I've seen Dynamat Extremeliner recommended on Corvair sites and mailing lists to handle the noise. If it makes an 140 hp turbo-charged air-cooled flat six (essentially the same thing that makes a Cessna fly) sitting in the backseat sound bearable, just think what it will do with your hard disk!
Good thing that red-carpet didn't like your system - it did a number on two of my Mandrake 7.2 systems. Everything seemd to work fine until I logged out and discovered that the gdm and sawfish configs had been hosed. X doesn't want to start without a DM, and is kind of hard to use without a window manager. One machine, I would have been annoyed -- two machines is too much. I switched back to XFce.
Who pissed in your Cheerios? Most of the people around here are a lot more libertarian than liberal, and the liberals are more liberal than leftist (and therefore tolerant of gun-owning). If you want leftist geek, that's on Kuro5hin. Maybe you're mistaking NIMBYism for liberalism? There's certainly plenty of Not In My Backyard on/., in the form of "issues don't matter until they impinge on me personally or the IT industry as a whole."
VMWare is a good way to go, whether it's Linux on Windows or windows on Linux. I'm using Cygwin on my Win2K laptop and there are still a lot of issues with speed, program compilation, etc.
They do serve useful functions on windows machines, and more than once I've considered trying to get GNOME to do something with them through keycap. When I have to use Windows, the combination of ALT-TAB and the right-click key make it easier to go mouseless for longer. I also use the start button a lot in Windows and in KDE (in the former, one of the most annoying things about Win2K is that Win-F-F doesn't open a file finder dialog anymore).
I switched to Gnome from XFce after a brief flirtation with KDE and even briefer with WindowMaker. I switched to Gnome about a year ago.
Gnome and XFce: I like the look and alterability a little better than XFce, but mostly I like the ease of working with it. Click and drool throughout. XFce is close to being as easy and seems to have made great strides since 3.3, but I haven't switched back back because I've gotten a comfy Gnome setup and don't feel like messing with it. XFce is vastly faster and more stable but takes a little more maintenance.
Gnome and KDE: KDE is excellent too, but I was turned off by the inflexibility of design decisions in the panel. Mainly I hate the taskbar and file manager. 2 is really nice looking, but the things that annoy me remain.
Gnome and WindowMaker: WM is nice looking, but the icons and menu-behavior annoy me. Blackbox is similar and better, but again Gnome hasn't given me a reason to switch.
There are still some good bay area ISPs -- I use Raw Bandwidth, and used to use Idiom. Both are excellent, and neither attempts to compete on price.
PacBell/Southwestern Bell just bumped its pricing for residential DSL up to $59/mo from $49/mo after two years at the lower rate. The circuit itself costs $39/mo. That leaves $10/mo to pay for upstream and cross-LATA bandwidth, network hardware infrastructure, mail and web servers, call centers, office rent, marketroids, executives, service development, and support techs. For the last two years they've been losing money on every DSL customer. Pretend for a moment that you are a business person, tasked with making a profit. How much in the way of resources do you devote to customer service? What would it get you -- more customers who you can't afford?
In one of those friend of a friend stories along these lines, the friend was a senior Unix systems architect for a large publically funded entity. He told them he wasn't coming back without a 25% raise. One week later, it was done:-)
Six hundred bucks!?!?!? And that's cheaper than eight hundred?!?!?! For that much money I could buy a discontinued or remanufactured laptop and use it for something else.
I'm hard on equipment, and I won't carry something with me unless it's in a very well-padded bag or cheap enough to replace easily. The most expensive thing in my pocket is my Palm V, and I got that for free anyway - the one I bought was a Palm III.
Agreed. Disclaimer -- I work for Intel Online Services. We sell a lot of Sun to our Unix customer base. They'd like to use Linux, and we'd like to sell it to them, but the only place we use it is relatively small web servers.
I've worked through two big jobs lately with open source companies who began designing with Linux on Dell and switched to Solaris on E420's at the last minute. They didn't switch because they don't trust Linux -- they make their money from Linux. They switched because of superior I/O and scalability beyond 2 CPUs and 2 GB RAM.
