./configure --prefix=/usr/local/- make && make install
Don't get me wrong, I think there should probably be a "conf" directory in addition to an "etc" directory, but hey, if all packages pertaining to kerberos are in/usr/local/kerberos and all packages pertaining to postfix are in/usr/local/postfix who cares?
Besides, most people don't follow conventions anyway, how much stuff is in/etc/ instead of/usr/local/etc/ anyway?
Wait, you're right, they should just lend out money to companies that might loose it for nothing. Lending a company money and then asking for them to share in the profits once the money you lent them starts making them money is greedy and vile.
Good thing we broke up MA-Bell so we wouldn't have one company monopolising the entire phone system. Thank god we were smart enough to not break them up into smaller monopolies that ran different parts of the country and could get enough to buy up each other and eventually reform Brother-Bell, and Sister-Bell, which marginally compete.::sigh::
(1) SMB: The support is there fore most distros to use an AD server for authentication, (users, not groups, and the users must exist in the password file). On fedora, which I recommend as an alternate to RHEL (RedHat is the easiest to configure in this area imho), the command to look at is authconfig. Enter your domain, your primary and secondary servers, and your AD auth setup is done.
(2) VPN: consider using PopTop as a pptp vpn server for linux. There is documentation available but there are also other ways of doing it
It used to be that I would tell my less than technical friends "Oh, don't use AOL, it's a ripoff." Now, it's what I recommend, and I think AOL offering free webmail is a great idea.
I don't like the fact that AOL is HUGE, or that it started the snowball that destroyed the mom-and-pop ISP industry (the admins at shore.net taught me unix when I was 12) but I do like the idea of a private network that seperates users who are not technical users from the internet at large. I want someone to hold users hands - if all ISPs offered thick client programs that pushed out the newest (and patched) browser release, gave antivirus & spyware, and hell OS UPDATES (why does no one do this) - I think it would be an amazing boon to the computing community at large.
Take my parents for example - they still use Mac OS 9 (think windows 98) - at the company where I work 75% of our clients (small realestate agents and companies) use windows98. If AOL, or another competing vendor were to not only provide a connection to the internet, but automate all of the things you need to do in order to actually/use/ the internet safely, I think it would be a wonderful thing.
In my opinion, anything that gets more users to start using AOL and other thick-client ISPs, is great.
Seriously man, try local business first. Highschool is hard enough; if you're the kid responsible for organising a lan party to raise money for the technology group.... that's like waiving a flag that says 'kick my ass'. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing actually wrong with the idea, and the people who will give you shit now will be talking about how selling cars is rewarding at the 10-year reunion, but you've got a good shot of getting money by going around and finding companies in your town that work in the technology area who would be willing to cut a check, so why deal with it.
A very good friend of mine has to use a wheelchair, and one of the most annoying things he has to deal with is an inability to go up and down stairs. Who fucking cares what it looks like, who cares if it seems crazy - I'm sure as hell it's less embarassing than having to say "excuse me, can you help pull me up this flight of stairs?"
This is HUGE for people with disabilites.
Quote:
This 2-legged, mountable robot was developed for three-dimensional mobility, with the ability to navigate staircases. The passenger climbs on and drives with a joystick.
If this works the way it supposed to, if it really works.... it's going to change the lives of thousands and thousands of people in an extremely profound way. This just made my day.
I had the same problem with television when I was a kid - I was enraptured by it. I went from playing outside all day and staying in occasionally to staying in all day and playing outside occasionally. My dad saw that this was a problem and came to a very simple solution: No more TV. He threw out all of the TVs in the house except one, which he put in the basement (no cable reception was nill) for watching moves. This stopped my TV watching problem in its tracks. Instead, I spent much more time outside, and by the time I graduated highschool I was reading an average of a book - two books/day.
And yes, when I was young, I was pretty pissed at my dad. So, please, be a parent and don't let your kids use the computer. If the say no, throw the damn thing out the window. Leave one in the house, and switch back to dialup.
The Open Voting Consortium is doing a pretty good job. The program itself is written in python which is a good idea (despite being a perl guy) since there is always the risk that someone could keep additional code out of CVS for compile time, has paper verification w/ barcodes for quick recounts/auditing... all in all they're doing a pretty good job.
I understand that there are hardware requirements for security as well, but this provides a good way for businesses to still sell and add value to this software.
They are currently having a fund drive so if this seems like something important, consider giving them $10 (what they're asking for)
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Usually speaking the incumbent is going to talk about what they've done over the last couple years, and usually speaking, it's the incumbant's race to loose. That would account for the majority of the time that this happened, and the remainder is probably just coincidence.
I recently purchased a refurbished Xbox from electronics boutique. When doing so the sales guy recommended that I get the six months warranty. I stated that I might want to get the 1 year warranty instead -- "no problem", he said, "return it in six months and say there was a problem. When you get the new one, you'll be able to purcase a new warranty, and basically be able to keep it under warranty forever."
I've heard that the personal version is now going to be free[1]. If this is the case, then it may be that isos will be released at the same time it's available by ftp to the general public. Which is generally $RELEASE_DATE+2Months, iric.
