I realize your budget probably does not support it, but hey, maybe you are lucky, or very persuasive with the board.;)
I used to teach some 1-on-1 classes, and to facilitate this I use a linux box with VMware installed.
When booted, it goes straight into a minimal X, and runs VMware, which in turn boots the OS du jour.
This allows me to run virtual windows 95/98/2000/linuxes, or indeed to allow my pupils to mess with the installion (and destruction) of those OS'es. Since it has a 'discard changes made during session' option, the OS always rolls back to the known, safe, optimal & virus free state, unless specifically told not to (by me).
A small bash script watches over the vmware thread, and if it dies spawns a new one.
Count the amount of hours spent reinstalling/reconfiguring/rebooting, weigh it against the price of a VMware license.
OK, so it is tough luck that your GPL project didn't bring you wheelbarrowloads of cash
If that's what you wanted, you played in the wrong court.
OK, so it sucks that you can't find a job in your chosen profession (I know, I have been facing the same problem, and have been delivering packages while I SHOULD be examining packets. Do you hear me bitch about it? Only when I am drunk and/or trolling on slashdot *grin*)
but then to turn around and kill the project dead, saying 'I got a new version but I am not gonna share/release it because you owe me and I am a bitter man'???
Dude, get over yourself!
I don't know how complex this LRP is but I hacked together a debian box with three network cards and had it up and running as a router in 30 minutes, and for the last 3 YEARS it has been running uninterrupted.
Did I expect payment from my roomies for enabling them to access the internet?
No, but it did earn me massive kudo's (and, unbeknownst to them, the right to ipchains -j DENY any kazaa session other than mine *g*)
But I digress.
Release the code, drop those bitter feelings and your next job interview might actually go well.
you have written KnoppiXMAME? Cool!
(And here I was thinking I was orating in front of a crowd of degenerate monkeys *grin* )
I am guessing the distro requires less processing power and memory by loading only the neccesary components, thus enabling games to play more complex MAME games, right?
And I've always liked the console games idea of just plugging in your games, turning it on and playing.
OTOH, I can't remember the last time I turned off one of my PC's, it would feel...wrong;)
(and by now, they probably would never start up again)
My point is, most emufreaks I know have HUGE collections of roms and whatnot, and most would not be satisfied with only one CD of mame roms.
So I guess the core of my rant/question/reply would be, what is the intended audience?
Ps. I couldn't program myself out of a wet paper bag so any fork would have to be done elsewhere;)
While I'll probably get shot in the head for this,
I don't like this overspecialization.
Why run just mame when with gamebase (http://www.gamebase64.com/gb64v2.htm) I have a frontend that will happily organize ALL my emu collections, including N64, SNES, atari c64 and god knows what else. (yes, arcade roms too).
It provides screenshots, categories, favorites, alternate configs and god knows what else. It runs on windows 98/2000 but it might run under wine or whatnot.
Now to finish building that arcade cabinet I started 3 years ago... *sigh*
I see a lot of palm m505's for $100 or less.
The software you get with the device (calendar; todo; address book etc) coupled with the humongous amount of software floating round the net for palmOS (a lot of it designed with students' needs in mind) works for high-paid executives, so why not for students?
(plus, there's all sorts of neat games;) )
Finally, pull the old "dad, since I am going to study hard; can I take your old PC?
Since this will give the old goat an excuse to upgrade his own hardware, he'll probably go along.
For the more affluent student; a wifi base station + SD wifi card perhaps?
hmmm.... wifi SD cards....
It's good to see someone with a NAME (like him or hate him, he's a well-known character) gets things in gear. I hope something comes out of this so this FUD stuff (& the whole lawsuit of course) dies a quiet death like it should.
Just point out the f$#^*ing code (if any), and write around it.
Does anyone know what code exactly IBM donated?
on
Today's SCO News
·
· Score: 1
In the interview with the SCO CEO he says
"In the last 18 months, we found that IBM had donated some very high-end enterprise-computing technologies into open-source."
And he goes on to say that IBM lifted the code from them.
Wouldn't that make this code suspect and asking for its examination?
I am no developer but it seems that this alleged donated by IBM must contain the offending stuff,
and should be relatively easy to find.
Anyone?
yeah right.
That's OK if you live in magical budget candy land, but for the rest of us, this is not an option.
And besides; firewalls are NOT (read again; NOT) the end-all of security. Most exploits and viri attack the ports that are open anyway, your IIS webserver; your Exchange box(es), the FTP server etc. etc.