On the other hand, we use a _lot_ of Apache. If you look at the history of Apache, you see heavy IBM involvement in making it the stable and scalable solution it is now. I don't see anything wrong with IBM's involvement in Linux -- rather I see Linux's lifeline in the enterprise server market. No matter how small the company, there's a intention to get big. People don't want to limit themselves to systems that they think they'll need to leave when the company gets bigger, so the "Enterprise" market is vital to large-scale acceptance.
Desktop dominance would be nice too. I used Linux on a laptop and a server exclusively at my last job and quite enjoyed the stability. Make no mistake about it, though -- the only thing stopping me from doing my job on Linux is Microsoft Exchange Server. GNOME and KDE are good enough for now. StarOffice (OpenOffice I suppose) needs work, but will do. Netscape needs a lot of work, but it and Mozilla combined are enough to hold out until a good browser is available. But inability to "natively" (i.e. without POP3/IMAP) interoperate with Exchange is a showstopper for any corporate installation. A lot of sysadmins would love to get rid of the Exchange/Outlook combo, but it isn't going to happen overnight and interoperability is required.
Clearly this is a polarizing issue, and I have to say that I come down on the side of the article writer. Let's look at the relative levels of injuries:
1) spammer (shorthand in this case for "vendor of address collection software") is allowed to continue selling software. Many mailboxes get some spam, including mailboxes on tiny and or expensive devices. Users are forced to utilize their delete commands, develop RSI and brain cancer from the stress.
2) spammer's IP address is blocked. Spammer must seek another address with ISP or another ISP altogether. Process begins anew.
3) spammer's entire ISP is blocked. Spammer must seek another address with another ISP altogether. Process begins anew. In the meantime, a ton of non-related sites are blocked. Well, some of those sites are going to be run by people who know all about these issues and can get switched somewhere else quickly. But statistically, most of those sites will be run by people who haven't got the knowledge to understand what the issue is, the inclination to care, the money/time/inclination to switch ISPs, or any of the above. So their sites stay down until the MAPS sentence is lifted.
Possibility 3 sounds like a great way to perpetuate the worst things about the Internet: "B2B" usage in which people have to be paid to touch anything and "geek's playground" usage in which a bunch of stunted people bully others for lacking knowledge of the secret handshake.
I rather enjoy the fact that the Internet is widely used by lots of people who don't know a damned thing about how it works. I'd like to keep it that way. Breaking it for them because of things they know nothing about done by people they have no control over is not positively reinforcing behavior.
well if $480 means so little to you, I'll be happy to take it off your hands... To me that looks like a few hours of work, a couple of days at the beach, a bunch of other goodies/necessities.
Besides, why would you dedicate a box that big to routing, unless it's running Check Point FW-1 or something? And if you didn't dedicate it to routing, why enter it into a security discussion at all?
Floppies are the only physically write-protected media that lets you return and change data later (excepting CD-RW since I haven't seen any decent support in *nix please correct me if I'm wrong thank you) and so it's the best solution for now. I've written a FAQ on this point and others at http://www.monkeynoodle.org/lrp/LRP-why.html.
It's interesting that someone as massively detail-oriented as Theo de Raadt seems to be shooting from the hip so much when just talking/typing -- maybe Katz should write an expose about detail oriented people being sloppy and neo-Luddite Harper's readers on their off hours.
I used Linux as my desktop (well, laptop really) for about six months recently, and this is how I wrote documents after I gave up on StarOffice for being too flipping slow on a PIII-500 with 128 MB RAM. I used KLyx to write documents, with Gimp and Dia providing graphic support, then printed to postscript and used ps2pdf before mailing. Came out perfect every time, and no one could edit the files but me (usually a bad thing but in this case a good thing).
been there done that, and man it sucks. I've had the same thing happen when ftp'ing from linux to linux though -- I think it's related to the importance of the files.
