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Re:Good news for Mandrake users.
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No, I hadn't heard of this, and I appreciate the suggestion. Thanks, I'll check it out because we wondered if we could automate the install to some degree.
Re:Good news for Mandrake users.
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Mandrake 9.2 RC1
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1) We dont distribute ANY code, GPL or otherwise.
2) We dont make a dime with any of our software.
3) Actually, our department generates no income whatsoever for our company.
4) We buy EVERY required license of EVERY commercial piece of software we are aware of using.
5) If MySQL REQUIRES us to purchase a license for the above described use of the product, we would do so. We've never heard of that being a requirement.
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While Mandrake 9.1 permits you to select Apache, MySQL and PHP for install during the initial installation, I found that it simply did not yield a working setup. Meaning, it was unable to execute PHP pages with Apache which could successfully query and display information from a MySQL database. Evidently, throwing the Apache, MySQL and PHP packages onto a box doesn't yield a LAMP server.
I used a variation of this guys LAMP install process. It worked first time. Also got to see how fast a 2.4 Ghz P4 compiles stuff like Apache. Very nice!
Re:Good news for Mandrake users.
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Without a lot of experience with various distributions I cannot agree or disagree, but I can say this:
We are using Mandrake 9.1 to push (finally) into some Linux installs at work in a classically Windows only environment. Overall, it has been a success.
We have two basic flavors of machines we build with Mandrake 9.1: "surveillance" boxes, and LAMP servers.
Surveillance boxes have 6 to 8 LCD monitors and are running icewm, or KDE (not decided yet), with Xinerama enabled. These boxes are replacing Windows NT machines that used Exceed to run X applications. Now they natively run on the Xfree86 server, and they work great with Xinerama and all those monitors. POW! No more Windows licenses! POW! No more Exceed licenses! These boxes use a single (AGP) Matrox G550 running two heads, and then four to six (PIC) TNT2 cards to bring the machine up to six or eight monitors total. These machines are appliance like, if one dropped, we build another to replace it, lickety split.
Our LAMP servers are more simple.. built in (single head) motherboard video, networking, and a single IDE hard drive. Cron'd rsyncs back up our data off the LAMP servers and onto another Linux box for "up to the hour" protection.
Installing Mandrake is interesting! You can do the same sequence of events on different motherboard types, and end up with different packages installed on the machine. (I kid you not.) "Ummm, no rsh this time!" etc. So, we have carefully written installation procedures which also check that every package we use was installed, and install if it not.
Overall, I've got to give Mandrake Installer a B+ or A-, it does work, it's fast. Just gotta watch which packages get put on. By the way, we dont let Mandrake install the LAMP stuff, we do that manually after the machine is up and running.
Darl, doing 24 months hard time, runs into Bubba. -- Darl, meet Bubba, he's a 350 pound homosexual dominatrix, and absolute Linux fanatic. He also admins our prison Linux machines, I mean, ADMIN'D our Linux lab. You see, once SCO started charging Linux licenses, the warden ordered Bubba to remove all Linux and only allowed him to use Microsoft products.
Mod me off-topic if you wish, I for one welcome our new off-topic overlords.
We don't need a new kernel for now. The existing kernel has been highly stable in the types of jobs we throw at it. But that's not why it doesn't matter. Our director has finally handed down the "No more Linux installs" message. Here is the message:
As some of you may know. SCO has a lawsuit filed against IBM for breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, etc. The bottom line of this disagreement is that SCO is accusing IBM of including some of SCO's trade secrets (proprietary code) in its Linux kernel and that this source code has also been included in the Linux kernel available off the Internet.
To top all of this off, the US Copyright Office awarded SCO a copyright to System IV Unix last month. SCO, through a series of mergers and acquisitions, acquired the patents, copyrights, etc to System IV Unix that was originally developed by Bell Labs in 1969. About this same time, SCO created a new division whose only purpose in life was to license Linux and Unix to end users.