My 2 cents:
- lock down servers and workstations
- strip all rights from users and then give them ONLY the rights they need
- update, update, update & patch
- firewall the edge of the network
- create a DMZ for all those vulnerable boxes on the edge of your network
- divide the network in VLANs (provided you take care of a big enough network)
- buy antivirus software with server-distributed automatic updates
- run a IDS on the edge of your network (snort et al)
- use Ntop (or a similar sniffer) for network traffic profiling so you can spot any anomalies
- Backup the important stuff every day and move the tapes offsite (make sure your backup WORKS; do a yearly restore drill)
- audit on a regular basis, either yourself or (if you live in magic budget candy land) by external consultants.
- AND MOST IMPORTANTLY:
EDUCATE YOUR USERS!
(which, admittedly, seems to be the hardest thing on my list, as I haven't managed to do it in 10 years+ of network management.
ever thought of *NOT* registering at all those dodgy websites? Not clicking all those 'I Agree' buttons?
I thought not.
Banning hotmail (I swear microsoft sells those addresses to spam agents or generate spam themselves!) I have no trouble keeping my 'main' business email account clean. Just use a hotmail address for all those forms and stuff and watch the spam pile up in there, while at the same time keeping your regular account spam-free.
Seriously, children, if you can't act responsibly we are just going to have to take your toys away from you.
Glad to make your day *grin*
Not bad for a dutch guy, eh?
I work for an international company, and I am often amazed at the sorry state of the verbal and written skills of so-called 'native speakers'.
(Good thing I gave up my study of English lang.& lit. for IT studies, or else I would have to get my daily kicks on the slim chance of someone actually spelling 'weird' correctly.) (J/K)
actually, I found that the new 1.2.6 version of the ipod firmware solves the problem quite nicely; once again I can get 10 hrs of music off one charge.
http://www.iweenie.com/ipod.shtml (iweenie) has the latest firmware, as well as the older versions and all the tools you need.
Of course, when you moved the files between formats, you lost any and all undo information. Excel stores this undo information in the file, so when you change a lot of things in this file, over time it will grow.
Of course, OO also compresses the files, which also helps a lot.
Man, MPlayer plays EVERYTHING. without fail. when another player does not perform/play, give mplayer a whirl. I see lots of complaints in this thread that purely stem from the fact that people do not bother to RTFM.
Yes, mplayer has a gui (./configure --enable-gui ) Yes, mplayer has OSD (./configure --enable-new-conf --enable-menu) Yes, mplayer can fix your broken indices (can't search in a avifile? mplayer -forceidx)
Audio out of sync? try the -autosync option, or use + and - during playback to adjust A/V delay.
Video slow or stuttering? USE A DIFFERENT VIDEO DRIVER! mplayer -vo help will get you a full list.
On top of all, you get the coolest encoder that can encode from any source to any format you desire.
And Yes, mplayer can be a pain in the butt. you HAVE to read the manual. twice. You have to play around for a while to figure out how to properly encode your movies. But after that you 1) have an appreciation of all that comes into play when encoding movies and 2) have a beautiful rip with small file size.
Do yourself a favor, grab the lastest CVS, get the win32 codecs and the quicktime dll's, grab a copy of ffmpeg (for the pretty libavcodec) and figure out how to compile this baby.
If you're into watching multimedia on linux, get this. If you want to press a button to play a DVD, and have the OS hold your hand and wipe your butt for you, you know which OS is for you.
I mean seriously, how hard is it to type mplayer -dvd X (where X is the dvd title nr)?
At my company, we am doing the same. We are in a Win2000 Active Directory environment, and we are slowly replacing the file servers with samba server (which are really easy to join to a win2k AD domain, and use the AD authentication if you RTFM), moving the web servers to Apache, the firewall is now a linux box with iptables, snort/acid and 2 network cards, and so on.
The whole linux section is running webmin over SSL, so changes in configuration are easy to administer and make can be done even by the microserfs in our company.
The only struggling point is Exchange (as another post mentions), there we go into the realm of broken LDAP implementations in AD and X400 connectors, so we have decided to leave that alone for now (to be honest, exchange 2000 performs quite adequately) (hiss! boo!)
We did not do the 'sudden switch', we just made sure there was a *nix alternative the moment another winbox went belly-up. The users don't even realise something is different, and the new structure performs well.
