If you like Linux for tons of packages, and ease of use as a desktop system, go with FreeBSD.
If you hate Linux for its complexity, bloat, unclean filesystem, and long for something cleaner, go with Open or Net, I prefer Open myself.
If you hate linux for all those things, but don't want to make any large steps, then again, FreeBSD, its the closest thing to a baby step you'll make.
All the BSD's rock, all of them are much cleaner, and more consistent than your average linux distro, which is, in my humble opinion, the best reason to move over to them.
Am I the only slashdotter who feels that baseball is a) not news for nerds, and b) not stuff that matters? WTF is this doing here?
Video game, smideo game, baseball games blow. Nothing worse than simulating sitting around for nine innings watching idiots run laps around a diamond shaped pit. Boooooooring!
It baffles me how many people have no idea what serial is still good for. Spawn a getty on it, connect over a dialer program, and you are in, any laptop will do for that purpose.
Or, do what we do, we have an _old_ Livingston(Now Lucent) Portmaster 2 dialup modem bank that we use as a serial login platform. Mind you, the PM2 series used external modems, connected via serial lines, and connects to your network via ethernet. Instead of using modems, we plug each serial line into a unix box, and one into each router and switch. Telnet to the PM2, then attach to a particular line, and you have a login direct on that box. Very nice when your mucking around with ospf routing on a cisco, or firewall rules on a nix system, you can knock it offline without fear of being forced to drive out to the colo to fix the problem. Just log into the serial port. I'm not saying you should go ebay yourself a PM2, but Equinox Systems makes basically the same thing I just said, with more flexability, they specialize in serial over ip gear. They have impressed me at every tech show I have ever been to.
As for monitors and KVM's, they make all that stuff designed for noc usage. 1U rackmount kvm's compliment 1U flip up lcd displays with built in keyboards very well. IBM had that daisey chain method of joining server consoles a few years back, does that still exist? I always liked it. It was basically a cable that plugged into the "out" on one machine, and the "in" on the next in the chain. The end of the chain was a converter for video, and two ps/2 ports. Buttons on the front of the servers controlled which one had the console. Good idea and it had the bonus of being very clean. NOC's are plagued with wirey nightmares, IBM's solution really cleared it up.
We run a FreeBSD shop, and would rather stick to our usual rather than include a Linux box on the network. Has anyone had any luck with this? Will it run at all on non linux unix systems?
I know its karma doom, but I'd rather not run Linux.
...and he doesn't care about safety/privacy concerns.
I'm glad he's not on my network, I have enough moron's who don't care about security to deal with and make my life a living hell on a consistent basis.
Seriously, if you don't care about keeping your machine secure, then you shouldn't be on the net. The whole, "But I don't have anything of value on my PC" argument is total bullshit. Yes you do, its called bandwidth. You have a connection to the net, you are a viable host, a vector for the spreading of even more chaos onto the net.
Think your safe from crackers because you don't keep anything on your pc whatsoever? Think again, they will attack anything and everything that has an IP address. Even the lowliest 14.4 connection can still hand out the latest windows exploit like its free popcorn with extra butter, and spew forth a considerable amount of spam.
All you people who think you have nothing to lose, think again. I cancel service to people like you when your pc gets owned for the 50,000th time, and I get a pile of spam notices from AOL's spam feedback loop service.
You wouldn't buy a car and not care who else regularly drove it, yet so many people just bend over and take it up the ass from anyone and anything their pc may encounter while its on the net. Your just another source of random crap waiting to happen.
So, to answer your question and make my rant wothwhile, yes, you should still use firefox. Its one more stop toward your ISP never having to cancel your service due to an AUP violation.
I stand corrected, almost every unix system except sun's crap.
I say crap in jest, honestly its pretty damned stable, and ya have to respect that. Too bad sun management has its head up its own ass so far it can lick its own teeth.
Then you haven't looked. Case closed. Did you know that an improved version of Metal Gear: Solid was released exclusively for the Gamecube?
Too bad the controller is so small I cannot ever play it. I can appreciate Nintnendo trying to market to a young audience, but can't they make a decent controller for some over the age of 12? Even if it was bigger, the controls for most of the games SUCK ASS, case and point: Metroid.
