just that 8) I hereby grant you a virtual karma point...
Joining the Legion...
Any Army, Anywhere, Anytime...They'll beat their asses till they can only speak in Farts !!!
Recently (some 20 years ago), they modified the entry selection a bit...You can't enter if you are sought for a crime of blood...of course, being somewhat fit will help, but be sure you will lose all fats or die trying...
I think you have to sign for 10 years minimum. Then you are given a new name, a new (empty) bank account with the Banque De France, and will have to become a Legionnaire.
It was created under Napoleon (don't hesitate to correct me 8) as a last chance for those that had nothing to lose or where you went when you were very, very badly in need of a new identity.
With 15 years surviving the Legion (at the time), it was considered as an equal or superior punishment for almost anything you had done...
As I said, today, they don't accept people with blood on their hands. And still considered punishment enough for most of what you may have done...
Lets say Human Granted Redemption... The Hard Way..
So do it only as the very, very last ressource 8) (I really hope it never goes to that point... he didn't do anything that bad...I hope 8)
Yes there are such laws, but they are carefully ignored by everyone...
A bit like the "High Security Encryption Patch" from Microsoft, that gave you 128 bits encryption...
And it has been released something like 1 week after it had been proven that ANY top 10 National Security agencies with a supercomputer can break it under 2 hours...
Or the fact that American encryption schemes are forbidden to be exported to a select list of countries.
Just to be on the point...128 Bits encryption will protect you from 99.9% of would be hackers.
Anyone with the right tools can hack it...And please remember that some Quantum Computers are on the prototype stage, meaning LARGE governments already have one or two monstruous calculations beasts working and spitting numbers all day long...
Encode at 2048 bits minimum, and even then they can just knock your door and get the datas from your hdds...
1/ Call France 3, TF1 if you can. TF1 certainly won't give a damn, but France 3 has a local news agency that is capable of nicely covering your story.
2/ Attack the company for "Publicite mensongere" (you Grammar Nazis translate for yourselfs, the guy is french...), bringing with you the proofs you digged out.
2bis/ Attack them for "tentative d'intimidation", and another one with Libel (atteinte a l'honneur) The Libel one will only bring you 1Eu (the official price for honor)
3/ Include the Paris Chamber of Commerce, 60 millions de Consommateurs, and probably one or two IT Newspapers (01 Informatique, Le Monde Informatique), write to the Minister of Justice (Sarkozi is out of Interior, and he won't care anyhow)
60 Millions de Consommateur is very possibly the best first to call, as they are very touchy on such issues, and help people defend their case.
Just doing the counter attack on "Publicite mensongere" to the responsible organisation will be a frightening step for Tengram...
Also, publishing your discoveries on CERN and all others security sites (french and internationals) will be a de-facto victory.
Also, have the court ask for an independent expert to verify your findings... In France, there is a law against punishing people that just said the truth...
If you really want to be vicious, take a look on their webpage, check all their "reference customers" and have them see your papers and security holes...If one of their customers is a French Governemental Agency, they can be in for a very hard time... Lying to the French Administration, and putting their security under threat for innefiency can bring them under a lot more problems than you can think. So, this is just the top of my head ideas, but I hope it will help you...
In such cases, the better defense is offense...
Bonne Chance, Courage, et ne te laisses pas faire !!!!
But I use the term "Papist" the same way Hemingway ueses the term "Nigger"...
At the time it was the "natural way" of saying "colored people"
I'm sorry I have offended you, but early americans were "Papists" (canadians and the some states) or protestants (Dutch emigrate, New England, that was to be the Eden that England couldn't achieve, etc...) or simply ppl that fleed Europe because they were persecuted in various ways...
America was once a great Dream, once of ultimate freedom and liberty.
It has failed in that context, being caught by the "Dollar God"...
Please feel free to disagree. I'm not that offensed by ppl that have an other point of view...
P.S. this not an anon posting... just remind my words sometime...
