Most major mail provider bl dynamic IP's. The way around this is to smarthost against a known, static-IP mail server. In short, smarthost outbound mail. Inbound mail is fine, and you'll be all fixed up.
Not flaming you, but any good smtp faq or mailing list would have told you this, and Sendmail's FAQ answered it for me 3 years ago.:\
Just wondering how we get to an ask slashdot from a simple mail administration question. Google really *would* have answered this.
Actually, I'm waiting for it because although I need about 40 Mac Mini units, I really need to run FreeBSD on them instead of OSX (no, they aren't identical, I have reasons...), and having a split architecture isn't going to cut it, as when I build a binary once I need it to run on all 40+ units identically, not emulated. That means tons of extra work for me.
Um...no? It has a 250mw radio in it, but comes stock running at 50mw. DD-WRT will allow you to set it to run at a more sane strength. My issues are cpu and ram related. And heat.
If you really want to use wrt54g for this, at least make custom enclosures, provide better heat dissipation, and hack a flash connector onto it for more disk space. Still....not sure that is such a good idea.
Uh...you're being ripped. At least around here (St. Louis, MO), 911 is most certainly free, and according to everything I've read, required to be free by federal law.
Even mobile phones require that when they are not activated, bills not paid in full, etc, if they have signal, 911 works.
Payphones should allow 911 for free as well. If you had to pay, then it is totally pointless. If there's an emergency, no one has time to go fumbling for loose change.
I don't think you have your facts straight here. If you called the phone company and said you want all services removed from a phone, and no incoming calls, no outgoing calls, but you just wanted it available for 911, my understanding is that they MUST allow this. If there's dialtone, 911 has to be available free of charge.
Feel free to prove me wrong though. I'd like to hear it if I'm wrong.
Get the landline, for 911 only. It is federally mandated to be free. I have the landline with that alone on it. I recently got a phone number on it for DSL, and I'm in the process of working out what I need to do to keep the DSL, but go back to 911-only service. Then I can use my local 911 with asterisk, have a plain old "red phone" for 911-only calls in case asterisk goes down, and I get my DSL service.
Never heard of it. I know several people that have made or purchased hydrogen boosters, but seeing as you have to use distilled water instead of tap water (unless you like cleaning disgusting slime out of your hydrogen generator), it is a bit of a pain.
I'll go ahead and toss another log on the fire before I go to bed for the night.
Find out what the statute of limitations is for collecting debts in your state. Here, it is 7 years from the last time a payment was made on the account. Be careful about this, because some collectors are really sneaky, and let's say you owe $2000 for whatever from 6.5 years ago, and they sympathize and say "tell you what, just pay what you can, say $50...we'll work with you". BS. Next thing you know, you're being sued for the full amount because you've now reset that statute of limitations. Remember what i said about collection agencies? NEVER PAY THE COLLECTIONS AGNECIES. Period.
Once you're outside of that statute of limitations, don't look back. It sucks, if you have a soul at all you're going to have guilt associated with not paying a bill, but move on, and keep your nose clean going forward. Any attempt to pay that debt puts you on shaky legal ground. Better to leave it in the past, and odds are pretty good that if you're outside the statute of limitations, you're alos outside the period of which the negative mark associated with it can be legally posted (again, 7 years from last activity).
Just as a follow-up to the above, just doing that won't fix your credit. You have to start outnumbering the negative with the positive.
Go to a local credit union (NOT a bank), make sure it is one that is a member of the CO-OP Network and participates in the CU Shared Branch program. This way CU ATM's nationwide will service you for free, and CU branches will help you nationwide. Start an account there, and after a month or two, start a secured credit card with a savings account attached. After a year or so of good payment history (buy gas on it instead of cash, pay it off immediately), they'll be willing to remove the security account and give you that money back, and probably even double your credit line at the same time. Keep using that card.
Get a car loan there (or move your existing loan to them), and continue rolling positive marks into your report. Perhaps you have a negative mark from your old loan institution. Start getting postives at the CU, then dispute the old mark.
