I tried it out a while ago, but since it didn't work on Voodoo3 or Intel 810 chips and that's all that I have.... I didn't get far:-) Hopefully the hardware support has improved.
read through the projects section on mini-itx, there's some great cases, and the best ideas get picked up and made into products. Hush PC makes some nice ones, for instance.
One of the nice things about mini-itx is that its cheap enough that you can rethink decisions. For instance, I spent around $360 on this project (
http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/chihiro), $30 of which was the case and shipping for the case. It's okay, but I'm thinking about a better case setup already. If and when I move it into a better case, I'll be out $30, not the hundred or so that a full-tower case costs, and I'll have a few dinky scraps of plexiglass to dispose of, not a massive metal box.
If the dang things had decent Linux video support, I'd buy a ton more of them. As soon as the XFree86 project has the drivers stabilized, look for VIA's stock price to jump:-)
Ah, you assume that the clowns know the difference between a cabinet and a relay rack! While someone there was initially responsible for the decision, odds are that they weren't really listening to anything except the money words when the subcontractor gave them choices. They've got racks, it was a good deal, now do you want to stick your stuff in or not?
Step 1, redefine history to suit your goals. Step 2, divide the audience into good guys and bad guys based on the history in Step 1. Step 3, exacerbate conflicts between the audience teams defined in Step 2. Step 4, Post to Slashdot.... Step 6, Profit!
So what makes this thing worth all that extra money?
a) community. The user and developer mailing lists are thriving and busy with hardware hacks, software mods, new plugins, and friendly troubleshooting.
b) community. The company owners are part of those mailing lists, contribute frequently, and are incredibly helpful.
c) community. Because of a and b, the product is shaped by its users rather than by Rio's marketing department. Check the user group archives and you'll find requests for every feature in the squeezebox.
Um... what are you talking about? According to the posting, the password was sniffed -- whether from the wire or the keyboard is unclear. If it's been sniffed from the wire, password length and strength are irrelevant. RSA keys with a timestamp element would help in that case, but if the passphrase were sniffed from the keyboard, its strength is again irrelevant.
"some distros" != "Fedora" != "the large commercial Linux's".
MANDRAKE. MANDRAKE. MANDRAKE. MANDRAKE.
urpmi MozillaFirebird
That's all.
We really have the same point at root though, which is that packaging tools are useless without an aggressively maintained package tree and dependency matrix behind them.
doesn't matter, she's not an adult. Welcome to The United States of America! She should be thankful she hasn't been working in a textile mill since she was six. And if she isn't thankful, well maybe something along those lines can be arranged under the Patriot Act:-)
because the server you're sending to may not be accepting connections at the time you want to send a mail. The sending MTA will take it, take care of it, and make repeated efforts to deliver it. If your mailer had to do that, it'd have to have full time internet connectivity for one thing.
I'm inclined to agree. I'm all for running servers and learning at home, and I do it myself -- however, I also pay a small premium for a mom-n-pop ISP who gives me a static IP and no PPP on my DSL. Basically, you get what you pay for. If you want to run your own, do it with a small ISP; if you can't afford the $50 or so a month, talk to work and see what they can do for you or band together with some friends who can chip in for that small ISP connection or for a colo'd server.
Just my two cents though, if you'd rather play cat and mouse with a consumer-oriented provider who doesn't want your type of user on their network, have fun.
I hear similar stories from most of my MS-admin'ing friends. I felt the same way until I slogged up the learning curve into Linux.
IMHO, Linux is not about better code at all, it's about personal sustainability. Sometimes the code is better, sometimes it's worse, but the OSS / Unix way of doing things emphasizes people doing things rather than people buying products. When my job is to fix problems using judgement, skills, and as little cash as possible, I'm going to be happier than if my job is to buy and integrate black box products.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for using the appropriate level of power for the job. My backup mail and web server is a K6/3-333, and I've just ordered a mini-itx system for use as a desktop.
But, I think we have different definitions of slow. If you're happy with what you've got, fine -- I wouldn't be though.
"Yeah sure those of us that want to do funky stuff like hardcore gaming, or video editing might be an exception, but for my dad who's sole computing experience is checking his hotmail account and typing up documents, this is far from necessary."