I find TCO a vague concept; there are so many intangible factors involved. I do know that a)we are rid of MS's expensive server licenses
b)we spend less time troubleshooting
c)the hardware requirements are significantly lower
Plus, I get to play with *nix boxes all day long! yay!
why is it OK to tape a show and not to divX it?
well?
why can everybody individually put any show on the telly on video; but as soon as you make it machine-readable and share it so others that could potentially tape the very same show don't have to?
(is this a sentence? I need some sleep)
Everybody keeps saying 'yea, I'm switching to gnutella'. and yes, the downloads are through the roof:
http://www.limewire.com/historical_size.html
(as mentioned earlier in this discussion)
And I recall a few days earlier/. ran this article
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/14/190225.sht ml
describing why Gnutella et al can't scale
It points to the whole dissertation here:
http://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/doc/gnutella.html (last url, I swear)
So, is Gnutella still working?
I know my kazaa is...
This is only relevant if you plan on running the hardware while driving:
Me and a friend used to VJ at parties, and used to transport our gear (several laptops+mixer+monitors+beamer+miles of cable+whatnot) using a chevy van (modified ambulance, 8 yrs old). While one person would drive, the other could sit in the back in an old dentist's chair with a shitload of hardware to play with.
Using 2 linked GSMs (can you say 14k4 blows?) even some mail and surfing was possible.
Downside?
after a while, a suspicious amount of bad blocks turned up on the hard disks.
now we never use the gear while on the move;
instead we got a small industrial PC with compactflash from a company called Advantech
http://www.advantech.com/embeddedsw/ which has served us very well.
We have tried both embedded linux and embedded NT, and run very smoothly.
Of course, embedded linux is the cheaper of the two, but prepare for some heavy tweaking and more lilo than you could ever want.
Good luck,
Acid_Zebra
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I would call _you_ a P2P douche...bag that is.
Welcome to Paranoimia, please remember to wear your tinfoil hat at all times.
I realize your budget probably does not support it, but hey, maybe you are lucky, or very persuasive with the board. ;)
I used to teach some 1-on-1 classes, and to facilitate this I use a linux box with VMware installed. When booted, it goes straight into a minimal X, and runs VMware, which in turn boots the OS du jour.
This allows me to run virtual windows 95/98/2000/linuxes, or indeed to allow my pupils to mess with the installion (and destruction) of those OS'es. Since it has a 'discard changes made during session' option, the OS always rolls back to the known, safe, optimal & virus free state, unless specifically told not to (by me).
A small bash script watches over the vmware thread, and if it dies spawns a new one.
Count the amount of hours spent reinstalling/reconfiguring/rebooting, weigh it against the price of a VMware license.
YMMV
OK, so it is tough luck that your GPL project didn't bring you wheelbarrowloads of cash
If that's what you wanted, you played in the wrong court.
OK, so it sucks that you can't find a job in your chosen profession (I know, I have been facing the same problem, and have been delivering packages while I SHOULD be examining packets. Do you hear me bitch about it? Only when I am drunk and/or trolling on slashdot *grin*)
but then to turn around and kill the project dead, saying 'I got a new version but I am not gonna share/release it because you owe me and I am a bitter man'???
Dude, get over yourself!
I don't know how complex this LRP is but I hacked together a debian box with three network cards and had it up and running as a router in 30 minutes, and for the last 3 YEARS it has been running uninterrupted.
Did I expect payment from my roomies for enabling them to access the internet?
No, but it did earn me massive kudo's (and, unbeknownst to them, the right to ipchains -j DENY any kazaa session other than mine *g*)
But I digress.
Release the code, drop those bitter feelings and your next job interview might actually go well.
Or, you could put those options in somewhere in /etc, for instance /etc/proftpd.conf like the rest of us. ;)
hehe that would be cool.
;)
Lessee
C-64 files : 760 Mb
N-64 files : 1.6 Gb
Sega files : 1.2 Gb
Snes files : 2.3 Gb
mame files : 2.3 Gb
D'oh! I need bigger DVD's
you have written KnoppiXMAME? Cool!
;)
;)
(And here I was thinking I was orating in front of a crowd of degenerate monkeys *grin* )
I am guessing the distro requires less processing power and memory by loading only the neccesary components, thus enabling games to play more complex MAME games, right?
And I've always liked the console games idea of just plugging in your games, turning it on and playing.
