Well at my place of business we use Eudora, but due to bug problems we may be moving to Netscape Mail. In alot of corporate Environments NEtscape Mail is still popular.
Many people i deal with end up using Outlook Express because it comes with Windows, at least form a windows persepctive. It's fine for base needs.
I did not say there is no web, i said that alot of the content would probably not be there since the ads cover costs. Hardware, bandwith and support are not cheap. Read all that i said don't take bits out of context.
Oh one other thing, SR has had something alot of RPG's lack, a backstory that evolves. You can if you have all the supplemental books, modules, etc. see the story evolve. They created a dynamic universe which is something not easy to do. And it flowed in a way that mostly makes sense (except for a few things here and there that "vanished" with rules changes).
The way they have built new threats or existing ones, taken down some big players but introduced new ones in their wake. It is some good fiction in itself. Plus they emphasize the fact that what you do effects the world around you.
I agree here, Tom Dowd did leave, Nigel Findley, god rest his soul, died in a car accident some years ago. Probably one of the best pieces of literature i have ever read was his Universal Brotherhood supplement, the fiction in that was a novella in length and probably one of the best i've read.
It introduced a new threat but in a way that made your jaw drop and sit there going "holy shit"
Ok as a player and GM for shadowrun since it came out back in 89 here is a quick rundown:
1. The indians were able to cause a whole lot of volcanoes to just erupt, all of a sudden your enemy can cause the very earth to punish you, well you listen. Combined with other issues they did not have much choice.
2. The US was not the most powerful country at this time, it was dealing with lots of issues.
3. In the game setting did they have a choice?
4. This is a game, it is NOT REAL they went with an idea, reducing the amount of magic imho short circuits an important part of the game and an important theme. The idea the of the 6th world and all.
Well when you run a busy site and need to upgrade to a faster server then it does matter. Where i work we just upgraded a server to a sparc that cost around $20,000. The site is a non-profit orginazations site and the only way to help deal with the costs is through ads. I'm not saying everything about ads is great but they are needed. Without the money draw the internet would not be as big as it is and i would not have the job i do probably.
Well Doubleclick started licensing their stuff in Sept 1996. No mention of when they actually began though. Doubleclick may be evil but it is necessary, without ad revenues many sites would not be able to even exist. Ads help keep most sites free.
They won't put anyone out of business way to many interests larger than CNET have a stake in this.
In california it is already a crime to send spam via forged email addresses, in fact the network that you forged the email as originating from can sue you for this.
That is the main reason why i disable it on all servers i setup that are mail servers. That and to prevent snooping. It is a shame that that has to happen but that is the reality.
It's just prudent to reduce any potential avenues of trouble
The install for FreeBSD is relatively painless, there is a gui interface (no mouse though) for it, plus you can wathc the progress on another terminal or even do some stuff while it installs.
The setup afterwards sometimes takes some effort, mostly getting used to the differences between Linux and Freebsd(if your coming from the Linux world). Also only a few things are on by default.
Your best bet is to goto www.freebsd.org there is a HOWTO about linux to FreeBSD changes
The performance increase depends really. What you really want is the drive holding all the web content on it's own controller and hard drive with logging on a second controller. This helps overcome any io issues, plus you want loads of ram to keep static content in memory so you hit the drive as little as possible.
What would kill you is writes on logging for a heavy traffic site.
NFS in a web environment is a little iffy imho. There are a few other ways to do this which create less overhead. NFS on anything other than a spar/solaris box is way to resource intensive imho.
Having the db server seperate is a smart move, though i wonder how close to capacity it is.
RAID has its own performance overhead as well, i guess it comes downto whatever works best in the situation.
Here is anotehr alternative..using CVS and cvsup you can have the server update themselves at intervals updating only changes. It's not that intensive and is very quick, i've done that before. You could also use rsync, basically there are many ways to skin a cat.
they do give you a grace period, they don't shutdown the domain immediately, usually you get at least 2 weeks after the multiple invoices they will send you both via email adn snailmail. Forgetting to re-reg a poor excuse for letting your domain slip away.
