What method do you advocate for sharing files FROM a windows NT box to a Linux filesystem? smbmount is supposedly NOT part of Samba, so what is the Samba or other solution?
You answered your own question, but let me state it way. You must accept that Jesus is God. But that's not enough, even the devil believes in God. You must also accept Jesus/God as the Lord of your life (into your heart). Most people do this with a short prayer. The prayer consists of acknowledging Jesus, asking for forgiveness for what you've done wrong, thanking Jesus for his gift (of dying on the Cross for our sins) and asking Jesus to be the Lord/God of your life. Many people think of the moment they prayed a prayer like that as the moment they became a Christian and were saved.
What is Salvation?
The gift from Jesus that covers all your sins and allows you, a sinner, to go to Heaven.
What does it (Salvation) feel like?
Ok, this may seem like a cop out answer, but it's how I feel. It's different for everyone. The knowledge that you are confident that you will go to heaven after you leave this earth, is bound to feel different to different people. There is nothing tangible about Salvation. It's not something you can pick up, touch, or give away. It's all in the mind and soul.
Where is this really cool "...peace that surpasses all understanding"?
I don't know where that is promised. If it's in the Bible and promised to all believers, then I'm just as ignorant as you. However, I've always thought that is a gift from God you might receive, and that you might receive it only for a period of time. I know we commonly pray for that peace when people need comfort. And when people who are in great distress are greatly at ease, that I believe is a small view of "peace that passes all understanding". Because how can someone be so calm when so much is going wrong around them?
Why Do I feel so guilty all the time?
It's a choice. Possibly an upbringing, possibly the people around you. But you do not have to feel guilty to be a Christian. Sometimes Christians will feel guilty when they sin, just like a child will sometimes feel guilty when they know they've done something their parents will not approve of. In my opinion, any good parent would not want their child to feel guilty, but would simply want them to recognize what they've done wrong, ask for forgiveness, and try (no guarantees necessary, asked for, or assumed) not to do it again. That is how God is. He wants you to not sin. If you do, He simply wants you to ask for forgiveness and try not to do it again. If you do, just ask for forgiveness again.
I did not write this to convert you or any Slashdot reader to Christianity. You simply asked if anyone could answer your questions with a straight reply. I have tried. I tried with what I, as a Christian, believe.
-- Tal (from the Christian novels by Frank Peretti)
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The look and feel of the windows is similar. Like if you start up an xterm with the NeXT-Athena-Widget set installed, you can get a VERY similar feel to the NeXT Terminal app. But it's still X-windows overall, so you'd notice the differences if you used them both for a long time (which I did).
If Gnome was not around, I would be using WindowMaker and the NeXT-Athena-Widgets. But as it stands I prefer many "Gnome-related" things that seem to better integrate with E.
What is your opinion of large companies, like Sun, that are trying to claim they are open source but in the end their licenses are much too strict to seriously be thought of that way (e.g. Sun's SCSL)?
Do you think they will add or take away from the success of Linux?
If FreeBSD has such a superior code base as its users claim, why doesn't a renown talented hacker like yourself work on it more then Linux?
Thanks for volunteering your time on Linux and answering these questions.
I have a friend who has an ecommerce site on NT, IIS, and perl. He also had some Active Server Pages in there. Well it crashed, and he lost a number of sales. The reason, well best as he could track it, the ASP pages. He had to take them out. His entire setup would run better and more stably on Apache and Linux, versus IIS/NT. Now, yes that's just an opinion, but it's also the whole reason I'm interested in RedHat, and Debian, and Suse.
And any CGI/ASP page setup COULD if the user/author desired be ported to Servlets/JSP and it would run just as well, IMO, if not better. I would trust Linux to run large cgi scripts, servlets, JSP, Apache, better then NT anyday. I've seen NT crash a LOT. I've personally NEVER experience a Linux equivalent to the BSOD (an OOPs screen).
I ordered some recent computer parts from an online retailer who used NT and ASP pages. Not my preference, but they were a good company free to make their own OS decision.
On the other hand, I also believe in using the products you sell. And the fact that neither LSL nor the ecommerce site they use, use Linux (LSL uses FreeBSD) turns me off. But that's my preference. Everyone is free to make their own choice.
I'm not being an OS nazi. I simply find it disappointing that a retail company with "Linux" in it's name does not use Linux. Now if you don't find that unusual. Fine. But, like you said free will and all, I can choose to use retailers who have enough faith in the product they sell to use it themselves. That's my choice and that's what I plan to do.
Actually it's not lsl that uses the asp pages it's mailordercentral.com. That is definitely a NT box (according to netcraft). But they're not out of the woods yet. Netcraft says they're using FreeBSD. So, yeah, so much for using what you sell. I couldn't find an e-mail, quickly anyway, to send them an e-mail and tell them how disappointed I was.
