Honestly, I think it's easier to script quick and dirty solutions for linux/UNIX than it is for windows. It's trivially simple to create a flat text file with the names of servers to do "X" to, and have a perl script ssh to the remote host, do "X", and leave. Hell, I've whipped stuff up like this in under 5 minutes before, and I've been able to batch outtasks on a hundred hosts that would take me much longer to do by hand.
I think it's things like this that make it reasonable to expect that a single admin could handle more *NIX boxen than windows boxen.
Also, I think the point is that *NIX boxen are less likely to need daily attention, whereas windows boxen are notorious for their care and feeding needs.
Perhaps this all plays in together to lower TCO.
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Ok, then look at Galeon, Konqueror, or any of the products in the K suite. They don't integrate with the O/S, per se, but definitely with the apps that represent the O/S to the user.
Besides, integrating IE into Windows makes their development environment LESS complex -- it allows them to reuse code between pieces of software MUCH more efficiently. Your OS no longer needs software to display JPGs, GIFs, or to even browse the filesystem. Why, because the browser does it for you.
Oh wait, Galeon and Konqueror both do the same thing... Hrmmm...
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Do you really think that projects like Apache, OpenOffice, Mozilla, Xfree86, and Linux are less complex than say, IIS, Word, IE, or Win98?
I mean, seriously, if you look at functionality, things are getting very close between the OSS world and the Microsoft world.
I'm not saying that there are many straight forward OpenSource Projects, but let's be real -- there is a complete OpenSource O/S, that runs and performs amazingly given a core team of 15 people.
But it's good to hear it reaffirmed from an outside source what many of us know to begin with -- OpenSource development is more successful because the people involved love what they're doing.
Actually, I'm a comcast user. They do proxy by configuring your browser to send all requests through their proxy. Once you install their software, that is. Oh, and the software also makes it such that the entry for their proxy is stored in a windows registry entry, so even if you remove it from IE, next time you reboot it's back.
I know they use Cisco gear, but I'm not sure about PIX'es. I know that the modem itself is in 10 space on the WAN end and on the LAN end it's 192.168 space, but it's doing some kind of NATing. And, the 10 space WAN address is routed within their network, so if you're really bored you can do SNMP gets on the modems other folks use (assuming you know their address).
Lots of fun. Back before comcast was running their own ISP and it was still @home, I had a bunch of tech calls, and I ended up getting logins to their NMS. For some reason, you could hit it anywhere too. It would tell you if your modem was capped, how many bits you were pushing per day, etc. Read only, unfortunately, as otherwise I wouldn't have been capped!
Did you read the article that was cross referenced in this original article? Comcast was watching people's browsing habits through an anonymous proxy. If you configure your browser to not go through the proxy, they will no longer be monitoring you. Now, if they said that they were using distributed IDS's to monitor the packet flow, that would be a different story.
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You can make it complex, or you can keep it simple.
I stole this, but it speaks to me. http://www.voiceofgospel.org/beliefs.html
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The point here really isn't the Christopher Columbus/Isabella story. The point is that some folks choose to believe that the world as it is today is how it has always been, and how it always will be.
When someone chooses to sell themselves short like that and believe that they are capable of comprehending everything in the world with a small belief system where everything magically fits in, I have a problem.
Like before, I will state that I am a religious person -- I go to church on Sundays, I sing, I make donations. But I do not accept that just because people can't comprehend how things happened that God must have done it in a wink.
Hate to break it to most religious folks, but God is a good bit smarter than you, and if it's really easy to figure out, chances are you have the wrong answer.
I wonder how much longer before we will be able to pick out individual geographic features on remote planets? 3000 times better resolution than hubble might actually give us real views of remote plantets.
I'd love to take a geography class in an astronomy major, discussing the geography of Betelgese-124;)
If you didn't care, you'd post non-anonymously. If you post AC, it probably means you don't want to get modded down.
Now who's the karma whore?
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Man, I just realized that I blew my ability to moderate this discussion because I felt a strong need to set this guy straight. Crap.
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OK, let's get one thing straight. I am a christian, and I believe many things that folks here on slashdot would likely have me strung up for.
The point here, however, is that when folks that have an agenda immediately jump on something that MIGHT be remotely related, they tend to make themselves look like the donkeys in this story when they are proven wrong.
Slightly longer version -- Science is still growing and changing every day. I doubt that there are many (if any) scientists out there that say that science has all the answers today, or that science ever will. Kinda like the old expression -- "The more you know, the more you realize you don't know".
If you want to push a creationist agenda, don't jump like an idiot. Wait, think, and have logical and intelligent conversations. There are plenty of paradoxes and uncertainties in christianity too, let's not forget that the point is that humans are imperfect and fallable.
