Keep making them and I'll keep going to see them. I've actually added to my PKD short story collection to make sure I have the short stories any films are based on. I'm a huge PKD fan and I go to see them when they are in theatres in the hopes that they keep making films based on PKD's works. There is so much good material there. I will say, however, that some of the short stories are not well-suited to a movie. "Next", based on The Golden Man SUCKED SO BAD IT HURT MY FEELINGS. Previous to seeing it I was wondering how they could make it a feature-length film. They did so by changing a whole lot, writing a new plot, and removing lots of the PKD themes. Ick.
I would think the cost of changing the OS in an environment large enough such that a 15% performance increase could result in millions of savings might be an expensive proposition on its own. Despite the impression many home users or small shops have, changing an OS in a large environment is far from "free".
I use linux lvm fairly heavily to manage storage across a handful of FC arrays, it is quite nice. But I have to say zfs is far nicer for many reasons (better admin interface, much nicer sw raid management and capabilities, etc).
I've been reading about zfs for awhile and recently started implementing it on some Solaris servers and really getting into it. It's nice. Really nice. I am anxiously awaiting being able to run it on linux (not via FUSE) in production. Has anyone heard anything on the objections over license compatibility and stepping beyond traditional filesystem areas of the kernel?
Sun did spend lots of time, money and effort working on freeing Solaris (and Java). However, those are currently maintained and widely used pieces of technology. OS/2, in comparison, is mostly used in legacy systems and by hobbyists. I don't see the return on investment for IBM in doing all that legal legwork and code auditing just to make people who aren't spending money with them happy.
Likewise. My wife and I moved from netflix to blockbuster total access several months ago and have been quite happy. One thing that is really nice about the in-store trade (for those that don't know, you can return a movie to a local store in exchange for a free rental at that store) is that if you real feel like a particular movie RIGHT NOW you can go get it. In addition it is sometimes nice to browse new releases that you may not have put in your queue but still would like to see.
I moved to Wisconsin a few years ago and noticed that I now get lots more of what I now understand as Midwest-specific jokes. There are a few about the Wisconsin Dells for instance.
You are not alone. I think Mike has much better screen presence than Joel. Joel's is much more different and low key and some people prefer that, but Mike really seems more comfortable putting himself out there in front of the camera. In my mind, Joel is more of an idea guy than a performer. Have you seen Joel's standup? It is very uncomfortable to watch (for me anyway). That said, I do enjoy Joel episodes, I just prefer Mike as a host.
Some of the DVDs do come with un-riffed versions on the flip sides of the DVDs. I don't recall which ones though. Also, I don't think it is worth viewing the movies without the riffing.
I think this is great and will definitely be checking these out. I am a huge mst3k fan and am really pleased that many of the people that were involved with the show are putting out new material. For those who don't know, Mike Nelson and friends also have a project called RiffTrax where they do more popular and high profile movies like The Phantom Menace, Daredevil, and Cocktail. Also, I don't care if I'm starting a flame war: I prefer Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy as Tom Servo:)
I remember that theme, the all black with beveled borders icons, etc. I must have it somewhere in my home directory but I haven't used enlightenment for quite awhile.
Another thumbs up for RT. I have used a few others including custom systems in the past and RT is towards the better end of the systems I've used. (trac is also nice). One of the really great things about RT is how easy it is to integrate email into the workflow. It is very easy to have an incoming email address like "helpdesk@mydomain.com" where people can send requests and get a link to their ticket. In addition all email you send in reply to that mail (or any that have the ticket number in the subject) automatically get captured into the log of the ticket viewable from the web interface.
Note that the Ubuntu Customization Kit you mentioned is aimed at creating custom ISOs for LIVE CDs, not for actual installation. A good place to get info on creating install cds is https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomi zation
I've done this a few different ways over the years. At first I used a system called systemimager that allows you to have minimal install media (small iso or floppy) and pull the image from a server during install. This is nice in that it catches EVERYTHING on the filesystem, but can be a pain to admin/update later and doesn't work without a server available. It also doesn't let you drop to the installer's UI for allowing the user to choose options such as partitioning as that needs to be in the script as well. I have since moved to managing machines using custom install processes/ISOs and local package repositories and like it much better. I've also used SuSE's autoyast which records package selection and config settings that you can then use as input for subsequent installs. This is well documented. I also used RedHat's kickstart awhile ago but didn't do too much with it. Most recently I've created custom ISOs for Ubuntu using the preseed mechanism. This requires editing a few text files specifying such settings as network config, default desktop, etc. There is a way to put your extra packages right on the CD but I just have a firstboot script that updates from a local repository using a list of package names to install. Metapackages are also useful here as you can make a metapackage that just depends on all the packages you want and update that whenever you wish all the existing or new machines to get new packages. All of these options are fairly well documented but may take some trial and error work to get things the way you want. It really depends on the distro you are using.
