We run ltsp thin terminals at work. Started off with Debian and ltsp 4.2. When 6.06lts (dapper) we switched and enjoyed the ubuntu goodness. (Dual-heads from an agp and a pci video card, thin client attached printers, snazzy desktop, Jammin 125s for the sales floor). It had its flaws (zombie connections being a biggie) but running 10 clients off of a quad p3-700 was super sweet. We waited eagerly for the next LTS release and installed with utmost haste to a quad xeon 900. Slicker interface (check), zombie connections gone (check), Jammin 125s...white screen of death....thin client attached printers....um no, not any more....Dual head.....not anymore thanks to xrandr. Option to install xinerama instead of xrandr....Are you kidding me? I can kinda of understand Xrandr, but not replacing lpserver is damn near unforgivable.
We are almost identical to you except we started in two-way radios and moved into computers. We have a Compaq 380 - dual P3-933 - 512m - 18.2 raid 1, that we bought on Ebay for $50.00 without drives. The 2 drives were $20 each used (with caddy).
We installed Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) and the LTSP 4.2 iso. Our thin clients are a combination of Jammer-125s and Compaq DP 2000s (stripped of all drives and using an intel nic with built-in PXE).
The sad part is we bought the 5 Compaqs for less than the price of 1 Jammer. I expect the power supplies to crap out on the compaqs one day, but at $15 each its still worth it.
So lets see: 3 Jammers at 100.00 and 5 compaqs at 15 each we have 345.00 for the clients and 90.00 for the server. For a small business starting out, thats a pretty good price to pay to get everyone a workstation.
For pos and ticket management we used PHP Point of Sale and just extended it to include a ticket system and customer database.
Wow...you must be new here. Expecting people to take responsibly for their own actions and not just blame it on the 'MAN'.
What was it Morgan Freeman said? 'Only guilty man in Shawshank.'
I'm sure that there are some people (black and white) that are innocent and in prison. I am equally sure that there are some people (black and white) that are guilty and not in prison. But I seriously doubt that the ones that are guilty and in prison, are there because of their race.
but trust me, if I catch you....you won't have to worry about a trial or registering as a sex offender.
While I am serious about the above, I also know that my daughter is smart and aware enough not to let anyone touch her without her permission, and not to give strangers her personal info.
I try to be aware of my daughter's on-line habits and be a responsible parent. It's not easy, but I make sure that my daughter can talk to me if she needs to.
That said, I believe that 'sex crimes' punishment is way out of line with the crime. You can kill someone, serve your time, and get on with your life. Rape someone, or god forbid, have consensual sex with a minor and you will be punished till the day you die.
I personally think anything of this nature degrades the person it is supposed to help. In a major city near me, the detectives test was graded on two scales. A certain minority got a 10 point 'bonus' to assist them with passing. That tells me, the city council thinks that minority is to stupid to make detective without help. This is the same thing, if you got the chops then you will go far.
I love my daughter more than life, but I know she will never find mathematics as easy as I do. And its not because she is a girl, she just doesn't think the same way I do. IT will never be the love for her that it is to me.
To cap it off, if women wanted to be in IT, they would be. Pure and simple.
Since I've been feeding the trolls already, I'll bite.
So let me get this straight: Because I would knock a guy out... a young Arab male with a backpack being belligerent in a crowded place... I should die in a fire?
No since you think that beating a handcuffed, unarmed man is acceptable, is the reason. And before you start with the they didn't know if he was armed angle, let me point out that for the second, third, forth (and if there was a fifth) tasering, he was handcuffed and they where trying to walk him out. Once the handcuffs where on, he should have been searched (was he?).
You are correct. The police officers in this case should have either removed the man by force (ala Rodney King) or just given up and gone home. "Oh, we couldn't do anything. He said 'no'."
Thats the stupidest f**king thing I have ever heard. Granted I haven't been in college since 87, but I KNOW that 5 officers can pick up and carry a 200lb man. (he didn't look that big, but police say he is, so maybe) The first shock may have been righteous (don't know, don't care). Once the handcuffs where on, the man could be laying on the ground shouting 'I f**ked you daughter', and you still don't get to taser him again. Thats when it crosses the line. What they should have done was defused the situation by leaving him on the ground passive and shouting like a fool and asking the students to back up. Then those 5 cops I counted in the video could have carried his ass out the nearest exit. It doesn't matter if he was an asshole or a jerk or a retard shouting 'I want Jesus', he was passive not combative.
When you write for specific hardware....
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Not apologizing for Windows, but when you only write for specific h/w, you 'should' be able to get it right. Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX '86 all suffer from the crappy h/w syndrome.
I built a Smoothwall firewall last week, that kept crashing. I finally tracked the problem to a bad NIC (that was just good enough to run in Windows and to not to generate error messages in the log).
