I heard when they made a working prototype of the phantom they went through like 10 dogs at once.
Jokes aside, wtf is the army doing there, fucking around at a gaming convention? Don't they have a war to fight or something? Despite that "mission accomplished" photo-op-BS, I'm fairly sure they're not done over there.
I just wonder if people who use gentoo know how to generally configure their system better?
If they do -- and I would guess that it's possible, though not in some "they're WIZARDS!!!1!one!" kind of way -- then it's not because of anything other than that they kind of HAVE to: if every single piece of software is going to be compiled and optimized for your hardware, you're de facto going to have a better understanding of your system's hardware and it's relative configuration (as opposed to being a hardware wizard or general *nix guru) than someone who just slapped Debian Sarge or Knoppix or SuSE in there and let it autodetect everything on the install.
Slackware and Debian used to (and Debian Woody still does...and will for the forseeable future, unfortunately,) have a reputation for being a bitch to install primarily because you need to know your hardware specs pretty well in order to install stuff correctly and to get everything working right.
Even if Mr. Diebold (who I personally think is a pretty scummy character) were to try to create voting machines that skewed intentionally for a particular candidate, there is no practical way he could possibly find enough likeminded people to work for him and keep such a conspiracy quiet.
Quite frankly, "no practical way" is not good enough. In WWII, the Germans thought there was "no practical way" that their enigma code could be broken because they calculated that it would take the British a gigantic warehouse room full of machinery and another gigantic warehouse room full of people working around the clock for months. So they just said "pffft....they'll never do it! there's no practical way!"
of course, the brits did have both giant rooms working around the clock and well, the rest is quite literally history.
give each server a root password, make each of the 10 admins change it one 30 machines once a month on a schedule and anyone who decides that they want to use their own "additional" security policy (shell shenanigans, etc) gets locked out until they learn to play nicely.
I'm not a big fan of sudo, and while it does have it's uses, I don't think sudo should be used on a production server (not to mention that the admin who knows how to properly maintain a sudoers file is a rare thing indeed.)
I have heard that Xandros is the only linux distro that does NT authentication and that it is some non-free component... if any users can confirm or deny that (and how well it works), I'd be happy to hear about it.
This has always irked me, when ever a compnay puts up a FAQ or a how-to to use their services with other products they always just mention commercial/for pay products and never ever mention open source products.
WHY is that?
Just a thought: May be they don't want their customers in the habit of using free as in beer/speech products.
that must be why they funded netscape and winamp -- I've always hated having to pay those exorbitant prices to get those two programs!
take some of that tinfoil off your head and crush it on your antenna, man, because you're getting some heavy interference. an unofficial guide... for the most common products. what did you expect? "how to setup mutt and pine to read your aol mail"?
dsniff and ethereal. If you're talking windows, just install cygwin and you'll be able to build all your own tools from source. doesn't get cheaper than Free.
However, MP3 is a patented format [mp3-tech.org] that is not Free (as in Freedom). I am sure that I am in the minority here, but I can't help but feel that in some way I am being slighted.
Yeah, they're only using the de facto standard in digitized audio: they must really be out to fuck you over.
Mp3 has been a standard -- not an agreed-upon standard, but a "well, everyone can listen to it and it works well enough" standard for years; the "decision to standardize on MP3" as you put it, was made ages ago, and just about the only thing that has even come close to putting a dent in mp3 is wma's ubiquitousness and windows not including an mp3 encoder by default (ie, you have to BUY one, because windows media player won't just use LAME -- and 99% of users wouldn't know LAME's use if you explained it to them in 78-point font.)
I agree wholeheartedly with this. Right now my employer (large university) runs a metric fuckton of solaris servers. We're looking to get rid of Sun because of the expense; I need to prove that a) linux can do it and b) we can have support if we need it but it's not going to cost us a shitload of $MONEY. Which, no doubt RHEL is less than the cost of Solaris + Sun Hardware. But I'm not going to buy RHEL just to test it out. And Fedora is Not Showcase Material. RH9 was quite impressive; although on the personal workstation side i had some qualms, the server-side (ie, non-gui) was fine and dandy. Subscriptions, and only two distros (UBER-XPENSIVE or free_but_constantly_beta) are not great confidence builders.
I have recommended SuSE and Debian for replacement servers. (SuSE because support is there and they're more sure of where they're going as of right now -- no stupid fuckups on THEIR end...and Debian because at least there is no company that can say "Stable is fucked! pay up or you'll be stuck there forever!".