[1] I forget where the heck I read this, so don't bother to ask.
WOW! A little known app running on a strangers server where I can enter my username and password, and take their word that the source code they linked to is the acutally source code they're running? Sounds GREAT! By the way, while we're at it:
My social security number and mother's maiden name and checking account number are as follows:
Yea, sure, I'm paranoid, but sometimes being paranoid and/not/ being a dumbass are the same thing.
The company I work for dynamically fills out complicated forms and fills in their data. We use PDF, sure, but if you've got any complicated stuff where you need things to be very exact, or need to support things like mixed pages sizes, etc. You want to look into Printer Control Language, originally created by HP and supported on most printers.
A better question to ask is: "What provides the best solution to this problem?". If open source provides the best option, great, go with it. If being open source itself provides a solution to a problem, say making sure that the software can be updated in house, for example, that's a different story. In real life, you pick the best tool for the job. Sometimes that means commercial products, other times it doesn't.
but most providers provide an email->sms mapping. If we can't crack down on spam coming from the check republic, what exactly makes anyone think that they will be able to crack down on spammers who send email to sms addresses?
Just switch providers. Your problem is one that is becomming rampant in the ISP industry - we no longer have Internet Service Providers, we now have Web Service Providers, and anyone who doesn't fit into the "browse the web and check email" niche doesn't fit with your isp.
While this greatly depends on your needs, and how much you are willing to spend, you could consider the idea of a solar charger for your laptop. here is one, and there are others are available as well. These results come from a quick google, and probably aren't the best options available, but I do recall seeing a small fold out one which would extend the battery life by about 30%.
How can you ask people not to reccomend samba because it's obvious, and then ask for solutions for problems where the obvious solution is....SAMBA? Active directtory replacement? Samba. Sharing? Samba. Come on.
As for asking if you can replace Microsoft SQL Server with MySQL using ODBC, how about looking up ODBC... http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/ODBC.html
We already know the data is going to be small, with lots of clients wanting to get the information -- seems like something that logically should be p2p.
Something simple, like the first time you connect, you try the main server, and are given a list of partners available to get the feed from. The next client does the same thing, and now you're one of the list given to them. If all your partners are unavailable, or none of them have the data, you connect back to the server and start over.
move all of your cronjobs to at scripts. In the beginning of each script, you have conditional checks as to what conditions need to be in place for the job to run, if they are met, then do what you have to do, if they don't, reschedule it for 5 minutes from now, and write it to a log. If the next run doesn't work, reschedule for 10 minutes, then 15 until a max is reached, when it dies and sends and email to the admin. Pretty basic, but with a little work it would work fine.
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./configure --prefix=/usr/local/-
/usr/local/kerberos and all packages pertaining to postfix are in /usr/local/postfix who cares?
/etc/ instead of /usr/local/etc/ anyway?
make && make install
Don't get me wrong, I think there should probably be a "conf" directory in addition to an "etc" directory, but hey, if all packages pertaining to kerberos are in
Besides, most people don't follow conventions anyway, how much stuff is in
Wait, you're right, they should just lend out money to companies that might loose it for nothing. Lending a company money and then asking for them to share in the profits once the money you lent them starts making them money is greedy and vile.
Think first
Not that hard:
Step 1: steal one of those windchimes
Step 2: reassemble
::Sigh::
::sigh::
Good thing we broke up MA-Bell so we wouldn't have one company monopolising the entire phone system. Thank god we were smart enough to not break them up into smaller monopolies that ran different parts of the country and could get enough to buy up each other and eventually reform Brother-Bell, and Sister-Bell, which marginally compete.
(1) SMB:
The support is there fore most distros to use an AD server for authentication, (users, not groups, and the users must exist in the password file). On fedora, which I recommend as an alternate to RHEL (RedHat is the easiest to configure in this area imho), the command to look at is authconfig. Enter your domain, your primary and secondary servers, and your AD auth setup is done.
(2) VPN:
consider using PopTop as a pptp vpn server for linux. There is documentation available but there are also other ways of doing it
(3) Research:
Do some research. The Linux Documentation Project is a good source. But google is your friend as well.
It used to be that I would tell my less than technical friends "Oh, don't use AOL, it's a ripoff." Now, it's what I recommend, and I think AOL offering free webmail is a great idea.
/use/ the internet safely, I think it would be a wonderful thing.
I don't like the fact that AOL is HUGE, or that it started the snowball that destroyed the mom-and-pop ISP industry (the admins at shore.net taught me unix when I was 12) but I do like the idea of a private network that seperates users who are not technical users from the internet at large. I want someone to hold users hands - if all ISPs offered thick client programs that pushed out the newest (and patched) browser release, gave antivirus & spyware, and hell OS UPDATES (why does no one do this) - I think it would be an amazing boon to the computing community at large.
Take my parents for example - they still use Mac OS 9 (think windows 98) - at the company where I work 75% of our clients (small realestate agents and companies) use windows98. If AOL, or another competing vendor were to not only provide a connection to the internet, but automate all of the things you need to do in order to actually
In my opinion, anything that gets more users to start using AOL and other thick-client ISPs, is great.
