The thing about Debian vs. Red Hat is that Debian's package-management KICKS ASS. Everyone loves it. It has some problems, but everyone will admit that deb is easier than rpm. However, Red Hat is easier to install from the get-go. All people want is the best of both worlds.
Why is it easier? Because it doesn't require as much interaction with the user to install a package. All the intricacies of dependencies and downloading are done for you. You don't have to look up every little thing.
Creating software is about encoding some knowledge into code. Yea, sure I could write all my code in assembly, and sometimes I do write code in assembly. But Most Of The Time, I use a high level language, even though I know how to do it in assembly. Because it's easier.
I don't understand what you mean. ISOs that the pgi-build command creates are, in fact, bootable.
I think his point is that when he downloads the debian ISOs, burns them, and boots them, he doesn't get any such option. There is no mention in the manual. The reason for this is obvious, but he wasn't trying to point out a problem with PGI. He was pointing about a problem with debian.
I don't see anywhere in the parent message that he says that it was a grad student. Many universities use upperclass undergrads to TA beginning courses.
Unlike MP3 swapping, there's a HUGE difference between watching a quarter-screen pixelated copy of a show and seeing it on my 32" television, but that's clearly not a big deal for many viewers, and in any case, it WILL change as technology and bandwidth progresses.
Just get a Matrox G400 with TV-Out. The DVD-Max feature will automatically display any video displayed on your monitor that uses overlay on your TV.
The article is an AP article and not written by anyone at excite. Calm down. He just used excite as a way to link to the AP article. Sure he could have included a link to the policy on Google's site, but he probably figured that since this is *Slashdot*, someone (like you) would post a link to all kinds of related information.
Also, since this is a journalistic site, he posted a link to a journalistic source, not the PR laden press release. It's like posting a link to microsoft.com in a story about the latest IE security flaw. <sarcasm>Sure, that will be really informative.</sarcasm>
OS/2 isn't the only example of a system that failed because it included emulation. Remember the Commodore 128? It had full Commodore 64 emulation. I can count the number of apps written for the C128 native mode on my left hand.
Whether it's true or not, Linux *is* RedHat for a lot of folks. If RedHat successfully markets Linux then they stand to benefit greatly. Even if they don't sell a distro to the target audience member, they still add folks to the Linux crowd. And they can benefit in a lot of other ways, including support.
I must say that as a resident of Salt Lake City and student who lives in student (married) housing, I must say that I am not surprised. I have been very much involved in certain unmentionable musical aspects of the games and I have been abhored by the amount of incompetence that seem to go around. For the amount of money that I will be spending (yea right, *this* olympics will not go over budget), I figured that they would get some professionals to run this thing. But, alas, no, we've known about this thing for 7 years and the schedules are not even finalized for many things. And it's a few weeks before the games. WTF!
What about geothermal and nuclear? Geothermal is basically potential energy from the initial formation of the solar system and nuclear comes from the destruction of other stars and/or the raw energy of hydrogren.
Why aren't more people suggesting this (RTF format)? RTF is the best of all worlds.
The truth is that HTML was never meant to be a document formatting language. There is no mechanism for margins or other such "printed page" stuff. It's just too difficult for normal users to transport documents around (multiple files)
I don't understand how people can actually compare plain text to a word document. Plain text is just like HTML with all the tags removed. It just doesn't cut the mustard.
PDF is okay, but doesn't have the ability to for straightforward editing. Yes, I know you can edit it, but it wasn't really meant for that.
RTF is pure text, no crazy binary files, so you can edit it in emacs if you want and it is viewable by almost everyone. You could even put it into CVS! WordPad, which has been included with Windows for a while now will read it (and save to it) without even the download of the Word Viewer (which is free from MS).
I'm almost sure that that isn't true. Of the five people that I know who are writing dissertations at the moment, one is using Word, three are using LaTeX, and one is using something else (can't remember what, but it's neither of those two).
What are their degrees going to be in? If it's computer science or a related field, I don't think that this is a very good sample.
Derogatory names for OSes are passe. We all know what Windows software can and cannot do...
Lighten Up.
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So you're going to redo a shell box everytime it gets rooted ?
Yes. How long does it really take to make a vanilla box like that? Especially if all it needs to do is have NFS and a standard suite of tools? And if this is happening a lot, you really should be finding out what users are doing it.
And someone getting peoples shell password is not at all a security concern ?
What does this have to do with it? Those with access to critical machines shouldn't be using the same password on vulnerable machines anyway. Please improve your English skills so I can understand you.
A shell box is still a box.. If it gets rooted someone has to fix it, if you are an isp providing shell access claiming its no big deal that it goes down is not acceptable
True. But since we're talking about universities and not ISPs... Universities have to give their students some access. It's a fact of life. You can do your best to prevent holes, but sometimes you have to weigh good security practices against system usability. A system that no one can use is very secure.
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What the hell are you talking about AC?
Yes, they should only get access to a shell server. And that shell server should only be serving shells so that if it gets rooted, not much damage can be done.