OTOH, I can't remember the last time I turned off one of my PC's, it would feel...wrong
(and by now, they probably would never start up again)
My point is, most emufreaks I know have HUGE collections of roms and whatnot, and most would not be satisfied with only one CD of mame roms.
So I guess the core of my rant/question/reply would be, what is the intended audience?
Ps. I couldn't program myself out of a wet paper bag so any fork would have to be done elsewhere
While I'll probably get shot in the head for this, I don't like this overspecialization.
Why run just mame when with gamebase (http://www.gamebase64.com/gb64v2.htm) I have a frontend that will happily organize ALL my emu collections, including N64, SNES, atari c64 and god knows what else. (yes, arcade roms too).
It provides screenshots, categories, favorites, alternate configs and god knows what else. It runs on windows 98/2000 but it might run under wine or whatnot.
Now to finish building that arcade cabinet I started 3 years ago... *sigh*
me want! me want!
me glow you long time!
hehehe
hmmm it must be in the beer....
I dunno, whasn't the profit-making scheme collecting money on support calls, installation fees, maintenance and such? (commonly labeled services)
just my 2 eurocents.
" The long range impact on the relationship between MSN and Yahoo/Inktomi is likely at risk."
Now I know I'm nagging (blame it on the time of month or the weather or something) but I read this sentence three times and I still don't get it.
What is at risk? what is the impact?
*confused*
I see a lot of palm m505's for $100 or less. ;) )
The software you get with the device (calendar; todo; address book etc) coupled with the humongous amount of software floating round the net for palmOS (a lot of it designed with students' needs in mind) works for high-paid executives, so why not for students?
(plus, there's all sorts of neat games
Finally, pull the old "dad, since I am going to study hard; can I take your old PC?
Since this will give the old goat an excuse to upgrade his own hardware, he'll probably go along.
For the more affluent student; a wifi base station + SD wifi card perhaps?
hmmm.... wifi SD cards....
It's good to see someone with a NAME (like him or hate him, he's a well-known character) gets things in gear. I hope something comes out of this so this FUD stuff (& the whole lawsuit of course) dies a quiet death like it should. Just point out the f$#^*ing code (if any), and write around it.
In the interview with the SCO CEO he says
"In the last 18 months, we found that IBM had donated some very high-end enterprise-computing technologies into open-source."
And he goes on to say that IBM lifted the code from them.
Wouldn't that make this code suspect and asking for its examination?
I am no developer but it seems that this alleged donated by IBM must contain the offending stuff, and should be relatively easy to find.
Anyone?
That's OK if you live in magical budget candy land, but for the rest of us, this is not an option.
And besides; firewalls are NOT (read again; NOT) the end-all of security. Most exploits and viri attack the ports that are open anyway, your IIS webserver; your Exchange box(es), the FTP server etc. etc.
My 2 cents:
- lock down servers and workstations
- strip all rights from users and then give them ONLY the rights they need - update, update, update & patch
- firewall the edge of the network
- create a DMZ for all those vulnerable boxes on the edge of your network
- divide the network in VLANs (provided you take care of a big enough network)
- buy antivirus software with server-distributed automatic updates
- run a IDS on the edge of your network (snort et al)
- use Ntop (or a similar sniffer) for network traffic profiling so you can spot any anomalies
- Backup the important stuff every day and move the tapes offsite (make sure your backup WORKS; do a yearly restore drill)
- audit on a regular basis, either yourself or (if you live in magic budget candy land) by external consultants.
- AND MOST IMPORTANTLY:
EDUCATE YOUR USERS!
(which, admittedly, seems to be the hardest thing on my list, as I haven't managed to do it in 10 years+ of network management.
I thought not.
Banning hotmail (I swear microsoft sells those addresses to spam agents or generate spam themselves!) I have no trouble keeping my 'main' business email account clean. Just use a hotmail address for all those forms and stuff and watch the spam pile up in there, while at the same time keeping your regular account spam-free.
Seriously, children, if you can't act responsibly we are just going to have to take your toys away from you.
Not bad for a dutch guy, eh?
I work for an international company, and I am often amazed at the sorry state of the verbal and written skills of so-called 'native speakers'.
(Good thing I gave up my study of English lang.& lit. for IT studies, or else I would have to get my daily kicks on the slim chance of someone actually spelling 'weird' correctly.)
(J/K)
1) firewire 800 (yay!) 2) bigger hard drive (duh) 3) more color schemes?
actually, I found that the new 1.2.6 version of the ipod firmware solves the problem quite nicely; once again I can get 10 hrs of music off one charge.
http://www.iweenie.com/ipod.shtml (iweenie)
has the latest firmware, as well as the older versions and all the tools you need.
