Let's just think what our history would be like if the only allowed exploration of unexplored territory was via government sponsored agencies.
~100,000 BC, Oldavie Gorge
The tribal government reports an arid landscape once you pass the Nile, we don't think it's commericially viable to send anything out there.
Plus, the youngsters of the tribe think we should concentrate on making Oldavie perfect before we send out any expeditions.
-15,000 BC Kamchatka
Well, yeah, maybe there is something to the northeast, but it's probably just frozen wasteland.
~1492, Spain
While some of the native did display strange fruits and vegetables, and gold and gems, we don't think the commercial exploitation of the new world is viable.
We will send scientific teams to explore the new world, once every 10 or 20 years.
-~1600, England
Perhaps we could work within the system of the Church of England, since Parliament won't authorize a colonizing expedition to the New World.
Mutations have been around in science fiction for a long time, which imply the idea of genes.
Foundation and Empire had the Mule, a sterile mutant who could control minds, published in 1951.
By the mid 50's there were stories about genetically engineered critters, IIRC Call Me Joe by Poul Anderson was about a genetically engineered critter that was made to live on Jupiter.
But your point has validity, there wasn't much about genetic engineering in early sf.
Yes, lm announce is a Samba thing, to help OS/2 clients access a Samba server, so that may be of little help to you, as I didn't understand your network topology.
Hmmm, I don't know, is there anyone associated with DAVE that would know?
I have a small LAN that I support containing mostly NT and Win9x boxes, but I use Linux as the main server (DHCP, http, ftp, and of course Samba). As it is now, every user (in order to use shares off of the NT boxes and the Samba box) must have their username and password registered with both all the NT boxes and the Samba server. Then when they need to change their password, they must go to each box and change it many times. Is making the Samba box a Domain controller the only way to have all NT and Win9x boxes validate against the Samba password database, or is there a different password sync method? Thanks! -Shawn
To being with, I don't know why your modded to -1, this seems like an abuse of moderator privileges.
Domains are one option, the other is to have the Samba server reference another server for password verification with the password server parameter.
I don't have a lot of experience with Domain controllers (ed checked that part of the book), but that's the way I think you need to go, either make Samba a Domain Controller, or make one of your NT boxes a Domain Controller, and have Samba join the NT Domain.
Otherwise, you can have Samba reference another server for password verification, using the password server prompt. This only cuts down some of the password changes, the other NT boxes probably need to be changed individually.
Whats the best way to migrate to encrypted passwords? The way the samba docs tell you to do is fine... except in the real world where you have hundreds of users spread out over multiple servers that sync.
Does anyone have a pretty much fullproof way of doing it? I mean, all the way down to the H_KEY settings that needs to be changed via kix.
Are you running unencrypted passwords now? Then you could consider using the update encrypted parameter, to slowly build your encrypted password file.
Once all the users have encrypted passwords in the smbpassd file, you start encyrpting passwords.
Wow, I'm jazzed, I never shared a Slashdot topic before.
If anyone has any questions about writing the book, I'd be glad to answer them to the best of my ability.
If anyone has Samba questions, I'll do my best to answer them too, though my turnaround time may be greater.
I agree on the skimpiness of the benchmarking, we ran out of time, and it's hard to simulate real workd performance on a Pentium and 486 home network.
As far as the duplication of pages wrt to the smb.conf section, and others sections, the publisher said to go a little overboard there, to avoid needless page flipping. We might have taken that a little too far.
As far as including the GPL, it seems to be the thing to do, every book has it, it may be a publisher's requirement, but we included it anyway.
Lem, Brunner, Dick, Egan, heck you can throw in Ellison there, and Pynchon would still beat them, with one hand tied behind his back (which is probably how he writes, considering how long it takes him to get a bookd out).
If you've already read Dune, you've read most of the pivotal plot points of House Atriedes.
Eg. Dune talks about how Leit-Kynes Pere joined the Fremen after he saw some Harkonnen killing them.
In House Atreides, it goes roughly like this:
Liet was driving one day and he saw a gang of Harkonnens knifing some Fremem youth. He was mad. He snuck and and killed some Harkonnens. He was going to remake the planet with the Fremen.
You dig.
If you can, borrow it from the library and save your money.
Ugh, don't mention the truly appalling Thomas Covenant series. They totally sucked. But the Gap series is extremely good, very heavy sometimes but well worth the read. They're in a totally different class from his other books (thank God).
Thanks, if his writing has improved I should check him out.
Read it, liked it, a little annoyed at KSR's stock characters and stock subplots (does he have a humongous perl script to generate the requisite love triangle, bitch blonde goddess, facile politico, etc) and isn't James Cameron making a mini-series on it?
The Gap series by Stephen Donaldon
Has his writing improved since Thomas Covenant?
The Night's Dawn triligy by Peter F Hamilton
The Deathstalker series by Simon Green (cheesy but some great ideas)
The Xeelee sequence by Stephen Baxter
Never heard of them, I'll keep them in mind next time I'm at the library.
