You are correct, Sir. RH 7.0 was not supporting older Compaq 2500 series SmartRAID controller. However Compaq DID support the SmartArray controller in 2000 with the 380(DM?) series and above. The SmartStart CD instructs you to install an Compaq Array as if it were a SCO install, and set up your RAID array normally from there. I have tried RH 6.x and 7.x on some very crusty old Compaq Proliants and it did work, however with the cavats above
I am in the process of setting up a old pc for a bud to use as a home pc with just dialup, web, email, (MOZILLA!), Open Office, and a couple of games on it and I am setting up a Kickstart file to save for future use. You can tinker with the setting and save it to a floppy and use it to clone systems with a similar configuration.
I am assuming these PC's will be off-site, and so remote X sessions would be out of the question as posters above have sugested... Bummer.
Redhat 8 is real nice for me so far, looks good, works good, is less filling, and AFAIK, you can make it fairly idiot-proof.
I beleive we had a discussion on this very topic two days ago (Monday Sept. 30 2002) here on good ol/. Remember? No? Ok here is a link for you
So with that out of the way I belive the general opinion is that the FTP mirrors are all overwhelmed for the last two days. This has been my experience as most mirrors are full of anonymous users and the one I did get on has been dog-slow. I am currently on CD2 and it's oonly 50 % done. I am clocking about 5 KBs so I don't expect to burn a full set for a day or so.
What that tells me is this is a wildly popular Redhat release, and may be the breakout disto that Linux advocates need to show off Linux. This may propel Linux into Mom+Pop's home/office PC front and center quicker than anyone could imagine.
Using ((null)) for the last few weeks gave me a look at the UI, and I like it. A lot. I think Bluecurve Kicks Ass, and I have installed on one clients laptop allready, as a dual boot Win98 installation. As I delivered to my client I booted it up in Win98. Ho-hum was the general feeling from the customer. When I re-booted to (null) the sound of jaws hitting the floor was heard in the next room. Everyone to a person had to say how nice the fonts, icons, and EVERYTHING looked. They don't know much about PC's and I am guessing I will get a few phone calls about simple stuff, so let's see how it goes, eh?
I just grabbed 700+ snail mail and email addresses from my local Chamber of Commerce web page. I was thinking about a snail mail marketing spree about once every 3 months to let other businesses in my town know that "I'M HERE IF YOU NEED HELP"! From what I see here (yes I'm in California), it may be illegal to send out unsolicited e-mail on a one-shot basis? Please correct me if I'm mistaken. Can I even say hello to my neighbors and not get sued? How about snail-mail? What's up wit dat?
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Redhat 8 will kick a large number of MS Windows boxes to the curb. Maybe not today, but soon, and for good. This is what a lot of IT managers have been waiting for. Something to show to Suzie in AP, and watch her jump in and get to work. As far as application compatibility: Two Words. WINE and RDesktop.
I set up null on a dual boot (win98) box and after getting it up and running, I installed the latest build of Wine. It came with WINESETUP, which detected my win98 partition (I had it mounted in fstab) and imported my registry, set up all my apps, and I was running things on Linux like NTE2001 (my transistor cross-ref database), Gnucleus, and MS Office 97 apps like MS word, Excel, and Publisher, as well as several more.
The other neat trick is RDesktop. Great little app if you have a Win2000 server set up as a Windows Terminal Server. Let them rdesktop to it and run those Windows apps on the server. You still need a Windows TS licence, but if that's what you need, it sure beats having two boxes on every desk.
As far as JDEdwards is concerned, it's a blinking 5250 green screen, untill you get to OneWorld, and that wants a Windows TS anyways!
BTW, Anyone out there ever use (or try) Tarentella? How was it? Good? Cheap? Garbage? Inquirering minds need to know
Ahemm. Watch out, Apache 2.0 will bite you in the ass if you're not careful.
Null used Apache 2.0 as apposed to 1.3.26 in RH 7.3. So yer default config files are now somewhere else, and all of your carefully massaged virtual things are now nowhere to be found. It can be fixed pretty easy, just RTFM.
There are probably a few more "gotchas" but that one stuck out like a sore thumb.
I just tried Mandrake's latest release on a dual Celeron 533 and a Tecra Laptop, both dual boot systems. I had the latest Redhat beta ((null)) and installed it right after installing Mandrake. No comparison. The Redhat interface looks much better, and the intergration of the menus is a much needed improvment. All of the program defaults make logical sense to me, as I use OpenOffice, Moz, and Evolution by choice.
