the question one has to ask is whether Krispy Kremes are fried in animal lard or vegatable oil:)
I think the operative word here is the "processed foods", not the vegetarianism. Eating a lot of sugar would cause you to produce a lot of insulin day to day, making your body resistant...like a drug, I would wager.
But ya, I think I sympathize with you on the vegetarianism. I often wonder about how people can say it's the natural way for us to eat when I look at our evolved to be omnivorous mouth
I was astonished to find how few scholarships I could apply for as a White Male from a lower middle income family. There wasn't a prayer that my family could pay for all of my college (indeed, they didn't make it far into it). Of course, I got good grades in high school, but, to my surprise, it counted for $1000 for my first year of college. Of course, it helped, but I was pretty much stuck with student loans. Of course, I could not get any _good_ student loans, because my parents made plenty of money to put me through a state school and I was obviously being supported by them
In the end of it, I suppose it wasn't a too bad a deal, because I ran out of money about the time I was losing interested in the field that I was looking at (pharmacy, thanks for asking). So, I worked my share of crap jobs (fast food) and had my really hard times ($10 for a week, for my girlfriend and me for food, thank you friends and getting a job at fast food place and bringing home waste food). let me tell you, I won't forget that time ever
In the end, I moved in with the girlfriend's folks, got given a solid car (well, cheap payments) drove pizza and saved a lot of money. By this time I was old enough to be legally independant of my parents (freakin' 25!!!!! come on! I hadn't gotten a red cent from them in 4 years!) and was able to get the _good student loans, and had found my nitch (comp sci, emphasis in networking and security), I worked my ass off to get through in minimum time (summer work, and summer school).
In short, I made it, but I swore that I was going to make scholarships that were not based on income (with some limit, of course), were not based on race, were not based on sex, and were not based on sports.
Honestly, how long did it take them to figure out being a nerd was cool? Even in popular culture...
The second that LOTR and Harry Potter were released to astonishing success, I knew it was real. Suddenly, i was the in crowd, Suddenly, All that knowledge that everyone deemed useless could get me a date. "Speak elvish to me again, Raleel...it makes me wet!"
Of course, I got married a while back, before it was cool, so now only one woman gets to listen to it, but still, she thinks its' cool, and she wouldn't ever read the books. It's spawned us watching all sorts of shows that I wouldn't have expected her to like, and brought out a new part of her personality. Hell, I might even do the dishes now...
The one in ask slashdot, and in macslash asking the smae question. Of course, it'd be good if they removed the hard drive, used the compact flash to nfs boot it, etc.
There are enough features in the first four pages to identify who it is. It'd be flat out simple with the combination of "who came in really early" and "who missed their flight that we paid for"
Overall, I'm quite happy with it, but I've found a few bugs. yes, I've reported at least one to apple
1) iChatAV and a AD account - If I try to opena video chat to a person, and I am logged in via my Active directory account (i.e. authenticated to the AD domain), the video connection fails. Audio is fine, jsut video
2) If I open a chat to one particular friend, it causes my cpu to pegged. Fortunately the process is niced (iChat, that is) and so it's not particularly disruptive, but it's a very ahrd problem to diagnose (it's only him, other people with the same setup work fine)
3) using Mail.app to access an exchange server with an exchange mail account (i.e. you select "exchange account" when you set up your mail, different than the imap one), you cannot make rules that filter to subdirectories of Inbox. Very odd.
Otherwise, I'm pretty happy. You can't encrypt home directories of "network accounts" (read: AD accounts), even if you tell it to create a local home directory, but the home directory encryption is pretty slick. Expose, of course, is unique, and I've still not used it extensively. The asking for a password when coming back from sleep is a much needed repair.
As a whole I find that it's quite a lot faster than the previous version, and all the subtle tweaks are a good add. I didn't know about the command-tab switching. I use that a lot in windows.
I am a former comp sci lab admin, and am currently a unix admin at a largish facility.
1) How easy are they to maintain? I've found them to be roughly equivalent on the software side of things. There are tools with each that makes it fairly easy. I think the linux tools are a bit more...widespread, perhaps. I've had extensive experience iwth redhat and their tools are pretty good. Debian also has a nice set, but my experience has been limited to fink running on os x (at least, my experience with apt). Reinstallation of linux pc's, from my experience tends to be faster by a fair margin, as well as patching. I use kickstart from redhat, and apt for rpms.