Does that make Macs better than SW? maybe h/w-wise
Do I blame SW for the crappy NIC? I shouldn't, although I cursed them repeatedly while trying to find the problem
Do I blame Microsoft for the crappy NIC? of course, this is Slashdot;P
I know this is a troll but I'll bite. I work for a wireless ISP in Illinois, USA. We have one copy of Windows in the whole shop. It runs hotspot software for our day-to-day customers (monthly are on a different network). We use a combination of Debian and Ubuntu (/w k12lts) for servers and workstations. Our biggest expense is the T-1. Please explain to me, how paying more for software than hardware is better for our business?
I logged onto every one of our servers and lynx'ed to it. just so if someone is actually reading the logs can wonder why they get XX.XX.XX.130,131,132,133,....152.
How long before they require weekly bloodwork, complete medical records, DNA samples, weekly lie detector tests, fingerprints, bugs in your home, FBI background checks, ad nauseum, before granting people the privilege of slaving their life away plucking chickens at $7/hr?
You work for the Feds, too? You could always become a freelance hacker or Deliverator.
All jokes about the 'big band' aside...Evolution is still just a theory. People love to point out that gravity is just a theory also, but you can see gravity's effect every second. Evolution is still not provable, regardless what Slashdot thinks.
I have thought about that too...Something along the lines of Friday or Starship Troopers (the book not the awful movie). I used to wish there was a Star Trek marine series, before I grew tired of Star Trek.
I have every anime (by Miyazaki) that has been released in the US. While I can't stand My neighbor Tortoro, my kids love every one. I personally really like Princess Mononoke. I didn't know realism was important in a movie, I've seen enough hollywood slop that I can't believe anyone expects realism. I agree with you that his anime is fun and enjoyable.
The government is a body of individuals most notably ungoverned - Shepard Book
We used to to be the most loved country in the world, now we are the one that catches the most shit. I think the government should stop spoon-feeding us what they think we should know and let us have what we think we should know.
There are always somethings that can not be revealed: Witness Protection, Undercover Officers, etc. But the maps are already available they are just not together in a nice electronic format. Maybe its time for the government of, for, and by the people to become that again.
I started out with RH / Mandrake before taking the plunge with Debian. I learned alot more with Debian then I had ever learned with the 2 previous Distros. I haven't tried Xandros, but I LOVED (several big hearts) Corel and would have recommended it to ANYONE.
If you want a windows wannabe avoid Debian. If you want to learn about Linux (GNU or otherwise) then Debian is a great choice.
Who ever moderated this a troll must not live in the Midwest. We moved to Indianapolis and had our moving van broke into the first night up here. Police took a report and told us to contact our insurance agent.
If you're relying on a keystroke logger to clue you in to children who have problems with any of these issues then let it go. You're already too late.
While I think Columbine was sad, I don't think gun control/key loggers/video monitoring would be an approtiate answer. I do think responsible parents are a great answer.
I am not a great parent. I try to be a responsible parent, and make sure my children are behaving/polite/safe/etc. It is alot harder these days, I think, then when I was 10 or 12. If I did something wrong, like shooting soda cans in the backyard with my shotgun (we lived in a semi-rural area), when my parents weren't home. The neighbors would have said something to my parents (there by fixing the problem). Not today!!! No sir, we call the police or family services. You dare try to make your child obey by swatting their butt with your hand. You, sir, are a child abuser!
I have no problem with parents using keyloggers to monitor their children, but what 12 year old needs to have ICQ/AIM? I also believe that parents should monitor their children's activity on the web. (History?) I have a local start page with all of the pages, my kids would need to go to.
Ode to a generation that is completely self-absorbed until the last possible moment when "DANGER WILL ROBINSON" is blaring over loudspeakers.
I'm more worried about the government that knows whats better for our children, then we as parents do.
The biggest issue I have had with freesco was a) bad floppies and b) finding supported nics. 3Com 3C509s and 3C905s both work great. On the ISA ones make sure you turn off PnP.
I've used this product for over 2 years without an issue. I'd reboot it once a month just because, but I can't think of a time I had to.
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We run ltsp thin terminals at work. Started off with Debian and ltsp 4.2. When 6.06lts (dapper) we switched and enjoyed the ubuntu goodness. (Dual-heads from an agp and a pci video card, thin client attached printers, snazzy desktop, Jammin 125s for the sales floor). It had its flaws (zombie connections being a biggie) but running 10 clients off of a quad p3-700 was super sweet. We waited eagerly for the next LTS release and installed with utmost haste to a quad xeon 900. Slicker interface (check), zombie connections gone (check), Jammin 125s...white screen of death....thin client attached printers....um no, not any more....Dual head.....not anymore thanks to xrandr. Option to install xinerama instead of xrandr....Are you kidding me? I can kinda of understand Xrandr, but not replacing lpserver is damn near unforgivable.