I am waiting for the mirrors to update RH 8.0 like a Lion waiting for fresh meat.
Who cares? (Score:5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 02, @07:53AM (#3625912)
It seems to me that Linux and open source are classic disruptive technologies. In this case the technology is not the OS itself (anyone here who can't name a dozen OS's in one breath?) but the GPL, the development model, and the worldwide linking of motivated developers into a slightly-cohesive competing co-operating group.
The GPL has provided a framework whereby a self-sustaining body of software has come into being. The body of developers don't rely on traditional business models to sustain themselves.
If Linux and open source become at all successful Microsoft is going to lose billions of dollars in revenue. Heck, they probably already are. I'm suprised they haven't sent the boys around to break RMS' and Linus Torvalds' kneecaps or roll over them with a bus.
This is a 'company' or community MS can't fight using traditional business models. They can't lower their prices enough to beat free. Many of open source products are at least of equivalent quality to MS products.
They've tried running attack PR campaigns, but to some extent attacking open source is as hard as attacking any other community spirited organisation, such as (for example) the Scouts or Guides, and all the bad press has so far rebounded on MS, it's a bit transparent after all. And how do you effectively attack people who are giving things away for free? It's like trying to claim that "Meals on Wheels" volunteers are evil because the food they deliver sometimes isn't absolutely perfect.
As an aside, I was in the Science Museum in London a few years ago and I saw a gas-fire powered room fan. The idea was that when it got too hot in summer, you lit this gas-fired engine and it turned a fan to blow (now warmer) air around the room to cool you down. It was a last trump of the old monopoly gas companies trying to show their product was as versatile as the new-fangled electricity. It shows the lengths an old monopoly would go to, to try and preserve their old business model in the face of a disruptive technology.
So, in a possibly vain attempt to get back on topic... I'll be interested to hear what you have to say. Because I feel only one of a few possibilities can actually happen. One is that open source limps along as a permanent embarrassing cousin to shrink wrap proprietary software. The other is that it more or less displaces shrink wrap commercial software.
My money is on the latter, and for a simple reason. MS has sent many companies down the tube by the simple expedient of knowing that the other company will eventually make a mistake, and then they are dead. MS has made many mistakes too - but the synergy of owning the OS and some popular apps meant they've had the revenue to recover from them, whereas companies reliant on a single app only had to trip once and they were gone.
Now the tables are turned. Open source isn't going away. If it can survive and get to where it has now, on an insignificant market share and difficult to use products, it isn't going away now it has growing market share and great things like KDE3 and Moz and GNOME and open office and so on that stand up against MS' core products.
Now it's MS that has to avoid making mistakes.... In my view that classic mistake they are making is concentrating on their market share and revenue rather than the customers. Look at the PR and mindshare disaster that Licencing 6 has proven to be. Just goes to prove the old saying that once a monopoly finishes dealing with it's competitors, it starts beating up on its customers.
MS contains some of the greatest developers in the world under one roof, probably THE greatest number of developers working for a single company. The problem is that so much of their work seems to be directed towards a 'scam' - keeping MS on top and killing other companies, rather than just turning out great products. It's proven a very effective strategy so far, the issue is can it survive against a community who isn't playing the same game?
So what can you say to MS about open source in general? It'll either eat them or live alongside them. Either way, they lose. And it's as inevitable as what happened to the horse and cart when the automobile was invented, and nothing they do can really change how this game is going to play out economically. So they may as well ignore it and hope it'll go away.
Out of all the Linux distos, I am using Redhat 7.3 on the servers and Mandrake 9 rc1 as a workstation. I have tried most of them at one time. ASP Linux, Caldera, SuSE, Immunix, Lycoris, Vector, Debian, Astaro, all have brought a little something unique to the table.
What this will create is a organic, cross-pollinization of ideas, to improve over time, all of the independent distros out there. No single vendor has got it perfect yet, and all of the distros are working madly to give their distro a little something unique. The true determining factor will be standardization. No one wants to be the lone man out as far as file structure,/etc/rc.d/ layout, or whatever.
That being said, I think most enterprises want a solid, stable, clean disto that does not swing too wildly from release to release. Users may want to tinker with the bleeding edge, but business want a tool that helps their bottom line.
