There were Austrians in Australia working on enrichment? This is a very big deal politically here atm (in Australia that is you 'merican speed reader:)
Australia is a nuclear free country (except for the Lucas heights reactor in Sydney, we make isotopes for medical research only). We flirted with it in the 50's, but we have, until recently been a country who feels we can sell uranium (we have a lot btw - like a whole lot) overseas, pretty much raw, and use almost none of it for our own purposes.
Our Prime Minister has decided to ignite a nuclear debate. It will distract us from the real debate we should be having (about the new IR laws), and will to be fair, is probably better in the short term then carbon sequestration.
A report was also delivered to the cabinet today, explaining that we (the tax payer) would pay a lot of money on insurance if we build the world's 5th Westinghouse AP1000 reactor in 10 years, or wait 10 years, and build the worlds 10th Westinghouse AP1000, and save a lot of cash. Howards other idea is to enrich the unranium, give it to countries on condition that they use it peacefully, and return it to us for storage and for us to store it safely, at their expense of course.
As I said - lots of news down here, however, even the experts think right now it is probably too expensive, and the problem of which state will have the reactor, do the enrichment, or store the waste will make every body in our wide brown land bicker and argue for quite a while. This press release is probably part of the spin to deflect debate on our new IR (industrial relations) laws.
At dictionary.com: conservative:- conservative adj. 1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change. -- -- 7. Tending to conserve; preservative
Our only "mistake" was not to revolt against the British.
That is what the yanks would like us to think,and perhaps it might be true. But I think one thing of the greatest things about our country is that we didn't fight back with guns, we reasoned our way to freedom.
Granted, we are all still subjects of the British empire, however, our Monarch has never fiddled in our countries affairs, has stated that she has no interest in doing so, and has not meddled in her own countries affairs. Although I must disclaim that I am a republican.
India is a country founded without a rebellion, as are we, but we are much more successful *winks*
Next drive you buy - keep your old one if you can - even if it's much smaller, use rdiff-backup, and backup selected parts of your/home.....it'll save you a lot of time and effort.
3. Maybe we need a KDE front end for our newer users?:)
Who is pushing the Intelligent Design debate? Atheists?
Who is pushing against even the possibility of God existing? There is no proof that there is not.
lol...man created god. There is no proof the Spaghetti Monster ( http://www.venganza.org/ ) didn't create the world either, and we're not teaching that in schools!
And btw - you teach your children what you think about your gods and I will teach mine there is no god, but you should NEVER tell someone else what to think about such matters, make up your own mind, and always question authority....even me:)
It's not the schools place to teach relig, it's the churches, synagogue, ashram, football oval, bar, --insert your holy place here-- .
when voice control was all the rage in like 97-98, one of our managers (well he thought he was a manager, but he was just older, and thought he knew everything, yet he knew _nothing_) installed one of those progs on his windows desktop. It was surprisingly pretty good - good enough in fact, I could walk up behind him and say:
"start, shutdown, OK"....and it worked - everytime, hours of fun:)
for argument's sake - lets assume google make _some_ AJAX word processor..... you'd be able to run the app locally, as perhaps it's open source....bundled with apache? for a local server on the corp LAN? and the public can use the AJAX app on line, and save onto their desktop....on windows, or Ubuntu? Mac or Cell phone, blackberry? Or into their google internet 2Gb storage? Let's hope they use OASIS
Man, the app - if open sourced - could even be branded with a school logo, or corporate mascot/symbol/porn star:) The webapp doesnt have to save remotely at all if the user doesn't want to, thats why AJAX rocks, POSTs and GETs dont require you to reload the page when you choose an item from a combo box, and other nice UI features that....until now.... have been taken for granted exclusivly on the PC. Just type away, mail merge from your address book (you have google mail too right?)