Also, Final Fantasy 6 is widely regarded as the best in the series, and it was on the SNES. Metal Gear started on the NES. Of course, many people think that video games started with the PlayStation, so I can't really fault you there.
SNES != Gamecube, not by a longshot. Gamecube = better graphics, SNES = better games. Don't compare the Gamecube to the SNES, the SNES was a quality machine with some great titles. The gamecube is an FPS machine, devoid of anything worth playing, and the world's most poorly designed controller.
Take note, I love the xbox's original huge controller.
Actually, I did visit a urologist, that is what I meant by "my doc." I suppose I should have clarified that I did not mean my standard doctor, who I went to and got a refferal to said urologist without incident at my last checkup.
The irony of your last statement is that if anyone deserves a tubal, it is my fiance, who has serious back problems. Back to your earlier notion of a breeding centric culture, her doctor told her, "When you have kids, you'll probably put yourself in a wheelchair for the rest of your life." Not 'if', but 'when'. She didn't want kids before she knew that, and now, she really doesn't want them. But your right, she'll never get the procedure done, not at 24, and not anywhere near that age.
Besides were pretty sure that I am the easier one to neuter. I'm willing to step out of the gene pool and dry myself off. She'll be in the shallow edge, just dipping her feet in. A lip service paying member of the reproducing class if you will.
I can honestly say this doesn't bother me. I have never wanted kids, nor should I have kids. I would make the worst father in the world, and I am okay with that.
So, everytime someone warns me about damaging my ability to reproduce, I go ahead and do it. Tight pants, warm undies, gratuitous and long term use of hottubs at every oppurtunity. Now, I am going back to using my lap as a laptop rest. My Inspiron is one heck of a space heater. My boys will shoot out in coffins dag nabbit!
And invariably, I end up offending someone with my little "I don't want kids" rants. Tell me, why does the world care if I have kids? My doc said no on a vasectomy for a few years, as I am "still young (I'm almost 26), and will likely change my mind." and the possibility of a lawsuite is too great when it turns out to be irreversable.
leave it to this nations great Lawyer population to force me to own many items which can be construed as "Ball Warmers."
They switched from a numbering system to a name based system when they found they couldn't copyright the numbers. So when AMD and other clone makers appeared marketing "486's", they had to find a way to stand apart.
Technically, the Pentium is an i586, the P2 and so on are all i686 cores, with various levels of additional stuff thrown in that haven't warrented a major version change. When you build software for an ix86 platform, you target i386, or i686. (Or, be mandrake and build for i586 for some reason unbeknownst to me) There is no i786, or i886, nor will their likely ever be one, as Intel is probably looking to retire to x86 core in favor of IA64. Collectively, the x86 family is sometimes reffered to as IA-32, which is strange because Intel has other 32 bit, non-x86 archs under its belt as well. Sure you could call a Pentium 3 an i786, but the compiler would think you were nuts if you tried to build for that platform.
Also of interest, sometime between 80386 and i486, they dropped the 80 off of the front. Its pretty much gone now, not sure why. but I'll wager it was an attempt to copyright the label 486 that basically failed. Sure, it has a letter in the designation, so only Intel made 486's can be called i486, but what's the difference between an AMD 486, and an i486? Not a whole lot, and the name wasn't enough to set the two apart, hence the term "Pentium" was thought up.
But that last bit is just my best guess, treat it as such.
IT people don't have side jobs, they have every friend and relative begging for free tech support. My family complains about me nonstop because I will not be a free source of tech support, and my friends either continue to ask for it, despite my actions of apathy towards their problems, or they have heard me bitch about it so much that they have learned to stop asking.
I don't get it, my old man was an electrician, he fixed minor problems for family and friends, and was always compensated. Expenses were paid, and usually something nice was done in return, not always money, but dinner, or a gift, or something. Why is it that the minute I ask for ANYTHING in return, I become the bad guy in the conversation. They can ask me to drive 45 miles through heavy fog, but refuse to give me even a dollar for gas?
