Fact: A very large number of.com,.net, and.org sites exist outside the US. If they was US-only, the names wouldn't exist.
Fact: The whole argument started because some AC ignorantly suggested that this site only contains US material because the tld is.org, not.ca, which is *definitely* not true. You're way off track now.
To try out SuSE, I'd recommend grabbing the directory from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/7.0 to an install server so that you get all the good crypto stuff. SSH is now a default, finally.
I'd also like to point out the fact that I completely forgot about VA Systemimager, which I have been investigating. From what I've seen, it looks really good, especially with ReiserFS support.
I set up a server at work for installing SuSE and Slackware. It's quite simple.
With Slackware you can make custom package selection files and install over NFS.
With SuSE, you can save you package selections to a floppy and use it on many machines. You can install over FTP or NFS. Only drawback is no DHCP, just BOOTP or manual network configuration. The real advantage is being able to install via a 100MB network...
There's a new tool with SuSE 7 called ALICE. I haven't looked into it yet but I hear it's really powerful for doing automatic installs.
Also, SuSE's YaST2 allows you to graphically install to a machine over a serial cable, which is really neat for installing servers using a laptop to control it.
For the Canadian humour impaired, there was a parody of the "Mr. Microphone" commercial in an episode of SCTV. It was similar, but involved a very large professional boom mike requiring a boom operator.
Actually, it was a Canadian (Fessenden) who invented radio as we now know it. He was the first to transmit an audio signal through the air. Before then, it was all morse code.
I definitely have to agree with you on the Mims books, though. I learned sooo much from them when I was a kid. I even remember going to Buffalo, NY to get the 3 mini-notebooks that weren't available in Canada at the time. For some reason, back then, there were three exclusive to the US, three exclusive to Canada, and three you could get in both countries. Now they're all available anywhere and there are new ones. I also highly recommend his "Getting Started in Electronics" book and the new flashy ones, "Basic Electronics," and "Basic Digital Electronics," written by other people, as well.
In fact, buy every book in that store. Nowhere else can you easily get excellent beginners electronics books for so cheap, especially since McGraw-Hill stopped the book clubs.:-(*
In college we had a CAD lab full of IBM Aptivas. The problem with these machines was that the only way air could travel through the front of the boxes was through the floppy drive.
The instructor told everyone about how to use their floppy disks. He didn't even bother touching on the subject of the Netware file server we were logging into. Just that we had to log in to use the computer.
I had been using floppy disks when I was young and knew all about floppy unreliability. I saved everything to my network drive. I couldn't access the network drive from home so I copied them to my VMS account before logging off. Great.
Not a single other person in my class did that. They used floppies. When we first went in there was one computer with a bad floppy drive. I ended up using that one, no problem. Later on when the other floppy drives started failing, I ended up teaching them how to use their network drives (easier than floppies, imo).
Well, they copied the files to their network drives, then temporarily used another computer to save to floppy. a little better, but used only as a workaround. If they were at a computer with a working drive, they'd skip the network drive thing altogether.
I pushed the entire time, directly to a lot of people, the benefit of using UNIX accounts with NFS mappings. They finally started doing it after I finished... Oh well.
That said, I think the best solution is education. Have a seminar during orientation. Have a refresher at the beginning of each course requiring computer labs. That will help an awful lot. A number of people will have to unlearn things, but the earlier the better.
I've been using it for years on Netscape/Linux and more recently on Mozilla/Linux with PSM (albeit slow). I don't even *have* Windows at home. I don't know what kind of trouble you're having...
I do know that if you have <128 bit SSL, or have JavaScript turned off, it won't work. Other than that, it's fine. I'd prefer not having the JavaScript, but I can't have everything.
Now I only wish Konqueror could do it, I'll try it out again on Monday (KDE2 final release), and change the reported browser type if I have to. Konqueror let's you change it for specific websites, a very cool feature.
As for using Lynx, etc, I don't even think you can get 128 bit SSL for it, just "export grade" SSL. I'm glad they're requiring 128.
Besides, most Linux users I know use Netscape, (and SuSE 7.0 installs the 128 bit version by default) so the market for Lynx users is *extremely* small.
Not that the PIC isn't suited for that kind of application...
Myself, I built a parallel programmer at first (I also partially wrote KDE software for it). Later on I bought Microchip's serial programmer. I'm glad I got it. I had no trouble finding good software for it, I'll have to make an IDE for it one of these days.
