One more thing, you'll also need to edit/etc/inittab and add a getty on ttyS0 or you won't get a login prompt. Debian has it there by default, but commented so you'll need to uncomment it. If you install another dist you'll have to copy the line that says 1:blabla/bin/gettyblabla and replace the 1: by S0: Also verify that/dev/ttyS0 is in your/etc/securetty file or you won't be able to login as root.
First, install QEmu. (I prefer to install it through DarwinPorts)
Then download a x86 Linux Live CD ISO, for example Knoppix.
Then: $ qemu -cdrom knoppix.iso -boot d
Simple as that. Networking will work out of the box.
You can also install Debian on a virtual harddrive using: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=sarge.hdimage bs=1000000 count=2000 $ qemu -hda sarge.hdimage -cdrom debian-netinst.iso -boot d When installed, start QEmu with: $ qemu -hda sarge.hdimage
Even better, after installation, copy the kernel and the initrd to your Mac (using sftp) and start qemu with:
I find it interesting that SQLite is part of Tiger. I'm curious as to how useful it will be. I'm sure I'd want to keep OS info away from Dev info, but I'm curious as to whether it'll replace mySQL at all.
Does BDB or GDBM replace MySQL? Does XML-files replace MySQL? SQLite is only a tiny embeddable library providing a fast SQL-interface to your data-files. It is not meant to be used as a RDBMS replacement. In contrast to MySQL it actually does support procedures and triggers though.:)
Yes, I'm not a Solaris administrator at all and I never pretended to be, this was something I was forced to do. I looked at PatchPro but never tried it because it still seemed a lot kludgier than it should be and the PatchPro webpage hints that it requires Netscape 4.7 with Java, WTF? Patch-management for a few servers shouldn't require a full-time job..
Sorry for spreading FUD, I was just a little bitter..:)
I think that the most secure OS is the one easiest to keep up-to-date because the most common reason for hacking is uninstalled patches.
The worst OS I've ever had the displeasure to patch is Solaris (8 - maybe it's better now). 35 patches. Had to calculate patch dependancies and install them one by one. 5 of them needed "immediate reboot", another 15 or so needed to be installed in single user mode. A Solaris server take a LONG time to boot. That's a lot of unwanted downtime.. I'm not surprised that most Solaris systems out there (even very critical ones) are waaay behind security patch schedule..
Compare that to "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade". Rarely even needs a reboot..
Anything that Access can do can be done better for free with MySQL
Except that Access has triggers, stored procedures and views and actually does verify input data... Face it, MySQL is a data storage system with an SQL-like interface, not a RDBMS. MySQL is not an option in most situations where databases are used except for not-too-advanvced web-backends. Even Access beats it big time, feature wise, not stability wise..
I get embarassed when clueless people recommend MySQL to database developers. If you HAVE to recommend MySQL, at least wait until v5.1 is stable. (this paragraph wasn't directed to you, just ranting)
PostgreSQL on the other hand...:)
But then again, you're comparing apples and oranges because when people talk about Access they talk about the "pretty" GUI frontend, not the database engine.
Most of the more extreme porn (BDSM, rubber/fetish, fisting, stuffing holes with huge objects, pissing, scat, old/fat people, pregnant, animals, etc) used to come from Germany. Nowadays many more countries produce bizarre-porn and countries like Brazil, Japan and Thailand has even surpassed Germany so they are not in the lead anymore.:)
(BTW, am I the only one who thinks it's funny that the stereotypical macho hates gays but likes to watch porn involving two women?)
What's even funnier is that movies with lesbian scenes (or even lesbian-only) are categorized as "straight" while it only takes two guys making a little kiss during a MMF-threesome to get it categorized as "bi".. *sigh*
Those things come as temporary obsessions: Realtime GC designing, Text editor implementation, Inventing the one and only programming language to wipe them all out, other interesting things... But I get bored easily.