If I sound bitter, its probably because I am.
We are almost identical to you except we started in two-way radios and moved into computers. We have a Compaq 380 - dual P3-933 - 512m - 18.2 raid 1, that we bought on Ebay for $50.00 without drives. The 2 drives were $20 each used (with caddy).
We installed Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) and the LTSP 4.2 iso. Our thin clients are a combination of Jammer-125s and Compaq DP 2000s (stripped of all drives and using an intel nic with built-in PXE).
The sad part is we bought the 5 Compaqs for less than the price of 1 Jammer. I expect the power supplies to crap out on the compaqs one day, but at $15 each its still worth it.
So lets see: 3 Jammers at 100.00 and 5 compaqs at 15 each we have 345.00 for the clients and 90.00 for the server. For a small business starting out, thats a pretty good price to pay to get everyone a workstation.
For pos and ticket management we used PHP Point of Sale and just extended it to include a ticket system and customer database.
Blatant Plug: We custom code POS systems using phppointofsale as a base.
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We have a MFC-8500 in the office. The Brothers' supplied driver works for us.
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http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.ht
My Debian 3.1 print (CUPS) server runs smooth as silk.
I want to add that Xubuntu makes for a great clean desktop also. I am running dapper on my 350mhz Bondi IMac and do not miss OS9 at all.
i386 users have an even better choice in that they can run automatix2 on their Ubuntu and have one of the finest multimedia boxes around.
The search took longer than the download.
I consider myself pretty open musically. My only dislike is Rap, but I really wanted to stick my soldering iron in my ear after listening to that.
Wow...you must be new here. Expecting people to take responsibly for their own actions and not just blame it on the 'MAN'.
What was it Morgan Freeman said? 'Only guilty man in Shawshank.'
I'm sure that there are some people (black and white) that are innocent and in prison. I am equally sure that there are some people (black and white) that are guilty and not in prison. But I seriously doubt that the ones that are guilty and in prison, are there because of their race.
Great rant, btw, wish I had mod points.
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but trust me, if I catch you....you won't have to worry about a trial or registering as a sex offender.
While I am serious about the above, I also know that my daughter is smart and aware enough not to let anyone touch her without her permission, and not to give strangers her personal info.
I try to be aware of my daughter's on-line habits and be a responsible parent. It's not easy, but I make sure that my daughter can talk to me if she needs to.
That said, I believe that 'sex crimes' punishment is way out of line with the crime. You can kill someone, serve your time, and get on with your life. Rape someone, or god forbid, have consensual sex with a minor and you will be punished till the day you die.
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I personally think anything of this nature degrades the person it is supposed to help. In a major city near me, the detectives test was graded on two scales. A certain minority got a 10 point 'bonus' to assist them with passing. That tells me, the city council thinks that minority is to stupid to make detective without help. This is the same thing, if you got the chops then you will go far.
I love my daughter more than life, but I know she will never find mathematics as easy as I do. And its not because she is a girl, she just doesn't think the same way I do. IT will never be the love for her that it is to me.
To cap it off, if women wanted to be in IT, they would be. Pure and simple.
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Since I've been feeding the trolls already, I'll bite.
So let me get this straight:
Because I would knock a guy out... a young Arab male with a backpack being belligerent in a crowded place... I should die in a fire?
No since you think that beating a handcuffed, unarmed man is acceptable, is the reason. And before you start with the they didn't know if he was armed angle, let me point out that for the second, third, forth (and if there was a fifth) tasering, he was handcuffed and they where trying to walk him out. Once the handcuffs where on, he should have been searched (was he?).
You are correct. The police officers in this case should have either removed the man by force (ala Rodney King) or just given up and gone home. "Oh, we couldn't do anything. He said 'no'."
Thats the stupidest f**king thing I have ever heard. Granted I haven't been in college since 87, but I KNOW that 5 officers can pick up and carry a 200lb man. (he didn't look that big, but police say he is, so maybe) The first shock may have been righteous (don't know, don't care). Once the handcuffs where on, the man could be laying on the ground shouting 'I f**ked you daughter', and you still don't get to taser him again. Thats when it crosses the line. What they should have done was defused the situation by leaving him on the ground passive and shouting like a fool and asking the students to back up. Then those 5 cops I counted in the video could have carried his ass out the nearest exit. It doesn't matter if he was an asshole or a jerk or a retard shouting 'I want Jesus', he was passive not combative.
Not apologizing for Windows, but when you only write for specific h/w, you 'should' be able to get it right. Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX '86 all suffer from the crappy h/w syndrome.
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I built a Smoothwall firewall last week, that kept crashing. I finally tracked the problem to a bad NIC (that was just good enough to run in Windows and to not to generate error messages in the log).