Interestingly enough, Microchip's Windows IDE has TeX support. It's based on PFE, which I made sure was present on every Win machine I had to deal with.
I always go for the GPL stuff. I have a natural aversion to shareware, where you end up having a million apps which do the same thing, but not very good. That's one of the things that bugs me about Windows, and disappointed me about the Palm.
That said, I always go to SourceForge first for Palm apps. Some of the shareware is good, though.
So my list:
<ul><li>GNU Keyring - Great for encrypting passwords</li>
<li>HotDate - A good overview on one screen, and a simple reminder alarm where you simply select a time from the menu and it will beep that many minutes from now</li>
<li>PCash - Keeping track of what's in my bank account is a good thing, especially when I don't have an internet connection. I live in Canada where we use our bank cards to make purchases at stores and restaurants (I only need a Visa for online shopping). It comes in really handy when I want to buy something expensive</li>
<li>Patience - It's almost like PySol for the Palm - 'nuff said</li>
<li>Rally 1000 - Oh the time I wasted playing mille (BSD games collection) back when I had a 2400 baud modem to download Linux stuff from SunSite (using Minicom of course), now I have graphics</li>
<li>Theremini - I'm a fan of the real Theremin, this piece of software spread through my office like a virus</li>
<li>pBill - xBill for the Palm</li>
<li>LispMe - I did engineering rather than CS, so I didn't learn Lisp. My boss is an AI freak (having a PhD in it) and constantly praises it (Apparently Crash Bandicoot was written in Lisp).Me, I want to be able to hack on the Gimp more effectively, so I play with Lisp on airplanes, etc</li>
<li>HackMaster - Yep, some shareware, but a shining example of it</li>
<li>DateBook+ - I'm glad Handspring included this little gem</li></ul>
Now, all I need is software to sync my Palm data into my KDE2 apps. For now, I'm using JPilot, which is pretty good, by itself, and doesn't mind that I'll be pressing the HotSync button before JPilot's sync button. Ah, the joys of USB.
I've been running KDE2 snapshots (after I got bored of the CVSup, compile, repeat process) as well as Mozilla nightlies. I always figured that KDE2 would be my environment and Mozilla my browser/mail client. I tried Konqueror each time, and thought it wouldn't compare to Mozilla.
Boy was I wrong. I installed the latest Beta. Konqueror searched my system for Netscape plugins and automatically used them. Flash works great. Konqueror loads extremely fast and doesn't crash nearly as much. I haven't ran Netscape or Mozilla in weeks.
KMail is great, too. It finally has GPG support, so I'm using it for work email now. I no longer need to copy and paste between Netscape and TKPGP (It's still useful for encrypting passwords). Attachments are easy to view as well, which is why I've used Netscape for so long.
We're looking for FT positions, but we do take a number of interns.
The positions are <a
href="http://www.solutioninc.com/about/jobs.html ">here</a>.
We're based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, so a relocation would be required unless you wanted to be sales. Halifax is a cool city for geeks anyway. Lots of broadband, and there are apartment buildings that are connected to our office building via pedways.
They did it in Newfoundland when I lived there. You could pay more for a higher cap, implementing the features of the cable/DSL modem. The service got better for everybody except the warez kiddies.
QoS is a great way to smooth out a network as well. Yesterday, I had to stop a download because our provider told us we were "bogging everyone else down." Unless I implement QoS on my laptop or our router, I can't control how much bandwidth I'm using for a download. I think the ISP should be doing it, rather than calling up people and telling them to stop using their connection.
Delete = gone is nice- We have that option when it comes to shredders and incinerators for our paper correspondence, I think the concept has to be a bit more fleshed out to be truely applicable to the digital medium.
Right click on a file you want to delete in KDE2 and select the "Shred" option.
Watch the resulting progressmeter. Pretty neat, huh?
Bottom line: ReiserFS gets two thumbs up. Highly recommended if you're not afraid of patching your kernel.
Alternatively, you could just use SuSE, which lets you select ReiserFS when you install, no patching necessary.
As an aside, the USB works like a charm, too. I'm using my Handspring Visor and a Wacom Graphire without trouble. Well, except that I can't seem to get the active area and my screen resolution to match...
I'm doing all of this on my laptop and the ReiserFS is just great. There is even a noticeable difference in speed when entering a large directory in mc.