When it comes to side jobs, I work exclusively in the private sector. Until people realize that I have a life I'd like to live, my time is not worthless, and I'm not always thinking about computers to the point that I have no problem fixing your stupid little outlook express problems whenever you want, it'll stay that way.
The only thing that is worse than being asked to donate your time for NOTHING, is the people that ask me for free hardware because I have so much of it laying around. You people need to just die. Last time I checked, I did pay money for that stuff.
Your asking this on slashdot and you don't already know the answer? Seems to me you don't spend enough time on your computer. Who are you to judge your offspring if you yourself can't even keep 'with it'?
I disagree, I could still walk about proudly as a human being if I were a jizmopper. True the job is nasty and gross, but I bet they get free shows, and the ladies probably think nothing of walking naked right around you.
Now, sorting another man's crap..... is a job monkey's could be trained to do, and I would kill myself.
One job has naked ladies, the other has eyestrain and bananas. I've made my choice.
Your job must suck ass if it, in its entirety, involves sorting through another man's porn/real estate/penis enlargment/cum filled panty spam.
I can see it now, job description:
Must be able to sort legitimate email from mass unsolicited email. Ability to tolerate apes a plus, as you will be working a team of them. In fact, your department manager is a chimp. Requires opposable thumbs and general image recognition abilities.
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These are the things you find out when you have no life.
Isn't it great?
Charlie is a better name than "Beastie". Original artist or not, Beastie is a silly name for a shitty rollar coaster in Cinncinatti, Ohio.
Oh, and I stand corrected.
but the other BSDs have all moved away from beastie.
Where did this come from? His name is Charlie, its never been beastie.
Oh, and changing the FreeBSD logo is an awful idea. I don't think I need to defend my position, it just sucks.
If you like Linux for tons of packages, and ease of use as a desktop system, go with FreeBSD.
If you hate Linux for its complexity, bloat, unclean filesystem, and long for something cleaner, go with Open or Net, I prefer Open myself.
If you hate linux for all those things, but don't want to make any large steps, then again, FreeBSD, its the closest thing to a baby step you'll make.
All the BSD's rock, all of them are much cleaner, and more consistent than your average linux distro, which is, in my humble opinion, the best reason to move over to them.
Am I the only slashdotter who feels that baseball is a) not news for nerds, and b) not stuff that matters? WTF is this doing here?
Video game, smideo game, baseball games blow. Nothing worse than simulating sitting around for nine innings watching idiots run laps around a diamond shaped pit. Boooooooring!
It baffles me how many people have no idea what serial is still good for. Spawn a getty on it, connect over a dialer program, and you are in, any laptop will do for that purpose.
Or, do what we do, we have an _old_ Livingston(Now Lucent) Portmaster 2 dialup modem bank that we use as a serial login platform. Mind you, the PM2 series used external modems, connected via serial lines, and connects to your network via ethernet. Instead of using modems, we plug each serial line into a unix box, and one into each router and switch. Telnet to the PM2, then attach to a particular line, and you have a login direct on that box. Very nice when your mucking around with ospf routing on a cisco, or firewall rules on a nix system, you can knock it offline without fear of being forced to drive out to the colo to fix the problem. Just log into the serial port. I'm not saying you should go ebay yourself a PM2, but Equinox Systems makes basically the same thing I just said, with more flexability, they specialize in serial over ip gear. They have impressed me at every tech show I have ever been to.
As for monitors and KVM's, they make all that stuff designed for noc usage. 1U rackmount kvm's compliment 1U flip up lcd displays with built in keyboards very well. IBM had that daisey chain method of joining server consoles a few years back, does that still exist? I always liked it. It was basically a cable that plugged into the "out" on one machine, and the "in" on the next in the chain. The end of the chain was a converter for video, and two ps/2 ports. Buttons on the front of the servers controlled which one had the console. Good idea and it had the bonus of being very clean. NOC's are plagued with wirey nightmares, IBM's solution really cleared it up.
We run a FreeBSD shop, and would rather stick to our usual rather than include a Linux box on the network. Has anyone had any luck with this? Will it run at all on non linux unix systems?
I know its karma doom, but I'd rather not run Linux.