I use the term "freeware" cuz that's all the CIO/CFO knows when they hear the term Open Source. They don't yet grasp the concept of GPL, BSD, X11-style licences, all they hear is "free" and they think "freeware". (I once had a perky little girl support person call Apache and Sendmail "shareware". How cute.) BTW, I know the difference but don't expect me to try to explain it to some anal overpriced golf junky or the admin assistant.
Second, you are right they choose to go with Cisco because of exactly the reason you mentioned: Name Brand Recognition. That does not mean that there are not better products out there, and that some of them ard no or very low cost.
And yes, a BSD or Linux box on that spec PC would run very nicely on a T1. No argument. But what the average PC jockey may not have known till now is that Cisco's high end $15,000 firewall product is built around nothing more than a P166 and a stock Intel motherboard. Now that they know that, they can build a simalar device, using Linux or BSD or whatever, and there is plenty of otions out there. But I would strongly advise not breaking the law by using unlicenced Cisco software.
The last Cisco PIX I had to open to install a new NIC was a model 1500 IIRC, and it was just a low-end PC board (Intel BX) with a P166 and 32 or 64 Mb o Ram. And a PCMCIA card slot. This handled a T1 with about 1,000 users and had no downtime in over 5 years. The Cisco software was excellent.
There is nothing stopping anyone from downloading a image from Cisco's site if they so choose. Licencing is another matter. That would be against the law if I read the Cisco licence correctly.
This story does not link to a source for the files mentioned. That does not make this story OK. It is not OK that routermonkey has the filenames listed, as that makes it trivial to find using P2P networks.
That being said, you could just goto Cisco's web site and read up on their PIX products and read the docs to "learn how to configure it". But why, if the like Freesco, The LRP, and BSD are around. These will do anything the PIX can do and are quite simalar to the Cisco product. The reason the most businesses want a Cisco firewall is that the CFO/CIO don't want to get nailed by auditors for running a "freeware" firewall. They want a big name to cover their asses. The Freesco/BSD/IPtables combos will do just fine for your educational purposes.
I value your insight into the RealNetwork as a company. Hey at least it's not Microsoft.
Real, OGG, MP3, and WMA had a cool codec roundup at some site i saw here: http://www.ff123.net/
Keep up the good work, and hope things can change from within and from outside.
KPIG is a breath of fresh air. It is located in Freedom, CA. It has always had a great mix of classic rock, contemporary country, and a mix of blues, bluegrass, and just plain fresh music you would be unlikely to hear anywhere else.
They are a true pioneer in Internet radio and it saddens me that they have been forced into this.
What's really sad is that they are using RealPlayer. What a piece of crap spyware, I don't bother using it.
At least I can still just tune my FM radio to 107 (onik) 5 to get my fix of TRUE PORK. Some of us should make a hog call to the station, to comment, and send a letter to our legislators, as this is one of the best example's of True Americana getting out to the people of the world.
Dolkas said people who feel they've been wronged in the domain name process already have a variety of private dispute resolution remedies. "There's no hole that needs to be plugged," he said.
Wait till you see what I am about to release. It will blow your mind. Burn and rip and share. Open Source. Stop me if you think you can.
HaHa.
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Same reason I just hacked a virgin iOpener. Cuz I can.
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It would be nice to see a comparison between Sony PS2 and XBox running Linux. Same kernel, services, etc, and benchmark them to see what they offer for the average user using web, email, and word processing.
PS2 needs a kit a Xbox needs a mod. Anyone game? Fire up the Weller temp controlled soldering iron, ma I'm goin in!
Sorry, Let us not forget Evolution. It Rocks. Kills Outlook bugs dead. Maybe Miguel (Ximin) can merge with or licence with OpenOffice to complete the package. Schweet!
My Bad. XFree86, GNOME, KDE, Gimp, and many many other OpenSource programs are excellent and I wish I had mentioned them as well. Those were just some of the high profile examples that I had in mind.
Most Windoze users will never hear of XFree86 or GNOME or KDE, as they will not see them on a Windows PC. They will become aware of Mozilla and OpenOffice as they are as good or better than the alternitives. Go forth, and may we expose our brothers and sisters to the guilt-free open source FREEDOM!
