I wanted a fileserver that was portable. I also wanted a backup. So I got two mini itx motherboards, a couple aluminium cd carring cases a few hard drives and I'm pretty happy with the result. I just add a new disk when the current one gets full and I rsync them nightly. I think I'll be able to get 8 disks in each eventually. That's 7 data and 1 for the operating system, my personal data, debian mirror, etc.
I too did not vote for Bush. In fact, you could say that I voted against Bush. This doesn't mean I believe everything he does is wrong. In regard to the tsunami relief effort, I feel we are doing a good job. Now this isn't one of those "America is the most generous countries in the world" posts. We had our soldiers flying in on relief missions and we stayed around providing drinkable water and food to people. We've also worked with other countries to help with the long term reconstruction.
Some people will say we are not spending enough no matter how much we spend. Sure Iraq was a war of choice -- it was also a war I opposed. Once we made a commitment there as a nation we had no choice to follow through with that commitment. Iraq is our obligation at this point.
What happened to the people effected by the tsunami is tragic. Of this there is no question. However, our obligation there is not the same as our obligation in Iraq. In many ways it is pointless to compare the two situations.
When peole bash Bush, just to bash Bush they loose a lot of credability. If you want to criticize his private social security accounts thing, hey there is a lot to support your critizism. Fell free to criticize how he handled the occupation of Iraq. I personally think he fucked that one up. However, if you think everything he touches turns to poo, you're just going to be considered a left leaning extremeist.
What disadvantage do the corporate users have if Microsoft releases the patches today. The corporate folks can still install the patches on Monday --- or any day they choose. Assuming the patches are ready, I see no reason not to make them available on the web for anyone eager to patch their systems.
Honestly, this is not being marketed at the type of person who thinks about things breaking a couple years in the future. You need to look at this laptop more as a consumer device (dvd player, clock radio, etc) and less as an expensive device with support. These things are like commodities.
What happens when the dvd player you got from walmart stops working? You take/send it back and exchange it for one that works. You probably get a year warranty and if it breaks in that year you send it back to Walmart, not India. Compared to Walmart, HP and Dell are relatively small.
If Walmart is selling this device, you can probably assume they have the support infrastructure in place. It's not the same support infrastructure as Dell and HP, it going to be more of an "exchange" type of thing than "repair".
I ordered my laptop without windows a couple days ago. Though some consider it to be more expensive than a compairable machine running windows, I think I'll like it none the less.
I used to work at a computer store where we assembled computers. He could have called any such store and asked "Hey I'm trying to determine the cost savings between buying a computer with windows and the same hardware without windows. Could you give me an idea of how much an OEM windows license, both professional and personal, costs?". I think $60-$80 is a good estimte to how much it costs the OEMs.
Anther matter is the office suite. I would imageine the full office pro would run about $200 oem. So saying that using linux and open office will cost you $260 less is pretty accurate in that regard.
This is great. I've been waiting for this for a while. My primary mode of transportation is a bicycle, and I've been pretty happy with my paneers from jandd. However the 15" powerbook doesnt really fit inside of the paneers I currently have. Now that I'm getting a powerbook, I was wondering if anyone could suggest any paneers suitable? In case the question comes up, I'm not interested in a messenger bag.
PowerBook shortages are being reported by resellers worldwide, with Apple's own online store putting shipping dates now at 7 - 10 days out. Delays like these usually signify a product change is about to occur, and the G4 PowerBook is expected to have a minor speed bump revision according to Think Secret. G5 PowerBooks have been in the rumor news recently, but aren't expected to show for some time to come.
Or perhaps this Macbidouille posts that FNAC (largest multimedia shop in France) has declared the Powerbooks "End of Life". FNAC is also present in other European countries such as Spain. There will be no new shipments of the old revisions once the stock is sold.
When President Bush donated $10k to the tsunami relief effort I did some math. It turns out we would have made the same fractional donation (as in fractions of our pretax income) if Bush made 2 million a year. So sure I didn't donate millions of dollars to charity, but if all the money I donate to charity is added up each year (fsf, npr, Carnegie Library, etc) it's a pretty significant chunk of my income. The irony is that I make so little as a grad student (about 20K per year) that I really don't benefit from itemizing my taxes and I cannot write any of it off --- I'm sure Bill doesn't write any of this off either;).
