Checkout vacuum (sp?) from VA Linux. I beleive it is an open source Cluster Management package.
Re:GNOME vs KDE Episode 18: Pointlessness
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KDE Strikes Back
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To go along with the crowd:
- double-clicking a taskbar icon will iconify that application. great for getting stuff out of your way.
Single clicking in GNOME on the current app in the task bar does this (so double-clicking to select the app and then iconify it would do it too.)
- Alt-F2 brings up a little input field which I can use to start an app quicker than using the menus. It keeps a history too, so I can cycle through previous commands.
GNOME Does this too.
- Right click on desktop gives you a menu which includes 'Logout'. I find that much easier to deal with than windows, which requires you to hit
Ctrl-Alt-Del or click on the Start button.
GNOME with GDM or any XDM-like program will do this too.
I like GNOME in concept, but it just doesn't feel right to me. I installed Helix GNOME the other day... It has a very slick, professional installer, but the
underlying GNOME still seems cumbersome and sort of clunky.
I was at the ResNet conference when he said that. I think it has been taken a little out of context and blown a little out of proportion. He was saying that we should ban it because passwords, and everything get sent in clear text. He was also mentioning getting rid of POP and I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. My impression of the guy is that he's just a little too obsessive with privacy. He wants sysadmins to not keep logfiles, and not keep track of their users and stuff like that (or at least delete the log files after a very short period of time, like everyday). I can't agree with that unfortunately, there have been too many times where I've needed to look at log files from a month ago.
Mr. Garfinkel also was known at the conference for harassing the poor presenters at the sessions. The presenters were talking about a web program their students just wrote for them, showing how good and valuable student help was. Simson however kept interrupting and askinga bout how secure the program was and how much access the students had to the data saying that a verbal consent to not release the info was not enough. All in all, he did not leave a very good impression.
The conference overall was great though. You can see the many ResNet admins and how much they care about and want to improve the situations for students in their dorms. All the presentations and more infor on the conference can be seen online at: http://www.rescomp.upenn.edu/resnet2000/
The issue is that most College and University staffs are so over worked (and underpaid) and budgets are so tight that we don't have time to implement QoS regardless of how nice it is.
And we are *sortof* banning napster. It IS possible for it to be used, you just have to know what you're doing a little bit (as with most of the methods used by the colleges.) Methods to get around types of banning are posted on http://www.savenapster.com. Our SOLE reason for doing this was bandwidth. Period. There was little to no thought put into the legality of it. Our policy states that the network should only be used for academic purposes and thatthe network is a shared resource. If something you are doing is adversly affecting someone else's chance to get an education then you get shut down. We're a small college, so we don't have the man power or the money, or the time to look into throttleing bandwidth such as other Universities are doing. We wish we could. This is the first and so far only thing we've banned (though iMesh may soon follow). I'm interested in seeing napster saved myself. I love it, it's a great program, its design, however, leaves most universities no choice but to do something about it (whatever that sometihg is.) I'm sure I'm going to get flamed on this one by irate students, and I've gotten flames from students here. It's often not up to the sysops though, we got complaints from everybody on campus on how slow the internet connection is, and Napster was the cause. We had to do it so that the 90% of the people on the network who weren't using napster had bandwidth to do real academic work. This is not an issue about censorship. Students who complain that it's censorship obviously don't have all the facts straight and are jumping on the latest cause bandwagon.(I keep thinking about a 2000 version of PCU:) ) I've signed up for the save napster mailing list and I plan on keeping very close tabs on what's going on. I believe this will be a defining issue. This is the first real big issue that Universities have faced since putting in ResNet networks.
You can use "Ad-Hoc" mode and use just the cards without the Wavepoint, but there are issues with this (I think someone else posted that info farther down.) We're using one AccessPoint and currently 7 PCMCIA client nodes. We are have no problems whatsover with it in regards to speed or latency. Also a major issue is that the PCMCIA cards cannot do bridging (they can only have one source IP address) so you'll need to do MASQing if you plan not to use an AccessPoint. Check out their homepage because they have all the specs on their site.
Well the standard drivers seem to work really well with our 802.11 cards. The 802.11 drivers I think have only been included in the last two releases (3.1.9 and 3.1.10 I think). Please see http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvlan / as per the pcmcia-cs documentation.
The wavelan drivers are now currently in the standard pcmcia-cs distribution too. And from my experience they work just as well as the ones from Lucent.
We just setup a wirless network to connect some of the small group housing here at the College. We're using the Lucent WaveLan Turbo Silver 11Mbs cards in P100 linux routers and they work great! It was a relatively quick and easy setup, I just wish I could figure out how to get mrouted (multicast routing) working so the students can log into the Netware servers. Anyone have any ideas (the HOWTOs are no help so don't point me there)?
