Re:Dosen't the internet scale?
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There are some issues that are making it hard for the Internet to scale up. For a few years now there have been issues with the size of the routing tables on the major routers. It is nice to think that this is just a hardware issue and new routers would solve the problem. But that would be ignoreing the economics of the situation.
In the late eighties and early nineties MS gave a compiler to anyone who asked nicely. As a result there was a large ammount of software that ran on Windows. This is one of the ways MS sank OS/2. IBM tried to make money on OS/2 compilers when MS was all but giving theirs away for free.
If investigated fully you will find that many parents don't have a respect for education, or atleast the education system. Many parents view the failure of their child to learn as a failure of the schools. These parents forget that they are ultimately responsible for their child's eduacation. Schools and teachers are only there to assist. This causes cynicism amounts teachers who are tired of having students dumped on them and being blamed for the child's poor learning. The children themselves quickly figure out that their parents only pay lip service to education. Why should a child be expected to respect their teachers, when the child's parent dosen't?
There are many faults with the school system. Parents have to realise that they are one of the problems.
It is an underclocked PIII 450 running at 300 on a 66MHz bus. It has a pile of ram also underclocked running at 66MHz. The case is a junker (and hidden). All the fans have been replaced with two big quiet 12cm fans from SilenX. Even the PSU fan was replaced. The harddrive is one of the quiet 80GB Seagate Barracudas. The whole thing is in a cheap stereo cabinet behind a wodden door. The back of the cabinet was opened up for airflow. As you may have guessed I purchased the harddrive and fans, and the rest was scavenged.
If I had a larger budget I would use a fanless eden mini-itx board, with an add-on soundcard with digital-out. I would prefer a big external power supply. I would remove the HD and store all of the music on a server with a dedicated network between music server and music player.
Parent is correct. Almost all forms of prayer or meditation have a physical aspect regardless of belief wether Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Budist, Shiek, or Hindu. Some physical forms are very overt such as the many forms of dance. Some forms are subtle such as a simple crossing of the chest, or use of prayer beeds. In all cases the goals are the same: to unite the body and mind in prayer or meditation.
Would he [The Pope] be considered a thinking Christian?
Yes. The Pope is a smart man and a shrewd politician. As the leader of the Catholic Church he recognizes that drastic changes in doctrine could easily topple the Church. It is a tough calling. The Pope has to apease both the liberal west and the more conservative second and third world churches. There is some evidence to suggest that The Pope does not fully support all of his conservative views particularly statements made early in his life. Of course it is very hard for The Pope to reverse one of his own decisions. The Pope is supposed to be infallible. The Pope has set the groundwork for change, but like all things in the Catholic Church any changes are going to take a while.
That said, The Pope has been unwavering in some of his conservative decisions such as the restrictions on women in the Catholic ministry. In the eighties there was a movement to allow woman some responsibilites, but it was short lived.
It should be noted that my views are those of an external, non Catholic, viewer.
Like you I keep all of my original safe at home in the original jewel case. I ripped all of my CDs to FLAC using abcde (download it if it is not in ports it is only a shell script). FLAC is lossless so you will never have to rip your CDs when a better audio compression comes out. And it is simple to transcode FLAC to a more portable format like ogg:vorbis. All of the music is ripped and stored on a headless silent computer connected to my stereo. I control audio playback with Music Player Daemon. I also share the FLAC files (readonly) so that I can easily burn CDs and transcode from my workstation.
Things to watch out for: Some sound cards suck, most clip at higher volumes. When ripping CDs the various cddb sources are wrong as often as the data is correct. Verify all cddb results before ripping. The exception is the genre tag. That is almost always wrong. I strip the tag after ripping. For some reason one person's polka is another person's alternative.
A number of VOIP providers offer 1-800 numbers at rates that are only slightly higher then the regular per minute rate. It may be more economical then several local numbers.
I am considering getting a 1-800 so that friends and family can easily call me. I would also configure it so that I could easily and cheaply place long distance calls while on the road.
We don't need the newest KDE or Gnome, but newer versions of PHP, Perl, Postgresql, and Samba would be nice. A new 2.4 kernel would be nice too.
It would be less work for us to move to a new stable Debian every 12 months then to deploy servers that are a hodge podge of Debian Woody and backports, or Debian/testing.
This is ofcourse an excellent idea. It has a big problem though: "who decides what packages are part of the base?"
The way that the Debian project is setup there just isn't anyone with the power to make that decision. The Debian Project Leader has very little power. The decision making process is, by design, decentralised and in the hands of the package maintainers.
