Why not take this one step further, and rather than hand jamming all the information into excel, and writing on the jackets, pick up a bar code scanner and label printer. When a Disc comes in, print a label on the sleeve, stack it on the shelf (in the order received), and when the project is finished, pull it off and hand it back to the customer or destroy it. A nice database could easily be set up using the bar codes to track everything.
Research Triangle Institute, in the Raleigh / Durham NC area is a research organization founded by Duke, UNC, and NC State 40+ years ago. They are tied closely to academia which seems to be important to you, and are involved in research & development in just about any field you can imagine. They were even mentioned recently on slashdot.
One word (ok two words) - Audit Trails. If *everyone* has root's password, you have no audit trail of who used it, at what time, etc. Sudo access gets logged, both the command and the user calling it. Granted if their intent on accessing the system was malicios they'd have the power (as root) to modify the logs, but if you are remote logging, or if their intention wasn't "purposely" malicious you'd have a trail.
IMO the best practice would be to keep the root password a closely held secret, and give other users requiring root access sudo, and possibly remote syslog to a machine those users don't have root privs on.
Windows Terminal Services (now known as Remote Desktop) will let you map your local printer AND drives to the remote machine, so you can copy files & print from the remote system to the local system.
The downside is mainly in licensing, you'll need to purchase a CAL from MS for each user you want to "remote connect" (Not sure how you had citrix licensed). I'd also reccomend locking down access, either through a roubst firewall system or preferably a VPN.
I try to./configure, make, make install and I get messages that I am missing a library. The library is there and is installed correctly.
You also may need to have the -devel packages installed. Just having a library (eg libqt3) installed means you have the.so's needed to RUN an application compiled against it, to COMPILE an app, you also need the header files for the library, which are conviently in a seperate package (e.g. libqt3-devel). This is nice for people who DON'T need to have the development headers installed on their system:)
From looking at the screenshots (http://www.linare.com/screenshots.php) it looks like it's probably based on Red Hat (uses Disk Druid, and the same "time zone" selection screen as Red Hat anyway.
I agree, they seem rather fishy, I can't find any reference to GPL or ANY license for that matter on their site, even when trying to purchase the product. According to their list of software they are also including some commercial apps (i.e. RealPlayer). I would think they are legally obligated to include some sort of licensing info up front.
Even with my shiny new (-ish) Radeon 9800, I can only get around 80 fps in glxgears - because ATI's drivers don't support Xinerama, I'm stuck with the functional, but much slower, open-source drivers. The framerates AnandTech are be getting single-headed are a dream for me.
The ATI (fglrx) drivers do not support xinerama, but they DO support multi head display WITH acceleration, either seperate sessions on each screen, or one big screen across both monitors. My 9800 pro does this just fine. The options to do so are in the fglrxconfig utility. There are some problems with the ATI dual head setup though, since it doesn't support xinerama properly, some things are a PITA, for example maximizing a window makes the window take up both screens instead of just one (in big desktop mode) and any program that uses xinerama to draw to both screens (for example xscreensaver) will only cover the primary screen (the dvi connector). I haven't found a workaround for the fullscreen problem, but using xlock as a screensaver instead of xscreensaver covers both screens. YMMV.
I presume that the pentagon was researching this to allow soldiers, DOD civilians, and contractors who are overseas to vote. All US soldiers, DOD Civilians, and DOD Contractors now have an ID card that contains a smart chip with a PKI key on it. You're telling me that the Pentagon could not come up with a secure, anonymous, yet auditable method of voting using that?? What a shame. I guess the DOD needs more geeks, or maybe just some geeks with real skills and not an MBA.
I agree, my first SLR was a T70, and save for an unfortunate accident involving my backpack falling over a 120 ft waterfall, it would still be my favorite.....
Try checking around your town in the "old/family owned" type camera shops, you can probably pick one up with some decent accesories for $200-250.
The way I see it, if you are a US taxpayer, this does directly affet you, after all the US Goverment uses Linux as much as any other "corporation" out there. By attempting to extort money through unixware licenses for linux, SCO is attempting to extort money from every taxpaying US citizen. On a related note, does anyone know if any of the letters SCO sent out went to government organizations?
I for one hope their aircraft holds up to the rigors of space flight better than their site holds up to a slashdotting. I suppose they're spending all their money on the project and not their website though:)
Anyway, my money is on Burt Ratan and the crew at Scaled Composites. They seem to have a solid idea and enough backing to actually get this done. Not to mention they have a cooler name (who ever heard of a flying armadillo?).
