$100/year doesn't go too far. If you have a medical school nearby, there's a good chance you can use it for free. Probably not to check out journals, but browsing is free. Even if they don't allow the general public in, there is often a way to buy access. I mean legitimately, not by handing the guard a $10 bill. Even when I was in Princeton, my company had a sort of subscription with Princeton University to use the library.
OpenBSD apparently even makes me manually add the X package after the install.
Ok. I was wrong. Booting from the CD makes it easy to install the X packages. Well, not as easy as Redhat Linux, but easier than ftp-ing them and untaring them in the right place.
I got X running on OpenBSD on a laptop in about 20 minutes. The main problem was finding the mouse device and protocol (/dev/wsmouse0 and wsmouse). I picked the wrong video card, but the right driver (ATI) and made a wild-ass guess at the monitor clocks (not sure it matters at all).
Still not for a beginner, but frankly I found the OpenBSD 3.0 install easier than the FreeBSD 4.4 install.
Nowhere in the article does it mention UDP. We know michael never reads the articles. So where did UDP come from? Is Wolfger a DigitalFountain plant? Doesn't look that way, but it's possible.
I install and run OpenBSD and FreeBSD (as well as Redhat Linux and Windows NT/2000) on servers all the time. But I'm like a one-legged man on a pogo stick when it comes to installing either as a workstation. OpenBSD apparently even makes me manually add the X package after the install. FreeBSD is a bit better, but the configuration is all very manual. To contrast, Redhat Linux correctly detects my mouse, video card and monitor and makes it somewhat hard to continue the install unless the settings actually work.
Out of my team of 10 developers, I doubt more than 3 other guys would be able to get FreeBSD running as an X workstation without someone to help them. And all of them, even me, would lose interest before getting it working. I can feel my interest waning right now. I'd rather play with OpenBSD's new pf than pretend it's 1996 and manually configure XFree86.
Not to be a VMWare pimp, but VMWare could be a fit. You'd still run something (Linux) unsupported by your datacenter, but that doesn't sound like a big loss.
You can use WinImage or other tools to extract the iso. Also, the latest version of VMWare mounts iso files as virtual drives. I don't think either of these help the original poster though.
About three months ago I lost a couple dozen files when Windows 2000 (go ahead and laugh) managed to fuck up it's own file system during or after what appeared to be a perfectly clean shutdown and reboot. That and seeing all the e-mail worms coming from my boss, I figured I needed a real offline backup system.
I bought a used DDS-2 tape drive from eBay for like $40. I added a decent (but old and slow) SCSI controller for about $20.
I can get used DDS-2 tapes (4gig) on eBay for about $3-5 each and DDS-1 tapes (2gig) are $1-$3. They claim double the size with compression, but even with data I thought should compress well, I'm only getting about 30% more space with compression.
So what do I use after all that? CD-Rs. It's just too damn convenient and cheap. I burn 2 backup CDs every couple of weeks, one for my main work and one for my personal stuff, including e-mail. The CDs go into an on-site safe. In between those backups, I e-mail things to co-workers, ftp them to my off-site web server, upload them to Yahoo! Briefcase, or just cross my dang fingers.
In case nobody reads what ghost_crab wrote, I'll point this out. He's not looking for a Flash plugin for his browser. He's looking for a Flash authoring tool.
With the SWF format being semi-open, I don't see any technical reason someone couldn't build this.
This is the sort of thing where I'd break out some wire-wrap wire and a soldering iron. Duct tape the video card somewhere and wire it to the ISA connector. (I pity the fool that does this with a PCI card.)
Can you believe that I've only fried one motherboard doing crap like that?
Stop ignoring the wishes of the victim. I was involved in a case where a mid-level manager called law enforcement about a fairly serious intrusion. After the FBI became involved, the CEO stepped in and said they didn't want to prosecute if it would result in publicity for them. So what happens? They not only brought the case to court, but issued a press release, making the case front-page news.
Prosecutors need to stop ignoring victims' wishes. They also need to stop grandstanding for the media on cases like this. A lot more companies would report incidents and cooporate if they knew that the case would end in a quiet plea deal instead of a high-profile trial.
...people have gotten the impression we're an upscale successful business...
That's funny. It reminds me of a client of mine. They've got Herman Miller cubes, including the Aeron chairs. But their machines are a collection of cheap no-name beige boxes built by a friend of the owner.
Hams have a lot of spectrum that is very under-utilized. 420-440 is vacant in most places. If it wasn't a secondary allocation (shared with the government), it would have been gone a long time ago. 6 meters (except the SSB/CW stuff) is virtually nonexistant in most places. 220, 900, 1200 and everything above that are dead almost everywhere but New York and California.