You are compareing apples to oranges. The Windows release cycle is better then Debian's. The windows release cycle is closer to 3 years, and support is extended for 5 years. XP and 2003 have both superseeded 2000. Support for 2000 will cease in June or July of this year. It would be nice if Debian adopted a more timely release cycle while extending security and major bug support to older releases.
That said the windows release cycle is problematic. New features have a tendancy to get wrapped up with important security fixes. It is near impossible to get just the security patches you need. Finally when MS cuts support users have little choice but to upgrade. With Linux and the other Free systems users have to option of continueing support themselves.
Have a look at Webmin. It is really remote administration and not as powerfull as Zenworks. However for a small business you may find that it does what you need.
I personally don't use Webmin or any similar product. But I have never had to manage more then a dozen machines. I know of Webmin as it has been around forever and it is still being developed.
Note: like all remote administration tools, includeing Zenworks, Webmin does add a security risk. However the risk is easy to manage if you read the docs and configure Webmin properly.
Mbox is better for archival as it is only the one file, or a few larger files as opposed to many small files with special names. You can always tar Maildir, but then you might as well put the email in mbox which can be opened directly. There are a number of simple tools that will make a copy Maildir or Imap and store the result as mbox.
The are plenty of desktop environment (e.g. CDE..) that work just fine regardless of how many terminals you're logged in from.
And KDE isn't one of them either. I see a lot of Gnome and KDE develope that follows the single user at time philosophy used by Windows and Mac. Probably because most KDE and Gnome developers come from those environments and do not have a good *nix background. It distresses me when these supposed *nix tools don't do things in a *nix way.
While there is much to be learned from the Windows and Mac desktops, there is 30 years of *nix refinements that shouldn't be ignored.
I am referenching the LinuxHardware article. Not that I think the Linuxhardware article is any better. There are some comments about the compiler flags not being the best.
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There are some issues that are making it hard for the Internet to scale up. For a few years now there have been issues with the size of the routing tables on the major routers. It is nice to think that this is just a hardware issue and new routers would solve the problem. But that would be ignoreing the economics of the situation.
Instead I think I will shop at stores that don't treat their employees and customers like shit.
In the late eighties and early nineties MS gave a compiler to anyone who asked nicely. As a result there was a large ammount of software that ran on Windows. This is one of the ways MS sank OS/2. IBM tried to make money on OS/2 compilers when MS was all but giving theirs away for free.
Do they understand their lifestyle is built on a _fantasy_?
Well their parents don't.
If investigated fully you will find that many parents don't have a respect for education, or atleast the education system. Many parents view the failure of their child to learn as a failure of the schools. These parents forget that they are ultimately responsible for their child's eduacation. Schools and teachers are only there to assist. This causes cynicism amounts teachers who are tired of having students dumped on them and being blamed for the child's poor learning. The children themselves quickly figure out that their parents only pay lip service to education. Why should a child be expected to respect their teachers, when the child's parent dosen't?
There are many faults with the school system. Parents have to realise that they are one of the problems.
It is an underclocked PIII 450 running at 300 on a 66MHz bus. It has a pile of ram also underclocked running at 66MHz. The case is a junker (and hidden). All the fans have been replaced with two big quiet 12cm fans from SilenX. Even the PSU fan was replaced. The harddrive is one of the quiet 80GB Seagate Barracudas. The whole thing is in a cheap stereo cabinet behind a wodden door. The back of the cabinet was opened up for airflow. As you may have guessed I purchased the harddrive and fans, and the rest was scavenged.
If I had a larger budget I would use a fanless eden mini-itx board, with an add-on soundcard with digital-out. I would prefer a big external power supply. I would remove the HD and store all of the music on a server with a dedicated network between music server and music player.
Parent is correct. Almost all forms of prayer or meditation have a physical aspect regardless of belief wether Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Budist, Shiek, or Hindu. Some physical forms are very overt such as the many forms of dance. Some forms are subtle such as a simple crossing of the chest, or use of prayer beeds. In all cases the goals are the same: to unite the body and mind in prayer or meditation.
Would he [The Pope] be considered a thinking Christian?
Yes. The Pope is a smart man and a shrewd politician. As the leader of the Catholic Church he recognizes that drastic changes in doctrine could easily topple the Church. It is a tough calling. The Pope has to apease both the liberal west and the more conservative second and third world churches. There is some evidence to suggest that The Pope does not fully support all of his conservative views particularly statements made early in his life. Of course it is very hard for The Pope to reverse one of his own decisions. The Pope is supposed to be infallible. The Pope has set the groundwork for change, but like all things in the Catholic Church any changes are going to take a while.
