Ten minutes? something was wrong with the configuration.
I have a 486 with redhat 6.2 and takes less than a minute to boot. The boot time AFIK is not the main driver for the changes. There are really good reasons, but boot time is not the main one.
Of course, the Ubuntu team was in a curious rush to create some sort of 1-second-boot-time OS, and sysV scripts must be avoided for that goal.
I love the TCP/IP "monoculture". And I see the browser as an extension of the lower network layers (i.e. html on top of http, etc) where protocol deviations give more trouble than innovation.
Oh yeah, you have a critical non encrypted database with some proprietary applications running in the same internet web server box, and you fix everything by adding a Linux PC with iptables and one IP tunnel. You're a total genius.
> And the really odd thing is that it's usually WAY easier to address this kind of insecurity than it is to fix problems in software, especially COTS products. You just have to try. Yes, it costs a bit, but it's not exactly exotic and it's not all that expensive. Firewalls are cheap, faster than ever and not terribly difficult to manage anymore.
No, it's usually WAY difficult to address this "architecture" insecurity as you put it. I really don't understand why you're even mentioning firewall costs at all.
To correct that kind of "architecture" issues you often need to add layers/filters/equipment/barriers into the data flow, which introduces lots of issues and in the general case is expensive. Specialy when you have a legacy infraestructure where the Internet is a later addon.
In Spanish, especially in conquered Latin America, zambo was one of the (many) technical terms used to specify the different mixes resulting from white (Spanish), native american, and blacks, and their descendants. Specifically, zambo(a) was the first generation of the mix between native american and black. It's current usage is obviously broader and informal, and no longer a "racist" term per se.
IMO the current "standard user" doesn't care more about the operating system than, for example, the hard disk brand. It's just another item in the laptop/pc.
Just yesterday my uncle decided to buy a low price laptop from dell.com and of course his selection carried Windows 8 but he didn't realized it until I commented about the compatibility of his (rather old) application installers.
The 80s when people cared about DOS 3.2 vs DOS 3.3 are gone for good (except in/.)
From the physics and economics POV the easiest way would be mass extinction of humankind. The "don't emit CO2" idea is not a very realistic one as far as reality is concerned.
I recently went to xfce (xubuntu 12.04.) Before, I used Ubuntu (since 2007) and before Debian w/Kde 3 + Fedora w/Gnome 2.
This year I tried Kubuntu and Xubuntu in parallel and found Kde 4 a bit bloated, their (very nice) menus interferring my trivial tasks, and since the wireless detection failed, the network manager gadget never recovered from my manual configuration via ifconfig. The sound never worked at all (even when Ubuntu 10.04 worked like a charm in that same laptop.) The last ones may be related to mistakes from Canonical but I didn't want to give more time to the thing.
Xubuntu gave me a "fairly good" environment to work productively from day one, even with some limitations.
Well it's not just the LTS: several years ago I leaved RH and clones for good because of the RPM limitations (before YUM was incorporated.) Even from time to time when I tried a Fedora or a CentOS, I found yum too slow just for starting to download anything (yet I don't understand why... it feels a bit like the old java applets' startup), and very limited in packages compared to the debian/ubuntu counterpart.
Also, I have to support three Dell laptops and newer kernels tended to solve/improve some issues with the (cheap) hardware.
Good to know. Sadly I plan to remain with 12.04 in all of my machines because of the LTS thing. Hope to get some of those improvements with the updates.
> Don't be an incomplete and lacking project borne of frustration with other ones. (Xfce)
Ok AC, switched to Xubuntu 12.04 this month (from the great Ubuntu 10.04), and you're right, there are several instances for improvement.
But all in all I'm doing my work and the GUI is not interferring me (as happened when tested Unity and Gnome 3.) With more time I could try those "Gnome shell extensions thing" (whatever it is), but I'm too lazy (or busy?) and Xfce is just fine for me.
First, on any engineering courses the students take for granted the need for math/science. That's not your case, so take some time every class to explain why and how this could be useful for your students beyond passing the grade
Second, they usually had a very hard time with school math, so take it easy and by all means try to avoid showing how smart you are when dealing with the abstractions and the logic, instead focusing on how little is needed to cover most of your material.
Third, they don't enjoy the solution of very difficult problems or challenging exercises (like a science/engineering student does.) They really enjoy the simple fact of grasping the concepts and making something useful with that
Fourth, check your students' background. Be prepared to provide several high/elementary school sessions.
fifth, your students are very good for reading, so give them some literature partially related to math (for example a biography of Descartes showing some of his math discoveries.) That's a pretty good way to generate interest. If they're political interested, then talk about Marx's math manuscripts, etc.
Maybe the OP is talking about enabling incoming X connections. This varies with the display manager and its release, and sometimes does require the edition of a non obvious configuration file.
I'm using it after trying Kubuntu (until now I can't use its interface to configure the wifi nor the sound), after discarding Unity (one instance per app is their target), and the "Classic Gnome" (several little things unpolished, but better than the previous.)
Now I'm using Xubuntu (xfce) for about three months and I'm very happy with it.
But after those measures the climate still will be changing (as happened from the start of the times).... what we need is a new technology (and science) for total climate control in order to suppress any change for ever.
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Ten minutes? something was wrong with the configuration.
I have a 486 with redhat 6.2 and takes less than a minute to boot. The boot time AFIK is not the main driver for the changes. There are really good reasons, but boot time is not the main one.
Of course, the Ubuntu team was in a curious rush to create some sort of 1-second-boot-time OS, and sysV scripts must be avoided for that goal.
Maybe it's time to appoint new editors by clonning several Maldas..
I love the TCP/IP "monoculture". And I see the browser as an extension of the lower network layers (i.e. html on top of http, etc) where protocol deviations give more trouble than innovation.
