I want a book for someone that is a Mac/Windows user that shows how to setup a small office server. I use Mac OS X exclusively at home and want to turn an old (P2/450) Dell into a Linux server. I want it to run DNS, DHCP, File sharing (NFS?), email, MP3 streaming, and web. All of this I want to control from my Mac, so I would rather do it all from the command-line. Is there a book that can help me?
If you really want it, commission it, if that sounds too pricey you might drop a note to a couple publishers about the idea they might just pick it up and find someone.
My thorax aches, but I must say it: Theres needs to be a "Learn Linux"
Sorry about your thorax. You might like to try any of the study manuals for LPI (linux professional institute certification). I have not gone for the certification but I found that these manuals actually do the best job of any out there in this regards. (I can not remember the publisher but mine is from the company that makes the big yellow books if that helps:-)
The whole point of publishing and peer review is EGO. Not all scientists are motivated by pure EGO, however some are, and might get involved in human cloning for their own egotistal motivations.
Part of it is, I guess. Humans all have that. However, the main point of peer review is this. If I am a scientist and I say I "mapped the human genome of an anonymous donor." How can you a competing scientist check my work? If I use my own DNA and make it available it is verifiable. Having work reviewed by peers ensures A) that the work grants pay for is worthy B) the work we base progress (that is what it is about) on is actually progressive c) that the work is genuine. Yes, making a discovery is VERY satisfying however, making a discovery and having your colleagues disprove it is also satisfying as it shows that the system works.
Oh, it is. But it can also be harmful, and so that freedom to speak critically should be exercised wisely. One should take care when attacking the person, character, or intelligence of the man who happens to be President right now, because we're stuck with him until the next election, and having a President that is widely laughed at can do a lot of harm in the meantime.
You are equally entitled to that view:-)
Thanks
It is indeed true, and I also do not know who you are and without sarcasm say...you are most welcome
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Where he states how he's going to raise money for his $16k legal fees, making corporate videos for how to not be socially hacked.
I have one if you would like to see it, send me a credit card number. email me
"Not any more than anyone else would," Painter said. He added that "if there's any indication that anyone is engaged in illegal conduct, we're going to look into that."
Right, so he should be relieved that his civil liberties will be respected by John Ashcrofts REGIME just like yours are. Remember the Army bioterrorism expert that is currently subject to no 'unusual' surveillance...
So, it's not all reset-button and blue skies against Da Man. Until Mitnick gets a full-blown Presidential pardon, he's going to remain a marked man.
Regardless of what you do, having the current president speak your name can't be good.
You just couldn't resist taking a poke at the President, could you? Damn, what has happened to the world today? People are so incredibly disrespectful. When I was growing up, my parents taught me to be respectful of people in authority even when you disagree with them.
Hmm... when I was in US History class, the US Army, civilian life etc... I was taught that the ability to speak critically of our government was a fundamental right and was part of why this country worked. Thomas Jefferson was a gentleman but part of the reason we have 4 year terms is his thought that a government over 4 yrs old was in danger of corruption and advocated revolution REGULARLY.
Besides which, that was not a poke at the president. There is at least one American detained on terrorism charges whom is NOT ALLOWED to seek counsel by order of the president. So, his "poke" actually had JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY.
To the original author, I was a soldier in the 82d Airborne (A 1/325th PIR) and we defend your right to continue poking as we defend the constitution.
To insist that ALL scientists are somehow inherently ehtical is a bit short sighted, in my opinion.
I insist nothing, I said I find it is easy to believe. To insist is to try to force you to believe and I have not done that. Yes, some scientists will do anything for money and unfortunately despite the stupidity of career suicide some of them are brilliant. However, most scientists actually strive for peer recognition (which usually comes from publishing) unethical research will not get published in peer review journals, and yes that is a big deal.
the first human clone has probably already been walking around for a while. I have a hard time believing that the experts would sit by not doing it because people are afraid. As many people as are looking at cloning, surely someone had already done it before this.