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Any good University setup doesn't allow regular users login-level accounts on critical servers. Students should have accounts on lab machines, and servers used for remote access, email, etc. but not on the web server, database servers, etc. While you may think that your ability to logon to the the "server" is a great honor, realize that the only use for that server is so people can login remotely to a common machine, the real servers are (or should be) locked up real nice like.
They get a worse grade. The world isn't about fairness, it's about who does the best job. If you aren't as talented, then you have to work harder to get the same result.
Take Larry Bird for example. Everyone in the NBA agrees that he didn't have much talent. So he had to work. And he worked very hard. He probably worked a lot harder than most players at his level. We all have to work at different levels to get the same results.
I just sent this post over a Rythms DSL line, which was supposed to go offline a week ago. Might this mean that my line will stay up and I will just start getting bills from WorldCom?
If someone wants to surf when they should be learning, as long as they aren't disturbing those around them, knock yourself out...
Problem is that they *are* disturbing the rest of the class. I teach a lab section for a beginning CS course and find that half the class surfs the internet when they get done with whatever we're doing instead of doing what happens in most classes like this, helping other students and thereby teaching themselves.
If you don't want to come to class to learn then don't come! It's rude!
The speed of a typist is pretty inversly related to the distance between keys. If the keys are far apart, then you hit them slower. So, yeah, designing a layout to move the keys farther apart is designing a layout to slow you down.
Have you ever even seen a mechanical typwriter? Or used one? If you had, you would've understood the original post, which you obviously didn't.
Keys that are close together correspond to hammers that are close together. If two hammers both try to hit the paper at the same time, then there is a good chance of a jam. Or if two hammers that are close to each other try to hit the paper around the same time, then they might jam.
The point of all the qwerty stuff was to increase the average distance between hammers that hit the paper one after the other, so that they wouldn't jam.
Guess what? Not all machines have admins. Yes, they have people that use them and may install software from time to time, but those ser users, not admins. Much of the nimda problem is due to broadband Win2K users who don't even know what a web server is, let alone that they have one running on their system.
The point is that people shouldn't *have* to worry about this kind of thing. Webservers and other potentially damaging things should be disabled by default. Why would joe user even want to run a web server unless he is the kind of guy that has some idea of how to keep it safe?
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The thing about Debian vs. Red Hat is that Debian's package-management KICKS ASS. Everyone loves it. It has some problems, but everyone will admit that deb is easier than rpm. However, Red Hat is easier to install from the get-go. All people want is the best of both worlds.
Why is it easier? Because it doesn't require as much interaction with the user to install a package. All the intricacies of dependencies and downloading are done for you. You don't have to look up every little thing.
Creating software is about encoding some knowledge into code. Yea, sure I could write all my code in assembly, and sometimes I do write code in assembly. But Most Of The Time, I use a high level language, even though I know how to do it in assembly. Because it's easier.
I don't understand what you mean. ISOs that the pgi-build command creates are, in fact, bootable.
I think his point is that when he downloads the debian ISOs, burns them, and boots them, he doesn't get any such option. There is no mention in the manual. The reason for this is obvious, but he wasn't trying to point out a problem with PGI. He was pointing about a problem with debian.
I don't see anywhere in the parent message that he says that it was a grad student. Many universities use upperclass undergrads to TA beginning courses.
The parent poster has probably never used another version control system, and is just pushing MS products.
No, actually, he's just using it as an example:
I use Visual Sourcesafe here as an example, but any tool with the same functionality described below will do
They probably introduced some sort of bug.
Damn commies.
Unlike MP3 swapping, there's a HUGE difference between watching a quarter-screen pixelated copy of a show and seeing it on my 32" television, but that's clearly not a big deal for many viewers, and in any case, it WILL change as technology and bandwidth progresses.
Just get a Matrox G400 with TV-Out. The DVD-Max feature will automatically display any video displayed on your monitor that uses overlay on your TV.
The article is an AP article and not written by anyone at excite. Calm down. He just used excite as a way to link to the AP article. Sure he could have included a link to the policy on Google's site, but he probably figured that since this is *Slashdot*, someone (like you) would post a link to all kinds of related information.
Also, since this is a journalistic site, he posted a link to a journalistic source, not the PR laden press release. It's like posting a link to microsoft.com in a story about the latest IE security flaw. <sarcasm>Sure, that will be really informative.</sarcasm>
OS/2 isn't the only example of a system that failed because it included emulation. Remember the Commodore 128? It had full Commodore 64 emulation. I can count the number of apps written for the C128 native mode on my left hand.
Whether it's true or not, Linux *is* RedHat for a lot of folks. If RedHat successfully markets Linux then they stand to benefit greatly. Even if they don't sell a distro to the target audience member, they still add folks to the Linux crowd. And they can benefit in a lot of other ways, including support.
Basically you're saying that we need the big companies so we can fund a whole bunch of stuff that we may or may not need. That's silly.
High-production cost radio programs are a thing of the past, not because there isn't a good market for them, but because TV shut them out.