Why? Because nobody has equipment for them. The Japanese companies don't build it, so we don't have it. There's no easily modified commercial gear (though 900 has some) like there was to get 2 meters and 440 jumpstarted. If a company built a 2.4GHz wireless lan that could operate in the ham band, the ARRL would freak and get the FCC to block it. Why? We need that gear. We, as hams, should be happy to trade some of our bands to commercial interests if they agree to build their gear so that we can modify it for ham bands. (Just don't make it too easy.)
B.S. I'm a ham and have been heavily involved in disaster work. Government agencies, at least where I live, have figured it out. Yeah, they have their fancy 800MHz trunking systems that are so fragile. But they also have portable repeaters, antenna trailers, go packs of radios, etc. One agency I've dealt with even made sure to purchase AA-cell packs for their portables.
In the last 3 storms, we've never had enough hams on hand to cover communication needs. But everywhere we needed to talk to had a deputy with a radio. We didn't have to worry about the deputy showing up drunk, smelly, acting crazy, hitting on women, having a heart attack, walking off the job, fighting with others over the air, or just rag-chewing on the air. You may think I'm bullshitting you, but I've had every one of those happen. And I've had dozens of cases where hams showed up at critical positions with equipment that was either broken or insufficient, with no backup gear available.
Hams will still have their place, but they are no longer a critical part of the disaster response equation. The ARRL will tell you (and FCC/congress) that they are, but they're wrong.
I got my CCNA and I'm about to finish the CCNP and have not touched a single router or switch...
Man, send me your resume. You sound exactly like all the IS guys my company has hired. You'll probably have to start out helping to rebuild all the servers infected with Nimda, but eventually you'll get time to screw up the firewall config.
I just get the feeling that the laptop market is getting ugly. Companies aren't buying them and there are a flood of off-lease and refurbs. They're getting close to a good price point for consumers. When Dell cuts a quality laptop to under $1,000, I think the pricewar will really heat up. I wouldn't be suprised to see decent laptops going for under $800 by March.
Boxes like the ever-popular Linksys Cable/DSL Router will probably continue to fall. Siemens had a two-port for $29 after rebate. I would expect Linksys to ride out the holiday season, maybe with a few rebate offers, then cut prices.
On the other hand, I just don't know what memory is going to do. Most people I know with a modern desktop now have more memory than they can use. If things were bad 3 months ago, they've going to be jump-out-the-window brutal after Christmas. How much cheaper can memory get? It's not like they can keep offering more for the money. Not a lot of market for a $50 2 gig DIMM, if that's even possible. I don't even think many machines can take a 512 meg DIMM.
I'm also waiting for every one of you satellite-stealing-mother-f'ers to buy your used slim-line PC with 2 serial ports ("perfect for emulation") so the price goes back down on those boxes. I need to build some firewalls and other appliances and you guys are driving the prices up.
I've been lucky/cursed in that all the companies/divisions I've worked for are younger than I am. But I've been to several client sites and stumbled across PDP-11s that are up and running. I see a lot of IBM mainframe stuff, but being a Unix kid, I can't tell what's 30 years old and what's brand new (unless it's black and says zSeries).
The oldest I've used are Georgia Tech's Control Data machines. They were old 10 years ago and I was amazed to see just now that at least one of them is up and running. Chances are good that some of the ancient code I saw in 1988 is still there.
Come on, other open source projects can get good work done with volunteers. Anybody have an insight into why Open Directory apparently cannot?
Because Open Directory turns away volunteers. A lot of them. I've offered to edit four times now, all in neglected categories that were missing very obvious sites (that were nowhere else in Open Directory). I've been turned down every time with no explanation. I've submitted a dozen sites to perfectly appropriate categories and not one of them has appeared. Not one. Heck, the international company I work for, which is a fairly well-known partner of IBM, isn't in Open Directory at all, despite me submitting them twice. On the plus side, half of our competitors aren't there either, despite me submitting a few of them.
(notice, I havent tried Solaris under VMWare, don't even know if its possible).
Not that it helps in this case (IE for Solaris is Sparc-only), but
Solaris supposedly can run in VMWare for Linux, but not VMWare running on Windows. Well, that's not entirely true. Supposedly it can install only on a Linux host, but once it's installed it can run on either host platform.
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$100/year doesn't go too far. If you have a medical school nearby, there's a good chance you can use it for free. Probably not to check out journals, but browsing is free. Even if they don't allow the general public in, there is often a way to buy access. I mean legitimately, not by handing the guard a $10 bill. Even when I was in Princeton, my company had a sort of subscription with Princeton University to use the library.
OpenBSD apparently even makes me manually add the X package after the install.