Just remember that the first immigration wave in America were persecuted in their own Old Europe => Non-papists in France, papists in the UK, people with a "knack" considered as withcraft everywhere, people that lost everything due to war, Dutch that tried to escape their crowded and quite intolerant society, and then of courses, slaves brought out from Africa, and so on...
So from my point of view, Americans and Aussies are quite equal at their beginning : derelicts, outcasts and unwanted.
The only difference is that on the whole, at least until recently, the Aussies were considered as less bastards and less imperialists than the US.
Also, the American problem is that the very good ideas in the constitution have been perverted by corporations and protestant integrists...They made the money from the slave triangle (Silk, ores, ware, exchanged for slaves, exchanged for money, that bought local wares, that got transformed into...etc, ad nauseatum.
At lease the Aussies had the "excuse" of being considered as BAD ppl (extraded UK Criminals, and anybody that was making a fuss against the local gov) so anything they did was an improvement.
Americans should have done better, seeing their "nobler origins" of persecuted.
On the whole, I still would prefer Canada to the US, and Australia to the US.
it is mostly that AFTER it's crucifixion, jesus body disapeared from its "grave"
Thereafter, you can find the trace of a prophet, or a holy man, going almost in a straight lone from israel to Japan, with the indians worshipping a man called Jeve, and at the end of the line a small Japanese village whose symbol is the cross, that uses to baptise their children and are considered "holy" and "preserving the body of a holy man"...and that cross+water thingy began BEFORE the bastard portugese came to Japan.
The conspiracy theoiry says that Jesus was given a drug that made him cataleptic, and that is the reason the roman pierced Jesus chest with his lance, to check he was REALLY dead...
usually, it takes a bit longer than what jesus managed to die on the cross... say 3 to 5 days...
Afterward, Jesus escaped and was never seen again in that particular region.
I have to seek that book again, it was quite interesting...
"in competition for resources with any other animal/s, we win"
2 words for you: Rats. Cockroaches.
and that just what come from the top of my head! I won't even go into maritime life...
Just a thing you should know... When they tested the firsts A bombs, they had the surprise of finding that the cockroaches and the scorpions survived through it...
Scorpions, by the way, also survive beeing "deeply frozen".
I'm so sorry I could never collect my bet on you after you get formal proof 8p
Dead for a long, long time. I don't see his CDs going for any cheaper.. Because the performers get paid, and the copyright goes to the guy that reworks partitions for his particular orchestra.
Same here. All they can enforce is a notice that this book comes from gutenberg.net and can be gotten for free there.
Also, It should be easy to have all Gutenberg 1 files and process them to pdf. The added value would come with better presentation, additional thesaurus, etc, and that you can charge for.
This is where I like the fact that IANAL, for just being cynical gives me a nice idea...
I seem to remember that Canada (just like France and quite some other countries) have people pay a special TAX on Hard Drives/CDR*s/DVDR*s to "compensate" for the piracy that occurs anyway...
Well...You see it ? no ?
I pay a tax on my recording media because it is implied I WILL use it for piracy, even if I don't.... Having paid that tax, I think I can swear to god that I didn't pirate this music, I even paid the tax to have the right to do it...
Would be a shame to see all this tax money I pay go unreclaimed by not accessing all this music I actually paid a tax for....
and so on... Now mod me up and down till I puke, but somewhere in what I said there is a truth, a cynical one, but a truth nonetheless.
And, more precisely, hacked and shipped whithout the extensions, or even funnnier,a modified bios with specialised settings to fry the mobo/cpu/Security chip....
Bios viruses existed at one time, when bioses where few... Having everyone using the same secure bios from one vendor (phoenix) could bring some interesting results in the long term...
+ On the side, I seem to remember that some chips makers use "windows only" application to upgrade the firmware of hardware, and that some others try to get the same thing to update the bios from within the Windows OS...
Knowing the high level of security provided by windows, the next betting question: how long before the first worm designed for modifying the "secure bios" on a worldwide basis (install the virus, if it install from windows do it now, if needing out of Windows execution, mark the bios modifier to launch at next windows startup, using a sort of dos mode and a blank and/or fake "microsoft testing HDD" screen , or defeating the "trusted computing" security thingy by wiping out all the partitions on disks including the hidden ones...
