QSD was a good way to meet... nice people. It was really fun to see people coming from a country, and then coming back from another country 5 minutes later. Thanks to carding, phreaking, x25 pad hacking & co.
For IPv6 to be widely adopted, common users must have a native IPv6 connection. Tunnels are nice for testing, but obviously slower than native connections.
So, ISPs should migrate to IPv6 and give a couple of IPv6 addresses to their customers.
This is exactly what Nerim, a nice french ISP, is doing for some weeks, and according to their internal newsgroups, a lot of people are using this facility.
However, there are showstoppers for IPv6 ADSL :
- While the core TCP/IP stack of Windows XP fully supports IPv6, the PPP client does not. This is an important issue.
- OpenBSD 3.3 (and -current) PPP client does not either. You have to compile FreeBSD's hacked pppd to make IPv6 on ADSL work with OpenBSD.
- I'm not sure whether Linux without USAGI patches works either.
I just bought it, because I trusted these reviews, and because the trial version was impossible to download:)
And I am _very_ disappointed by the support of IE6.
Almost every web page freeze the browser window.
I donnu whether this is related to my distro (Gentoo Linux) or something else, but it's unuseable.
Also, it doesn't render like IE on Windows. For instance on slashdot.org, the round corners of titles doesn't properly renders. Only the outline is drawn. Very strange.
I used to go with Linux for everything a while back, but once you discover BSD, the ports system, IPF andPF, and the way everything is properly packaged, you just fall in love with BSD.
But when it comes to performance, from an user point of view, Linux still looks better.
My home workstation has both FreeBSD 5-current and Gentoo Linux. I lately installed a 2.5.x kernel (the current running one is 2.5.67-mm1), and I must say that I was really impressed.
Not sure how latest Linux kernels perform in a server environment, but on a workstation, everything is very responsive. Even when there is a lot of I/O (local disk-to-disk backups) or CPU activity (compilation), KDE is always smooth. Under load, Windows can take some time to refresh their content, but as soon as something is typed on the keyboard, or clicked with the mouse, the effect is immediate.
While FreeBSD is rather fast (it looks like there was a big speedup regarding disk I/O between FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x), I now find it slow when I switch from Linux to FreeBSD.
Slow is maybe not the right word, but there is a lot of "lag". When the system is busy, there's a slight delay between an action with the mouse or the keyboard and its effect. This is especially noticable with Konqueror. And when there is a compilation going on, XMMS oftens stops playing properly (there are cutoffs in the sound).
I also tried Mnogosearch (MySQL 4 + cache mode) on both Linux and FreeBSD 5-current. Searches are as fast on both OS. But during indexation, when the cached daemon flushes its buffers, FreeBSD nearly freezes. I mean that even logging in through SSH becomes very long. On Linux, although the hard disk seems to turns a lot, the system keeps being responsive for other tasks.
My good old Atari Mega STE ran for about 7 years 24/7 as a server (Minitel / BBS) . No noise (no fan), no hardware failure ever, and no unexpected system crash. I still have it to watch demos, it's still running like charm.
On the other hand, my brand new Athlon CPU was dead after less than one year of workstation usage, probably because there was not enough fans in the box.
On the Atari, and on my Akai sampler, there are old cheap Quantum 450 Mb hard drives. Used them a lot for a decade without any issue. I still use the sampler with the same hard disk, and there is still no bad block.
Nowadays, a fatal hard disk crash is ordinary. At my daily job, we have to replace about one disk every month. I can't even imagine running a server without a RAID array and daily backups.
Next episode : memory. Deffective RAM. This is something I wouldn't imagine some years back. Even non-ECC RAM used to be rock solid, I've never seen any bad SIMM chip so far.
Nowadays things are different. When I bought my Athlon, I had to go back twice to my vendor in order to change the RAM chips. I experienced random crashes, and memtest86 revealed that parts of the RAM were borked.
When it comes to printers, things are the same. My old IBM 4019E was rock solid. I bought it from a company that already used it for years. But I never had a glitch with it. But finally, when I became a daddy, I wanted a color printer to play with digital imaging. I bought a HP 690 that worked very well... but not for a long time. One year later, strange things happened, like colors that didn't work any more. Same thing on Linux and Windows, so it was a hardware problem. Now I have a 970Cxi that seems to work, but well...
It's clear that today's hardware is really flaky. You can have it solid by taking extra preventive measures (excellent cooling, no dust, AC power regulators, excellent cables, ECC RAM, RAID arrays). But this is like shit in a lovely gift box.
But I really enjoyed my ISP. Fast, reliable, not that expensive, and my IP address didn't change as long as the gateway renewed the lease.
But one day, friends using the same ISP told me that all their incoming connections got firewalled. They couldn't connect to their host any more, even through POP, SMTP or SSH.
