Re:Dang it, there goes my stomach lining...
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100% valid email addresses, yes indeed. However, I would venture to say all of those addresses belong to people which do not represent a lucrative target for a spammer. A spammer makes money from people who simply don't know any better, they probably don't make a dime from/. readership, or from people who make a point of getting their email on this spammer blacklist.
The numbers from AOL are probably lower because their filtering methods are less superior to what you're using. They let more spam through, thus the percentage perceived is lower.
My wife is a first grade school teacher, and just got furnished a laptop (along with many other teachers). This is in the Dallas Independant School District, and guess what? It came with StarOffice 6.0, no Office. Surprised the heck out of me, there really was no reason for them to have XP on there, but I guess you can't seperate the laptop from the OS (XP) as easily as you can the word processors that typically come with it.
The really strange thing is that my wife had to take a test to get the laptop, and that test was about using Office XP! I hope this change is a sign of things to come.
I've never paid that much for a video card, but the 100$ Gforce4 I picked up not long ago gives me a picture quality that cannot be touched by any console. I won't dispute that consoles give developers a "known quantity [] and can be optimized for", but this doesn't mean you get console games that look better than a PC, that is just plain wrong. It does mean that you get games that look identical across all like-consoles, but it doesn't yield a better picture.
And I will also dispute that consoles have better controllers. Maybe for playing baseball or street fighter, but no console can touch the combination of a keyboard and mouse. I simply wouldn't enjoy a game like Unreal Tournament or Warcraft using a joystick.
I think it's interesting that Linux is going to see a port of Unreal Tournament 2003 before Xbox and Playstation, why is that? Is it because consoles are superior to PCs?
So if D3D existed on Mac, games might not support OpenGL? Perhaps Mr. G will see to it that D3D makes it to the Mac, so these sort of options don't exist in the future for Linux.
Since when does a common environment (or one way of doing something) provide a better learning experience than being privy to a variety of interfaces, a variety of methods to accomplish a task? I grew up with DOS and later unix, and feel that this upbringing is largely responsible for my ability to adapt, be it windows, mac, unix, whatever it might be. Did I learn less by expanding and utilizing a collection of different UIs? No. Since when is "[having] to learn less" a good thing in this context? Heaven help us if the masses start to use something called Linux or Mozilla, and in the process become more flexible when it comes to operating a PC.
These guys are supposed to work for us?
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When you have an employee that is acting up and making poor decisions, you fire them. No different here. From this point on, any election I vote in will always go against the incumbent. I also plan to write a letter to my (Texas) congress men/women and senators explaining my intentions and the reasons behind doing so. This isn't just about the SSSCA, there seem to be very few people in our government who (genuinely) know anything about technology or the laws of common sense. There needs to be a change of guard, and if enough people follow suit then maybe they'll listen.
It's a good thing the ol' US of A isn't quite yet a socialist country, while some people are working quite hard to steer it in that direction. It's good that people are trying to encourage using Linux for these computers, but should the government even be involved in this? Government's don't solve problems well, any half-way informed libertarian knows this. There is an abundance of PCs out there, obviously not as many powerful enough to run Windows 2000 or XP, but certainly adequate for Linux. Perhaps if the government were to instead offer a tax deduction for donating an old computer (like what is done for automobiles here in the states), they would reach their goal of PC ubiquity, at a tremendous savings. Windows 2000 won't run well on these donations, but Linux certainly will and cost bundles less. There are better ways to feed their wish, but their current approach will likely end up with the receipients re-selling the PCs and Windows license for cash, who's to say that won't happen?
Okay, so what other GPL (or other open license) alternatives are there, that you might suggest? My experience with OpenLDAP has been quite positive. Granted I haven't successfully been able to upgrade to the newer 2.x = versions due to something I still haven't figured out. However, I am using 1.2.10 with good success. There is an issue with the replication, which can be "fixed" by referring to any slave nodes by IP instead of hostname. Everything seems to run very well. Although, we only have about 1000 entries, which may explain it.
I am employed by a major aerospace company, and have been using LDAP for several years for web based authentication. This has permitted us the option of "piggy-backing" any other web servers into this authentication scheme. The tools I have used have all been written by myself in Perl, using the Net::LDAP module. I believe there is at least one other module available to use, either available from CPAN. I believe Graham Barr is the author of this module. Using this approach, you should be able to build your own custom webpages for selective browsing of LDAP shares, and management.
If you're seeking some bonafide support options, you might confer with openldap.org, or better yet iPlanet's Directory Server. The latter would cost some money, but it is an option.
