Thank you for clearing up. I'm german and have visited france very often, it's really nice, special if you drive a motorbike, but you have to speak french, cause the french people like to speak their language.
I speak a bit, enough for a journey, but it wouldn't be enough to work their. And the french people I met, they were very friendly, but could only speak french!!
You could look up for a job here in germany, we are in great need for skilled IT people. Last time
I changed my job, I only wrote two companies and could choose which one I wanted...:-)
I only think, that payment could be a problem, AFAIK you get a lot more in the US...:-(
You don't have to wait, special CD-R for music are
avialable here in germany that are taxed, of course only morons buy them, who don't know that they are just the same as the cheaper "data" CD-R.
Tapes are getting taxed here since long time, cause you could pirate music. Scanners are taxed too, cause you could make a copy of copyright material...:-(
All in all, I think if I payed all those taxs, I may have the right to pirate those material, haven't I??
Honestly, does anyone in the US pay for a 1000$ SW like say photoshop, just for private use?
I only use Linux and the gimp just works fine for me...:-)
@work we use http://www.skyrix.com/ , OK it's not OSS, neither free, it uses apache, it's an DSO apache module, but has all a corporate calendar needs, even hot sync with a palm, win only in the moment
IMHO, but everything else you can use with just a
browser on every OS.
It gets better with every version and uses sql92 (frontbase) to store the data. You get a working demo with every SuSE distribution, or can download it at their site. Would be nice to have something like this as OSS. I don't work for them. I just admin a bunch of linux servers and one of them is our skyrix server. Last upgrade was a bit tricky, but now it just runs. We don't want no stinking Outlook in our LAN, and this gives us the ability to provide the group features our customer demand, without using M$ server...:-)
It should be a lot easier to build something like this based on things that just work, like apache &
mysql, then starting from scratch.
The only domains that might, if anything, need local character support, or those local TLDs of the specific countries.
I have a different point of view. Imagine the following situation: I as a native german vistit the US, sit in front of a computer and would like
to lookup a site in the.de domain, but sad, I can't, no Umlaute (äöü) on the keyboard...:-(
That's a good reason why those Umlaute are not allowed in.de domains and I hope this won't change.
The Internet should bring the world together, and
it's able to achive this. No one should be able to destroy this, just by allowing silly special signs in domain and URL names.
I downloaded NS 6.0 PRE3 today @work as I saw it on/.
All I could get, on a fast T1 it really doesn't matter...:-). It looked nice, but couldn't understand my autoproxy (squid), but all other browsers (IE & Netscape) do understand it?
I wasn't very impressed, quite slow on my 800 Mhz Linux (Athlon) box with 256 MB RAM...:-( As I write this I'm downloading Mozilla M18, puh, takes lightyears with my ISDN link...
I would even pay, if I could get a decent browser.
I use Linux only and so: Stuck with the crap,
one can download at NS. What's a OS worth (I really love it) that can standup as long as you like it, when your Browser just makes trouble most
time...:-(
If someone grabbed my password, he could just
see my account, to make any transaction you need
a so called TAN Number, I get them from my bank via snail-mail and you can only use one number one time, kind of shared secret. When you have used all your number you have to order new ones from your bank. This and 128-bit SSL looks like it's
secure enough...;-)
You wouldn't bring a Linux box online without
disabling everything you don't need, setting up ipchains in a secure manner, apply the latest patches and so on...
Sad, but those M$ hacks don't get the public
attention they deserve....:-(
But the above statement: ~I just hacked kernel.org and downloaded the entire Linux Source Code~ Was worth it...:-))
and it isn't even able to find my own Hp, google
shows it as number 4, on the first page, with two keywords in search...:-)
I don't like their cokkies, with my IP inside, even @home with dynamic IP...glad that my ~/.crashicator/cookies is set 400.
But wait, it has changed to 600....:-(
Think I have to change it with chattr, to prevent
Netscape from doing this...
They are called SecureID Cards and you need an ace
Server to use them, I only know them to use in VPN
solutions. You get a new x digit number every 60
seconds and that's the time to login with the number, the ace server computes the same number and knows if yours is valid. That's how the server bases it's decision for authorization. It's a cool
solution, but only big organisations can afford it!
