Linux.... Nothing... No out of the box recognition.
RaLink release an open-source driver in December 2004. In May 2005 (about a year ago), the onboard RaLink 2500 on my Averatec laptop worked out of the box in SuSE 9.3. So, I hate to say that, but you must have been using the wrong distro...
Rational people with complete information (I heart Adam Smith) should be running OS X on the desktop...
I'm willing to buy that, but what does Mac OS X would bring me, concretely ? I would have to change all my machine for overpriced branded PC, and pay for OS update. I would have access to a restricted set of applications compared to Windows, and I would not have the flexibility of Linux. I do not care about eye candies, and I do not care about iTunes (I don't own an iPod, and don't plan to get one anyway).
So why exactly should I spend more on a computer ? Just like your clients, I am pretty satisfied by my current OS and my hardware had been paid for long ago.
Get Fedora (yes it is still in many places considered the standard, just look at how many hosting providers provide is as the primary or only platform).
That make me want to scream. Who is the idiot who want to build his web presence on an OS which bug fixes (including security) will stop being provided in six months ? Why, ho why, not CentOS or another of the RHEL clone instead ?
Did Fedora Legacy got some traction while I was'nt looking ?
Once you have trained your mind on the fundamental theory, you will discover that most information technologies are quite simplistic.
Which might be absolutely true, but does not necessarily make you a good IT practitionner. The only guy we have at work who have a solid formal training in CS fundamental (B.Sc in Math, MS in CS) is a real genius indeed. Unfortunately, he does neither test nor comment his code, can't get his priorities straight and serisouly lack social skill. While his code is very elegant (if somewhat obscure), he does not get much more job done than mere MIS undergrads (and thus, not much more revenue). In the end, you need a skillset that match your job. And most IT job do not require discrete math, whatever you believe.
The computer-science programs at Carnegie-Mellon University, MIT, and Caltech aggressively teach theory but require their graduates to complete several massive computer-programming projects before receiving a bachelor of science.
What's massive on the scale of a University degree is a trivial side project on the scale of the industry. The OP might not have been very articulate saying it, but the problem with CS is that they do not teach you to work on existing codebase (95% of programming jobs out there) and you only work in small, mono-disciplinary team of people roughly of your skill level. That's not how it goes in the industry, where you have to work with many people, both incompetent and genius, on hacked-away codebase doing project that might last longer than you entire degree. To the defense of universities, there is not much they could do to prepare you for that.
It is interesting to hear you say this because I recall from my freshman writing courses that the subject matter was almost always informal or, to put it another way, not related in either style or substance to the more formalized writing that one uses in the business or technical environment excluding email with programming being the most formal writing of all.
Your first sentence 62 words long. I stopped reading right there.
Also, your whole post is one solid paragraph. Have you tried to reading it aloud ? You would be gasping for your breath before you got halfway.
I'm a college drop-out, and I have been working in IT for the past ten years. Gone from the bottom rung assembling PC for minimum wage, and now a system analyst in a consulting firm. The longest stretch I have been unemployed since I am in IT is six weeks. What does that tell you about your situation ?
You are free to believe what you like, it has no effect on the truth of what happened. Oracle refused to install on normal Linux. I don't know what the problem was, and apparantly neither did our Solaris guy.
The installation script explicitely check for supported Linux distribution. Failing that, it refuse to install. The fix take about 5 minutes to implement, and is easy enough to find on Google if you do not know what you are doing (basically, copy/etc/redhat-release from a supported RedHat version to your machine).
Point finger at the right place and blame Oracle for their brain-deadism, not Linux. Actually, point it at your total waste of a sysadmin who 1. did not knew Oracle support a limited set of distribution (common knowledge), and 2. could not troubleshoot a pretty simple and well-documented problem.
The fact that I have been using the same 40$ GF4 MX440 for the past two years pretty much invalidate your point. Run the Kororaa Xgl LiveCD quite well, too.
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Admins at your place are too lazy to type "sudo" ? I bet they are too lazy to document their work too, and to test their changes.
I have a question for you : which distro are you using on low-end PC ? This is an honest question, I am not looking to start a flame war.
Right now, my laptop is a PII 233 with 256 MB RAM. I have been using Breezy, and now the latest Dapper Flight. I feel it's barely adequate; any less memory, and I would spend half my time for the damn thing to stop swapping. Are you using distro that are tailor-made for low-memory systems instead ? If yes, what kind of compromise do they have to make to perform well in memory-tight setting ? What are your application choice for web and email on those machine ? Do you still use Firefox/Thunderbird, or something lighter ? Any non-obvious tips for getting the maximum performance from old clunkers ?
Fundamental things such as video, keyboard, and mouse should work immediately, with sane and functional fallbacks.
You mean just like Windows, where it work out-of-the-box 100% of the time ? Because it's not like you ever have to dig out that freakin' drivers CD for your video card while being stuck at 640x480...
K-12 teachers are underpaid, and generally lack a lot of computer skills that are necessary to make free-OSS work.
K-12 teachers are underpaid, and generally lack a lot of computer skills that are necessary to make computer work, period. And we can't blame them for that : they're teacher after after all, their job is to teach kids. Making computer work is the work of computer technician. If you believe that teachers without access to a good tech have an easy time making proprietary software work, you are very misguided and/or sadly out-of-touch with reality.
A more practical approach, if you are only looking at stopping cusual walk-by snooping, would be to carry a conventionnal wallet into a pocket lined with aluminium foil.
1. If you just plug your phone in any Ethernet port and get connected, that mean your VoIP is accessible at large. Personnally, I would not make my PBX reachable from the Internet.
2. Hopefully, your phone use some kind of encryption for the signalling and voice transmission. Not all do, don't know about Cisco.