Ok. I was wrong. Booting from the CD makes it easy to install the X packages. Well, not as easy as Redhat Linux, but easier than ftp-ing them and untaring them in the right place.
I got X running on OpenBSD on a laptop in about 20 minutes. The main problem was finding the mouse device and protocol (/dev/wsmouse0 and wsmouse). I picked the wrong video card, but the right driver (ATI) and made a wild-ass guess at the monitor clocks (not sure it matters at all).
Still not for a beginner, but frankly I found the OpenBSD 3.0 install easier than the FreeBSD 4.4 install.
Nowhere in the article does it mention UDP. We know michael never reads the articles. So where did UDP come from? Is Wolfger a DigitalFountain plant? Doesn't look that way, but it's possible.
I install and run OpenBSD and FreeBSD (as well as Redhat Linux and Windows NT/2000) on servers all the time. But I'm like a one-legged man on a pogo stick when it comes to installing either as a workstation. OpenBSD apparently even makes me manually add the X package after the install. FreeBSD is a bit better, but the configuration is all very manual. To contrast, Redhat Linux correctly detects my mouse, video card and monitor and makes it somewhat hard to continue the install unless the settings actually work.
Out of my team of 10 developers, I doubt more than 3 other guys would be able to get FreeBSD running as an X workstation without someone to help them. And all of them, even me, would lose interest before getting it working. I can feel my interest waning right now. I'd rather play with OpenBSD's new pf than pretend it's 1996 and manually configure XFree86.
Not to be a VMWare pimp, but VMWare could be a fit. You'd still run something (Linux) unsupported by your datacenter, but that doesn't sound like a big loss.
You can use WinImage or other tools to extract the iso. Also, the latest version of VMWare mounts iso files as virtual drives. I don't think either of these help the original poster though.
About three months ago I lost a couple dozen files when Windows 2000 (go ahead and laugh) managed to fuck up it's own file system during or after what appeared to be a perfectly clean shutdown and reboot. That and seeing all the e-mail worms coming from my boss, I figured I needed a real offline backup system.
I bought a used DDS-2 tape drive from eBay for like $40. I added a decent (but old and slow) SCSI controller for about $20. I can get used DDS-2 tapes (4gig) on eBay for about $3-5 each and DDS-1 tapes (2gig) are $1-$3. They claim double the size with compression, but even with data I thought should compress well, I'm only getting about 30% more space with compression.
So what do I use after all that? CD-Rs. It's just too damn convenient and cheap. I burn 2 backup CDs every couple of weeks, one for my main work and one for my personal stuff, including e-mail. The CDs go into an on-site safe. In between those backups, I e-mail things to co-workers, ftp them to my off-site web server, upload them to Yahoo! Briefcase, or just cross my dang fingers.
- In article <1991Apr12.185342.4699@news.iastate.edu> vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H) writes:
It's amazing what a difference a decade makes.>I recently downloaded the IBM PC demo from plains to send to a Cobol
>Wizard who wants to learn Minix and build a Cobol compiler for it.
Right. And don't forget about Ada - we need that too. And, oh let's see now, perhaps a good relational database system....
The possibilities boggle the mind, chill the blood, call for a stiff drink, and make one check the calender to see April what, now?
John Nall
Don't forget to consider your power and air conditioning needs. My office is pushing the limits of both.
In case nobody reads what ghost_crab wrote, I'll point this out. He's not looking for a Flash plugin for his browser. He's looking for a Flash authoring tool.
With the SWF format being semi-open, I don't see any technical reason someone couldn't build this.
This is the sort of thing where I'd break out some wire-wrap wire and a soldering iron. Duct tape the video card somewhere and wire it to the ISA connector. (I pity the fool that does this with a PCI card.)
Can you believe that I've only fried one motherboard doing crap like that?
Stop ignoring the wishes of the victim. I was involved in a case where a mid-level manager called law enforcement about a fairly serious intrusion. After the FBI became involved, the CEO stepped in and said they didn't want to prosecute if it would result in publicity for them. So what happens? They not only brought the case to court, but issued a press release, making the case front-page news.
Prosecutors need to stop ignoring victims' wishes. They also need to stop grandstanding for the media on cases like this. A lot more companies would report incidents and cooporate if they knew that the case would end in a quiet plea deal instead of a high-profile trial.
"The Bearcat Online email system is now blocking all messages with "Hi" as the subject."
Will someone please write a virus that uses the subject lines "Timesheets" or "Status"?
That's funny. It reminds me of a client of mine. They've got Herman Miller cubes, including the Aeron chairs. But their machines are a collection of cheap no-name beige boxes built by a friend of the owner.