Michael
Re:See what happens when you rely on NT
on
Microsoft Cracked
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· Score: 1
just install another user with the same UID/GID as whomever you wanted to become
Why the hell should someone with UID 0 do that?
just type: su username
and your done...:-) root doesn't need to type/know boring passwords to become whatever user he wants.
I was just happy to have set ~/.netscape/cookies to 400, when I went to the story link, which I couldn't even (complet) read with my NS-Crashicator.
But it makes me kind of angry, I see more and more
content control, just a few daysI got autogen.-mail from postmaster@some.local.gov.dep
telling me that their mail server had rejected a newsletter coming from my side that contained the wrong word and was rejected. The newsletter was suscribed and we don't run a pOrn side!!!
It was ASCII only...
Our politicans don't understand the net and their
only answer is:
We don't understand it, it scares us, so we should control everything...:-(
Could be kind of startup that wants to take some
peace of the cake....
It's absolutly no propagandizing from LinuxToday.
Just the correct translation. Perhaps they have someone handy who doesn't need to use something like babelfish. You shouldn't trust
babelfish. Most time babelfishs translation is just worse a laugh, special german/english, if you read them as native german with some knowledge of your language...:-)
In my understanding they don't name Linux or any distro, because that kind of advertising isn't allowed in germany and you could be sued if you try and perhaps M$ wouldn't like it at the moment.
EU has an eye on M$ and more and more people are
starting to mention what kind of crap Bill G.
is selling for big bugs, no matter how "Advanced" he calls it.
I don't get any extra money for nearly 24/7 support I do, but I only had to once in the last 4 months.
The servers I'm responsible, are
linux only, including ha-linux,HW Raid-5, strong USV, redundant air-condition and other nifity
features you wouldn't expect....:-)
I thought this would be slashdot, so I don't understand: Are your really mission-critical servers not able to perform stable, secure and
reliable operation for one weekend unmantained?
Michael
(For the good arguments I could get from your postings, will be of great help, next time I talk to my BOSS)..:-)
In case I regocnize some swapping on the machines
I admin, I just order some more RAM, shut down,
plug it in, nice moment to get a new and fresh compiled kernel running and finally the problem
is solved...
Linux should never swap to disk and it will fly...:-)
Yeah, I haven't used Windows 2000, I just installed
& configured it on a few desktop machines and helped some of "my" users when they had problems. I was about to go crazy when I detected that the network settings were gone when
a laptop was taken out of it's docking station (with NIC build in). They came back when I put it
in again. But it took some time for me to figure that out...:-(
One time W2K chrashed, some things were lost and even $PATH wasn't as it was before. I haven't seen that with linux, despite it only crashes when some hardware is broken.Due to broken RAM I had some trouble with my desktop at work, but in case of a crash, I ran e2fsck manual and was done...nothing was lost:-)
I agree that you should always use the right tool, to get the job done. For me it's linux even on the desktop, cause most of "my" servers run it and I mostly need xterms to get my work done. The only thing I miss is a www browser that rocks...
W2K maybe the rigt tool for the average user...
But I never claimed to be one..
I get a bit bored of those announcements. Everyone
who has used Linux & Windows in production enviroment knows what's really going on.
If you use M$ you have to buy $ Software, just for some simple tasks, to get it running. Linux one
the other hand, everything you need comes with it,
or can be downloaded/compiled from the net.
MS is just a joke, a single user OS, designed for dektop (l)users, no matter how they call the crap they want to sell you for big bugs...Windows 2000
profesional...I have to laugh, I only see users rebooting their machines.
Of course you have to hire experienced admins and you won't get them for small money, on the other hand, a knowledged Linux/Unix admin can get things done in a short time..:-) Never underestimate the massive power of the user with UID 0 & bash!
Try to use linux for years like I do, then sit in front of Windoze/whatever and you regocnize very fast what crap it is...