As a biologist I find it easy to believe that there are no clones among us. It is not that the technique is morally controversial so much as current techniques still need more work. Scientists are ethically obligated to provide as much data as possible from a living creature for research (hmmm.... a clone for example) while having the minimum required amount of disturbance. These are the rules for normal mammals (dogs, cats etc...) the rules for Chimps are MUCH more strict as they are humanlike. (I would quote them but I am unfamiliar with them) the rules for a human would be IMMENSELY more strict. Scientists do not risk lives lightly, that is the job of the politician.
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He is not an 'academic' by any stretch of the imagination. Frankly, I'm surprised he found the time to write for the New Yorker - I think he just doesn't sleep. But then, surgeons are weird.:-)
If you understood me to be calling him an academic, then I miscommunicated. I was agreeing with another poster who compared a surgeon writing about the med. profession to an academic writing about academia. I was stating that I did (and do) agree with the comparison.Sorry for the mix up.
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A resident is the equivalent of a senior postdoc, not a grad student. One year of internship plus several years of residency for most fields -- even general surgery requires a four-year residency in most cases, IIRC. And I can almost guarantee he's not a first-year resident, because there's no way in hell he had time to write a book during internship. He's probably not a second-year either. If he's a third- or fourth-year, then he is eminently qualified to write such a book.
I think the original point still applies. Yes, a postdoc or a resident is more familiar with academia but it IS THEIR LIFE. So in my opinion when I read something negative from them about it, to me it smacks of using controversy to gain notoriety (we all know that fame or infamy are both self serving in todays society) the more known you are the better your odds in life.
Open Office is a great office environment that meets all my needs and I have yet to meet someone that genuinely *NEEDS* anything that Word has, that OO does not (I have met some that claim they do but it always turns out that they really mean that once in the past 2 years they once had a situation that would have been easier with Word).
I could not replace Excel in my environment. You can not write a USEFUL financial application on OO. Yes, you can actually create apps on excel. BTW, locking virii out also disables those cool apps as they are mostly macro on MS (though few new macro virus get written)
As far as I know there are equivalents to these under linux.. Or am I wrong?
You are wrong, sort of. For the home user there are equivalents. However, there are some major functions of both apps that businesses feel they can not give up. The funny thing is, I work in such a business and I have yet to see those features used.
Sometimes I think if we would just modify the KDE menu's K to a "start button" then everybody would be able to use Linux.
Right....like if I replaced the yoke in an airplane with a steering wheel, we would all be pilots.
The fact that an office in a bureaucracy like Nasa is taking steps to streamline IT costs and create a more efficient PC environment is something special.
That's a meme that the bean counters have worked very hard to instill in American business, with quite a bit of success I must say.
The problem is that history does not bear it out. Successful companies are built when risk-takers (i) come up with good ideas (ii) implement those ideas they way they think is right, regardless of what the spreadsheets say. See the history of General Electric, du Pont, DEC, Microsoft, etc.
No, that is nowadays the truth. The company has NO right to be a risk taker unless its' shareholders are. In modern corporate America if the company takes an unapproved gamble and loses, the shareholders can go after them in civil court (though they usually lack size and organization to do so) and the Govt. may file criminal charges. Enron was close to that scenario. Corporations like Boeing are large committee driven creatures risk taking behavior tends to minimize in that scenario.
Companies do a lot of study before "creating a market" If you think that Henry Ford had no idea wether or not the car would take off, you underestimate his brilliance. The reason he designed his manufacturing process (that is really what he is famous for) was that he knew that he would need to mass produce his product.
The fact that I believe that reality does not usually reflect your comments does not mean that I do nnot personally agree with them. I love innovative, bold companies and their products.
Sometimes you just need to bite the bullet and do it. Screw the bean counters.
What keeps our society going is that the bean counters own stock (as do lots of other people)Boeing answers to the bean counters and must show an EXPECTED return on any project. If the market doesn't warrant innovation you have to go in a different direction. Going to the moon is cool but we can not yet achieve practical gains and thus we are not going. It is sad, I would love to see such a plane.
Your gonna have to flame me in the reply, but why can't you access serial devices?