Ditto for a house, if you can. Get everything into one place for easy (even automated) payments so you don't have to worry about writing checks. Credit Unions will bend over backwords to help repair or fix credit for its members, as the members are essentially the owners. A bank really couldn't care less about anything other than getting interest and fee dollars out of you.
I have a rather unfortunate financial past, and learned a whole lot of lessons the hard way. A really sad story about going to college, parents not helping, trying to pay your own way, dropping out, winding up unemployed, etc. I will also note that credit cards never enter the picture. Usually past-due utilities, etc. I'm more or less out of the woods, so I'll shared my experiences. As everyone above has said, don't take my word or anyone else's on Slashdot as legal advice. This is simlpy personal experience here.
1. Never pay the collection agency. Never, ever ever ever pay the collection agency. They may have bought the debt, but the fact remains that they are not your debtor (and the law so far has seemed to be on my side on this one, most of the time you can't just say, "you don't owe me anymore, now you owe Bruno over here...", unless you dot all of the right "i"'s and all the right "t"'s, which collection agencies never do.
2. Pull your credit reports and dispute EVERYTHING negative. Don't miss a single one, and watch your wording. Go for duplicate instances first, in the above scenario when the original debtor had the account, they probably reported it, then sold it to a collections agency, who in turn reported it. You aren't allowed to do that, and the FCRA spells it out. They also aren't allowed to re-report that account again, and are liable for damages if they do so.
3. Most collection agencies are lazy and out for a quick buck. 99% of all disputes will result in deletion from your report, because it requires effort on the part of the agency to verify the debt. Effort is too much work, so the mark will come off.
4. Be persistent. If it didn't come off the first time, try another tactic, and dispute it again. Don't give up until it is gone.
5. Pay the government first. This is a "well, duh" now, but it wasn't to me back then. Bankruptcy won't excempt you from debts to the government (Federal Student Loans, for example in my case), and unlike most collection agencies, the government isn't lazy.
6. Don't be intimidated by phone calls. Lump telemarketers and collection agencies in the same bucket, get callerid, and set up an asterisk server if you're so inclined. Don't hesitate to hang up on someone if you hear electrical silence for 1-2 seconds, and in fact, delay saying "Hello" when you first pick up, and listen. If you hear background noise, go ahead and answer. If you hear electrical silence like it is a calling machine waiting for you to anwer to connect you to a "rep", hang up immediately. Or simply don't answer calls from numbers you don't know, or are marked "PRIVATE" or "UNAVAILABLE", then let it roll to your answering machine or voicemail. If it is important, and it is a human being, you'll get the message. If you start getting threatening voicemails (did you set up asterisk?) save all of messages, and make a cd if you must. Tell them off, if they still keep calling, they've violated the law (don't remember which one).
7. Get a stamp made ($12 from Office Max) in red ink that says quite simply "Unsolicited Mail: Return to Sender." Take it with you every day to the mailbox. If it is junk mail, stamp. Collections Agency? Stamp. Be sure to stamp once over your name and address and a couple more for good measure elsewhere to make it legible, stick it all back in the mailbox and throw up the flag. After a while I'm sure you'll get to recognize what messages are from whom. You probably do already.
Wow. Uh...yeah. Never negotiate with terr^H^H^H^H collection agencies. Never never never never.
Seriously, I'm sitting here, sipping my coffee, and had this bad, gut-wrenching feeling sneak up on me.:\
Here's the deal: very soon a large portion of my business model is going to hinge on making Windows software run on *nix platforms. Be that through wine, compiling with winelib, or porting the software wholesale.
In the case of wine, and I think even moreso with winelib, I suddenly have this fear that all of this software that demands admin rights on Windows is also going to demand it on Unix. I don't think that's totally correct because we're providing a "fake windows" for the software to beat up on, and c:\ isn't really / on the filesystem. That said, if it is all owned by the user, then the user can effectively have admin rights on that wine app, but still have no rights to harm the system overall.