I've installed SuSE 7.0 on two production server
one updated from 6.4 the other installed from scratch. Yast 1 performs quite well. But I would like to have more choice, I don't need X on
any server, and I'm a bit sad that somehow, I'm missing egcs on 7.0. I thought the professional
version would be better aimed for server use, but
instead SuSE goes more and more the desktop way.
The professional version only has longer support,
but I get $$ support from them and I can only tell
you that it sucks. You get better and faster support from the net, I was quite amazed/impressed when someone like Claus Assman replied to my questions on the sendmail newsgroup and gave me some short clues that really helped me getting sendmail & SASL running...:-)
As someone else pointed out, it's not really news
for me, since I got 7.0 month ago directly from SuSE.
Your right. M$ forces you to react. They just set
up something like this favicon.ico thing, IE > 5 searches for it in the directory, where someone clicks Add Bookmark.
You have to setup mod_rewrite to provide this "service" in a proper way.(Kudos to the apache team for things like that!)
I can only hope that M$ isn't providing nifty
features in IE6, you can only use with their
web server.
I have read about it on: http://www.spiegel.de but as far as I remember, it was only a doubtful claim by some politicans, who have a german special sign like ä,ö or ü in their names and could not register it without using substituions like ä --> ae and so on.
As far as I remember, the chairman of http://www.denic.de only laughed about this claim.
I think it would lead us to more problems than it would solve! Or is it just again about making $$?
That validates my expirience with HP.
I like the products and use them a lot
my favorite is the HP 48 GX..:-)
Once I wrote an email and asked them polite
about linux software for my HP 850 DJ Printer to calibrate the ink tanks, I didn't even get
an answer...:-(
Does anyone known, if something is available for this job on linux?
It would be nice if someone would start a database
on the web, to look up companies support for linux. I would like to buy products from companies that really support Linux. I know about the many HW databases, but they just tell me if a product is useable under linux, not if the company behind actually supports it (making specs available - publish drivers (GPL))
I'am trying...
My son is 10 he has much LEGO Technic stuff.
I bought the mindstorms set short after he got
the Cybermaster set. He's very good in building from the instructions that come with the sets.
Sad, but his mindstorms set (RCX 1.0) has no real
step by step instructions! He likes the Cybermaster more, cause of the detailed instructions and the cooler Winbloze-CD.
I'try to get him closer to mindstorms with the PDF
you can get at http://www.legomindstorms/.
It's a step by step instruction for a cool looking grabber arm..He builded it in very short time and
I would like to install my Sony CCD cam on it and build a webcam you can control with RCX.pm.
Perhaps I can get him closer to some programing,
Maybe not, but it's fun anyways...:-)
Yours
Michael
Re:Linux rehashs 70s era OS.. wow, special.
on
A Praise To Unix
·
· Score: 1
'll be one to agree. you get real plug and play, good hardware support(firewire anyone?), a standard setup (no debian OS X or redhat OS X), easy installation, SMP support, a GUI that more people can understand, great cut and paste, you're not using windows, you can install your favorite Open Source Software.
Sorry, but what are you smoking:
SMP - What about CONFIG_SMP=y in/usr/src/linux/.config and compile the kernel?
GUI - My son is ten years old and can use KDE and Windoze and understands both, well enough to get the things done he wants (mostly playing games, surfing the web, draw & print some nice pictures, use some learning software and so on..) he prefers windoze, but just because lots of software he wants to use is windoze only...:-(
Cut/Paste - I think it's obvious that it's much better in Linux! If it would only work in my crashicator 4.74 without hiting those silly Alt-C
/Alt-V combination - kind of reminds me to those days I had to use winbloze
Yours Michael
Please remind: I don't claim that Linux is easy to mantain - It's just better...:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Thank you for clearing up. I'm german and have visited france very often, it's really nice, special if you drive a motorbike, but you have to speak french, cause the french people like to speak their language. I speak a bit, enough for a journey, but it wouldn't be enough to work their. And the french people I met, they were very friendly, but could only speak french!!
You could look up for a job here in germany, we are in great need for skilled IT people. Last time I changed my job, I only wrote two companies and could choose which one I wanted...:-)
I only think, that payment could be a problem, AFAIK you get a lot more in the US...:-(
You can email me if you have further questions...