I have to agree with Bruce, OpenOffice is crucial to Open Source becoming widespread. I would place it along with the Linux kernel, Mozilla, Samba, and Apache. All of these have a vast number of supporters and end-users. They are the crown jewels of Open Source and get a good bit of ink from the media.
Tonight I did a re-install of a friend's PC that lost a hard drive. She got a new hard drive sent under warranty. It came with 7 CD's to re-install the system (WinXP). After 2 hours of feeding it CD's it finally came up. Microsoft Works and Quicken were installed, and some other crud programs. My friend asked if it had MS Office, we looked and no, no MS Office. My friend wanted to know if I could install Office as the Office CD was lost. (Ever heard that one?). I had to politly refuse, as that would be wrong.
The next thing I did was go to OpenOffice.org and D/L Open Office. 10 min later I am installing it, and explaning how this is Open Source, it is free of any EULA's or licencing restrictions, and will open (and save) Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. After going through a lot of EULA's in the course of installing WinXP, this was like a breath of fresh air!
So if you have a friend that asks to "borrow" your copy of Office, just say no. And point them to freedom that is OpenOffice.
Next time I am over there I am installing Mozilla as it is more secure than IE.
I (and many others) will block "unrequested windows" as a SOP, and go one step beyond: add a line to dump anyone's IP address and hostname into the hosts file like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 media1.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 media2.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 media3.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 media4.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 media5.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 media6.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 media7.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 www.burstnet.com
Get the idea? Another excellent way is going through the cookies and pulling anyone with "ad" or "fast" in their name.
Slashdot Mirror
You are correct, Sir. RH 7.0 was not supporting older Compaq 2500 series SmartRAID controller. However Compaq DID support the SmartArray controller in 2000 with the 380(DM?) series and above. The SmartStart CD instructs you to install an Compaq Array as if it were a SCO install, and set up your RAID array normally from there. I have tried RH 6.x and 7.x on some very crusty old Compaq Proliants and it did work, however with the cavats above
I am in the process of setting up a old pc for a bud to use as a home pc with just dialup, web, email, (MOZILLA!), Open Office, and a couple of games on it and I am setting up a Kickstart file to save for future use. You can tinker with the setting and save it to a floppy and use it to clone systems with a similar configuration.
I am assuming these PC's will be off-site, and so remote X sessions would be out of the question as posters above have sugested... Bummer.
Redhat 8 is real nice for me so far, looks good, works good, is less filling, and AFAIK, you can make it fairly idiot-proof.
Good Luck.
I beleive we had a discussion on this very topic two days ago (Monday Sept. 30 2002) here on good ol /. Remember? No? Ok here is a link for you
So with that out of the way I belive the general opinion is that the FTP mirrors are all overwhelmed for the last two days. This has been my experience as most mirrors are full of anonymous users and the one I did get on has been dog-slow. I am currently on CD2 and it's oonly 50 % done. I am clocking about 5 KBs so I don't expect to burn a full set for a day or so.
What that tells me is this is a wildly popular Redhat release, and may be the breakout disto that Linux advocates need to show off Linux. This may propel Linux into Mom+Pop's home/office PC front and center quicker than anyone could imagine.
Using ((null)) for the last few weeks gave me a look at the UI, and I like it. A lot. I think Bluecurve Kicks Ass, and I have installed on one clients laptop allready, as a dual boot Win98 installation. As I delivered to my client I booted it up in Win98. Ho-hum was the general feeling from the customer. When I re-booted to (null) the sound of jaws hitting the floor was heard in the next room. Everyone to a person had to say how nice the fonts, icons, and EVERYTHING looked. They don't know much about PC's and I am guessing I will get a few phone calls about simple stuff, so let's see how it goes, eh?
I guess that makes /. a Libra. . .
How many years is that in Internet time?
I just grabbed 700+ snail mail and email addresses from my local Chamber of Commerce web page. I was thinking about a snail mail marketing spree about once every 3 months to let other businesses in my town know that "I'M HERE IF YOU NEED HELP"! From what I see here (yes I'm in California), it may be illegal to send out unsolicited e-mail on a one-shot basis? Please correct me if I'm mistaken. Can I even say hello to my neighbors and not get sued? How about snail-mail? What's up wit dat?
Redhat 8 will kick a large number of MS Windows boxes to the curb. Maybe not today, but soon, and for good. This is what a lot of IT managers have been waiting for. Something to show to Suzie in AP, and watch her jump in and get to work. As far as application compatibility: Two Words. WINE and RDesktop.