I too am hopeful for the future, but MS could aquire Adobe/Macromedia, and achieve the same result with flash paper....but I would trust Google's webapp over MS's if I was choosing which software to deploy in that type of environment. Add google desktop search, integrated with related searches online.....Google might also have a retail ISP B2B style, where they provide coffee shops with WiMax, but maybe that would be phase 2:)
nokuake - awesome awesome awesome way to get to the Konsole, and it's a kde hack...not like the original kuake, if you ever tried kuake, and thought - gee that's be nice if it wasn't so buggy...check it out:)
I agree windows UI sucks, I hate it, but you obviously havn't played much with KDE, mine looks - well....nothing like windows - lol
Some people think it looks a bit like OSX, but really, it's actually I just enable the universal sidebar (on autohide of course), adding a few special entries, such as a URL to my webbased calendar, mediaplayer, home directory, control panel, services folder etc.
A secondary panel (also on autohide) at the top of the screen, which has the storage media applet weather applet, and a couple of application buttons.
At the bottom is the main panel - centered but only taking 70% of the screen, so I can always touch the background (I have the mouse wheel enabled to change virtual desktops, or middle click to list all windows, or right click to get the right click menu), it has my little dock applet (systray), clock, and taskbar V2 (on kdeapps). Both my main panel and top panel are transparent (also why I use taskbar v2 - it really is kool;)
I hate when ppl say KDE looks like windows - it's default looks a *bit* like windows, but it only looks that way if you leave it set up in the default. And Konq is nothing at all like explorer, although maybe to someone whose already prejudged it, you could write it off as an explorer clone - well....you're simply, and I mean no disrespect, smoking crack:)
It was good - but now even the maintainer has jumped ship.
If you have audio syncing issues, use kaffeine ( http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/ - it a really nice kde wrapper for xine, you can easily record streams, minimize to the tray, it has a real nice OSD, I really can't give enough props to the kaffeine project ), configure the xine engine's audio output to be either ALSA or OSS (ie direct to the audio card), right click on the video that is playing go down to Video Settings, there are 5 sliders. One of those sliders is Audio/Video Offset, this is a xine feature, you can slide it to make the audio and video perfect.
Persoanlly I dont use arts at all - I have an NFORCE2 sound card and while it's features rock, the intel drivers in alsa seriously suck, the closed source nvidia ones are very good, but arts just wont work with it. So I rename the artsd binary (so it can't be used at all) and for system notifications I use a script I wrote called playsound.sh: ------------- #!/bin/sh/usr/bin/mplayer -ao oss $1
-------------
Hope I helped you and any others out - arts is dead, but thanks to the massive configurability of the KDE project, you don't really need it anyways:)
There is an Exchange clone, Kolab...but it is also quite new on the scene. I've been Sysadmining for a while now, and this issue has been on my mind for a long time also.
I think the problem has always been that although OSS has had all the parts of Exchange (most of them anyway), until Kolab, noone ever put them all together as a packages (or series of packages), you always had to kinda glue it together.
Kolab is a collection of packages, with special configuration options preset. The packages include postfix (SMTP daemon), cyrus-imap (IMAP daemon) and so on.
The cool thing about Kolab is you can use Kontact, Evolution, Mozilla suite, or even outlook (I think).
Like I said, I've always set up the systems I know best, and left it at that, but I think my next job I might try out the new Kolab 2 :
Apache's configuration for mass sites (using rewrites) needs clearer documentation, but once you get it, you only need to do it once, then you just add a site to the text file/database, and put the site anywhere you want on the disk.....simple really.
And how often are you installing new modules to the webserver....I mean really. If IIS wants to play with the big boys - make it HTTP 1.1 compliant (caching post requests is not HTTP 1.1 compliant) then give me a web server that doesn't leak memory, doesn't hook into parts of the kernel it has no reason to be hooking into, and can scale with load (so I can just chuck in another processor, more RAM etc, and scale up properly) - there are a lot of reasons Apache is the #1 webserver.
I also have figured out how to write pam modules for most of my services around the office.
It is cool - I have one PDC (Windows), and every server, smtp authentication, apache logins, IMAP and anything else that uses pam, can use winbind to see it the username and password are correct, by first checking the windows PDC.
Central authentication, cheap, quick and easy - oh and my boss can just use the windows server to change passwords, add or remove accounts with her old familiar GUI.
Winbind is part of samba, and PAM is standard on all Linux machines. You may have to add the Samba server (the winbind server) to the active directory, which is pretty easy - esp if you use samba 3 that has almost the same syntax as the MS comand line tools (like net add blah)
They had to trust me at first.....but now my company will never look back - Oh and ban outlook unless they absolutly have to use it, like the accountant, who emails directly from MYOB - ie MAPI - then just configure outlook express to send email, but only open Thunderbird to read the reply.