Sound right?
I hope so. If not I'm going to have to work around this somehow.
Intuit is criminal number 1 in this area (this month anyway, I have my targets change from time to time...)
Get this: The "enterprise" version of QuickBooks that will allow you to run in terminal services (gotta spend that extra cash to run the same software remotely you know!), requires that you have Power Users or Administrator priveleges.
Here's the catch however: I have a client running Small Business Server 2003, and they just went through a company restructuring where the CFO is going to be 200 miles away for the next few months, and needs to be able to hit QuickBooks from a terminal server session (yes, I know, VNC, PC Anywhere, bitmap pusher x..., work with me here though).
So, on an SBS, you can't have any trusts, no member servers (I might be wrong on that last one, apparently there'a hack that allows this, but again...), so the only server on the domain is the DC. You DC does not have "local" accounts and groups, only the AD users and groups. So a local power user doesn't exist. The only rights I can give them to be able to work is Admin.
The whole point of remote users is to.....access things remotely. You're requiring that every one of my users that wishes to use QuickBooks have Admin rights, and if they want to run in term serv, I have to allow dial in rights to that Admin account.
So I got on the phone with them. I suggested the following workaround:
"What if I just create a domain account, say ""QuickBooks User"". Set it to an obscenely secure password that no one but the admins could possibly know. Make it long, make it random, make it not-so-easy to remember. Grant that account Admin rights. Set Quickbooks to "Run As..." that user. Now Quickbooks gets the Admin privs it needs, but not the user."
After going through a supervisor, I was explained that this wouldn't work, and in fact they misconstrued it as an attempt on my part to subvert their licensing (because now I only have a single Quickbooks user, and we're supposed to pay per-seat for the license), and "Run As..." is intentionally broken to prevent this, along with the ability to run in Terminal Server if you haven't purchased the enterprise version.
Wow.
Cash more important than security.
Hey guys? What is so important at the system level that the *user* needs to make modifications to the OS? Why not store the data in the user's profile? Or in a shared directory with rights granted to the users in the "QuickBooks Users" group?
Hey Gator, glad to know I'm not the only one who remembers that.
Anderson Cooper got his start on there (man, he went gray quick!) and there was an asian girl that wound up doing some morning talk show too.
Channel 1 didn't actually suck so bad, but back in say 93, 94, and 95 when e-mail addresses first started to actually become somewhat common, the idea that all e-mail addresses ended in "@aol.com" wasn't helped by the fact that all channel 1 staffers had addresses @aol.com.
My personal opinion then? When OSX-x86 gets released, they need to open source the video driver api.
Not because I want to pirate OSX either. Once these boxes become more common, I imagine people might like a little more selection and the ability to add the latest and greatest video card, and without that Quartz video driver api being open, we're at the mercy of either Apple or the manufacturer to provide those.:\
Please note, that when the option is available to pay for a subscription as opposed to viewing ads, I will pay for the subscription. I do this for both/. and This Week in Tech.
Most sites don't offer the option. I wish they would. I also wish/. would follow the example of TWiT and set up revolving subscriptions so that when your subscription is about to expire, it automatically attempts to renew (have this set to "off" by default of course, but at least offer the option!)
It is downright annoying to have to manually re-subscribe every time my/. subscription expires, and $5 is never going to put a hole in my finances.:\
Okay, wow. I haven't had a chance to look since this morning, but I started a war here. Eep.
My thought was that a gpu driver will exist in the darwin-x86 release, as well....they need video cards too, so the little-endian cpu and gpu issue is taken care of there, as is the PC Bios. Chipset as an extension is resolved.
The only remaining issue is the 10.4.2's implementation of quartz. My understanding up until now is that if the OS has the proper kernel drivers, and it understands the OpenGL instruction set (which man do), and it is an AGP card (unless you hack the xml file stating to use PCI instead), AND you have more then 16MB of RAM for Quartz Extreme, you're ready to go.
