That's why the ban exists in the entire State of NY, for example. No one in New York should be seen driving with a cellphone against their head. Anyone know if its a stoppable offense?
I am juuuuust getting underway with my first Debian loads in the last coupla months. One a console-only install and just last night, my first Debian install with X. Did you know apt-get install gnome doesn't work but apt-get install kde does?
Anyway, is it a bad idea to run cron-apt with sources pointing to testing? I also found that cron-apt installs with the -d download only option. It's a blow box so I removed the option. I want to see if the maintainers will break my box with a nightly update. And IIRC there are no security updates for testing. Not nitpicking against you, just confirming my findings for my personal situation.
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Yeah, I was wondering whatever happened to the IBM/RLX deal. I was getting all ready to deploy RLX blade, when suddenly we were pushing our own. Don't know what happened there.
I'm currently involved in a server consolidation project where the customer has dictated that they want to see some blade. Our primary platforms are some kickin' Intel servers (8-way 1.6GHz, 8GB RAM, max 16-way 64GB) running VMWare ESX, but the customer is insisting on seeing some blade. I am personally unimpressed by them. You need to make sure that your apps can and are built to either cluster or failover cleanly when you get blade involved. Or just not run any mission critical stuff on it.
I prefer the VMWare ESX on our nearly-non-stop Intel hardware, the x440.
Yeah, I've used First Union for years, and the only nit I have is that at the personal banking login screen, the field length has never displayed properly. It almost makes it worth all the fees associated with a CAP account. Almost.
One unfortunately probably lost on a large portion of the Slashdot crowd that believes Linux == Unix (or GNU/Linux == Unix)...
Okay, I'll bite. Linux isn't UNIX because no one paid Novell (or whoever owns it now) the hundreds of thousands of dollars to license the name. I, for one, always refer to it as UNIX-like. And as I'm currently replacing thousands of servers for a customer with a mix of Intel, RISC, and mainframe servers as we help them migrate all their apps to Linux on all those platforms over the next two years, I can say..
When people ask me why people yell into cellphones, I always explain that its because the phones typically don't replay their own voice into their earpiece like normal house phones do. Therefore, if they can't hear themselves, they assume the person on the other end can't hear them either. Then they yell.
I commute to NYC and I see plenty of people (on the Amtrak NOT the New Jersey Transit i.e. on the expensive train) speak very quietly into their phones. I can even stand right next to them and wouldn't know they were on the phone if they weren't holding it next to their heads. I've even seen people reach over the seat and hit the head of the person in front if they're speaking too loudly on the Amtrak.
I, too, enjoy a high level of integration. Unfortunately, I backed my wife into a corner. I can't move her to Linux until someone hacks a sync between palm and My Yahoo!. And with our Nextel phones coming, I'm already on the prowl for Linux-based phonebook/calendar managers for the motorola phones. I've played with startalk on my StarTAC, but wasn't lucky enough to stick around long enough to see it integrated with Evolution; by scripts or otherwise. Still need that Yahoo! integration, though.
most schools not english medium, but since the higher education is in english, elite class people send their children to english, thus in cities, english schools are comparatively more.
At first when I read your comment about *most* Americans' command of the English language (as if you could statistically make that kind of statement), I was sad. Then, when I read a sample of what you consider to be a better mastery of the language, I realized that either you're just wrong, or you need to find a better crowd stateside.
I always love hearing the "less restrictive licence [sic]" comment. You realize that you're complaining that you can't take something from Linux's free software community without giving it back if you improve upon it. Do you know precisely who you sound like? Do you *want* to sound like them? And to apply that to academia, too. Just the place that's fighting tooth and nail for exclusive ownership of the next big thing. How do you want all those students to act after they graduate?
If IBM makes some whack-ass server software that actually takes advantage of the 64 bit architecture
They/we already do. It's called zSeries. Like the z800. That's one whack-ass server. Imagine doing self-service web hosting that takes users from first click to a fixed IP dedicated host up and running in 5 to 10 minutes with no additional hardware. Now imagine that kind of service for up to 10,000 or more fully independent hosts in a 19" rack. If I had a some bucks and gumption to start a business, that's exactly what I would do. A z800, the fattest pipes I could buy, and some disk.