I suppose it should be mentioned for clarity that the issue you have is a problem with the package _manager_ and not the package _format_. The format is all the lsb covers.
The package maintainer must make decisions that are generic enough to suit the largest group of people.
So how does this situation change when the package maintainer decides to make a debian package? I don't see how changing the package type would alter the dependencies?
Sure downloading the dependencies might be a pane in the arse, but you can use apt4rpm to handle that for you.
package manager not the same as package type.
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You are confusing the packaging method with the management method. The LSB states that the standard package _type_ is rpm. APT is package type independent. It is most _famous_ because it is used in debian, however you can use apt to manage rpms also. I am not advocating either package type, I just wanted to clarify the confusion between a method of packaging programs and the management of said packages.
My understanding from the article was that the inventors of google didnt know how to spell googol. Where as the apache folks new how to write 'a pachy server', and were just being cute with their words.
So a misspelling isn't really the same as a cute pun.
| Read this. This is a truthful essay. Of course it will be moderated down as | blashphemy by the church of the linux zealots! | | In light of the disastrous 2.6 development model that has given sysadmins | everywhere a headache by introducing development code into a production line, | Linux has signed its own death knell. With more and more people looking to | alternatives like FreeBSD 5.x, OS X, and DragonflyBSD, Linux is slowly | shovelling the dirt beneath its feet to dig its own grave.
I think "disastrous" is a little sensationalistic here.
| Linux And Windows | | Quite simply, the revolution against Windows has run out of steam. While Linux | was a viable alternative in the days of Windows 98, when the rallying cry of | geeks everywhere was "Down with M$, Linux never crashes," we now have the | majority of the Windows userbase running NT-based operating systems. Except in | cases of hardware or driver issues, reliability is no longer an issue in the | comparison between Linux and Windows.
I believe that given the huge amount of spyware installed on most computers, reliability is still an issue. I've seen computers ground to a hault becuase of this.
| Eventually, the movement became one of security. In the years after its | release, Windows XP was discovered to have several high-profile security flaws. | Microsoft underwent a major code audit and released SP2. The rallying cry for | OSS was now about security.
SP2 has created quite a performance hit for the few people I've spoken with. The "security rallying cry" has been a consistent argument for OSS. Also consider that OSS != linux.
| However, the community has discovered major flaws in the Mozilla software | suite, including bugs marked "confidential" for years at a time. Additionally, | major security holes have been appearing in the 2.6 line of Linux kernels, some | having existed for years and affecting the 2.4 line. Declaring Linux to be the | secure alternative is no longer as true.
I'd really have to see references to these "confidential" bugs. It's possible that they were marked this way for nonsecurity reasons and the person who submitted the bug forgot about it --- this is very conspiracy theoryish. I acknowlege that there have been security flaws which were found that date back a few kernel versions. The author fails to mention that once found they are fixed and patches are released. I think it's worth mentioning that these flaws are not discovered on a weekly basis. Also most (all) security related bugs require local access to the machine -- as opposed to flaws which simply require the attacker to have network access.
| Worst of all, the Linux kernel developers have no clear process, nor any clear | contact person, when it comes to security issues.
I thought the linux kernel mailing list was the defacto method for disclosing linux kernel issues. I also thought submitting security alerts to places like CERT and security focus were the way the industry delt with security issues.
| Evidence: http://lwn.net/Articles/118251/ | | Evidence: Long-time shell-provider SDF used Linux until they got hacked into. | Now, it's a 64-bit version of NetBSD.
Were they up to date and patched? Also worth mentioning, NetBSD is opensource software.
| Evidence: PaX discovered the mlockall hole. It was fixed in PaX for two years. | Linux just now (2005) caught up. According to the page above:
http://lwn.net/Articles/118251/
December 15th: I send Linus a mail with a subject line of
"RLIMIT_MEMLOCK bypass with locked stack"
December 27th: The PaX team sends Linus a mail with a subject line of
"2.6.9+ mlockall/expand_down DoS by unprivileged users"
January 2nd: The PaX team resends the previous mail to Linux and Andrew
Morton...
The PaX tem sent Linus an email --- amazingly they knew who to
We were in season two and I had missed the first season. So I grabbed a capture from sky one off netnews and watched it to get caught up. Now after reading the/. story I realize I've watched this season. Doh!