Google news is linking to the/. story as the top Sci-Tech story right now, I don't think anyone can stand up to a combined slashdotting/googling at the same time:P
"I don't think they would be making major modifications to the Kernel. Why would they need to since they could just use the serial port or TCP/IP? "
Exactly, The Army's current ABCS software runs on a basterdized version of solaris, part of the decision to go linux is the fact that Solaris and commercial *nixes don't have the driver support to run on the multitude of hardware the army needs FCS to run on (everything from ipaq's to Ultra-Sparcs).
::DISCLAIMER:: I do not work for Harris! I have however, worked on other similar projects. There is a reason this equipment is so expensive (as is most miltary specific hardware), Harris spent millions of dollars researching and has been developing this product for at least two years. In order to get NSA approval, they had to go through (and pay for) more testing than you can imagine, and lastly, unlike Intel, or Linksys, or Netgear, they aren't going to sell millions of copies of the hardware, so to recoup their investment they obviously have to sell the product at a higher price.
Also, to the guy earlier who was bemoaning the lack of security accredidation for linux: Ask your local neighborhood Army Software Engineer(TM) what Operating System ABCS (Army Battle Command and Control System) version 7 will run on (HINT: it currently runs on x86 boxes, with an OS whose next version will not support x86).
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Kinda surprised nobody has mentioned this...
If you've got an ATI card, you should try Hydravision. It will allow you to set up multiple virtual desktops and has a pager...
If you don't have an ATI card it might even still work (it doesn't seem to be hooked into the ATI drivers). More info on ATI's site.
Why not take this one step further, and rather than hand jamming all the information into excel, and writing on the jackets, pick up a bar code scanner and label printer. When a Disc comes in, print a label on the sleeve, stack it on the shelf (in the order received), and when the project is finished, pull it off and hand it back to the customer or destroy it. A nice database could easily be set up using the bar codes to track everything.
Research Triangle Institute, in the Raleigh / Durham NC area is a research organization founded by Duke, UNC, and NC State 40+ years ago. They are tied closely to academia which seems to be important to you, and are involved in research & development in just about any field you can imagine. They were even mentioned recently on slashdot.
:)
Disclaimer: I work for them
One word (ok two words) - Audit Trails. If *everyone* has root's password, you have no audit trail of who used it, at what time, etc. Sudo access gets logged, both the command and the user calling it. Granted if their intent on accessing the system was malicios they'd have the power (as root) to modify the logs, but if you are remote logging, or if their intention wasn't "purposely" malicious you'd have a trail.
IMO the best practice would be to keep the root password a closely held secret, and give other users requiring root access sudo, and possibly remote syslog to a machine those users don't have root privs on.
Windows Terminal Services (now known as Remote Desktop) will let you map your local printer AND drives to the remote machine, so you can copy files & print from the remote system to the local system.
The downside is mainly in licensing, you'll need to purchase a CAL from MS for each user you want to "remote connect" (Not sure how you had citrix licensed). I'd also reccomend locking down access, either through a roubst firewall system or preferably a VPN.
I try to ./configure, make, make install and I get messages that I am missing a library. The library is there and is installed correctly.
.so's needed to RUN an application compiled against it, to COMPILE an app, you also need the header files for the library, which are conviently in a seperate package (e.g. libqt3-devel). This is nice for people who DON'T need to have the development headers installed on their system :)
You also may need to have the -devel packages installed. Just having a library (eg libqt3) installed means you have the
From looking at the screenshots (http://www.linare.com/screenshots.php) it looks like it's probably based on Red Hat (uses Disk Druid, and the same "time zone" selection screen as Red Hat anyway.
I agree, they seem rather fishy, I can't find any reference to GPL or ANY license for that matter on their site, even when trying to purchase the product. According to their list of software they are also including some commercial apps (i.e. RealPlayer). I would think they are legally obligated to include some sort of licensing info up front.
My 2 cents anyway...
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Even with my shiny new (-ish) Radeon 9800, I can only get around 80 fps in glxgears - because ATI's drivers don't support Xinerama, I'm stuck with the functional, but much slower, open-source drivers. The framerates AnandTech are be getting single-headed are a dream for me.