*grin* Tell me about it..;-)
So, is this a serious problem? Not normally but it can be. You'll probably need some help how to create workarounds for the ADD problems though.
How do you or other people like you get any of your ideas done?
Team up with someone who is good at organization and structuring. Set up short deadlines. Not months or even weeks in the future. Set up deadlines per day or even per hour. "Today I will have this and that finished.".. Have someone you can show the progress each day, that keeps the motivation up. Personally I start the day by writing today's changelog.:)
Does this thing prevent you from taking big decisions in your lives?
Yes and no. Decisions comes spontanously. I decided I was going to leave my hometown and two weeks later I moved to a bigger town.:) Never say "some day I will..." because you probably never will. Instead, say "On March 15 I will...".
How do I know for sure whether I have any of those conditions?
Visit a neuropsychiatrist if it is a concern for you. What you described are ADD symptoms but it may be nothing or anything. Don't let a random slashdot user diagnose you.:)
Wrong. People with ADD tend to have lower IQ's than the average.
I don't think you're right here. Less educated maybe, because of trouble concentrating on "boring" stuff, but not lower IQ.. The ability to hyperfocus on interesting subjects can be an advantage.
As a counselor that deals with kids with ADD, what you describe doesn't sound anything like ADD. It sounds more like laziness.
Personal experience. I don't know about the average ADDer since I'm not a psychiatrist, I only know my friends.. Besides, I don't see what's "lazy" about not caring much about standard norms and traditions.. It's just that they often just don't make sense..
Wrong. People with ADD usually have trouble completing work, much less 10x as much. That's ridiculous.
Yes, completing. I meant the first half of the work.:) I didn't mean literally 10x, I was talking about hyperfocusing and working like crazy 24/7 until we pass out because we forgot to eat and sleep.:)
You're right. But most geeks are not ADDers.. And geek traditions/norms are more "for fun" and usually a bit more logical and inclusive than the "standard norms"..
We had a guy blame ADD on his screwups and since he was given a last warning, he hasnt effed-up in over a year!!! Fear of losing your job seems to work just as well.
I know about this stuff. You can't blame your screwups on your ADD, but you should at least try to meet somewhere halfways.. I don't know this guy but he is probably like an empty zombie making a bigger effort than you can ever imagine to keep his boss and coworkers non-angry. Try to keep him motivated (motivation is the big key!) and you'll discover a happy coworker who will make tremendous productivity-boosts every now and then instead of an apathic guy struggling to keep his head above the water..
ADD is for real. It's not something made up. You don't tell a coworker in a wheelchair "just use the fucking stairs like everybody else! here is a rope that you can use to pull the wheelchair up after you have crawled the stairs."
ADD is a proved difference in the connections in the brain. Lack of motivation causes a lot of signals to simply not get through. It has nothing to do with will. It has nothing to do with protest. It's a physical difference just like that person in a wheelchair.
I don't know the rate of AS among geeks, but I do know that neuropsychological conditions (I like to call it "differently abled" rather than "disabled") are overrepresentated among geeks and the more extreme subcultures. I myself has ADD and I know a lot of ADD/ADHD persons who are geeks AND goth/industrial/punk..
AS people (AS=Asperger's Syndrome) tend to be superhuman geniouses in a few narrow areas while ADD/ADHD people tend to be theoretical almost-geniously experts in a wide range of subjects.
Our (me and my fellow ADDers) problem is that we are so easily bored and when we see the finish closing in we already finished the project in our head (the only thing left is to actually implement it) and the mental energy runs out and we have to move on to something else so we don't get a deep depression. Repetitive work (such as implementing on the computer the stuff you already implemented in your head) causes depressions..
The reason ADDers are overrepresentated among subcultures are that our way of thinking and making conclusions differ quite a lot from non-ADDers. For example we skip the little details called norms, principles, culture, traditions, etc and go straight to the root matter of the current subject. That's why a lot of us don't feel that we fit in and search alternative lifestyles that fit our minds better...