Until it's time to apply some software upgrades for security reasons... and then you find that the old software which runs just fine isn't patched or even patchable anymore. If it's a proprietary OS or app, oh well.
But say it's an OSS app -- you track down the author, and s/he says "that old piece of cruft? I rewrote it in Java years ago, but check out the beta of this replacement in Python with a Qt front end." Dead end.
Let's assume you are yourself a coder or play one on TV... so you take a look at the code and find out the author is right, it is a pile of junk under the hood. So you start tweaking, and next thing you know it would be really handy to use function foo from the latest version of bar... welcome to dependency hell. Sure would be nice to install a modern distro and have it all taken care of... but the modern distro takes ten seconds to redraw a browser window after switching virtual desktops on your old PC.
Honestly, it really does save time and maybe even money to upgrade hardware and software every twelve to twenty-four months or so:-)
Two things, OSS == punk is an interesting analogy, particularly in the DIY spirit of punk. But, think of what you're saying... did Johnny Rotten or Jello Biafra ever change their attitudes and get more customer-accessible? No. Marketing people at the record companies developed and promoted new artists who could put a candy-colored sheen on the punk core. Hello, Lindows.
The other thing, "I've made that choice, but there are many out there who won't/can't/don't make it. They just want it to work out of the box for a million years without a hitch." Postulate: maybe they'll have to get over it, the same way they get over all the other tradeoffs in modern society, because the fact is that there no general purpose computing platform where things work for a million seconds for all users without a hitch.
Let's think about what a certification is: Organization X certifies that Person Y is capable of doing what they say.
Why would such a thing exist? Because Person Y wrote their own resume and can write whatever they want on it. Organization Z doesn't want to have to interview a bunch of freaking losers who claim to have 7-8 years of experience and are really either lying, stretching the truth, or appropriating someone else's war stories.
I've interviewed a fair number of people with some pretty impressive resumes. A lot of them melted down when questioned about the stuff on their resumes. One "CCIE" went white as a sheet and suddenly had to leave when we asked what his number was. One "BSD expert" worked on the same team as Jordan Hubbard; too bad he didn't learn anything about computers while he was there. "The engineer who designed an in-airplane wireless network service" was actually the project manager for the project and didn't know beans about networking. Then there was the "professional services engineer from Network Associates' Sniffer division" who couldn't describe the packet sequences of DHCP, ARP, DNS or HTTP.
Are certifications perfect? No, far from it. Would they have filtered out those losers? Not the guy who lied about having one, but the other two didn't have certification in anything, just "years of experience." Certifications are good enough. If anyone has made it more than a year in IT without learning that good enough is a recipe for success, I have to wonder if they've spent their time turning screwdrivers and answering phones or doing something real.
So, what's stopping you from getting a certification? An LPI-C level 2 costs $400 and four hours of your time, even less if you can take some of the tests at LWCE; if you're as good as you say you are, you won't even have to study.
Evaluate the existing certification programs: LPI and RHCE, any others out there. Look at their methodologies and tests, interview certified engineers, see what you think.
If in your opinion they're certifying wankers instead of quality engineers, you'll need to do your own certification program. The CNE was a pretty decent program IIRC.
IMHO you'll find that LPI and RHCE are pretty good programs and are probably good enough to run with or to build your own program around.
On a side note, I certainly hope Novell can make a comeback.
Yeah that's right, I am better than you, and don't you forget it. Now get over here and polish the gilt on my hard drives before I have to smack you around.
Remember, if you ain't looking pretty, I ain't living large and that ain't cool. You'll get your Mandrake in a couple of weeks:-)
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I tried it out a while ago, but since it didn't work on Voodoo3 or Intel 810 chips and that's all that I have.... I didn't get far :-) Hopefully the hardware support has improved.
read through the projects section on mini-itx, there's some great cases, and the best ideas get picked up and made into products. Hush PC makes some nice ones, for instance.