This idea patented, if you do it, I'll reclaim a large sum to be taken from the "Wanted!" announce made for your head by Microsoft... 8p
So maybe I'm just plain stupid or something, but I have never been able to get my machine to boot from rw media... maybe it's my player, or my machine is just as dumb as I am...
Installing Nvidia driver using a nice script from a guy called Kanotix (the name of his cluster distro, so google for it...)
Printer conf using the tools given with Knoppix : 2 minutes
Digital Camera/Scanner/usb, same 5 minutes as long as your camera works as a usb drive, much much harder otherwise...
Palm : open a Midnight Commander session under root, go to/dev/ttyS0 (or S1 if you put your old palm Vx on com1) and change the rights so that everybody got read-write-execute rights (=> quick and dirty!) install or use KDE/Gnome default palm tools... 5 minutes or less.
The real problems will come when you try to use the all latest hardware for wich no drivers/docs have been made. For that matter, I have no idea how to use a USB connected palm with my debian, but I'll certainly learn once I get one (donation welcome 8)
Oh yes... Using the latest knoppix, you should be able to run and install kernel 2.6 in a quite painless way...nice, ain't it ?
Just forgot the specs of the machines and the network, so you get an idea of what you need...
All together I have 5 pcs and an Xbox on the network
Internet Access is Xdsl 4Mbits and pppoe.
Firewall is a PII 450 with 280 Mo ram. CPU usage under 2% average, so you can use a smaller machine if you want...
The Webserver with E-smith is a PII350 with 370Mo ram, but it will run from a P200-128Mo and up.
The fileserver is a Duron 1.3+256 Mo ram, 4+80Gigs on a raid card and a smallish 4Gig hdd for the system...more than enough to stream video and music to the xbox 8)
I recently moved all my machines (4, not that much) to Linux and here is the choices I finished with:
B) Gateway : astaro.org Nice (very nice) standalone firewall with statefull packet inspection.
You get a very secure firewall, with a free licence if under 10 protected ips.
I'm using it as firewall, mail relay and DMZ control for my small webserver. updates are downloaded automatically and it's really, really stable.
It also includes (for a fee) a good email antivirus.
Nice solution, web based control, didn't get a problem since I put it on. It's just take 2-3 hours to get your firewall rules right when you're a noob like me 8)
C) I'm using E-Smith (Mitel) (contribs.org) specialized distro.
Can be used as gateway too, but I only use the web server (apache), mail server (The Horde frontend for a web access + pop3 etc), sql, etc... If my web server gets compromised, I won't lose Internet access at the same time...
I was willing to put it as local fileserver too, but I took the "serious" path and it is on the dmz doing only web and mail. Alas Mitel dropped the project, but the people at contribs.org keep on develloping the server (wich is based on Redhat 7.2, btw)
and it just works...
A) Knoppix Cluster on my desktop (Dual PIII 1ghz) and on the file server (Duron 1.3). It's debian, it's nice and stable and you can do everything debian... + I GOT MY OWN CLUSTER TO PLAY WITH 8) (ok, a smally cluster with just 2 nodes and 3 cpus, but MINE !!! MINE !!! My preciouuuuus clussssster 8)
Being debian, all open sources IDE are easily accessibles, so for dev jobs...
D) Can't help you there. I think to remember some special distros going foe Sony laptops (gentoo ?) but I can't be certain at the moment.
My goal was to be able to control everything without using my shitty mechanical KVM, so web-based interfaces are in both E-Smith and Astaro. The fileserver I control with ssh and Webmin, until I understand how to get a vnc server running...
The uptime for all my machines is 28 days for now, I had everything off to install an ups last month. Other than that, I didn't reboot for quite some time...
Have a look at astaro for it is really a good distro, and if you find another web/mail/sql server with a good and easy management solution to replace e-smith, I'm interested too 8)
1/ Being funny is quite hard on itself. Are you ready to put extra points because this guy is funny and on topic at the same time ?