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The plot. It was the plot. The rules where clunky, but the plot was engaging.
In fact, if the poster could take on the SIP encryption bounty on voip-info.org, I would be really happy !
Have you ever read the Open-Source Definition ? This is basically a rebranding of the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
This stupid Open-Source vs. Free Software rethoric get us nowhere. Please get over it already.
RaLink release an open-source driver in December 2004. In May 2005 (about a year ago), the onboard RaLink 2500 on my Averatec laptop worked out of the box in SuSE 9.3. So, I hate to say that, but you must have been using the wrong distro ...
I'm willing to buy that, but what does Mac OS X would bring me, concretely ? I would have to change all my machine for overpriced branded PC, and pay for OS update. I would have access to a restricted set of applications compared to Windows, and I would not have the flexibility of Linux. I do not care about eye candies, and I do not care about iTunes (I don't own an iPod, and don't plan to get one anyway).
So why exactly should I spend more on a computer ? Just like your clients, I am pretty satisfied by my current OS and my hardware had been paid for long ago.
Sure ! It's absolutely essential to running that spiffy new interface they call Aero, or something.
Beside that, I would not know.
That make me want to scream. Who is the idiot who want to build his web presence on an OS which bug fixes (including security) will stop being provided in six months ? Why, ho why, not CentOS or another of the RHEL clone instead ?
Did Fedora Legacy got some traction while I was'nt looking ?
Not quite. Actually, they renamed it "Fedora". But that's too much for some to understand ...
Which might be absolutely true, but does not necessarily make you a good IT practitionner. The only guy we have at work who have a solid formal training in CS fundamental (B.Sc in Math, MS in CS) is a real genius indeed. Unfortunately, he does neither test nor comment his code, can't get his priorities straight and serisouly lack social skill. While his code is very elegant (if somewhat obscure), he does not get much more job done than mere MIS undergrads (and thus, not much more revenue). In the end, you need a skillset that match your job. And most IT job do not require discrete math, whatever you believe.
What's massive on the scale of a University degree is a trivial side project on the scale of the industry. The OP might not have been very articulate saying it, but the problem with CS is that they do not teach you to work on existing codebase (95% of programming jobs out there) and you only work in small, mono-disciplinary team of people roughly of your skill level. That's not how it goes in the industry, where you have to work with many people, both incompetent and genius, on hacked-away codebase doing project that might last longer than you entire degree. To the defense of universities, there is not much they could do to prepare you for that.
Actually, SUSE would beat Ubuntu on that front by a large margin.
Ubuntu GUI administration tools are barely adequate, while YaST put MMC to shame.
Your first sentence 62 words long. I stopped reading right there.
Also, your whole post is one solid paragraph. Have you tried to reading it aloud ? You would be gasping for your breath before you got halfway.
I'm a college drop-out, and I have been working in IT for the past ten years. Gone from the bottom rung assembling PC for minimum wage, and now a system analyst in a consulting firm. The longest stretch I have been unemployed since I am in IT is six weeks. What does that tell you about your situation ?
The installation script explicitely check for supported Linux distribution. Failing that, it refuse to install. The fix take about 5 minutes to implement, and is easy enough to find on Google if you do not know what you are doing (basically, copy /etc/redhat-release from a supported RedHat version to your machine).
Point finger at the right place and blame Oracle for their brain-deadism, not Linux. Actually, point it at your total waste of a sysadmin who 1. did not knew Oracle support a limited set of distribution (common knowledge), and 2. could not troubleshoot a pretty simple and well-documented problem .
The fact that I have been using the same 40$ GF4 MX440 for the past two years pretty much invalidate your point. Run the Kororaa Xgl LiveCD quite well, too.
Admins at your place are too lazy to type "sudo" ? I bet they are too lazy to document their work too, and to test their changes.
Cool to have one of you around.
I have a question for you : which distro are you using on low-end PC ? This is an honest question, I am not looking to start a flame war.
Right now, my laptop is a PII 233 with 256 MB RAM. I have been using Breezy, and now the latest Dapper Flight. I feel it's barely adequate; any less memory, and I would spend half my time for the damn thing to stop swapping. Are you using distro that are tailor-made for low-memory systems instead ? If yes, what kind of compromise do they have to make to perform well in memory-tight setting ? What are your application choice for web and email on those machine ? Do you still use Firefox/Thunderbird, or something lighter ? Any non-obvious tips for getting the maximum performance from old clunkers ?
Thanks for any tips you may have !
You mean just like Windows, where it work out-of-the-box 100% of the time ? Because it's not like you ever have to dig out that freakin' drivers CD for your video card while being stuck at 640x480 ...
K-12 teachers are underpaid, and generally lack a lot of computer skills that are necessary to make computer work, period. And we can't blame them for that : they're teacher after after all, their job is to teach kids. Making computer work is the work of computer technician. If you believe that teachers without access to a good tech have an easy time making proprietary software work, you are very misguided and/or sadly out-of-touch with reality.
Speaking as an ex-school computer tech, BTW.
A more practical approach, if you are only looking at stopping cusual walk-by snooping, would be to carry a conventionnal wallet into a pocket lined with aluminium foil.
Oups. I just checked and Seamonkey does not include the calendar. Sorry for hitting reply too fast !
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Congrutalation on transmitting your über-secure Slashdot password in plain-text over unencrypted HTTP connections. w00t !!!11
Cool, but I see two issues here :
1. If you just plug your phone in any Ethernet port and get connected, that mean your VoIP is accessible at large. Personnally, I would not make my PBX reachable from the Internet.
2. Hopefully, your phone use some kind of encryption for the signalling and voice transmission. Not all do, don't know about Cisco.
Would it be possible to simply blacklist in DNS the server this rootkit is phoning home to ? Here, problem solved.