What you're saying amounts to people that used to bash Christopher Columbus for believing the world is round. "Oh look, another ship dropped off the face of the earth, never to return. You idiot. God designed the world to be flat, it's obvious! Maybe he's trying to tell you something by never having ships return." That, or something like "You're not supposed to fly, if so, God would have given you wings."
Again, I am a Christian, but I believe that as humans we are pretty darn smart, and can figure out most things. Don't sell science short just because it doesn't have the answer you want TODAY.
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I used to work in the Embassy in Tokyo -- I was an intern, but I know they have lots of work to do. It was a great job, and there are lots of nationals that work there, to help you get into the culture.
What did BeOS do? I remember that they had really good video drivers for the hardware I had at the time. If I remember right, there is a FreeBeOS project going on now, maybe you could find some resources there.
I had a professor in college who had an issue regulating the current in his brain's emotional centers. After he was in and out of mental institutions for a while growing up, his family took him to a brain surgeon.
They figured out that when he had encephalitis as a child, he had caused this brain damage (due to high fever for an extended period of time), and they opened him up, installed a small chip to function as a voltage regulator, ran a cable down his skull and neck to his chest, where there was a subdermal microwave transducer that turned microwaves into electricity to power the chip in his brain.
His charger broke one year, and he didn't realize it. He started getting more and more irritable until he realized that he wasn't getting as much juice as he needed. He switched to his backup charger, and started having office hours again:)
Now, this is relevant because he DEFINITELY couldn't have had an MRI. Just imagine that cable spinning around in his brain. "Scrambled Brain, anyone?". Second, before you say that this must be an urban legend, I saw this guy, was in his classes for 3 years, and he brought in X-Rays. Email me for me details:)
When I interned at AOL in 1999, they were pushing over 1 Million (yes, 1,000,000) simultaneous users. Considering current growth curves, I'd imagine that they are twice that now, if not more.
Actually, I think in the latest versions of the commercial software, CVS is exactly how this is done. The commercial version of tripwire is a LOT more than just md5sums and hashes in a database to detect file changes. The central console can automatically rollback to previous revisions AND push new revisions at the touch of a button. You cant automatically rollback without a central repository of changes, and I think this is done with CVS.
And no, I'm not a salesman or employee for tripwire;)
You should really look into tripwire for this -- the open source version is awesome, but the commercial version kicks much bootay. They have a central console, which, much like quicken requires you to "Reconcile" any difference between what's on the server and what you show as the last good state (like if your checkbook doesn't match the bank statement). VERY cool stuff -- check out http://www.tripwire.com. (Specifically, Tripwire for Servers and Tripwire Manager)
We evaluated it for use at my place of business, and we are going to end up using it, IMHO. VERY responsive, and they **get** it too.
Besides, Gene Kim (Tripwire's original author!) is a really nice guy;)
You're missing something important that Larry himself said -- Institutions are made up of men, and men are fallable. If you're insinuating that the "ethics" behind religious wars are a good excuse to not believe in God, you need to realize that those wars and ethics were faught by men, not God.
I don't know for sure, of course, but I doubt that God would enjoy seeing a bunch of moronic people kill each other over their own ignorance.
As far as I know, there has never been any reference in any Judeo-Christian literature to a regime or government or institution that God himself ran. We, the people, always took that responsibility and screwed it up.
BTW -- you can look in the bible and see that exact phenomenon documented, and you can see where God got pissed off at the people too.
Gah -- I hated being a student that last year at college -- I couldn't wait to get out and be a productive member of society, pay taxes and whatnot, blah blah blah
Now, I'm married, own a house, have a stable 9-5 job, and am compensated handsomely. And I want to go back to school;) The grass is always greener on the other side!
Essentially, what I'm saying is that I'd love to be a rancher, or some other such thing -- but I don't have that desire unless I can fully provide for myself and my family -- it would lose the mystique and enjoyability for me if I were doing it to survive and living on a subsistence level income. I want to be a gentleman farmer, I have no desire to do the ranching gig unless I was financially independent.
If I wasn't financially independent, which, incidentally, I'm not -- I'd keep doing what I am doing. Which I am;) And I'm happy about it -- the problem with the question is that it assumes money isn't important in life or the world, which it is -- otherwise we'd have great teachers, honest police officers, and a lot of other great public service positions being filled to their ideal skill level and commitment level. But, instead, those who can't, teach, etc.
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And, I don't see what your point is? You have many questions -- what exactly are you trying to get at?
Honestly, I think it's easier to script quick and dirty solutions for linux/UNIX than it is for windows. It's trivially simple to create a flat text file with the names of servers to do "X" to, and have a perl script ssh to the remote host, do "X", and leave. Hell, I've whipped stuff up like this in under 5 minutes before, and I've been able to batch outtasks on a hundred hosts that would take me much longer to do by hand.