The copying of copyrighted works, according to current concensus, *is* illegal.
Isn't all software automatically copyrighted, and isn't like ALL GPL software accompanied by Copyright notices? So its not the mere copyright status of the files, but the license. You can't shut down P2P merely because copyrighted works are being shared. That's not good enough for me.
And I almost reacted to your sig since you don't have an RFC-compliant sig separator. Not that you're required to have one, but it helps make comments like yours stand out.
First, have a reference for MS recomending weekly reboots?
Here is the Windows 2000 Web Server Best Practices that talks about a new tool that absolves admins of the need to reboot servers on a weekly basis:
"Figure 2 displays production Web server uptime improvements at a Microsoft property after installing the IIS Recycle tool. Before the installation of the IIS Recycle tool all Web servers were rebooted on a weekly basis, as shown at the far left hand side of Figure 5. After the installation of IIS Recycle, no server has been rebooted and as displayed in the below figure, Web server uptime is now greater than 60 days."
Haven't been able to find better backup yet. It might've been a SANS.org or cert.org recommendation that I was remembering. But the best practices tidbit comes pretty close to actually recommending it.
It is common knowledge that properly configured Windows boxes achieve at least "five 9's" of uptime
That's 5.2 minutes a year of downtime... at the VERY MOST according to you. I'll give you 3 or 4 9's but not "at least five 9's". How often do you apply patches? What about following Microsoft's recommended practice of rebooting weekly to recollect dirty memory? I tend to subscribe to the theory that any **application** can achieve 5 9's when sufficiently scaled horizontally.
In a past life, I supported over 100 NT servers running file/print, websphere, domino and clustered db2 but now I do server consolidations to Linux mainframes. Believe me, it is most definitely not common knowledge that any MS OS regularly achieves five 9's.
But what gives you the right to say this dictionary is wrong
I happen to agree that the vernacular drives dictionaries' content, and not the other way around. Language is dynamic and dictionaries always have to change in order to stay current. But I still don't know anyone who uses "data" in the singular.. either as "data" or as "datum". Hence, the traditional definition stands.
"Where's the data?" pl. "Send me the data." pl. "The data seems to imply...." pl. "Some of the data" pl. "Pieces of data" pl.
Just in general.. "the data" pl.
Just one of/.'s many nit-wars (if you want to call it that):)
Dump your dictionary. Its wrong about "data" and its definitely wrong about "nown". And the what the HELL is "the data is from the forms from a keyboard"?? That doesn't even make sense!!
Of course, they had dead-tree instructions to guide them too; something that's missing all to often today.
That's only because people don't print out the docs prior to starting their endeavours. I had a 2-inch binder filled to capacity with separator tabs before I tried my first install. Hell the full RH install guide is there in PDF form on the freely downloadble version, not to mention all the HOWTOs. I appreciate the fact that they include the entire book in the freely downloadable version.
How often do you see around here, "oh, discs 3 & 4 are the source RPMS and disc 5 is the documentation CD, so you really only need discs 1 and 2." Take disc 5 over to staples and have them make up a binder for you with some/all of the docs on the doc CD. Of course, you should give the $30 to RH instead, but still, at least you'll have paper that you can mark up and read when all you get is "No Operating System".
Just to be a/bot for a second, I thought it was funny that the primary concern with Apache was insecure CGI scripts. And the point about "even Apache's own website was defaced" says nothing about boxes being 0wned. Just a chrooted nobody user account. (And yes, I assume that Apache runs their own server chrooted)
As to the submitter saying the vulnerable UNIX apps are basically a laundry list of apps he uses daily, that's too bad. Never once have I needed to put NFS, rlogin, or FTP into production. I was always taught that the "r" meant "raped".
Their website doesn't make it very clear that their service offers *no* coverage outside these splotches.