I set up null on a dual boot (win98) box and after getting it up and running, I installed the latest build of Wine. It came with WINESETUP, which detected my win98 partition (I had it mounted in fstab) and imported my registry, set up all my apps, and I was running things on Linux like NTE2001 (my transistor cross-ref database), Gnucleus, and MS Office 97 apps like MS word, Excel, and Publisher, as well as several more.The other neat trick is RDesktop. Great little app if you have a Win2000 server set up as a Windows Terminal Server. Let them rdesktop to it and run those Windows apps on the server. You still need a Windows TS licence, but if that's what you need, it sure beats having two boxes on every desk.
As far as JDEdwards is concerned, it's a blinking 5250 green screen, untill you get to OneWorld, and that wants a Windows TS anyways!
BTW, Anyone out there ever use (or try) Tarentella? How was it? Good? Cheap? Garbage? Inquirering minds need to know
Ahemm. Watch out, Apache 2.0 will bite you in the ass if you're not careful.
Null used Apache 2.0 as apposed to 1.3.26 in RH 7.3. So yer default config files are now somewhere else, and all of your carefully massaged virtual things are now nowhere to be found. It can be fixed pretty easy, just RTFM.
There are probably a few more "gotchas" but that one stuck out like a sore thumb.
I just tried Mandrake's latest release on a dual Celeron 533 and a Tecra Laptop, both dual boot systems. I had the latest Redhat beta ((null)) and installed it right after installing Mandrake. No comparison. The Redhat interface looks much better, and the intergration of the menus is a much needed improvment. All of the program defaults make logical sense to me, as I use OpenOffice, Moz, and Evolution by choice.
I am waiting for the mirrors to update RH 8.0 like a Lion waiting for fresh meat.
I recall this once being said here on /.
Microsoft vs. Linux: Who will win?
Who cares? (Score:5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 02, @07:53AM (#3625912)
It seems to me that Linux and open source are classic disruptive technologies. In this case the technology is not the OS itself (anyone here who can't name a dozen OS's in one breath?) but the GPL, the development model, and the worldwide linking of motivated developers into a slightly-cohesive competing co-operating group.
The GPL has provided a framework whereby a self-sustaining body of software has come into being. The body of developers don't rely on traditional business models to sustain themselves.
If Linux and open source become at all successful Microsoft is going to lose billions of dollars in revenue. Heck, they probably already are. I'm suprised they haven't sent the boys around to break RMS' and Linus Torvalds' kneecaps or roll over them with a bus.
This is a 'company' or community MS can't fight using traditional business models. They can't lower their prices enough to beat free. Many of open source products are at least of equivalent quality to MS products.
They've tried running attack PR campaigns, but to some extent attacking open source is as hard as attacking any other community spirited organisation, such as (for example) the Scouts or Guides, and all the bad press has so far rebounded on MS, it's a bit transparent after all. And how do you effectively attack people who are giving things away for free? It's like trying to claim that "Meals on Wheels" volunteers are evil because the food they deliver sometimes isn't absolutely perfect.
As an aside, I was in the Science Museum in London a few years ago and I saw a gas-fire powered room fan. The idea was that when it got too hot in summer, you lit this gas-fired engine and it turned a fan to blow (now warmer) air around the room to cool you down. It was a last trump of the old monopoly gas companies trying to show their product was as versatile as the new-fangled electricity. It shows the lengths an old monopoly would go to, to try and preserve their old business model in the face of a disruptive technology.
So, in a possibly vain attempt to get back on topic... I'll be interested to hear what you have to say. Because I feel only one of a few possibilities can actually happen. One is that open source limps along as a permanent embarrassing cousin to shrink wrap proprietary software. The other is that it more or less displaces shrink wrap commercial software.
My money is on the latter, and for a simple reason. MS has sent many companies down the tube by the simple expedient of knowing that the other company will eventually make a mistake, and then they are dead. MS has made many mistakes too - but the synergy of owning the OS and some popular apps meant they've had the revenue to recover from them, whereas companies reliant on a single app only had to trip once and they were gone.
Now the tables are turned. Open source isn't going away. If it can survive and get to where it has now, on an insignificant market share and difficult to use products, it isn't going away now it has growing market share and great things like KDE3 and Moz and GNOME and open office and so on that stand up against MS' core products.