That having been said about redhat, I might think twice about them in the future. They are making it difficult for me to continue using them, since they changed their maintenance cycle. yes, I work at a big facility and we have a fair chunk of cash. No, we don't need to pay enough for another person just for new patches. Per year. We'll roll our own at that point. We'll see what comes out of the fedora project (fedora.redhat.com) and if we can use that. Otherwise, I think the next on our list is knoppix.
2) No real fundamental differences on the software side. On the hardware side, pc hardware is cheap, but then again, you can go to a local vendor and pick up parts.
Two ideas stick out from the discussion that I should like to mention. One, the idea of dumb terminals. For a computer lab, i really like it. There are linux mechanisms to do it (k-12 linux terminal server project being one specifically designed for schools) as well as the aforementioned sunrays. In either event, I like it a lot. It makes management easy, it prevents a lot of problems that you will run into with smart kids doing bad things:)
The other is knoppix. Not necessarily running in the machine (although that is an option) but rather going with a knoppix/debian at the lab (perhaps even on the terminals) and then being able to give a cd to the folks in the lab and saying "this is what we run, you can run it at home, and don't have to delete anything"
Ok, a third idea comes out as well. I like os x a lot. I've grown to like it as much or more than linux. I'd seriously consider that route. They do give some serious education discounts. The tools are there on os x as well. It's a good system.
even if it was real (people at the top said it was only a small subset), I would be skeptical of anything actually running fast on said system. generally, if it compiles fast, it's not very optimized.
compile times don't impress me any more, although they sometimes do reflect overall (disk i/o included) performance.
a more direct link to info about the facility. EMSL is a scientific user facility, designed to be a collaboration point and resource for environmental and molecular sciences (Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory).
You can read about what the computer will be used for, what stuff is inside it, even see the job status. It's pretty neat stuff. The folks over there should be quite proud of what they've done. Yes, I work at PNNL:)
It is a demon of a machine. It's huge. It's very fast. I hope some good life/world saving chemistry comes out of it.
Has anyone read the license for redhat advanced server? Has anyone tried to resolve it against the GPL? Specifically the part that says if you are going to have more installed systems, you need to buy the service to go along with it. Installed system is defined as a machine that has the software on it, not a machine that has the software plus the service.
It seems to directly go against the GPLs prohibition against imposing additional restrictions on copying.
I'm actually very happy with it. It is not the most portable machine but it does fit on the plane (although not super comfortable). Not such a big deal for me since I spend a lot of time online and have yet to get internet on a plane. it is good for watching DVDs though.
For actual work work (I'm a unix admin) it simply rocks. I can do everything I need to do, plus the stuff that others want me to do (like Office). My only real gripe is that there is no Outlook calendaring for it, but we have webmail on Exhcnage 2k, and Terminal services (which is up to date on the mac, supports RDP5).
It's really become my primary machine. My desktop at home is used mostly for playing a single game, and occasioanlly setting up downloads. I have a dual g4, w/ a 22" cinema display, but it's in the wrong office:)
It's speed is good (although I occasionally notice a stutter when i'm running sans AC power, I have the cpu clock down turned on). I normally carry around a backpack, and it fits right into it. It has adequate, if not stellar, battery life. Fairly rare when I spend an extended time away from power, so it's 4.5-hour-only-when-you-don't-hit-disk-at-all battery is fine (it managed to go 4 hours playing mp3s with no complex Fluid screensaver and monitor-off turned on after 1 minute)
I think at 6.8 pounds (that's the weight _with_ the battery) it's a good deal. at 10 pounds, I would have gotten a 12" instead.
not to mention that a 17" silver laptop does get a lot of oos and ahhs, even from the ladies:)
For my particular needs, placing multiple rogue detectors (shall I coin a phrase? Rogue Detection Grid..I'll be trademarking it;) seemed to be the best way to go.
Currently, we are considering AirDefense, which is a commercial solution, suitable for "enterprise". It has a server that holds a database of information gleaned from the sensors, which are little more than refirmwared Cisco APs.
Another option we have been considering is Kismet. The later CVS stuff includes supports for "drones", which is basically a kismet server, only without all the reporting and parsing turned on. It pumps all that info back to a more heavywieght kismet server to do the processing. You can put kismet on a very small box. We are considering some of the ones from www.soekris.com.
There are a few other solutions, but these are the two front runners in my mind.