I think you mean "any coverage", but still. I've been considering switching to T-Mobile in November specifically to get a GSM phone for trips to Europe. I get a discount for Nextel, but Nextel locks their SIM cards, and T-Mobile offers to unlock them immediately.
Then the Wall St. Journal covered cellular plans today and said T-Mobile has horrible coverage. They said that TM does indeed offer free roaming, but as others have mentioned, no free nights, just weekends. And at that, weekends start midnight Saturday! No matter how much I spit acid at the thought of Verizon raping my wallet every month, WSJ did say that you get what you pay for and Verizon is among the best and the most expensive.
Does anyone know if the T-Mobile GSM phones will roam onto CDMA networks? That would be spiffy.
Right now, I need a phone that works roughly from DC to Boston, Los Angeles, Orlando, and in Australia, Germany, Paris, London and Brussels. I thought T-Mobile would be my best choice based on the coverage maps in the US. The Nextel might be a better choice, and I'll just have to put up with expensive international rates.
To compare Verizon to what I've found with T-Mobile (and who I think is better):
To share 2 lines: Verizon $99/mo for 750 mins, T-Mobile $69/mo for 800 mins (TM)
For 144k data: Verizon needs a separate account that CANNOT share minutes, with T-Mobile you move the SIM card to the Merlin PCMCIA card (TM)
With Verizon you burn minutes for high speed data, T-Mobile you're billed by volume (VZ during nights and weekends)
T-Mobile GSM phones can roam internationally and they'll let you change SIM cards, Verizon will loan you an international phone (TM)
With Verizon you burn peak minutes calling cellphone-to-cellphone within the family share plan, but you get nights and weekends free (VZ wins for free long distance calls to off-plan phones at night)
With T-Mobile all cellphone-to-cellphone calls are free within the family share all the time, but no free weeknights otherwise (TM wins for frequent peak calls to the other Family Plan cellphone, i.e. "honey I'm on the way home.")
I guess its time to give Nextel a look and see how they do.
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That's why the ban exists in the entire State of NY, for example. No one in New York should be seen driving with a cellphone against their head. Anyone know if its a stoppable offense?
I am juuuuust getting underway with my first Debian loads in the last coupla months. One a console-only install and just last night, my first Debian install with X. Did you know apt-get install gnome doesn't work but apt-get install kde does?
Anyway, is it a bad idea to run cron-apt with sources pointing to testing? I also found that cron-apt installs with the -d download only option. It's a blow box so I removed the option. I want to see if the maintainers will break my box with a nightly update. And IIRC there are no security updates for testing. Not nitpicking against you, just confirming my findings for my personal situation.
Yeah, I was wondering whatever happened to the IBM/RLX deal. I was getting all ready to deploy RLX blade, when suddenly we were pushing our own. Don't know what happened there.
I'm currently involved in a server consolidation project where the customer has dictated that they want to see some blade. Our primary platforms are some kickin' Intel servers (8-way 1.6GHz, 8GB RAM, max 16-way 64GB) running VMWare ESX, but the customer is insisting on seeing some blade. I am personally unimpressed by them. You need to make sure that your apps can and are built to either cluster or failover cleanly when you get blade involved. Or just not run any mission critical stuff on it.
I prefer the VMWare ESX on our nearly-non-stop Intel hardware, the x440.
And we knocked Solaris out of there with Linux.
Yeah, I've used First Union for years, and the only nit I have is that at the personal banking login screen, the field length has never displayed properly. It almost makes it worth all the fees associated with a CAP account. Almost.
One unfortunately probably lost on a large portion of the Slashdot crowd that believes Linux == Unix (or GNU/Linux == Unix)...
Okay, I'll bite. Linux isn't UNIX because no one paid Novell (or whoever owns it now) the hundreds of thousands of dollars to license the name. I, for one, always refer to it as UNIX-like. And as I'm currently replacing thousands of servers for a customer with a mix of Intel, RISC, and mainframe servers as we help them migrate all their apps to Linux on all those platforms over the next two years, I can say..
it's close enough.