Hams have a lot of spectrum that is very under-utilized. 420-440 is vacant in most places. If it wasn't a secondary allocation (shared with the government), it would have been gone a long time ago. 6 meters (except the SSB/CW stuff) is virtually nonexistant in most places. 220, 900, 1200 and everything above that are dead almost everywhere but New York and California.
Why? Because nobody has equipment for them. The Japanese companies don't build it, so we don't have it. There's no easily modified commercial gear (though 900 has some) like there was to get 2 meters and 440 jumpstarted. If a company built a 2.4GHz wireless lan that could operate in the ham band, the ARRL would freak and get the FCC to block it. Why? We need that gear. We, as hams, should be happy to trade some of our bands to commercial interests if they agree to build their gear so that we can modify it for ham bands. (Just don't make it too easy.)
B.S. I'm a ham and have been heavily involved in disaster work. Government agencies, at least where I live, have figured it out. Yeah, they have their fancy 800MHz trunking systems that are so fragile. But they also have portable repeaters, antenna trailers, go packs of radios, etc. One agency I've dealt with even made sure to purchase AA-cell packs for their portables.
In the last 3 storms, we've never had enough hams on hand to cover communication needs. But everywhere we needed to talk to had a deputy with a radio. We didn't have to worry about the deputy showing up drunk, smelly, acting crazy, hitting on women, having a heart attack, walking off the job, fighting with others over the air, or just rag-chewing on the air. You may think I'm bullshitting you, but I've had every one of those happen. And I've had dozens of cases where hams showed up at critical positions with equipment that was either broken or insufficient, with no backup gear available.
Hams will still have their place, but they are no longer a critical part of the disaster response equation. The ARRL will tell you (and FCC/congress) that they are, but they're wrong.
I got my CCNA and I'm about to finish the CCNP and have not touched a single router or switch...
Man, send me your resume. You sound exactly like all the IS guys my company has hired. You'll probably have to start out helping to rebuild all the servers infected with Nimda, but eventually you'll get time to screw up the firewall config.
There's a 10base-T minihub that's sort of like this. It's only 10, not 100, and acts like a "Y" adapter. Self-powering even.
I just get the feeling that the laptop market is getting ugly. Companies aren't buying them and there are a flood of off-lease and refurbs. They're getting close to a good price point for consumers. When Dell cuts a quality laptop to under $1,000, I think the pricewar will really heat up. I wouldn't be suprised to see decent laptops going for under $800 by March.
Boxes like the ever-popular Linksys Cable/DSL Router will probably continue to fall. Siemens had a two-port for $29 after rebate. I would expect Linksys to ride out the holiday season, maybe with a few rebate offers, then cut prices.
On the other hand, I just don't know what memory is going to do. Most people I know with a modern desktop now have more memory than they can use. If things were bad 3 months ago, they've going to be jump-out-the-window brutal after Christmas. How much cheaper can memory get? It's not like they can keep offering more for the money. Not a lot of market for a $50 2 gig DIMM, if that's even possible. I don't even think many machines can take a 512 meg DIMM.
I'm also waiting for every one of you satellite-stealing-mother-f'ers to buy your used slim-line PC with 2 serial ports ("perfect for emulation") so the price goes back down on those boxes. I need to build some firewalls and other appliances and you guys are driving the prices up.
I've been lucky/cursed in that all the companies/divisions I've worked for are younger than I am. But I've been to several client sites and stumbled across PDP-11s that are up and running. I see a lot of IBM mainframe stuff, but being a Unix kid, I can't tell what's 30 years old and what's brand new (unless it's black and says zSeries).
The oldest I've used are Georgia Tech's Control Data machines. They were old 10 years ago and I was amazed to see just now that at least one of them is up and running. Chances are good that some of the ancient code I saw in 1988 is still there.
Come on, other open source projects can get good work done with volunteers. Anybody have an insight into why Open Directory apparently cannot?
Because Open Directory turns away volunteers. A lot of them. I've offered to edit four times now, all in neglected categories that were missing very obvious sites (that were nowhere else in Open Directory). I've been turned down every time with no explanation. I've submitted a dozen sites to perfectly appropriate categories and not one of them has appeared. Not one. Heck, the international company I work for, which is a fairly well-known partner of IBM, isn't in Open Directory at all, despite me submitting them twice. On the plus side, half of our competitors aren't there either, despite me submitting a few of them.
Maybe OpenDirectory could add a rate-an-editor feature for their users. If you wanna talk about abuse, look there, not to Google.
(notice, I havent tried Solaris under VMWare, don't even know if its possible).
Not that it helps in this case (IE for Solaris is Sparc-only), but Solaris supposedly can run in VMWare for Linux, but not VMWare running on Windows. Well, that's not entirely true. Supposedly it can install only on a Linux host, but once it's installed it can run on either host platform.
You've obviously never worked with Java.