Seriously man, try local business first. Highschool is hard enough; if you're the kid responsible for organising a lan party to raise money for the technology group.... that's like waiving a flag that says 'kick my ass'. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing actually wrong with the idea, and the people who will give you shit now will be talking about how selling cars is rewarding at the 10-year reunion, but you've got a good shot of getting money by going around and finding companies in your town that work in the technology area who would be willing to cut a check, so why deal with it.
This is HUGE for people with disabilites.
Quote:
If this works the way it supposed to, if it really works.... it's going to change the lives of thousands and thousands of people in an extremely profound way. This just made my day.
I had the same problem with television when I was a kid - I was enraptured by it. I went from playing outside all day and staying in occasionally to staying in all day and playing outside occasionally. My dad saw that this was a problem and came to a very simple solution: No more TV. He threw out all of the TVs in the house except one, which he put in the basement (no cable reception was nill) for watching moves. This stopped my TV watching problem in its tracks. Instead, I spent much more time outside, and by the time I graduated highschool I was reading an average of a book - two books/day.
And yes, when I was young, I was pretty pissed at my dad. So, please, be a parent and don't let your kids use the computer. If the say no, throw the damn thing out the window. Leave one in the house, and switch back to dialup.
I think they need to finish the software first, and then they can start looking at people to audit the software.
That'll free up at least an hour of your day. ;)
Wasn't this posted on Tuesday?
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http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/
The Open Voting Consortium is doing a pretty good job. The program itself is written in python which is a good idea (despite being a perl guy) since there is always the risk that someone could keep additional code out of CVS for compile time, has paper verification w/ barcodes for quick recounts/auditing... all in all they're doing a pretty good job.
I understand that there are hardware requirements for security as well, but this provides a good way for businesses to still sell and add value to this software.
They are currently having a fund drive so if this seems like something important, consider giving them $10 (what they're asking for)
Usually speaking the incumbent is going to talk about what they've done over the last couple years, and usually speaking, it's the incumbant's race to loose. That would account for the majority of the time that this happened, and the remainder is probably just coincidence.
I recently purchased a refurbished Xbox from electronics boutique. When doing so the sales guy recommended that I get the six months warranty. I stated that I might want to get the 1 year warranty instead -- "no problem", he said, "return it in six months and say there was a problem. When you get the new one, you'll be able to purcase a new warranty, and basically be able to keep it under warranty forever."
I've heard that the personal version is now going to be free[1]. If this is the case, then it may be that isos will be released at the same time it's available by ftp to the general public. Which is generally $RELEASE_DATE+2Months, iric.
[1] I forget where the heck I read this, so don't bother to ask.
WOW! A little known app running on a strangers server where I can enter my username and password, and take their word that the source code they linked to is the acutally source code they're running? Sounds GREAT! By the way, while we're at it:
/not/ being a dumbass are the same thing.
My social security number and mother's maiden name and checking account number are as follows:
Yea, sure, I'm paranoid, but sometimes being paranoid and
The company I work for dynamically fills out complicated forms and fills in their data. We use PDF, sure, but if you've got any complicated stuff where you need things to be very exact, or need to support things like mixed pages sizes, etc. You want to look into Printer Control Language, originally created by HP and supported on most printers.
A better question to ask is: "What provides the best solution to this problem?". If open source provides the best option, great, go with it. If being open source itself provides a solution to a problem, say making sure that the software can be updated in house, for example, that's a different story. In real life, you pick the best tool for the job. Sometimes that means commercial products, other times it doesn't.
but most providers provide an email->sms mapping. If we can't crack down on spam coming from the check republic, what exactly makes anyone think that they will be able to crack down on spammers who send email to sms addresses?
Just switch providers. Your problem is one that is becomming rampant in the ISP industry - we no longer have Internet Service Providers, we now have Web Service Providers, and anyone who doesn't fit into the "browse the web and check email" niche doesn't fit with your isp.
While this greatly depends on your needs, and how much you are willing to spend, you could consider the idea of a solar charger for your laptop. here is one, and there are others are available as well. These results come from a quick google, and probably aren't the best options available, but I do recall seeing a small fold out one which would extend the battery life by about 30%.
How can you ask people not to reccomend samba because it's obvious, and then ask for solutions for problems where the obvious solution is ....SAMBA? Active directtory replacement? Samba. Sharing? Samba. Come on.
As for asking if you can replace Microsoft SQL Server with MySQL using ODBC, how about looking up ODBC... http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/ODBC.html
do some research dude.
We already know the data is going to be small, with lots of clients wanting to get the information -- seems like something that logically should be p2p.
Something simple, like the first time you connect, you try the main server, and are given a list of partners available to get the feed from. The next client does the same thing, and now you're one of the list given to them. If all your partners are unavailable, or none of them have the data, you connect back to the server and start over.
move all of your cronjobs to at scripts.
In the beginning of each script, you have conditional checks as to what conditions need to be in place for the job to run, if they are met, then do what you have to do, if they don't, reschedule it for 5 minutes from now, and write it to a log. If the next run doesn't work, reschedule for 10 minutes, then 15 until a max is reached, when it dies and sends and email to the admin. Pretty basic, but with a little work it would work fine.