My prayers have been answered! Although the animated version of The Hobbit is an absolute classic, think about this: Smaug the Dragon. Need I say more?
Man, don't listen to the moderators. Thats so funny I almost cryed. Too bad the joke is "tired" to the moderators, this is one time it was actually funny.
A dog doesn't need to eat all the time to be happy. My Labrador is on a restricted diet, only eats 3 cups of dog food a day, plays half the day, chases cats another half, and even finds time to run aloung my bike when I go for a ride. On top of all that I have never met a dog that is happier. Dog's don't need food to be happy, they need their family, they need their pack. I know ALOT of dogs who don't eat a cup of food a day, and yet are as energetic as any. If anything, feeding a dog too much slows them down. Ask an overweight dog with Hip Dysplacia if he has had a good life because he got alot of food every day.
You can't rely on a dog to tell you when their are full. I heard a comedian say once that he can go on the road and leave four days worth of food for his cats. He can't do that for his dogs, he leaves out four days worth of food the dog says, "Damn, all this for me!" The comedian gets back after four days and the dog says, "Where the hell have you been! I haven't eaten for four days!"
Ah, the nestalgia, I'm almost tearing up. I remember when I was putting together the Tucows Linuxburg site (now Tucows Linux, can't speak for the quality now, haven't been with Tucows for three years) I used to visit Metalab several times a day. Before Freshmeat there was only one place to get your gear kiddies. Real men used Metalab! How I miss those days. I went through every directory on Metalab to build Linuxberg! What a great site!
For now, our company has been deploying Red Hat 7.3 with all the latest bugfixes and security releases patched in. However, 7.3 is ending its product life at the end of this year, so we may have to "rethink" our strategy with using Red Hat.
I have the first edition of this great book. It got me started in UNIX administration in the first place almost 10 years ago. Its great to see such a classic updated. This book is quite awesome, and I usually recommend it to anyone getting started with UNIX, and always recommend it as a next stop after my intro to Unix class that we offer at our company.
Also, most of these versions of UNIX found in this book (Red Hat 7.3, SuSE 8.0) are certainly ones you would find in production as well. I am not seeing much Red Hat 8 or 9 on production servers, at least not in my market (Midwest).
But if you keep the open ports updated, you dont have to worry about buffer overruns or arbitrary code. For example, on one of my servers I only have OpenSSH and Apache. Both are up to date, with no known security problems.
Only if your unfiltered ports to the dirty network are not patched. General rule: Anything that touches a dirty network gets updated immediatly. Everything else can wait. IP Tables works wonders for putting together a secure box. And no, not all accounts on a system should have a shell. Any E-Mail account should definatly not have a shell.
No kidding. I think Jamie is over the hill. Why doesn't he help with MPlayer development if he doesn't like its state? MPlayer does it all, its our only hope for Video on Linux. I re-compiled about my 10th MPlayer version and installed it last night on my Debian box for QuickTime video, and its still a work of beauty. The QuickTime looks better than on my buddies Titanium Powerbook.
This is the second or third article I've seen bashing MPlayer this week. What the hell? I have NEVER had ANY problems compiling MPlayer. I mean for God's sake Divx 5, DVD, QuickTime, Real, Windows Media, every popular video format I've ever seen. What the hell do people want? This guy has been smoking too much cheap dope. He needs to go OS/X and be done with it.
Here is something slightly off topic. I am thinking about buying a PS2 just because PS1 games work on it. I'm a big RPG fan, and want to be able to play Chrono Cross and the FF games from PS1 on it. Is the PS3 going to be backwords compatible as well? Or was this a one time thing? Is this Sony's strategy?
I am very happy with my media center PC. Its Debian Testing.
Hardware:
Moderately fast CPU and MB, plenty of RAM
ATI Radeon 7000 (Composite/SVideo out) going to video in on TV
Audio out to reciever
Wireless KBD and mouse
SNES Joypads wired to parallel port
Software:
MPlayer for DVD
Snes9x for games
Two X configs: One for TV, one for Monitor.
Not as user friendly as I would have hoped for the wife and kids, they still have the tendency to use an actual DVD and SNES console for games instead of the copies on the computer, but I think the experiment for me was at least successful. My current plan is to make it user friendly enough that I can put the DVD and SNES in my daughters room.
Yeah! This is a great idea! Next they could design A.I. for these babies and they wouldn't need any operators at all! Oh wait, wasn't there a movie about something like this going wrong?
Folding@Home won't run on any of my Debian Unstable machines. It segfaults shortly after execution. Haven't had the time to track it down yet. Right now I am only running Folding on Debian Testing.
Use up the 1000 free hours first. You don't really need to use their service, just their access point. Next time I recieve an AOL disk, I'm giving Peng a whirl. Its a free Linux dialer using the AOL service. Not sure how good it is, I don't have an AOL disk handy.
Peter Jackson, on an interview in the standard edition release from Aug 6th, said that he didnt use the term "Directors Cut" for the DVD coming out in December, because its a true term for this DVD. Peter Jackson was going for a certain emotional feel to the movie with the theatrical release. He basically is releasing this extended edition for the fans. Most of the extra scenes on the new DVD give more background to the characters. Fans will like this edition much better since it moves quite slower. And no, there is no Tom Bombadil or Barrow Downs in this edition either. However on the plus side, the opening Galadrial-narrated battle scene is extended. That will make it all worth while.