2/ Being funny, even if not on topic, means he get +1 funny, being on topic and having something interesting to write means extra points...
3/ Metamoderation being what it is, I'll make a point of finding your mod and putting it as unfair, just as in "offtopic" (/me dreams...)
4/ I have Karma to burn, and you can only remove me a -1 "Stupid blatant Idiotic Poster". + I am sure you don't follow the posts you moderated, so I'm doing this post as a pure futility training, and will probably lose that 1 karma point... well, so be it. I'll even maybe reincarnate as a moderator...
5/ Sad we cannot sign our mods... Sad there isn't a "TOP 100 Best Moderators" with a listing of ppl that have, say, 95% of their mods metamoded as fair. Sad I'm posting this in the middle of nowhere where nobody of importance (moderators ?/. Editors ? the Pizza Delivery Boy ?) can note how witty I am and how you should follow my words as Evangile and give me the goddam right to rule on moderators, and bind them all in the dark...
Well, sorry Monkelectric that that dork modded you offtopic...
Slashdot Mirror
Hem...
You heard of TF6 ? the joint venture tv between TF1 and M6?
And an 8'clock News that is called "l'actu en 5 Minutes" ?
Arte is (I think) a better way to have some time in the news and/or (mostly or) a nice small 10 minutes of their next public questions...
Also someone up there added something about "la bite au cul" or something close... Well, that's the spirit ! 8)
just that 8)
I hereby grant you a virtual karma point...
Joining the Legion...
Any Army, Anywhere, Anytime...They'll beat their asses till they can only speak in Farts !!!
Recently (some 20 years ago), they modified the entry selection a bit...You can't enter if you are sought for a crime of blood...of course, being somewhat fit will help, but be sure you will lose all fats or die trying...
I think you have to sign for 10 years minimum. Then you are given a new name, a new (empty) bank account with the Banque De France, and will have to become a Legionnaire.
It was created under Napoleon (don't hesitate to correct me 8) as a last chance for those that had nothing to lose or where you went when you were very, very badly in need of a new identity.
With 15 years surviving the Legion (at the time), it was considered as an equal or superior punishment for almost anything you had done...
As I said, today, they don't accept people with blood on their hands.
And still considered punishment enough for most of what you may have done...
Lets say Human Granted Redemption... The Hard Way..
So do it only as the very, very last ressource 8)
(I really hope it never goes to that point... he didn't do anything that bad...I hope 8)
Yes there are such laws, but they are carefully ignored by everyone...
A bit like the "High Security Encryption Patch" from Microsoft, that gave you 128 bits encryption...
And it has been released something like 1 week after it had been proven that ANY top 10 National Security agencies with a supercomputer can break it under 2 hours...
Or the fact that American encryption schemes are forbidden to be exported to a select list of countries.
Just to be on the point...128 Bits encryption will protect you from 99.9% of would be hackers.
Anyone with the right tools can hack it...And please remember that some Quantum Computers are on the prototype stage, meaning LARGE governments already have one or two monstruous calculations beasts working and spitting numbers all day long...
Encode at 2048 bits minimum, and even then they can just knock your door and get the datas from your hdds...
Security, yeah, right...
1/ Call France 3, TF1 if you can.
TF1 certainly won't give a damn, but France 3 has a local news agency that is capable of nicely covering your story.
2/ Attack the company for "Publicite mensongere" (you Grammar Nazis translate for yourselfs, the guy is french...), bringing with you the proofs you digged out.
2bis/ Attack them for "tentative d'intimidation", and another one with Libel (atteinte a l'honneur)
The Libel one will only bring you 1Eu (the official price for honor)
3/ Include the Paris Chamber of Commerce, 60 millions de Consommateurs, and probably one or two IT Newspapers (01 Informatique, Le Monde Informatique), write to the Minister of Justice (Sarkozi is out of Interior, and he won't care anyhow)
60 Millions de Consommateur is very possibly the best first to call, as they are very touchy on such issues, and help people defend their case.
