Seriously, I would install a dozen of these type B boards in a case, only use a single power supply, a Ethernet switch and make a low power blade server. I think the power / speed / price ratio would work out. Add a NAS for storage, and you could have a fairly powerful blade for a fraction of the big boys. BOM works out to 12 x 35 = 420. Add a case / PS, Switch. Boot from SD and store everything on a NAS (add extra cost for storage). There's a lot to like about these boards. I think they could be a game changer.
K12Linux is Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP.org) integrated with Fedora 10 and higher, in a convenient LiveUSB or DVD media installer. Since 1999 LTSP has empowered many schools and businesses with Linux-based terminal servers and thin clients, allowing low-cost clients or recycled computers to become powerful Linux desktop machines. K12Linux allows easy deployment of a Linux terminal server, capable of serving entire networks of netboot diskless clients. Clients login to the central terminal server, where they can use any Linux desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, XFCE, etc.) and most desktop applications. Significant long-term cost savings are made possible by central management of software and accounts.
Lots of people gave Vista a bad rep because -- get this -- they didn't know how to use their damned computers!
I'm sure that must be it. I've only personally owned computers since 1982, taught myself assembler to write faster games on a C=64, hacked hardware on an Amiga, switched to Linux in '98 or so, got a Slashdot login some time the same week, picked up FreeBSD a few months later, snagged a degree in CompSci, built the home server sitting next to me from Newegg parts, and turned an HP Mini into a Hackintosh last month. That must be why my wife's dual-core laptop with 2GB of RAM and Vista ran like crap from the day we bought it, even after I stripped out the OEM junk and have almost nothing running at startup: because I'm a technophobic newbie who doesn't know how to use my damned computers.
Yeah.
Yeah, Ditto to that. Vista's UI is a mess IMHO. I hate it. Windows 7 is a vast improvement, and if the past is any indicator, this will be Vista's death lurch. People will be buying new PC's with 7 and Vista will slowly wither on the vine, much as ME did. Even old-timer's are ready to move forward with it.
I use one of these http://mrlinuxhead.com/ebd.html It boots to a known clean OS, scans and remove viruses and spyware very neatly. I used to have to remove the hard drive from PC's and put them on as a slave drive but that got old very quickly. Now I can do ten or twenty machines at a time.
I just got the third in a week. First two were from the same Phisherman posing as an eBay buyer (precisionlaptops4u). Got another yesterday posing as a paypal email. To try to expose these clowns, I do a reverse DNS lookup, a WHOIS lookup, and Google on key words, and publish the results on my Blog. http://mrlinuxhead.blogspot.com/
The IP address, port scans, who the domain owner is, the street address, email address and phone numbers, whatever I can find out about them I publish for the local authorities to deal with.
Even if the web server administrator is blameless, they will get enough attention to take action. One common infection I have notice across all of the servers is a W32.MyDoom infection. Anyone else see that?
Tripwire would be a nice thing to see on Windows, Check a CRC on all of the DLL's and binaries. But..
Booting from a known read-only media is the only thing that will fix it after it's been 0wned.
Something like this http://mrlinuxhead.com/ebd.html is what I use.
Oh You mean like this eBay Login Page.
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I got "phished" a week ago from some scammer with a eBay handle of "precisionlaptops4u" looking for eBay logins. I emailed eBay and hoped they could shut the perp down.
And then again yesterday I got another one. Same guy, same scam.
The URL is : http://1342912795/intranet/forum/templates/subSilv er/images/wsbleh/ebay/index.html
I started looking at the problem myself and put my findings at my Bloger blog. http://mrlinuxhead.blogspot.com/
Same guy is still up, and doing it today.
I worked at a co-lo where all the NOC crew got pins at a meeting that said "H.I.P."
So all of us said "What is H.I.P.?"
To that our manager replied " Honor, Integrity, and Pride."
It quickly became known as "Honor In Porn" because over half of our clients and maybe most of our bandwith (2Gbps+) was taken up by porn sites.
Just drop a thousand of these on Mars for pre-construction in advance for humans to land. Pave out runways and habitat in advence with a army of robot critters. Loose one or two, no big deal.