What part of this am I missing? Remember, I'm an administrator and network designer, not a hardware designer, and I just barely pass as a programmer here.
Go to the Darwin site. Download Darwin for x86, install it. Ta da! We have the BSD Subsystem.:)
Okay, get your shiny new developer mac, place it side by side with your Darwin machine. Check the passwd file, the passwd entry in netinfo, and groups. Make sure the uid's and gid's generally match up.
Export for nfs from you dev mac:
/ --alldirs --maproot=0
Now, mount that someplace on your darwin boxen.
Use cp -pr anything of interest to the darwin box. I would take special note of anything in/etc/rc.
Kick the darwin box.
I filesystem comparison between a clean dev box and a clean Darwin box might me useful, diffs on text files to go along with it.
Provide me or any good hacker that, and we'll have an installer out in no time.;)
All things considered, I think I understand *why* they say such things, but given their place as a public news source, I think *where* they are saying it is just totally inappropriate.
The *why* is quite simple, their techs and point-haired's have probably gone nuts trying to get accurated site-visitation numbers, and every time a story goes up on slashdot, we simply obliterate the accuracy of their logging. So I don't expect them to be happy with slashdot.
I *do* however expect them to be professional journalists. Perhaps I expect too much?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, some people just like their PC's that way.
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Go fig.
You're on a dynamic IP address, aren't you?
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:P
Most major mail provider bl dynamic IP's. The way around this is to smarthost against a known, static-IP mail server. In short, smarthost outbound mail. Inbound mail is fine, and you'll be all fixed up.
Not flaming you, but any good smtp faq or mailing list would have told you this, and Sendmail's FAQ answered it for me 3 years ago.
Just wondering how we get to an ask slashdot from a simple mail administration question. Google really *would* have answered this.
I know, I know, I'm new here. Next meme.
Actually, I'm waiting for it because although I need about 40 Mac Mini units, I really need to run FreeBSD on them instead of OSX (no, they aren't identical, I have reasons...), and having a split architecture isn't going to cut it, as when I build a binary once I need it to run on all 40+ units identically, not emulated. That means tons of extra work for me.
:(
So I wait.
The radio is weak.
Um...no? It has a 250mw radio in it, but comes stock running at 50mw. DD-WRT will allow you to set it to run at a more sane strength. My issues are cpu and ram related. And heat.
If you really want to use wrt54g for this, at least make custom enclosures, provide better heat dissipation, and hack a flash connector onto it for more disk space. Still....not sure that is such a good idea.
Uh...you're being ripped. At least around here (St. Louis, MO), 911 is most certainly free, and according to everything I've read, required to be free by federal law.
Even mobile phones require that when they are not activated, bills not paid in full, etc, if they have signal, 911 works.
Payphones should allow 911 for free as well. If you had to pay, then it is totally pointless. If there's an emergency, no one has time to go fumbling for loose change.
I don't think you have your facts straight here. If you called the phone company and said you want all services removed from a phone, and no incoming calls, no outgoing calls, but you just wanted it available for 911, my understanding is that they MUST allow this. If there's dialtone, 911 has to be available free of charge.
Feel free to prove me wrong though. I'd like to hear it if I'm wrong.
I'm with you on that, with one caveat:
Get the landline, for 911 only. It is federally mandated to be free. I have the landline with that alone on it. I recently got a phone number on it for DSL, and I'm in the process of working out what I need to do to keep the DSL, but go back to 911-only service. Then I can use my local 911 with asterisk, have a plain old "red phone" for 911-only calls in case asterisk goes down, and I get my DSL service.
econobox?
Never heard of it. I know several people that have made or purchased hydrogen boosters, but seeing as you have to use distilled water instead of tap water (unless you like cleaning disgusting slime out of your hydrogen generator), it is a bit of a pain.
What are you using?
Whom, the /. editors, or the gamers? I'm confused...
I'll go ahead and toss another log on the fire before I go to bed for the night.