People with ADD and AS can be the biggest resource for a company that they can possibly get. You just have to rethink and adjust the internal politics a little. A single interested ADDer can do 10 persons work in short time. You just have to make sure that someone else take over when it gets repetitive and move the ADDer to another project that he/she shows interested in. And put the byrocrazy to a minimum, nothing can kill motivation more...
Oh, did I mention that we tend to make long LISP-like rants with deeply nested paranthesis?:) Have patience, we'll soon get back ontopic as we usually have a good stackmemory.:)
I don't think that's hostile. He respects their belief although he disagrees. You want to see hostile? Google for Westboro Baptist Church...
Personally I'm agnostic. I think there may or may not be "something more". I just don't think it matters to me. If God created the earth, good for him and thank you God. Thank you for giving me a brain, free will and lust!
I respect religios people. I let them submit to their books. I think it's their problem, not mine. If they don't see it as a problem, that's just better! Live as you please! Be happy! Just please let me live as I please also, I never hurt anyone! Me being bisexual and polyamorous is none of your busines. Preaching hate only turns me off even more..
Disclaimer: "you" above was directed to religios persons in general, not you:) and yes, I hear hate-preaching quite often because I run a big fetish club. Annoying, really. Not that I mind though, it's free advertising.:)
Yes, telling DreamWorks' lawyers "you are fucking morons, and you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons." and "Go fuck yourself." is rather rude...:)
Slashdot Mirror
hehe, nice parody version :)
:)
I still prefer "Going Underground" with The Jam though, one of my favourite songs...
Hey, this will get you "Windows that shrink scale and move all over the fucking place with cool animations". What more could you want?
One more thing, you'll also need to edit /etc/inittab and add a getty on ttyS0 or you won't get a login prompt. Debian has it there by default, but commented so you'll need to uncomment it. /dev/ttyS0 is in your /etc/securetty file or you won't be able to login as root.
If you install another dist you'll have to copy the line that says 1:blabla/bin/gettyblabla and replace the 1: by S0:
Also verify that
First, install QEmu. (I prefer to install it through DarwinPorts)
Then download a x86 Linux Live CD ISO, for example Knoppix.
Then:
$ qemu -cdrom knoppix.iso -boot d
Simple as that. Networking will work out of the box.
You can also install Debian on a virtual harddrive using:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=sarge.hdimage bs=1000000 count=2000
$ qemu -hda sarge.hdimage -cdrom debian-netinst.iso -boot d
When installed, start QEmu with:
$ qemu -hda sarge.hdimage
Even better, after installation, copy the kernel and the initrd to your Mac (using sftp) and start qemu with:
$ qemu -hda sarge.hdimage -kernel kernel-file -initrd initrd-file -append "root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0,38600" -nographics
Then you will get the console on a virtual serial port (which is your current terminal window) and it doesn't have to emulate any graphics at all.
And here is the offending post at Google cache! :)
Do you let users use stored procedures and triggers in the PostgreSQL databases?
Most PgSQL-providers don't, which annoys me to hell because then what's the point?
he will be known as Bill Gaytes. ;)
I find it interesting that SQLite is part of Tiger. I'm curious as to how useful it will be. I'm sure I'd want to keep OS info away from Dev info, but I'm curious as to whether it'll replace mySQL at all.
:)
Does BDB or GDBM replace MySQL? Does XML-files replace MySQL?
SQLite is only a tiny embeddable library providing a fast SQL-interface to your data-files. It is not meant to be used as a RDBMS replacement.
In contrast to MySQL it actually does support procedures and triggers though.
Yes, I'm not a Solaris administrator at all and I never pretended to be, this was something I was forced to do. I looked at PatchPro but never tried it because it still seemed a lot kludgier than it should be and the PatchPro webpage hints that it requires Netscape 4.7 with Java, WTF?
:)
Patch-management for a few servers shouldn't require a full-time job..
