You know, I was fully enjoying reading this, that is, until this little tidbit came along:
But while you may have long since decided that Windows isn't very well engineered, I would have to disagree with you on that point. Windows is simply the only seriously interesting target for hackers, virus and word authors, and spammers.
I view that as one of the most uneducated opinions you can have in the IT world today. Though, I will finish reading this.
I've been bitten by this myself, owning a linksys WAP. Though it is not the one that has been talked about.
It just so happens that it one day stopped responding to my host when it tries to bring up it's web config interface. The weird thing is that it only does it to me. NO MATTER WHAT NIC I USE. No matter what IP I use. It's not a firewall in the way. It's not a proxy. It doesn't make sense.
I can connect to it from any other machine, just not mine.
I found out that this is common with linksys WAP's, and that there is nothing you can do about it.
So I learned my lesson: don't buy shitty consumer grade junk like linksys and netgear.
Currently, the FFII states 'The Irish Presidency's proposal was passed, with support from Germany, France and most of the other countries whose ministers had publicly promised to oppose or at least abstain. The only no vote came from Spain (to be confirmed), Italy and a few others abstained.' As you may remember, Germany had previously promised to vote against software patents.
Debian Stable was released July 2002. They are not "delayed by years". There is no fixed date when the next release will be out - it will be out when it is out.
If another isn't released by this July, that'll be two years (why the space is there, i don't know).
Much of what you've said points at a major problem with the debian community: it's crass attitude.
Gentoo welcomes these folks, the debian community tells them RTFM.
ATI isn't going to touch Nvidia in the linux/free/bsd/etc market, the way things currently are.
I had a radeon 9000, and i had more issues with it than any other card i've ever used. Most games couldn't be played, lots of system hangs etc. All with their offical drivers.
Got tired of that, grabbed an nvidia 5900FX ultra, using nvidias drivers, and haven't had a single issue in two months.
It's pretty clear who the serious company is as far as linux/fbsd/etc.
Investigate Linux thin clients which run in as little as 16MB ram. Of course, no hard drives needed, no cdrom, no floppy. These are pulled down from the newtork from a TFTP server. They connect to the terminal server.
Think of how much time will be saved.
I recommend PXES for the thin clients.
Do investigate this, if we hadn't done it, we would have had to spend thousands on newer machines to even run windows, and a few more people to even begin to deal with maintaining them.
I'm the linux admin. I used to be a slackware whore, then I discovered gentoo. I reluctantly was forced to install Redhat on our webserver. Went from version 7.2, then to 7.3, then 8.0, then 9 (nice version numbering, guys...).
Then we added two more servers, and I made them both Gentoo. Things have changed, and all of our servers will be running gentoo.
This is a great day because I grew to really dislike administrating redhat systems. Two things: 1) RPM 2) Backports instead of actually upgrading software
Now with gentoo I can actually be up to date. This EOL date marks the date where I can punt the last RH box off of our network. With three gentoo servers running distcc and ccache, compiling doesn't take long at all. The remarkable flexability of Gentoo saves me time, which saves the company money.
So good riddance.
RH on desktop, maybe. Server room, definitely not. Fedora is a joke, as are all distros based on binary packaging systems.
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You know, I was fully enjoying reading this, that is, until this little tidbit came along:
But while you may have long since decided that Windows isn't very well engineered, I would have to disagree with you on that point. Windows is simply the only seriously interesting target for hackers, virus and word authors, and spammers.
I view that as one of the most uneducated opinions you can have in the IT world today. Though, I will finish reading this.
Personally, and I doubt I'm alone here, I'm sick of it.
Like a movie that's been so hyped up that I get pushed away by that alone, I don't give a fuck about gmail.
Please create a gmail category or whatever so I can uncheck it, thanks.
Yes, I have been doing it since 2.6.1 or so. We have databases, mail servers, ftp servers, apache servers, samba, blah blah.
I've had ZERO issues, in fact, it's been fantastic. I strongly recommend it.
Only thing to watch out is that you must have module-init-tools installed, though there may be other gotchyas per distro.
I still find benchmarking anything on Windows very silly. There is far too much overhead of the GUI, not to mention it's ineffeciency in general.
Next...
I know people who pay us$26/month for dial up. What a joke.
At least here, you can get 512Kbps/128Kbps residential DSL for us$21/month.
Duh?
Uh yeah?
The lesson here is not to buy lame hardware.
I've been bitten by this myself, owning a linksys WAP. Though it is not the one that has been talked about.
