I also have the smell of weed around me but I still manage to manage a not-so-bad-running IT company... maybe it's more those people's brains (or lack thereof) that cause the problems than the weed they smoke.
Well...I understood your point; you wanted to get the fileserver up, but don't you think that by doing a rather default install (as you seem to have done with Mandrake), you will lose the overview of what's installed on the machine and therefore lose security and stability? That way in the long term your rather fast install may turn out not to be as time-efficient as it seemed to be. (but that's not the case with your FreeBSD-install).
That true, but it's just as well possible with other *BSDs, debian, and i presume also with other linux distro's so basing your OS-choice for a mission critical server on the fact that you like the installer is like buying a tv because you like the box. Not that I'd say FreeBSD is not the right choice; it would also be my choice for any server that doesn't need to run closed-source linux applications (jdk 1.3.x especially) but it's just not the right argument:)
what sort of admin does a default install of anything?
Read the parent of this thread...it says Initially, I thought, well, Mandrake8.1. I did a test install. Gigs and Gigs and Gigs of useless crap and a horrible package management system to boot. Selecting packages individually took time I didn't have. So here you have your answer: he does:) Interesting. He didn't have time to select packages but he DID have time to start over completely with FreeBSD.
The point is...nobody is in the right position to decide what is harmfull and what is not. By making legislation that says (in a broader way) things like Nazi's cannot say what they want to do to jews etc. Then why would such legislation let me say that I hate Nazi's? Because I'm conforming more to the general opinion? I think it is wrong to censor anything at all. I also think letting Nazi's say what they want makes the rest of us more conscious of their existance and enables therefore it enables us to fucking do something about it!
All they can do is make it harder and harder for potential sharers by making people switch to new software or new ways of naming files....
Or by stupid laws like the SSCAA or whatever it's called. This P2P-filesharing might be a huge argument for laws like that. I'm not sure if the current proposal covers these things, but then some other law might and before you know it you are considered a criminal when your program X uses Internet. Since this is the only way to prevent massive file sharing, I fear it's a serious possibility.
Well...the rather difficult installation and especially configuration are most certainly one of the largest factors in Linux/*BSD not being adopted as much as we'd like to see. Does someone know which distro has the most userfriendly install at the moment?
Okay. You're right. Apart from childporn at least one other exception should be made. Weapons. The number of people getting killed in the US is an awfull lot higher than it is in western european countries. Now I don't think that's caused only by guns being more or less legal over there (a totally different culture is probably also a factor), but I'm sure they're a large part of the deal. Therefore weapons should indeed be banned as well.
I live in the Netherlands. My grandparents have also told me terrible stories just like you did. I don't see the point of banning Nazi stuff and acting like nothing happened. In my opinion it's important that people know what went on back then; it's important so they can better understand how their [[great]grand]parents suffered and better understand what situation caused all this hate; this will help us to prevent such things in the future. By banning Nazi stuff, all there's left to talk about is pretty abstract and won't help education at all.
For example here in the Netherlands it is illegal to buy/sell Mein Kampf. But I don't see what good this does; I, for one, am pretty interested in what happened around here and I think that by reading it i will much better understand the way Hitler thought. And this will help me to better judge such situations in the future and deal with them instead of being surprised when it's too late.
Furthermore; Nazi symphatizers exist and by just acting as if they don't exist, you won't get them out of the way. The same thing goes for banning Nazi stuff. It won't harm Nazi symphatizers; they will still get the shit but then we will much less notice they are around and therefore will do less to stop them until they've grown pretty large and not-so-nice-things will happen.
So my point: you don't do anything good by acting as if bad people or bad things don't exist. They do. Deal with it and make sure you know about it so you can do something about it. You won't get those weird thoughts out of their mind by denying they exist; this can only be done by talking about it and by making people aware this exists and they should watch out for it.