I must say that as a resident of Salt Lake City and student who lives in student (married) housing, I must say that I am not surprised. I have been very much involved in certain unmentionable musical aspects of the games and I have been abhored by the amount of incompetence that seem to go around. For the amount of money that I will be spending (yea right, *this* olympics will not go over budget), I figured that they would get some professionals to run this thing. But, alas, no, we've known about this thing for 7 years and the schedules are not even finalized for many things. And it's a few weeks before the games. WTF!
What about geothermal and nuclear? Geothermal is basically potential energy from the initial formation of the solar system and nuclear comes from the destruction of other stars and/or the raw energy of hydrogren.
Why aren't more people suggesting this (RTF format)? RTF is the best of all worlds.
The truth is that HTML was never meant to be a document formatting language. There is no mechanism for margins or other such "printed page" stuff. It's just too difficult for normal users to transport documents around (multiple files)
I don't understand how people can actually compare plain text to a word document. Plain text is just like HTML with all the tags removed. It just doesn't cut the mustard.
PDF is okay, but doesn't have the ability to for straightforward editing. Yes, I know you can edit it, but it wasn't really meant for that.
RTF is pure text, no crazy binary files, so you can edit it in emacs if you want and it is viewable by almost everyone. You could even put it into CVS! WordPad, which has been included with Windows for a while now will read it (and save to it) without even the download of the Word Viewer (which is free from MS).
I'm almost sure that that isn't true. Of the five people that I know who are writing dissertations at the moment, one is using Word, three are using LaTeX, and one is using something else (can't remember what, but it's neither of those two).
What are their degrees going to be in? If it's computer science or a related field, I don't think that this is a very good sample.
Lack of solid documentation and licensing issues as I remember.
Any word on what the NTFS bug fixes involved? Any closer to a usable readwrite mode?
Derogatory names for OSes are passe. We all know what Windows software can and cannot do...
Lighten Up.
So you're going to redo a shell box everytime it gets rooted ?
.. If it gets rooted someone has to fix it, if you are an isp providing shell access claiming its no big deal that it goes down is not acceptable
Yes. How long does it really take to make a vanilla box like that? Especially if all it needs to do is have NFS and a standard suite of tools? And if this is happening a lot, you really should be finding out what users are doing it.
And someone getting peoples shell password is not at all a security concern ?
What does this have to do with it? Those with access to critical machines shouldn't be using the same password on vulnerable machines anyway. Please improve your English skills so I can understand you.
A shell box is still a box
True. But since we're talking about universities and not ISPs... Universities have to give their students some access. It's a fact of life. You can do your best to prevent holes, but sometimes you have to weigh good security practices against system usability. A system that no one can use is very secure.
What the hell are you talking about AC?
Yes, they should only get access to a shell server. And that shell server should only be serving shells so that if it gets rooted, not much damage can be done.
Any good University setup doesn't allow regular users login-level accounts on critical servers. Students should have accounts on lab machines, and servers used for remote access, email, etc. but not on the web server, database servers, etc. While you may think that your ability to logon to the the "server" is a great honor, realize that the only use for that server is so people can login remotely to a common machine, the real servers are (or should be) locked up real nice like.
who isn't as talented (but tries hard) as others
They get a worse grade. The world isn't about fairness, it's about who does the best job. If you aren't as talented, then you have to work harder to get the same result.
Take Larry Bird for example. Everyone in the NBA agrees that he didn't have much talent. So he had to work. And he worked very hard. He probably worked a lot harder than most players at his level. We all have to work at different levels to get the same results.
I just sent this post over a Rythms DSL line, which was supposed to go offline a week ago. Might this mean that my line will stay up and I will just start getting bills from WorldCom?
If someone wants to surf when they should be learning, as long as they aren't disturbing those around them, knock yourself out...
Problem is that they *are* disturbing the rest of the class. I teach a lab section for a beginning CS course and find that half the class surfs the internet when they get done with whatever we're doing instead of doing what happens in most classes like this, helping other students and thereby teaching themselves.
If you don't want to come to class to learn then don't come! It's rude!
The speed of a typist is pretty inversly related to the distance between keys. If the keys are far apart, then you hit them slower. So, yeah, designing a layout to move the keys farther apart is designing a layout to slow you down.
Have you ever even seen a mechanical typwriter? Or used one? If you had, you would've understood the original post, which you obviously didn't.
Keys that are close together correspond to hammers that are close together. If two hammers both try to hit the paper at the same time, then there is a good chance of a jam. Or if two hammers that are close to each other try to hit the paper around the same time, then they might jam.
The point of all the qwerty stuff was to increase the average distance between hammers that hit the paper one after the other, so that they wouldn't jam.
Guess what? Not all machines have admins. Yes, they have people that use them and may install software from time to time, but those ser users, not admins. Much of the nimda problem is due to broadband Win2K users who don't even know what a web server is, let alone that they have one running on their system.
The point is that people shouldn't *have* to worry about this kind of thing. Webservers and other potentially damaging things should be disabled by default. Why would joe user even want to run a web server unless he is the kind of guy that has some idea of how to keep it safe?