Sorry for spreading FUD, I was just a little bitter..
I think that the most secure OS is the one easiest to keep up-to-date because the most common reason for hacking is uninstalled patches.
:)
The worst OS I've ever had the displeasure to patch is Solaris (8 - maybe it's better now). 35 patches. Had to calculate patch dependancies and install them one by one. 5 of them needed "immediate reboot", another 15 or so needed to be installed in single user mode. A Solaris server take a LONG time to boot. That's a lot of unwanted downtime.. I'm not surprised that most Solaris systems out there (even very critical ones) are waaay behind security patch schedule..
Compare that to "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade". Rarely even needs a reboot..
Luckily I'm not forced to use Solaris anymore.
Anything that Access can do can be done better for free with MySQL
:)
Except that Access has triggers, stored procedures and views and actually does verify input data... Face it, MySQL is a data storage system with an SQL-like interface, not a RDBMS. MySQL is not an option in most situations where databases are used except for not-too-advanvced web-backends. Even Access beats it big time, feature wise, not stability wise..
I get embarassed when clueless people recommend MySQL to database developers. If you HAVE to recommend MySQL, at least wait until v5.1 is stable. (this paragraph wasn't directed to you, just ranting)
PostgreSQL on the other hand...
But then again, you're comparing apples and oranges because when people talk about Access they talk about the "pretty" GUI frontend, not the database engine.
There is no such thing as a stable job anywhere in the United States today.
No?
Then what is this?
Most of the more extreme porn (BDSM, rubber/fetish, fisting, stuffing holes with huge objects, pissing, scat, old/fat people, pregnant, animals, etc) used to come from Germany. Nowadays many more countries produce bizarre-porn and countries like Brazil, Japan and Thailand has even surpassed Germany so they are not in the lead anymore. :)
(BTW, am I the only one who thinks it's funny that the stereotypical macho hates gays but likes to watch porn involving two women?)
What's even funnier is that movies with lesbian scenes (or even lesbian-only) are categorized as "straight" while it only takes two guys making a little kiss during a MMF-threesome to get it categorized as "bi".. *sigh*
Those things come as temporary obsessions: Realtime GC designing, Text editor implementation, Inventing the one and only programming language to wipe them all out, other interesting things... But I get bored easily.
;-)
.. Have someone you can show the progress each day, that keeps the motivation up. :)
:) Never say "some day I will..." because you probably never will. Instead, say "On March 15 I will...".
:)
*grin* Tell me about it..
So, is this a serious problem?
Not normally but it can be. You'll probably need some help how to create workarounds for the ADD problems though.
How do you or other people like you get any of your ideas done?
Team up with someone who is good at organization and structuring. Set up short deadlines. Not months or even weeks in the future. Set up deadlines per day or even per hour. "Today I will have this and that finished."
Personally I start the day by writing today's changelog.
Does this thing prevent you from taking big decisions in your lives?
Yes and no. Decisions comes spontanously. I decided I was going to leave my hometown and two weeks later I moved to a bigger town.
How do I know for sure whether I have any of those conditions?
Visit a neuropsychiatrist if it is a concern for you. What you described are ADD symptoms but it may be nothing or anything. Don't let a random slashdot user diagnose you.
Wrong. People with ADD tend to have lower IQ's than the average.
:) I didn't mean literally 10x, I was talking about hyperfocusing and working like crazy 24/7 until we pass out because we forgot to eat and sleep. :)
I don't think you're right here. Less educated maybe, because of trouble concentrating on "boring" stuff, but not lower IQ.. The ability to hyperfocus on interesting subjects can be an advantage.
As a counselor that deals with kids with ADD, what you describe doesn't sound anything like ADD. It sounds more like laziness.
Personal experience. I don't know about the average ADDer since I'm not a psychiatrist, I only know my friends.. Besides, I don't see what's "lazy" about not caring much about standard norms and traditions.. It's just that they often just don't make sense..