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What method do you advocate for sharing files FROM a windows NT box to a Linux filesystem? smbmount is supposedly NOT part of Samba, so what is the Samba or other solution?
Am I really Saved?
You answered your own question, but let me state it way. You must accept that Jesus is God. But that's not enough, even the devil believes in God. You must also accept Jesus/God as the Lord of your life (into your heart). Most people do this with a short prayer. The prayer consists of acknowledging Jesus, asking for forgiveness for what you've done wrong, thanking Jesus for his gift (of dying on the Cross for our sins) and asking Jesus to be the Lord/God of your life. Many people think of the moment they prayed a prayer like that as the moment they became a Christian and were saved.
What is Salvation?
The gift from Jesus that covers all your sins and allows you, a sinner, to go to Heaven.
What does it (Salvation) feel like?
Ok, this may seem like a cop out answer, but it's how I feel. It's different for everyone. The knowledge that you are confident that you will go to heaven after you leave this earth, is bound to feel different to different people. There is nothing tangible about Salvation. It's not something you can pick up, touch, or give away. It's all in the mind and soul.
Where is this really cool "...peace that surpasses all understanding"?
I don't know where that is promised. If it's in the Bible and promised to all believers, then I'm just as ignorant as you. However, I've always thought that is a gift from God you might receive, and that you might receive it only for a period of time. I know we commonly pray for that peace when people need comfort. And when people who are in great distress are greatly at ease, that I believe is a small view of "peace that passes all understanding". Because how can someone be so calm when so much is going wrong around them?
Why Do I feel so guilty all the time?
It's a choice. Possibly an upbringing, possibly the people around you. But you do not have to feel guilty to be a Christian. Sometimes Christians will feel guilty when they sin, just like a child will sometimes feel guilty when they know they've done something their parents will not approve of. In my opinion, any good parent would not want their child to feel guilty, but would simply want them to recognize what they've done wrong, ask for forgiveness, and try (no guarantees necessary, asked for, or assumed) not to do it again. That is how God is. He wants you to not sin. If you do, He simply wants you to ask for forgiveness and try not to do it again. If you do, just ask for forgiveness again.
I did not write this to convert you or any Slashdot reader to Christianity. You simply asked if anyone could answer your questions with a straight reply. I have tried. I tried with what I, as a Christian, believe.
-- Tal (from the Christian novels by Frank Peretti)
The look and feel of the windows is similar. Like if you start up an xterm with the NeXT-Athena-Widget set installed, you can get a VERY similar feel to the NeXT Terminal app. But it's still X-windows overall, so you'd notice the differences if you used them both for a long time (which I did).
If Gnome was not around, I would be using WindowMaker and the NeXT-Athena-Widgets. But as it stands I prefer many "Gnome-related" things that seem to better integrate with E.
What is your opinion of large companies, like Sun, that are trying to claim they are open source but in the end their licenses are much too strict to seriously be thought of that way (e.g. Sun's SCSL)?
Do you think they will add or take away from the success of Linux?
If FreeBSD has such a superior code base as its users claim, why doesn't a renown talented hacker like yourself work on it more then Linux?
Thanks for volunteering your time on Linux and answering these questions.
-- Tal
I have a friend who has an ecommerce site on NT, IIS, and perl. He also had some Active Server Pages in there. Well it crashed, and he lost a number of sales. The reason, well best as he could track it, the ASP pages. He had to take them out. His entire setup would run better and more stably on Apache and Linux, versus IIS/NT. Now, yes that's just an opinion, but it's also the whole reason I'm interested in RedHat, and Debian, and Suse.
And any CGI/ASP page setup COULD if the user/author desired be ported to Servlets/JSP and it would run just as well, IMO, if not better. I would trust Linux to run large cgi scripts, servlets, JSP, Apache, better then NT anyday. I've seen NT crash a LOT. I've personally NEVER experience a Linux equivalent to the BSOD (an OOPs screen).
I ordered some recent computer parts from an online retailer who used NT and ASP pages. Not my preference, but they were a good company free to make their own OS decision.
On the other hand, I also believe in using the products you sell. And the fact that neither LSL nor the ecommerce site they use, use Linux (LSL uses FreeBSD) turns me off. But that's my preference. Everyone is free to make their own choice.
I'm not being an OS nazi. I simply find it disappointing that a retail company with "Linux" in it's name does not use Linux. Now if you don't find that unusual. Fine. But, like you said free will and all, I can choose to use retailers who have enough faith in the product they sell to use it themselves. That's my choice and that's what I plan to do.
Actually it's not lsl that uses the asp pages
it's mailordercentral.com. That is definitely
a NT box (according to netcraft). But they're not
out of the woods yet. Netcraft says they're using FreeBSD. So, yeah, so much for using what you sell. I couldn't find an e-mail, quickly anyway,
to send them an e-mail and tell them how disappointed I was.