IFAIK nobody is missing the "IE6 culture".
Oh yeah, you have a critical non encrypted database with some proprietary applications running in the same internet web server box, and you fix everything by adding a Linux PC with iptables and one IP tunnel. You're a total genius.
> And the really odd thing is that it's usually WAY easier to address this kind of insecurity than it is to fix problems in software, especially COTS products. You just have to try. Yes, it costs a bit, but it's not exactly exotic and it's not all that expensive. Firewalls are cheap, faster than ever and not terribly difficult to manage anymore.
No, it's usually WAY difficult to address this "architecture" insecurity as you put it. I really don't understand why you're even mentioning firewall costs at all.
To correct that kind of "architecture" issues you often need to add layers/filters/equipment/barriers into the data flow, which introduces lots of issues and in the general case is expensive. Specialy when you have a legacy infraestructure where the Internet is a later addon.
I didn't know we have such a great interest in what we don't know we don't know.
In Spanish, especially in conquered Latin America, zambo was one of the (many) technical terms used to specify the different mixes resulting from white (Spanish), native american, and blacks, and their descendants. Specifically, zambo(a) was the first generation of the mix between native american and black.
It's current usage is obviously broader and informal, and no longer a "racist" term per se.
C was never used as a platform for web applets. Guess what could happened in that way (hint: 99% of the Microsoft Windows/Office/Adobe/etc viruses.)
IMO the current "standard user" doesn't care more about the operating system than, for example, the hard disk brand. It's just another item in the laptop/pc.
Just yesterday my uncle decided to buy a low price laptop from dell.com and of course his selection carried Windows 8 but he didn't realized it until I commented about the compatibility of his (rather old) application installers.
The 80s when people cared about DOS 3.2 vs DOS 3.3 are gone for good (except in /.)
No, it's not a configuration option (at least on bash 4.) There is even a patch for getting the old behavior.
I'm using bash 4.2 right now and after years of expanding
$W/xx to /path/xx
Now I get this stupid thing:
\$W/xx
Maybe a Gnome developer is helping the bash team...
I just took the actual Obama recovery results and got negative numbers without having to multiply by anything...
I think you have a misconfiguration issue. Anyway, try tightvnc. Definitively not a pig.
The /. server is running li
From the physics and economics POV the easiest way would be mass extinction of humankind. The "don't emit CO2" idea is not a very realistic one as far as reality is concerned.
I recently went to xfce (xubuntu 12.04.) Before, I used Ubuntu (since 2007) and before Debian w/Kde 3 + Fedora w/Gnome 2.
This year I tried Kubuntu and Xubuntu in parallel and found Kde 4 a bit bloated, their (very nice) menus interferring my trivial tasks, and since the wireless detection failed, the network manager gadget never recovered from my manual configuration via ifconfig. The sound never worked at all (even when Ubuntu 10.04 worked like a charm in that same laptop.) The last ones may be related to mistakes from Canonical but I didn't want to give more time to the thing.
Xubuntu gave me a "fairly good" environment to work productively from day one, even with some limitations.
Well it's not just the LTS: several years ago I leaved RH and clones for good because of the RPM limitations (before YUM was incorporated.) Even from time to time when I tried a Fedora or a CentOS, I found yum too slow just for starting to download anything (yet I don't understand why... it feels a bit like the old java applets' startup), and very limited in packages compared to the debian/ubuntu counterpart.
Also, I have to support three Dell laptops and newer kernels tended to solve/improve some issues with the (cheap) hardware.
Good to know. Sadly I plan to remain with 12.04 in all of my machines because of the LTS thing. Hope to get some of those improvements with the updates.
> Don't be an incomplete and lacking project borne of frustration with other ones. (Xfce)
Ok AC, switched to Xubuntu 12.04 this month (from the great Ubuntu 10.04), and you're right, there are several instances for improvement.
But all in all I'm doing my work and the GUI is not interferring me (as happened when tested Unity and Gnome 3.) With more time I could try those "Gnome shell extensions thing" (whatever it is), but I'm too lazy (or busy?) and Xfce is just fine for me.
Java, Ruby, Python... Perl... none of these were invented for serving dynamic web pages. PHP did.
First, on any engineering courses the students take for granted the need for math/science. That's not your case, so take some time every class to explain why and how this could be useful for your students beyond passing the grade
Second, they usually had a very hard time with school math, so take it easy and by all means try to avoid showing how smart you are when dealing with the abstractions and the logic, instead focusing on how little is needed to cover most of your material.
Third, they don't enjoy the solution of very difficult problems or challenging exercises (like a science/engineering student does.) They really enjoy the simple fact of grasping the concepts and making something useful with that
Fourth, check your students' background. Be prepared to provide several high/elementary school sessions.
fifth, your students are very good for reading, so give them some literature partially related to math (for example a biography of Descartes showing some of his math discoveries.) That's a pretty good way to generate interest. If they're political interested, then talk about Marx's math manuscripts, etc.
Maybe the OP is talking about enabling incoming X connections. This varies with the display manager and its release, and sometimes does require the edition of a non obvious configuration file.
Or go Xubuntu.
I'm using it after trying Kubuntu (until now I can't use its interface to configure the wifi nor the sound), after discarding Unity (one instance per app is their target), and the "Classic Gnome" (several little things unpolished, but better than the previous.)
Now I'm using Xubuntu (xfce) for about three months and I'm very happy with it.
But after those measures the climate still will be changing (as happened from the start of the times).... what we need is a new technology (and science) for total climate control in order to suppress any change for ever.
I'm sure Microsoft can point to millions of users in lots of statistics and hundreds of focus groups about people liking clippy.