Find out what the statute of limitations is for collecting debts in your state. Here, it is 7 years from the last time a payment was made on the account. Be careful about this, because some collectors are really sneaky, and let's say you owe $2000 for whatever from 6.5 years ago, and they sympathize and say "tell you what, just pay what you can, say $50...we'll work with you". BS. Next thing you know, you're being sued for the full amount because you've now reset that statute of limitations. Remember what i said about collection agencies? NEVER PAY THE COLLECTIONS AGNECIES. Period.
Once you're outside of that statute of limitations, don't look back. It sucks, if you have a soul at all you're going to have guilt associated with not paying a bill, but move on, and keep your nose clean going forward. Any attempt to pay that debt puts you on shaky legal ground. Better to leave it in the past, and odds are pretty good that if you're outside the statute of limitations, you're alos outside the period of which the negative mark associated with it can be legally posted (again, 7 years from last activity).
Just as a follow-up to the above, just doing that won't fix your credit. You have to start outnumbering the negative with the positive.
Go to a local credit union (NOT a bank), make sure it is one that is a member of the CO-OP Network and participates in the CU Shared Branch program. This way CU ATM's nationwide will service you for free, and CU branches will help you nationwide. Start an account there, and after a month or two, start a secured credit card with a savings account attached. After a year or so of good payment history (buy gas on it instead of cash, pay it off immediately), they'll be willing to remove the security account and give you that money back, and probably even double your credit line at the same time. Keep using that card.
Get a car loan there (or move your existing loan to them), and continue rolling positive marks into your report. Perhaps you have a negative mark from your old loan institution. Start getting postives at the CU, then dispute the old mark.
Ditto for a house, if you can. Get everything into one place for easy (even automated) payments so you don't have to worry about writing checks. Credit Unions will bend over backwords to help repair or fix credit for its members, as the members are essentially the owners. A bank really couldn't care less about anything other than getting interest and fee dollars out of you.
I have a rather unfortunate financial past, and learned a whole lot of lessons the hard way. A really sad story about going to college, parents not helping, trying to pay your own way, dropping out, winding up unemployed, etc. I will also note that credit cards never enter the picture. Usually past-due utilities, etc. I'm more or less out of the woods, so I'll shared my experiences. As everyone above has said, don't take my word or anyone else's on Slashdot as legal advice. This is simlpy personal experience here.
1. Never pay the collection agency. Never, ever ever ever pay the collection agency. They may have bought the debt, but the fact remains that they are not your debtor (and the law so far has seemed to be on my side on this one, most of the time you can't just say, "you don't owe me anymore, now you owe Bruno over here...", unless you dot all of the right "i"'s and all the right "t"'s, which collection agencies never do.
2. Pull your credit reports and dispute EVERYTHING negative. Don't miss a single one, and watch your wording. Go for duplicate instances first, in the above scenario when the original debtor had the account, they probably reported it, then sold it to a collections agency, who in turn reported it. You aren't allowed to do that, and the FCRA spells it out. They also aren't allowed to re-report that account again, and are liable for damages if they do so.
3. Most collection agencies are lazy and out for a quick buck. 99% of all disputes will result in deletion from your report, because it requires effort on the part of the agency to verify the debt. Effort is too much work, so the mark will come off.
4. Be persistent. If it didn't come off the first time, try another tactic, and dispute it again. Don't give up until it is gone.
5. Pay the government first. This is a "well, duh" now, but it wasn't to me back then. Bankruptcy won't excempt you from debts to the government (Federal Student Loans, for example in my case), and unlike most collection agencies, the government isn't lazy.