*BSD, which is perceived as hopelessly fragmented and only getting ever-more-so (you forgot the recently announced SecureBSD on your list of *BSDs,
That is not toatlly correct, TrustedBSD is mean to be a secure OS at the Orange Book level. If you;d research you'd see that many of the changes are intended to go back into FreeBSD from which it will be based. This isn't a new distribution of FreeBSD but a specific application of an OS, similar to TrustedSolaris or TrustedIrix. Are they different distributions of Solaris or Irix as well?
As for their being mupltiple distributions. They various BSDs are not all distributions of the same thing, they are seperate OSes sharing a common source. Maybe it is semantics, but that is an important distinction to be made. And BSD/OS is going away for the most part probably it's codebase (except for NDA stuff) will be merged with FreeBSD to form a new, improved(TM) FreeBSd.
Pico likes to add characters to the end of lines which is bad, and vi won't break long lines if you have it configured and set right. Like anything else it comes down to using it properly.
I can understand that, it's because users need to be trained on password policy, howto setup a password and the best way to remember it. (I have mupltiple passwords on various servers, after entering them x times they become second nature and i cycle through a set of them). The big issue that can be overlooked is how saffely transmitting the password over the wire is. Clear text passwords are a big problem that no policy will overcome.
At work, i set the passwords on all server accounts except for email and local network login, for file/print sharing. IF they are locked out they need to contact me (we have a small user base about 20 ppl no biggie). Training is the key though, i have few problems in this regard because i've taken the time to work with them on howto setup a password and such. That is the key tain the users, give them treats, show them that it can be done X way and that it helps them too.
The article seems to have of the common BSD misconceptions. Making it seem like the three BSD's are squabbling and are three different distros of the samething, which they are not. Also the article makes it seem like Walnut Creek owns FreeBSD, they do not. In fact the trademark is being switched over to the FreeBSD Project (dunno if it's done yet). Just another case of a journalist not getting all the facts 100%. I can't comment on the Appl related comments though.
The net would be far better off without all these idiots and the companies that pander to them.
Unfortunately, this elitest, arrogant attitude is the wrong thing for the internet. The internet and the web are about the freedom to exchange ideas. To say whatever you want and top have it possibly be heard. Just because it's grown beyond it's original intention doesn;t make it bad or that we should go back. I think the web has become something greater than the sum of it's parts.
Yes it is not 100% reliable, but realisticly it is really only just starting to "grow up". We have come to expect all services to be like the phone company in terms of qos, telephones have been around for 100 years, that is a bit of time to get most of the kinks out.
It makes me retch when I see people get that "the web should be all text" or that "The average user is too stupid and shouldn't use the web" idea. What we need is everyone to be able to get there, hell it helps pay my salary so I have a stake in this:).
My point is simple, the web and the internet are about information and access to it. YEs companies are commercializing it, but you can still get the info you want. Be discerning, be picky, but never assume that because somone doesn't meet your standards for some things that they should not be allowed to use it. That is close-minded and has no place online.
Don't get me wrong, I think the judge made the best decision possible in this case, but this is just another example of the e-lawsuit ad absurdum.
absurd? yes. Important? Yes. What this really does is set a precendent, as dumb as this stuff may seem when applied to common sense, it is good in the long run. These type of rulings give those running websites some sort of legal backing if the y link and the site tries to go after them. This doesn't protect those mirroring w/o permission or linking and hiding the url in a frame say so that you can't tell what site it is.
If ticketmaster were really miffed they could simply block the originating site's ip/domain anyway. This was probably more of an attempt to either squash the little guy or generate some pr.
Finding a job where I am is easy, there are many open. I get calls every few weeks from headhunters or recruiters. I am happy where I am at and don't want to jump ship so I usually blow them off.
I think area is the big factor, some places have more opportunity then others. I doubt that there are alot of jobs for what I do (systems administration) in some little town in the middle of Nebraksa with a pop of 1000. But in an area like S. California there are many jobs.
Man, I am posting alot today. Must be making up for not posting much or something heh.
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hate to break this to ya but this is about BSD, not Linux. Read the article closely.
Well at my place of business we use Eudora, but due to bug problems we may be moving to Netscape Mail. In alot of corporate Environments NEtscape Mail is still popular.
Many people i deal with end up using Outlook Express because it comes with Windows, at least form a windows persepctive. It's fine for base needs.