We do keep a windows PDC for central authentication, look at winbind from the samba install - a daemon that you can write pam modules for any daemon to authenticate from the central server. And use rdiff-backup - it rocks for backing up your fileserver a special archive you can get any copy of any backed up file for the last year or more if you have a big enough hard drive:)
Hope that gets you started, oh and openvpn is the shit, with linux and windows support:) and dont forget your jabber server - all encryped jabber and IMAP of course:)
this is what we are currently using. I is an awesome groupware calendar. exports in vcal/ical and allows you to view other users calendars overlayed with yours.
Full administration through the web interface (JS), all you need is apache and php - all our users love it. This is the perfect small business opensource calendar. A few small things I'd like, but hey - I can hack it to do what I want too:)
The only thing I wish debian had was nptl support as we run a j2ee server, but I guess well see it supported in sarge - just have to wait until sarge is stable:)
Slashdot Mirror
...what these Austrians...
:)
There were Austrians in Australia working on enrichment? This is a very big deal politically here atm (in Australia that is you 'merican speed reader
Australia is a nuclear free country (except for the Lucas heights reactor in Sydney, we make isotopes for medical research only). We flirted with it in the 50's, but we have, until recently been a country who feels we can sell uranium (we have a lot btw - like a whole lot) overseas, pretty much raw, and use almost none of it for our own purposes.
Our Prime Minister has decided to ignite a nuclear debate. It will distract us from the real debate we should be having (about the new IR laws), and will to be fair, is probably better in the short term then carbon sequestration.
A report was also delivered to the cabinet today, explaining that we (the tax payer) would pay a lot of money on insurance if we build the world's 5th Westinghouse AP1000 reactor in 10 years, or wait 10 years, and build the worlds 10th Westinghouse AP1000, and save a lot of cash. Howards other idea is to enrich the unranium, give it to countries on condition that they use it peacefully, and return it to us for storage and for us to store it safely, at their expense of course.
As I said - lots of news down here, however, even the experts think right now it is probably too expensive, and the problem of which state will have the reactor, do the enrichment, or store the waste will make every body in our wide brown land bicker and argue for quite a while. This press release is probably part of the spin to deflect debate on our new IR (industrial relations) laws.
He's correct.
:- conservative
At dictionary.com:
conservative
adj.
1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.
--
--
7. Tending to conserve; preservative
n.
1. One favoring traditional views and values.
The only program I like more for that purpose is iPhoto, but that isn't available for Windows (obviously).
:)
Have you tried digikam? http://www.digikam.org/
It's for Linux....and rocks the socks
Our only "mistake" was not to revolt against the British.
That is what the yanks would like us to think,and perhaps it might be true. But I think one thing of the greatest things about our country is that we didn't fight back with guns, we reasoned our way to freedom.
Granted, we are all still subjects of the British empire, however, our Monarch has never fiddled in our countries affairs, has stated that she has no interest in doing so, and has not meddled in her own countries affairs. Although I must disclaim that I am a republican.
India is a country founded without a rebellion, as are we, but we are much more successful *winks*
1. does this need to be approved? seems like a big acquisition.
/home.....it'll save you a lot of time and effort.
:)
2. doesn't everyone in Linux world use rdiff-backup?
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
Next drive you buy - keep your old one if you can - even if it's much smaller, use rdiff-backup, and backup selected parts of your
3. Maybe we need a KDE front end for our newer users?
BIOS passwords are useless, there are Master passwords for most makes and models :)
:)
go here and find yours today:
http://www.biosflash.com/e/bios-passwords.htm
Try digikam, very fast, made for quickly editing digital photos. The best thing is the quick, intuitive way of editing the red eye.
;)
you wont be sorry
Who is pushing the Intelligent Design debate? Atheists?
:)
Who is pushing against even the possibility of God existing? There is no proof that there is not.
lol...man created god. There is no proof the Spaghetti Monster ( http://www.venganza.org/ ) didn't create the world either, and we're not teaching that in schools!