As a side note, I will be getting one of these nice 11 meg links to my house shortly.:) And you guys thought DSL was nice, heh!
You don't have to be rude. Maybe you should ask yourself why you're paying for things you don't use... I HAVE thought about this and I think it about it all the time. I discuss it with students who don't agree with me, and with other College IT people who do agree with me. This issue is shaping up to be a "students oppressed by 'The Man' type of conflict". I was a student as little as two 1/2 years ago, and no wI work for the college I graduated. Beleieve me you see College politics and decisions a LOT differently from the other side. I've seen both sides, so I think that gives me a little more perspective on this than a lot of people (especially those who ask me to "shut up until I can think" without explaining why they are so much smarter. Don't troll, it's dumb.
Y'know. I used to feel the same way. But because of napster our College is most likely going to have to raise tuition to pay for more bandwith (currently Napster is using a large portion of it.) Try explaining to the majority of students who don't use napster or don't have a computer, why their tuition is going up because of the few who do. Try seeing this from the other point of view!
I'm a College sysdadmin
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Copyright!
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At our place we've recieved little pressure from the RIAA (granted we're not a big U. by any means.) We've gotten one letter this year targeting a specific student which we shutdown because it was a blatant violation. We're pretty forgiving here, and we tend to look the other way on some stuff as long as it doesn't affect other users by taking up bandwidth, etc.
I know for a fact that we have quite a few people using napter here because of nightly portscans and such. However at this point we have no plans to shut them down. We have no way to prove they are providing illegal mp3s without sniffing actual packets and getting some of the songs coming from their computers (or at least titles.) We do delete any and all "illegal looking" mp3s on the public areas of our servers, but we tend to not look at user's home directories.
I guess our philosophy is that whatever they do, they are learning, and we don't want to interfere with that unless it is outright blatant copyright violations or it starts affecting other users on the system by hogging bandwidth.
We use this all the time on Linux systems. We haven't worried abou tthe powerdown stuff. We haven't had any problems at all. The only thing I could forsee happening is from a power spike on the PS/2 ports. Other than that it shouldn't matter. -jay
Use CNAMES and call the servers whatever you want, multiple names and such. For yourselfe give it fun names like: Gilligan,MaryAnn,Professor,Skipper,Ginger,Howell s but also call them www,mail,www2,fileserver,radius,ldap, etc.
The machines should respond to both names just fine. Why be limited? For myself I use Star Wars locations for machine names (hopefully Lucas doesn't see this and sue me or something.) Yavin is my main machine, I also have Hoth and Tatooine, and Bespin is my laptop.:)
(damn I may have a put up a blank post, sorry) Anyway, here's a non-linux solution. *gasp!* Try using Powerquest's Drive Image program. We've used it here and it works well enough with Linux. You make your installation on one machine. Boot to DOS with a floppy and make an image of the hard drive (you'll need to put it up on a server or another hard drive or something.) Then just burn the image on a CD and blast it out on the other computers. It's relatively easy (though the version you'll need to buy is pricey.) Another program which does the same thing AND does IP multicasting (allowing you to update the other computers across the network all at the same time) is Norton's Ghost. Anyway, just another method.
From the ChangeLog: *) Add the new mass-vhost module (mod_vhost_alias.c) developed and used by Demon Internet, Ltd. [Tony Finch ]
Yay!!!!! I've been waiting on this one. Does anybody know how well it works, performance increases over specifying each and every virtual host? This is useful to our site which is currently running about 1500 virtual hosts that are mostly similar (yes, it's a pain in the ass.)
I thought the movie was going just fine and was pretty entertaining. Then about 5 minutes before it ended, it looked like the whole thing ran out of money and time. The last 4-5 minutes covered as much time as the previous two hours. I kind of wish they would've gone farther and bridged the gap between Jobs getting pissed ad Gates and eventually getting fired to the point where Jobs was rehired and became "buddies" with Gates. Other than that, I thought they did a respectable job on it (though it seemed more focused on Jobs than Gates.)
Re:Anyone going to the Expo have a solution?
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Taking May 19 Off?
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That's the hot question right now, isn't it? I'm in the same predicament. Damn Lucas and his need to release the best movie on the same day as the opening of the best conference of the year... grrrrr.
I just got a couple of them, they're pretty neat (It's been a while since I've bought Lego sets, this will probably get em back into them:) My only complaint (other than price) is that Darth Maul does not have a dual saber. -
Any idea what the choir is singing (or what language it's in)? I just got a nice little postcard in the snail mail yesterday for this sound track (nice postcard has the movie poster on the front of it) it says it comes out May 4th. Looks like I'm going to have the soundtrack memorized by the time I see the movie!:)
Yep you're mistaken. Wednesday the 19th is a tutorial day and the rest of the conference runs Thursday thru Saturday... I hope the Expo gets their act together and pulls this Star Wars off! -jay
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Checkout vacuum (sp?) from VA Linux. I beleive it is an open source Cluster Management package.