If you start banning things that are not bad by themselves (people do harm, things don't), where will it end?/. promotes free speech. This is in a way the same thing. One should not make exceptions to this based on your own opinion. This would be the same as banning the Holy Book X because you'd happen to have a government that prefers Holy Book Y (which btw is also bad; religion and politics should be separated).
Anyway. There are offcourse a few exceptions to this, one of which is childporn; childporn is harmfull to the children performing in it (as has been proven), buying childporn raises de demand and therefore causes more harm to children and should therefore be banned. I don't see how this is even remotely the same as nazi materials. Not that I would buy them...
Actually it's not that must faster. I don't have the exact dates (looked at the dates at ftp.nl.kernel.org), but 2.2 took about 14 months to get to.14 and 2.4 took about 11 months. And then there was this kernel that was withdrawn so actually one can say we're at.13 now:) And besides: you don't have to compile every new kernel. If it works fine, don't touch it.
A new kernel may not be news for everyone but it is certainly news for nerds.
Actually I think the things currently going on @ mplayer are much more important to nerds. Especially since for many nerds playing movies is still an important reason to run windows because they don't know about mplayer. Since/. is a very open-source-minded site, this would be much more important to cover. It's not even news but the impact of posting an article about mplayer would be much larger than posting about every new kernel.
How about chinese export? I'm sure a few million chinese ppl live from that. One usually doesn't trade with the government but with private businesses (or don't they exist over there?) so if you stop buying things from them because THEIR situation concerning human rights is not very well, you will only cause their situation to become worse. Forcing governments to change their ways by denying certain things (money, work, food, medicine) from their ppl is not the right way in my opinion.
...unless it's the only solution and ppl suffer less from the consequences on the long term than they would have if nothing was done. But I don't think that's the case here. And I don't think it is ever. Think: Iraque. We all know the Iraq ppl suffer and Saddam doesn't change anything.
Though funny, it would have been less provoking if you'd not act as if all muslims are the same and did s/Muslims/Fundamentalistic\ Muslims/g. But offcourse everybody@/. knows that so that's not necessary to do/say so why am I posting anyway?
Well... I don't have DHCP here so I can't test it, but reading this, I think you can view the leasetime in the file/etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-<interface>.cache. You can specify a recommended lease time to the server with the -l parameter to dhcpc.
As Wim van Velzen (the proposer) stated: an opt-in possibility would be much better than opt-out (as it is with most browsers nowadays). Most Internet-users don't understand cookies at all so it's not quite fair to leave it to them to turn them of.
Looks like yahoo exaggerating here...
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The amendment, proposed by Dutch Parliament member W.G. van Velzen, likens cookies to ``hidden identifiers'' that track and store information on an Internet users' surfing habits.
On this dudes homepage (in dutch...) his official statement does not say he wants to ban cookies at all. He's only proposing legislation in order to abridge tracking users' browsing habits and then using these to send them advertisements based on their habits without the users knowledge. This is not a bad thing in my opinion; our normal use of cookies (e.g. no need to login to/. and tracking sessions on usefull web-applications) will not be affected at all. Wim van Velzen's official statement can be found here (dutch).
He doesn't sound like he totally understands cookies, though; he says things like "it's still unclear wether cookies can be used to gather information about other sites the user has visited" and he proposes a "maximum validity date for cookies" which has been there since t=0.
So either I misunderstood all of this, Yahoo got this wrong, or Wim van Velzen's statement is incorrect, but I guess he wrote it himself so that's ok. Nothing to see here people...move along.
(Control-)Shift-Tab doesn't switch tabs here (Linux, nightly build from yesterday or so). It does what it's supposed to do: give the "previous" item in the page/window the focus. Control-Shift-Tab seems to do something here, but I don't know exactly what:) It's not switching tabs..
(based on my own expieriences with the Mozilla nightlies on Linux): 1. It's faster than opening a new window. 2. Your windowlist doesn't get as long. 3. You only have to resize one window. 4. You can't (read: i don't know a way to) switch tabs with the keyboard as you can with seperate windows.
My wishlist: Keyboard-tab-switching and the possibility to open bookmarks by default in a new tab if you want to.