6. Don't be intimidated by phone calls. Lump telemarketers and collection agencies in the same bucket, get callerid, and set up an asterisk server if you're so inclined. Don't hesitate to hang up on someone if you hear electrical silence for 1-2 seconds, and in fact, delay saying "Hello" when you first pick up, and listen. If you hear background noise, go ahead and answer. If you hear electrical silence like it is a calling machine waiting for you to anwer to connect you to a "rep", hang up immediately. Or simply don't answer calls from numbers you don't know, or are marked "PRIVATE" or "UNAVAILABLE", then let it roll to your answering machine or voicemail. If it is important, and it is a human being, you'll get the message. If you start getting threatening voicemails (did you set up asterisk?) save all of messages, and make a cd if you must. Tell them off, if they still keep calling, they've violated the law (don't remember which one).
7. Get a stamp made ($12 from Office Max) in red ink that says quite simply "Unsolicited Mail: Return to Sender." Take it with you every day to the mailbox. If it is junk mail, stamp. Collections Agency? Stamp. Be sure to stamp once over your name and address and a couple more for good measure elsewhere to make it legible, stick it all back in the mailbox and throw up the flag. After a while I'm sure you'll get to recognize what messages are from whom. You probably do already.
Wow. Uh...yeah. Never negotiate with terr^H^H^H^H collection agencies. Never never never never.
I don't care who sent them.
That's a very good point actually.
Hordes of geeks see the headline "(someone) says no to implants." and almost all presume cybernetic implants and (ironically) not silicone implants.
Hmm...the geek, or the geek that follows...
Fine then...
# man mount
You happy now?
Resistance is futile.
(and it was repeated, all thread long, amen.)
Sorry, had to get attention somehow. :)
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Seriously, I'm sitting here, sipping my coffee, and had this bad, gut-wrenching feeling sneak up on me.
Here's the deal: very soon a large portion of my business model is going to hinge on making Windows software run on *nix platforms. Be that through wine, compiling with winelib, or porting the software wholesale.
In the case of wine, and I think even moreso with winelib, I suddenly have this fear that all of this software that demands admin rights on Windows is also going to demand it on Unix. I don't think that's totally correct because we're providing a "fake windows" for the software to beat up on, and c:\ isn't really / on the filesystem. That said, if it is all owned by the user, then the user can effectively have admin rights on that wine app, but still have no rights to harm the system overall.
Sound right?
I hope so. If not I'm going to have to work around this somehow.
Mod that man up.
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Intuit is criminal number 1 in this area (this month anyway, I have my targets change from time to time...)
Get this: The "enterprise" version of QuickBooks that will allow you to run in terminal services (gotta spend that extra cash to run the same software remotely you know!), requires that you have Power Users or Administrator priveleges.
Here's the catch however: I have a client running Small Business Server 2003, and they just went through a company restructuring where the CFO is going to be 200 miles away for the next few months, and needs to be able to hit QuickBooks from a terminal server session (yes, I know, VNC, PC Anywhere, bitmap pusher x..., work with me here though).
So, on an SBS, you can't have any trusts, no member servers (I might be wrong on that last one, apparently there'a hack that allows this, but again...), so the only server on the domain is the DC. You DC does not have "local" accounts and groups, only the AD users and groups. So a local power user doesn't exist. The only rights I can give them to be able to work is Admin.
The whole point of remote users is to.....access things remotely. You're requiring that every one of my users that wishes to use QuickBooks have Admin rights, and if they want to run in term serv, I have to allow dial in rights to that Admin account.
So I got on the phone with them. I suggested the following workaround:
"What if I just create a domain account, say ""QuickBooks User"". Set it to an obscenely secure password that no one but the admins could possibly know. Make it long, make it random, make it not-so-easy to remember. Grant that account Admin rights. Set Quickbooks to "Run As..." that user. Now Quickbooks gets the Admin privs it needs, but not the user."
After going through a supervisor, I was explained that this wouldn't work, and in fact they misconstrued it as an attempt on my part to subvert their licensing (because now I only have a single Quickbooks user, and we're supposed to pay per-seat for the license), and "Run As..." is intentionally broken to prevent this, along with the ability to run in Terminal Server if you haven't purchased the enterprise version.
Wow.
Cash more important than security.