Now I'll have to get SuSE 7.0 and install it on my desktop machine. Fsck'ing an 8GB partition (the largest one in there) is definitely not fun.
Really, I want to have extended attributes like in BeFS. ReiserFS promises that but it's not there yet.
Unfortunately, the mailing list hasn't been touched in months. It's a distributed web search system that could potentially index a lot of the web. It would be designed to minimise the load across busy links.
Basically, it needs more people to start. It is a sort of major project.
Yep, they're plaintext all right. I run Slashcode here at my office, where some people accidentally create accounts with a typo in the name. It blocks multiple accounts with a single email address, so I end up in the database...
It's not KDE specific, you can write any c/c++ app with it, and it does a lot of cool things like automatically documenting your classes and generating autoconf/automake for you. I like having the class browser as well. It also has a decent debugger as well, though I wish it was more like DDD (Data Display Debugger), which has the capability to graph data.
Interestingly enough, I hated VC++ 6. I prefer PFE + CygWin for Windows. Fortunately I haven't had to do Windows programming in years...
I will never ever pay any penny for Linux software. PERIOD!
Wow, now that's a way to support Linux developers and those companies that work very hard to deliver a nice set of packages to you.
Download it, and never pay for it.
I use SuSE, which is delightfully easy to install over ftp for free, with tons of packages, etc. I buy the boxed versions. A cheap-ass such as yourself may scream "WHY?" I simply want SuSE to exist and think they deserve the money I give them. The manual rocks, too.
Cheap != Intelligent
I was never "fooled" by Red Hat and I doubt other Slashdotters were. Don't wave around the fact that's it's free as if you're uncovering a great conspiracy. We're totally aware, we just think you're cheap.
Actually, I received my happy shrinkwrapped CorelDraw box on Monday.
I was really surprised how much the stability has increased since the last beta. It hasn't even crashed on me yet, and loads and operates really quick, especially considering it's a Wine app. It blows away StarOffice 5.2 in efficiency and stability.
It also works great with my Graphire and supports xcf files. It's quite impressive.
The 12" infaltable penguin is cool, too. It even comes with a repair kit...
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Fact: A very large number of .com, .net, and .org sites exist outside the US. If they was US-only, the names wouldn't exist.
.org, not .ca, which is *definitely* not true. You're way off track now.
Fact: The whole argument started because some AC ignorantly suggested that this site only contains US material because the tld is
To try out SuSE, I'd recommend grabbing the directory from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/7.0 to an install server so that you get all the good crypto stuff. SSH is now a default, finally.
I'd also like to point out the fact that I completely forgot about VA Systemimager, which I have been investigating. From what I've seen, it looks really good, especially with ReiserFS support.
Wow, so I've been working for American companies all these years because they have .com addresses?
And here I was, thinking that they were Canadian all this time, just because we were headquartered here.
Thanks for clearing that up.
I bet you think that U-571 was historically accurate, too.
I set up a server at work for installing SuSE and Slackware. It's quite simple.
With Slackware you can make custom package selection files and install over NFS.
With SuSE, you can save you package selections to a floppy and use it on many machines. You can install over FTP or NFS. Only drawback is no DHCP, just BOOTP or manual network configuration. The real advantage is being able to install via a 100MB network...
There's a new tool with SuSE 7 called ALICE. I haven't looked into it yet but I hear it's really powerful for doing automatic installs.
Also, SuSE's YaST2 allows you to graphically install to a machine over a serial cable, which is really neat for installing servers using a laptop to control it.
I prefer "Mr. Boom Mike."
For the Canadian humour impaired, there was a parody of the "Mr. Microphone" commercial in an episode of SCTV. It was similar, but involved a very large professional boom mike requiring a boom operator.
Oh man, I love that show.
Actually, it was a Canadian (Fessenden) who invented radio as we now know it. He was the first to transmit an audio signal through the air. Before then, it was all morse code.
:-(*
I definitely have to agree with you on the Mims books, though. I learned sooo much from them when I was a kid. I even remember going to Buffalo, NY to get the 3 mini-notebooks that weren't available in Canada at the time. For some reason, back then, there were three exclusive to the US, three exclusive to Canada, and three you could get in both countries. Now they're all available anywhere and there are new ones. I also highly recommend his "Getting Started in Electronics" book and the new flashy ones, "Basic Electronics," and "Basic Digital Electronics," written by other people, as well.
In fact, buy every book in that store. Nowhere else can you easily get excellent beginners electronics books for so cheap, especially since McGraw-Hill stopped the book clubs.