I pretty much only use linux (not a software developer though), and I've been looking to get a powerbook. I was waiting to see what happend at macworld before I bought one. I was a little disappointed. According to the buyers guide at macrumors.com, the powerbook series is way overdue for a new release.
Everything I've read (check out macslash.com from the last couple days) suggest that the g5 powerbook wont be released any time soon. The rumor mill suggests speed bumps, official support for the dvd+rw media and a couple other things. I'm about to throw my towel in and get one. It will be useful when I have to start workin on my thesis in the next couple months.
I had a friend who worked for tivoli for a while (back in 2000). He mentioned that IBM was still supporting OS2 and that they would until support contracts that were signed a long time ago ran out.
There is someone who has a diffent opinion than you, and then there is someone who is very vocal about their differing opinion. If OSC simply disagreed privately and wrote good sci--fi, then perhaps the parent wouldn't have as much of a problem. If you thought Sean Penn was a good actor, you might want to support him. If you saw him on tv condeming the Invasion of Iraq -- which you may have supported -- I wouldn't blame you for becoming disinterested in his movies.
Card has taken a very public stance on these issues, and I don't think it's wrong for someone to boycott Card business for this reason. I would probably stop shopping at a mom and pop store if they put up a sign saying that homosexuality was an abomination. I wouldn't want to support someone who pushes this agenda.
Just out of curiosity, did you check resellerratings.com to see if they had any customer feedback. If you didn't already, make sure to leave some feedback there. I guess this would be a good heads up for people not familar with this site. I typically wont buy from an online reseller if they don't have good reviews. Sure I pay more up front, but at least I don't have to go six months without a computer.
I'm right at the bottom of the paw. It's cool that they had enough money for two pages, but it might have been better to have spent the extra money on a different publication.
I should be more explicit. I dont really want to carry around something physical. I'd rather take advantage of the fact that all of the computers with the relevant firefox configs are on the internet and do the transfer transparently.
I use firefox at home and at school and I'd like to sync my bookmarks and stuff. I dont feel like setting up ldap, is there an easy way to do this using rsync over ssh or something similar.
Slashdot Mirror
I wanted a fileserver that was portable. I also wanted a backup. So I got two mini itx motherboards, a couple aluminium cd carring cases a few hard drives and I'm pretty happy with the result. I just add a new disk when the current one gets full and I rsync them nightly. I think I'll be able to get 8 disks in each eventually. That's 7 data and 1 for the operating system, my personal data, debian mirror, etc.
I too did not vote for Bush. In fact, you could say that I voted against Bush. This doesn't mean I believe everything he does is wrong. In regard to the tsunami relief effort, I feel we are doing a good job. Now this isn't one of those "America is the most generous countries in the world" posts. We had our soldiers flying in on relief missions and we stayed around providing drinkable water and food to people. We've also worked with other countries to help with the long term reconstruction.
Some people will say we are not spending enough no matter how much we spend. Sure Iraq was a war of choice -- it was also a war I opposed. Once we made a commitment there as a nation we had no choice to follow through with that commitment. Iraq is our obligation at this point.
What happened to the people effected by the tsunami is tragic. Of this there is no question. However, our obligation there is not the same as our obligation in Iraq. In many ways it is pointless to compare the two situations.
When peole bash Bush, just to bash Bush they loose a lot of credability. If you want to criticize his private social security accounts thing, hey there is a lot to support your critizism. Fell free to criticize how he handled the occupation of Iraq. I personally think he fucked that one up. However, if you think everything he touches turns to poo, you're just going to be considered a left leaning extremeist.
What disadvantage do the corporate users have if Microsoft releases the patches today. The corporate folks can still install the patches on Monday --- or any day they choose. Assuming the patches are ready, I see no reason not to make them available on the web for anyone eager to patch their systems.
Honestly, this is not being marketed at the type of person who thinks about things breaking a couple years in the future. You need to look at this laptop more as a consumer device (dvd player, clock radio, etc) and less as an expensive device with support. These things are like commodities.
What happens when the dvd player you got from walmart stops working? You take/send it back and exchange it for one that works. You probably get a year warranty and if it breaks in that year you send it back to Walmart, not India. Compared to Walmart, HP and Dell are relatively small.
If Walmart is selling this device, you can probably assume they have the support infrastructure in place. It's not the same support infrastructure as Dell and HP, it going to be more of an "exchange" type of thing than "repair".
