tmp, and have bugs been filed already? pre/post script are in/var/lib/dpkg/info/, anything in/tmp must by autogenerated for some silly reason.
Uh, lookup how "Automatic Proxy Configuration" works before you get too relaxed. It's a "hey you untrustworty slime out on the network, do you want me to run something" sort of thing, just like this. Both are on by default, which is bad. Apple is accepting account information and passwords without cross-checking, MS is running a random script an injected packet told it to run.
Bad Fruit on Apple though. Since they probably don't want to remove the automagical "Just Works" functionality I have a feeling they're change it so that it "Just Works" only for unpriliaged users and requires some statement of trust to allow prilieged users.
I second that motion! And for the second test site, I hear New Mexico & Nevada has large swaths of wasteland left over from the 50s that could be "reclaimed".
The LVM2 tools can read the old LVM1 disk format just fine, no worries. Just leave it LVM1 format until you're sure you'll never boot another non-LVM2/DM enabled kernel.
God damn whipper-snappers and their infernal toys. Why can't they just play in the dirt like I did as a kid. It was good enough for me, it damn well better be good enough for them.
OSX 10.2 Server. I'd imagine it comes with some RDBMS, maybe jboss/tomcat, etc. OpenDirectory is OpenLDAP with a custom backend and slightly different schema I belive.
- RustyTaco
Re:Idiocy - bluetooth just taking off
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I hear it makes a decent presentation remote, better range than a lot of the cheaper presentation remotes, "free" with the phone, and you don't need to carry any more around. Plus, you've probably already got a belt clip for your phone, so you don't have to constantly hold the remote.
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Re:Idiocy - bluetooth just taking off
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What is this obsession with GSM/GPRS that people have?
For me it's all about the SIM card. If Sprint or Verizon used something like a SIM card so I don't have to call them, wait on hold, run through a long script with a phone monkey, then wait some more for them to skrew up my account if I get a new phone, or smash my phone into little peices I'd seriously consider them. Just this morning my ride to work didn't call me like he normally does because (I'm told) that Sprint decided that "Hey, I got a spiffy new Trio 600 can you assign my secondary number to my old phone and put my primary number on my new phone" as "Cancel my two other phones, my parents didn't need to talk to anyone anyway"
It's an unavoidable customer support nightmare compared to "move the SIM card to the new phone and hit the power button".
Hell, my boss managed to get her phone run over by a car monday and I think she's still without a cell phone. She's been using her daughters phone, but it doesn't ring for her number, nor does it have any of her contacts. Simple little "user experiance" things.
Meanwhile I swaped SIM cards with someone Monday to see if the reason her phone was insisting it was roaming was tied to the SIM or the phone. In two minutes I had swapped the cards and called somebody from my address book using her phone. No waiting on hold for customer support, just do it and get on with life.
Anyway, I forgot where I started rambling. CDMA1X speeds would be nice, but not at the cost of having to deal with Sprint.
- RustyTaco
Well no shit. Nobody is arguing any of your points. ext2/3 tend to choke, hard, with lots of files in a directory, which is why I try to do my data filesystems as xfs or jfs, or maybe reiser if I'm not worried about keeping the data.
Notably missing are more day-to-day useful operations such as the creation and deletion of lots of files
What day-to-day operation aside from Han Reiser's "benchmark" wanking involves the creation and deletion of lots of files? A marathon pron run with mozilla creating image cache files, then you deleting them before anybody catches you?
When I want to select a filesystem, I do not want to know how fast it can read a 3GB file sequentially. I want to know how well it performs on a fileserver, mailserver etc.
What do you think a fileserver does? For the most part it reads a file sequencially and send it over the wire. And with mbox mail spool files you most definately do care how long it takes to read & write large chunks of sequencial data.
Funny that you should mention it, but yes. I have had/a/ problem with JFS on -test5, the kernel they tested. Somehow I managed to piss it off such that I couldn't unmount it and any attempt to access it stalled. Reboot and a VERY long (think hour or two) fsck.jfs and all seems well now. I triggered the problem by extracting the Debian XFree86 source (so I could rebuild it with optimizations to try to squeze 3 more fps from Enemy Territory:)). I'm told there was a JFS bug fixed in -test6, but I havn't scoured the archives to see if it was my bug.
I've had no other problems with it. Hell, I have 2.1T of data on a jfs filesystem right now and it seems to be doing just fine. I tried XFS but the huge block device support just wasn't there (Litterally ifdef'd out) in the kernel I tried. I saw a few XFS fixes in -test7, I might try it again now, but hell, even ext3 was able to format and mount the 2.2T successfully, even if it took an hour.
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That's the best counter-argument I've seen on the subject. Thank you.
- RustyTaco
You're missing something obvious, which is that list messages come from the list server. The cosmetic header From: is still you, but it's From (no :) the list. The FAQ explains it.
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- Open the door to your house
- Go inside
- Put the iPod on the charger
- Go to sleep
- Pick it up with your keys and wallet in the morning
Unless of course you download or rip more music while your home, in which case iTunes automagically syncs it since it's already plugged in.- RustyTaco
Uh, he disabled the airbags, and is even planing on replacing the pasanger side airbag with a MicroITX system with touchscreeen, or something like that.
- RustyTaco
Minor correction. Sony doesn't use "Firewire", that's an Apple for IEEE1394 with the 6-pin powered connector. Sony uses "i.Link", which is a smaller, 4-pin, unpowered connection. Fine for plugging a DV cam with it's own battery, but completely useless for running an external harddrive or webcam without having to carry and plug in another power brick.