Wait.. Microsoft will come out with an XBox next year or the next, with a better processor, or who knows what else? I don't look on the back of game boxes, to see the requirements and recommendations for a PC, because my PC is always in tip-top shape. But I'm sure some people do check a *PC* game to make sure its recommendations fit their box. The console community is entirely different, name me 1 console post-atari that puts its console requirements on the back of the game. Sure it says needs N64, or needs XBox, but does it say needs XBox with 256meg of memory and processor of 1.4 gigahertz, versus another game that says it needs an XBox with 512meg of memory and 1.7 gigahertz processor? With that kind of insanity people will just revert to using a PC.
Service pack release date?
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I'm delaying my X-Box purchase until the first service pack gets put out, Gartner told me so.
I had really no unix background coming out of college, but for almost 5 years now that's what I've been, a unix system administrator. I was fortunate enough to land a job with a very large corporation, which therefore had quite a varity of unix: solaris, hp-ux, osf (True64), aix, and later Linux (after I introduced it). My experience? I had maintained FTP and Apache servers under Linux, that pretty much nailed it. If you spend a lot of time with Linux (slackware for me at the time), then that's certainly something I'd have on a resume when looking for a sysadmin job. I do see a lot of jobs which specify 5 or more years of experience, but I don't really pay attention to that all that much. If they bring it up in and interview, count some experience you may have had at the university, or as a hobby with either Linux or FreeBSD. As for certifications I'm not sure, most of the various unix flavors offer their own certifications, check their respective websites under training/support options. I recently got my RHCE, and at some point will try for an AIX certification, although I can't say if they've helped yet. Better yet, get the sysadmin job first, then get the company to pay for your certification, that's the ticket.
For the record, I am a unix system administrator. Your post makes it seem like DDNS is something that is Microsoft, and has something to do with their "cool" implementation. I've been doing DDNS using bind on AIX and Linux for years, specifically for integrating DHCP clients to DNS, as well as writing a web tool to update DNS through dynamic methods. Having a lot of Win2k boxxen doesn't give me a fear of job security. Actually, the few Win2k boxxen we currently have are dynamically updating bind srv records on AIX. Personally, I don't know why all these srv records couldn't find a home in LDAP instead, but that's another issue. I think there's some security concerns in allowing just any win2k box to update A, CNAME, or PTR records. Which is why I tighten things down and only let a couple do updates, and of those I give them a different zone.domain.com to work out of.
Microsoft is pushing unix around when it comes to DDNS? Give me a break, unix was there first. Microsoft loves to copy unix, I'm seeing evidence of it in Windows XP, their file manager looks a lot more like Nautilus. Also, where did kerberos come from?
I don't think my company will be firing unix admins anytime soon, since 1 unix system administrator is worth about 3 nt administrators.
Re:It is the Palm killer. Here's why:
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If all he was about is Linux, where does he find time to mess around with Windows development tools? I would certainly not write code for an OS I hated while working at a "very Linux-oriented company".
At any rate, I don't write software for either Palm or PocketPC, but it would seem to me that there is a plethera of applications for Palm OS, much more so than Windows CE. If it is such a pain to write for, why is there such an abundance of applications?
Having a handheld which does all the things you like to do is great and fantastic. Come back to me when they are doing it with as long a battery life as a Palm.
Actually.. the "two brothers" makes better sense if you think of the US and Israel as two brothers. Perhaps this is more a prophecy to come later, caused by some "chaos".
Of course, I would like to think all this Nostradamus talk is not true. Can anyone reference anything which disproves this philosophy?
This is a load of utter misinformation. Yes, Internet Explorer is loaded as a part of the Windows
Explorer shell when Windows loads. However, if you configure Windows not to load the Explorer shell
on startup, or to use a different shell, you can then start Internet Explorer separately (from a
commandline, for example), and the load time is exactly the same. The simple fact is, IE is far less
bloated than Netscape, far more compliant, and just plain faster.
I don't quite see it. Just because you told Windows not to load IE, what makes you think it isn't loading some component of the browser anyway? Regardless if you told it not to. Did you see the source? I highly doubt that. It's a real tragedy that ppl on/. can tell everyone exactly what's going on inside the Redmond OS without being privy to the source code.
Personally, I sleep well at night knowing that 99% of the software I am using has its code open, where anyone (including me) can know exactly what's going on. That's why Mozilla wins it in my book, I don't care if IE comes up 5 seconds faster, Mozilla is and will be the better browser.