If you make 'em the size of a HumVee or a Cat then you have something that could do dirt work for years on solar power
SUN shows a Linux Distro (Java Desktop) and sells it for $100 per seat (per year). China and England check it out and may buy in. Sun responds by GIVING AWAY Solaris 8 and 9 for free?
The I.CODE chip used in Benetton's labels includes 1,024 bits of EEPROM and operates at 13.56-MHz carrier frequency. It can be operated without line of sight up to 1.5 meters. The label requires no internal power supply. Its contactless interface generates power and the system clock via the resonant circuitry by inductive coupling to the reader.
Inductive simply means a magnetic field is generated by the reader, activating the curcit in the chip, much like high-security keyless entry systems work today.
Onkyo is smart for using Linux. Nearly all the Pacific Rim (Sony, Pioneer, Panasonic, ect.) manufacturers are testing it or are ready to deploy because they don't need to pay out royalties per unit, can share innovations with each other, and can share data with each other's units over 100Mb Ethernet or 802.11x or whatever. The most important thing to remember is they don't need to spend huge amounts on R&D. Linux will become the Linga Franca of consumer electronics, unless Microsoft buys one of the big players and twists everyone's arm to go along. Maybe not even then, as the long term gains are too big. And most Japanese electronics manufacturers are thinking very long term.
And yes these babies are BIG! And HEAVY! At 110 RMS per CH. Thats 660 Watts out, all discrete. No output IC's. Not to mentions pre amp and video switching. Schwweett.
What's missing? What am I missing?
The ability for my wife to walk into Best Buy and purchase "Hoyle Card Games". Or "Reader Rabbit Preschool".
Or buy a digital camera and use the included picture organizing software that my in-laws bought.
Of course, Quicken is unavailable. GnuCash is not a particularly "friendly" substitute for most people either. And until I can pay my bills over the Internet, it wouldn't be a substitute for me either.
I really could go on and on, but the point is that Linux is not mainstream and you can't get mainstream software.
I think is a good thing for a lot of Govt./corp enviroments. No sysadmin wants every AP/AR/HR admin assistant downloading crap like Comet Cursor or Gator or Kazza at their whim. No one wants Suzie from payroll to bring some card game she bought at Best Buy.
And if they need to run Windows apps, use Wine/Crossover, or deploy a Windows Terminal server or Citrix. RDP kicks ass for most 100Mb switched networks. Who give a load about shrink- wrapped games when your employees should be working.
Redhat 8.0 retail box set comes with Excellent Documentation, and is quite specific without being overly technical. As an added bonus, it also comes with a CD full of documentation.
Chris, I watch the ScreenSavers on TechTV quite often, and saw the Quake server demo. Qudos to TechTV to give it a try. For a good topic for a show, most folks want to see what Linux can DO! Show them Ximian Evolution and Mozilla, OpenOffice, and TuxRacer. If you have time, do a demo of the Redhat setup agent, and show off Redhat Network (sorta like Windows Update). The new GUI RPM Package Manager and other GUI config tools are nice looking and will display well.
A dual boot setup would be nice to show off also.{I set up a dual boot Win98/RH8 for a newbie laptop user and they have been very happy to boot into Linux, and don't really bother with Windows anymore.}
Anyhow, love the TechTV, please say Happy Holidays to Patrick and Leo and Megan and Morgan and Yoshi and Martin and Sumi and Adam and Jennifer and Michaela and Chris and Erica and Alex and Becky and ..did I forget anyone?
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Seriously, I would install a dozen of these type B boards in a case, only use a single power supply, a Ethernet switch and make a low power blade server. I think the power / speed / price ratio would work out. Add a NAS for storage, and you could have a fairly powerful blade for a fraction of the big boys. BOM works out to 12 x 35 = 420. Add a case / PS, Switch. Boot from SD and store everything on a NAS (add extra cost for storage). There's a lot to like about these boards. I think they could be a game changer.
I recommend it. It looks good and just works out of the box. http://www.pclinuxos.com/
Bullshit.