- RustyTaco
Well, sort-of. Compaq is now providing Linux binary-magic-wrapped-in-a-shell script BIOS updates for some of their servers. I upgraded a Proliant ML530(G1) and it's RAID controler from within Debian/sid rather painlessly. It's not cat new.bios.bin > /dev/mtd0, but it's probably safer that way.
- RustyTaco
It is unlimited, they (usually) won't stop you from going over your limit. It is not however, dedicated bandwidth. You have no claim to most of it and are only allowed to touch it if you behave yourself. If you want dedicated bandwidth get business DSL, or a T1 or something, you arn't going to get it on cable, at least not more than 256k/256k.
- RustyTaco
Do you videoconference in your sleep? How about having streaming media playing at home to entertain you cat while you're at work? No? Then your usage is at most 1/3 of that of the "troublemakers". Chill.
- RustyTaco
Sure, in 2054, after his opponent and all his lawyers die off and give in, not a moment sooner.
RustyTaco
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Thank you, this thread has been way to serious, I needed a good laugh. With a year of training by a good mentor you probably could do the job pretty well, but not before.
- RustyTaco
Debian, check, Asterisk, check, modem, no. Digum single line FXS card, yes. And if you throw a single line FXO card in too you can plug your phone into the FXS, PTSN line into the FXO, and configure asterisk to route what it can (friends, etc) over some sort of VoIP(H323, SIP, IAX, etc) and everything else out the PTSN line.
;)
As an uber bonus you get voicemail and can then to spiffy menus and skrew with people just like call centers like to you, complete with MP3 hold music. "I value your call, please hold." "I'm not answering right now, press one to leave a message, press 2 to page my cell phone with your caller ID info..." etc. Hell, you can even use CallerID to decide how to answer calls. Work=>strait to voicemail, girlfriend (Hey! It could happen) => play a special message and ring the phone with a distinctive ring. Ex-girlfriend=>"This number has been disconnected, or is not in service".
It's almost enough to make me want a land line
- RustyTaco
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Uh, lookup how "Automatic Proxy Configuration" works before you get too relaxed. It's a "hey you untrustworty slime out on the network, do you want me to run something" sort of thing, just like this. Both are on by default, which is bad. Apple is accepting account information and passwords without cross-checking, MS is running a random script an injected packet told it to run.
Bad Fruit on Apple though. Since they probably don't want to remove the automagical "Just Works" functionality I have a feeling they're change it so that it "Just Works" only for unpriliaged users and requires some statement of trust to allow prilieged users.
- RustyTaco
I second that motion! And for the second test site, I hear New Mexico & Nevada has large swaths of wasteland left over from the 50s that could be "reclaimed".
- RustyTaco
Ah, but GlowingDaemon BSD is not, and it just happens to have an uncanny FreeBSD compatibility layer. (sed 's/FreeBSD/GlowingDaemon/')
- RustyTaco
The LVM2 tools can read the old LVM1 disk format just fine, no worries. Just leave it LVM1 format until you're sure you'll never boot another non-LVM2/DM enabled kernel.
- RustyTaco
God damn whipper-snappers and their infernal toys. Why can't they just play in the dirt like I did as a kid. It was good enough for me, it damn well better be good enough for them.
OSX 10.2 Server. I'd imagine it comes with some RDBMS, maybe jboss/tomcat, etc. OpenDirectory is OpenLDAP with a custom backend and slightly different schema I belive.
- RustyTaco
I hear it makes a decent presentation remote, better range than a lot of the cheaper presentation remotes, "free" with the phone, and you don't need to carry any more around. Plus, you've probably already got a belt clip for your phone, so you don't have to constantly hold the remote.
- RustyTaco
It's an unavoidable customer support nightmare compared to "move the SIM card to the new phone and hit the power button".
Hell, my boss managed to get her phone run over by a car monday and I think she's still without a cell phone. She's been using her daughters phone, but it doesn't ring for her number, nor does it have any of her contacts. Simple little "user experiance" things.
Meanwhile I swaped SIM cards with someone Monday to see if the reason her phone was insisting it was roaming was tied to the SIM or the phone. In two minutes I had swapped the cards and called somebody from my address book using her phone. No waiting on hold for customer support, just do it and get on with life.
Anyway, I forgot where I started rambling. CDMA1X speeds would be nice, but not at the cost of having to deal with Sprint.
- RustyTaco
Well no shit. Nobody is arguing any of your points. ext2/3 tend to choke, hard, with lots of files in a directory, which is why I try to do my data filesystems as xfs or jfs, or maybe reiser if I'm not worried about keeping the data.
- RustyTaco
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Funny that you should mention it, but yes. I have had /a/ problem with JFS on -test5, the kernel they tested. Somehow I managed to piss it off such that I couldn't unmount it and any attempt to access it stalled. Reboot and a VERY long (think hour or two) fsck.jfs and all seems well now. I triggered the problem by extracting the Debian XFree86 source (so I could rebuild it with optimizations to try to squeze 3 more fps from Enemy Territory :)). I'm told there was a JFS bug fixed in -test6, but I havn't scoured the archives to see if it was my bug.
I've had no other problems with it. Hell, I have 2.1T of data on a jfs filesystem right now and it seems to be doing just fine. I tried XFS but the huge block device support just wasn't there (Litterally ifdef'd out) in the kernel I tried. I saw a few XFS fixes in -test7, I might try it again now, but hell, even ext3 was able to format and mount the 2.2T successfully, even if it took an hour.
- RustyTaco