Somehow my preorder showed up yesterday, so I backed up all my stuff last night to an external firewire hd. Then I booted off my Tiger cd, formatted my hard drive, and did a fresh install of Tiger.
Once Tiger was running I still had to install a few drivers, such as my Unitor 8, and Delta 410.
After that, I reinstalled all my necessary apps like Logic Pro 7 and various soft-synths (Vanguard, Atmosphere, Stylus RMX, etc.) and started beating the hell out of this system.
After a few hours without any problems I concluded that, for my purposes, Tiger kicks ass.
I care because I'm the person most of my friends are going to call when their computer gets a virus. I'm also the person they're going to call when someone they know has computer problems.
If they can afford to buy a Mac, I tell them that's what they need. Once they get one, I never hear from them again regarding computer problems. Switching various family members and local business owners to a Mac has tremendously cut down on the annonying "my computer is broken" phone calls I receive.
If they can't afford a Mac, I switch them to Firefox and Thunderbird, setup PC-Cillin for virus scanning/firewall and scan their system with Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D.
Someone care to explain WHY Nikon would get upset about a software company making their software compatible with Nikon's hardware?! Why the hell would they encrypt information like this anyways?!
I've got a few machines running FreeBSD 4.11 with 2200S controllers with no stability problems. Most of the machines have a RAID 1 array for the OS and a RAID 5 array for/var/db or/var/www, etc.
Which version of FreeBSD have you tried the 2200S with?
I use a bunch of various Adaptec RAID controllers in my FreeBSD and OpenBSD servers. The reverse-engineered drivers always work fine, and perform very well. If I have a drive fail, I have to reboot the system, and enter Adaptec's BIOS to get the new drive online.
What OpenBSD wants is documentation that will help them write utilities to perform array managment without having to reboot into Adaptec's BIOS.
Try reading the article. He tested a NetBSD laptop, a FreeBSD server and an OpenBSD firewall, and none of them had any problems from an attempted forkbomb.
Internet Explorer will automatically open when they click the "Windows Update" icon. They may click the "Windows Update" icon, but not the big blue "e".
I've upgraded about 6 (production) machines from 4.10 -> 5.2.x and 5.3... Just follow the instructions near the bottom of/usr/src/UPDATING, and make sure to read the footnotes for each step.
I've had no problems with the upgrade procedure. I did however have problems with one of the machines (5.2) crashing when it ran daily and weekly periodics.
I had to remove the execute bit on two scripts, iirc.
It can be done, just read the docs and perform a backup just in case.
Now, all of this would be moot if there were a compelling reason to push to Apache2. The impetus would be there to do the work. But, right now, the last of the 1.x series is just as stable and performs as well as Apache2. That means that there's simply no reason to do the work, and Open Source doesn't like to do unnecessary work.
What happens when the Apache Foundation decides that they will no longer backport security patches into the 1.x branch?
Everyone will decide Apache2 compliance is finally a good thing, and it'll be weeks before it's finally safe to use.
I hope there are no exploits in Apache before PHP is ready.
Is the iPod supposed to just know how to unencode any DRM'd file?
What if I write my own DRM routine and encode all my music with it? Is is Apple's fault when my iPod won't play the file format that it wasn't designed to play?!
Real reverse-engineered the way the iPod unencodes their files and they proclaimed that their files will work on the iPod. Now they don't. Hell, they probably shouldn't be advertising their crap using Apple's brand name anyways.
Hey, let's help MS fix Windows. Let's decide that Windows can function if we replace NTKernel.exe with LinuxKernel.exe and watch Microsoft support that in all future versions of Windows. It'll be fun. Yay!
Yeah, imagine if everyone here actually shared knowledge and tried to help eachother. Nice suggestion on trying the 2.0 stream. I haven't played with 2.0-pre on Linux, but the last snapshot I built actually runs pretty well on FreeBSD, so it'll probably run as well or better on Linux.:/
It just sounded like you were the most Linux-savvy person at work, and if they decide to make the switch you'd better be ready. Switching to Linux is beneficial, but never easy. Everyone in the office will be asking you questions ALL day. If you don't know your distro of choice inside out as well as gnome or kde and all the dependency issues, advocating Linux isn't the best idea.
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Somehow my preorder showed up yesterday, so I backed up all my stuff last night to an external firewire hd. Then I booted off my Tiger cd, formatted my hard drive, and did a fresh install of Tiger.
Once Tiger was running I still had to install a few drivers, such as my Unitor 8, and Delta 410.
After that, I reinstalled all my necessary apps like Logic Pro 7 and various soft-synths (Vanguard, Atmosphere, Stylus RMX, etc.) and started beating the hell out of this system.
After a few hours without any problems I concluded that, for my purposes, Tiger kicks ass.
I care because I'm the person most of my friends are going to call when their computer gets a virus. I'm also the person they're going to call when someone they know has computer problems.
If they can afford to buy a Mac, I tell them that's what they need. Once they get one, I never hear from them again regarding computer problems. Switching various family members and local business owners to a Mac has tremendously cut down on the annonying "my computer is broken" phone calls I receive.
If they can't afford a Mac, I switch them to Firefox and Thunderbird, setup PC-Cillin for virus scanning/firewall and scan their system with Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D.
Someone care to explain WHY Nikon would get upset about a software company making their software compatible with Nikon's hardware?! Why the hell would they encrypt information like this anyways?!
This is why people should be embraching the BSD License, where "Free" means Free.
I have no problem reading in a car, but trying to play a game on my cellphone makes me feel sick.
I made the switch, but I got a PowerMac first, then got the iPod.
I've got a few machines running FreeBSD 4.11 with 2200S controllers with no stability problems. Most of the machines have a RAID 1 array for the OS and a RAID 5 array for /var/db or /var/www, etc.
Which version of FreeBSD have you tried the 2200S with?
I use a bunch of various Adaptec RAID controllers in my FreeBSD and OpenBSD servers. The reverse-engineered drivers always work fine, and perform very well. If I have a drive fail, I have to reboot the system, and enter Adaptec's BIOS to get the new drive online.
What OpenBSD wants is documentation that will help them write utilities to perform array managment without having to reboot into Adaptec's BIOS.
MS porting Windows to Sparc would be an "investment" on their part. They'd have to do work. Sometimes the return just isn't worth the effort.
All Adaptec has to do is give OpenBSD the specs they're asking for. OpenBSD will write all the code, drivers, etc. based off of those specs.
Even if OpenBSD's native support of these Adaptec products only sold a few extra cards, it's free money to Adaptec.
Try reading the article. He tested a NetBSD laptop, a FreeBSD server and an OpenBSD firewall, and none of them had any problems from an attempted forkbomb.
Trolls like to make shit up. FreeBSD4 + LinuxThreads is gonna rock the house.
Internet Explorer will automatically open when they click the "Windows Update" icon. They may click the "Windows Update" icon, but not the big blue "e".
Yeah, but "RAID Array" is probably the most acceptable redundification (TM) of an acronym.
I have Adaptec documentation with the phrase "RAID Array" in it.
Meanwhile, most people don't know the difference between their address bar and ${search_engine}'s search field.
OpenBSD does support SMP.
http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html
Most of that would sound good, if Ali G. was reading it. =)
reset jumper.
Anyone have the IPs so I can put them in my blacklist?
I've upgraded about 6 (production) machines from 4.10 -> 5.2.x and 5.3... Just follow the instructions near the bottom of /usr/src/UPDATING, and make sure to read the footnotes for each step.
I've had no problems with the upgrade procedure. I did however have problems with one of the machines (5.2) crashing when it ran daily and weekly periodics.
I had to remove the execute bit on two scripts, iirc.
It can be done, just read the docs and perform a backup just in case.
Now, all of this would be moot if there were a compelling reason to push to Apache2. The impetus would be there to do the work. But, right now, the last of the 1.x series is just as stable and performs as well as Apache2. That means that there's simply no reason to do the work, and Open Source doesn't like to do unnecessary work.
What happens when the Apache Foundation decides that they will no longer backport security patches into the 1.x branch?
Everyone will decide Apache2 compliance is finally a good thing, and it'll be weeks before it's finally safe to use.
I hope there are no exploits in Apache before PHP is ready.
of course it's mounted read only when you boot single user 'rescue' mode. you have to mount it read/write after: /sbin/mount -u /
/sbin/swapon -a
/sbin/mount -a -t ufs
turning on swap is a good idea as well:
then you can try mounting all the other partitions:
Yeah, I'm getting 300+ kB/s...
Is the iPod supposed to just know how to unencode any DRM'd file?
What if I write my own DRM routine and encode all my music with it? Is is Apple's fault when my iPod won't play the file format that it wasn't designed to play?!
Real reverse-engineered the way the iPod unencodes their files and they proclaimed that their files will work on the iPod. Now they don't. Hell, they probably shouldn't be advertising their crap using Apple's brand name anyways.
Hey, let's help MS fix Windows. Let's decide that Windows can function if we replace NTKernel.exe with LinuxKernel.exe and watch Microsoft support that in all future versions of Windows. It'll be fun. Yay!
Yeah, imagine if everyone here actually shared knowledge and tried to help eachother. Nice suggestion on trying the 2.0 stream. I haven't played with 2.0-pre on Linux, but the last snapshot I built actually runs pretty well on FreeBSD, so it'll probably run as well or better on Linux. :/
Thanks. Like I said, I wasn't trying to troll.
It just sounded like you were the most Linux-savvy person at work, and if they decide to make the switch you'd better be ready. Switching to Linux is beneficial, but never easy. Everyone in the office will be asking you questions ALL day. If you don't know your distro of choice inside out as well as gnome or kde and all the dependency issues, advocating Linux isn't the best idea.