I think it's things like this that make it reasonable to expect that a single admin could handle more *NIX boxen than windows boxen.
Also, I think the point is that *NIX boxen are less likely to need daily attention, whereas windows boxen are notorious for their care and feeding needs.
Perhaps this all plays in together to lower TCO.
Ok, then look at Galeon, Konqueror, or any of the products in the K suite. They don't integrate with the O/S, per se, but definitely with the apps that represent the O/S to the user.
Besides, integrating IE into Windows makes their development environment LESS complex -- it allows them to reuse code between pieces of software MUCH more efficiently. Your OS no longer needs software to display JPGs, GIFs, or to even browse the filesystem. Why, because the browser does it for you.
Oh wait, Galeon and Konqueror both do the same thing... Hrmmm...
Do you really think that projects like Apache, OpenOffice, Mozilla, Xfree86, and Linux are less complex than say, IIS, Word, IE, or Win98?
I mean, seriously, if you look at functionality, things are getting very close between the OSS world and the Microsoft world.
I'm not saying that there are many straight forward OpenSource Projects, but let's be real -- there is a complete OpenSource O/S, that runs and performs amazingly given a core team of 15 people.
But it's good to hear it reaffirmed from an outside source what many of us know to begin with -- OpenSource development is more successful because the people involved love what they're doing.
Actually, I'm a comcast user. They do proxy by configuring your browser to send all requests through their proxy. Once you install their software, that is. Oh, and the software also makes it such that the entry for their proxy is stored in a windows registry entry, so even if you remove it from IE, next time you reboot it's back. I know they use Cisco gear, but I'm not sure about PIX'es. I know that the modem itself is in 10 space on the WAN end and on the LAN end it's 192.168 space, but it's doing some kind of NATing. And, the 10 space WAN address is routed within their network, so if you're really bored you can do SNMP gets on the modems other folks use (assuming you know their address). Lots of fun. Back before comcast was running their own ISP and it was still @home, I had a bunch of tech calls, and I ended up getting logins to their NMS. For some reason, you could hit it anywhere too. It would tell you if your modem was capped, how many bits you were pushing per day, etc. Read only, unfortunately, as otherwise I wouldn't have been capped!
Did you read the article that was cross referenced in this original article? Comcast was watching people's browsing habits through an anonymous proxy. If you configure your browser to not go through the proxy, they will no longer be monitoring you. Now, if they said that they were using distributed IDS's to monitor the packet flow, that would be a different story.
You can make it complex, or you can keep it simple.
I stole this, but it speaks to me.
http://www.voiceofgospel.org/beliefs.html
The point here really isn't the Christopher Columbus/Isabella story. The point is that some folks choose to believe that the world as it is today is how it has always been, and how it always will be.
When someone chooses to sell themselves short like that and believe that they are capable of comprehending everything in the world with a small belief system where everything magically fits in, I have a problem.
Like before, I will state that I am a religious person -- I go to church on Sundays, I sing, I make donations. But I do not accept that just because people can't comprehend how things happened that God must have done it in a wink.
Hate to break it to most religious folks, but God is a good bit smarter than you, and if it's really easy to figure out, chances are you have the wrong answer.
Robert Novak is representing himself in this lawsuit, and thus it is effectively costing him nothing to persue this campaign of harassment.
I wonder how much longer before we will be able to pick out individual geographic features on remote planets? 3000 times better resolution than hubble might actually give us real views of remote plantets.
;)
I'd love to take a geography class in an astronomy major, discussing the geography of Betelgese-124
If you didn't care, you'd post non-anonymously. If you post AC, it probably means you don't want to get modded down.
Now who's the karma whore?
Man, I just realized that I blew my ability to moderate this discussion because I felt a strong need to set this guy straight. Crap.
OK, let's get one thing straight. I am a christian, and I believe many things that folks here on slashdot would likely have me strung up for.
The point here, however, is that when folks that have an agenda immediately jump on something that MIGHT be remotely related, they tend to make themselves look like the donkeys in this story when they are proven wrong.
Slightly longer version -- Science is still growing and changing every day. I doubt that there are many (if any) scientists out there that say that science has all the answers today, or that science ever will. Kinda like the old expression -- "The more you know, the more you realize you don't know".
If you want to push a creationist agenda, don't jump like an idiot. Wait, think, and have logical and intelligent conversations. There are plenty of paradoxes and uncertainties in christianity too, let's not forget that the point is that humans are imperfect and fallable.