That said, The Pope has been unwavering in some of his conservative decisions such as the restrictions on women in the Catholic ministry. In the eighties there was a movement to allow woman some responsibilites, but it was short lived.
It should be noted that my views are those of an external, non Catholic, viewer.
Like you I keep all of my original safe at home in the original jewel case. I ripped all of my CDs to FLAC using abcde (download it if it is not in ports it is only a shell script). FLAC is lossless so you will never have to rip your CDs when a better audio compression comes out. And it is simple to transcode FLAC to a more portable format like ogg:vorbis. All of the music is ripped and stored on a headless silent computer connected to my stereo. I control audio playback with Music Player Daemon. I also share the FLAC files (readonly) so that I can easily burn CDs and transcode from my workstation.
Things to watch out for: Some sound cards suck, most clip at higher volumes. When ripping CDs the various cddb sources are wrong as often as the data is correct. Verify all cddb results before ripping. The exception is the genre tag. That is almost always wrong. I strip the tag after ripping. For some reason one person's polka is another person's alternative.
A number of VOIP providers offer 1-800 numbers at rates that are only slightly higher then the regular per minute rate. It may be more economical then several local numbers.
I am considering getting a 1-800 so that friends and family can easily call me. I would also configure it so that I could easily and cheaply place long distance calls while on the road.
We don't need the newest KDE or Gnome, but newer versions of PHP, Perl, Postgresql, and Samba would be nice. A new 2.4 kernel would be nice too.
It would be less work for us to move to a new stable Debian every 12 months then to deploy servers that are a hodge podge of Debian Woody and backports, or Debian/testing.
This is ofcourse an excellent idea. It has a big problem though: "who decides what packages are part of the base?"
The way that the Debian project is setup there just isn't anyone with the power to make that decision. The Debian Project Leader has very little power. The decision making process is, by design, decentralised and in the hands of the package maintainers.
The problem is that Debian does not want to be a base platform. Their goal is to create an OS for Everyone.
You are compareing apples to oranges. The Windows release cycle is better then Debian's. The windows release cycle is closer to 3 years, and support is extended for 5 years. XP and 2003 have both superseeded 2000. Support for 2000 will cease in June or July of this year. It would be nice if Debian adopted a more timely release cycle while extending security and major bug support to older releases.
That said the windows release cycle is problematic. New features have a tendancy to get wrapped up with important security fixes. It is near impossible to get just the security patches you need. Finally when MS cuts support users have little choice but to upgrade. With Linux and the other Free systems users have to option of continueing support themselves.
s/like/link/
fuck me.
Why don't you just like to the original post in the sig?
Ghost is inexpensive and can be used to easily make backup images of the complete drive.
Look at cfengine as another poster suggested. The initial install of Cfengine is complicated, but it is easy to use once configured.
It's generally a lot easier for a single file to get trashed than for a whole directory.
Agreed. Although in the case of Mbox it is pretty easy to fix a corrupt file.
Have a look at Webmin. It is really remote administration and not as powerfull as Zenworks. However for a small business you may find that it does what you need.
I personally don't use Webmin or any similar product. But I have never had to manage more then a dozen machines. I know of Webmin as it has been around forever and it is still being developed.
Note: like all remote administration tools, includeing Zenworks, Webmin does add a security risk. However the risk is easy to manage if you read the docs and configure Webmin properly.
Mbox is better for archival as it is only the one file, or a few larger files as opposed to many small files with special names. You can always tar Maildir, but then you might as well put the email in mbox which can be opened directly. There are a number of simple tools that will make a copy Maildir or Imap and store the result as mbox.
instead of resorting to the usual "'sexy' woman having orgasm" type of adverts.
Thinking of which I saw a great ad the other night. It was a parody of the typical sexy blank and white ad for perfume. The ad was for cheese.
The are plenty of desktop environment (e.g. CDE..) that work just fine regardless of how many terminals you're logged in from.
And KDE isn't one of them either. I see a lot of Gnome and KDE develope that follows the single user at time philosophy used by Windows and Mac. Probably because most KDE and Gnome developers come from those environments and do not have a good *nix background. It distresses me when these supposed *nix tools don't do things in a *nix way.
While there is much to be learned from the Windows and Mac desktops, there is 30 years of *nix refinements that shouldn't be ignored.
I am referenching the LinuxHardware article. Not that I think the Linuxhardware article is any better. There are some comments about the compiler flags not being the best.