You mention the 3 major mechanisms. I honestly don't know that there are any better ones. subnet scans are handy because they are fast and get the 80% mark. Site surveys are good because they actually find them physically pretty well. And systems as I've described above are good because they provide a presence at all times, and give you a pretty good idea of the location.
yes, I do as well, I've seen several in recent times. Honestly, editors, since you are checking these, if you can do "palmOS ssh" in google and turn up the answer, you should not be posting these. It's sad. Many of us have the hacker attitude of "learn it yourself"
Competition makes the product better. MS learns, they are not stupid. They are stealing from Linux, they are stealing from Apple, Linux is stealing from both, etc.
let's ignore that it was commissioned by MS and hope that the testing facility was fair.
The problem is actually not "network tuning" or a number of other things pointed out by people. The problem is that they used a brand new version of windows (and rc2, which has been out for a little while) versus a version of redhat that has been out for at least 7 months. Why is this a problem?
Well, they didn't give the redhat machine the benefits of those 7 months. For instance, you'll note the 2.4.9 kernel. Gee, wasn't there a kernel upgrade in there? To 2.4.18? with scheduling patches or something?
Or lets take the network card. badass card. Problem is that the drivers from that time frame sucked! Indeed, they gave nearly half the bandwidth of the current ones. Take a look at those ratios....
Lets try a patched redhat 9 box against a patched win2k3 box and see how it is. I imagine the results will still have win2k3 on top, but probably not by nearly as much.
In the end of it, this is propoganda, just like redhat or mandrake or suse would do...
there are already about 4 ways to rip off the DRM. At least one comes on every mac. rip it to aiff, reencode. worried about loss of quality? Don't be. It's really very good.
Really, this is a good thing. I don't like the DRM either (I have a RioCar, only plays mp3), but hey, I'm willing to pay for the artists I like, and i like not havign to get off my ass to do it:)
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the question one has to ask is whether Krispy Kremes are fried in animal lard or vegatable oil :)
I think the operative word here is the "processed foods", not the vegetarianism. Eating a lot of sugar would cause you to produce a lot of insulin day to day, making your body resistant...like a drug, I would wager.
But ya, I think I sympathize with you on the vegetarianism. I often wonder about how people can say it's the natural way for us to eat when I look at our evolved to be omnivorous mouth
I was astonished to find how few scholarships I could apply for as a White Male from a lower middle income family. There wasn't a prayer that my family could pay for all of my college (indeed, they didn't make it far into it). Of course, I got good grades in high school, but, to my surprise, it counted for $1000 for my first year of college. Of course, it helped, but I was pretty much stuck with student loans. Of course, I could not get any _good_ student loans, because my parents made plenty of money to put me through a state school and I was obviously being supported by them
In the end of it, I suppose it wasn't a too bad a deal, because I ran out of money about the time I was losing interested in the field that I was looking at (pharmacy, thanks for asking). So, I worked my share of crap jobs (fast food) and had my really hard times ($10 for a week, for my girlfriend and me for food, thank you friends and getting a job at fast food place and bringing home waste food). let me tell you, I won't forget that time ever
In the end, I moved in with the girlfriend's folks, got given a solid car (well, cheap payments) drove pizza and saved a lot of money. By this time I was old enough to be legally independant of my parents (freakin' 25!!!!! come on! I hadn't gotten a red cent from them in 4 years!) and was able to get the _good student loans, and had found my nitch (comp sci, emphasis in networking and security), I worked my ass off to get through in minimum time (summer work, and summer school).
In short, I made it, but I swore that I was going to make scholarships that were not based on income (with some limit, of course), were not based on race, were not based on sex, and were not based on sports.
Can you tell I'm _still_ mad?
Honestly, how long did it take them to figure out being a nerd was cool? Even in popular culture...
The second that LOTR and Harry Potter were released to astonishing success, I knew it was real. Suddenly, i was the in crowd, Suddenly, All that knowledge that everyone deemed useless could get me a date. "Speak elvish to me again, Raleel...it makes me wet!"
Of course, I got married a while back, before it was cool, so now only one woman gets to listen to it, but still, she thinks its' cool, and she wouldn't ever read the books. It's spawned us watching all sorts of shows that I wouldn't have expected her to like, and brought out a new part of her personality. Hell, I might even do the dishes now...
The one in ask slashdot, and in macslash asking the smae question. Of course, it'd be good if they removed the hard drive, used the compact flash to nfs boot it, etc.
How about at least mentioning what features are new?