K12Linux is Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP.org) integrated with Fedora 10 and higher, in a convenient LiveUSB or DVD media installer. Since 1999 LTSP has empowered many schools and businesses with Linux-based terminal servers and thin clients, allowing low-cost clients or recycled computers to become powerful Linux desktop machines. K12Linux allows easy deployment of a Linux terminal server, capable of serving entire networks of netboot diskless clients. Clients login to the central terminal server, where they can use any Linux desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, XFCE, etc.) and most desktop applications. Significant long-term cost savings are made possible by central management of software and accounts.
Lots of people gave Vista a bad rep because -- get this -- they didn't know how to use their damned computers!
I'm sure that must be it. I've only personally owned computers since 1982, taught myself assembler to write faster games on a C=64, hacked hardware on an Amiga, switched to Linux in '98 or so, got a Slashdot login some time the same week, picked up FreeBSD a few months later, snagged a degree in CompSci, built the home server sitting next to me from Newegg parts, and turned an HP Mini into a Hackintosh last month. That must be why my wife's dual-core laptop with 2GB of RAM and Vista ran like crap from the day we bought it, even after I stripped out the OEM junk and have almost nothing running at startup: because I'm a technophobic newbie who doesn't know how to use my damned computers.
Yeah.
Yeah, Ditto to that. Vista's UI is a mess IMHO. I hate it. Windows 7 is a vast improvement, and if the past is any indicator, this will be Vista's death lurch. People will be buying new PC's with 7 and Vista will slowly wither on the vine, much as ME did. Even old-timer's are ready to move forward with it.
Someone held the bastards feet to the fire..
I use one of these http://mrlinuxhead.com/ebd.html It boots to a known clean OS, scans and remove viruses and spyware very neatly. I used to have to remove the hard drive from PC's and put them on as a slave drive but that got old very quickly. Now I can do ten or twenty machines at a time.
I know this is a big day for you.
I just got the third in a week. First two were from the same Phisherman posing as an eBay buyer (precisionlaptops4u).
Got another yesterday posing as a paypal email.
To try to expose these clowns, I do a reverse DNS lookup, a WHOIS lookup, and Google on key words, and publish the results on my Blog. http://mrlinuxhead.blogspot.com/
The IP address, port scans, who the domain owner is, the street address, email address and phone numbers, whatever I can find out about them I publish for the local authorities to deal with.
Even if the web server administrator is blameless, they will get enough attention to take action. One common infection I have notice across all of the servers is a W32.MyDoom infection. Anyone else see that?
Tripwire would be a nice thing to see on Windows, Check a CRC on all of the DLL's and binaries. But.. Booting from a known read-only media is the only thing that will fix it after it's been 0wned. Something like this http://mrlinuxhead.com/ebd.html is what I use.
I got "phished" a week ago from some scammer with a eBay handle of "precisionlaptops4u" looking for eBay logins. I emailed eBay and hoped they could shut the perp down. And then again yesterday I got another one. Same guy, same scam. The URL is : http://1342912795/intranet/forum/templates/subSilv er/images/wsbleh/ebay/index.html
I started looking at the problem myself and put my findings at my Bloger blog. http://mrlinuxhead.blogspot.com/
Same guy is still up, and doing it today.
I worked at a co-lo where all the NOC crew got pins at a meeting that said "H.I.P."
So all of us said "What is H.I.P.?"
To that our manager replied " Honor, Integrity, and Pride."
It quickly became known as "Honor In Porn" because over half of our clients and maybe most of our bandwith (2Gbps+) was taken up by porn sites.
Just drop a thousand of these on Mars for pre-construction in advance for humans to land. Pave out runways and habitat in advence with a army of robot critters. Loose one or two, no big deal.
If you make 'em the size of a HumVee or a Cat then you have something that could do dirt work for years on solar power
Email is the killer app of the Internet.
SUN shows a Linux Distro (Java Desktop) and sells it for $100 per seat (per year). China and England check it out and may buy in. Sun responds by GIVING AWAY Solaris 8 and 9 for free?
That brings up a good point. I think these guys may have a plan here.
Check the dates on these and the purchaces of SCOX shortly after 10/11/02 qand 10/14/02. Seems like that could have been shortly after a "un-attended meeting". Hmmm.