The AMD in Tom's tests disintegraded much sooner than the cpu (or mobo) quit in this test, so this has nothing to do with the mobo. At least...the difference between the time the cpu needed to crash in Tom's test and the time needed in this test cannot be explained by `he used a better mobo'.
The NTFS driver will probably remain unstable forever because you can't make a stable driver for a filesystem which has no documentation available (or is there?) and (especially) which changes big time with every major release.
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I also have the smell of weed around me but I still manage to manage a not-so-bad-running IT company... maybe it's more those people's brains (or lack thereof) that cause the problems than the weed they smoke.
Well...I understood your point; you wanted to get the fileserver up, but don't you think that by doing a rather default install (as you seem to have done with Mandrake), you will lose the overview of what's installed on the machine and therefore lose security and stability? That way in the long term your rather fast install may turn out not to be as time-efficient as it seemed to be. (but that's not the case with your FreeBSD-install).
That true, but it's just as well possible with other *BSDs, debian, and i presume also with other linux distro's so basing your OS-choice for a mission critical server on the fact that you like the installer is like buying a tv because you like the box. Not that I'd say FreeBSD is not the right choice; it would also be my choice for any server that doesn't need to run closed-source linux applications (jdk 1.3.x especially) but it's just not the right argument:)
Read the parent of this thread...it says Initially, I thought, well, Mandrake8.1. I did a test install. Gigs and Gigs and Gigs of useless crap and a horrible package management system to boot. Selecting packages individually took time I didn't have. So here you have your answer: he does:) Interesting. He didn't have time to select packages but he DID have time to start over completely with FreeBSD.
The point is...nobody is in the right position to decide what is harmfull and what is not. By making legislation that says (in a broader way) things like Nazi's cannot say what they want to do to jews etc. Then why would such legislation let me say that I hate Nazi's? Because I'm conforming more to the general opinion? I think it is wrong to censor anything at all. I also think letting Nazi's say what they want makes the rest of us more conscious of their existance and enables therefore it enables us to fucking do something about it!
Or by stupid laws like the SSCAA or whatever it's called. This P2P-filesharing might be a huge argument for laws like that. I'm not sure if the current proposal covers these things, but then some other law might and before you know it you are considered a criminal when your program X uses Internet. Since this is the only way to prevent massive file sharing, I fear it's a serious possibility.
I meant pointy clicky thingies. I'm going to give Mandrake a try then (on my distro-test-box, that is; I use Debian). About FreeBSD: I agree:) Thanks.
Well...the rather difficult installation and especially configuration are most certainly one of the largest factors in Linux/*BSD not being adopted as much as we'd like to see. Does someone know which distro has the most userfriendly install at the moment?
Okay. You're right. Apart from childporn at least one other exception should be made. Weapons. The number of people getting killed in the US is an awfull lot higher than it is in western european countries. Now I don't think that's caused only by guns being more or less legal over there (a totally different culture is probably also a factor), but I'm sure they're a large part of the deal. Therefore weapons should indeed be banned as well.
I live in the Netherlands. My grandparents have also told me terrible stories just like you did. I don't see the point of banning Nazi stuff and acting like nothing happened. In my opinion it's important that people know what went on back then; it's important so they can better understand how their [[great]grand]parents suffered and better understand what situation caused all this hate; this will help us to prevent such things in the future. By banning Nazi stuff, all there's left to talk about is pretty abstract and won't help education at all.
For example here in the Netherlands it is illegal to buy/sell Mein Kampf. But I don't see what good this does; I, for one, am pretty interested in what happened around here and I think that by reading it i will much better understand the way Hitler thought. And this will help me to better judge such situations in the future and deal with them instead of being surprised when it's too late.
Furthermore; Nazi symphatizers exist and by just acting as if they don't exist, you won't get them out of the way. The same thing goes for banning Nazi stuff. It won't harm Nazi symphatizers; they will still get the shit but then we will much less notice they are around and therefore will do less to stop them until they've grown pretty large and not-so-nice-things will happen.