Because of all of this confusion, I have asked our legal eagles to give me an opinion as to whether or not our recent installation of Linux systems in the (our department name) places (our company name) in any sort of jeopardy. Frankly, I think that SCO is simply struggling for survival as it is in severe financial trouble. I also think that any rights SCO may have think it had at one time has been abrogated since SCO was (until last month) freely distributing Linux on its web site under the GNU General Public License.
But until I receive an opinion from Legal, we will not deploy any more Linux systems.
p.s. We are a 1200 employee telecommunications company, ISP, cable TV, long distance telephone, etc.
Apparantly there is a major disconnect between package dependencies and what is actually installed on a box.
I wanted to add RPC::XML to my Mandrake box, so I tried installing the rpm version. It complained about a list of about 20 failed dependencies, missing packages.
So I grabbed the tar from CPAN and did the good old make install and it mentioned that only the XML-Parser was missing.
So... would the rpm have worked if I told it to ignore dependencies, since those perl lib's were already on the box?
Donovan:
Atlanta was a city, landlocked,
Hundreds of miles from the area we now call the atlantic ocean.
Yet so desperate the city's desire for tourism
That they moved offshore, becoming an island and an even bigger delta hub,
Until the city overdeveloped and it started to sink.
Knowing their fate, the quality people ran away:
Ted Turner, Hank Aaron, Jeff Foxworthy, the guy who invented Coca Cola, the magician
And the other so-called gods of our legends, though gods they were,
And also Jane Fonda was there.
The others chose to remain behind on their porches with their rifles
And one day evolving to mermaids and sing and dance and ring in the new.
YES thats almost right, but you just need to make step 1 be step 2, and add the following step 1:
1a) switch engineers: implement SS7/SCP related stuff
1b) switch engineers: implement telephony switch related stuff
1c) developers: implement SCP/SS7 related provisioning methods,test
1d) developers: implement telephony switch related provisioning methods, test
1e) developers: implement API for telephony network portability
1f) developers: implement portability front end for customer service apps
1g) developers: test top to bottom, front end, middleware (like metasolv), through API
1h) developers: document for users/trainers
1i) trainers: train cust svc reps on applying portability
1j) cust service reps: apply portability !
There are hubble pictures of moon craters. See here, young man: Hubble shoots Ze Moon.
I seriously therefore doubt all the posts about the Earth, even the nightside of the Earth, being too bright for Hubble to image. Too bright? Reduce your shutter speed !
Also, one poster said the Earth is too close to focus on. Probably also incorrect. Remember the Hubble is ? a few hundred miles up ?. Typically with telescopes or camera lenses, the focus difference between "infinity focus" and "a few hundred miles" is non-existent. Not like the Hubble is exempt from being a telescope. As a matter of fact it's a Ritchey-Cretian telescope just like you can buy here on Earth from these dudes.
> "The X-Prize competition has gotten a lot of coverage
> on Slashdot - either because it's cool and geeky or
> because John Carmack is involved.
I think the X-Prize would get slashdot coverage anyway, but John Carmacks presence makes it downright fascinating.
I've wondered if John has more fans than any other slashdot user. Check out his fan list. Does anyone come close? How about that steak sauce guy, Perens ? Sorry - SexxyGal doesnt count, since the letters "Sex" causes so much confusion in this community.
These guys are using some of the best cameras and telescopes that amateurs can buy. (Or at least, hope to buy, since there are multi-year long waiting lists.)
Every year, amateurs and their techniques are improving. This team of Germans, with their Astro-Physics 10" Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope are on the cutting edge of amateur astrophography.
The best quality improvement for your computer is not your onboard audio or your plug-in sound card.
Is the 2.1 system from Klipsch. I have had all kinds of computer sound systems from Boston, Creative, Cambridge, Altec Lansing. The Klipsch systems beat them all by a mile. They are simply amazing and the 2.1 has an incredible price for the sound you get.
If you want more than 2.1, the Klipsch 4.1 and 5.1's are they way to go.