On [..] www.weather.com, [..] your icon turns to an MSN(tm) butterfly
Which is funny considering it's a Linux cluster.
How about here?
When people ask me why people yell into cellphones, I always explain that its because the phones typically don't replay their own voice into their earpiece like normal house phones do. Therefore, if they can't hear themselves, they assume the person on the other end can't hear them either. Then they yell.
I commute to NYC and I see plenty of people (on the Amtrak NOT the New Jersey Transit i.e. on the expensive train) speak very quietly into their phones. I can even stand right next to them and wouldn't know they were on the phone if they weren't holding it next to their heads. I've even seen people reach over the seat and hit the head of the person in front if they're speaking too loudly on the Amtrak.
I, too, enjoy a high level of integration. Unfortunately, I backed my wife into a corner. I can't move her to Linux until someone hacks a sync between palm and My Yahoo!. And with our Nextel phones coming, I'm already on the prowl for Linux-based phonebook/calendar managers for the motorola phones. I've played with startalk on my StarTAC, but wasn't lucky enough to stick around long enough to see it integrated with Evolution; by scripts or otherwise. Still need that Yahoo! integration, though.
the state that also invented "Epstein-Barr", second hand smoke, and ADD.. hypochondriacs from San Diego to Sacremento
most schools not english medium, but since the higher education is in english, elite class people send their children to english, thus in cities, english schools are comparatively more.
At first when I read your comment about *most* Americans' command of the English language (as if you could statistically make that kind of statement), I was sad. Then, when I read a sample of what you consider to be a better mastery of the language, I realized that either you're just wrong, or you need to find a better crowd stateside.
I always love hearing the "less restrictive licence [sic]" comment. You realize that you're complaining that you can't take something from Linux's free software community without giving it back if you improve upon it. Do you know precisely who you sound like? Do you *want* to sound like them? And to apply that to academia, too. Just the place that's fighting tooth and nail for exclusive ownership of the next big thing. How do you want all those students to act after they graduate?
That's what I thought. Just making sure.
If IBM makes some whack-ass server software that actually takes advantage of the 64 bit architecture
They/we already do. It's called zSeries. Like the z800. That's one whack-ass server. Imagine doing self-service web hosting that takes users from first click to a fixed IP dedicated host up and running in 5 to 10 minutes with no additional hardware. Now imagine that kind of service for up to 10,000 or more fully independent hosts in a 19" rack. If I had a some bucks and gumption to start a business, that's exactly what I would do. A z800, the fattest pipes I could buy, and some disk.
The copying of copyrighted works, according to current concensus, *is* illegal.
Isn't all software automatically copyrighted, and isn't like ALL GPL software accompanied by Copyright notices? So its not the mere copyright status of the files, but the license. You can't shut down P2P merely because copyrighted works are being shared. That's not good enough for me.
And I almost reacted to your sig since you don't have an RFC-compliant sig separator. Not that you're required to have one, but it helps make comments like yours stand out.
Hey, if you're still involved with the project, maybe you can fix the x86 install docs. Found this little gem:
Important: If you are a stage2 or stage3 tarball, then we've already bootstrapped for you.
Here is the Windows 2000 Web Server Best Practices that talks about a new tool that absolves admins of the need to reboot servers on a weekly basis:
Haven't been able to find better backup yet. It might've been a SANS.org or cert.org recommendation that I was remembering. But the best practices tidbit comes pretty close to actually recommending it.
It is common knowledge that properly configured Windows boxes achieve at least "five 9's" of uptime
That's 5.2 minutes a year of downtime... at the VERY MOST according to you. I'll give you 3 or 4 9's but not "at least five 9's". How often do you apply patches? What about following Microsoft's recommended practice of rebooting weekly to recollect dirty memory? I tend to subscribe to the theory that any **application** can achieve 5 9's when sufficiently scaled horizontally.
In a past life, I supported over 100 NT servers running file/print, websphere, domino and clustered db2 but now I do server consolidations to Linux mainframes. Believe me, it is most definitely not common knowledge that any MS OS regularly achieves five 9's.
