Most computer users don't know what HA really means, but I honestly don't blame them. It is a very specialized field, and to be completely honest, no desktop user really needs HA in any form or fashion.
What sickens me is the claim that Motorola makes in their press release.
"Until now, however, a HA Linux solution for applications that require near constant uptime -- such as Operation Administration & Maintenance (OA&M) platforms, call servers, IP gateways, gatekeepers and home location registers -- was not available. MCG has recognized this need and filled it with its advanced HA Linux offering. "
This is, quite frankly, bullshit. Wait, don't moderate me down yet, I do know what I'm talking about. I work for a company that sells HA for linux, and has done so for almost a year now. You may have seen me at Comdex Fall or Atlanta Linux Expo, and you might see me at Comdex Spring. I work for Starfire Technology and we are the nice people who sell RSF-1 (and coming REAL soon, RSF-2) on behalf of RSI. I'm the guy who does the demos. Nice to meet you, especially since my product doesn't exist.;)
Not to mention the existence of decent open-source HA for linux. Do a lookup for heartbeat on freshmeat.net.
I'm not gonna turn this into a sales pitch, but RSF1 (and 2) is a damned good HA solution for Linux. Its small, efficient, very configurable yet informed-user-friendly, and well supported in the linux community. Works on Red Hat, OpenLinux, Debian, and Mandrake (didnt I already say RH though?). Other main point is the fact that RSF1 can make multiple systems HA in a mixed OS environment. RSF1 has been ported to HPUX, Solaris, NT, BSD, and AIX. Due to its simplicity and elegance (go perl), it could be ported to virtually anything. Requires no proprietary hardware, and I like to think we give really good support.;)
Anyways, I'll stop selling it now. I just wanted to set the record straight. If you're in the North Carolina region, and you want to see us show our stuff off, we're giving a demo of RSF2 this Thursday night at the Triangle Area Lug meeting. Any further questions can be directed to spot@linuxpower.org or rob@starfiretechnology.com
Follow that link to its home page... and we find that Martin's Gun Repair is affiliated with the NRA and is a member of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Webring. (cover your eyes children!) Not to mention being geographically located in MiddleSEX, North Carolina (same state as me & pb...;) So, for the second degree of separation, I put NRA into NorthernLight's search box... and got this for hit #3:
Seems innocent, right? Wrong again. Such videos as "Playboys", "Pretty woman" (Julia Roberts as a prostitute!), "Prince and the showgirl", "Puppy love!" (animal pr0n), "Puss in boots", "Romeo & Juliet" (contains frontal nudity), and my personal favorite "Spot goes to school". Hey, it might not be hardcore pr0n, but it will always have a special place in my heart.
...and if you took this seriously, you smoketh the bad crack (drug use allegations!)
This is a typical example of slashdot being months behind the rest of the informed internet... its gotten to the point where slashdot would only be providing me useful information if i took a time machine a few months into the future and read todays news.
Blah. Im sure this will get moderated down, but seriously slashdot people... try to stay somewhat recent. Month old bugtraq discussions != good current news.
Hey Peter, long time no see.:) You really need to get out more, there's a big 'ol sign in front of the ElBo at Crabtree mall, right here in our own hometown of Raleigh proclaiming their Linux Gaming section. The Penguins are coming, doo bee doo bee doo. ~spot
virii. you know what? when you can say you have been a member of the virus community since the late 80s, i think you have earned the right to call more than one virus anything you damn well please. and i call them virii, because every one who knew a damned thing about virii, called them virii. and they weren't script kids. besides, what was your SAT Verbal? I'd wager mine was higher.
but the llamas will argue semantics eternally while the rest of us are productive.
Besides being the name of a great Tori Amos single, this virus was discovered way back in 1997 and sparked a large amount of discussion amongst the virii community as to the feasibility and likelyhood of linux virii. Also, several Bliss-like virii later appeared, prompting most major anti-virus companies to release *nix versions of their AV toolkits. My question is, why is slashdot reporting news that has been known for over 2 years?
as a resident of North Carolina, I'm used to getting screwed at every turn by our fine legislators... however, most of our residents will simply leave that line blank. as to me? im not concerned. i wouldn't buy something online if you held a gun to my head, so i can put "$0.00" on that line without guilt. guess thats a bit of the ex-hacker speaking out.
I love my slashdot shirt, I got one at Comdex, and wore it on the last day of working my booth in the LBE. (bravely defying company policy) Keep the cool designs coming.:)
Anonymity will always exist on the net
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Require me to have a licence? I'll forge mine. Or better yet, I'll use yours. The underground will create a new scene, one devoted to net-identity creation/trading/distribution... the point here is that anonymity is what makes the internet such a beautiful thing, arguably the most important creation of this last thousand years. And it will never die. So while I choose to use my/. acct, I can still post as an Anonymous Coward if i so choose.
(Branching over into the other/. story for a bridging story)
When i was active in the BBS community many a night ago, my favorite board decided that everyone needed to fill out a information form and turn it in to the sysop so that he could confirm our identities on posts in the message forums... a few phone calls later, a few of us decided to create an individual with the nickname of "Anonymous" and turn in a stat sheet for him. The password was known to almost all of the regulars, and we used it to post when we wanted anonymity.
For 90% of the internet, the illusion of privacy and anonymity is enough. They don't need more than a safety blanket, even if it is an illusion. But for the other 10% of us in the know, and concerned about our internet rights, this idea of "name tags" is utterly absurd.
~spot
{[- I'm the guy who lost his voice screaming his demo over Caldera at Comdex. -]}
Being at the Redhat booth at the LBE, which is wedged between Caldera and Corel... its a tossup between who is more annoying. At least Corel isnt lipsynching to madonna like they were during setup... but that dumb "E...Business" chant that Caldera is enforcing is drowning me out. I'm having to scream over it to talk to the people at my booth...i swear, before this week is over, i will have to duct tape everyone's mouths (at Caldera) shut. ok... no more ranting from me...
Ugh. Double and triple ugh. But what were we to expect from a self proclaimed "pissant"? JP, your story keeps changing on the packetstorm fiasco, first it was nuns covered in seminal fluids, then death threats, and now pictures of your sister? This is such a load of shit... im glad I have boots on. I've seen the packetstorm archives, and honestly, you're spouting off lies. Congratulations, you made an even bigger idiot out of yourself. (and here i didnt think it possible) And to call out Ken Williams? You're a sad little ignorant media whore. I feel dirty just having to talk about jp.
Slashdot folks, you all should be ashamed of yourselves. Who is next on your interview list, Satan himself? JP is the biggest sellout & poser, seeking to elevate his name at any cost, be it hackers, crackers, or broken laws. And then you don't even have the nerve to site the number one source of valid information about John. www.attrition.org Total nonsense. Can't you guys find someone who does constructive/productive work in the industry, rather than a proven liar? Interview Ken Williams instead, at least he's honest. Again, i repeat. Blecch.
Its sad that these big companies are having to throw around high priced lawsuits to hide the fact that they got caught with their pants down. They should have anticipated the need for DVD software on the linux platform, but instead they chose to leave it out, instantly making it a target for geeks, hackers, and coders everywhere.
Whoever brought the suit up should be ashamed of themselves.
Hey mom, look. Caldera will install from Windows.:P Big flipping deal. I mean, so what? I honestly wouldn't want to install a distribution from anything with a kernel leaking that much memory. It'd suck to have windows decide to BSOD when I was "walking my Lizard". A RH installation is simple enough for the average jane user. Boot off CD, and p'n'c.
Then again, this entire article is petty space filler. If you like Caldera better than RH, use Caldera. If you like RH better, use RH. If you like Slackware better... well, i wont comment. After all, this revolution is about choice, right? But it's CNET, so we can all claw and hiss over it for a while.
Honestly, I'm not biased by the fact that i work for a RedHat ISV. Or that I grew up in Raleigh/Durham, NC.
the windows 3.1 (now NT) boxen had names too, but this forum might have children reading it, and besides, those were never officially sanctioned names.;)
for the record, i've seen the entire packetstorm archives. (long before they were taken down) Nowhere in them was slanderous material or pictures. Ken Williams had a legitimate lawsuit against Harvard that he chose not to pursue.
just setting the record straight... im not even going to touch that other comment about JP being a good guy. that user@juno.com obviously couldnt hack his way out of a paperbag, much less know anything about the scene.
Im sure JP is popping corks right now, just from the hits he's getting off this previously fine webpage. The fact that/. seems to be advocating any sort of Antionline project is revolting.
1)Antionline has censored links. This means that if a site they dont like (hackernews.com, packetstorm, to name a mere few) links to them, you cannot follow that link to them. And censorship of any kind is bad.
2)John Vranesevich is a criminal. Proof: http://www.attrition.org/negation/www/ao.040.html http://www.attrition.org/negation/www/ao.030.html http://www.attrition.org/news/content/ken.letter http://www.attrition.org/news/content/99-06-29.001 .html http://www.attrition.org/negation/special/
He's no better than CPM. Hi Carolyn! 3)JP is a media whore, he'll say and do absolutely anything to get in your email or browser, even if it involves outright lies and breaking the law.
Yeah, im ranting, and im sure that some of you will claim that because i'm an NCState student, my rants are biased. However, I'm merely disappointed that slashdot would support anything antionline does. Makes me wonder if Hemos has some sort of Faustian deal signed with antionline....
Shoutouts to Ken Williams for coming out on top through all the bullshit, and all the ehap kids, especially zeno & dox.
How strange it is that at one moment, the good president is willing to declare "cyberwar" against Milosevic... then at another, he creates a task force to look into "illegalities" on the internet. Just my 2 cents. "without evil, there is no good."
The MS box is also taking a lot of packeting... multiple channels on IRC are bragging about how many packets they can hit the Win2k server with... Regardless of OS, without good firewalling, any sort of box will crash if it is packeted heavy enough...
When i asked a few of them if they were going to packet the PPC box, they called me a blasphemer. Way to advocate linux.:P
(for the record, i run 2.2.10 with firewalling. so dont jump all over my case.)
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Most computer users don't know what HA really means, but I honestly don't blame them. It is a very specialized field, and to be completely honest, no desktop user really needs HA in any form or fashion.
;)
;)
What sickens me is the claim that Motorola makes in their press release.
"Until now, however, a HA Linux solution for applications that require near constant uptime -- such as Operation Administration & Maintenance (OA&M) platforms, call servers, IP gateways, gatekeepers and home location registers -- was not available. MCG has recognized this need and filled it with its advanced HA Linux offering. "
This is, quite frankly, bullshit. Wait, don't moderate me down yet, I do know what I'm talking about. I work for a company that sells HA for linux, and has done so for almost a year now. You may have seen me at Comdex Fall or Atlanta Linux Expo, and you might see me at Comdex Spring. I work for Starfire Technology and we are the nice people who sell RSF-1 (and coming REAL soon, RSF-2) on behalf of RSI. I'm the guy who does the demos. Nice to meet you, especially since my product doesn't exist.
Not to mention the existence of decent open-source HA for linux. Do a lookup for heartbeat on freshmeat.net.
I'm not gonna turn this into a sales pitch, but RSF1 (and 2) is a damned good HA solution for Linux. Its small, efficient, very configurable yet informed-user-friendly, and well supported in the linux community. Works on Red Hat, OpenLinux, Debian, and Mandrake (didnt I already say RH though?). Other main point is the fact that RSF1 can make multiple systems HA in a mixed OS environment. RSF1 has been ported to HPUX, Solaris, NT, BSD, and AIX. Due to its simplicity and elegance (go perl), it could be ported to virtually anything. Requires no proprietary hardware, and I like to think we give really good support.
Anyways, I'll stop selling it now. I just wanted to set the record straight. If you're in the North Carolina region, and you want to see us show our stuff off, we're giving a demo of RSF2 this Thursday night at the Triangle Area Lug meeting. Any further questions can be directed to spot@linuxpower.org or rob@starfiretechnology.com
~spot
NorthernLight has hit #3 for "Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe" as follows:
..... and lists it as a Commercial site: http://www.mgrweb.com/recipes/NM_c hoc_chip.shtml
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...and if you took this seriously, you smoketh the bad crack (drug use allegations!)
3. Martin's Gun Repair - Guest Recipe - Neiman Marcus $250 Chocolate Chip Cookie
Follow that link to its home page... and we find that Martin's Gun Repair is affiliated with the NRA and is a member of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Webring. (cover your eyes children!)
Not to mention being geographically located in MiddleSEX, North Carolina (same state as me & pb...
So, for the second degree of separation, I put NRA into NorthernLight's search box... and got this for hit #3:
3. Video Titles - P through T
Listed as a Personal page: http://lilrc1.lilrc.org/~wispagen/vidpt
Seems innocent, right? Wrong again. Such videos as "Playboys", "Pretty woman" (Julia Roberts as a prostitute!), "Prince and the showgirl", "Puppy love!" (animal pr0n), "Puss in boots", "Romeo & Juliet" (contains frontal nudity), and my personal favorite "Spot goes to school". Hey, it might not be hardcore pr0n, but it will always have a special place in my heart.
This is a typical example of slashdot being months behind the rest of the informed internet... its gotten to the point where slashdot would only be providing me useful information if i took a time machine a few months into the future and read todays news.
Blah. Im sure this will get moderated down, but seriously slashdot people... try to stay somewhat recent. Month old bugtraq discussions != good current news.
~spot
Hey Peter, long time no see. :) You really need to get out more, there's a big 'ol sign in front of the ElBo at Crabtree mall, right here in our own hometown of Raleigh proclaiming their Linux Gaming section. The Penguins are coming, doo bee doo bee doo.
~spot
virii. you know what? when you can say you have been a member of the virus community since the late 80s, i think you have earned the right to call more than one virus anything you damn well please. and i call them virii, because every one who knew a damned thing about virii, called them virii. and they weren't script kids. besides, what was your SAT Verbal? I'd wager mine was higher.
but the llamas will argue semantics eternally while the rest of us are productive.
Besides being the name of a great Tori Amos single, this virus was discovered way back in 1997 and sparked a large amount of discussion amongst the virii community as to the feasibility and likelyhood of linux virii. Also, several Bliss-like virii later appeared, prompting most major anti-virus companies to release *nix versions of their AV toolkits.
My question is, why is slashdot reporting news that has been known for over 2 years?
Seems like the wutang naming has been slashdotted. I was hoping to find my wu name and found a perl/chmod error instead. :( How disappointing.
~spot
slashdot is also mentioned in the email, which is mirrored here: http://douglas.min.net/~drw/css-auth/legal-info/ ~spot
SHAME ON YOU. good lord. what is the world coming to?
~spot
as a resident of North Carolina, I'm used to getting screwed at every turn by our fine legislators... however, most of our residents will simply leave that line blank.
as to me? im not concerned. i wouldn't buy something online if you held a gun to my head, so i can put "$0.00" on that line without guilt. guess thats a bit of the ex-hacker speaking out.
~spot
{CmdrTaco}spot4: Fuck Y2k. Keep a few hundred bucks in cash and some canned food just in case, but in 2 days it'll be life as usual.
Does CT know more than he wants to share? Only Nitrozac knows... bwahaa... ok. I'm done now.
I love my slashdot shirt, I got one at Comdex, and wore it on the last day of working my booth in the LBE. (bravely defying company policy) :)
Keep the cool designs coming.
Require me to have a licence? I'll forge mine. Or better yet, I'll use yours. The underground will create a new scene, one devoted to net-identity creation/trading/distribution... the point here is that anonymity is what makes the internet such a beautiful thing, arguably the most important creation of this last thousand years. And it will never die. So while I choose to use my /. acct, I can still post as an Anonymous Coward if i so choose.
/. story for a bridging story)
(Branching over into the other
When i was active in the BBS community many a night ago, my favorite board decided that everyone needed to fill out a information form and turn it in to the sysop so that he could confirm our identities on posts in the message forums... a few phone calls later, a few of us decided to create an individual with the nickname of "Anonymous" and turn in a stat sheet for him. The password was known to almost all of the regulars, and we used it to post when we wanted anonymity.
For 90% of the internet, the illusion of privacy and anonymity is enough. They don't need more than a safety blanket, even if it is an illusion. But for the other 10% of us in the know, and concerned about our internet rights, this idea of "name tags" is utterly absurd.
~spot
{[- I'm the guy who lost his voice screaming his demo over Caldera at Comdex. -]}
Being at the Redhat booth at the LBE, which is wedged between Caldera and Corel... its a tossup between who is more annoying. At least Corel isnt lipsynching to madonna like they were during setup... but that dumb "E...Business" chant that Caldera is enforcing is drowning me out. I'm having to scream over it to talk to the people at my booth...i swear, before this week is over, i will have to duct tape everyone's mouths (at Caldera) shut.
ok... no more ranting from me...
Ugh. Double and triple ugh. But what were we to expect from a self proclaimed "pissant"?
JP, your story keeps changing on the packetstorm fiasco, first it was nuns covered in seminal fluids, then death threats, and now pictures of your sister? This is such a load of shit... im glad I have boots on. I've seen the packetstorm archives, and honestly, you're spouting off lies.