Now it's MS that has to avoid making mistakes.... In my view that classic mistake they are making is concentrating on their market share and revenue rather than the customers. Look at the PR and mindshare disaster that Licencing 6 has proven to be. Just goes to prove the old saying that once a monopoly finishes dealing with it's competitors, it starts beating up on its customers.
MS contains some of the greatest developers in the world under one roof, probably THE greatest number of developers working for a single company. The problem is that so much of their work seems to be directed towards a 'scam' - keeping MS on top and killing other companies, rather than just turning out great products. It's proven a very effective strategy so far, the issue is can it survive against a community who isn't playing the same game?
So what can you say to MS about open source in general? It'll either eat them or live alongside them. Either way, they lose. And it's as inevitable as what happened to the horse and cart when the automobile was invented, and nothing they do can really change how this game is going to play out economically. So they may as well ignore it and hope it'll go away.
Out of all the Linux distos, I am using Redhat 7.3 on the servers and Mandrake 9 rc1 as a workstation. I have tried most of them at one time. ASP Linux, Caldera, SuSE, Immunix, Lycoris, Vector, Debian, Astaro, all have brought a little something unique to the table.
What this will create is a organic, cross-pollinization of ideas, to improve over time, all of the independent distros out there. No single vendor has got it perfect yet, and all of the distros are working madly to give their distro a little something unique. The true determining factor will be standardization. No one wants to be the lone man out as far as file structure, /etc/rc.d/ layout, or whatever.
That being said, I think most enterprises want a solid, stable, clean disto that does not swing too wildly from release to release. Users may want to tinker with the bleeding edge, but business want a tool that helps their bottom line.
You are correct, sir. I forget sometimes that not "everyone" is regestered with Cisco's support.
Dear Mr. Razzle,
I use the term "freeware" cuz that's all the CIO/CFO knows when they hear the term Open Source. They don't yet grasp the concept of GPL, BSD, X11-style licences, all they hear is "free" and they think "freeware". (I once had a perky little girl support person call Apache and Sendmail "shareware". How cute.) BTW, I know the difference but don't expect me to try to explain it to some anal overpriced golf junky or the admin assistant.Second, you are right they choose to go with Cisco because of exactly the reason you mentioned: Name Brand Recognition. That does not mean that there are not better products out there, and that some of them ard no or very low cost.
And yes, a BSD or Linux box on that spec PC would run very nicely on a T1. No argument. But what the average PC jockey may not have known till now is that Cisco's high end $15,000 firewall product is built around nothing more than a P166 and a stock Intel motherboard. Now that they know that, they can build a simalar device, using Linux or BSD or whatever, and there is plenty of otions out there. But I would strongly advise not breaking the law by using unlicenced Cisco software.
The last Cisco PIX I had to open to install a new NIC was a model 1500 IIRC, and it was just a low-end PC board (Intel BX) with a P166 and 32 or 64 Mb o Ram. And a PCMCIA card slot. This handled a T1 with about 1,000 users and had no downtime in over 5 years. The Cisco software was excellent.
There is nothing stopping anyone from downloading a image from Cisco's site if they so choose. Licencing is another matter. That would be against the law if I read the Cisco licence correctly.
This story does not link to a source for the files mentioned. That does not make this story OK. It is not OK that routermonkey has the filenames listed, as that makes it trivial to find using P2P networks.
That being said, you could just goto Cisco's web site and read up on their PIX products and read the docs to "learn how to configure it". But why, if the like Freesco, The LRP, and BSD are around. These will do anything the PIX can do and are quite simalar to the Cisco product. The reason the most businesses want a Cisco firewall is that the CFO/CIO don't want to get nailed by auditors for running a "freeware" firewall. They want a big name to cover their asses. The Freesco/BSD/IPtables combos will do just fine for your educational purposes.
CNN News Flash:
The Pope is Catholic: Vatican Shocked!
Bears shit in the Woods: Forest dwellers up in arms!
Iraq calls George W. Bush an Idiot: Millions Agree!
Last Sat Nite Live had a commentary by Tracy Morgan, said that he was OK with racial profiles.
If cops see someone black, just shake 'em down.
If cops see a guy with a ZZTop beard, shake em down.
If cops see someone with a turban, shake em down.