To go along with the crowd:
- double-clicking a taskbar icon will iconify that application. great for getting stuff out of your way.
Single clicking in GNOME on the current app in the task bar does this (so double-clicking to select the app and then iconify it would do it too.)
- Alt-F2 brings up a little input field which I can use to start an app quicker than using the menus. It keeps a history too, so I can cycle through previous commands.
GNOME Does this too.
- Right click on desktop gives you a menu which includes 'Logout'. I find that much easier to deal with than windows, which requires you to hit
Ctrl-Alt-Del or click on the Start button.
GNOME with GDM or any XDM-like program will do this too.
I like GNOME in concept, but it just doesn't feel right to me. I installed Helix GNOME the other day... It has a very slick, professional installer, but the
underlying GNOME still seems cumbersome and sort of clunky.
I feel the exact smae way about KDE!
Mr. Garfinkel also was known at the conference for harassing the poor presenters at the sessions. The presenters were talking about a web program their students just wrote for them, showing how good and valuable student help was. Simson however kept interrupting and askinga bout how secure the program was and how much access the students had to the data saying that a verbal consent to not release the info was not enough. All in all, he did not leave a very good impression.
The conference overall was great though. You can see the many ResNet admins and how much they care about and want to improve the situations for students in their dorms. All the presentations and more infor on the conference can be seen online at: http://www.rescomp.upenn.edu/resnet2000/
The issue is that most College and University staffs are so over worked (and underpaid) and budgets are so tight that we don't have time to implement QoS regardless of how nice it is.
And we are *sortof* banning napster. It IS possible for it to be used, you just have to know what you're doing a little bit (as with most of the methods used by the colleges.) Methods to get around types of banning are posted on http://www.savenapster.com. Our SOLE reason for doing this was bandwidth. Period. There was little to no thought put into the legality of it. Our policy states that the network should only be used for academic purposes and thatthe network is a shared resource. If something you are doing is adversly affecting someone else's chance to get an education then you get shut down. We're a small college, so we don't have the man power or the money, or the time to look into throttleing bandwidth such as other Universities are doing. We wish we could. This is the first and so far only thing we've banned (though iMesh may soon follow). I'm interested in seeing napster saved myself. I love it, it's a great program, its design, however, leaves most universities no choice but to do something about it (whatever that sometihg is.) I'm sure I'm going to get flamed on this one by irate students, and I've gotten flames from students here. It's often not up to the sysops though, we got complaints from everybody on campus on how slow the internet connection is, and Napster was the cause. We had to do it so that the 90% of the people on the network who weren't using napster had bandwidth to do real academic work. This is not an issue about censorship. Students who complain that it's censorship obviously don't have all the facts straight and are jumping on the latest cause bandwagon.(I keep thinking about a 2000 version of PCU:) ) I've signed up for the save napster mailing list and I plan on keeping very close tabs on what's going on. I believe this will be a defining issue. This is the first real big issue that Universities have faced since putting in ResNet networks.
You can use "Ad-Hoc" mode and use just the cards without the Wavepoint, but there are issues with this (I think someone else posted that info farther down.) We're using one AccessPoint and currently 7 PCMCIA client nodes. We are have no problems whatsover with it in regards to speed or latency. Also a major issue is that the PCMCIA cards cannot do bridging (they can only have one source IP address) so you'll need to do MASQing if you plan not to use an AccessPoint. Check out their homepage because they have all the specs on their site.
Well the standard drivers seem to work really well with our 802.11 cards. The 802.11 drivers I think have only been included in the last two releases (3.1.9 and 3.1.10 I think). Please seen /
http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvla
as per the pcmcia-cs documentation.
The wavelan drivers are now currently in the standard pcmcia-cs distribution too. And from my experience they work just as well as the ones from Lucent.
We just setup a wirless network to connect some of the small group housing here at the College. We're using the Lucent WaveLan Turbo Silver 11Mbs cards in P100 linux routers and they work great! It was a relatively quick and easy setup, I just wish I could figure out how to get mrouted (multicast routing) working so the students can log into the Netware servers. Anyone have any ideas (the HOWTOs are no help so don't point me there)?
:) And you guys thought DSL was nice, heh!
As a side note, I will be getting one of these nice 11 meg links to my house shortly.
Are there ISO images anywhere? I've been unable to find them, and they're soooooo much nicer than downloading all the packages even with rsync, etc.
It might almost be worth the $20 just to get them on two bootable CDROMs rather than building my own (which is a piece of cake with RedHat).