Michael
You don't have to wait, special CD-R for music are avialable here in germany that are taxed, of course only morons buy them, who don't know that they are just the same as the cheaper "data" CD-R.
Tapes are getting taxed here since long time, cause you could pirate music. Scanners are taxed too, cause you could make a copy of copyright material...:-(
All in all, I think if I payed all those taxs, I may have the right to pirate those material, haven't I??
Honestly, does anyone in the US pay for a 1000$ SW like say photoshop, just for private use? I only use Linux and the gimp just works fine for me...:-)
Michael
Hello,
@work we use http://www.skyrix.com/ , OK it's not OSS, neither free, it uses apache, it's an DSO apache module, but has all a corporate calendar needs, even hot sync with a palm, win only in the moment IMHO, but everything else you can use with just a browser on every OS.
It gets better with every version and uses sql92 (frontbase) to store the data. You get a working demo with every SuSE distribution, or can download it at their site. Would be nice to have something like this as OSS. I don't work for them. I just admin a bunch of linux servers and one of them is our skyrix server. Last upgrade was a bit tricky, but now it just runs. We don't want no stinking Outlook in our LAN, and this gives us the ability to provide the group features our customer demand, without using M$ server...:-)
It should be a lot easier to build something like this based on things that just work, like apache & mysql, then starting from scratch.
Michael
The only domains that might, if anything, need local character support, or those local TLDs of the specific countries.
I have a different point of view. Imagine the following situation: I as a native german vistit the US, sit in front of a computer and would like to lookup a site in the
That's a good reason why those Umlaute are not allowed in
The Internet should bring the world together, and it's able to achive this. No one should be able to destroy this, just by allowing silly special signs in domain and URL names.
Michael
I downloaded NS 6.0 PRE3 today @work as I saw it on
All I could get, on a fast T1 it really doesn't matter...:-). It looked nice, but couldn't understand my autoproxy (squid), but all other browsers (IE & Netscape) do understand it?
I wasn't very impressed, quite slow on my 800 Mhz Linux (Athlon) box with 256 MB RAM...:-( As I write this I'm downloading Mozilla M18, puh, takes lightyears with my ISDN link...
I would even pay, if I could get a decent browser.
I use Linux only and so: Stuck with the crap,
one can download at NS. What's a OS worth (I really love it) that can standup as long as you like it, when your Browser just makes trouble most
time...:-(
Michael
I use Online Banking and like it..:-)
If someone grabbed my password, he could just see my account, to make any transaction you need a so called TAN Number, I get them from my bank via snail-mail and you can only use one number one time, kind of shared secret. When you have used all your number you have to order new ones from your bank. This and 128-bit SSL looks like it's secure enough...;-)
Michael
As much as I dislike M$, but honestly:
You wouldn't bring a Linux box online without disabling everything you don't need, setting up ipchains in a secure manner, apply the latest patches and so on...
Sad, but those M$ hacks don't get the public attention they deserve....:-(
But the above statement:
~I just hacked kernel.org and downloaded the entire Linux Source Code~
Was worth it...:-))
Michael
and it isn't even able to find my own Hp, google shows it as number 4, on the first page, with two keywords in search...:-)
I don't like their cokkies, with my IP inside, even @home with dynamic IP...glad that my ~/.crashicator/cookies is set 400. But wait, it has changed to 600....:-(
Think I have to change it with chattr, to prevent Netscape from doing this...
Michael
They are called SecureID Cards and you need an ace Server to use them, I only know them to use in VPN solutions. You get a new x digit number every 60 seconds and that's the time to login with the number, the ace server computes the same number and knows if yours is valid. That's how the server bases it's decision for authorization. It's a cool solution, but only big organisations can afford it!
Michael
just install another user with the same UID/GID as whomever you wanted to become
Why the hell should someone with UID 0 do that? just type: su username
and your done...:-) root doesn't need to type/know boring passwords to become whatever user he wants.