Normally I would agree with you, but as a sys admin who runs several web servers, all with php, the latest php bug was a huge problem for me.
I was getting attacked a month ago with the phpBB exploit that php-4.3.9 and prior versions were open to. The patch came out a week ago.
Sorry, I love *nix and open source, but its not a silver bullet. Every now and then it falters.
*I realize php != linux, but both being open source, it demonstrates that the concept while a good one, is not automagic.
Seriously, if you don't care about keeping your machine secure, then you shouldn't be on the net. The whole, "But I don't have anything of value on my PC" argument is total bullshit. Yes you do, its called bandwidth. You have a connection to the net, you are a viable host, a vector for the spreading of even more chaos onto the net.
Think your safe from crackers because you don't keep anything on your pc whatsoever? Think again, they will attack anything and everything that has an IP address. Even the lowliest 14.4 connection can still hand out the latest windows exploit like its free popcorn with extra butter, and spew forth a considerable amount of spam.
All you people who think you have nothing to lose, think again. I cancel service to people like you when your pc gets owned for the 50,000th time, and I get a pile of spam notices from AOL's spam feedback loop service.
You wouldn't buy a car and not care who else regularly drove it, yet so many people just bend over and take it up the ass from anyone and anything their pc may encounter while its on the net. Your just another source of random crap waiting to happen.
So, to answer your question and make my rant wothwhile, yes, you should still use firefox. Its one more stop toward your ISP never having to cancel your service due to an AUP violation.
I stand corrected, almost every unix system except sun's crap.
I say crap in jest, honestly its pretty damned stable, and ya have to respect that. Too bad sun management has its head up its own ass so far it can lick its own teeth.
And of course, you could create an index like this, or use the one that about 99% of all modenr unix system's already have. The command is 'locate'.
I heart reinventing the wheel due to ignorance.
Too bad the controller is so small I cannot ever play it. I can appreciate Nintnendo trying to market to a young audience, but can't they make a decent controller for some over the age of 12? Even if it was bigger, the controls for most of the games SUCK ASS, case and point: Metroid.
Also, Final Fantasy 6 is widely regarded as the best in the series, and it was on the SNES. Metal Gear started on the NES. Of course, many people think that video games started with the PlayStation, so I can't really fault you there.
SNES != Gamecube, not by a longshot. Gamecube = better graphics, SNES = better games. Don't compare the Gamecube to the SNES, the SNES was a quality machine with some great titles. The gamecube is an FPS machine, devoid of anything worth playing, and the world's most poorly designed controller.
Take note, I love the xbox's original huge controller.
Actually, I did visit a urologist, that is what I meant by "my doc." I suppose I should have clarified that I did not mean my standard doctor, who I went to and got a refferal to said urologist without incident at my last checkup.
The irony of your last statement is that if anyone deserves a tubal, it is my fiance, who has serious back problems. Back to your earlier notion of a breeding centric culture, her doctor told her, "When you have kids, you'll probably put yourself in a wheelchair for the rest of your life." Not 'if', but 'when'. She didn't want kids before she knew that, and now, she really doesn't want them. But your right, she'll never get the procedure done, not at 24, and not anywhere near that age.
Besides were pretty sure that I am the easier one to neuter. I'm willing to step out of the gene pool and dry myself off. She'll be in the shallow edge, just dipping her feet in. A lip service paying member of the reproducing class if you will.
I'm already fucked on that level, so, I don't care. I just want prevent any hope of my boys spreading.
I wouldn't, but someone would, and that is the problem.
And for the record, my Fiance has a kid, she ends up in a wheelchair, seriously. Back is F*%#%! up.
I can honestly say this doesn't bother me. I have never wanted kids, nor should I have kids. I would make the worst father in the world, and I am okay with that.
So, everytime someone warns me about damaging my ability to reproduce, I go ahead and do it. Tight pants, warm undies, gratuitous and long term use of hottubs at every oppurtunity. Now, I am going back to using my lap as a laptop rest. My Inspiron is one heck of a space heater. My boys will shoot out in coffins dag nabbit!
