This. I live in a small town. Never lock the door. Never answer a knock or a doorbell. People I know already know to simply walk in. All others are ignored. I know other people who do just the same.
Thirty years ago when I still thought 'hope and change' was an actual thing, I was excited to discover the Unifon alphabet. It accomplishes the goals of this guy and much more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifon
Beginning a while back I began removing it from all the little SMBs I do work for. At first just a few with trepidation. Then the rest.
It turns out that exactly none of them needed it. None.
Who wants to pay for their employees to play Pogo games anyhow?
Sure, there may be enterprise sized outfits who rely on it, but I'm guessing most slashdotters aren't that well-monied with their clients and are more small-time as I am. Just uninstall it everywhere and save yourself one of the tedious, recurring headaches supporting windows boxes.
Ten boxes here, thirty there... and we can kill the thing and get it off our plate entirely.
Full disclosure: I've long hated java as a user suffering bloated start-up times and xplatform probs, as an IT drone endlessly updating it and for its sheer verbosity as a language (it's just way too much typing for me to bother with vs other langs).
Needless to say, I was very disappointed with the choice Google made with Android...:-(
I've been a long-time customer of NetNation -- OK, now it's Hostway and they've had a couple of power probs at my NOC that *never* happened before, but..
I have 4 Peta-Bytes of transfer every month and it costs less than 250USD/month for a dedicated server. Yes, that was peta with a capital 'P'. That's only with 100mb duplex, but you can pay a bit more for gigabyte speeds as they have lots of fibre. This is in the austin DC.
Buy one or two or more of those and stop worrying. After adding more than one, you'll need to do interesting balancing things, but at nowhere near the cost of what you are currently in store for.
I don't log in much -- hardly ever in fact. Anyhow:
You (@rnmartinez) are (not to put too fine a point on it) acting like a septic-sucking scum bag. I just wasted an hour of my life researching your sorry ass. It's the first time I ever wished I had less google-fu.
I would really appreciate it if you'd just leave slashdot off your guppy list, because we aren't listening anymore and never will thanks to tom.
This would be a very good time for you to re-evaluate your goals in life.
Trying to avoid Hell clearly isn't at the top of your current agenda, but you might at least give it a passing thought.
I entered one of my own ips and got back only 7 of the 40 or so domains hosted on that box. Most of those domains have been there for years. Any other tool I've ever tried for this before always disclaims that the results will be incomplete as they are based on using search engines.
All the posts here mostly talk about the wonders of zfs. I was enamored of zfs myself when it first came out.
Thing is, even if they got rid of the license problems, the thing is still not very linux kernel-friendly. The way it is, it will only ever exist in user-land/fuse. Yes, it can be made to work. So what?
Btrfs is better, uses zfs ideas and leaverages the linux kernel natively.
Face it, Linux doesn't have marketing-droids per se. As far as the desktop is concerned its increased use spreads by word of mouth.
Now, it's very easy to ramble on and extoll the virtues and wonders of Linux vs foo o/s (and there are many - that's what makes it easy..), but with the present state of the installation, as soon as you begin evangelizing Linux, you begin a new hobby: configuring other peoples systems for them.
There is nothing wrong with this, and I do it all the time, but I don't do it as much or as often as I *could*. Why? I'm lazy. I'm not radical enough. I'm selfish. Who knows?
My point is, when the time comes that one can say "What? You're still using winxx? Here's a cd of Linux - it's free, when you're done give it to someone else", and not worry about the persons 'level' and how much time it's going to cost getting them configured and comfortable *then* we may hit those numbers - and better.
We are getting there though. My first experience with linux was in (I think) 1993 and I installed from slacksware's cd. It took me forever to get X to run - and then I was dissapointed by the 'backwards' interface.
Debian made things worlds better, but I still think dselect bites. However, you never go wrong using mc to install ever after - and Debian's site layout is *the best* for seeing dependencies and recomendations etc.
It took less than 20 min to install RH5.2 on a laptop for goodness sakes. There's a miracle in its self! And now Caldera is in the press with their latest release....
It took me a decade or so to finally realise that not everyone actually *enjoys* playing with an o/s or lang until it works. Most people just want the tool - they're not interested in who made it, its history, naming puns etc. - give me the shovel, I just want to dig a hole for goodness sake.
Once Configured, Linux is a marvelous o/s for the desktop, but as long as it needs all the setup after the install we'll remain in the desktop backwaters.
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This. I live in a small town. Never lock the door. Never answer a knock or a doorbell. People I know already know to simply walk in. All others are ignored.
I know other people who do just the same.
Noting the sarcasm tag, so you believe that the USA is actually the best country on earth? You honestly believe that.
Wow.
Thirty years ago when I still thought 'hope and change' was an actual thing, I was excited to discover the Unifon alphabet. It accomplishes the goals of this guy and much more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifon
Exactly. Well said.