Michael
I was just happy to have set ~/.netscape/cookies to 400, when I went to the story link, which I couldn't even (complet) read with my NS-Crashicator.
But it makes me kind of angry, I see more and more content control, just a few daysI got autogen.-mail from postmaster@some.local.gov.dep telling me that their mail server had rejected a newsletter coming from my side that contained the wrong word and was rejected. The newsletter was suscribed and we don't run a pOrn side!!! It was ASCII only...
Our politicans don't understand the net and their only answer is:
We don't understand it, it scares us, so we should control everything...:-(
Could be kind of startup that wants to take some peace of the cake....
Yours
Michael
It's absolutly no propagandizing from LinuxToday. Just the correct translation. Perhaps they have someone handy who doesn't need to use something like babelfish. You shouldn't trust babelfish. Most time babelfishs translation is just worse a laugh, special german/english, if you read them as native german with some knowledge of your language...:-)
In my understanding they don't name Linux or any distro, because that kind of advertising isn't allowed in germany and you could be sued if you try and perhaps M$ wouldn't like it at the moment.
EU has an eye on M$ and more and more people are starting to mention what kind of crap Bill G. is selling for big bugs, no matter how "Advanced" he calls it.
Michael
I don't get any extra money for nearly 24/7 support I do, but I only had to once in the last 4 months.
The servers I'm responsible, are linux only, including ha-linux,HW Raid-5, strong USV, redundant air-condition
and other nifity features you wouldn't expect....:-)
I thought this would be slashdot, so I don't understand:
Are your really mission-critical servers not able to perform stable, secure and reliable operation for one weekend unmantained?
Michael
(For the good arguments I could get from your postings, will be of great help, next time I talk to my BOSS)..:-)
Thx for cleaning up this tread...
In case I regocnize some swapping on the machines I admin, I just order some more RAM, shut down, plug it in, nice moment to get a new and fresh compiled kernel running and finally the problem is solved...
Linux should never swap to disk and it will fly...:-)
Michael
I bought it for my son...he,he. But had no time to play with it, would be great to combine it with mindstorms or Cybermaster.
Sad, but the story links don't work for me...looks as if those servers were slashdoted...:-)
Michael
Yeah, I haven't used Windows 2000, I just installed & configured it on a few desktop machines and helped some of "my" users when they had problems. I was about to go crazy when I detected that the network settings were gone when a laptop was taken out of it's docking station (with NIC build in). They came back when I put it in again. But it took some time for me to figure that out...:-(
One time W2K chrashed, some things were lost and even $PATH wasn't as it was before. I haven't seen that with linux, despite it only crashes when some hardware is broken.Due to broken RAM I had some trouble with my desktop at work, but in case of a crash, I ran e2fsck manual and was done...nothing was lost:-)
I agree that you should always use the right tool, to get the job done. For me it's linux even on the desktop, cause most of "my" servers run it and I mostly need xterms to get my work done. The only thing I miss is a www browser that rocks...
W2K maybe the rigt tool for the average user... But I never claimed to be one..
Michael
I get a bit bored of those announcements. Everyone who has used Linux & Windows in production enviroment knows what's really going on.
/whatever and you regocnize very fast what crap it is...
If you use M$ you have to buy $ Software, just for some simple tasks, to get it running. Linux one the other hand, everything you need comes with it, or can be downloaded/compiled from the net.
MS is just a joke, a single user OS, designed for dektop (l)users, no matter how they call the crap they want to sell you for big bugs...Windows 2000 profesional...I have to laugh, I only see users rebooting their machines.
Of course you have to hire experienced admins and you won't get them for small money, on the other hand, a knowledged Linux/Unix admin can get things done in a short time..:-) Never underestimate the massive power of the user with UID 0 & bash!
Try to use linux for years like I do, then sit in front of Windoze
Michael
I've installed SuSE 7.0 on two production server one updated from 6.4 the other installed from scratch. Yast 1 performs quite well. But I would like to have more choice, I don't need X on any server, and I'm a bit sad that somehow, I'm missing egcs on 7.0. I thought the professional version would be better aimed for server use, but instead SuSE goes more and more the desktop way.