But what gives you the right to say this dictionary is wrong
/.'s many nit-wars (if you want to call it that) :)
I happen to agree that the vernacular drives dictionaries' content, and not the other way around. Language is dynamic and dictionaries always have to change in order to stay current. But I still don't know anyone who uses "data" in the singular.. either as "data" or as "datum". Hence, the traditional definition stands.
"Where's the data?" pl.
"Send me the data." pl.
"The data seems to imply...." pl.
"Some of the data" pl.
"Pieces of data" pl.
Just in general..
"the data" pl.
Just one of
data is increasingly treated as a singular nown
Dump your dictionary. Its wrong about "data" and its definitely wrong about "nown". And the what the HELL is "the data is from the forms from a keyboard"?? That doesn't even make sense!!
Of course, they had dead-tree instructions to guide them too; something that's missing all to often today.
That's only because people don't print out the docs prior to starting their endeavours. I had a 2-inch binder filled to capacity with separator tabs before I tried my first install. Hell the full RH install guide is there in PDF form on the freely downloadble version, not to mention all the HOWTOs. I appreciate the fact that they include the entire book in the freely downloadable version.
How often do you see around here, "oh, discs 3 & 4 are the source RPMS and disc 5 is the documentation CD, so you really only need discs 1 and 2." Take disc 5 over to staples and have them make up a binder for you with some/all of the docs on the doc CD. Of course, you should give the $30 to RH instead, but still, at least you'll have paper that you can mark up and read when all you get is "No Operating System".
and yet you missed "mechanical transmittion"? :)
Just to be a /bot for a second, I thought it was funny that the primary concern with Apache was insecure CGI scripts. And the point about "even Apache's own website was defaced" says nothing about boxes being 0wned. Just a chrooted nobody user account. (And yes, I assume that Apache runs their own server chrooted)
As to the submitter saying the vulnerable UNIX apps are basically a laundry list of apps he uses daily, that's too bad. Never once have I needed to put NFS, rlogin, or FTP into production. I was always taught that the "r" meant "raped".
I think you mean "any coverage", but still. I've been considering switching to T-Mobile in November specifically to get a GSM phone for trips to Europe. I get a discount for Nextel, but Nextel locks their SIM cards, and T-Mobile offers to unlock them immediately.
Then the Wall St. Journal covered cellular plans today and said T-Mobile has horrible coverage. They said that TM does indeed offer free roaming, but as others have mentioned, no free nights, just weekends. And at that, weekends start midnight Saturday! No matter how much I spit acid at the thought of Verizon raping my wallet every month, WSJ did say that you get what you pay for and Verizon is among the best and the most expensive.
Does anyone know if the T-Mobile GSM phones will roam onto CDMA networks? That would be spiffy.
Right now, I need a phone that works roughly from DC to Boston, Los Angeles, Orlando, and in Australia, Germany, Paris, London and Brussels. I thought T-Mobile would be my best choice based on the coverage maps in the US. The Nextel might be a better choice, and I'll just have to put up with expensive international rates.
To compare Verizon to what I've found with T-Mobile (and who I think is better):
To share 2 lines: Verizon $99/mo for 750 mins, T-Mobile $69/mo for 800 mins (TM)
For 144k data: Verizon needs a separate account that CANNOT share minutes, with T-Mobile you move the SIM card to the Merlin PCMCIA card (TM)
With Verizon you burn minutes for high speed data, T-Mobile you're billed by volume (VZ during nights and weekends)
T-Mobile GSM phones can roam internationally and they'll let you change SIM cards, Verizon will loan you an international phone (TM)
With Verizon you burn peak minutes calling cellphone-to-cellphone within the family share plan, but you get nights and weekends free (VZ wins for free long distance calls to off-plan phones at night)
With T-Mobile all cellphone-to-cellphone calls are free within the family share all the time, but no free weeknights otherwise (TM wins for frequent peak calls to the other Family Plan cellphone, i.e. "honey I'm on the way home.")
I guess its time to give Nextel a look and see how they do.