~$2 a song seems VERY reasonable to me. I can understand the complaints when content is in $10 packs, but I think $5 packs is a good price point. And three songs for around $5 is pretty good in my opinion. People always complain about the price of downloadable add-on content. Sometimes it is justified, in this case the whining seems a bit absurd. I pay $5 for lunch, I pay $10 to see a movie, I'd gladly pay $5 for hours of video game entertainment. Don't you people remember arcades? Don't be so damn cheap and whiny.
Core 2 Duo does seem to offer some benefits over the current opteron line and I think it is great that server vendors can so easily switch between them for new models. I believe Sun has a fairly sizable portion of the x86 server market and it was good to see a company have such success with AMD CPUs. Overall I think the competition is a good thing, but I do worry a bit that AMD will have trouble regaining sales even if they have the better next gen technology due to decreased profits as they lose server vendor sales. I look forward to a next gen battle based primarily on merit.
I apologize for the flammage ahead of time. Perhaps I was just in a bad mood, but people (especially on slashdot) seem to misrepresent some of the recent corporate confidence laws. I admit I am no expert myself, but I do know SOX does not specifically address data breaches.
SOX has nothing to do with this, dipshit. I know it is a popular law to throw around because you've heard about it in the trade press, but it has to do with accuracy of financial reporting, not data breaches of customer data. Closest SOX gets to this is requiring audit of controls on the company's own financial information and the requirement to disclose events that may negatively affect future numbers. You could kind of fit that last bit into SOX if the data disclosure became public and hurt share prices, but SOX is NOT a data breach disclosure law.
openvpn.org. We've been using it for both linux and windows clients. The windows client has a nifty little systray app. There is not much configuration needed, and it can work with passwords or keys. If you haven't dealt with PKI already and want to use certs that will be a learning curve with any vpn that uses certs. It has been very stable for us, we run the server on an OpenBSD box. The documentation is pretty good, and you can make your own windows installer with your configurations preloaded. One minor pain is that to allow a non-admin user to turn the vpn connection on and off you need to edit the acl for the service.
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Keep making them and I'll keep going to see them. I've actually added to my PKD short story collection to make sure I have the short stories any films are based on. I'm a huge PKD fan and I go to see them when they are in theatres in the hopes that they keep making films based on PKD's works. There is so much good material there.
I will say, however, that some of the short stories are not well-suited to a movie. "Next", based on The Golden Man SUCKED SO BAD IT HURT MY FEELINGS. Previous to seeing it I was wondering how they could make it a feature-length film. They did so by changing a whole lot, writing a new plot, and removing lots of the PKD themes. Ick.
Yes, I like mine. But I must admit the last of matte displays on regular (non-pro) macbooks was irritating when deciding what to buy.
I would think the cost of changing the OS in an environment large enough such that a 15% performance increase could result in millions of savings might be an expensive proposition on its own. Despite the impression many home users or small shops have, changing an OS in a large environment is far from "free".
I use linux lvm fairly heavily to manage storage across a handful of FC arrays, it is quite nice. But I have to say zfs is far nicer for many reasons (better admin interface, much nicer sw raid management and capabilities, etc).
I've been reading about zfs for awhile and recently started implementing it on some Solaris servers and really getting into it. It's nice. Really nice. I am anxiously awaiting being able to run it on linux (not via FUSE) in production. Has anyone heard anything on the objections over license compatibility and stepping beyond traditional filesystem areas of the kernel?
Sun did spend lots of time, money and effort working on freeing Solaris (and Java). However, those are currently maintained and widely used pieces of technology. OS/2, in comparison, is mostly used in legacy systems and by hobbyists. I don't see the return on investment for IBM in doing all that legal legwork and code auditing just to make people who aren't spending money with them happy.
Likewise. My wife and I moved from netflix to blockbuster total access several months ago and have been quite happy. One thing that is really nice about the in-store trade (for those that don't know, you can return a movie to a local store in exchange for a free rental at that store) is that if you real feel like a particular movie RIGHT NOW you can go get it. In addition it is sometimes nice to browse new releases that you may not have put in your queue but still would like to see.
Yes, he filled out the forms and paid the fee. He even stated one reason he was running as a democrat was because the republican fee was more costly.
I moved to Wisconsin a few years ago and noticed that I now get lots more of what I now understand as Midwest-specific jokes. There are a few about the Wisconsin Dells for instance.
You are not alone. I think Mike has much better screen presence than Joel. Joel's is much more different and low key and some people prefer that, but Mike really seems more comfortable putting himself out there in front of the camera. In my mind, Joel is more of an idea guy than a performer. Have you seen Joel's standup? It is very uncomfortable to watch (for me anyway). That said, I do enjoy Joel episodes, I just prefer Mike as a host.
Some of the DVDs do come with un-riffed versions on the flip sides of the DVDs. I don't recall which ones though. Also, I don't think it is worth viewing the movies without the riffing.