Print it on toilet paper.
Then I'd TP Gates' house with it.
...
After using it.
In college we had a CAD lab full of IBM Aptivas. The problem with these machines was that the only way air could travel through the front of the boxes was through the floppy drive.
The instructor told everyone about how to use their floppy disks. He didn't even bother touching on the subject of the Netware file server we were logging into. Just that we had to log in to use the computer.
I had been using floppy disks when I was young and knew all about floppy unreliability. I saved everything to my network drive. I couldn't access the network drive from home so I copied them to my VMS account before logging off. Great.
Not a single other person in my class did that. They used floppies. When we first went in there was one computer with a bad floppy drive. I ended up using that one, no problem. Later on when the other floppy drives started failing, I ended up teaching them how to use their network drives (easier than floppies, imo).
Well, they copied the files to their network drives, then temporarily used another computer to save to floppy. a little better, but used only as a workaround. If they were at a computer with a working drive, they'd skip the network drive thing altogether.
I pushed the entire time, directly to a lot of people, the benefit of using UNIX accounts with NFS mappings. They finally started doing it after I finished... Oh well.
That said, I think the best solution is education. Have a seminar during orientation. Have a refresher at the beginning of each course requiring computer labs. That will help an awful lot. A number of people will have to unlearn things, but the earlier the better.
Remember, only you can prevent floppy disks.
I've been using it for years on Netscape/Linux and more recently on Mozilla/Linux with PSM (albeit slow). I don't even *have* Windows at home. I don't know what kind of trouble you're having...
I do know that if you have <128 bit SSL, or have JavaScript turned off, it won't work. Other than that, it's fine. I'd prefer not having the JavaScript, but I can't have everything.
Now I only wish Konqueror could do it, I'll try it out again on Monday (KDE2 final release), and change the reported browser type if I have to. Konqueror let's you change it for specific websites, a very cool feature.
As for using Lynx, etc, I don't even think you can get 128 bit SSL for it, just "export grade" SSL. I'm glad they're requiring 128.
Besides, most Linux users I know use Netscape, (and SuSE 7.0 installs the 128 bit version by default) so the market for Lynx users is *extremely* small.
Ah, I'm so happy. I can't think of anything one might want to do other than just sit in this chair. All of my worries have just melted away.
50 years later...
Apologies to the Tick...
I can't think of any VCR with either.
Not that the PIC isn't suited for that kind of application...
Myself, I built a parallel programmer at first (I also partially wrote KDE software for it). Later on I bought Microchip's serial programmer. I'm glad I got it. I had no trouble finding good software for it, I'll have to make an IDE for it one of these days.
Interestingly enough, Microchip's Windows IDE has TeX support. It's based on PFE, which I made sure was present on every Win machine I had to deal with.
Great, I press 'preview,' it looks good, so I press 'submit.' It doesn't look good.
Sigh.
I always go for the GPL stuff. I have a natural aversion to shareware, where you end up having a million apps which do the same thing, but not very good. That's one of the things that bugs me about Windows, and disappointed me about the Palm.
That said, I always go to SourceForge first for Palm apps. Some of the shareware is good, though.
So my list:
<ul><li>GNU Keyring - Great for encrypting passwords</li>
<li>HotDate - A good overview on one screen, and a simple reminder alarm where you simply select a time from the menu and it will beep that many minutes from now</li>
<li>PCash - Keeping track of what's in my bank account is a good thing, especially when I don't have an internet connection. I live in Canada where we use our bank cards to make purchases at stores and restaurants (I only need a Visa for online shopping). It comes in really handy when I want to buy something expensive</li>
<li>Patience - It's almost like PySol for the Palm - 'nuff said</li>
<li>Rally 1000 - Oh the time I wasted playing mille (BSD games collection) back when I had a 2400 baud modem to download Linux stuff from SunSite (using Minicom of course), now I have graphics</li>
<li>Theremini - I'm a fan of the real Theremin, this piece of software spread through my office like a virus</li>
<li>pBill - xBill for the Palm</li>
<li>LispMe - I did engineering rather than CS, so I didn't learn Lisp. My boss is an AI freak (having a PhD in it) and constantly praises it (Apparently Crash Bandicoot was written in Lisp).Me, I want to be able to hack on the Gimp more effectively, so I play with Lisp on airplanes, etc</li>
<li>HackMaster - Yep, some shareware, but a shining example of it</li>
<li>DateBook+ - I'm glad Handspring included this little gem</li></ul>
Now, all I need is software to sync my Palm data into my KDE2 apps. For now, I'm using JPilot, which is pretty good, by itself, and doesn't mind that I'll be pressing the HotSync button before JPilot's sync button. Ah, the joys of USB.
