A lot of us already know Linux backwards and forwards and could set up a high-availability clustering solution in our sleep. That's great.
This product is for people that can't, don't want to, or would rather spend their time doing business than recompiling their kernels.
$2000 for a support contract is nothing to a business betting the farm on a high-availability server. This product -- and, more importantly, this service RedHat is offering -- is for them.
Stop complaining about the price. As far as support contracts go, I can tell you this is pretty damned cheap.
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How can slashdot embolden its readers on the one hand to boycott the movie industry because of DVD and DeCSS, and, on the other hand, encourage us to purchase the Blade Runner DVD?
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"Because they fucking can." No other reason. It seems, ever since NSI was privatized, the quality of service has plummeted to earth faster than Amazon's stock price. NSI, now headed by *retarded* one-armed monkeys (they were smart monkeys when the government owned them) is out to see to it that your job, as a network administrator, is made as difficult as they possibly can. That's actually their business model, and it's the reason their stock, even in the face of myriad competitors, each of which doing a better job than NSI at domain registration and pricing, continues to climb.
Retarded, one-armed monkeys, I tell you. Only someting that stupid could come up with the little disclaimer they put before "whois" output.
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It'll detect any sort of IP scanning, and, if you're a real bastard, it'll run counter-attacks against the attackers/port scanners.
Build yourself up a large arsenal of "eleet script kiddie" programs (jolt, jolt2, teardrop, winnuke, all of the thousand or so Wu-Ftpd exploits) and play around with them, to see just how vulnerable your machines are.
Subscribe to Bugtraq and read it voraciously.
- A.P. --
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Absolutely nothing looks worse than a screen cluttered with seventeen different-looking applications, each as counter-intuitive and gaudy as the rest, and each totally different from the others. Open up Realplayer 7, Quicktime Player, Winamp, "Neoplanet", and a few other apps. Oh, then run Windowblinds.
I'm assuming you've got a Windows system. Those who run Linux, like me, can easily emulate this train wreck in X with GTK, KDE, Xt, Motif, Athena, and straight Xlib applications.
Barf. Barf. Barf! Death to skins everywhere. Give me a good-looking, powerful, *standard*, incredibly intuitive interface. Hopefully someone's researching this.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
It's a great idea. The implementation, however, sucks dogs. So now I have to have a special desk to use my computer? Wow, and I thought having to have a special mouse pad was bad...
Then you'll love the Microsoft Optical Intellimouse. I do. And I use Linux.
No special pads. In fact, no pad needed at all.
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...so, was the disk physically "hosed", or was it just an ext2 error (wouldn't be unprecedented)?
If it's a physical disk error, were the drives mounted properly, with enough space between them and enough ventilation so they wouldn't overheat? Was the machine moved a lot, or did the disks vibrate too much? Improperly-installed disks have very short lives.
If it was an ext2 thing, try a journaling filesystem like reiserfs (does it work fully and reliably yet?) or turn off async writes in ext2 for a little added security and a little less speed (use the "sync" option in mount(8).) Either way, do it on (_hardware_) RAID to minimize data loss further.
Thankfully, you already back things up. I've had people complain to me that "backups are too expensive", to which I reply, "then you don't value your time or your data" (or "not backing up is like fscking a hooker without a condom.")
Good luck.
- A.P. --
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
I submitted this yesterday and it got rejected. Now, suddenly, a day later, after the story's broken everywhere else, it's news.
Typical.
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Of course it's not worth it, but /. is dumb.
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People on slashdot _love_ buying expensive things that are designed to do one specific task well and, like shoving the proverbial square peg into the proverbial round hole, force them to do other things poorly.
Let's see if my brand new $500 WinCE handheld can run Linux! Why? What can it possibly be useful for? Who cares, it runs Linux! Let's see if my $499 TiVO can play MP3s! But it's supposed to be a VCR. Who cares, now I can play music with it (which I could've done with a $100 Pentium 90!) Let's use my digital camera as a backup device! Let's try telnetting from my Palm Pilot! Let's take the engine out of my car and convert it into a fucking house!
Use the right tool for the job, people. Don't melt a hammer down and turn it into a screwdriver.
Of course, this is just my viewpoint.
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Sorry, but people that complain about lack of support for a given OS are usually using the cheapest, nastiest hardware available. No-name NE2K clones, piece-of-garbage motherboards, etc. The money and time invested by Be (or even the Linux developers) to bring support for Bob's Crap Sound Card Model XYZ to the OS probably won't offset the money they'd recoup from increased sales.
Buy good hardware and be happy when everything just works.
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5 years ago, I'd've been like, "Wow!", but now, in a time in which Seagate is selling a 70 gig SCSI drive and where people I know have a terabyte of storage _at home_, 40 of them in a company seems like nothing.
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Seriously. It's awfully difficult to justify Napster's existence as anything other than a means to steal a product you're unwilling to pay for. Sure, sure, there are a few legal MP3s on there -- live stuff, "indie" bands -- but who the hell downloads that? There are plenty of better places to find indie bands (mp3.com) and live concerts (any of the e-tree sites.)