Just uninstall it everywhere.
Beginning a while back I began removing it from all the little SMBs I do work for. At first just a few with trepidation. Then the rest.
It turns out that exactly none of them needed it. None.
Who wants to pay for their employees to play Pogo games anyhow?
Sure, there may be enterprise sized outfits who rely on it, but I'm guessing most slashdotters aren't that well-monied with their clients and are more small-time as I am. Just uninstall it everywhere and save yourself one of the tedious, recurring headaches supporting windows boxes.
Ten boxes here, thirty there... and we can kill the thing and get it off our plate entirely.
Full disclosure: I've long hated java as a user suffering bloated start-up times and xplatform probs, as an IT drone endlessly updating it and for its sheer verbosity as a language (it's just way too much typing for me to bother with vs other langs).
Needless to say, I was very disappointed with the choice Google made with Android... :-(
kmail has this
> gigabyte speeds
I meant gigabit speeds, of course
> but rather a VPS, dedicated server,
This.
I've been a long-time customer of NetNation -- OK, now it's Hostway and they've had a couple of power probs at my NOC that *never* happened before, but..
I have 4 Peta-Bytes of transfer every month and it costs less than 250USD/month for a dedicated server. Yes, that was peta with a capital 'P'. That's only with 100mb duplex, but you can pay a bit more for gigabyte speeds as they have lots of fibre. This is in the austin DC.
Buy one or two or more of those and stop worrying. After adding more than one, you'll need to do interesting balancing things, but at nowhere near the cost of what you are currently in store for.
I don't log in much -- hardly ever in fact. Anyhow:
You (@rnmartinez) are (not to put too fine a point on it) acting like a septic-sucking scum bag. I just wasted an hour of my life researching your sorry ass. It's the first time I ever wished I had less google-fu.
I would really appreciate it if you'd just leave slashdot off your guppy list, because we aren't listening anymore and never will thanks to tom.
This would be a very good time for you to re-evaluate your goals in life.
Trying to avoid Hell clearly isn't at the top of your current agenda, but you might at least give it a passing thought.
I hardly ever log in, but I had to give this effort a comment.! Well done jollyreaper :-)
I entered one of my own ips and got back only 7 of the 40 or so domains hosted on that box. Most of those domains have been there for years. Any other tool I've ever tried for this before always disclaims that the results will be incomplete as they are based on using search engines.
Thank you David.
I rarely log in, but I needed to comment on this post (the OP).
One word: btrfs
All the posts here mostly talk about the wonders of zfs. I was enamored of zfs myself when it first came out.
Thing is, even if they got rid of the license problems, the thing is still not very linux kernel-friendly. The way it is, it will only ever exist in user-land/fuse. Yes, it can be made to work. So what?
Btrfs is better, uses zfs ideas and leaverages the linux kernel natively.
http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs
But that's the job. You control what you can and try to mitigate what you can't.
Amen brother. Amen.
AC troll, yes. But to write that number of words on it means you are a seriously sick, twisted individual. Wow. The detail.
Even for /. it amazes me how you got a +4 interesting.
It takes a lot for me to log in and post but holy hannah you are one sick puppy, even for a troll.
Face it, Linux doesn't have marketing-droids per se. As far as the desktop is concerned its increased use spreads by word of mouth.
Now, it's very easy to ramble on and extoll the virtues and wonders of Linux vs foo o/s (and there are many - that's what makes it easy..), but with the present state of the installation, as soon as you begin evangelizing Linux, you begin a new hobby: configuring other peoples systems for them.
There is nothing wrong with this, and I do it all the time, but I don't do it as much or as often as I *could*. Why? I'm lazy. I'm not radical enough. I'm selfish. Who knows?
My point is, when the time comes that one can say "What? You're still using winxx? Here's a cd of Linux - it's free, when you're done give it to someone else", and not worry about the persons 'level' and how much time it's going to cost getting them configured and comfortable *then* we may hit those numbers - and better.
We are getting there though. My first experience with linux was in (I think) 1993 and I installed from slacksware's cd. It took me forever to get X to run - and then I was dissapointed by the 'backwards' interface.
Debian made things worlds better, but I still think dselect bites. However, you never go wrong using mc to install ever after - and Debian's site layout is *the best* for seeing dependencies and recomendations etc.
It took less than 20 min to install RH5.2 on a laptop for goodness sakes. There's a miracle in its self! And now Caldera is in the press with their latest release....
It took me a decade or so to finally realise that not everyone actually *enjoys* playing with an o/s or lang until it works. Most people just want the tool - they're not interested in who made it, its history, naming puns etc. - give me the shovel, I just want to dig a hole for goodness sake.
Once Configured, Linux is a marvelous o/s for the desktop, but as long as it needs all the setup after the install we'll remain in the desktop backwaters.