There are enough features in the first four pages to identify who it is. It'd be flat out simple with the combination of "who came in really early" and "who missed their flight that we paid for"
I believe that yes, this is the case
Overall, I'm quite happy with it, but I've found a few bugs. yes, I've reported at least one to apple
1) iChatAV and a AD account - If I try to opena video chat to a person, and I am logged in via my Active directory account (i.e. authenticated to the AD domain), the video connection fails. Audio is fine, jsut video
2) If I open a chat to one particular friend, it causes my cpu to pegged. Fortunately the process is niced (iChat, that is) and so it's not particularly disruptive, but it's a very ahrd problem to diagnose (it's only him, other people with the same setup work fine)
3) using Mail.app to access an exchange server with an exchange mail account (i.e. you select "exchange account" when you set up your mail, different than the imap one), you cannot make rules that filter to subdirectories of Inbox. Very odd.
Otherwise, I'm pretty happy. You can't encrypt home directories of "network accounts" (read: AD accounts), even if you tell it to create a local home directory, but the home directory encryption is pretty slick. Expose, of course, is unique, and I've still not used it extensively. The asking for a password when coming back from sleep is a much needed repair.
As a whole I find that it's quite a lot faster than the previous version, and all the subtle tweaks are a good add. I didn't know about the command-tab switching. I use that a lot in windows.
Probably worth the $130
I am a former comp sci lab admin, and am currently a unix admin at a largish facility.
:)
1) How easy are they to maintain?
I've found them to be roughly equivalent on the software side of things. There are tools with each that makes it fairly easy. I think the linux tools are a bit more...widespread, perhaps. I've had extensive experience iwth redhat and their tools are pretty good. Debian also has a nice set, but my experience has been limited to fink running on os x (at least, my experience with apt). Reinstallation of linux pc's, from my experience tends to be faster by a fair margin, as well as patching. I use kickstart from redhat, and apt for rpms.
That having been said about redhat, I might think twice about them in the future. They are making it difficult for me to continue using them, since they changed their maintenance cycle. yes, I work at a big facility and we have a fair chunk of cash. No, we don't need to pay enough for another person just for new patches. Per year. We'll roll our own at that point. We'll see what comes out of the fedora project (fedora.redhat.com) and if we can use that. Otherwise, I think the next on our list is knoppix.
2) No real fundamental differences on the software side. On the hardware side, pc hardware is cheap, but then again, you can go to a local vendor and pick up parts.
Two ideas stick out from the discussion that I should like to mention. One, the idea of dumb terminals. For a computer lab, i really like it. There are linux mechanisms to do it (k-12 linux terminal server project being one specifically designed for schools) as well as the aforementioned sunrays. In either event, I like it a lot. It makes management easy, it prevents a lot of problems that you will run into with smart kids doing bad things
The other is knoppix. Not necessarily running in the machine (although that is an option) but rather going with a knoppix/debian at the lab (perhaps even on the terminals) and then being able to give a cd to the folks in the lab and saying "this is what we run, you can run it at home, and don't have to delete anything"
Ok, a third idea comes out as well. I like os x a lot. I've grown to like it as much or more than linux. I'd seriously consider that route. They do give some serious education discounts. The tools are there on os x as well. It's a good system.
even if it was real (people at the top said it was only a small subset), I would be skeptical of anything actually running fast on said system. generally, if it compiles fast, it's not very optimized.
compile times don't impress me any more, although they sometimes do reflect overall (disk i/o included) performance.
http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/mscf
:)
a more direct link to info about the facility. EMSL is a scientific user facility, designed to be a collaboration point and resource for environmental and molecular sciences (Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory).
You can read about what the computer will be used for, what stuff is inside it, even see the job status. It's pretty neat stuff. The folks over there should be quite proud of what they've done. Yes, I work at PNNL
It is a demon of a machine. It's huge. It's very fast. I hope some good life/world saving chemistry comes out of it.
Actually, they've done very well with it, it performs very close (at least as far as supercomputers go)
As noted in the other reply to this, 5 years of support is $4000 ($800 per year)
Now, try multiplying that by 900+ machines (for instance, a cluster that is in my building).
Now we see how the cost is no longer trivial...
Has anyone read the license for redhat advanced server? Has anyone tried to resolve it against the GPL? Specifically the part that says if you are going to have more installed systems, you need to buy the service to go along with it. Installed system is defined as a machine that has the software on it, not a machine that has the software plus the service.
It seems to directly go against the GPLs prohibition against imposing additional restrictions on copying.
http://www.lindows.com/799
celeron 900, 20g hdd, 256 megs ram, 12" screen, 2.9 pounds.
that do for you?
that would be an inside joke for anyone who supports scientist
(from an employee of PNNL)
I recently got a 17" powerbook.