I could only read a little, before becoming a bit light-headed, but this caught my eye.
"Linux is a UNIX-like operating system and is therefore complex to configure and manage. Existing UNIX users may find the transition to Linux easier but administrators for existing Windows®-based or Novell environments will find it more difficult to handle the complexity of Linux."
Essentially what they are saying is our people are too stupid to understand Linux, stay with the one and only. I thought Microsoft hired bright people, somehow I find this hard to swallow.
And this too was interesting.
"Configuring Linux security requires an administrator to be an expert in the intricacies of the operating system and how components interact"
God forbid a system administrator *know* something about the OS they are administrating, good grief. The rest of the diatribe was pure fud.
I work at Northrop Grumman Corporation, and we've deployed Linux all over the place. We have it serving Samba, LDAP, FTP, DNS, Web, and on and on. Never once have I *lost* any data, for whatever reason at all. Be it a lack of a journaling file system or for any other reason. We've got it installed on Alpha boxes, Sun boxes, and PCs. The fact that most of our boxes all have uptimes over 100 lessens the necessity of having to wait a few minutes on a fsck. And if you're having power problems, get a ups for pete's sake! If you're looking for just something to rag on Linux on, and all you can come up with is a journaled file system, I think that's pretty weak. I've used jfs under AIX, and it's damn handy. But nothing NT has comes anywhere near that. So my point is, don't use this argument to justify your NT boxxen, if it's that big of a problem, get a real unix OS!
I graduated with a 4 yr degree in CS, and set out looking for some sort of network position. I really didn't have much idea what I wanted to do, but I know it wasn't a job programming. I expressed an interest in doing web related work, such as the corporate intranet and internet access. Fortunately for me, some of the equipment powering that infrastructure was based on UNIX, and having only used Linux for a couple of years prior, and not being very fluent in it, was enough to get the job. The training for me has been mostly OJT, get into a job with a diverse group of UNIX. In my case, I had AIX, SunOS, Solaris, HPUX, Digital Unix, and even Irix! (but no Linux, at least not then:) ). Also, if your company you happen to hook up with offers additional schooling, I would suggest taking some continuing-ed type courses in something like shell scripting or sysadmin classes. These are relatively cheap, and companies will usually pay for all of it.
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100% valid email addresses, yes indeed. However, I would venture to say all of those addresses belong to people which do not represent a lucrative target for a spammer. A spammer makes money from people who simply don't know any better, they probably don't make a dime from /. readership, or from people who make a point of getting their email on this spammer blacklist.
The numbers from AOL are probably lower because their filtering methods are less superior to what you're using. They let more spam through, thus the percentage perceived is lower.
My wife is a first grade school teacher, and just got furnished a laptop (along with many other teachers). This is in the Dallas Independant School District, and guess what? It came with StarOffice 6.0, no Office. Surprised the heck out of me, there really was no reason for them to have XP on there, but I guess you can't seperate the laptop from the OS (XP) as easily as you can the word processors that typically come with it.
The really strange thing is that my wife had to take a test to get the laptop, and that test was about using Office XP! I hope this change is a sign of things to come.
Ditto!
You use your tongue prettier than a 2 dollar wh*re
Do you play PC games? Incredible.
I've never paid that much for a video card, but the 100$ Gforce4 I picked up not long ago gives me a picture quality that cannot be touched by any console. I won't dispute that consoles give developers a "known quantity [] and can be optimized for", but this doesn't mean you get console games that look better than a PC, that is just plain wrong. It does mean that you get games that look identical across all like-consoles, but it doesn't yield a better picture.
And I will also dispute that consoles have better controllers. Maybe for playing baseball or street fighter, but no console can touch the combination of a keyboard and mouse. I simply wouldn't enjoy a game like Unreal Tournament or Warcraft using a joystick.
I think it's interesting that Linux is going to see a port of Unreal Tournament 2003 before Xbox and Playstation, why is that? Is it because consoles are superior to PCs?
Interesting ...
So if D3D existed on Mac, games might not support OpenGL? Perhaps Mr. G will see to it that D3D makes it to the Mac, so these sort of options don't exist in the future for Linux.
Since when does a common environment (or one way of doing something) provide a better learning experience than being privy to a variety of interfaces, a variety of methods to accomplish a task? I grew up with DOS and later unix, and feel that this upbringing is largely responsible for my ability to adapt, be it windows, mac, unix, whatever it might be. Did I learn less by expanding and utilizing a collection of different UIs? No. Since when is "[having] to learn less" a good thing in this context? Heaven help us if the masses start to use something called Linux or Mozilla, and in the process become more flexible when it comes to operating a PC.