Just doing the counter attack on "Publicite mensongere" to the responsible organisation will be a frightening step for Tengram...
Also, publishing your discoveries on CERN and all others security sites (french and internationals) will be a de-facto victory.
Also, have the court ask for an independent expert to verify your findings... In France, there is a law against punishing people that just said the truth...
If you really want to be vicious, take a look on their webpage, check all their "reference customers" and have them see your papers and security holes...If one of their customers is a French Governemental Agency, they can be in for a very hard time... Lying to the French Administration, and putting their security under threat for innefiency can bring them under a lot more problems than you can think.
So, this is just the top of my head ideas, but I hope it will help you...
In such cases, the better defense is offense...
Bonne Chance, Courage, et ne te laisses pas faire !!!!
The ad I was served above the article saying "Windows was too unstable" is touting a lower TCO for Windows....
The side-ad is also displaying the same...
SIC...
/me smiles 8)
no problem, even if you are mistaken 8p
But I use the term "Papist" the same way Hemingway ueses the term "Nigger"...
At the time it was the "natural way" of saying "colored people"
I'm sorry I have offended you, but early americans were "Papists" (canadians and the some states) or protestants (Dutch emigrate, New England, that was to be the Eden that England couldn't achieve, etc...) or simply ppl that fleed Europe because they were persecuted in various ways...
America was once a great Dream, once of ultimate freedom and liberty.
It has failed in that context, being caught by the "Dollar God"...
Please feel free to disagree. I'm not that offensed by ppl that have an other point of view...
P.S. this not an anon posting... just remind my words sometime...
Just remember that the first immigration wave in America were persecuted in their own Old Europe => Non-papists in France, papists in the UK, people with a "knack" considered as withcraft everywhere, people that lost everything due to war, Dutch that tried to escape their crowded and quite intolerant society, and then of courses, slaves brought out from Africa, and so on...
...etc, ad nauseatum.
So from my point of view, Americans and Aussies are quite equal at their beginning : derelicts, outcasts and unwanted.
The only difference is that on the whole, at least until recently, the Aussies were considered as less bastards and less imperialists than the US.
Also, the American problem is that the very good ideas in the constitution have been perverted by corporations and protestant integrists...They made the money from the slave triangle (Silk, ores, ware, exchanged for slaves, exchanged for money, that bought local wares, that got transformed into
At lease the Aussies had the "excuse" of being considered as BAD ppl (extraded UK Criminals, and anybody that was making a fuss against the local gov) so anything they did was an improvement.
Americans should have done better, seeing their "nobler origins" of persecuted.
On the whole, I still would prefer Canada to the US, and Australia to the US.
Alas, the richest is also the meanest...
it is mostly that AFTER it's crucifixion, jesus body disapeared from its "grave"
Thereafter, you can find the trace of a prophet, or a holy man, going almost in a straight lone from israel to Japan, with the indians worshipping a man called Jeve, and at the end of the line a small Japanese village whose symbol is the cross, that uses to baptise their children and are considered "holy" and "preserving the body of a holy man"...and that cross+water thingy began BEFORE the bastard portugese came to Japan.
The conspiracy theoiry says that Jesus was given a drug that made him cataleptic, and that is the reason the roman pierced Jesus chest with his lance, to check he was REALLY dead...
usually, it takes a bit longer than what jesus managed to die on the cross... say 3 to 5 days...
Afterward, Jesus escaped and was never seen again in that particular region.
I have to seek that book again, it was quite interesting...
Obviously 8)
And now someone posted their web adress on slashdot...
Maybe we can link the threat in the article and the name of the Article Poster for them 8)
"in competition for resources with any other animal/s, we win"
:
2 words for you
Rats. Cockroaches.
and that just what come from the top of my head!
I won't even go into maritime life...
Just a thing you should know... When they tested the firsts A bombs, they had the surprise of finding that the cockroaches and the scorpions survived through it...
Scorpions, by the way, also survive beeing "deeply frozen".
I'm so sorry I could never collect my bet on you after you get formal proof 8p
Dead for a long, long time.