Hey guys? What is so important at the system level that the *user* needs to make modifications to the OS? Why not store the data in the user's profile? Or in a shared directory with rights granted to the users in the "QuickBooks Users" group?
I just don't get it.
Hey Gator, glad to know I'm not the only one who remembers that.
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Anderson Cooper got his start on there (man, he went gray quick!) and there was an asian girl that wound up doing some morning talk show too.
Channel 1 didn't actually suck so bad, but back in say 93, 94, and 95 when e-mail addresses first started to actually become somewhat common, the idea that all e-mail addresses ended in "@aol.com" wasn't helped by the fact that all channel 1 staffers had addresses @aol.com.
Took me a long time to figure out otherwise.
Ascii stupid question, get a stupid Ansi?
Huh. Go fig.
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My personal opinion then? When OSX-x86 gets released, they need to open source the video driver api.
Not because I want to pirate OSX either. Once these boxes become more common, I imagine people might like a little more selection and the ability to add the latest and greatest video card, and without that Quartz video driver api being open, we're at the mercy of either Apple or the manufacturer to provide those.
Or maybe that's how Apple wants it?
Please note, that when the option is available to pay for a subscription as opposed to viewing ads, I will pay for the subscription. I do this for both /. and This Week in Tech.
/. would follow the example of TWiT and set up revolving subscriptions so that when your subscription is about to expire, it automatically attempts to renew (have this set to "off" by default of course, but at least offer the option!)
/. subscription expires, and $5 is never going to put a hole in my finances. :\
Most sites don't offer the option. I wish they would. I also wish
It is downright annoying to have to manually re-subscribe every time my
Okay, wow. I haven't had a chance to look since this morning, but I started a war here. Eep.
My thought was that a gpu driver will exist in the darwin-x86 release, as well....they need video cards too, so the little-endian cpu and gpu issue is taken care of there, as is the PC Bios. Chipset as an extension is resolved.
The only remaining issue is the 10.4.2's implementation of quartz. My understanding up until now is that if the OS has the proper kernel drivers, and it understands the OpenGL instruction set (which man do), and it is an AGP card (unless you hack the xml file stating to use PCI instead), AND you have more then 16MB of RAM for Quartz Extreme, you're ready to go.
What part of this am I missing? Remember, I'm an administrator and network designer, not a hardware designer, and I just barely pass as a programmer here.
I was thinking more along the lines of a g4u image file, but I certainly wouldn't grip over a live cd.
There are some very specific issues with using darwin to make a livecd. Not impossible by any strech, but not trivial.
People people people....
:)
/etc/rc.
;)
We're all unix geeks here, right?
**crickets**
Okay, well even if not....
Go to the Darwin site. Download Darwin for x86, install it. Ta da! We have the BSD Subsystem.
Okay, get your shiny new developer mac, place it side by side with your Darwin machine. Check the passwd file, the passwd entry in netinfo, and groups. Make sure the uid's and gid's generally match up.
Export for nfs from you dev mac:
/ --alldirs --maproot=0
Now, mount that someplace on your darwin boxen.
Use cp -pr anything of interest to the darwin box. I would take special note of anything in
Kick the darwin box.
I filesystem comparison between a clean dev box and a clean Darwin box might me useful, diffs on text files to go along with it.
Provide me or any good hacker that, and we'll have an installer out in no time.
Yeah, well this also means that Best Buy has changed NOTHING in the last, oh 6 years. I worked there in 98, and more or less the same story.
Wow.
Burn teh NYT burn burn burn!
*grin*
All things considered, I think I understand *why* they say such things, but given their place as a public news source, I think *where* they are saying it is just totally inappropriate.
The *why* is quite simple, their techs and point-haired's have probably gone nuts trying to get accurated site-visitation numbers, and every time a story goes up on slashdot, we simply obliterate the accuracy of their logging. So I don't expect them to be happy with slashdot.
I *do* however expect them to be professional journalists. Perhaps I expect too much?