I checked it, and they were right. The ISP firewalled everything without any prior notice.
A look at the TOS revealed that indeed, customers don't have the right to host any server. No SSH, no SMTP, nothing.
I moved to another ISP since. The new ISP is a bit more expensive, but that's the price to pay to read in their TOS that servers are allowed, and NAT is allowed as well.
Sure, there is a lot of people seeking people with AS/400 and mainframe knowledge. Stuff like Baan and SAP is also something it's good to know to find a nice job with a confortable salary.
But... How to learn AS/400 administration? How to learn SAP?
I don't know of any general computer science school that teaches those. Learning centers can deliver these formations, but they are really too expensive for an individual. I had a look at IBM's curses, and they are also way too expensive. And self-formation is impossible without the hardware/software that is also out of price.
Some months ago, I was proposed a very interesting job, but some knowledge of AS/400 systems was needed. I tried to convince them to pay my initial formation, but they refused, saying that a support contract with IBM would finally be a better and cheaper alternative.
So there's a paradox here. Recruiters need people with this specific knowledge, but there's no way for people to get the needed skills.
Don't read this post, it's a trap
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I've been extensively using MySQL 4 for over one year on very loaded production systems.
It has actually always been faster and more solid than the 3.23.x series.
I only had some small issues with InnoDB (the same issues were in 3.23.x as well). But the InnoDB maintainer, Heiki Turri, is someone that really cares about bug reports. All reported bugs were immediately fixed.
The query cache is efficient, and the fulltext indexing was greatly enhanced (if only it worked with InnoDB tables...).
I've not installed any 3.23.x version for a while, and I'll never go back.
Probably a lot of system administrators will wait. They will read that MySQL AB blessed 4.x as production-ready, but they will wait, as if it was an 1.0 version that still needs some maturity.
It's not. MySQL 4.x has already received a lot of testing, and it is already being used on large production sites. Just read the MySQL mailing-lists.
Upgrading from MySQL 3.x is also easy. You only need to run a little script to upgrade the grant tables (and even if you don't, everything will work). No need to export/reimport the databases. So upgrading is straight forward.
"or wait for your distribution to package them..."
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I'm a big fan of Linux, OpenBSD, MicroBSD and free software in general.
But I have to work on Windows or MacOS daily for one thing : audio. Although there are some free audio software, there's no drop-in replacement for Logic Audio, T-Racks, Stylus, Pro-Tools, etc. and it's unlikely that there will be.
A single high quality effect plug-in means a lot of work (both for research and implementation), and as this is a niche market, free software developpers won't focus on this.
Another thing is that interoperability is important, in order to have several people work on the same audio project. But the file formats aren't documented at all as far as I know. Reverse engineering takes a lot of time.
Another thing is the lack of hardware support : midi interfaces, professionnal audio cards, samplers, etc. Even on Windows and MacOS, this is sometimes tricky (not everything works with XP and very few hardware actually work with MacOS X, you have to stick with MacOS 9) . And once again, manufacturers don't help by releasing the specifications. There are not interested at all, because they don't see any potential market. And after all, there are right. Music makers are not computer geeks, they would be scared by Linux.
In fact, there's even no standalone DivX recorder on the market yet. Neither can you buy DivX movies on CD's anywhere.
So, a DivX player is only useful for people who have a computer, a CD burner, and a collection of movies stolen through P2P networks.
Because people bought a computer, they think that they can get everything for free. Free software is one thing, but movies are another thing. Making a movie costs a lot of money. I don't understand why just because someone wastes $500 in a computer and $30/mo in connectivity, he must be granted the right to freely copy an unlimited number of movies. He's not. The right to see movies is the same for everybody. Computer owners are not a special privileged class of people. Devices like DivX players just make people think that sharing DivX has nothing to do with piracy. That's bad.
Also [paranoid mode on] as buyers are likely to have an illegal collection of movies, if you ever buy those standalone DivX players, don't pay by check nor CC.
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I remember QSD eheheh... QSD*X25 :)
:)
QSD was a good way to meet... nice people. It was really fun to see people coming from a country, and then coming back from another country 5 minutes later. Thanks to carding, phreaking, x25 pad hacking & co.
RTC-One was nice too
For IPv6 to be widely adopted, common users must have a native IPv6 connection. Tunnels are nice for testing, but obviously slower than native connections.
So, ISPs should migrate to IPv6 and give a couple of IPv6 addresses to their customers.
This is exactly what Nerim, a nice french ISP, is doing for some weeks, and according to their internal newsgroups, a lot of people are using this facility.
However, there are showstoppers for IPv6 ADSL :
- While the core TCP/IP stack of Windows XP fully supports IPv6, the PPP client does not. This is an important issue.
- OpenBSD 3.3 (and -current) PPP client does not either. You have to compile FreeBSD's hacked pppd to make IPv6 on ADSL work with OpenBSD.
- I'm not sure whether Linux without USAGI patches works either.
I just bought it, because I trusted these reviews, and because the trial version was impossible to download :)
And I am _very_ disappointed by the support of IE6.
Almost every web page freeze the browser window.
I donnu whether this is related to my distro (Gentoo Linux) or something else, but it's unuseable.
Also, it doesn't render like IE on Windows. For instance on slashdot.org, the round corners of titles doesn't properly renders. Only the outline is drawn. Very strange.
Does it finally run IE 6 ? Looks like it still can only run IE 5...
As a webmaster, I spend a lot of time switching from Linux to Windows just to check what my pages are looking like under IE 6.
It order to make it actually used in companies, it has to work on Windows platforms. Does it?
Please note that Gentoo Linux also comes with a propolice enabled GCC and a PaX-enabled kernel.
It's up to you to use them or not.
I just love BSD.
.
I used to go with Linux for everything a while back, but once you discover BSD, the ports system, IPF andPF, and the way everything is properly packaged, you just fall in love with BSD.
But when it comes to performance, from an user point of view, Linux still looks better.
My home workstation has both FreeBSD 5-current and Gentoo Linux. I lately installed a 2.5.x kernel (the current running one is 2.5.67-mm1), and I must say that I was really impressed.
Not sure how latest Linux kernels perform in a server environment, but on a workstation, everything is very responsive. Even when there is a lot of I/O (local disk-to-disk backups) or CPU activity (compilation), KDE is always smooth. Under load, Windows can take some time to refresh their content, but as soon as something is typed on the keyboard, or clicked with the mouse, the effect is immediate.
While FreeBSD is rather fast (it looks like there was a big speedup regarding disk I/O between FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x), I now find it slow when I switch from Linux to FreeBSD.
Slow is maybe not the right word, but there is a lot of "lag". When the system is busy, there's a slight delay between an action with the mouse or the keyboard and its effect. This is especially noticable with Konqueror. And when there is a compilation going on, XMMS oftens stops playing properly (there are cutoffs in the sound)
I also tried Mnogosearch (MySQL 4 + cache mode) on both Linux and FreeBSD 5-current. Searches are as fast on both OS. But during indexation, when the cached daemon flushes its buffers, FreeBSD nearly freezes. I mean that even logging in through SSH becomes very long. On Linux, although the hard disk seems to turns a lot, the system keeps being responsive for other tasks.
My good old Atari Mega STE ran for about 7 years 24/7 as a server (Minitel / BBS) . No noise (no fan), no hardware failure ever, and no unexpected system crash. I still have it to watch demos, it's still running like charm.
On the other hand, my brand new Athlon CPU was dead after less than one year of workstation usage, probably because there was not enough fans in the box.
On the Atari, and on my Akai sampler, there are old cheap Quantum 450 Mb hard drives. Used them a lot for a decade without any issue. I still use the sampler with the same hard disk, and there is still no bad block.
Nowadays, a fatal hard disk crash is ordinary. At my daily job, we have to replace about one disk every month. I can't even imagine running a server without a RAID array and daily backups.
Next episode : memory. Deffective RAM. This is something I wouldn't imagine some years back. Even non-ECC RAM used to be rock solid, I've never seen any bad SIMM chip so far.
Nowadays things are different. When I bought my Athlon, I had to go back twice to my vendor in order to change the RAM chips. I experienced random crashes, and memtest86 revealed that parts of the RAM were borked.
When it comes to printers, things are the same. My old IBM 4019E was rock solid. I bought it from a company that already used it for years. But I never had a glitch with it. But finally, when I became a daddy, I wanted a color printer to play with digital imaging. I bought a HP 690 that worked very well... but not for a long time. One year later, strange things happened, like colors that didn't work any more. Same thing on Linux and Windows, so it was a hardware problem. Now I have a 970Cxi that seems to work, but well...
It's clear that today's hardware is really flaky. You can have it solid by taking extra preventive measures (excellent cooling, no dust, AC power regulators, excellent cables, ECC RAM, RAID arrays). But this is like shit in a lovely gift box.
Indeed, I never read TOS.
But I really enjoyed my ISP. Fast, reliable, not that expensive, and my IP address didn't change as long as the gateway renewed the lease.
But one day, friends using the same ISP told me that all their incoming connections got firewalled. They couldn't connect to their host any more, even through POP, SMTP or SSH.
I checked it, and they were right. The ISP firewalled everything without any prior notice.
A look at the TOS revealed that indeed, customers don't have the right to host any server. No SSH, no SMTP, nothing.
I moved to another ISP since. The new ISP is a bit more expensive, but that's the price to pay to read in their TOS that servers are allowed, and NAT is allowed as well.
Don't queue mail with sendmail.
Send mail with Qmail.
Sure, there is a lot of people seeking people with AS/400 and mainframe knowledge. Stuff like Baan and SAP is also something it's good to know to find a nice job with a confortable salary. But... How to learn AS/400 administration? How to learn SAP? I don't know of any general computer science school that teaches those. Learning centers can deliver these formations, but they are really too expensive for an individual. I had a look at IBM's curses, and they are also way too expensive. And self-formation is impossible without the hardware/software that is also out of price. Some months ago, I was proposed a very interesting job, but some knowledge of AS/400 systems was needed. I tried to convince them to pay my initial formation, but they refused, saying that a support contract with IBM would finally be a better and cheaper alternative. So there's a paradox here. Recruiters need people with this specific knowledge, but there's no way for people to get the needed skills.
** Boom **
I've been extensively using MySQL 4 for over one year on very loaded production systems.
.
It has actually always been faster and more solid than the 3.23.x series.
I only had some small issues with InnoDB (the same issues were in 3.23.x as well). But the InnoDB maintainer, Heiki Turri, is someone that really cares about bug reports. All reported bugs were immediately fixed.
The query cache is efficient, and the fulltext indexing was greatly enhanced (if only it worked with InnoDB tables...)
I've not installed any 3.23.x version for a while, and I'll never go back.
Probably a lot of system administrators will wait. They will read that MySQL AB blessed 4.x as production-ready, but they will wait, as if it was an 1.0 version that still needs some maturity.
It's not. MySQL 4.x has already received a lot of testing, and it is already being used on large production sites. Just read the MySQL mailing-lists.
Upgrading from MySQL 3.x is also easy. You only need to run a little script to upgrade the grant tables (and even if you don't, everything will work). No need to export/reimport the databases. So upgrading is straight forward.
Waiting?
What for?
I'm running Gentoo Linux.
So you're running a Linux emulator on an Unix emulator to run a Windows emulator.
This kernel perfectly works. I just installed it and it didn't cra
It may be very interesting to run the same tests on various other free operating systems, especially BSD.
I'm a big fan of Linux, OpenBSD, MicroBSD and free software in general.
But I have to work on Windows or MacOS daily for one thing : audio. Although there are some free audio software, there's no drop-in replacement for Logic Audio, T-Racks, Stylus, Pro-Tools, etc. and it's unlikely that there will be.
A single high quality effect plug-in means a lot of work (both for research and implementation), and as this is a niche market, free software developpers won't focus on this.
Another thing is that interoperability is important, in order to have several people work on the same audio project. But the file formats aren't documented at all as far as I know. Reverse engineering takes a lot of time.
Another thing is the lack of hardware support : midi interfaces, professionnal audio cards, samplers, etc. Even on Windows and MacOS, this is sometimes tricky (not everything works with XP and very few hardware actually work with MacOS X, you have to stick with MacOS 9) . And once again, manufacturers don't help by releasing the specifications. There are not interested at all, because they don't see any potential market. And after all, there are right. Music makers are not computer geeks, they would be scared by Linux.
You must put this in your /etc/dnscache/root/servers/@ file :
3 6.4
1 92.5.5.2414 .12
128.63.2.53
128.8.10.90
128.9.0.107
192.112.
192.203.230.10
192.33.4.12
192.36.148.17
192.58.128.30
193.0.14.129
198.32.6
198.41.0.4
202.12.27.33
I second this.
Partition image is also nice as a rescue disk.
Has anyone noticed a real speed improvement over Mozilla (when only the browser is compiled in)?
That device is just a DivX _player_ .
In fact, there's even no standalone DivX recorder on the market yet. Neither can you buy DivX movies on CD's anywhere.
So, a DivX player is only useful for people who have a computer, a CD burner, and a collection of movies stolen through P2P networks.
Because people bought a computer, they think that they can get everything for free. Free software is one thing, but movies are another thing. Making a movie costs a lot of money. I don't understand why just because someone wastes $500 in a computer and $30/mo in connectivity, he must be granted the right to freely copy an unlimited number of movies. He's not. The right to see movies is the same for everybody. Computer owners are not a special privileged class of people. Devices like DivX players just make people think that sharing DivX has nothing to do with piracy. That's bad.
Also [paranoid mode on] as buyers are likely to have an illegal collection of movies, if you ever buy those standalone DivX players, don't pay by check nor CC.
Those that survived were running DJBDNS (ok, stupid troll)
You are pinging Sourceforge.
ICMP REPLY doesn't exist. Maybe you mean ICMP ECHO REPLY which has nothing to do with MTU discovery.