What you're saying amounts to people that used to bash Christopher Columbus for believing the world is round. "Oh look, another ship dropped off the face of the earth, never to return. You idiot. God designed the world to be flat, it's obvious! Maybe he's trying to tell you something by never having ships return." That, or something like "You're not supposed to fly, if so, God would have given you wings."
Again, I am a Christian, but I believe that as humans we are pretty darn smart, and can figure out most things. Don't sell science short just because it doesn't have the answer you want TODAY.
I used to work in the Embassy in Tokyo -- I was an intern, but I know they have lots of work to do. It was a great job, and there are lots of nationals that work there, to help you get into the culture.
What did BeOS do? I remember that they had really good video drivers for the hardware I had at the time. If I remember right, there is a FreeBeOS project going on now, maybe you could find some resources there.
I had a professor in college who had an issue regulating the current in his brain's emotional centers. After he was in and out of mental institutions for a while growing up, his family took him to a brain surgeon.
:)
:)
They figured out that when he had encephalitis as a child, he had caused this brain damage (due to high fever for an extended period of time), and they opened him up, installed a small chip to function as a voltage regulator, ran a cable down his skull and neck to his chest, where there was a subdermal microwave transducer that turned microwaves into electricity to power the chip in his brain.
His charger broke one year, and he didn't realize it. He started getting more and more irritable until he realized that he wasn't getting as much juice as he needed. He switched to his backup charger, and started having office hours again
Now, this is relevant because he DEFINITELY couldn't have had an MRI. Just imagine that cable spinning around in his brain. "Scrambled Brain, anyone?". Second, before you say that this must be an urban legend, I saw this guy, was in his classes for 3 years, and he brought in X-Rays. Email me for me details
BUGS BUNNY points the giant magnet towards the airplane, piloted by ELMER FUDD and makes him crash into a tree
When I interned at AOL in 1999, they were pushing over 1 Million (yes, 1,000,000) simultaneous users. Considering current growth curves, I'd imagine that they are twice that now, if not more.
Actually, I think in the latest versions of the commercial software, CVS is exactly how this is done. The commercial version of tripwire is a LOT more than just md5sums and hashes in a database to detect file changes. The central console can automatically rollback to previous revisions AND push new revisions at the touch of a button. You cant automatically rollback without a central repository of changes, and I think this is done with CVS.
;)
And no, I'm not a salesman or employee for tripwire
You should really look into tripwire for this -- the open source version is awesome, but the commercial version kicks much bootay. They have a central console, which, much like quicken requires you to "Reconcile" any difference between what's on the server and what you show as the last good state (like if your checkbook doesn't match the bank statement). VERY cool stuff -- check out http://www.tripwire.com. (Specifically, Tripwire for Servers and Tripwire Manager)
;)
We evaluated it for use at my place of business, and we are going to end up using it, IMHO. VERY responsive, and they **get** it too.
Besides, Gene Kim (Tripwire's original author!) is a really nice guy
You're missing something important that Larry himself said -- Institutions are made up of men, and men are fallable. If you're insinuating that the "ethics" behind religious wars are a good excuse to not believe in God, you need to realize that those wars and ethics were faught by men, not God.
I don't know for sure, of course, but I doubt that God would enjoy seeing a bunch of moronic people kill each other over their own ignorance.
As far as I know, there has never been any reference in any Judeo-Christian literature to a regime or government or institution that God himself ran. We, the people, always took that responsibility and screwed it up.
BTW -- you can look in the bible and see that exact phenomenon documented, and you can see where God got pissed off at the people too.
Gah -- I hated being a student that last year at college -- I couldn't wait to get out and be a productive member of society, pay taxes and whatnot, blah blah blah
;) The grass is always greener on the other side!
Now, I'm married, own a house, have a stable 9-5 job, and am compensated handsomely. And I want to go back to school
It depends on the question, right?
;) And I'm happy about it -- the problem with the question is that it assumes money isn't important in life or the world, which it is -- otherwise we'd have great teachers, honest police officers, and a lot of other great public service positions being filled to their ideal skill level and commitment level. But, instead, those who can't, teach, etc.
Essentially, what I'm saying is that I'd love to be a rancher, or some other such thing -- but I don't have that desire unless I can fully provide for myself and my family -- it would lose the mystique and enjoyability for me if I were doing it to survive and living on a subsistence level income. I want to be a gentleman farmer, I have no desire to do the ranching gig unless I was financially independent.
If I wasn't financially independent, which, incidentally, I'm not -- I'd keep doing what I am doing. Which I am
If I had functionally endless money, I'd do the following:
I'd give lots and lots to charity -- I don't want to leave any money to my kids -- they need to earn whatever they get in the world
I'd buy a farm -- 1000 acres or more, build a sweet house, build barns and outbuildings, raise horses, and grow and harvest my own hay.
Yeah, that's about it.