I did not say there is no web, i said that alot of the content would probably not be there since the ads cover costs. Hardware, bandwith and support are not cheap. Read all that i said don't take bits out of context.
Oh one other thing, SR has had something alot of RPG's lack, a backstory that evolves. You can if you have all the supplemental books, modules, etc. see the story evolve. They created a dynamic universe which is something not easy to do. And it flowed in a way that mostly makes sense (except for a few things here and there that "vanished" with rules changes).
The way they have built new threats or existing ones, taken down some big players but introduced new ones in their wake. It is some good fiction in itself. Plus they emphasize the fact that what you do effects the world around you.
I agree here, Tom Dowd did leave, Nigel Findley, god rest his soul, died in a car accident some years ago. Probably one of the best pieces of literature i have ever read was his Universal Brotherhood supplement, the fiction in that was a novella in length and probably one of the best i've read.
It introduced a new threat but in a way that made your jaw drop and sit there going "holy shit"
Ok as a player and GM for shadowrun since it came out back in 89 here is a quick rundown:
1. The indians were able to cause a whole lot of volcanoes to just erupt, all of a sudden your enemy can cause the very earth to punish you, well you listen. Combined with other issues they did not have much choice.
2. The US was not the most powerful country at this time, it was dealing with lots of issues.
3. In the game setting did they have a choice?
4. This is a game, it is NOT REAL they went with an idea, reducing the amount of magic imho short circuits an important part of the game and an important theme. The idea the of the 6th world and all.
Well when you run a busy site and need to upgrade to a faster server then it does matter. Where i work we just upgraded a server to a sparc that cost around $20,000. The site is a non-profit orginazations site and the only way to help deal with the costs is through ads. I'm not saying everything about ads is great but they are needed. Without the money draw the internet would not be as big as it is and i would not have the job i do probably.
Well Doubleclick started licensing their stuff in Sept 1996. No mention of when they actually began though. Doubleclick may be evil but it is necessary, without ad revenues many sites would not be able to even exist. Ads help keep most sites free.
They won't put anyone out of business way to many interests larger than CNET have a stake in this.
In california it is already a crime to send spam via forged email addresses, in fact the network that you forged the email as originating from can sue you for this.
That is the main reason why i disable it on all servers i setup that are mail servers. That and to prevent snooping. It is a shame that that has to happen but that is the reality.
It's just prudent to reduce any potential avenues of trouble
The install for FreeBSD is relatively painless, there is a gui interface (no mouse though) for it, plus you can wathc the progress on another terminal or even do some stuff while it installs.
The setup afterwards sometimes takes some effort, mostly getting used to the differences between Linux and Freebsd(if your coming from the Linux world). Also only a few things are on by default.
Your best bet is to goto www.freebsd.org there is a HOWTO about linux to FreeBSD changes
The performance increase depends really. What you really want is the drive holding all the web content on it's own controller and hard drive with logging on a second controller. This helps overcome any io issues, plus you want loads of ram to keep static content in memory so you hit the drive as little as possible.
What would kill you is writes on logging for a heavy traffic site.
NFS in a web environment is a little iffy imho. There are a few other ways to do this which create less overhead. NFS on anything other than a spar/solaris box is way to resource intensive imho.
Having the db server seperate is a smart move, though i wonder how close to capacity it is.
RAID has its own performance overhead as well, i guess it comes downto whatever works best in the situation.
Here is anotehr alternative..using CVS and cvsup you can have the server update themselves at intervals updating only changes. It's not that intensive and is very quick, i've done that before. You could also use rsync, basically there are many ways to skin a cat.
they do give you a grace period, they don't shutdown the domain immediately, usually you get at least 2 weeks after the multiple invoices they will send you both via email adn snailmail. Forgetting to re-reg a poor excuse for letting your domain slip away.
Why not just use rtf? rtf files can be read/created by most any word processor.
yy yanks lines pp pastes lines
*BSD, which is perceived as hopelessly fragmented and only getting ever-more-so (you forgot the recently announced SecureBSD on your list of *BSDs,
That is not toatlly correct, TrustedBSD is mean to be a secure OS at the Orange Book level. If you;d research you'd see that many of the changes are intended to go back into FreeBSD from which it will be based. This isn't a new distribution of FreeBSD but a specific application of an OS, similar to TrustedSolaris or TrustedIrix. Are they different distributions of Solaris or Irix as well?