Some might say shutting down Napster would be wrong because it's just a content provider; it's not responsible for what's on its users' hard drives. Well, now that we've got some email from its creators that says, basically, "Yeah, we deal in stolen property," how's Napster any different from a drug ring?
I'll probably get moderated down for disagreeing with people. So, go ahead and hit me with the -1s.
- A.P. --
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
...why not just buy a cheap Mac or something that's relatively impossible to hack and run syslogd remotely on it? Send a duplicate of all log messages to the Mac.
Can syslogd be forced to send messages to a serial port? Connect a non-networked machine of some sort to the networked machine(s) and have it listen on the serial port for data.
Either way, you save reams of paper.
- A.P. --
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Even if the allegations aren't true, what kid ever got sued for spreading rumors in high school? Rumors are to high school what oxygen is to breathing, for God's sake. Nobody ever called it "libel" when I was growing up.
Shit.
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The whole point of an MP3 player is portability. Do you _really_ want to carry around an MP3 player, a hard drive, _and_ a power supply for that hard drive? For the money and time invested (assuming your time is worth money, like mine is), you could buy yourself a hard disk-based MP3 player.
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Slashdot Mirror
$115 isn't _that_ bad though.
- A.P.
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This product is for people that can't, don't want to, or would rather spend their time doing business than recompiling their kernels.
$2000 for a support contract is nothing to a business betting the farm on a high-availability server. This product -- and, more importantly, this service RedHat is offering -- is for them.
Stop complaining about the price. As far as support contracts go, I can tell you this is pretty damned cheap.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Retarded, one-armed monkeys, I tell you. Only someting that stupid could come up with the little disclaimer they put before "whois" output.
- A.P.
--
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Build yourself up a large arsenal of "eleet script kiddie" programs (jolt, jolt2, teardrop, winnuke, all of the thousand or so Wu-Ftpd exploits) and play around with them, to see just how vulnerable your machines are.
Subscribe to Bugtraq and read it voraciously.
- A.P.
--
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
I'm assuming you've got a Windows system. Those who run Linux, like me, can easily emulate this train wreck in X with GTK, KDE, Xt, Motif, Athena, and straight Xlib applications.
Barf. Barf. Barf! Death to skins everywhere. Give me a good-looking, powerful, *standard*, incredibly intuitive interface. Hopefully someone's researching this.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Then you'll love the Microsoft Optical Intellimouse. I do. And I use Linux.
No special pads. In fact, no pad needed at all.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Everything they say is right.
Everything. Especially #83.
- A.P.
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You're a week late to the party and you've brought a stupid present.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
If it's a physical disk error, were the drives mounted properly, with enough space between them and enough ventilation so they wouldn't overheat? Was the machine moved a lot, or did the disks vibrate too much? Improperly-installed disks have very short lives.
If it was an ext2 thing, try a journaling filesystem like reiserfs (does it work fully and reliably yet?) or turn off async writes in ext2 for a little added security and a little less speed (use the "sync" option in mount(8).) Either way, do it on (_hardware_) RAID to minimize data loss further.
Thankfully, you already back things up. I've had people complain to me that "backups are too expensive", to which I reply, "then you don't value your time or your data" (or "not backing up is like fscking a hooker without a condom.")
Good luck.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
- A.P.
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mp3board opened NO LESS than SEVEN FUCKING WINDOWS on my desktop, one of which was the size of the entire god damned screen!
That should be a fucking capital offense. I want to see people die for javascript BULLSHIT like that.
UGH!
- A.P.
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Look how well _it_ did.
- A.P.
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Typical.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Let's see if my brand new $500 WinCE handheld can run Linux! Why? What can it possibly be useful for? Who cares, it runs Linux! Let's see if my $499 TiVO can play MP3s! But it's supposed to be a VCR. Who cares, now I can play music with it (which I could've done with a $100 Pentium 90!) Let's use my digital camera as a backup device! Let's try telnetting from my Palm Pilot! Let's take the engine out of my car and convert it into a fucking house!
Use the right tool for the job, people. Don't melt a hammer down and turn it into a screwdriver.
Of course, this is just my viewpoint.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
"You'll use our distribution channel if you want any critical acclaim."
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Buy good hardware and be happy when everything just works.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
- A.P.
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20% "China is a great country, and the fact they ran this story just shows Slashdot's xenophobia."
30% "FUX0R CHINA! AMERIKKKA R00LZ!"
10% "I have hot grits down my pants RIGHT NOW."
20% "What's this got to do with Linux?"
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Some might say shutting down Napster would be wrong because it's just a content provider; it's not responsible for what's on its users' hard drives. Well, now that we've got some email from its creators that says, basically, "Yeah, we deal in stolen property," how's Napster any different from a drug ring?
I'll probably get moderated down for disagreeing with people. So, go ahead and hit me with the -1s.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Can syslogd be forced to send messages to a serial port? Connect a non-networked machine of some sort to the networked machine(s) and have it listen on the serial port for data.
Either way, you save reams of paper.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Shit.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad