For best support I'd say use LDAP. Everything seems to support it, Windows/*nix, Apache, PHP, Perl, etc., and I think it can be integrated into Active Directory for further customizability.
The original board came with a BIOS that did not support the XP processor. Later, a BIOS update came out which added support for it, and that BIOS was shipped with the motherboard so that it could be sold as an XP board. Something like 2 weeks ago, a new BIOS came out, apparently just a bugfix release, which fixed the problems I had with it in Linux.
A motherboard without a BIOS is like a car without a steering wheel
If you don't have a wheel you can still start it and drive, you just can't choose where to drive. Kinda like Windows =)
Without a BIOS you won't get more than a black screen.
MB might be great, but BIOS is another story
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I had a lot of problems with my AMD Athlon XP 1700+ with an Asus A7V133-C motherboard in Linux. I thought it was the Athlon/AGP bug, but the fixes for that didn't help. Programs kept segfaulting/causing bus errors, and sometimes the system hang.
Then I happened to find an upgrade to my BIOS, flashed it and suddenly everything worked perfectly. If you have weird problems that you can't seem to get fixed, try to look for a BIOS update! It's always a good idea, even if your system works, to check for new BIOSes regulary.
A motherboard without a BIOS is like a car without an engine. Make sure the BIOS is a good one!
I seriously thought this might be something worth investing in, but "To fully experience the Sharp USA site, you need to have Version 4 or above of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator Version 4.x. Download Internet Explorer" on MZ.9.9 really made any kind of decision easy... Forget it.
That's why I run my own email server. Broadband is very usual today, and all you need is that old 386 dusting in the closet.
This will probably never be a problem
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The Root of All E-Mail
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The DNS system is probably one of the least problematic systems. The zone files that are spread out to the root servers are also "publicly" availiable. No, you can't get them (would be a problem because of spam, etc.) but ie. large ISPs can get them to run their own root level hiearchy. This is good for large ISPs as it will cut down on bandwidth usage. This might also be a great solution for the future. If ISPs hosted the root level zones themselves, the DNS system would be virtually unbreakable and the bandwidth usage due to DNS requests would dissapear.
This is somewhat offtopic, but I just thought I'd share this. I had a lot of problems with my AMD Athlon XP 1700+ with an Asus A7V133-C motherboard in Linux. I thought it was the Athlon/AGP bug, but the fixes for that didn't help. Programs kept segfaulting/causing bus errors, and sometimes the system hang.
Then I happened to find an upgrade to my BIOS, flashed it and suddenly everything worked perfectly. If you have weird problems that you can't seem to get fixed, try to look for a BIOS update! It's always a good idea, even if your system works, to check for new BIOSes regulary.
With Microsoft, every year or two you have to learn a completely new system. The UI changes radically, everything you knew no longer works, and you have to learn all over again where everything is. Most of your old files are no longer accepted, and you have to laboriously convert them to the latest format. All the menus and config windows have changed, so you spend a lot of time exploring until you find where things are on your New! Improved! system.
What really is scary is that you said that as if it was a good thing! Am I just really weird, or why was I able to help someone with a quite advanced system administration problem on a Windows XP computer when the latest Windows version I've used is 2000 and that was a year ago? Let me tell why, nothing changes! It's the same code with a new layout, and all the things have been moved (as you said) just so that it *seems* new. Hey, everything has changed, must be really good, let's buy it and use 10h to learn the new locations of all the old functions. Most of your old files are no longer accepted, still, the new files which are required for anything to work don't seem to bring anything good with them!?
Contrast this with the unix environment. 25 years ago, I learned how to use a shell and commands like cat, cc, ls, grep, etc. They all still work. Code that I wrote 20 years ago still compiles with the same cc command, and runs the same way.
Yeah! Ain't it great! And still you can use the latest USB devices and play 3D accelerated games using Linux!
Ever heard of RPMs? Besides, the time it took to fix your compile error was probably less than it would have taken for you to go to a store and by all those (and you wouldn't even be able to run PHP scripts, which I assume you wanted to do since you needed php =)
People are stupid. It's the biggest obstacle to Linux.
As it might be true, that's one of the things I love about Linux. Once and for all I can enjoy an OS where the community behind it isn't just a bunch of newbies and generally stupid ppl. When I go to a message board looking for answers, I usually find the answers, not the usual "why doesn't this work?" questions that can be found in "normal" boards for Windows users.
Re:Because MySQL isn't a real database
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Yes, I know that. But with 2.5gigs it should be able to do genetic research =)
Why is ie. Oracle 9i a 2.5gig installation and requires 512mb ram, while MySQL requires a few 10megs and virtually no ram? What does Oracle give, that MySQL doesn't? I'm looking for something very revolutionary, because 2.5 gigs can't just be transaction support =)
I just thought I'd report how my mail server handled the shutdown. When I heard ORBZ was shutting down, I stared to look for another service. After some research I decided to use relays.osirusoft.com and spew.relays.osirusoft.com. I've been running the server for over a day now with those filters, and I haven't recieved any spam (neither has any of the other users). Good mail has come through though =)
I recommend the two services I mentioned here, they seem to work really well!
Essentially, the U.S. government wants the ability to mark packets going through the Internet as emergency communications and then develop a plan to ensure these packets get preferential treatment by all the ISPs that carry them.
I hope they are not thinking about setting a special bit in the Tcp/IP packet header. Or actually it might be fun; get out of the way, emergency packet coming through!
Might get those files a bit faster =)
Who the hell would be stupid enough to opt-in for spam?
Many! It's not called spam, it usually goes under the name of "Special Offers" or "Free newsletter". Everyone doesn't know that if they give out their email address to unreliable destinations, they will get spammed.
Slashdot Mirror
Says they could have not have done it without open source community.
;)
As it runs on Linux, I can imagine it could have been quite hard without the open source community...
The release schedule on mozilla.org shows a release of 1.0 RC1, but no 1.0. When is 1.0 scheduled to come out?
For best support I'd say use LDAP. Everything seems to support it, Windows/*nix, Apache, PHP, Perl, etc., and I think it can be integrated into Active Directory for further customizability.
So, are the next versions of RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, etc. going to be released with an Apache 2 package?
I found a fast mirror... Stay away!
I'm chasing that same tail...
The original board came with a BIOS that did not support the XP processor. Later, a BIOS update came out which added support for it, and that BIOS was shipped with the motherboard so that it could be sold as an XP board. Something like 2 weeks ago, a new BIOS came out, apparently just a bugfix release, which fixed the problems I had with it in Linux.
A motherboard without a BIOS is like a car without a steering wheel
If you don't have a wheel you can still start it and drive, you just can't choose where to drive. Kinda like Windows =)
Without a BIOS you won't get more than a black screen.
I had a lot of problems with my AMD Athlon XP 1700+ with an Asus A7V133-C motherboard in Linux. I thought it was the Athlon/AGP bug, but the fixes for that didn't help. Programs kept segfaulting/causing bus errors, and sometimes the system hang.
Then I happened to find an upgrade to my BIOS, flashed it and suddenly everything worked perfectly. If you have weird problems that you can't seem to get fixed, try to look for a BIOS update! It's always a good idea, even if your system works, to check for new BIOSes regulary.
A motherboard without a BIOS is like a car without an engine. Make sure the BIOS is a good one!
I seriously thought this might be something worth investing in, but "To fully experience the Sharp USA site, you need to have Version 4 or above of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator Version 4.x. Download Internet Explorer" on MZ .9.9 really made any kind of decision easy... Forget it.
... and of course an ISP that doesn't block port 25... =)
That's why I run my own email server. Broadband is very usual today, and all you need is that old 386 dusting in the closet.
The DNS system is probably one of the least problematic systems. The zone files that are spread out to the root servers are also "publicly" availiable. No, you can't get them (would be a problem because of spam, etc.) but ie. large ISPs can get them to run their own root level hiearchy. This is good for large ISPs as it will cut down on bandwidth usage. This might also be a great solution for the future. If ISPs hosted the root level zones themselves, the DNS system would be virtually unbreakable and the bandwidth usage due to DNS requests would dissapear.
This is somewhat offtopic, but I just thought I'd share this. I had a lot of problems with my AMD Athlon XP 1700+ with an Asus A7V133-C motherboard in Linux. I thought it was the Athlon/AGP bug, but the fixes for that didn't help. Programs kept segfaulting/causing bus errors, and sometimes the system hang.
Then I happened to find an upgrade to my BIOS, flashed it and suddenly everything worked perfectly. If you have weird problems that you can't seem to get fixed, try to look for a BIOS update! It's always a good idea, even if your system works, to check for new BIOSes regulary.
If you make them use something like PHP, you can easily make them stay at their side of the server...
and add CVS to that and your running the show...
With Microsoft, every year or two you have to learn a completely new system. The UI changes radically, everything you knew no longer works, and you have to learn all over again where everything is. Most of your old files are no longer accepted, and you have to laboriously convert them to the latest format. All the menus and config windows have changed, so you spend a lot of time exploring until you find where things are on your New! Improved! system.
What really is scary is that you said that as if it was a good thing! Am I just really weird, or why was I able to help someone with a quite advanced system administration problem on a Windows XP computer when the latest Windows version I've used is 2000 and that was a year ago? Let me tell why, nothing changes! It's the same code with a new layout, and all the things have been moved (as you said) just so that it *seems* new. Hey, everything has changed, must be really good, let's buy it and use 10h to learn the new locations of all the old functions.
Most of your old files are no longer accepted, still, the new files which are required for anything to work don't seem to bring anything good with them!?
Contrast this with the unix environment. 25 years ago, I learned how to use a shell and commands like cat, cc, ls, grep, etc. They all still work. Code that I wrote 20 years ago still compiles with the same cc command, and runs the same way.
Yeah! Ain't it great! And still you can use the latest USB devices and play 3D accelerated games using Linux!
I rest my case.
because I don't need to compile
Ever heard of RPMs? Besides, the time it took to fix your compile error was probably less than it would have taken for you to go to a store and by all those (and you wouldn't even be able to run PHP scripts, which I assume you wanted to do since you needed php =)
Well, I'm usually not looking for an answer to "why doesn't this work?"...
People are stupid. It's the biggest obstacle to Linux.
As it might be true, that's one of the things I love about Linux. Once and for all I can enjoy an OS where the community behind it isn't just a bunch of newbies and generally stupid ppl. When I go to a message board looking for answers, I usually find the answers, not the usual "why doesn't this work?" questions that can be found in "normal" boards for Windows users.
Yes, I know that. But with 2.5gigs it should be able to do genetic research =)
Why is ie. Oracle 9i a 2.5gig installation and requires 512mb ram, while MySQL requires a few 10megs and virtually no ram? What does Oracle give, that MySQL doesn't? I'm looking for something very revolutionary, because 2.5 gigs can't just be transaction support =)
I just thought I'd report how my mail server handled the shutdown.
When I heard ORBZ was shutting down, I stared to look for another service. After some research I decided to use relays.osirusoft.com and spew.relays.osirusoft.com. I've been running the server for over a day now with those filters, and I haven't recieved any spam (neither has any of the other users). Good mail has come through though =)
I recommend the two services I mentioned here, they seem to work really well!
Essentially, the U.S. government wants the ability to mark packets going through the Internet as emergency communications and then develop a plan to ensure these packets get preferential treatment by all the ISPs that carry them.
I hope they are not thinking about setting a special bit in the Tcp/IP packet header. Or actually it might be fun; get out of the way, emergency packet coming through!
Might get those files a bit faster =)
Who the hell would be stupid enough to opt-in for spam?
Many! It's not called spam, it usually goes under the name of "Special Offers" or "Free newsletter". Everyone doesn't know that if they give out their email address to unreliable destinations, they will get spammed.