In the day when Amigas walked the earth I tried a similar experiment on some 5.25" disks for my C64. While magnetism didn't have much affect, rapid and well-timed braking with the back tire of my BMX bike was an extremely suitable method for destroying the media. We also found BB guns and handheld holepunchers to be moderately effective, but not as perfect as the bike tire.
I've got 701 RPMs installed on the box I'm typing with, and that doesn't count the fifty-odd programs I compiled from source. Make no mistake, I am certainly grateful that these programs work together to facilitate my work and play, but I don't think individually thanking all the developers is a feasible suggestion.
so, to be fair, I delete my package and ~/.mozilla directories, into which I've been sticking nightly builds since M14 or so. Then I download another tarball and try again. It hangs.
So does my new thinkpad T20. I miss my Omnibook 900, though (sniff). Such is the new job. If anyone is wondering, the HP Omnibook 900 is an _excellent_ Linux laptop.
less usable than M17 ??? I fired it up, clicked the interview link( http://www.linuxnews.com/stories.php?story=43), pressed the down arrow on my keyboard and it crashed. Fluke, right? Well, it's a repeatable fluke here.
and the really sad part is that after all your work and all your upgrades, it was still only a windows machine. Don't the words "The new version is supposed to be a lot better" start to ring false after a while?
Probably ReiserFS. I and several of my acquaintance have used it as primary FS in some pretty ugly environments (think laptop with loose battery). I didn't notice any performance hit, but the slowest machine I ran it on was a PII-366. I haven't converted any of my slower home machines yet.
2.4 probably won't "ship" with anything until something is out of beta -- but just because the kernel team hasn't approved it is no reason not to use it. Mandrake 7.1 ships with ReiserFS and you can use it now.
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I've seen Dynamat Extremeliner recommended on Corvair sites and mailing lists to handle the noise. If it makes an 140 hp turbo-charged air-cooled flat six (essentially the same thing that makes a Cessna fly) sitting in the backseat sound bearable, just think what it will do with your hard disk!
Good thing that red-carpet didn't like your system - it did a number on two of my Mandrake 7.2 systems. Everything seemd to work fine until I logged out and discovered that the gdm and sawfish configs had been hosed. X doesn't want to start without a DM, and is kind of hard to use without a window manager. One machine, I would have been annoyed -- two machines is too much. I switched back to XFce.
Who pissed in your Cheerios? Most of the people around here are a lot more libertarian than liberal, and the liberals are more liberal than leftist (and therefore tolerant of gun-owning). If you want leftist geek, that's on Kuro5hin. Maybe you're mistaking NIMBYism for liberalism? There's certainly plenty of Not In My Backyard on /., in the form of "issues don't matter until they impinge on me personally or the IT industry as a whole."
VMWare is a good way to go, whether it's Linux on Windows or windows on Linux. I'm using Cygwin on my Win2K laptop and there are still a lot of issues with speed, program compilation, etc.
They do serve useful functions on windows machines, and more than once I've considered trying to get GNOME to do something with them through keycap. When I have to use Windows, the combination of ALT-TAB and the right-click key make it easier to go mouseless for longer. I also use the start button a lot in Windows and in KDE (in the former, one of the most annoying things about Win2K is that Win-F-F doesn't open a file finder dialog anymore).
I switched to Gnome from XFce after a brief flirtation with KDE and even briefer with WindowMaker. I switched to Gnome about a year ago.
Gnome and XFce: I like the look and alterability a little better than XFce, but mostly I like the ease of working with it. Click and drool throughout. XFce is close to being as easy and seems to have made great strides since 3.3, but I haven't switched back back because I've gotten a comfy Gnome setup and don't feel like messing with it. XFce is vastly faster and more stable but takes a little more maintenance.
Gnome and KDE: KDE is excellent too, but I was turned off by the inflexibility of design decisions in the panel. Mainly I hate the taskbar and file manager. 2 is really nice looking, but the things that annoy me remain.