As for their being mupltiple distributions. They various BSDs are not all distributions of the same thing, they are seperate OSes sharing a common source. Maybe it is semantics, but that is an important distinction to be made. And BSD/OS is going away for the most part probably it's codebase (except for NDA stuff) will be merged with FreeBSD to form a new, improved(TM) FreeBSd.
Pico likes to add characters to the end of lines which is bad, and vi won't break long lines if you have it configured and set right. Like anything else it comes down to using it properly.
The logitech Trackman MArble FX is one of their funky shaped ones, real nice
It takes some getting used to but it works real well, especially for games. The 3 buttons near the thumb make for some nice binding in most games.
I have trackman's on all my computers both unix and windows, they work real nice. In X it sees it as a 3 button mouse no problem.
you can try MIME::LITE, it's a perl modukle that is just for that.
/www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/MIME/MI ME-Lite-1.137.readme or
haven't used it under NT so I cannot say if there is are any funkiness or porting that needs to be done with it.
Check CPAN:
http:/
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-loc al/modules/by-module/MIME/
I can understand that, it's because users need to be trained on password policy, howto setup a password and the best way to remember it. (I have mupltiple passwords on various servers, after entering them x times they become second nature and i cycle through a set of them). The big issue that can be overlooked is how saffely transmitting the password over the wire is. Clear text passwords are a big problem that no policy will overcome.
At work, i set the passwords on all server accounts except for email and local network login, for file/print sharing. IF they are locked out they need to contact me (we have a small user base about 20 ppl no biggie). Training is the key though, i have few problems in this regard because i've taken the time to work with them on howto setup a password and such. That is the key tain the users, give them treats, show them that it can be done X way and that it helps them too.
The article seems to have of the common BSD misconceptions. Making it seem like the three BSD's are squabbling and are three different distros of the samething, which they are not. Also the article makes it seem like Walnut Creek owns FreeBSD, they do not. In fact the trademark is being switched over to the FreeBSD Project (dunno if it's done yet). Just another case of a journalist not getting all the facts 100%. I can't comment on the Appl related comments though.
The net would be far better off without all these idiots and the companies that pander to them.
:).
Unfortunately, this elitest, arrogant attitude is the wrong thing for the internet. The internet and the web are about the freedom to exchange ideas. To say whatever you want and top have it possibly be heard. Just because it's grown beyond it's original intention doesn;t make it bad or that we should go back. I think the web has become something greater than the sum of it's parts.
Yes it is not 100% reliable, but realisticly it is really only just starting to "grow up". We have come to expect all services to be like the phone company in terms of qos, telephones have been around for 100 years, that is a bit of time to get most of the kinks out.
It makes me retch when I see people get that "the web should be all text" or that "The average user is too stupid and shouldn't use the web" idea. What we need is everyone to be able to get there, hell it helps pay my salary so I have a stake in this
My point is simple, the web and the internet are about information and access to it. YEs companies are commercializing it, but you can still get the info you want. Be discerning, be picky, but never assume that because somone doesn't meet your standards for some things that they should not be allowed to use it. That is close-minded and has no place online.
Don't get me wrong, I think the judge made the best decision possible in this case, but this is just another example of the e-lawsuit ad absurdum.
absurd? yes. Important? Yes. What this really does is set a precendent, as dumb as this stuff may seem when applied to common sense, it is good in the long run. These type of rulings give those running websites some sort of legal backing if the y link and the site tries to go after them. This doesn't protect those mirroring w/o permission or linking and hiding the url in a frame say so that you can't tell what site it is.
If ticketmaster were really miffed they could simply block the originating site's ip/domain anyway. This was probably more of an attempt to either squash the little guy or generate some pr.
The heat from the firing would probably have destroyted any dna of whoever loaded the bullet.
Finding a job where I am is easy, there are many open. I get calls every few weeks from headhunters or recruiters. I am happy where I am at and don't want to jump ship so I usually blow them off.
I think area is the big factor, some places have more opportunity then others. I doubt that there are alot of jobs for what I do (systems administration) in some little town in the middle of Nebraksa with a pop of 1000. But in an area like S. California there are many jobs.
Man, I am posting alot today. Must be making up for not posting much or something heh.