One of the nice things about mini-itx is that its cheap enough that you can rethink decisions. For instance, I spent around $360 on this project ( http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/chihiro), $30 of which was the case and shipping for the case. It's okay, but I'm thinking about a better case setup already. If and when I move it into a better case, I'll be out $30, not the hundred or so that a full-tower case costs, and I'll have a few dinky scraps of plexiglass to dispose of, not a massive metal box.
If the dang things had decent Linux video support, I'd buy a ton more of them. As soon as the XFree86 project has the drivers stabilized, look for VIA's stock price to jump :-)
Ah, you assume that the clowns know the difference between a cabinet and a relay rack! While someone there was initially responsible for the decision, odds are that they weren't really listening to anything except the money words when the subcontractor gave them choices. They've got racks, it was a good deal, now do you want to stick your stuff in or not?
Step 1, redefine history to suit your goals. ...
Step 2, divide the audience into good guys and bad guys based on the history in Step 1.
Step 3, exacerbate conflicts between the audience teams defined in Step 2.
Step 4, Post to Slashdot.
Step 6, Profit!
So what makes this thing worth all that extra money?
a) community. The user and developer mailing lists are thriving and busy with hardware hacks, software mods, new plugins, and friendly troubleshooting.
b) community. The company owners are part of those mailing lists, contribute frequently, and are incredibly helpful.
c) community. Because of a and b, the product is shaped by its users rather than by Rio's marketing department. Check the user group archives and you'll find requests for every feature in the squeezebox.
d) ease of use. Out of the box, it just works.
except that Harry Potter is not what Mandrake is named for, though the insiration is magical... http://www.toonopedia.com/mandrake.htm
Um... what are you talking about? According to the posting, the password was sniffed -- whether from the wire or the keyboard is unclear. If it's been sniffed from the wire, password length and strength are irrelevant. RSA keys with a timestamp element would help in that case, but if the passphrase were sniffed from the keyboard, its strength is again irrelevant.
Sort of the way that all Mandrake RPMs are signed with the packager's GPG key, and the urpmi tool will check that signature before installing it?
"some distros" != "Fedora" != "the large commercial Linux's".
MANDRAKE. MANDRAKE. MANDRAKE. MANDRAKE.
urpmi MozillaFirebird
That's all.
We really have the same point at root though, which is that packaging tools are useless without an aggressively maintained package tree and dependency matrix behind them.
doesn't matter, she's not an adult. Welcome to The United States of America! She should be thankful she hasn't been working in a textile mill since she was six. And if she isn't thankful, well maybe something along those lines can be arranged under the Patriot Act :-)
because the server you're sending to may not be accepting connections at the time you want to send a mail. The sending MTA will take it, take care of it, and make repeated efforts to deliver it. If your mailer had to do that, it'd have to have full time internet connectivity for one thing.
I'm inclined to agree. I'm all for running servers and learning at home, and I do it myself -- however, I also pay a small premium for a mom-n-pop ISP who gives me a static IP and no PPP on my DSL. Basically, you get what you pay for. If you want to run your own, do it with a small ISP; if you can't afford the $50 or so a month, talk to work and see what they can do for you or band together with some friends who can chip in for that small ISP connection or for a colo'd server.
Just my two cents though, if you'd rather play cat and mouse with a consumer-oriented provider who doesn't want your type of user on their network, have fun.
want to try fixing that with the tools in your underseat bag on the side of a singletrack about ten miles from your car?
I don't think so.
make your next book The Diamond Age and apply that idea, then you'll get really really scared.
I hear similar stories from most of my MS-admin'ing friends. I felt the same way until I slogged up the learning curve into Linux.
IMHO, Linux is not about better code at all, it's about personal sustainability. Sometimes the code is better, sometimes it's worse, but the OSS / Unix way of doing things emphasizes people doing things rather than people buying products. When my job is to fix problems using judgement, skills, and as little cash as possible, I'm going to be happier than if my job is to buy and integrate black box products.
Writing patent pending next to an idea means that there's a patent pending on it, not that I the writer am the owner of said pending patent.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for using the appropriate level of power for the job. My backup mail and web server is a K6/3-333, and I've just ordered a mini-itx system for use as a desktop.