:)
:)
I'm actually very happy with it. It is not the most portable machine but it does fit on the plane (although not super comfortable). Not such a big deal for me since I spend a lot of time online and have yet to get internet on a plane. it is good for watching DVDs though.
For actual work work (I'm a unix admin) it simply rocks. I can do everything I need to do, plus the stuff that others want me to do (like Office). My only real gripe is that there is no Outlook calendaring for it, but we have webmail on Exhcnage 2k, and Terminal services (which is up to date on the mac, supports RDP5).
It's really become my primary machine. My desktop at home is used mostly for playing a single game, and occasioanlly setting up downloads. I have a dual g4, w/ a 22" cinema display, but it's in the wrong office
It's speed is good (although I occasionally notice a stutter when i'm running sans AC power, I have the cpu clock down turned on). I normally carry around a backpack, and it fits right into it. It has adequate, if not stellar, battery life. Fairly rare when I spend an extended time away from power, so it's 4.5-hour-only-when-you-don't-hit-disk-at-all battery is fine (it managed to go 4 hours playing mp3s with no complex Fluid screensaver and monitor-off turned on after 1 minute)
I think at 6.8 pounds (that's the weight _with_ the battery) it's a good deal. at 10 pounds, I would have gotten a 12" instead.
not to mention that a 17" silver laptop does get a lot of oos and ahhs, even from the ladies
um, ya!
hello, this would be awesome! Definately interested.
only 7 hours a day? Geez, when i was mudding in school, I was doing it 16 hours a day.
;)
My brother in law currently plays DAoC 13 hours a day, and has for the last month
oh, wait, he has a wife..and a job...and she's still married to him? Mine breaks out divorce papers after hour 4...
For my particular needs, placing multiple rogue detectors (shall I coin a phrase? Rogue Detection Grid..I'll be trademarking it ;) seemed to be the best way to go.
Currently, we are considering AirDefense, which is a commercial solution, suitable for "enterprise". It has a server that holds a database of information gleaned from the sensors, which are little more than refirmwared Cisco APs.
Another option we have been considering is Kismet. The later CVS stuff includes supports for "drones", which is basically a kismet server, only without all the reporting and parsing turned on. It pumps all that info back to a more heavywieght kismet server to do the processing. You can put kismet on a very small box. We are considering some of the ones from www.soekris.com.
There are a few other solutions, but these are the two front runners in my mind.
You mention the 3 major mechanisms. I honestly don't know that there are any better ones. subnet scans are handy because they are fast and get the 80% mark. Site surveys are good because they actually find them physically pretty well. And systems as I've described above are good because they provide a presence at all times, and give you a pretty good idea of the location.
yes, I do as well, I've seen several in recent times. Honestly, editors, since you are checking these, if you can do "palmOS ssh" in google and turn up the answer, you should not be posting these. It's sad. Many of us have the hacker attitude of "learn it yourself"
Competition makes the product better. MS learns, they are not stupid. They are stealing from Linux, they are stealing from Apple, Linux is stealing from both, etc.
:)
Feed on each other to make a stronger whole
let's ignore that it was commissioned by MS and hope that the testing facility was fair.
The problem is actually not "network tuning" or a number of other things pointed out by people. The problem is that they used a brand new version of windows (and rc2, which has been out for a little while) versus a version of redhat that has been out for at least 7 months. Why is this a problem?
Well, they didn't give the redhat machine the benefits of those 7 months. For instance, you'll note the 2.4.9 kernel. Gee, wasn't there a kernel upgrade in there? To 2.4.18? with scheduling patches or something?
Or lets take the network card. badass card. Problem is that the drivers from that time frame sucked! Indeed, they gave nearly half the bandwidth of the current ones. Take a look at those ratios....
Lets try a patched redhat 9 box against a patched win2k3 box and see how it is. I imagine the results will still have win2k3 on top, but probably not by nearly as much.
In the end of it, this is propoganda, just like redhat or mandrake or suse would do...
I mean..the sheer genius of it...the amazing mind share....
for me to poop on!!
there are already about 4 ways to rip off the DRM. At least one comes on every mac. rip it to aiff, reencode. worried about loss of quality? Don't be. It's really very good.
:)
Really, this is a good thing. I don't like the DRM either (I have a RioCar, only plays mp3), but hey, I'm willing to pay for the artists I like, and i like not havign to get off my ass to do it