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Checkout http://phplib.netuse.de
or
http://glug.goshen.edu for an example site
(sooo much nicer in PHP)
You don't have to be rude.
Maybe you should ask yourself why you're paying for things you don't use... I HAVE thought about this and I think it about it all the time. I discuss it with students who don't agree with me, and with other College IT people who do agree with me. This issue is shaping up to be a "students oppressed by 'The Man' type of conflict". I was a student as little as two 1/2 years ago, and no wI work for the college I graduated. Beleieve me you see College politics and decisions a LOT differently from the other side. I've seen both sides, so I think that gives me a little more perspective on this than a lot of people (especially those who ask me to "shut up until I can think" without explaining why they are so much smarter. Don't troll, it's dumb.
Y'know. I used to feel the same way. But because of napster our College is most likely going to have to raise tuition to pay for more bandwith (currently Napster is using a large portion of it.) Try explaining to the majority of students who don't use napster or don't have a computer, why their tuition is going up because of the few who do. Try seeing this from the other point of view!
At our place we've recieved little pressure from the RIAA (granted we're not a big U. by any means.) We've gotten one letter this year targeting a specific student which we shutdown because it was a blatant violation. We're pretty forgiving here, and we tend to look the other way on some stuff as long as it doesn't affect other users by taking up bandwidth, etc.
I know for a fact that we have quite a few people using napter here because of nightly portscans and such. However at this point we have no plans to shut them down. We have no way to prove they are providing illegal mp3s without sniffing actual packets and getting some of the songs coming from their computers (or at least titles.)
We do delete any and all "illegal looking" mp3s on the public areas of our servers, but we tend to not look at user's home directories.
I guess our philosophy is that whatever they do, they are learning, and we don't want to interfere with that unless it is outright blatant copyright violations or it starts affecting other users on the system by hogging bandwidth.
We use this all the time on Linux systems. We haven't worried abou tthe powerdown stuff. We haven't had any problems at all. The only thing I could forsee happening is from a power spike on the PS/2 ports. Other than that it shouldn't matter.
-jay
Use CNAMES and call the servers whatever you want, multiple names and such. For yourselfe give it fun names like:l s
:)
Gilligan,MaryAnn,Professor,Skipper,Ginger,Howel
but also call them
www,mail,www2,fileserver,radius,ldap, etc.
The machines should respond to both names just fine. Why be limited?
For myself I use Star Wars locations for machine names (hopefully Lucas doesn't see this and sue me or something.)
Yavin is my main machine, I also have Hoth and Tatooine, and Bespin is my laptop.
(damn I may have a put up a blank post, sorry)
Anyway, here's a non-linux solution.
*gasp!*
Try using Powerquest's Drive Image program. We've used it here and it works well enough with Linux. You make your installation on one machine. Boot to DOS with a floppy and make an image of the hard drive (you'll need to put it up on a server or another hard drive or something.) Then just burn the image on a CD and blast it out on the other computers. It's relatively easy (though the version you'll need to buy is pricey.)
Another program which does the same thing AND does IP multicasting (allowing you to update the other computers across the network all at the same time) is Norton's Ghost.
Anyway, just another method.
From the ChangeLog:
*) Add the new mass-vhost module (mod_vhost_alias.c) developed and
used by Demon Internet, Ltd. [Tony Finch ]
Yay!!!!! I've been waiting on this one. Does anybody know how well it works, performance increases over specifying each and every virtual host? This is useful to our site which is currently running about 1500 virtual hosts that are mostly similar (yes, it's a pain in the ass.)
I thought the movie was going just fine and was pretty entertaining. Then about 5 minutes before it ended, it looked like the whole thing ran out of money and time. The last 4-5 minutes covered as much time as the previous two hours. I kind of wish they would've gone farther and bridged the gap between Jobs getting pissed ad Gates and eventually getting fired to the point where Jobs was rehired and became "buddies" with Gates. Other than that, I thought they did a respectable job on it (though it seemed more focused on Jobs than Gates.)
That's the hot question right now, isn't it? I'm in the same predicament. Damn Lucas and his need to release the best movie on the same day as the opening of the best conference of the year...
grrrrr.
I just got a couple of them, they're pretty neat (It's been a while since I've bought Lego sets, this will probably get em back into them :)
My only complaint (other than price) is that Darth Maul does not have a dual saber.
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Any idea what the choir is singing (or what language it's in)? I just got a nice little postcard in the snail mail yesterday for this sound track (nice postcard has the movie poster on the front of it) it says it comes out May 4th. Looks like I'm going to have the soundtrack memorized by the time I see the movie! :)
Yep you're mistaken. Wednesday the 19th is a tutorial day and the rest of the conference runs
Thursday thru Saturday...
I hope the Expo gets their act together and pulls this Star Wars off!
-jay