I had a similar experience, but usually the configure script will give you a pretty good idea of what's missing, e.g.
checking if flex is installed...no
If the script dies there, it's time to find and install the flex rpm, etc.
The thing that irks me right now is that the kernel sources are on the second CD (which I don't have). I'm trying to install the ALSA drivers for my soundcard (OPL-SA2/3/x), but it needs an valid kernel source tree (I tried a bait-and-switch by using the kernel headers, but the makefile caught me:-( ). Oh well, I guess I'll have to mail-order the second CD...
Assuming you've set it correctly, which many Windows users don't do. My university's IT department actually instructed people to use "Windows Login" instead of "Client for Microsoft Networking"...shows how much of a clue they had. As a result, people in the dorms would compromise each other's computers all the time.
Nuked my unstable Win2k installation today and replaced it with Mandrake 8.0. Works like a charm, Ethernet card and all. Don't know that anyone cares, but that's alright.;->
I third that...I've been using my 333 MHz K6-2 Toshiba laptop for two years now. When I got it, I installed Linux on it, but I had trouble getting my Linksys PCMCIA Ethernet adapter to work properly so I had to switch back to Windoze. That and some of the software packages I need for school (P-SPICE and ZEMAX) are only available on Windows.
I'm looking forward to graduating so that I can live a Microsoft-free life...:->
Gotta love corporate logic: pay lots of money to networks to show your ads, but shut down websites that distribute your advertising for free. Go figure...
Can Microsoft be accountable for damage done by the Sircam virus (e.g. libel, industrial espionage)? Might give them an incentive to patch those security holes rather than release them to the public...
Thanks for the anecdotal evidence--it appeals well to human emotion, but it doesn't accurately represent the objective risks associated with mass transit (buses, trains, airplanes) versus the risks associated with automobiles. I don't know the statistics offhand, but I'm pretty sure that the risk of death on any given bus/train/subway trip is less than that on any given automobile trip. In fact, the arguments you give help prove this point: so few people are involved in any given automobile accident, and therefore the media don't deem such events newsworthy unless there are other circumstances surrounding the accident.
Agreed. That's why I hate my university's IT department. Why can't they create a solution (SMTP-AUTH) rather than create new problems (blocking external IP addresses and forcing users to compose and send mail through a slow telnet connection). The climate maybe improving: last year they implemented a webmail system (although I dislike that, too; webmail has too much latency and terrible search capabilities, among many other faults), and this year, they scrapped the telnet daemon in favor of SSH. None of those, however, can replace being able to send mail from the client of your choice. So if you work at CCIT at the University of Arizona, please consider my plea...
If you have an email with a different domain, shouldn't that domain have its own SMTP sever that you can use? If it doesn't, you couldn't send SMTP mail from that account anyway, so I don't see the problem here...
I have to agree, though, that this measure won't do much to prevent spam and relaying, unless there are IP checks or some sort of user authentication; it seems to me that they're just trying to reduce the load on their mail server generated by their users.
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I had a similar experience, but usually the configure script will give you a pretty good idea of what's missing, e.g.
checking if flex is installed...no
If the script dies there, it's time to find and install the flex rpm, etc.
The thing that irks me right now is that the kernel sources are on the second CD (which I don't have). I'm trying to install the ALSA drivers for my soundcard (OPL-SA2/3/x), but it needs an valid kernel source tree (I tried a bait-and-switch by using the kernel headers, but the makefile caught me :-( ). Oh well, I guess I'll have to mail-order the second CD...
Shh...Big Brother Bill is watching you...oh wait, this is Slashdot... ;-)
Viva la *nix!
Try telling that to people with USB 2.0 hardware...Big Brother Bill is cutting them off...
Assuming you've set it correctly, which many Windows users don't do. My university's IT department actually instructed people to use "Windows Login" instead of "Client for Microsoft Networking"...shows how much of a clue they had. As a result, people in the dorms would compromise each other's computers all the time.
Nuked my unstable Win2k installation today and replaced it with Mandrake 8.0. Works like a charm, Ethernet card and all. Don't know that anyone cares, but that's alright. ;->
...or is this payback for all the small sites it's DDOSed over the years? ;-)
I third that...I've been using my 333 MHz K6-2 Toshiba laptop for two years now. When I got it, I installed Linux on it, but I had trouble getting my Linksys PCMCIA Ethernet adapter to work properly so I had to switch back to Windoze. That and some of the software packages I need for school (P-SPICE and ZEMAX) are only available on Windows.
I'm looking forward to graduating so that I can live a Microsoft-free life... :->
Didn't Programming Pearls originate as a column by the same name in Communications of the ACM?
Anyone know if Lavasoft plans to add TopText to their blacklist?
Strictly speaking, wouldn't TopText be a Greek soldier, KaZaA a big hollow wooden horse, and your computer the city of Troy?
And the worm will go where?
I remember reading somewhere that there were toddlers in Silicon Valley that could only read and write in Graffiti... *shudder*
Gotta love corporate logic: pay lots of money to networks to show your ads, but shut down websites that distribute your advertising for free. Go figure...
Unplug the modem/NIC...
Can Microsoft be accountable for damage done by the Sircam virus (e.g. libel, industrial espionage)? Might give them an incentive to patch those security holes rather than release them to the public...
Use a name, you moron... :-p
How long before they design nanomachines to rip virus particles apart from end to end? ;->
The last time I was in Taiwan (December 1999), almost every new computer had a removable hard drive tray.
A quick Google search for "Los Angeles Recording Workshops" revealed that such an institution does exist--it's at 5278 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601--and they have a Sound Engineer School that smells a lot like what you're talking about.
The bit that confuses me is the degree from Columbia in Chicago; I assume you mean Columbia University in New York City...
Thanks for the anecdotal evidence--it appeals well to human emotion, but it doesn't accurately represent the objective risks associated with mass transit (buses, trains, airplanes) versus the risks associated with automobiles. I don't know the statistics offhand, but I'm pretty sure that the risk of death on any given bus/train/subway trip is less than that on any given automobile trip. In fact, the arguments you give help prove this point: so few people are involved in any given automobile accident, and therefore the media don't deem such events newsworthy unless there are other circumstances surrounding the accident.
Incidentally, what email service do you use that provides SMTP-AUTH capability? I know someone who might want to join... ;->
Agreed. That's why I hate my university's IT department. Why can't they create a solution (SMTP-AUTH) rather than create new problems (blocking external IP addresses and forcing users to compose and send mail through a slow telnet connection). The climate maybe improving: last year they implemented a webmail system (although I dislike that, too; webmail has too much latency and terrible search capabilities, among many other faults), and this year, they scrapped the telnet daemon in favor of SSH. None of those, however, can replace being able to send mail from the client of your choice. So if you work at CCIT at the University of Arizona, please consider my plea...
If you have an email with a different domain, shouldn't that domain have its own SMTP sever that you can use? If it doesn't, you couldn't send SMTP mail from that account anyway, so I don't see the problem here...
I have to agree, though, that this measure won't do much to prevent spam and relaying, unless there are IP checks or some sort of user authentication; it seems to me that they're just trying to reduce the load on their mail server generated by their users.
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