I have converted numerous other people to Klipsch. You need just seconds to hear the difference.
The subwoofer puts on an impressive show also. I watched mine suck a packing peanut off the floor and into the speaker, and then blow it out again. I've also seen it float suspended in a "bass field" in front of the subwoofer port.
CLEAN... PURE... CHEAP... AWESOME !
Re:Give them some digital cameras and GPS too.
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LOL... all I could imagine was a teacher watching her 3rd graders remote video cams blink out one by one as aliens eat them..
These six and eight head boxes are used for telecom network monitoring. Surveillance techs watch 10 or 12 windows spread amongst the screen real estate. The windows show status of remote earth stations, undersea fiber optics, alarming equipment, etc.
I've been using Mandrake 9.1 to finally land some Linux boxes at work, among the throngs of Windows and Sun/Solaris machines.
Half of the machines are for telecom network monitoring purposes and will have 6 to 8 displays apiece (using Xinerama and a combination of Nvidia and Matrox video cards.) These will let us retire Windows NT and the Exceed X server.
The other half of the machines are rack mount servers running LAMP and stand alone perl apps. These will let us retire some Solaris/Sun boxes.
After developing TCP/IP serving applications in perl on Solaris for years, it's nice, real nice, to see them run at previously unheard of speeds on a cheap P4 box with a gig of 533mhz RAM. The performance lays waste to our Solaris servers.
Mandrake 9.1 was an easy way to pull it off. It has detected all hardware we've used and all the built in peripherals on some new Intel motherboards flawlessly.
My only headache so far was trying to run quad-heads off an matrox AGP 550 and a PCI 450. It does not work. Keeping the dual head 550 and adding SIX Nvidia TNT2 cards allowed us to flawlessly run eight monitors. Thats what we'll be doing.
Another nice thing is, you can bypass any clients insane desire to cache when doing this.
I've had pages where, no matter what, some clients (several out of hundreds of users) just kept getting the cached older version of a page. Sure, you can beat them to death trying to get them to check their caching settings. Or, just put a random number on the querystring.
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my progeny worm
set loose to exploit your holes
mine left for inmates
No, I hadn't heard of this, and I appreciate the suggestion. Thanks, I'll check it out because we wondered if we could automate the install to some degree.
1) We dont distribute ANY code, GPL or otherwise.
2) We dont make a dime with any of our software.
3) Actually, our department generates no income whatsoever for our company.
4) We buy EVERY required license of EVERY commercial piece of software we are aware of using.
5) If MySQL REQUIRES us to purchase a license for the above described use of the product, we would do so. We've never heard of that being a requirement.
I used a variation of this guys LAMP install process. It worked first time. Also got to see how fast a 2.4 Ghz P4 compiles stuff like Apache. Very nice!
Without a lot of experience with various distributions I cannot agree or disagree, but I can say this:
We are using Mandrake 9.1 to push (finally) into some Linux installs at work in a classically Windows only environment. Overall, it has been a success.
We have two basic flavors of machines we build with Mandrake 9.1: "surveillance" boxes, and LAMP servers.
Surveillance boxes have 6 to 8 LCD monitors and are running icewm, or KDE (not decided yet), with Xinerama enabled. These boxes are replacing Windows NT machines that used Exceed to run X applications. Now they natively run on the Xfree86 server, and they work great with Xinerama and all those monitors. POW! No more Windows licenses! POW! No more Exceed licenses! These boxes use a single (AGP) Matrox G550 running two heads, and then four to six (PIC) TNT2 cards to bring the machine up to six or eight monitors total. These machines are appliance like, if one dropped, we build another to replace it, lickety split.
Our LAMP servers are more simple.. built in (single head) motherboard video, networking, and a single IDE hard drive. Cron'd rsyncs back up our data off the LAMP servers and onto another Linux box for "up to the hour" protection.