When you have an employee that is acting up and making poor decisions, you fire them. No different here. From this point on, any election I vote in will always go against the incumbent. I also plan to write a letter to my (Texas) congress men/women and senators explaining my intentions and the reasons behind doing so. This isn't just about the SSSCA, there seem to be very few people in our government who (genuinely) know anything about technology or the laws of common sense. There needs to be a change of guard, and if enough people follow suit then maybe they'll listen.
It's a good thing the ol' US of A isn't quite yet a socialist country, while some people are working quite hard to steer it in that direction. It's good that people are trying to encourage using Linux for these computers, but should the government even be involved in this? Government's don't solve problems well, any half-way informed libertarian knows this. There is an abundance of PCs out there, obviously not as many powerful enough to run Windows 2000 or XP, but certainly adequate for Linux. Perhaps if the government were to instead offer a tax deduction for donating an old computer (like what is done for automobiles here in the states), they would reach their goal of PC ubiquity, at a tremendous savings. Windows 2000 won't run well on these donations, but Linux certainly will and cost bundles less. There are better ways to feed their wish, but their current approach will likely end up with the receipients re-selling the PCs and Windows license for cash, who's to say that won't happen?
Okay, so what other GPL (or other open license) alternatives are there, that you might suggest? My experience with OpenLDAP has been quite positive. Granted I haven't successfully been able to upgrade to the newer 2.x = versions due to something I still haven't figured out. However, I am using 1.2.10 with good success. There is an issue with the replication, which can be "fixed" by referring to any slave nodes by IP instead of hostname. Everything seems to run very well. Although, we only have about 1000 entries, which may explain it.
I am employed by a major aerospace company, and have been using LDAP for several years for web based authentication. This has permitted us the option of "piggy-backing" any other web servers into this authentication scheme. The tools I have used have all been written by myself in Perl, using the Net::LDAP module. I believe there is at least one other module available to use, either available from CPAN. I believe Graham Barr is the author of this module. Using this approach, you should be able to build your own custom webpages for selective browsing of LDAP shares, and management.
If you're seeking some bonafide support options, you might confer with openldap.org, or better yet iPlanet's Directory Server. The latter would cost some money, but it is an option.
Its been awhile since I've done anything with binary, but does their example translate to
23
5950
11:59:50PM?
My uber watch is the one that will do the time in decimal, hex, binary, and octal.
Wait.. Microsoft will come out with an XBox next year or the next, with a better processor, or who knows what else? I don't look on the back of game boxes, to see the requirements and recommendations for a PC, because my PC is always in tip-top shape. But I'm sure some people do check a *PC* game to make sure its recommendations fit their box. The console community is entirely different, name me 1 console post-atari that puts its console requirements on the back of the game. Sure it says needs N64, or needs XBox, but does it say needs XBox with 256meg of memory and processor of 1.4 gigahertz, versus another game that says it needs an XBox with 512meg of memory and 1.7 gigahertz processor? With that kind of insanity people will just revert to using a PC.
I'm delaying my X-Box purchase until the first service pack gets put out, Gartner told me so.
I had really no unix background coming out of college, but for almost 5 years now that's what I've been, a unix system administrator. I was fortunate enough to land a job with a very large corporation, which therefore had quite a varity of unix: solaris, hp-ux, osf (True64), aix, and later Linux (after I introduced it). My experience? I had maintained FTP and Apache servers under Linux, that pretty much nailed it. If you spend a lot of time with Linux (slackware for me at the time), then that's certainly something I'd have on a resume when looking for a sysadmin job. I do see a lot of jobs which specify 5 or more years of experience, but I don't really pay attention to that all that much. If they bring it up in and interview, count some experience you may have had at the university, or as a hobby with either Linux or FreeBSD. As for certifications I'm not sure, most of the various unix flavors offer their own certifications, check their respective websites under training/support options. I recently got my RHCE, and at some point will try for an AIX certification, although I can't say if they've helped yet. Better yet, get the sysadmin job first, then get the company to pay for your certification, that's the ticket.