Congratulations, you made an even bigger idiot out of yourself. (and here i didnt think it possible) And to call out Ken Williams? You're a sad little ignorant media whore.
I feel dirty just having to talk about jp.
Slashdot folks, you all should be ashamed of yourselves. Who is next on your interview list, Satan himself? JP is the biggest sellout & poser, seeking to elevate his name at any cost, be it hackers, crackers, or broken laws.
And then you don't even have the nerve to site the number one source of valid information about John. www.attrition.org
Total nonsense. Can't you guys find someone who does constructive/productive work in the industry, rather than a proven liar?
Interview Ken Williams instead, at least he's honest.
Again, i repeat. Blecch.
Its sad that these big companies are having to throw around high priced lawsuits to hide the fact that they got caught with their pants down. They should have anticipated the need for DVD software on the linux platform, but instead they chose to leave it out, instantly making it a target for geeks, hackers, and coders everywhere.
Whoever brought the suit up should be ashamed of themselves.
~spot
Hehe, i love quickies. I just like Chris Dibona's website. Ok, maybe I'm biased because he took my picture at ALS and called me Redhat. ;)
Hey mom, look. Caldera will install from Windows. :P
Big flipping deal. I mean, so what? I honestly wouldn't want to install a distribution from anything with a kernel leaking that much memory. It'd suck to have windows decide to BSOD when I was "walking my Lizard". A RH installation is simple enough for the average jane user. Boot off CD, and p'n'c.
Then again, this entire article is petty space filler. If you like Caldera better than RH, use Caldera. If you like RH better, use RH. If you like Slackware better... well, i wont comment. After all, this revolution is about choice, right? But it's CNET, so we can all claw and hiss over it for a while.
Honestly, I'm not biased by the fact that i work for a RedHat ISV. Or that I grew up in Raleigh/Durham, NC.
At NCSSM (www.ncssm.edu), the Suns (and later, HPs), were name based around the LOTR mythos.
;)
iluvatar, glorfindel, pippin, sauron, gandalf, etc, etc
the windows 3.1 (now NT) boxen had names too, but this forum might have children reading it, and besides, those were never officially sanctioned names.
for the record, i've seen the entire packetstorm archives. (long before they were taken down) Nowhere in them was slanderous material or pictures. Ken Williams had a legitimate lawsuit against Harvard that he chose not to pursue.
just setting the record straight... im not even going to touch that other comment about JP being a good guy. that user@juno.com obviously couldnt hack his way out of a paperbag, much less know anything about the scene.
Im sure JP is popping corks right now, just from the hits he's getting off this previously fine webpage. The fact that /. seems to be advocating any sort of Antionline project is revolting.
http://www.attrition.org/news/content/99-06-29.001 .html
1)Antionline has censored links. This means that if a site they dont like (hackernews.com, packetstorm, to name a mere few) links to them, you cannot follow that link to them. And censorship of any kind is bad.
2)John Vranesevich is a criminal. Proof:
http://www.attrition.org/negation/www/ao.040.html
http://www.attrition.org/negation/www/ao.030.html
http://www.attrition.org/news/content/ken.letter
http://www.attrition.org/negation/special/
He's no better than CPM. Hi Carolyn!
3)JP is a media whore, he'll say and do absolutely anything to get in your email or browser, even if it involves outright lies and breaking the law.
Yeah, im ranting, and im sure that some of you will claim that because i'm an NCState student, my rants are biased. However, I'm merely disappointed that slashdot would support anything antionline does. Makes me wonder if Hemos has some sort of Faustian deal signed with antionline....
Shoutouts to Ken Williams for coming out on top through all the bullshit, and all the ehap kids, especially zeno & dox.
First the (impending) release of Command and Conquer 2: Tiberian Sun, then the suggestion that /. should run nt. we might not make it to y2k... ;)
How strange it is that at one moment, the good president is willing to declare "cyberwar" against Milosevic... then at another, he creates a task force to look into "illegalities" on the internet. Just my 2 cents. "without evil, there is no good."
The MS box is also taking a lot of packeting... multiple channels on IRC are bragging about how many packets they can hit the Win2k server with... Regardless of OS, without good firewalling, any sort of box will crash if it is packeted heavy enough...
:P
When i asked a few of them if they were going to packet the PPC box, they called me a blasphemer. Way to advocate linux.
(for the record, i run 2.2.10 with firewalling. so dont jump all over my case.)