Installing Mandrake is interesting! You can do the same sequence of events on different motherboard types, and end up with different packages installed on the machine. (I kid you not.) "Ummm, no rsh this time!" etc. So, we have carefully written installation procedures which also check that every package we use was installed, and install if it not.
Overall, I've got to give Mandrake Installer a B+ or A-, it does work, it's fast. Just gotta watch which packages get put on. By the way, we dont let Mandrake install the LAMP stuff, we do that manually after the machine is up and running.
LOL Zeriel thanks for the clarification. I really gotta beef up on my fetish terminology and usage.
Darl, doing 24 months hard time, runs into Bubba. -- Darl, meet Bubba, he's a 350 pound homosexual dominatrix, and absolute Linux fanatic. He also admins our prison Linux machines, I mean, ADMIN'D our Linux lab. You see, once SCO started charging Linux licenses, the warden ordered Bubba to remove all Linux and only allowed him to use Microsoft products.
Mod me off-topic if you wish, I for one welcome our new off-topic overlords.
We don't need a new kernel for now. The existing kernel has been highly stable in the types of jobs we throw at it. But that's not why it doesn't matter. Our director has finally handed down the "No more Linux installs" message. Here is the message:
As some of you may know. SCO has a lawsuit filed against IBM for breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, etc. The bottom line of this disagreement is that SCO is accusing IBM of including some of SCO's trade secrets (proprietary code) in its Linux kernel and that this source code has also been included in the Linux kernel available off the Internet.
To top all of this off, the US Copyright Office awarded SCO a copyright to System IV Unix last month. SCO, through a series of mergers and acquisitions, acquired the patents, copyrights, etc to System IV Unix that was originally developed by Bell Labs in 1969. About this same time, SCO created a new division whose only purpose in life was to license Linux and Unix to end users.
Because of all of this confusion, I have asked our legal eagles to give me an opinion as to whether or not our recent installation of Linux systems in the (our department name) places (our company name) in any sort of jeopardy. Frankly, I think that SCO is simply struggling for survival as it is in severe financial trouble. I also think that any rights SCO may have think it had at one time has been abrogated since SCO was (until last month) freely distributing Linux on its web site under the GNU General Public License.
But until I receive an opinion from Legal, we will not deploy any more Linux systems.
p.s. We are a 1200 employee telecommunications company, ISP, cable TV, long distance telephone, etc.
Apparantly there is a major disconnect between package dependencies and what is actually installed on a box.
I wanted to add RPC::XML to my Mandrake box, so I tried installing the rpm version. It complained about a list of about 20 failed dependencies, missing packages.
So I grabbed the tar from CPAN and did the good old make install and it mentioned that only the XML-Parser was missing.
So... would the rpm have worked if I told it to ignore dependencies, since those perl lib's were already on the box?
classic episode...!!
Donovan: Atlanta was a city, landlocked, Hundreds of miles from the area we now call the atlantic ocean.
Yet so desperate the city's desire for tourism That they moved offshore, becoming an island and an even bigger delta hub, Until the city overdeveloped and it started to sink.
Knowing their fate, the quality people ran away: Ted Turner, Hank Aaron, Jeff Foxworthy, the guy who invented Coca Cola, the magician And the other so-called gods of our legends, though gods they were, And also Jane Fonda was there. The others chose to remain behind on their porches with their rifles And one day evolving to mermaids and sing and dance and ring in the new.
Everyone: Hail Atlanta!
1a) switch engineers: implement SS7/SCP related stuff
1b) switch engineers: implement telephony switch related stuff
1c) developers: implement SCP/SS7 related provisioning methods,test
1d) developers: implement telephony switch related provisioning methods, test
1e) developers: implement API for telephony network portability
1f) developers: implement portability front end for customer service apps
1g) developers: test top to bottom, front end, middleware (like metasolv), through API
1h) developers: document for users/trainers
1i) trainers: train cust svc reps on applying portability
1j) cust service reps: apply portability !
2) cell number portability
3) profit!