I don't see his CDs going for any cheaper..
Because the performers get paid, and the copyright goes to the guy that reworks partitions for his particular orchestra.
Same here.
All they can enforce is a notice that this book comes from gutenberg.net and can be gotten for free there.
Also, It should be easy to have all Gutenberg 1 files and process them to pdf. The added value would come with better presentation, additional thesaurus, etc, and that you can charge for.
Didn't think about that one...
How about we join and increase our patent portofolio in case of future legal actions ?
(this comment driven by reading slashdot for too long 8)
Consumer market digital camera with 4 gigs to hold the pictures...
PDA with 4 gigs to put you data
Ultra-Micro-Itx with a full computer the size of a Marlboro pack, and that just to accomodate 4 usb ports and a power adaptor...
Smallers disks means ultraportability up...
I, for one, Welcome our Masters Microlords 8)
But phone lines only uses 2 of the copper lines to get signal to the phone....
Maybe if you used all 8 you could get 4 times the speed, using in fact 4 connections...
In an Ethernet cable, all 8 lines are used.
This is where I like the fact that IANAL, for just being cynical gives me a nice idea...
I seem to remember that Canada (just like France and quite some other countries) have people pay a special TAX on Hard Drives/CDR*s/DVDR*s to "compensate" for the piracy that occurs anyway...
Well...You see it ? no ?
I pay a tax on my recording media because it is implied I WILL use it for piracy, even if I don't.... Having paid that tax, I think I can swear to god that I didn't pirate this music, I even paid the tax to have the right to do it...
Would be a shame to see all this tax money I pay go unreclaimed by not accessing all this music I actually paid a tax for....
and so on... Now mod me up and down till I puke, but somewhere in what I said there is a truth, a cynical one, but a truth nonetheless.
The question should be :
:
How long before this BIOS is hacked...
And, more precisely, hacked and shipped whithout the extensions, or even funnnier,a modified bios with specialised settings to fry the mobo/cpu/Security chip....
Bios viruses existed at one time, when bioses where few... Having everyone using the same secure bios from one vendor (phoenix) could bring some interesting results in the long term...
+ On the side, I seem to remember that some chips makers use "windows only" application to upgrade the firmware of hardware, and that some others try to get the same thing to update the bios from within the Windows OS...
Knowing the high level of security provided by windows, the next betting question
how long before the first worm designed for modifying the "secure bios" on a worldwide basis (install the virus, if it install from windows do it now, if needing out of Windows execution, mark the bios modifier to launch at next windows startup, using a sort of dos mode and a blank and/or fake "microsoft testing HDD" screen , or defeating the "trusted computing" security thingy by wiping out all the partitions on disks including the hidden ones...
This idea patented, if you do it, I'll reclaim a large sum to be taken from the "Wanted!" announce made for your head by Microsoft... 8p
I just got it...
Men (and/or women) under the sun, turning a big wheel (or cycling, or whatever), using the wind to cool of...
Simplistic in my mind, but it could just work, ya know ?
np, was a pleasure 8) and I did it quite selfishly too...after all, you made me laugh, so it was well worth it.
And I even got that karma point back from another moderator, so you're welcome 8)
So maybe I'm just plain stupid or something, but I have never been able to get my machine to boot from rw media... maybe it's my player, or my machine is just as dumb as I am...
Debian based wih KDE as default manager...
/dev/ttyS0 (or S1 if you put your old palm Vx on com1) and change the rights so that everybody got read-write-execute rights (=> quick and dirty!) install or use KDE/Gnome default palm tools... 5 minutes or less.
Installing Nvidia driver using a nice script from a guy called Kanotix (the name of his cluster distro, so google for it...)
Printer conf using the tools given with Knoppix : 2 minutes
Digital Camera/Scanner/usb, same 5 minutes as long as your camera works as a usb drive, much much harder otherwise...
Palm : open a Midnight Commander session under root, go to
The real problems will come when you try to use the all latest hardware for wich no drivers/docs have been made. For that matter, I have no idea how to use a USB connected palm with my debian, but I'll certainly learn once I get one (donation welcome 8)
Oh yes... Using the latest knoppix, you should be able to run and install kernel 2.6 in a quite painless way...nice, ain't it ?