I don't know what books you've read but there are plenty of books out there with these things in them. Have you read Stephen Donaldson's Gap series? They have all the nastiness, political infighting and greed in them you could ever want:)
Is that the same Stephen Donaldson that wrote about Thomas Covenant? I just couldn't get into his Thomas Covenent series, I found his writing to derivative of LoTR, and it just didn't grab me. Has his writing improved?
Have you read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy? There are some of the most flawed characters ever in there, characters who suffer from their problems throughout the 300 year scope of the books. And the descriptions of Mars itself are absolutely amazing. I don't actually think I've ever read any other sci-fi book where I thought "this could actually be true" about from these books.
Yeah, I read the Mars trilogy, and while KSR's characters are flawed, they mostly annoy the heck out of me. Too may of KSR's characters start a book with a personality flaw, and never change or grapple with the flaw, no personal growth (saxifrage being an exception). And that twerp with the martyr complex in Pacific Edge, what a loser. Gee, my friends are happy, getting laid, doesn't matter if I'm a loser then, cripes.
Getting back to Mars, yeah, I really liked that trilogy, I reread it as soon as I finished it.
When my current book is finished I plan to recreate a lot of it in Lego.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds like you (and Homer) need to read it. The Bible, for the most part, is not preachy at all. Mostly, it's a bunch of stories.
I started reading it, not too far past Genesis I got stuck on pages and pages of begats.
I'll have to retry it sometime, maybe I'll put it on the Palm I'm getting.
Oh yeah, don't spoil it for me and tell me how it ends.
George
Seems to me those two words don't go together in the same paragraph.
Regardless, good luck to him, when my book got reviewed here I say a spike at Amazon.
George
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, or Bogus Journey?
The third one, Ted gets yanked out of the Matrix and meets a most excellent black dude.
George
just curious
Can I borrow the Quad Xeon? Maybe just one of the DUAL PII systems? Surely you have enough systems from old slashdot servers to put them together ;)
/. garage sale?
So when is the
Or are you gonna ditch the old stuff on ebay, or asseenin.com?
How much for the ugly couch in the WiReD article?
George
a bunch of old, wrinkly, smelly violent fremen hosuekeepers are on their way now to help out the network admins.
George
I'd direct you to my web page, but I'm fully dressed in the pictures, and I'm unavailable.
Sorry,
George
Let's just think what our history would be like if the only allowed exploration of unexplored territory was via government sponsored agencies.
~100,000 BC, Oldavie Gorge
The tribal government reports an arid landscape once you pass the Nile, we don't think it's commericially viable to send anything out there.
Plus, the youngsters of the tribe think we should concentrate on making Oldavie perfect before we send out any expeditions.
-15,000 BC Kamchatka
Well, yeah, maybe there is something to the northeast, but it's probably just frozen wasteland.
~1492, Spain
While some of the native did display strange fruits and vegetables, and gold and gems, we don't think the commercial exploitation of the new world is viable.
We will send scientific teams to explore the new world, once every 10 or 20 years.
-~1600, England
Perhaps we could work within the system of the Church of England, since Parliament won't authorize a colonizing expedition to the New World.
I could go on.
George
I hope no one finds the big
monolith I buried up there.
I heard about a company who plans to blast people's ashes to the moon, for $12,000 per pop.
tcd004
Here's a clue moderators.
The first section is a funny allusion to The Sentinel by A.C. Clarke, and 2001: A Space Oddyssey.
The second part is about another private company commercializing space.
Where's the offtopic?
George
Watson and Crick discovered DNA in 1952, or 1953.
Mutations have been around in science fiction for a long time, which imply the idea of genes.
Foundation and Empire had the Mule, a sterile mutant who could control minds, published in 1951.
By the mid 50's there were stories about genetically engineered critters, IIRC Call Me Joe by Poul Anderson was about a genetically engineered critter that was made to live on Jupiter.
But your point has validity, there wasn't much about genetic engineering in early sf.
George
I'm gonna buy a bunch of resistors and transistors and solder me up an Itanium.
Do you think it will fit on a 6x6 breadboard?
George
Yes, lm announce is a Samba thing, to help OS/2 clients access a Samba server, so that may be of little help to you, as I didn't understand your network topology.
Hmmm, I don't know, is there anyone associated with DAVE that would know?
Thanks,
George
I have a small LAN that I support containing mostly NT and Win9x boxes, but I use Linux as the main server (DHCP, http, ftp, and of course Samba). As it is now, every user (in order to use shares off of the NT boxes and the Samba box) must have their username and password registered with both all the NT boxes and the Samba server. Then when they need to change their password, they must go to each box and change it many times. Is making the Samba box a Domain controller the only way to have all NT and Win9x boxes validate against the Samba password database, or is there a different password sync method? Thanks!
-Shawn
To being with, I don't know why your modded to -1, this seems like an abuse of moderator privileges.
Domains are one option, the other is to have the Samba server reference another server for password verification with the password server parameter.
I don't have a lot of experience with Domain controllers (ed checked that part of the book), but that's the way I think you need to go, either make Samba a Domain Controller, or make one of your NT boxes a Domain Controller, and have Samba join the NT Domain.
Otherwise, you can have Samba reference another server for password verification, using the password server prompt. This only cuts down some of the password changes, the other NT boxes probably need to be changed individually.