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What happens if 20th Century Fox comes after them over the classic Clint Eastwood movie of the same name? http://imdb.com/title/tt0083943/
Great movie by the way. Loved the Jet. Definatly worth the rental. The Dogfights rock.
My prayers have been answered! Although the animated version of The Hobbit is an absolute classic, think about this: Smaug the Dragon. Need I say more?
Man, don't listen to the moderators. Thats so funny I almost cryed. Too bad the joke is "tired" to the moderators, this is one time it was actually funny.
You can't rely on a dog to tell you when their are full. I heard a comedian say once that he can go on the road and leave four days worth of food for his cats. He can't do that for his dogs, he leaves out four days worth of food the dog says, "Damn, all this for me!" The comedian gets back after four days and the dog says, "Where the hell have you been! I haven't eaten for four days!"
Ah, the nestalgia, I'm almost tearing up. I remember when I was putting together the Tucows Linuxburg site (now Tucows Linux, can't speak for the quality now, haven't been with Tucows for three years) I used to visit Metalab several times a day. Before Freshmeat there was only one place to get your gear kiddies. Real men used Metalab! How I miss those days. I went through every directory on Metalab to build Linuxberg! What a great site!
For now, our company has been deploying Red Hat 7.3 with all the latest bugfixes and security releases patched in. However, 7.3 is ending its product life at the end of this year, so we may have to "rethink" our strategy with using Red Hat.
Also, most of these versions of UNIX found in this book (Red Hat 7.3, SuSE 8.0) are certainly ones you would find in production as well. I am not seeing much Red Hat 8 or 9 on production servers, at least not in my market (Midwest).
If its on Fox, are they going to call it who wants to marry a martian?
But if you keep the open ports updated, you dont have to worry about buffer overruns or arbitrary code. For example, on one of my servers I only have OpenSSH and Apache. Both are up to date, with no known security problems.
Only if your unfiltered ports to the dirty network are not patched. General rule: Anything that touches a dirty network gets updated immediatly. Everything else can wait. IP Tables works wonders for putting together a secure box. And no, not all accounts on a system should have a shell. Any E-Mail account should definatly not have a shell.
Given Genny's work on Samauri Jack I think it will rock hard. I am looking forward to it big time.
Who hasn't attacked that puppy too quick. I always do, even now. That bastard Dragon is a bitch.
I have but two words to say to you people: Dragon Warrior. The first and best.
My kingdom for mod points :(
Because it was first, not counting Enterprise, which was never in active use.
I am very afraid.
This is the second or third article I've seen bashing MPlayer this week. What the hell? I have NEVER had ANY problems compiling MPlayer. I mean for God's sake Divx 5, DVD, QuickTime, Real, Windows Media, every popular video format I've ever seen. What the hell do people want? This guy has been smoking too much cheap dope. He needs to go OS/X and be done with it.
Here is something slightly off topic. I am thinking about buying a PS2 just because PS1 games work on it. I'm a big RPG fan, and want to be able to play Chrono Cross and the FF games from PS1 on it. Is the PS3 going to be backwords compatible as well? Or was this a one time thing? Is this Sony's strategy?
Hardware:
- Moderately fast CPU and MB, plenty of RAM
- ATI Radeon 7000 (Composite/SVideo out) going to video in on TV
- Audio out to reciever
- Wireless KBD and mouse
- SNES Joypads wired to parallel port
Software:- MPlayer for DVD
- Snes9x for games
- Two X configs: One for TV, one for Monitor.
Not as user friendly as I would have hoped for the wife and kids, they still have the tendency to use an actual DVD and SNES console for games instead of the copies on the computer, but I think the experiment for me was at least successful. My current plan is to make it user friendly enough that I can put the DVD and SNES in my daughters room.Yeah! This is a great idea! Next they could design A.I. for these babies and they wouldn't need any operators at all! Oh wait, wasn't there a movie about something like this going wrong?
Folding@Home won't run on any of my Debian Unstable machines. It segfaults shortly after execution. Haven't had the time to track it down yet. Right now I am only running Folding on Debian Testing.
Use up the 1000 free hours first. You don't really need to use their service, just their access point. Next time I recieve an AOL disk, I'm giving Peng a whirl. Its a free Linux dialer using the AOL service. Not sure how good it is, I don't have an AOL disk handy.
Peter Jackson, on an interview in the standard edition release from Aug 6th, said that he didnt use the term "Directors Cut" for the DVD coming out in December, because its a true term for this DVD. Peter Jackson was going for a certain emotional feel to the movie with the theatrical release. He basically is releasing this extended edition for the fans. Most of the extra scenes on the new DVD give more background to the characters. Fans will like this edition much better since it moves quite slower. And no, there is no Tom Bombadil or Barrow Downs in this edition either. However on the plus side, the opening Galadrial-narrated battle scene is extended. That will make it all worth while.
Screen works in Console-land as well. You do not have to run it via xterm or similar app.
The first link listed at Google News is this slashdot article. Thats funny, looping links.