I ordered my laptop without windows a couple days ago. Though some consider it to be more expensive than a compairable machine running windows, I think I'll like it none the less.
I used to work at a computer store where we assembled computers. He could have called any such store and asked "Hey I'm trying to determine the cost savings between buying a computer with windows and the same hardware without windows. Could you give me an idea of how much an OEM windows license, both professional and personal, costs?". I think $60-$80 is a good estimte to how much it costs the OEMs.
Anther matter is the office suite. I would imageine the full office pro would run about $200 oem. So saying that using linux and open office will cost you $260 less is pretty accurate in that regard.
Sorry. Yes you are correct, I ment panniers.
This is great. I've been waiting for this for a while. My primary mode of transportation is a bicycle, and I've been pretty happy with my paneers from jandd. However the 15" powerbook doesnt really fit inside of the paneers I currently have. Now that I'm getting a powerbook, I was wondering if anyone could suggest any paneers suitable? In case the question comes up, I'm not interested in a messenger bag.
I see no indication of scant supply.
I see no indication that current models are EOL'd on retailers' stocking systems.
Like this from mac rumors
PowerBook shortages are being reported by resellers worldwide, with Apple's own online store putting shipping dates now at 7 - 10 days out. Delays like these usually signify a product change is about to occur, and the G4 PowerBook is expected to have a minor speed bump revision according to Think Secret. G5 PowerBooks have been in the rumor news recently, but aren't expected to show for some time to come.
Or perhaps this
Macbidouille posts that FNAC (largest multimedia shop in France) has declared the Powerbooks "End of Life". FNAC is also present in other European countries such as Spain.
There will be no new shipments of the old revisions once the stock is sold.
When President Bush donated $10k to the tsunami relief effort I did some math. It turns out we would have made the same fractional donation (as in fractions of our pretax income) if Bush made 2 million a year. So sure I didn't donate millions of dollars to charity, but if all the money I donate to charity is added up each year (fsf, npr, Carnegie Library, etc) it's a pretty significant chunk of my income. The irony is that I make so little as a grad student (about 20K per year) that I really don't benefit from itemizing my taxes and I cannot write any of it off --- I'm sure Bill doesn't write any of this off either ;).
I suppose it should be mentioned for clarity that the issue you have is a problem with the package _manager_ and not the package _format_. The format is all the lsb covers.
I had no fscking idea what dark fiber was.
The package maintainer must make decisions that are generic enough to suit the largest group of people.
So how does this situation change when the package maintainer decides to make a debian package? I don't see how changing the package type would alter the dependencies?
Sure downloading the dependencies might be a pane in the arse, but you can use apt4rpm to handle that for you.
You are confusing the packaging method with the management method. The LSB states that the standard package _type_ is rpm. APT is package type independent. It is most _famous_ because it is used in debian, however you can use apt to manage rpms also. I am not advocating either package type, I just wanted to clarify the confusion between a method of packaging programs and the management of said packages.
My understanding from the article was that the inventors of google didnt know how to spell googol. Where as the apache folks new how to write 'a pachy server', and were just being cute with their words.
So a misspelling isn't really the same as a cute pun.
| Read this. This is a truthful essay. Of course it will be moderated down as
| blashphemy by the church of the linux zealots!
|
| In light of the disastrous 2.6 development model that has given sysadmins
| everywhere a headache by introducing development code into a production line,
| Linux has signed its own death knell. With more and more people looking to
| alternatives like FreeBSD 5.x, OS X, and DragonflyBSD, Linux is slowly
| shovelling the dirt beneath its feet to dig its own grave.
I think "disastrous" is a little sensationalistic here.
| Linux And Windows
|
| Quite simply, the revolution against Windows has run out of steam. While Linux
| was a viable alternative in the days of Windows 98, when the rallying cry of
| geeks everywhere was "Down with M$, Linux never crashes," we now have the
| majority of the Windows userbase running NT-based operating systems. Except in
| cases of hardware or driver issues, reliability is no longer an issue in the
| comparison between Linux and Windows.
I believe that given the huge amount of spyware installed on most computers,
reliability is still an issue. I've seen computers ground to a hault becuase of
this.
| Eventually, the movement became one of security. In the years after its
| release, Windows XP was discovered to have several high-profile security flaws.
| Microsoft underwent a major code audit and released SP2. The rallying cry for
| OSS was now about security.
SP2 has created quite a performance hit for the few people I've spoken with.