I think this is great and will definitely be checking these out. I am a huge mst3k fan and am really pleased that many of the people that were involved with the show are putting out new material. For those who don't know, Mike Nelson and friends also have a project called RiffTrax where they do more popular and high profile movies like The Phantom Menace, Daredevil, and Cocktail. Also, I don't care if I'm starting a flame war: I prefer Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy as Tom Servo :)
I don't often post these days and also try to avoid reading comments TOO much since it can be such a time sink. I figured I'd make an appearance :)
I remember that theme, the all black with beveled borders icons, etc. I must have it somewhere in my home directory but I haven't used enlightenment for quite awhile.
Another thumbs up for RT. I have used a few others including custom systems in the past and RT is towards the better end of the systems I've used. (trac is also nice). One of the really great things about RT is how easy it is to integrate email into the workflow. It is very easy to have an incoming email address like "helpdesk@mydomain.com" where people can send requests and get a link to their ticket. In addition all email you send in reply to that mail (or any that have the ticket number in the subject) automatically get captured into the log of the ticket viewable from the web interface.
if it is Florida State University, Go Noles!
Screw FSU, Go Gators!
(I have no problem losing karma over that, it was worth it.)
It took me a bit to find the docs the first time around, so here are some direct links for anyone interested:i zationi zation/Scriptsi zation/PreseedExamples
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustom
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustom
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustom
Enjoy!
Note that the Ubuntu Customization Kit you mentioned is aimed at creating custom ISOs for LIVE CDs, not for actual installation. A good place to get info on creating install cds is https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomi zation
I've done this a few different ways over the years. At first I used a system called systemimager that allows you to have minimal install media (small iso or floppy) and pull the image from a server during install. This is nice in that it catches EVERYTHING on the filesystem, but can be a pain to admin/update later and doesn't work without a server available. It also doesn't let you drop to the installer's UI for allowing the user to choose options such as partitioning as that needs to be in the script as well. I have since moved to managing machines using custom install processes/ISOs and local package repositories and like it much better.
I've also used SuSE's autoyast which records package selection and config settings that you can then use as input for subsequent installs. This is well documented. I also used RedHat's kickstart awhile ago but didn't do too much with it.
Most recently I've created custom ISOs for Ubuntu using the preseed mechanism. This requires editing a few text files specifying such settings as network config, default desktop, etc. There is a way to put your extra packages right on the CD but I just have a firstboot script that updates from a local repository using a list of package names to install. Metapackages are also useful here as you can make a metapackage that just depends on all the packages you want and update that whenever you wish all the existing or new machines to get new packages.
All of these options are fairly well documented but may take some trial and error work to get things the way you want. It really depends on the distro you are using.
~$2 a song seems VERY reasonable to me. I can understand the complaints when content is in $10 packs, but I think $5 packs is a good price point. And three songs for around $5 is pretty good in my opinion. People always complain about the price of downloadable add-on content. Sometimes it is justified, in this case the whining seems a bit absurd. I pay $5 for lunch, I pay $10 to see a movie, I'd gladly pay $5 for hours of video game entertainment. Don't you people remember arcades? Don't be so damn cheap and whiny.
Core 2 Duo does seem to offer some benefits over the current opteron line and I think it is great that server vendors can so easily switch between them for new models. I believe Sun has a fairly sizable portion of the x86 server market and it was good to see a company have such success with AMD CPUs. Overall I think the competition is a good thing, but I do worry a bit that AMD will have trouble regaining sales even if they have the better next gen technology due to decreased profits as they lose server vendor sales. I look forward to a next gen battle based primarily on merit.
I apologize for the flammage ahead of time. Perhaps I was just in a bad mood, but people (especially on slashdot) seem to misrepresent some of the recent corporate confidence laws. I admit I am no expert myself, but I do know SOX does not specifically address data breaches.
SOX has nothing to do with this, dipshit. I know it is a popular law to throw around because you've heard about it in the trade press, but it has to do with accuracy of financial reporting, not data breaches of customer data. Closest SOX gets to this is requiring audit of controls on the company's own financial information and the requirement to disclose events that may negatively affect future numbers. You could kind of fit that last bit into SOX if the data disclosure became public and hurt share prices, but SOX is NOT a data breach disclosure law.
Any references on SuSE dropping reiserfs support?
openvpn.org. We've been using it for both linux and windows clients. The windows client has a nifty little systray app. There is not much configuration needed, and it can work with passwords or keys. If you haven't dealt with PKI already and want to use certs that will be a learning curve with any vpn that uses certs.
It has been very stable for us, we run the server on an OpenBSD box. The documentation is pretty good, and you can make your own windows installer with your configurations preloaded. One minor pain is that to allow a non-admin user to turn the vpn connection on and off you need to edit the acl for the service.