Of course, when you moved the files between formats, you lost any and all undo information. Excel stores this undo information in the file, so when you change a lot of things in this file, over time it will grow. Of course, OO also compresses the files, which also helps a lot.
a 'little' more fully featured?
Man, MPlayer plays EVERYTHING. without fail. when another player does not perform/play, give mplayer a whirl.
I see lots of complaints in this thread that purely stem from the fact that people do not bother to RTFM.
Yes, mplayer has a gui (./configure --enable-gui )
Yes, mplayer has OSD (./configure --enable-new-conf --enable-menu)
Yes, mplayer can fix your broken indices (can't search in a avifile? mplayer -forceidx)
Audio out of sync? try the -autosync option, or use + and - during playback to adjust A/V delay.
Video slow or stuttering? USE A DIFFERENT VIDEO DRIVER! mplayer -vo help will get you a full list.
On top of all, you get the coolest encoder that can encode from any source to any format you desire.
And Yes, mplayer can be a pain in the butt.
you HAVE to read the manual. twice.
You have to play around for a while to figure out how to properly encode your movies. But after that you 1) have an appreciation of all that comes into play when encoding movies and 2) have a beautiful rip with small file size.
Do yourself a favor, grab the lastest CVS, get the win32 codecs and the quicktime dll's, grab a copy of ffmpeg (for the pretty libavcodec) and figure out how to compile this baby.
If you're into watching multimedia on linux, get this. If you want to press a button to play a DVD, and have the OS hold your hand and wipe your butt for you, you know which OS is for you.
I mean seriously, how hard is it to type
mplayer -dvd X (where X is the dvd title nr)?
Sheesh.
What is the difference? *grin*
At my company, we am doing the same.
We are in a Win2000 Active Directory environment, and we are slowly replacing the file servers with samba server (which are really easy to join to a win2k AD domain, and use the AD authentication if you RTFM), moving the web servers to Apache, the firewall is now a linux box with iptables, snort/acid and 2 network cards, and so on.
The whole linux section is running webmin over SSL, so changes in configuration are easy to administer and make can be done even by the microserfs in our company.
The only struggling point is Exchange (as another post mentions), there we go into the realm of broken LDAP implementations in AD and X400 connectors, so we have decided to leave that alone for now (to be honest, exchange 2000 performs quite adequately) (hiss! boo!)
We did not do the 'sudden switch', we just made sure there was a *nix alternative the moment another winbox went belly-up. The users don't even realise something is different, and the new structure performs well.
I find TCO a vague concept; there are so many intangible factors involved. I do know that
a)we are rid of MS's expensive server licenses
b)we spend less time troubleshooting
c)the hardware requirements are significantly lower
Plus, I get to play with *nix boxes all day long! yay!
why is it OK to tape a show and not to divX it? well? why can everybody individually put any show on the telly on video; but as soon as you make it machine-readable and share it so others that could potentially tape the very same show don't have to? (is this a sentence? I need some sleep)
Everybody keeps saying 'yea, I'm switching to gnutella'. and yes, the downloads are through the roof:
/. ran this article
t ml
l
http://www.limewire.com/historical_size.html
(as mentioned earlier in this discussion)
And I recall a few days earlier
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/14/190225.sh
describing why Gnutella et al can't scale
It points to the whole dissertation here:
http://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/doc/gnutella.htm
(last url, I swear)
So, is Gnutella still working?
I know my kazaa is...
This is only relevant if you plan on running the hardware while driving: Me and a friend used to VJ at parties, and used to transport our gear (several laptops+mixer+monitors+beamer+miles of cable+whatnot) using a chevy van (modified ambulance, 8 yrs old). While one person would drive, the other could sit in the back in an old dentist's chair with a shitload of hardware to play with. Using 2 linked GSMs (can you say 14k4 blows?) even some mail and surfing was possible. Downside? after a while, a suspicious amount of bad blocks turned up on the hard disks. now we never use the gear while on the move; instead we got a small industrial PC with compactflash from a company called Advantech http://www.advantech.com/embeddedsw/ which has served us very well. We have tried both embedded linux and embedded NT, and run very smoothly. Of course, embedded linux is the cheaper of the two, but prepare for some heavy tweaking and more lilo than you could ever want. Good luck, Acid_Zebra