The "security rallying cry" has been a consistent argument for OSS. Also
consider that OSS != linux.
| However, the community has discovered major flaws in the Mozilla software
| suite, including bugs marked "confidential" for years at a time. Additionally,
| major security holes have been appearing in the 2.6 line of Linux kernels, some
| having existed for years and affecting the 2.4 line. Declaring Linux to be the
| secure alternative is no longer as true.
I'd really have to see references to these "confidential" bugs. It's possible
that they were marked this way for nonsecurity reasons and the person who
submitted the bug forgot about it --- this is very conspiracy theoryish. I
acknowlege that there have been security flaws which were found that date back
a few kernel versions. The author fails to mention that once found they are
fixed and patches are released. I think it's worth mentioning that these flaws
are not discovered on a weekly basis. Also most (all) security related bugs
require local access to the machine -- as opposed to flaws which simply require
the attacker to have network access.
| Worst of all, the Linux kernel developers have no clear process, nor any clear
| contact person, when it comes to security issues.
I thought the linux kernel mailing list was the defacto method for disclosing
linux kernel issues. I also thought submitting security alerts to places like
CERT and security focus were the way the industry delt with security issues.
| Evidence: http://lwn.net/Articles/118251/
|
| Evidence: Long-time shell-provider SDF used Linux until they got hacked into.
| Now, it's a 64-bit version of NetBSD.
Were they up to date and patched? Also worth mentioning, NetBSD is opensource
software.
| Evidence: PaX discovered the mlockall hole. It was fixed in PaX for two years.
| Linux just now (2005) caught up.
According to the page above:
http://lwn.net/Articles/118251/
December 15th: I send Linus a mail with a subject line of
"RLIMIT_MEMLOCK bypass with locked stack"
December 27th: The PaX team sends Linus a mail with a subject line of
"2.6.9+ mlockall/expand_down DoS by unprivileged users"
January 2nd: The PaX team resends the previous mail to Linux and Andrew
Morton...
The PaX tem sent Linus an email --- amazingly they knew who to
We were in season two and I had missed the first season. So I grabbed a capture from sky one off netnews and watched it to get caught up. Now after reading the /. story I realize I've watched this season. Doh!
I pretty much only use linux (not a software developer though), and I've been looking to get a powerbook. I was waiting to see what happend at macworld before I bought one. I was a little disappointed. According to the buyers guide at macrumors.com, the powerbook series is way overdue for a new release.
Everything I've read (check out macslash.com from the last couple days) suggest that the g5 powerbook wont be released any time soon. The rumor mill suggests speed bumps, official support for the dvd+rw media and a couple other things. I'm about to throw my towel in and get one. It will be useful when I have to start workin on my thesis in the next couple months.
I had a friend who worked for tivoli for a while (back in 2000). He mentioned that IBM was still supporting OS2 and that they would until support contracts that were signed a long time ago ran out.
There is someone who has a diffent opinion than you, and then there is someone who is very vocal about their differing opinion. If OSC simply disagreed privately and wrote good sci--fi, then perhaps the parent wouldn't have as much of a problem. If you thought Sean Penn was a good actor, you might want to support him. If you saw him on tv condeming the Invasion of Iraq -- which you may have supported -- I wouldn't blame you for becoming disinterested in his movies.
Card has taken a very public stance on these issues, and I don't think it's wrong for someone to boycott Card business for this reason. I would probably stop shopping at a mom and pop store if they put up a sign saying that homosexuality was an abomination. I wouldn't want to support someone who pushes this agenda.
Just out of curiosity, did you check resellerratings.com to see if they had any customer feedback. If you didn't already, make sure to leave some feedback there. I guess this would be a good heads up for people not familar with this site. I typically wont buy from an online reseller if they don't have good reviews. Sure I pay more up front, but at least I don't have to go six months without a computer.
I'm right at the bottom of the paw. It's cool that they had enough money for two pages, but it might have been better to have spent the extra money on a different publication.
Does anyone have a higher resolution image so I can actually read the names.
I should be more explicit. I dont really want to carry around something physical. I'd rather take advantage of the fact that all of the computers with the relevant firefox configs are on the internet and do the transfer transparently.
I use firefox at home and at school and I'd like to sync my bookmarks and stuff. I dont feel like setting up ldap, is there an easy way to do this using rsync over ssh or something similar.