The ATI (fglrx) drivers do not support xinerama, but they DO support multi head display WITH acceleration, either seperate sessions on each screen, or one big screen across both monitors. My 9800 pro does this just fine. The options to do so are in the fglrxconfig utility. There are some problems with the ATI dual head setup though, since it doesn't support xinerama properly, some things are a PITA, for example maximizing a window makes the window take up both screens instead of just one (in big desktop mode) and any program that uses xinerama to draw to both screens (for example xscreensaver) will only cover the primary screen (the dvi connector). I haven't found a workaround for the fullscreen problem, but using xlock as a screensaver instead of xscreensaver covers both screens. YMMV.
I presume that the pentagon was researching this to allow soldiers, DOD civilians, and contractors who are overseas to vote. All US soldiers, DOD Civilians, and DOD Contractors now have an ID card that contains a smart chip with a PKI key on it. You're telling me that the Pentagon could not come up with a secure, anonymous, yet auditable method of voting using that?? What a shame. I guess the DOD needs more geeks, or maybe just some geeks with real skills and not an MBA.
I agree, my first SLR was a T70, and save for an unfortunate accident involving my backpack falling over a 120 ft waterfall, it would still be my favorite.....
Try checking around your town in the "old/family owned" type camera shops, you can probably pick one up with some decent accesories for $200-250.
if $slashdot_uid = 500000 {
$user = novell linux expert!
} else {
echo "go get an mcse!"
}
Have you tried normal (i.e. vesa fb, not the radeon module) framebuffer support? works here on a radeon mobility.
The way I see it, if you are a US taxpayer, this does directly affet you, after all the US Goverment uses Linux as much as any other "corporation" out there. By attempting to extort money through unixware licenses for linux, SCO is attempting to extort money from every taxpaying US citizen. On a related note, does anyone know if any of the letters SCO sent out went to government organizations?
I for one hope their aircraft holds up to the rigors of space flight better than their site holds up to a slashdotting. :)
I suppose they're spending all their money on the project and not their website though
Anyway, my money is on Burt Ratan and the crew at Scaled Composites. They seem to have a solid idea and enough backing to actually get this done. Not to mention they have a cooler name (who ever heard of a flying armadillo?).
"My dream: the power of Gentoo and the features of Mandrake."
Grab all the srpms, set up your cflags, rpm -ba *.spec
voila! The power of Gentoo and the features of mandrake!
Short answer: Solaris and freewin
Google news is linking to the /. story as the top Sci-Tech story right now, I don't think anyone can stand up to a combined slashdotting/googling at the same time :P
Something like ldd to display the lib versions a binary is compiled against? /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin /usr/lib/libmozjs.so (0x40024000) /usr/lib/libxpcom.so (0x40093000) /usr/lib/libnspr4.so (0x4018f000)
[me@mybox me]$ ldd
libmozjs.so =>
libxpcom.so =>
libnspr4.so =>
etc.....
Or am I missing what you were asking?
"I don't think they would be making major modifications to the Kernel. Why would they need to since they could just use the serial port or TCP/IP? "
Exactly, The Army's current ABCS software runs on a basterdized version of solaris, part of the decision to go linux is the fact that Solaris and commercial *nixes don't have the driver support to run on the multitude of hardware the army needs FCS to run on (everything from ipaq's to Ultra-Sparcs).
As in, don't fill my snail mail box with useless crap I could care less about. It's amazing the amount of crap I get in my box every day.
As in, do not mail me junk "snail" mail, it's incredible the amount of crap I get in my mail box every day.
The kind of bastard who needs a 20 million dollar tax write off.
::DISCLAIMER:: I do not work for Harris!
I have however, worked on other similar projects. There is a reason this equipment is so expensive (as is most miltary specific hardware), Harris spent millions of dollars researching and has been developing this product for at least two years. In order to get NSA approval, they had to go through (and pay for) more testing than you can imagine, and lastly, unlike Intel, or Linksys, or Netgear, they aren't going to sell millions of copies of the hardware, so to recoup their investment they obviously have to sell the product at a higher price.
Also, to the guy earlier who was bemoaning the lack of security accredidation for linux: Ask your local neighborhood Army Software Engineer(TM) what Operating System ABCS (Army Battle Command and Control System) version 7 will run on (HINT: it currently runs on x86 boxes, with an OS whose next version will not support x86).
Yes because it's still CCI (a controlled Cryptographical Item).
:>
Any more questions?