But, I think we have different definitions of slow. If you're happy with what you've got, fine -- I wouldn't be though.
that's actually the same article. I guess that news.com.com.com.com didn't have a problem with the free registration :-)
"Yeah sure those of us that want to do funky stuff like hardcore gaming, or video editing might be an exception, but for my dad who's sole computing experience is checking his hotmail account and typing up documents, this is far from necessary."
:-)
Until it's time to apply some software upgrades for security reasons... and then you find that the old software which runs just fine isn't patched or even patchable anymore. If it's a proprietary OS or app, oh well.
But say it's an OSS app -- you track down the author, and s/he says "that old piece of cruft? I rewrote it in Java years ago, but check out the beta of this replacement in Python with a Qt front end." Dead end.
Let's assume you are yourself a coder or play one on TV... so you take a look at the code and find out the author is right, it is a pile of junk under the hood. So you start tweaking, and next thing you know it would be really handy to use function foo from the latest version of bar... welcome to dependency hell. Sure would be nice to install a modern distro and have it all taken care of... but the modern distro takes ten seconds to redraw a browser window after switching virtual desktops on your old PC.
Honestly, it really does save time and maybe even money to upgrade hardware and software every twelve to twenty-four months or so
Two things, OSS == punk is an interesting analogy, particularly in the DIY spirit of punk. But, think of what you're saying... did Johnny Rotten or Jello Biafra ever change their attitudes and get more customer-accessible? No. Marketing people at the record companies developed and promoted new artists who could put a candy-colored sheen on the punk core. Hello, Lindows.
The other thing, "I've made that choice, but there are many out there who won't/can't/don't make it. They just want it to work out of the box for a million years without a hitch." Postulate: maybe they'll have to get over it, the same way they get over all the other tradeoffs in modern society, because the fact is that there no general purpose computing platform where things work for a million seconds for all users without a hitch.
I dig the lizard, and I like the new M icons. The fire icons are fugly though, sorry to say.
Let's think about what a certification is: Organization X certifies that Person Y is capable of doing what they say.
Why would such a thing exist? Because Person Y wrote their own resume and can write whatever they want on it. Organization Z doesn't want to have to interview a bunch of freaking losers who claim to have 7-8 years of experience and are really either lying, stretching the truth, or appropriating someone else's war stories.
I've interviewed a fair number of people with some pretty impressive resumes. A lot of them melted down when questioned about the stuff on their resumes. One "CCIE" went white as a sheet and suddenly had to leave when we asked what his number was. One "BSD expert" worked on the same team as Jordan Hubbard; too bad he didn't learn anything about computers while he was there. "The engineer who designed an in-airplane wireless network service" was actually the project manager for the project and didn't know beans about networking. Then there was the "professional services engineer from Network Associates' Sniffer division" who couldn't describe the packet sequences of DHCP, ARP, DNS or HTTP.
Are certifications perfect? No, far from it. Would they have filtered out those losers? Not the guy who lied about having one, but the other two didn't have certification in anything, just "years of experience." Certifications are good enough. If anyone has made it more than a year in IT without learning that good enough is a recipe for success, I have to wonder if they've spent their time turning screwdrivers and answering phones or doing something real.
So, what's stopping you from getting a certification? An LPI-C level 2 costs $400 and four hours of your time, even less if you can take some of the tests at LWCE; if you're as good as you say you are, you won't even have to study.
Evaluate the existing certification programs: LPI and RHCE, any others out there. Look at their methodologies and tests, interview certified engineers, see what you think.
If in your opinion they're certifying wankers instead of quality engineers, you'll need to do your own certification program. The CNE was a pretty decent program IIRC.
IMHO you'll find that LPI and RHCE are pretty good programs and are probably good enough to run with or to build your own program around.
On a side note, I certainly hope Novell can make a comeback.
Two days and no one's mentioned Nagios or OpenNMS? Both massively popular and useful.
Yeah that's right, I am better than you, and don't you forget it. Now get over here and polish the gilt on my hard drives before I have to smack you around.
:-)
Remember, if you ain't looking pretty, I ain't living large and that ain't cool. You'll get your Mandrake in a couple of weeks