man pages are more like memory aids for the experienced user, they were never meant to replace the full manuals for the OS.
Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, commercial versions of Linux all come with thick volumes of clear documentation. For other OSes like BSDs or other Linuxes there is plenty uf free and commercial documentation available.
Postscript, PCL, dot matrix printers codes, those are not part of UNIX, they are printer language specifications and like in Windows, they should be provided by the respective manufacturers.
Then the very efficient UNIX printing spooling software will be configured to use the correct filter for the correct printer.
A country that big can not, should not, come to a halt due to a natural disaster that although tragic, is not affecting a huge amount of people (India has in excess of a billion inhabitants, I am pretty sure there are enough of them that have the intellectual fortitude to do their work and oposse, hopefully, or support software patents in accordance to their convictions and interesets, in spite of the ongoing tragedy).
The full 1 billion of Indian people (including people in the IT fields) are all idiots that can't carry on with life and become emotional shrecks because 3000 died in a natural disaster.
If the Indian IT industry has allowed this to happen (or perhaps they are happy to oblige?) the lamest of excuses is to be unable to do anything because the disaster has go to their heads.
I am sure some folks have been directly affected by this, but I am pretty sure most folks were not and would be capable to following up this in spite of the tragedy.
What/.ers fail to tell you is that prolonged loud music will make you deaf or will impair your hearing in the medium or long term.
In noisy environments you have a few choices:
- Get earplugs or over the ears headphones (no music, or if you inisist not loud music all the time). - Hint to your employer that if you go deaf due to the noise they may have a legal case on their hands (not joking, if the noise is real bad your employer may be in hot water, pointing this out to them may get tehm into action, i.e. changing furniture or the office arrangements in order to reduce noise). - Talk to your colleagues! You could come up with ways to make your environment less noisy (no talking in the corridors, no music, no conference calls in the phone's loudspeakers, all mobile phones put into vibrating mode or off, etc.).
And thus the answers you will get will be equally useless (crap in-crap out model....).
If you are more specific about what your servers are currently doing I am pretty sure people will help you out.
Now, for basic servics:
- File server and print server: Samba. - Authentication servers: I believe Samba can act as a domain controller. - DNS server: bind running in Linux. - Web server: Apache. - Dsta Base servers: MySQL. - Backup server: Amanda. - email: sendmail, postfix....
So, exactly which services are you aiming to provide???
But once in a blue moon I take a pciture that I know is good. And I share it.
Photographers should be goons for hire for special ocassions, the way they should publish their power should be giving photogrpahs away for free, otherwise dumbsters like me that snap one decent picture every summer will eventually fill up the market of decent pictures ay way, so better these "artists" jump into the bandwagon before it looks suspicious them doing so.
I believe some mathematicians demonstrated that the longest chain necessary of people that know each other between you and any other person in the world would have 6 people at most.
In my case I have the following chains:
Me - dad - his boss - President of Mexico (1960) - John F. Kennedy.
Or a shorter one:
Me - University teacher (in Mexico City) - Noam Chomsky...
If their work is to warn about tsunamis in the Pacific basin, with all due respect that frankly you don't deserve, why should they warn about tsunamis somewhere else?
Ditto with early warning systems for earthquakes, tornados, flooding, etc. They had a job to do, they did it well, and it is only uninformed nitpickers (rated as "informative") that find fault on this....
If we don't measure somehow tragedies (body count is a hell of a good estimate, since at least is measuring the human impact) then we can't know the size of the necessary response.
You may find it sickening, but it is necessary to get organized.
The likelihood of this happening in that part of the world was tremendously small, add to that the magnitude (I truly think you don;t understand what a 8.9 in the Richter scale truly means) and we have one in a millions chances of such horrendous thing happening.
To invest too much preventing an unlikely event is foolish.
In spite of that, the goverments in the region were looking into an alert system, having said that it would have saved nobody in Thailand, Indonesia or Malaysia given the closeness of the epicenter.
3. Never underestimate the power of PDA syncing. One poster claims that the only people who care about this are executives. That alone is enough to warrant a site license of Outlook. What IT staff would commit suicide by not giving the execs PDA syncing? In reality, PDA syncing is used by many more than the execs, unless you count college students, IT professionals, cops, and teachers as executives.
In serious companies nobody (and that includes execs) can sync their PDAs with the corporate network (unless there is an additional layer of security based in a dynamic password in the PDA).
Serious IT staff are able to explain the dangers of connecting random gadgetery to a corporate network, clued up execs understand the reasons and adapt to the restrictions as everybody else has to do, they lead by example.
Clued up execs (which exist, really) don't go in ego trips for mundane things lika PDA syncing...
There is enough quality TV anywhere to make it worth it having a device that makes it easy to record it.
Movies, music, documentaries, news (or wahtever rocks your boat).