The only people who are going to stay with RH are those whose products are dependent on them, and I'm sure even now, this instant, someone is busy porting their app off of RH and onto FreeBSD or Debian.
note that debian runs on 11 architectures and RH doesn't. stable'll run on Sparc machines; RH 7.1 is the last version that does that I think (or was it 6?).
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Jokes aside, wtf is the army doing there, fucking around at a gaming convention? Don't they have a war to fight or something? Despite that "mission accomplished" photo-op-BS, I'm fairly sure they're not done over there.
If they do -- and I would guess that it's possible, though not in some "they're WIZARDS!!!1!one!" kind of way -- then it's not because of anything other than that they kind of HAVE to: if every single piece of software is going to be compiled and optimized for your hardware, you're de facto going to have a better understanding of your system's hardware and it's relative configuration (as opposed to being a hardware wizard or general *nix guru) than someone who just slapped Debian Sarge or Knoppix or SuSE in there and let it autodetect everything on the install.
Slackware and Debian used to (and Debian Woody still does...and will for the forseeable future, unfortunately,) have a reputation for being a bitch to install primarily because you need to know your hardware specs pretty well in order to install stuff correctly and to get everything working right.
Quite frankly, "no practical way" is not good enough. In WWII, the Germans thought there was "no practical way" that their enigma code could be broken because they calculated that it would take the British a gigantic warehouse room full of machinery and another gigantic warehouse room full of people working around the clock for months. So they just said "pffft....they'll never do it! there's no practical way!"
of course, the brits did have both giant rooms working around the clock and well, the rest is quite literally history.
funny how history repeats itself sometimes.
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I'd hardly call "alienating your core audience and devoted fans by producing drivel that no one could watch" any particular kind of "prowess".
I wouldn't.
give each server a root password, make each of the 10 admins change it one 30 machines once a month on a schedule and anyone who decides that they want to use their own "additional" security policy (shell shenanigans, etc) gets locked out until they learn to play nicely.
I'm not a big fan of sudo, and while it does have it's uses, I don't think sudo should be used on a production server (not to mention that the admin who knows how to properly maintain a sudoers file is a rare thing indeed.)
yes: ipv6 or ipv4?
it's the golden rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules.
I have heard that Xandros is the only linux distro that does NT authentication and that it is some non-free component ... if any users can confirm or deny that (and how well it works), I'd be happy to hear about it.
i was hoping for a machine that did nothing but play judas priest, iron maiden and NWOBHM stuff.
questions are a burden.
the scientific method at it's finest. I find it unlikely that on average rapists get 65 years.
that must be why they funded netscape and winamp -- I've always hated having to pay those exorbitant prices to get those two programs!
take some of that tinfoil off your head and crush it on your antenna, man, because you're getting some heavy interference. an unofficial guide ... for the most common products. what did you expect? "how to setup mutt and pine to read your aol mail"?
i think he meant ICMP when he said "...or give me death".
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so you're saying when Microsoft releases their own linux distro?
I might have to go back to school. I wonder if Google will open a University one day.
is this related to the PHLAK project?
he just needs to be woken up.
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dsniff and ethereal. If you're talking windows, just install cygwin and you'll be able to build all your own tools from source. doesn't get cheaper than Free.
Yeah, they're only using the de facto standard in digitized audio: they must really be out to fuck you over.
Mp3 has been a standard -- not an agreed-upon standard, but a "well, everyone can listen to it and it works well enough" standard for years; the "decision to standardize on MP3" as you put it, was made ages ago, and just about the only thing that has even come close to putting a dent in mp3 is wma's ubiquitousness and windows not including an mp3 encoder by default (ie, you have to BUY one, because windows media player won't just use LAME -- and 99% of users wouldn't know LAME's use if you explained it to them in 78-point font.)
I have recommended SuSE and Debian for replacement servers. (SuSE because support is there and they're more sure of where they're going as of right now -- no stupid fuckups on THEIR end...and Debian because at least there is no company that can say "Stable is fucked! pay up or you'll be stuck there forever!".
The only people who are going to stay with RH are those whose products are dependent on them, and I'm sure even now, this instant, someone is busy porting their app off of RH and onto FreeBSD or Debian.
note that debian runs on 11 architectures and RH doesn't. stable'll run on Sparc machines; RH 7.1 is the last version that does that I think (or was it 6?).
everyone knows that the skin of a small child is better for case mods.