For the record, I am a unix system administrator. Your post makes it seem like DDNS is something that is Microsoft, and has something to do with their "cool" implementation. I've been doing DDNS using bind on AIX and Linux for years, specifically for integrating DHCP clients to DNS, as well as writing a web tool to update DNS through dynamic methods. Having a lot of Win2k boxxen doesn't give me a fear of job security. Actually, the few Win2k boxxen we currently have are dynamically updating bind srv records on AIX. Personally, I don't know why all these srv records couldn't find a home in LDAP instead, but that's another issue. I think there's some security concerns in allowing just any win2k box to update A, CNAME, or PTR records. Which is why I tighten things down and only let a couple do updates, and of those I give them a different zone.domain.com to work out of.
Microsoft is pushing unix around when it comes to DDNS? Give me a break, unix was there first. Microsoft loves to copy unix, I'm seeing evidence of it in Windows XP, their file manager looks a lot more like Nautilus. Also, where did kerberos come from?
I don't think my company will be firing unix admins anytime soon, since 1 unix system administrator is worth about 3 nt administrators.
If all he was about is Linux, where does he find time to mess around with Windows development tools? I would certainly not write code for an OS I hated while working at a "very Linux-oriented company".
At any rate, I don't write software for either Palm or PocketPC, but it would seem to me that there is a plethera of applications for Palm OS, much more so than Windows CE. If it is such a pain to write for, why is there such an abundance of applications?
Having a handheld which does all the things you like to do is great and fantastic. Come back to me when they are doing it with as long a battery life as a Palm.
I've had the 75GXP 40 gig drive for about a year or more, no problems with it at all!
Actually.. the "two brothers" makes better sense if you think of the US and Israel as two brothers. Perhaps this is more a prophecy to come later, caused by some "chaos".
Of course, I would like to think all this Nostradamus talk is not true. Can anyone reference anything which disproves this philosophy?
I don't quite see it. Just because you told Windows not to load IE, what makes you think it isn't loading some component of the browser anyway? Regardless if you told it not to. Did you see the source? I highly doubt that. It's a real tragedy that ppl on /. can tell everyone exactly what's going on inside the Redmond OS without being privy to the source code.
Personally, I sleep well at night knowing that 99% of the software I am using has its code open, where anyone (including me) can know exactly what's going on. That's why Mozilla wins it in my book, I don't care if IE comes up 5 seconds faster, Mozilla is and will be the better browser.
I could only read a little, before becoming a bit light-headed, but this caught my eye.
"Linux is a UNIX-like operating system and is therefore complex to configure and manage. Existing UNIX users may find the transition to Linux easier but administrators for existing Windows®-based or Novell environments will find it more difficult to handle the complexity of Linux."
Essentially what they are saying is our people are too stupid to understand Linux, stay with the one and only. I thought Microsoft hired bright people, somehow I find this hard to swallow.
And this too was interesting.
"Configuring Linux security requires an administrator to be an expert in the intricacies of the operating system and how components interact"
God forbid a system administrator *know* something about the OS they are administrating, good grief. The rest of the diatribe was pure fud.
I work at Northrop Grumman Corporation, and we've deployed Linux all over the place. We have it serving Samba, LDAP, FTP, DNS, Web, and on and on. Never once have I *lost* any data, for whatever reason at all. Be it a lack of a journaling file system or for any other reason. We've got it installed on Alpha boxes, Sun boxes, and PCs. The fact that most of our boxes all have uptimes over 100 lessens the necessity of having to wait a few minutes on a fsck. And if you're having power problems, get a ups for pete's sake! If you're looking for just something to rag on Linux on, and all you can come up with is a journaled file system, I think that's pretty weak. I've used jfs under AIX, and it's damn handy. But nothing NT has comes anywhere near that. So my point is, don't use this argument to justify your NT boxxen, if it's that big of a problem, get a real unix OS!
I graduated with a 4 yr degree in CS, and set out looking for some sort of network position. I really didn't have much idea what I wanted to do, but I know it wasn't a job programming. I expressed an interest in doing web related work, such as the corporate intranet and internet access. Fortunately for me, some of the equipment powering that infrastructure was based on UNIX, and having only used Linux for a couple of years prior, and not being very fluent in it, was enough to get the job. The training for me has been mostly OJT, get into a job with a diverse group of UNIX. In my case, I had AIX, SunOS, Solaris, HPUX, Digital Unix, and even Irix! (but no Linux, at least not then :) ). Also, if your company you happen to hook up with offers additional schooling, I would suggest taking some continuing-ed type courses in something like shell scripting or sysadmin classes. These are relatively cheap, and companies will usually pay for all of it.
Art Fowler
Distributed Systems Support,
Northrop Grumman Corp.
art@NOSPAMgoodbull.com
http://www.goodbull.com