Elitist people are terribly annoying, when they describe their niche likes one discovers that normally they are as despicably unintersting and boring as the tastes they deride so easily.
Which so many brain dead people like the above (coned or otherwise) it does not really matter what we do. We will just become a race of dumbos.
Pal, just for your knowledge, embryos are collected today, and as much as that little cossy world of yours wishes that humans were nothing else but an animal, animals is what we are, we will see people cloned that become adults in the next 100 years, perhaps during our lifetimes (and I am not a kiddie, mind you, I am not using "our" lightly).
And said that Joe has not got a clue what he is talking about.
Jane has been struggling with MP3, WAV, ACC (or whatever Itunes format is), WMA formats. She bought a new player and she can play some files but not others.
Oh, and she wanted to play music on her MP3 capable mobile phone but Itunes did not warn her she can't do that and WIndomws media rips to WMA only.
Jane may not care about ogg (she seemed interested after I told her about it and its advantages from a legal and technical point of view) but sure as hell she was annoyed that companies are not agreeing to a common standard that would make life simple for the end user.
In Xandros, Fedora and several others you plug your player, it shows up as a new directory or hard disk, drag and drop what you want, and off you go.
People care about formats because formats are getting on the way of interchanging, ripping and sharing music.A friend of mine was irate that Windows media player was ripping tracks in a format, ITunes was providing another and her player did not understand neither.
People may not care now about DRM, but they will once they realize that bit of music that they thought was theirs to do as they please actually is not. Want to use another player? Nope. Share with your friends? Nope. Then what was the advantage for the consumer over using CDs?
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Perhaps a disaster like this gave birth to such legend...
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Those are the manuals that come with your OS.
man pages are more like memory aids for the experienced user, they were never meant to replace the full manuals for the OS.
Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, commercial versions of Linux all come with thick volumes of clear documentation. For other OSes like BSDs or other Linuxes there is plenty uf free and commercial documentation available.
Postscript, PCL, dot matrix printers codes, those are not part of UNIX, they are printer language specifications and like in Windows, they should be provided by the respective manufacturers.
Then the very efficient UNIX printing spooling software will be configured to use the correct filter for the correct printer.
A country that big can not, should not, come to a halt due to a natural disaster that although tragic, is not affecting a huge amount of people (India has in excess of a billion inhabitants, I am pretty sure there are enough of them that have the intellectual fortitude to do their work and oposse, hopefully, or support software patents in accordance to their convictions and interesets, in spite of the ongoing tragedy).
The full 1 billion of Indian people (including people in the IT fields) are all idiots that can't carry on with life and become emotional shrecks because 3000 died in a natural disaster.
If the Indian IT industry has allowed this to happen (or perhaps they are happy to oblige?) the lamest of excuses is to be unable to do anything because the disaster has go to their heads.
I am sure some folks have been directly affected by this, but I am pretty sure most folks were not and would be capable to following up this in spite of the tragedy.
... has been headphones, earphones, louder music!
/.ers fail to tell you is that prolonged loud music will make you deaf or will impair your hearing in the medium or long term.
What
In noisy environments you have a few choices:
- Get earplugs or over the ears headphones (no music, or if you inisist not loud music all the time).
- Hint to your employer that if you go deaf due to the noise they may have a legal case on their hands (not joking, if the noise is real bad your employer may be in hot water, pointing this out to them may get tehm into action, i.e. changing furniture or the office arrangements in order to reduce noise).
- Talk to your colleagues! You could come up with ways to make your environment less noisy (no talking in the corridors, no music, no conference calls in the phone's loudspeakers, all mobile phones put into vibrating mode or off, etc.).
And thus the answers you will get will be equally useless (crap in-crap out model....).
If you are more specific about what your servers are currently doing I am pretty sure people will help you out.
Now, for basic servics:
- File server and print server: Samba.
- Authentication servers: I believe Samba can act as a domain controller.
- DNS server: bind running in Linux.
- Web server: Apache.
- Dsta Base servers: MySQL.
- Backup server: Amanda.
- email: sendmail, postfix....
So, exactly which services are you aiming to provide???
I am not a photographer.
But once in a blue moon I take a pciture that I know is good. And I share it.
Photographers should be goons for hire for special ocassions, the way they should publish their power should be giving photogrpahs away for free, otherwise dumbsters like me that snap one decent picture every summer will eventually fill up the market of decent pictures ay way, so better these "artists" jump into the bandwagon before it looks suspicious them doing so.
I believe some mathematicians demonstrated that the longest chain necessary of people that know each other between you and any other person in the world would have 6 people at most.
In my case I have the following chains:
Me - dad - his boss - President of Mexico (1960) - John F. Kennedy.
Or a shorter one:
Me - University teacher (in Mexico City) - Noam Chomsky...