Gnome and WindowMaker: WM is nice looking, but the icons and menu-behavior annoy me. Blackbox is similar and better, but again Gnome hasn't given me a reason to switch.
There are still some good bay area ISPs -- I use Raw Bandwidth, and used to use Idiom. Both are excellent, and neither attempts to compete on price.
PacBell/Southwestern Bell just bumped its pricing for residential DSL up to $59/mo from $49/mo after two years at the lower rate. The circuit itself costs $39/mo. That leaves $10/mo to pay for upstream and cross-LATA bandwidth, network hardware infrastructure, mail and web servers, call centers, office rent, marketroids, executives, service development, and support techs. For the last two years they've been losing money on every DSL customer. Pretend for a moment that you are a business person, tasked with making a profit. How much in the way of resources do you devote to customer service? What would it get you -- more customers who you can't afford?
It'd be a shame to see millions of floppies in a dump... or congregated anywhere, for that matter :-)
Floppies have one crucial advantage that hasn't been discussed yet -- hardware write protect. It's the only way to fly for appliance computing.
In one of those friend of a friend stories along these lines, the friend was a senior Unix systems architect for a large publically funded entity. He told them he wasn't coming back without a 25% raise. One week later, it was done :-)
SSH does not cleartext the password, whether you're using RSA keys or not. Download Ethereal and check it out for yourself.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/things/3474.html
Six hundred bucks!?!?!? And that's cheaper than eight hundred?!?!?! For that much money I could buy a discontinued or remanufactured laptop and use it for something else.
I'm hard on equipment, and I won't carry something with me unless it's in a very well-padded bag or cheap enough to replace easily. The most expensive thing in my pocket is my Palm V, and I got that for free anyway - the one I bought was a Palm III.
Agreed. Disclaimer -- I work for Intel Online Services. We sell a lot of Sun to our Unix customer base. They'd like to use Linux, and we'd like to sell it to them, but the only place we use it is relatively small web servers.
I've worked through two big jobs lately with open source companies who began designing with Linux on Dell and switched to Solaris on E420's at the last minute. They didn't switch because they don't trust Linux -- they make their money from Linux. They switched because of superior I/O and scalability beyond 2 CPUs and 2 GB RAM.
On the other hand, we use a _lot_ of Apache. If you look at the history of Apache, you see heavy IBM involvement in making it the stable and scalable solution it is now. I don't see anything wrong with IBM's involvement in Linux -- rather I see Linux's lifeline in the enterprise server market. No matter how small the company, there's a intention to get big. People don't want to limit themselves to systems that they think they'll need to leave when the company gets bigger, so the "Enterprise" market is vital to large-scale acceptance.
Desktop dominance would be nice too. I used Linux on a laptop and a server exclusively at my last job and quite enjoyed the stability. Make no mistake about it, though -- the only thing stopping me from doing my job on Linux is Microsoft Exchange Server. GNOME and KDE are good enough for now. StarOffice (OpenOffice I suppose) needs work, but will do. Netscape needs a lot of work, but it and Mozilla combined are enough to hold out until a good browser is available. But inability to "natively" (i.e. without POP3/IMAP) interoperate with Exchange is a showstopper for any corporate installation. A lot of sysadmins would love to get rid of the Exchange/Outlook combo, but it isn't going to happen overnight and interoperability is required.
Clearly this is a polarizing issue, and I have to say that I come down on the side of the article writer. Let's look at the relative levels of injuries:
1) spammer (shorthand in this case for "vendor of address collection software") is allowed to continue selling software. Many mailboxes get some spam, including mailboxes on tiny and or expensive devices. Users are forced to utilize their delete commands, develop RSI and brain cancer from the stress.
2) spammer's IP address is blocked. Spammer must seek another address with ISP or another ISP altogether. Process begins anew.