And btw - you teach your children what you think about your gods and I will teach mine there is no god, but you should NEVER tell someone else what to think about such matters, make up your own mind, and always question authority....even me
It's not the schools place to teach relig, it's the churches, synagogue, ashram, football oval, bar, --insert your holy place here-- .
two words: lowered expectations
when voice control was all the rage in like 97-98, one of our managers (well he thought he was a manager, but he was just older, and thought he knew everything, yet he knew _nothing_) installed one of those progs on his windows desktop. It was surprisingly pretty good - good enough in fact, I could walk up behind him and say:
:)
"start, shutdown, OK"....and it worked - everytime, hours of fun
MS blocking advertising? and bite the hand that feeds?
for argument's sake - lets assume google make _some_ AJAX word processor..... you'd be able to run the app locally, as perhaps it's open source....bundled with apache? for a local server on the corp LAN? and the public can use the AJAX app on line, and save onto their desktop....on windows, or Ubuntu? Mac or Cell phone, blackberry? Or into their google internet 2Gb storage? Let's hope they use OASIS
:) The webapp doesnt have to save remotely at all if the user doesn't want to, thats why AJAX rocks, POSTs and GETs dont require you to reload the page when you choose an item from a combo box, and other nice UI features that ....until now.... have been taken for granted exclusivly on the PC. Just type away, mail merge from your address book (you have google mail too right?)
:)
Man, the app - if open sourced - could even be branded with a school logo, or corporate mascot/symbol/porn star
I too am hopeful for the future, but MS could aquire Adobe/Macromedia, and achieve the same result with flash paper....but I would trust Google's webapp over MS's if I was choosing which software to deploy in that type of environment. Add google desktop search, integrated with related searches online.....Google might also have a retail ISP B2B style, where they provide coffee shops with WiMax, but maybe that would be phase 2
oh yeah, and I have to share this with the world:
2 9132
:)
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=
nokuake - awesome awesome awesome way to get to the Konsole, and it's a kde hack...not like the original kuake, if you ever tried kuake, and thought - gee that's be nice if it wasn't so buggy...check it out
I agree windows UI sucks, I hate it, but you obviously havn't played much with KDE, mine looks - well....nothing like windows - lol
;)
:)
Some people think it looks a bit like OSX, but really, it's actually I just enable the universal sidebar (on autohide of course), adding a few special entries, such as a URL to my webbased calendar, mediaplayer, home directory, control panel, services folder etc.
A secondary panel (also on autohide) at the top of the screen, which has the storage media applet weather applet, and a couple of application buttons.
At the bottom is the main panel - centered but only taking 70% of the screen, so I can always touch the background (I have the mouse wheel enabled to change virtual desktops, or middle click to list all windows, or right click to get the right click menu), it has my little dock applet (systray), clock, and taskbar V2 (on kdeapps). Both my main panel and top panel are transparent (also why I use taskbar v2 - it really is kool
I hate when ppl say KDE looks like windows - it's default looks a *bit* like windows, but it only looks that way if you leave it set up in the default. And Konq is nothing at all like explorer, although maybe to someone whose already prejudged it, you could write it off as an explorer clone - well....you're simply, and I mean no disrespect, smoking crack
oops, that script again:
/usr/bin/mplayer -ao oss $1
#!/bin/sh
damn slashcode formatting
quite simply arts is dead
h tml
/usr/bin/mplayer -ao oss $1
:)
http://www.arts-project.org/doc/arts-maintenance.
It was good - but now even the maintainer has jumped ship.
If you have audio syncing issues, use kaffeine ( http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/ - it a really nice kde wrapper for xine, you can easily record streams, minimize to the tray, it has a real nice OSD, I really can't give enough props to the kaffeine project ), configure the xine engine's audio output to be either ALSA or OSS (ie direct to the audio card), right click on the video that is playing go down to Video Settings, there are 5 sliders.
One of those sliders is Audio/Video Offset, this is a xine feature, you can slide it to make the audio and video perfect.