I hope this helps,
George
We talk about Dave for Macintosh in the book, but barely mention OS/2 as a client.
You do have lm announce set to yes, for OS/2 support?
George
One more annoyance I've noted is for Samba to try to communicate out the loopback port, 127.0.0.0.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart and you shoudl be golden.
Just add a line interfaces = 192.168.1.2 or whatever your network address in the global section of the smb.conf file.
Restart Samba
George
Whats the best way to migrate to encrypted passwords? The way the samba docs tell you to do is fine... except in the real world where you have hundreds of users spread out over multiple servers that sync.
Does anyone have a pretty much fullproof way of doing it? I mean, all the way down to the H_KEY settings that needs to be changed via kix.
Are you running unencrypted passwords now? Then you could consider using the update encrypted parameter, to slowly build your encrypted password file.
Once all the users have encrypted passwords in the smbpassd file, you start encyrpting passwords.
Hope this helps,
George
My usual Linux distro is RedHat, and I don't have problems getting Samba working.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
//hostname/homes
A few things to try.
Use testparm to check the validity of your smb.conf file.
Is samba running, use ps to find it.
If not, what happens when you start Samba, on RedHat this is:
#
Try to log in locally with smbclient
smbclient -L hostname -U username
Also try
smbclient -U username
I hope this helps,
George
Wow, I'm jazzed, I never shared a Slashdot topic before.
If anyone has any questions about writing the book, I'd be glad to answer them to the best of my ability.
If anyone has Samba questions, I'll do my best to answer them too, though my turnaround time may be greater.
I agree on the skimpiness of the benchmarking, we ran out of time, and it's hard to simulate real workd performance on a Pentium and 486 home network.
As far as the duplication of pages wrt to the smb.conf section, and others sections, the publisher said to go a little overboard there, to avoid needless page flipping. We might have taken that a little too far.
As far as including the GPL, it seems to be the thing to do, every book has it, it may be a publisher's requirement, but we included it anyway.
Thanks,
George
Lem, Brunner, Dick, Egan, heck you can throw in Ellison there, and Pynchon would still beat them, with one hand tied behind his back (which is probably how he writes, considering how long it takes him to get a bookd out).
Go ahead, read Gravity's Rainbow, I dare you.
George
I read House Atreides, it stinks.
If you've already read Dune, you've read most of the pivotal plot points of House Atriedes.
Eg. Dune talks about how Leit-Kynes Pere joined the Fremen after he saw some Harkonnen killing them.
In House Atreides, it goes roughly like this:
Liet was driving one day and he saw a gang of Harkonnens knifing some Fremem youth. He was mad. He snuck and and killed some Harkonnens. He was going to remake the planet with the Fremen.
You dig.
If you can, borrow it from the library and save your money.
George
"Meesa Stilgar-gar Binks. Yousa in da wronga place, we gonna tak-a you watta"
"The mindkiller fear is. Wait for the danger to their kind and kill them, a real human would" said the Reverend Mother Yoda.
"Ghani, I am your grandfather, join me"
Hee-hee,
George
Since they're just X-terminals, maybe you could get a bunch of identical, low end Pentium laptops, and bolt them down.
If you could get docking stations too, that would avoid the need for PCMCIA NICs.
An my list of things to do is to turn my Thinkpad 500 into an X-terminal.
George
Ugh, don't mention the truly appalling Thomas Covenant series. They totally sucked. But the Gap series is extremely good, very heavy sometimes but well worth the read. They're in a totally different class from his other books (thank God).
Thanks, if his writing has improved I should check him out.
George
Read it, liked it, a little annoyed at KSR's stock characters and stock subplots (does he have a humongous perl script to generate the requisite love triangle, bitch blonde goddess, facile politico, etc) and isn't James Cameron making a mini-series on it?
The Gap series by Stephen Donaldon
Has his writing improved since Thomas Covenant?
Never heard of them, I'll keep them in mind next time I'm at the library.
George
I don't know what books you've read but there are plenty of books out there with these things in them. Have you read Stephen Donaldson's Gap series? They have all the nastiness, political infighting and greed in them you could ever want :)
Is that the same Stephen Donaldson that wrote about Thomas Covenant? I just couldn't get into his Thomas Covenent series, I found his writing to derivative of LoTR, and it just didn't grab me. Has his writing improved?
Have you read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy? There are some of the most flawed characters ever in there, characters who suffer from their problems throughout the 300 year scope of the books. And the descriptions of Mars itself are absolutely amazing. I don't actually think I've ever read any other sci-fi book where I thought "this could actually be true" about from these books.
Yeah, I read the Mars trilogy, and while KSR's characters are flawed, they mostly annoy the heck out of me. Too may of KSR's characters start a book with a personality flaw, and never change or grapple with the flaw, no personal growth (saxifrage being an exception). And that twerp with the martyr complex in Pacific Edge, what a loser. Gee, my friends are happy, getting laid, doesn't matter if I'm a loser then, cripes.
Getting back to Mars, yeah, I really liked that trilogy, I reread it as soon as I finished it.
When my current book is finished I plan to recreate a lot of it in Lego.
George