Just forgot the specs of the machines and the network, so you get an idea of what you need...
All together I have 5 pcs and an Xbox on the network
Internet Access is Xdsl 4Mbits and pppoe.
Firewall is a PII 450 with 280 Mo ram. CPU usage under 2% average, so you can use a smaller machine if you want...
The Webserver with E-smith is a PII350 with 370Mo ram, but it will run from a P200-128Mo and up.
The fileserver is a Duron 1.3+256 Mo ram, 4+80Gigs on a raid card and a smallish 4Gig hdd for the system...more than enough to stream video and music to the xbox 8)
good luck and have fun 8)
I recently moved all my machines (4, not that much) to Linux and here is the choices I finished with :
B) Gateway : astaro.org
Nice (very nice) standalone firewall with statefull packet inspection.
You get a very secure firewall, with a free licence if under 10 protected ips.
I'm using it as firewall, mail relay and DMZ control for my small webserver.
updates are downloaded automatically and it's really, really stable.
It also includes (for a fee) a good email antivirus.
Nice solution, web based control, didn't get a problem since I put it on. It's just take 2-3 hours to get your firewall rules right when you're a noob like me 8)
C) I'm using E-Smith (Mitel) (contribs.org) specialized distro.
Can be used as gateway too, but I only use the web server (apache), mail server (The Horde frontend for a web access + pop3 etc), sql, etc...
If my web server gets compromised, I won't lose Internet access at the same time...
I was willing to put it as local fileserver too, but I took the "serious" path and it is on the dmz doing only web and mail. Alas Mitel dropped the project, but the people at contribs.org keep on develloping the server (wich is based on Redhat 7.2, btw)
and it just works...
A) Knoppix Cluster on my desktop (Dual PIII 1ghz) and on the file server (Duron 1.3). It's debian, it's nice and stable and you can do everything debian... + I GOT MY OWN CLUSTER TO PLAY WITH 8) (ok, a smally cluster with just 2 nodes and 3 cpus, but MINE !!! MINE !!! My preciouuuuus clussssster 8)
Being debian, all open sources IDE are easily accessibles, so for dev jobs...
D) Can't help you there. I think to remember some special distros going foe Sony laptops (gentoo ?) but I can't be certain at the moment.
My goal was to be able to control everything without using my shitty mechanical KVM, so web-based interfaces are in both E-Smith and Astaro. The fileserver I control with ssh and Webmin, until I understand how to get a vnc server running...
The uptime for all my machines is 28 days for now, I had everything off to install an ups last month. Other than that, I didn't reboot for quite some time...
Have a look at astaro for it is really a good distro, and if you find another web/mail/sql server with a good and easy management solution to replace e-smith, I'm interested too 8)
Dear M. Moderator,
/. Editors ? the Pizza Delivery Boy ?) can note how witty I am and how you should follow my words as Evangile and give me the goddam right to rule on moderators, and bind them all in the dark...
1/ Being funny is quite hard on itself.
Are you ready to put extra points because this guy is funny and on topic at the same time ?
2/ Being funny, even if not on topic, means he get +1 funny, being on topic and having something interesting to write means extra points...
3/ Metamoderation being what it is, I'll make a point of finding your mod and putting it as unfair, just as in "offtopic" (/me dreams...)
4/ I have Karma to burn, and you can only remove me a -1 "Stupid blatant Idiotic Poster". + I am sure you don't follow the posts you moderated, so I'm doing this post as a pure futility training, and will probably lose that 1 karma point... well, so be it. I'll even maybe reincarnate as a moderator...
5/ Sad we cannot sign our mods... Sad there isn't a "TOP 100 Best Moderators" with a listing of ppl that have, say, 95% of their mods metamoded as fair. Sad I'm posting this in the middle of nowhere where nobody of importance (moderators ?
Well, sorry Monkelectric that that dork modded you offtopic...