Persoanlly I dont use arts at all - I have an NFORCE2 sound card and while it's features rock, the intel drivers in alsa seriously suck, the closed source nvidia ones are very good, but arts just wont work with it. So I rename the artsd binary (so it can't be used at all) and for system notifications I use a script I wrote called playsound.sh:
-------------
#!/bin/sh
-------------
Hope I helped you and any others out - arts is dead, but thanks to the massive configurability of the KDE project, you don't really need it anyways
And don't forget Kontact (KDE's outlook clone)
There is an Exchange clone, Kolab...but it is also quite new on the scene. I've been Sysadmining for a while now, and this issue has been on my mind for a long time also.
I think the problem has always been that although OSS has had all the parts of Exchange (most of them anyway), until Kolab, noone ever put them all together as a packages (or series of packages), you always had to kinda glue it together.
Kolab is a collection of packages, with special configuration options preset. The packages include postfix (SMTP daemon), cyrus-imap (IMAP daemon) and so on.
The cool thing about Kolab is you can use Kontact, Evolution, Mozilla suite, or even outlook (I think).
Like I said, I've always set up the systems I know best, and left it at that, but I think my next job I might try out the new Kolab 2 :
http://kolab.org/
so does IIS 7.0 still cache "post" requests?
Apache's configuration for mass sites (using rewrites) needs clearer documentation, but once you get it, you only need to do it once, then you just add a site to the text file/database, and put the site anywhere you want on the disk.....simple really.
And how often are you installing new modules to the webserver....I mean really. If IIS wants to play with the big boys - make it HTTP 1.1 compliant (caching post requests is not HTTP 1.1 compliant) then give me a web server that doesn't leak memory, doesn't hook into parts of the kernel it has no reason to be hooking into, and can scale with load (so I can just chuck in another processor, more RAM etc, and scale up properly) - there are a lot of reasons Apache is the #1 webserver.
IBM knows it, Sun knows it: even MS knows it.
Winbind rocks :)
I also have figured out how to write pam modules for most of my services around the office.
It is cool - I have one PDC (Windows), and every server, smtp authentication, apache logins, IMAP and anything else that uses pam, can use winbind to see it the username and password are correct, by first checking the windows PDC.
Central authentication, cheap, quick and easy - oh and my boss can just use the windows server to change passwords, add or remove accounts with her old familiar GUI.
Winbind is part of samba, and PAM is standard on all Linux machines. You may have to add the Samba server (the winbind server) to the active directory, which is pretty easy - esp if you use samba 3 that has almost the same syntax as the MS comand line tools (like net add blah)
I seriously recommend this approach over OpenLDAP
Also in Melb, and my dad's skin cancer has spread, first into his lymph nodes, and now into his spine, and yup - he's going to die :(
Skin cancer is very real down under
Webcal :
:)
:) and dont forget your jabber server - all encryped jabber and IMAP of course :)
http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php
Thunderbird - disconnected IMAP & postfix & squirel mail.
They had to trust me at first.....but now my company will never look back - Oh and ban outlook unless they absolutly have to use it, like the accountant, who emails directly from MYOB - ie MAPI - then just configure outlook express to send email, but only open Thunderbird to read the reply.
We do keep a windows PDC for central authentication, look at winbind from the samba install - a daemon that you can write pam modules for any daemon to authenticate from the central server. And use rdiff-backup - it rocks for backing up your fileserver a special archive you can get any copy of any backed up file for the last year or more if you have a big enough hard drive
Hope that gets you started, oh and openvpn is the shit, with linux and windows support
WTF Australia is thinking?
:)
please dont assume what our politicians are thinking, is what the people are thinking
I wish every day our ministers who discuss this ridiculous nonsense would just help the country and commit suicide.
http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php
:)
this is what we are currently using. I is an awesome groupware calendar. exports in vcal/ical and allows you to view other users calendars overlayed with yours.
Full administration through the web interface (JS), all you need is apache and php - all our users love it. This is the perfect small business opensource calendar. A few small things I'd like, but hey - I can hack it to do what I want too
mmm....well we bought some nice Dell boxen, and put Debian on em. Theres a lot of very nice sites to help:
+ Servers
:)
http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/LNX/Debian+on+Dell
http://linux.dell.com/
The only thing I wish debian had was nptl support as we run a j2ee server, but I guess well see it supported in sarge - just have to wait until sarge is stable
Because were talking about back end server apps dufus - not client apps mac boi
:)
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