3) spammer's entire ISP is blocked. Spammer must seek another address with another ISP altogether. Process begins anew. In the meantime, a ton of non-related sites are blocked. Well, some of those sites are going to be run by people who know all about these issues and can get switched somewhere else quickly. But statistically, most of those sites will be run by people who haven't got the knowledge to understand what the issue is, the inclination to care, the money/time/inclination to switch ISPs, or any of the above. So their sites stay down until the MAPS sentence is lifted.
Possibility 3 sounds like a great way to perpetuate the worst things about the Internet: "B2B" usage in which people have to be paid to touch anything and "geek's playground" usage in which a bunch of stunted people bully others for lacking knowledge of the secret handshake.
I rather enjoy the fact that the Internet is widely used by lots of people who don't know a damned thing about how it works. I'd like to keep it that way. Breaking it for them because of things they know nothing about done by people they have no control over is not positively reinforcing behavior.
well if $480 means so little to you, I'll be happy to take it off your hands... To me that looks like a few hours of work, a couple of days at the beach, a bunch of other goodies/necessities.
Besides, why would you dedicate a box that big to routing, unless it's running Check Point FW-1 or something? And if you didn't dedicate it to routing, why enter it into a security discussion at all?
Floppies are the only physically write-protected media that lets you return and change data later (excepting CD-RW since I haven't seen any decent support in *nix please correct me if I'm wrong thank you) and so it's the best solution for now. I've written a FAQ on this point and others at http://www.monkeynoodle.org/lrp/LRP-why.html.
It's interesting that someone as massively detail-oriented as Theo de Raadt seems to be shooting from the hip so much when just talking/typing -- maybe Katz should write an expose about detail oriented people being sloppy and neo-Luddite Harper's readers on their off hours.
GTK+ on Windows is quite fast -- I've used it for Ethereal on nt and w2k with no issues (well, aside from winpcap no issues). Check it out.
I used Linux as my desktop (well, laptop really) for about six months recently, and this is how I wrote documents after I gave up on StarOffice for being too flipping slow on a PIII-500 with 128 MB RAM. I used KLyx to write documents, with Gimp and Dia providing graphic support, then printed to postscript and used ps2pdf before mailing. Came out perfect every time, and no one could edit the files but me (usually a bad thing but in this case a good thing).
been there done that, and man it sucks. I've had the same thing happen when ftp'ing from linux to linux though -- I think it's related to the importance of the files.
In the day when Amigas walked the earth I tried a similar experiment on some 5.25" disks for my C64. While magnetism didn't have much affect, rapid and well-timed braking with the back tire of my BMX bike was an extremely suitable method for destroying the media. We also found BB guns and handheld holepunchers to be moderately effective, but not as perfect as the bike tire.
I've got 701 RPMs installed on the box I'm typing with, and that doesn't count the fifty-odd programs I compiled from source. Make no mistake, I am certainly grateful that these programs work together to facilitate my work and play, but I don't think individually thanking all the developers is a feasible suggestion.
Thanks, guys!
so, to be fair, I delete my package and ~/.mozilla directories, into which I've been sticking nightly builds since M14 or so. Then I download another tarball and try again. It hangs.
So does my new thinkpad T20. I miss my Omnibook 900, though (sniff). Such is the new job. If anyone is wondering, the HP Omnibook 900 is an _excellent_ Linux laptop.
less usable than M17 ??? I fired it up, clicked the interview link( http://www.linuxnews.com/stories.php?story=43), pressed the down arrow on my keyboard and it crashed. Fluke, right? Well, it's a repeatable fluke here.
and the really sad part is that after all your work and all your upgrades, it was still only a windows machine. Don't the words "The new version is supposed to be a lot better" start to ring false after a while?
Probably ReiserFS. I and several of my acquaintance have used it as primary FS in some pretty ugly environments (think laptop with loose battery). I didn't notice any performance hit, but the slowest machine I ran it on was a PII-366. I haven't converted any of my slower home machines yet.
2.4 probably won't "ship" with anything until something is out of beta -- but just because the kernel team hasn't approved it is no reason not to use it. Mandrake 7.1 ships with ReiserFS and you can use it now.