The professional version only has longer support, but I get $$ support from them and I can only tell you that it sucks. You get better and faster support from the net, I was quite amazed/impressed when someone like Claus Assman replied to my questions on the sendmail newsgroup and gave me some short clues that really helped me getting sendmail & SASL running...:-)
As someone else pointed out, it's not really news for me, since I got 7.0 month ago directly from SuSE.
Yours
Michael
Your right. M$ forces you to react. They just set up something like this favicon.ico thing, IE > 5 searches for it in the directory, where someone clicks Add Bookmark.
You have to setup mod_rewrite to provide this "service" in a proper way.(Kudos to the apache team for things like that!)
I can only hope that M$ isn't providing nifty features in IE6, you can only use with their web server.
Michael
I have read about it on: http://www.spiegel.de but as far as I remember, it was only a doubtful claim by some politicans, who have a german special sign like ä,ö or ü in their names and could not register it without using substituions like ä --> ae and so on.
As far as I remember, the chairman of http://www.denic.de only laughed about this claim.
I think it would lead us to more problems than it would solve! Or is it just again about making $$?
Michael
That validates my expirience with HP. I like the products and use them a lot my favorite is the HP 48 GX..:-)
Once I wrote an email and asked them polite about linux software for my HP 850 DJ Printer to calibrate the ink tanks, I didn't even get an answer...:-(
Does anyone known, if something is available for this job on linux?
It would be nice if someone would start a database on the web, to look up companies support for linux. I would like to buy products from companies that really support Linux. I know about the many HW databases, but they just tell me if a product is useable under linux, not if the company behind actually supports it (making specs available - publish drivers (GPL))
Michael
The first thing I read/came to my mind, when I saw the post was:
.sig, all my cool ones I "stole" from slashdot
"The Lord of the bugs, the story of Bill G." Rendered with Linux, cause Wintendo couldn't handle the load...
Yours
Michael
--
Can't use any
Hello,
I'm the Sysadmin of an e-commerce site runnig Linux. But big $ corporate sites use Slowlaris or even NT here in germany.
Strato is well known for it's crap service, but what would you aspect if you only pay a few bucks for your web-hosting?
And most of their Virtual Servers get no real traffic, cause they are just used by hobbyist....
You're right with your "take these with a grain of salt". The first chanclor of germany after WII said ones:
"I only believe in statistics, when I've manipulatet them myself" Nuf said
Yours
Michael
I'am trying... My son is 10 he has much LEGO Technic stuff. I bought the mindstorms set short after he got the Cybermaster set.
.
He's very good in building from the instructions that come with the sets.
Sad, but his mindstorms set (RCX 1.0) has no real step by step instructions! He likes the Cybermaster more, cause of the detailed instructions and the cooler Winbloze-CD.
I'try to get him closer to mindstorms with the PDF you can get at http://www.legomindstorms/
It's a step by step instruction for a cool looking grabber arm..He builded it in very short time and I would like to install my Sony CCD cam on it and build a webcam you can control with RCX.pm.
Perhaps I can get him closer to some programing, Maybe not, but it's fun anyways...:-)
Yours
Michael
'll be one to agree. you get real plug and play, good hardware support(firewire anyone?), a standard setup (no debian OS X or redhat OS X), easy installation, SMP support, a GUI that more people can understand, great cut and paste, you're not using windows, you can install your favorite Open Source Software.
/usr/src/linux/.config and compile the kernel?
Sorry, but what are you smoking:
SMP - What about CONFIG_SMP=y in
GUI - My son is ten years old and can use KDE and Windoze and understands both, well enough to get the things done he wants (mostly playing games, surfing the web, draw & print some nice pictures, use some learning software and so on..) he prefers windoze, but just because lots of software he wants to use is windoze only...:-(
Cut/Paste - I think it's obvious that it's much better in Linux! If it would only work in my crashicator 4.74 without hiting those silly Alt-C
/Alt-V combination - kind of reminds me to those days I had to use winbloze
Yours Michael
Please remind: I don't claim that Linux is easy to mantain - It's just better...:-)