Does that make Macs better than SW? maybe h/w-wise
Do I blame SW for the crappy NIC? I shouldn't, although I cursed them repeatedly while trying to find the problem
Do I blame Microsoft for the crappy NIC? of course, this is Slashdot
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I know this is a troll but I'll bite. I work for a wireless ISP in Illinois, USA. We have one copy of Windows in the whole shop. It runs hotspot software for our day-to-day customers (monthly are on a different network). We use a combination of Debian and Ubuntu (/w k12lts) for servers and workstations. Our biggest expense is the T-1. Please explain to me, how paying more for software than hardware is better for our business?
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If you visit edonkey.com, it logs your IP address
I logged onto every one of our servers and lynx'ed to it. just so if someone is actually reading the logs can wonder why they get XX.XX.XX.130,131,132,133,....152.
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How long before they require weekly bloodwork, complete medical records, DNA samples, weekly lie detector tests, fingerprints, bugs in your home, FBI background checks, ad nauseum, before granting people the privilege of slaving their life away plucking chickens at $7/hr?
You work for the Feds, too? You could always become a freelance hacker or Deliverator.
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All jokes about the 'big band' aside...Evolution is still just a theory. People love to point out that gravity is just a theory also, but you can see gravity's effect every second. Evolution is still not provable, regardless what Slashdot thinks.
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I have thought about that too...Something along the lines of Friday or Starship Troopers (the book not the awful movie). I used to wish there was a Star Trek marine series, before I grew tired of Star Trek.
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I have every anime (by Miyazaki) that has been released in the US. While I can't stand My neighbor Tortoro, my kids love every one. I personally really like Princess Mononoke. I didn't know realism was important in a movie, I've seen enough hollywood slop that I can't believe anyone expects realism. I agree with you that his anime is fun and enjoyable.
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Why is Ubuntu so hard to install? I downloaded the CD, I checked the MD5Sums, I read the how-to, and for some reason, it always stalls on BSDUtils.
I'm glad you decided to invest in Opensource, but would a little beta-testing cost that much?
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The government is a body of individuals most notably ungoverned - Shepard Book
We used to to be the most loved country in the world, now we are the one that catches the most shit. I think the government should stop spoon-feeding us what they think we should know and let us have what we think we should know.
There are always somethings that can not be revealed: Witness Protection, Undercover Officers, etc. But the maps are already available they are just not together in a nice electronic format. Maybe its time for the government of, for, and by the people to become that again.
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I started out with RH / Mandrake before taking the plunge with Debian. I learned alot more with Debian then I had ever learned with the 2 previous Distros. I haven't tried Xandros, but I LOVED (several big hearts) Corel and would have recommended it to ANYONE.
If you want a windows wannabe avoid Debian. If you want to learn about Linux (GNU or otherwise) then Debian is a great choice.
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I really. really needed that. Sorry I don't have any mod points.
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46 comments and half of them asking what in the hell IS Scribus. I'd say that most people don't care if it can do what it says
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Who ever moderated this a troll must not live in the Midwest. We moved to Indianapolis and had our moving van broke into the first night up here. Police took a report and told us to contact our insurance agent.
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If you're relying on a keystroke logger to clue you in to children who have problems with any of these issues then let it go. You're already too late.
While I think Columbine was sad, I don't think gun control/key loggers/video monitoring would be an approtiate answer. I do think responsible parents are a great answer.
I am not a great parent. I try to be a responsible parent, and make sure my children are behaving/polite/safe/etc. It is alot harder these days, I think, then when I was 10 or 12. If I did something wrong, like shooting soda cans in the backyard with my shotgun (we lived in a semi-rural area), when my parents weren't home. The neighbors would have said something to my parents (there by fixing the problem). Not today!!! No sir, we call the police or family services. You dare try to make your child obey by swatting their butt with your hand. You, sir, are a child abuser!
I have no problem with parents using keyloggers to monitor their children, but what 12 year old needs to have ICQ/AIM? I also believe that parents should monitor their children's activity on the web. (History?) I have a local start page with all of the pages, my kids would need to go to.
Ode to a generation that is completely self-absorbed until the last possible moment when "DANGER WILL ROBINSON" is blaring over loudspeakers.
I'm more worried about the government that knows whats better for our children, then we as parents do.
Thanks for the post!
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get a 486/66, slap in 2 Nics, d/l freesco and install it. Search the forums for bandwidth limiting.
The biggest issue I have had with freesco was a) bad floppies and b) finding supported nics. 3Com 3C509s and 3C905s both work great. On the ISA ones make sure you turn off PnP.
I've used this product for over 2 years without an issue. I'd reboot it once a month just because, but I can't think of a time I had to.
Good Luck
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