If their work is to warn about tsunamis in the Pacific basin, with all due respect that frankly you don't deserve, why should they warn about tsunamis somewhere else?
Ditto with early warning systems for earthquakes, tornados, flooding, etc. They had a job to do, they did it well, and it is only uninformed nitpickers (rated as "informative") that find fault on this....
If we don't measure somehow tragedies (body count is a hell of a good estimate, since at least is measuring the human impact) then we can't know the size of the necessary response.
You may find it sickening, but it is necessary to get organized.
The likelihood of this happening in that part of the world was tremendously small, add to that the magnitude (I truly think you don;t understand what a 8.9 in the Richter scale truly means) and we have one in a millions chances of such horrendous thing happening.
To invest too much preventing an unlikely event is foolish.
In spite of that, the goverments in the region were looking into an alert system, having said that it would have saved nobody in Thailand, Indonesia or Malaysia given the closeness of the epicenter.
3. Never underestimate the power of PDA syncing. One poster claims that the only people who care about this are executives. That alone is enough to warrant a site license of Outlook. What IT staff would commit suicide by not giving the execs PDA syncing? In reality, PDA syncing is used by many more than the execs, unless you count college students, IT professionals, cops, and teachers as executives.
In serious companies nobody (and that includes execs) can sync their PDAs with the corporate network (unless there is an additional layer of security based in a dynamic password in the PDA).
Serious IT staff are able to explain the dangers of connecting random gadgetery to a corporate network, clued up execs understand the reasons and adapt to the restrictions as everybody else has to do, they lead by example.
Clued up execs (which exist, really) don't go in ego trips for mundane things lika PDA syncing...
Serious companies are not allowing employees to sync PDAs to corporate networks.
With the capacities on these gadgets nowadays somebody can walk out of the door with the company's crown jewells on their shirtpocket.
As expected, Outlook and Exchange are, yet again, a liability.
One friend of mine died in a bycicle accident for not wearing a helmet.
I had a serious skull fracture in a playground when I was 6. The floor was concrete.
A friend of mine lost a finger in one ggame in a playground.
Neither one of us three was stupid. Simply many things in the past were not designed with safety in mind.
It amazes me that there are people out there that consider safety as something to be schmug about.
There is enough quality TV anywhere to make it worth it having a device that makes it easy to record it.
Movies, music, documentaries, news (or wahtever rocks your boat).
Elitist people are terribly annoying, when they describe their niche likes one discovers that normally they are as despicably unintersting and boring as the tastes they deride so easily.
I have been checking the thread and I have seen several truly insightful messages regarding a topic that could appear trollish and dry in principle.
That people can grasp anymore what unethical or amoral means.
There are actions to which one can apply those adjectives, this lady paying this insane amount of money deserves either one.
Which so many brain dead people like the above (coned or otherwise) it does not really matter what we do. We will just become a race of dumbos.
Pal, just for your knowledge, embryos are collected today, and as much as that little cossy world of yours wishes that humans were nothing else but an animal, animals is what we are, we will see people cloned that become adults in the next 100 years, perhaps during our lifetimes (and I am not a kiddie, mind you, I am not using "our" lightly).
Getting a cloned cat does not imrove the survival of your genetic traits in the slightest.
Breeding does, which is why it is an instinct that obsese us.
She could have done so, donating to a charity fighting disease in a poor country, saving hundreds of dogs and cats from unnecessary extermination.
No, instead wasting 50000 in getting a fucking cat.
Now, that is truly enlightening.
It is plainly amoral to spend such amounts of money when one tenth of that could be saving or improving hundreds of human (or even animal) lives.
That is what happens when one becomes so rich. One seems to lose all sense of proportion.
And said that Joe has not got a clue what he is talking about.
Jane has been struggling with MP3, WAV, ACC (or whatever Itunes format is), WMA formats. She bought a new player and she can play some files but not others.
Oh, and she wanted to play music on her MP3 capable mobile phone but Itunes did not warn her she can't do that and WIndomws media rips to WMA only.
Jane may not care about ogg (she seemed interested after I told her about it and its advantages from a legal and technical point of view) but sure as hell she was annoyed that companies are not agreeing to a common standard that would make life simple for the end user.
That guy must be using Slackware 0.99
In Xandros, Fedora and several others you plug your player, it shows up as a new directory or hard disk, drag and drop what you want, and off you go.
People care about formats because formats are getting on the way of interchanging, ripping and sharing music.A friend of mine was irate that Windows media player was ripping tracks in a format, ITunes was providing another and her player did not understand neither.
People may not care now about DRM, but they will once they realize that bit of music that they thought was theirs to do as they please actually is not. Want to use another player? Nope. Share with your friends? Nope. Then what was the advantage for the consumer over using CDs?