SCO is giving Santa Cruz a bad name. Pity
From the article. .
The I.CODE chip used in Benetton's labels includes 1,024 bits of EEPROM and operates at 13.56-MHz carrier frequency. It can be operated without line of sight up to 1.5 meters. The label requires no internal power supply. Its contactless interface generates power and the system clock via the resonant circuitry by inductive coupling to the reader.
Inductive simply means a magnetic field is generated by the reader, activating the curcit in the chip, much like high-security keyless entry systems work today.
Moz rules but it does need a new logo. The Dragon does not inspire consumer confidence
just myFsck It All. . . .
I Want one.
The average user don't care what it runs, as long as it works. This is a cool toy. . .
You Know That's all that counts.
We should pray for the lost souls on that ship.. . Pray for the family. . . . God bless you all.. . . .
Better make that .
I mean 770 watts. (110 x 7) I sometimes see the rear channels as one. This is real 7.1
Onkyo is smart for using Linux. Nearly all the Pacific Rim (Sony, Pioneer, Panasonic, ect.) manufacturers are testing it or are ready to deploy because they don't need to pay out royalties per unit, can share innovations with each other, and can share data with each other's units over 100Mb Ethernet or 802.11x or whatever. The most important thing to remember is they don't need to spend huge amounts on R&D. Linux will become the Linga Franca of consumer electronics, unless Microsoft buys one of the big players and twists everyone's arm to go along. Maybe not even then, as the long term gains are too big. And most Japanese electronics manufacturers are thinking very long term.
And yes these babies are BIG! And HEAVY! At 110 RMS per CH. Thats 660 Watts out, all discrete. No output IC's. Not to mentions pre amp and video switching. Schwweett.
Inputs:
Audio and AV Inputs - 3/6
HDTV-Ready Component Video Input/Output - 2/1
Front-Panel Video Input (with S-Video) - Yes
S-Video Compatible Jacks Input/Output - 6/3
Digital Inputs:
5 Optical (1 Front Panel), 3 Coaxial
Digital Output - 2 Optical Amp In
RS-232 Control Port
IR In/Out - 1/1
What's missing? What am I missing? The ability for my wife to walk into Best Buy and purchase "Hoyle Card Games". Or "Reader Rabbit Preschool". Or buy a digital camera and use the included picture organizing software that my in-laws bought. Of course, Quicken is unavailable. GnuCash is not a particularly "friendly" substitute for most people either. And until I can pay my bills over the Internet, it wouldn't be a substitute for me either. I really could go on and on, but the point is that Linux is not mainstream and you can't get mainstream software.
I think is a good thing for a lot of Govt./corp enviroments. No sysadmin wants every AP/AR/HR admin assistant downloading crap like Comet Cursor or Gator or Kazza at their whim. No one wants Suzie from payroll to bring some card game she bought at Best Buy.
And if they need to run Windows apps, use Wine/Crossover, or deploy a Windows Terminal server or Citrix. RDP kicks ass for most 100Mb switched networks. Who give a load about shrink- wrapped games when your employees should be working.
Redhat 8.0 retail box set comes with Excellent Documentation, and is quite specific without being overly technical. As an added bonus, it also comes with a CD full of documentation.
Chris, I watch the ScreenSavers on TechTV quite often, and saw the Quake server demo. Qudos to TechTV to give it a try. For a good topic for a show, most folks want to see what Linux can DO! Show them Ximian Evolution and Mozilla, OpenOffice, and TuxRacer. If you have time, do a demo of the Redhat setup agent, and show off Redhat Network (sorta like Windows Update). The new GUI RPM Package Manager and other GUI config tools are nice looking and will display well.
A dual boot setup would be nice to show off also.{I set up a dual boot Win98/RH8 for a newbie laptop user and they have been very happy to boot into Linux, and don't really bother with Windows anymore.}
Anyhow, love the TechTV, please say Happy Holidays to Patrick and Leo and Megan and Morgan and Yoshi and Martin and Sumi and Adam and Jennifer and Michaela and Chris and Erica and Alex and Becky and . .did I forget anyone?