And invariably, I end up offending someone with my little "I don't want kids" rants. Tell me, why does the world care if I have kids? My doc said no on a vasectomy for a few years, as I am "still young (I'm almost 26), and will likely change my mind." and the possibility of a lawsuite is too great when it turns out to be irreversable.
leave it to this nations great Lawyer population to force me to own many items which can be construed as "Ball Warmers."
They switched from a numbering system to a name based system when they found they couldn't copyright the numbers. So when AMD and other clone makers appeared marketing "486's", they had to find a way to stand apart.
Technically, the Pentium is an i586, the P2 and so on are all i686 cores, with various levels of additional stuff thrown in that haven't warrented a major version change. When you build software for an ix86 platform, you target i386, or i686. (Or, be mandrake and build for i586 for some reason unbeknownst to me) There is no i786, or i886, nor will their likely ever be one, as Intel is probably looking to retire to x86 core in favor of IA64. Collectively, the x86 family is sometimes reffered to as IA-32, which is strange because Intel has other 32 bit, non-x86 archs under its belt as well. Sure you could call a Pentium 3 an i786, but the compiler would think you were nuts if you tried to build for that platform.
Also of interest, sometime between 80386 and i486, they dropped the 80 off of the front. Its pretty much gone now, not sure why. but I'll wager it was an attempt to copyright the label 486 that basically failed. Sure, it has a letter in the designation, so only Intel made 486's can be called i486, but what's the difference between an AMD 486, and an i486? Not a whole lot, and the name wasn't enough to set the two apart, hence the term "Pentium" was thought up.
But that last bit is just my best guess, treat it as such.
Well, she's horny as hell, so, in a way, yes. In another way, I often don't have much of a choice. :-)
Bleah.
I go home and have sex with my significant other, that usually makes me forget even the loudest, rudest and stupidest of customers.
Of course, this is a non option for most geeks.
What's next? Plant your PC/Mac and watch a house grow?"
I could only wish, I'd own more property than Ted Turner.
Actually, I would rather just not work on privately owned gear, I'd be happier with the time doing other things. You know, away from a computer?
As for my mom, I am a geek and a momma's boy after all, she gets her stuff fixed, no matter how bad my sister breaks it.
IT people don't have side jobs, they have every friend and relative begging for free tech support. My family complains about me nonstop because I will not be a free source of tech support, and my friends either continue to ask for it, despite my actions of apathy towards their problems, or they have heard me bitch about it so much that they have learned to stop asking.
I don't get it, my old man was an electrician, he fixed minor problems for family and friends, and was always compensated. Expenses were paid, and usually something nice was done in return, not always money, but dinner, or a gift, or something. Why is it that the minute I ask for ANYTHING in return, I become the bad guy in the conversation. They can ask me to drive 45 miles through heavy fog, but refuse to give me even a dollar for gas?
When it comes to side jobs, I work exclusively in the private sector. Until people realize that I have a life I'd like to live, my time is not worthless, and I'm not always thinking about computers to the point that I have no problem fixing your stupid little outlook express problems whenever you want, it'll stay that way.
The only thing that is worse than being asked to donate your time for NOTHING, is the people that ask me for free hardware because I have so much of it laying around. You people need to just die. Last time I checked, I did pay money for that stuff.
Do you ban them from using MSN?
Your asking this on slashdot and you don't already know the answer? Seems to me you don't spend enough time on your computer. Who are you to judge your offspring if you yourself can't even keep 'with it'?
I disagree, I could still walk about proudly as a human being if I were a jizmopper. True the job is nasty and gross, but I bet they get free shows, and the ladies probably think nothing of walking naked right around you.
Now, sorting another man's crap..... is a job monkey's could be trained to do, and I would kill myself.
One job has naked ladies, the other has eyestrain and bananas. I've made my choice.
Your job must suck ass if it, in its entirety, involves sorting through another man's porn/real estate/penis enlargment/cum filled panty spam.
I can see it now, job description:
Must be able to sort legitimate email from mass unsolicited email. Ability to tolerate apes a plus, as you will be working a team of them. In fact, your department manager is a chimp. Requires opposable thumbs and general image recognition abilities.