Oh man you're right.
I've been running KDE2 snapshots (after I got bored of the CVSup, compile, repeat process) as well as Mozilla nightlies. I always figured that KDE2 would be my environment and Mozilla my browser/mail client. I tried Konqueror each time, and thought it wouldn't compare to Mozilla.
Boy was I wrong. I installed the latest Beta. Konqueror searched my system for Netscape plugins and automatically used them. Flash works great. Konqueror loads extremely fast and doesn't crash nearly as much. I haven't ran Netscape or Mozilla in weeks.
KMail is great, too. It finally has GPG support, so I'm using it for work email now. I no longer need to copy and paste between Netscape and TKPGP (It's still useful for encrypting passwords). Attachments are easy to view as well, which is why I've used Netscape for so long.
We're looking for FT positions, but we do take a number of interns.
l ">here</a>.
The positions are <a
href="http://www.solutioninc.com/about/jobs.htm
We're based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, so a relocation would be required unless you wanted to be sales. Halifax is a cool city for geeks anyway. Lots of broadband, and there are apartment buildings that are connected to our office building via pedways.
I certainly do not have a land line and that didn't bother my bank one bit, nor did it bother anyone else.
It's also useful because anonymous calls are illegal, yay. I have not received one unsolicited call (aside from one wrong number) since I got it.
Then again, I live in Canada. Our banks are extremely technology savvy.
They did it in Newfoundland when I lived there. You could pay more for a higher cap, implementing the features of the cable/DSL modem. The service got better for everybody except the warez kiddies.
QoS is a great way to smooth out a network as well. Yesterday, I had to stop a download because our provider told us we were "bogging everyone else down." Unless I implement QoS on my laptop or our router, I can't control how much bandwidth I'm using for a download. I think the ISP should be doing it, rather than calling up people and telling them to stop using their connection.
Right click on a file you want to delete in KDE2 and select the "Shred" option.
Watch the resulting progressmeter. Pretty neat, huh?
If you don't have KDE2, try out wipe.
Alternatively, you could just use SuSE, which lets you select ReiserFS when you install, no patching necessary.
As an aside, the USB works like a charm, too. I'm using my Handspring Visor and a Wacom Graphire without trouble. Well, except that I can't seem to get the active area and my screen resolution to match...
I'm doing all of this on my laptop and the ReiserFS is just great. There is even a noticeable difference in speed when entering a large directory in mc.
Now I'll have to get SuSE 7.0 and install it on my desktop machine. Fsck'ing an 8GB partition (the largest one in there) is definitely not fun.
Really, I want to have extended attributes like in BeFS. ReiserFS promises that but it's not there yet.
Hacked CueCat + barcode generation software + database = dirt cheap inventory system.
To see more ideas check out this Freshmeat search.
Here.
Unfortunately, the mailing list hasn't been touched in months. It's a distributed web search system that could potentially index a lot of the web. It would be designed to minimise the load across busy links.
Basically, it needs more people to start. It is a sort of major project.
At least it's directly useful...
Yep, they're plaintext all right. I run Slashcode here at my office, where some people accidentally create accounts with a typo in the name. It blocks multiple accounts with a single email address, so I end up in the database...
Have you tried KDevelop?
It's not KDE specific, you can write any c/c++ app with it, and it does a lot of cool things like automatically documenting your classes and generating autoconf/automake for you. I like having the class browser as well. It also has a decent debugger as well, though I wish it was more like DDD (Data Display Debugger), which has the capability to graph data.
Interestingly enough, I hated VC++ 6. I prefer PFE + CygWin for Windows. Fortunately I haven't had to do Windows programming in years...
Actually, I received my happy shrinkwrapped CorelDraw box on Monday.
I was really surprised how much the stability has increased since the last beta. It hasn't even crashed on me yet, and loads and operates really quick, especially considering it's a Wine app. It blows away StarOffice 5.2 in efficiency and stability.
It also works great with my Graphire and supports xcf files. It's quite impressive.
The 12" infaltable penguin is cool, too. It even comes with a repair kit...