Wrong. People with ADD usually have trouble completing work, much less 10x as much. That's ridiculous.
Yes, completing. I meant the first half of the work.
You're right. But most geeks are not ADDers..
And geek traditions/norms are more "for fun" and usually a bit more logical and inclusive than the "standard norms"..
We had a guy blame ADD on his screwups and since he was given a last warning, he hasnt effed-up in over a year!!! Fear of losing your job seems to work just as well.
I know about this stuff. You can't blame your screwups on your ADD, but you should at least try to meet somewhere halfways.. I don't know this guy but he is probably like an empty zombie making a bigger effort than you can ever imagine to keep his boss and coworkers non-angry. Try to keep him motivated (motivation is the big key!) and you'll discover a happy coworker who will make tremendous productivity-boosts every now and then instead of an apathic guy struggling to keep his head above the water..
ADD is for real. It's not something made up. You don't tell a coworker in a wheelchair "just use the fucking stairs like everybody else! here is a rope that you can use to pull the wheelchair up after you have crawled the stairs."
ADD is a proved difference in the connections in the brain. Lack of motivation causes a lot of signals to simply not get through. It has nothing to do with will. It has nothing to do with protest. It's a physical difference just like that person in a wheelchair.
I don't know the rate of AS among geeks, but I do know that neuropsychological conditions (I like to call it "differently abled" rather than "disabled") are overrepresentated among geeks and the more extreme subcultures. I myself has ADD and I know a lot of ADD/ADHD persons who are geeks AND goth/industrial/punk..
:) Have patience, we'll soon get back ontopic as we usually have a good stackmemory. :)
AS people (AS=Asperger's Syndrome) tend to be superhuman geniouses in a few narrow areas while ADD/ADHD people tend to be theoretical almost-geniously experts in a wide range of subjects.
Our (me and my fellow ADDers) problem is that we are so easily bored and when we see the finish closing in we already finished the project in our head (the only thing left is to actually implement it) and the mental energy runs out and we have to move on to something else so we don't get a deep depression. Repetitive work (such as implementing on the computer the stuff you already implemented in your head) causes depressions..
The reason ADDers are overrepresentated among subcultures are that our way of thinking and making conclusions differ quite a lot from non-ADDers. For example we skip the little details called norms, principles, culture, traditions, etc and go straight to the root matter of the current subject. That's why a lot of us don't feel that we fit in and search alternative lifestyles that fit our minds better...
People with ADD and AS can be the biggest resource for a company that they can possibly get. You just have to rethink and adjust the internal politics a little. A single interested ADDer can do 10 persons work in short time. You just have to make sure that someone else take over when it gets repetitive and move the ADDer to another project that he/she shows interested in. And put the byrocrazy to a minimum, nothing can kill motivation more...
Oh, did I mention that we tend to make long LISP-like rants with deeply nested paranthesis?
I don't think that's hostile. He respects their belief although he disagrees. You want to see hostile? Google for Westboro Baptist Church...
:)
Personally I'm agnostic. I think there may or may not be "something more". I just don't think it matters to me. If God created the earth, good for him and thank you God. Thank you for giving me a brain, free will and lust!
I respect religios people. I let them submit to their books. I think it's their problem, not mine. If they don't see it as a problem, that's just better! Live as you please! Be happy! Just please let me live as I please also, I never hurt anyone! Me being bisexual and polyamorous is none of your busines. Preaching hate only turns me off even more..
Disclaimer: "you" above was directed to religios persons in general, not you:) and yes, I hear hate-preaching quite often because I run a big fetish club. Annoying, really. Not that I mind though, it's free advertising.
I'm sorry, you misspelled "Canada".
Me too!
and their rather rude answers.
:)
Yes, telling DreamWorks' lawyers "you are fucking morons, and you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons." and "Go fuck yourself." is rather rude...
It's legal in russia where the server is...
You forgot Poland...