If cops see someone in the "wrong neighborhood", shake em down.
If cops see someone that "looks funny", just shake em down.
When they came for the poor, I said nothing, as I wasn't poor.
When they came for the unemployed, I said nothing, as I wasn't unemployed.
When they came for the Jews, I said nothing, as I wasn't Jewish.
When they came for the Arabs, I said nothing, as I wasn't Arab.
When they came for the Catholics, I said nothing, as I wasn't Catholic.
When they came for me, nobody said anything, as I was the last poor son of a bitch left.
Land of the free? Home of the Brave?
This is a Bunch of Shit! Stand up to them and don't let them take what America really stands for. Freedom!
I value your insight into the RealNetwork as a company. Hey at least it's not Microsoft.
Real, OGG, MP3, and WMA had a cool codec roundup at some site i saw here: http://www.ff123.net/ Keep up the good work, and hope things can change from within and from outside.
KPIG is a breath of fresh air. It is located in Freedom, CA. It has always had a great mix of classic rock, contemporary country, and a mix of blues, bluegrass, and just plain fresh music you would be unlikely to hear anywhere else.
They are a true pioneer in Internet radio and it saddens me that they have been forced into this.
What's really sad is that they are using RealPlayer. What a piece of crap spyware, I don't bother using it.
At least I can still just tune my FM radio to 107 (onik) 5 to get my fix of TRUE PORK. Some of us should make a hog call to the station, to comment, and send a letter to our legislators, as this is one of the best example's of True Americana getting out to the people of the world.
Dolkas said people who feel they've been wronged in the domain name process already have a variety of private dispute resolution remedies. "There's no hole that needs to be plugged," he said.
Wait till you see what I am about to release. It will blow your mind. Burn and rip and share. Open Source. Stop me if you think you can. HaHa.
Same reason I just hacked a virgin iOpener. Cuz I can.
It would be nice to see a comparison between Sony PS2 and XBox running Linux. Same kernel, services, etc, and benchmark them to see what they offer for the average user using web, email, and word processing.
PS2 needs a kit a Xbox needs a mod. Anyone game? Fire up the Weller temp controlled soldering iron, ma I'm goin in!
Sorry, Let us not forget Evolution. It Rocks. Kills Outlook bugs dead. Maybe Miguel (Ximin) can merge with or licence with OpenOffice to complete the package. Schweet!
My Bad. XFree86, GNOME, KDE, Gimp, and many many other OpenSource programs are excellent and I wish I had mentioned them as well. Those were just some of the high profile examples that I had in mind.
Most Windoze users will never hear of XFree86 or GNOME or KDE, as they will not see them on a Windows PC. They will become aware of Mozilla and OpenOffice as they are as good or better than the alternitives. Go forth, and may we expose our brothers and sisters to the guilt-free open source FREEDOM!
I have to agree with Bruce, OpenOffice is crucial to Open Source becoming widespread. I would place it along with the Linux kernel, Mozilla, Samba, and Apache. All of these have a vast number of supporters and end-users. They are the crown jewels of Open Source and get a good bit of ink from the media.
Tonight I did a re-install of a friend's PC that lost a hard drive. She got a new hard drive sent under warranty. It came with 7 CD's to re-install the system (WinXP). After 2 hours of feeding it CD's it finally came up. Microsoft Works and Quicken were installed, and some other crud programs. My friend asked if it had MS Office, we looked and no, no MS Office. My friend wanted to know if I could install Office as the Office CD was lost. (Ever heard that one?). I had to politly refuse, as that would be wrong.
The next thing I did was go to OpenOffice.org and D/L Open Office. 10 min later I am installing it, and explaning how this is Open Source, it is free of any EULA's or licencing restrictions, and will open (and save) Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. After going through a lot of EULA's in the course of installing WinXP, this was like a breath of fresh air!
So if you have a friend that asks to "borrow" your copy of Office, just say no. And point them to freedom that is OpenOffice.
Next time I am over there I am installing Mozilla as it is more secure than IE.
I (and many others) will block "unrequested windows" as a SOP, and go one step beyond: add a line to dump anyone's IP address and hostname into the hosts file like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 media1.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 media2.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 media3.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 media4.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 media5.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 media6.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 media7.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 www.burstnet.com
Get the idea? Another excellent way is going through the cookies and pulling anyone with "ad" or "fast" in their name.