I seriously therefore doubt all the posts about the Earth, even the nightside of the Earth, being too bright for Hubble to image. Too bright? Reduce your shutter speed !
Also, one poster said the Earth is too close to focus on. Probably also incorrect. Remember the Hubble is ? a few hundred miles up ?. Typically with telescopes or camera lenses, the focus difference between "infinity focus" and "a few hundred miles" is non-existent. Not like the Hubble is exempt from being a telescope. As a matter of fact it's a Ritchey-Cretian telescope just like you can buy here on Earth from these dudes.
> "The X-Prize competition has gotten a lot of coverage
> on Slashdot - either because it's cool and geeky or
> because John Carmack is involved.
I think the X-Prize would get slashdot coverage anyway, but John Carmacks presence makes it downright fascinating.
I've wondered if John has more fans than any other slashdot user. Check out his fan list. Does anyone come close? How about that steak sauce guy, Perens ? Sorry - SexxyGal doesnt count, since the letters "Sex" causes so much confusion in this community.
MARS 2003 Pictures
Every year, amateurs and their techniques are improving. This team of Germans, with their Astro-Physics 10" Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope are on the cutting edge of amateur astrophography.
This article was posted on fark sometime between 0.99999... and 1.0 weeks ago.
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The Cadfael series does not have encryption.
Why did you track newsgroups accessed? To track people downloading from news servers, or to track people uploading to news servers?
"PLZ resend disk 2 of TWO TOWERS"
Sorry - The word "asshat" can be found in Google groups archives predating the 1999 birth of fark.com.
The best quality improvement for your computer is not your onboard audio or your plug-in sound card.
Is the 2.1 system from Klipsch. I have had all kinds of computer sound systems from Boston, Creative, Cambridge, Altec Lansing. The Klipsch systems beat them all by a mile. They are simply amazing and the 2.1 has an incredible price for the sound you get.
If you want more than 2.1, the Klipsch 4.1 and 5.1's are they way to go.
I have converted numerous other people to Klipsch. You need just seconds to hear the difference.
The subwoofer puts on an impressive show also. I watched mine suck a packing peanut off the floor and into the speaker, and then blow it out again. I've also seen it float suspended in a "bass field" in front of the subwoofer port.
CLEAN... PURE... CHEAP... AWESOME !
LOL... all I could imagine was a teacher watching her 3rd graders remote video cams blink out one by one as aliens eat them..
No RDRAM... it's DDR... runs at 133 mhz quad pumped. The latest P4's have 200 mhz busses quad pumped for "800 FSB"..
These six and eight head boxes are used for telecom network monitoring. Surveillance techs watch 10 or 12 windows spread amongst the screen real estate. The windows show status of remote earth stations, undersea fiber optics, alarming equipment, etc.
I've been using Mandrake 9.1 to finally land some Linux boxes at work, among the throngs of Windows and Sun/Solaris machines.
Half of the machines are for telecom network monitoring purposes and will have 6 to 8 displays apiece (using Xinerama and a combination of Nvidia and Matrox video cards.) These will let us retire Windows NT and the Exceed X server.
The other half of the machines are rack mount servers running LAMP and stand alone perl apps. These will let us retire some Solaris/Sun boxes.
After developing TCP/IP serving applications in perl on Solaris for years, it's nice, real nice, to see them run at previously unheard of speeds on a cheap P4 box with a gig of 533mhz RAM. The performance lays waste to our Solaris servers.
Mandrake 9.1 was an easy way to pull it off. It has detected all hardware we've used and all the built in peripherals on some new Intel motherboards flawlessly.
My only headache so far was trying to run quad-heads off an matrox AGP 550 and a PCI 450. It does not work. Keeping the dual head 550 and adding SIX Nvidia TNT2 cards allowed us to flawlessly run eight monitors. Thats what we'll be doing.
(asp example)
randomize
$url = "http://site.com/url?RX=" & int(rnd(1)*1000000)+1
response.write $url