So my point: you don't do anything good by acting as if bad people or bad things don't exist. They do. Deal with it and make sure you know about it so you can do something about it. You won't get those weird thoughts out of their mind by denying they exist; this can only be done by talking about it and by making people aware this exists and they should watch out for it.
Anyway. There are offcourse a few exceptions to this, one of which is childporn; childporn is harmfull to the children performing in it (as has been proven), buying childporn raises de demand and therefore causes more harm to children and should therefore be banned. I don't see how this is even remotely the same as nazi materials. Not that I would buy them...
Actually it's not that must faster. I don't have the exact dates (looked at the dates at ftp.nl.kernel.org), but 2.2 took about 14 months to get to .14 and 2.4 took about 11 months. And then there was this kernel that was withdrawn so actually one can say we're at .13 now:) And besides: you don't have to compile every new kernel. If it works fine, don't touch it.
Actually I think the things currently going on @ mplayer are much more important to nerds. Especially since for many nerds playing movies is still an important reason to run windows because they don't know about mplayer. Since /. is a very open-source-minded site, this would be much more important to cover. It's not even news but the impact of posting an article about mplayer would be much larger than posting about every new kernel.
...unless it's the only solution and ppl suffer less from the consequences on the long term than they would have if nothing was done. But I don't think that's the case here. And I don't think it is ever. Think: Iraque. We all know the Iraq ppl suffer and Saddam doesn't change anything.
Though funny, it would have been less provoking if you'd not act as if all muslims are the same and did s/Muslims/Fundamentalistic\ Muslims/g. But offcourse everybody@/. knows that so that's not necessary to do/say so why am I posting anyway?
Well... I don't have DHCP here so I can't test it, but reading this, I think you can view the leasetime in the file /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-<interface>.cache. You can specify a recommended lease time to the server with the -l parameter to dhcpc.
As Wim van Velzen (the proposer) stated: an opt-in possibility would be much better than opt-out (as it is with most browsers nowadays). Most Internet-users don't understand cookies at all so it's not quite fair to leave it to them to turn them of.
On this dudes homepage (in dutch...) his official statement does not say he wants to ban cookies at all. He's only proposing legislation in order to abridge tracking users' browsing habits and then using these to send them advertisements based on their habits without the users knowledge. This is not a bad thing in my opinion; our normal use of cookies (e.g. no need to login to /. and tracking sessions on usefull web-applications) will not be affected at all. Wim van Velzen's official statement can be found here (dutch).
He doesn't sound like he totally understands cookies, though; he says things like "it's still unclear wether cookies can be used to gather information about other sites the user has visited" and he proposes a "maximum validity date for cookies" which has been there since t=0.
So either I misunderstood all of this, Yahoo got this wrong, or Wim van Velzen's statement is incorrect, but I guess he wrote it himself so that's ok. Nothing to see here people ...move along.
hehehe C-Tab sesms to be a shortcut to the talkback-window here:) Thanks anyway for your response.
(Control-)Shift-Tab doesn't switch tabs here (Linux, nightly build from yesterday or so). It does what it's supposed to do: give the "previous" item in the page/window the focus. Control-Shift-Tab seems to do something here, but I don't know exactly what:) It's not switching tabs..
My wishlist: Keyboard-tab-switching and the possibility to open bookmarks by default in a new tab if you want to.
If your cpu is still fine, it most probably wasn't the cpu(fan) that failed. You just fried your mobo.
Wasn't this about the cpu's built-in heatprotection? Yes.
The AMD in Tom's tests disintegraded much sooner than the cpu (or mobo) quit in this test, so this has nothing to do with the mobo. At least...the difference between the time the cpu needed to crash in Tom's test and the time needed in this test cannot be explained by `he used a better mobo'.
The NTFS driver will probably remain unstable forever because you can't make a stable driver for a filesystem which has no documentation available (or is there?) and (especially) which changes big time with every major release.