It just so happens that it one day stopped responding to my host when it tries to bring up it's web config interface. The weird thing is that it only does it to me. NO MATTER WHAT NIC I USE. No matter what IP I use. It's not a firewall in the way. It's not a proxy. It doesn't make sense.
I can connect to it from any other machine, just not mine.
I found out that this is common with linksys WAP's, and that there is nothing you can do about it.
So I learned my lesson: don't buy shitty consumer grade junk like linksys and netgear.
Funny. Windows installs get away with it.
It's Redhat, what'd you expect?
Currently, the FFII states 'The Irish Presidency's proposal was passed, with support from Germany, France and most of the other countries whose ministers had publicly promised to oppose or at least abstain. The only no vote came from Spain (to be confirmed), Italy and a few others abstained.' As you may remember, Germany had previously promised to vote against software patents.
Euros are liars and pushovers. This proves it.
The way I look at this, is it's a good thing.
It helps you figure out VERY quickly who has a clue, and who is an idiot.
Getting timeouts now to the tracker, after almost fully downloading, and uploading almost 4GB... Damn it!
Anyone know what happened?
Damn, that really blows.
And I just picked up a used 98 civic LX, bastard gets 33 - 35 MPG city, 38+ freeway.
I imagine I paid 15 grand or more less, too...
What a stinker.
Total FUD.
I've used reiserfs for years now, at home and on production machines, never a problem.
But I have had serious issues with ext2, ext3, jfs, xfs...
Reiserfs is not experimental.
I stopped reading when it said he was usin a 2.4 kernel.
2.6 performance is that much better.
Get a clue, guy.
You don't need to back out the patch. It's a configurable option. (You're talking about 4k vs 8k ...)
:P
I tried this on 2.6.6-rc3, and I still had the same issues.
It's okay though, i don't need 2.6.6
Note that this breaks the loading of Nvidia modules.
Rather annoying since Nvidia knew this issue was coming.
The fix is to back a patch out, but it's a bad idea.
Stay at 2.6.5 if you use Nvidias drivers, for now.
Debian Stable was released July 2002. They are not "delayed by years". There is no fixed date when the next release will be out - it will be out when it is out.
If another isn't released by this July, that'll be two year s (why the space is there, i don't know).
Much of what you've said points at a major problem with the debian community: it's crass attitude.
Gentoo welcomes these folks, the debian community tells them RTFM.
ATI isn't going to touch Nvidia in the linux/free/bsd/etc market, the way things currently are.
I had a radeon 9000, and i had more issues with it than any other card i've ever used. Most games couldn't be played, lots of system hangs etc. All with their offical drivers.
Got tired of that, grabbed an nvidia 5900FX ultra, using nvidias drivers, and haven't had a single issue in two months.
It's pretty clear who the serious company is as far as linux/fbsd/etc.
I've some advice for you.
Set up a 2003 terminal server.
Investigate Linux thin clients which run in as little as 16MB ram. Of course, no hard drives needed, no cdrom, no floppy. These are pulled down from the newtork from a TFTP server. They connect to the terminal server.
Think of how much time will be saved.
I recommend PXES for the thin clients.
Do investigate this, if we hadn't done it, we would have had to spend thousands on newer machines to even run windows, and a few more people to even begin to deal with maintaining them.
* net-p2p/azureus-bin
Latest version available: 2.0.8.4
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 7,809 kB
Homepage: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Description: Azureus - Java BitTorrent Client
License: GPL-2 BSD
Java. Laugh.
If the authors want their application taken seriously, they should write it in a serious language.
Java is a piece of shit, fuck it.
This is a great day.
I'm the linux admin. I used to be a slackware whore, then I discovered gentoo. I reluctantly was forced to install Redhat on our webserver. Went from version 7.2, then to 7.3, then 8.0, then 9 (nice version numbering, guys...).
Then we added two more servers, and I made them both Gentoo. Things have changed, and all of our servers will be running gentoo.
This is a great day because I grew to really dislike administrating redhat systems. Two things: 1) RPM 2) Backports instead of actually upgrading software
Now with gentoo I can actually be up to date. This EOL date marks the date where I can punt the last RH box off of our network. With three gentoo servers running distcc and ccache, compiling doesn't take long at all. The remarkable flexability of Gentoo saves me time, which saves the company money.
So good riddance.
RH on desktop, maybe. Server room, definitely not. Fedora is a joke, as are all distros based on binary packaging systems.
Fuck AOL.
If you'd have kept up to the latest stable, you wouldn't have this problem.