This is [phpbuilder.net] something I created a few years ago when I realized "Why can't I just access/dev/stdin"
I don't have to flame you. When you post something (that could be helpful) in a community of people in some of the highest paid professions around you might grease the wheels a bit better. You never know if you might be posting the solution to a problem which has been vexing the owner of a multi million dollar company, and that's a nice ice breaker trust me. Don't worry that didn't happen this time. I have yet to break a million:-) but thanks none the less. As for why can't I, I focus on programming business logic if the language doesn't do something for me then I let someone else fix it or switch languages. My pay comes from solving problems regarding where an item goes, not how the computer accesses it.
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Everyone that bought thier PC at Wal-Mart in the last few months.
All of them I have seen, people used their old Windows CDs and installed the BSOD. Sad, they didn't give it a chance.
I want a book for someone that is a Mac/Windows user that shows how to setup a small office server. I use Mac OS X exclusively at home and want to turn an old (P2/450) Dell into a Linux server. I want it to run DNS, DHCP, File sharing (NFS?), email, MP3 streaming, and web. All of this I want to control from my Mac, so I would rather do it all from the command-line. Is there a book that can help me?
If you really want it, commission it, if that sounds too pricey you might drop a note to a couple publishers about the idea they might just pick it up and find someone.
My thorax aches, but I must say it: Theres needs to be a "Learn Linux"
:-)
Sorry about your thorax. You might like to try any of the study manuals for LPI (linux professional institute certification). I have not gone for the certification but I found that these manuals actually do the best job of any out there in this regards. (I can not remember the publisher but mine is from the company that makes the big yellow books if that helps
The whole point of publishing and peer review is EGO. Not all scientists are motivated by pure EGO, however some are, and might get involved in human cloning for their own egotistal motivations.
Part of it is, I guess. Humans all have that. However, the main point of peer review is this. If I am a scientist and I say I "mapped the human genome of an anonymous donor." How can you a competing scientist check my work? If I use my own DNA and make it available it is verifiable. Having work reviewed by peers ensures A) that the work grants pay for is worthy B) the work we base progress (that is what it is about) on is actually progressive c) that the work is genuine. Yes, making a discovery is VERY satisfying however, making a discovery and having your colleagues disprove it is also satisfying as it shows that the system works.
Oh, it is. But it can also be harmful, and so that freedom to speak critically should be exercised wisely. One should take care when attacking the person, character, or intelligence of the man who happens to be President right now, because we're stuck with him until the next election, and having a President that is widely laughed at can do a lot of harm in the meantime.
:-)
You are equally entitled to that view
Thanks
It is indeed true, and I also do not know who you are and without sarcasm say...you are most welcome
Where he states how he's going to raise money for his $16k legal fees, making corporate videos for how to not be socially hacked.
I have one if you would like to see it, send me a credit card number. email me
"Not any more than anyone else would," Painter said. He added that "if there's any indication that anyone is engaged in illegal conduct, we're going to look into that."
Right, so he should be relieved that his civil liberties will be respected by John Ashcrofts REGIME just like yours are. Remember the Army bioterrorism expert that is currently subject to no 'unusual' surveillance...
So, it's not all reset-button and blue skies against Da Man. Until Mitnick gets a full-blown Presidential pardon, he's going to remain a marked man.
Regardless of what you do, having the current president speak your name can't be good.
You just couldn't resist taking a poke at the President, could you? Damn, what has happened to the world today? People are so incredibly disrespectful. When I was growing up, my parents taught me to be respectful of people in authority even when you disagree with them.
Hmm... when I was in US History class, the US Army, civilian life etc... I was taught that the ability to speak critically of our government was a fundamental right and was part of why this country worked. Thomas Jefferson was a gentleman but part of the reason we have 4 year terms is his thought that a government over 4 yrs old was in danger of corruption and advocated revolution REGULARLY.
Besides which, that was not a poke at the president. There is at least one American detained on terrorism charges whom is NOT ALLOWED to seek counsel by order of the president. So, his "poke" actually had JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY.
To the original author, I was a soldier in the 82d Airborne (A 1/325th PIR) and we defend your right to continue poking as we defend the constitution.
Hooah!
how long will it take to shake the rust off?
Considering all the consulting he was doing, he will probably need to take a refresher typing course and then he will be back to speed.
To insist that ALL scientists are somehow inherently ehtical is a bit short sighted, in my opinion.
I insist nothing, I said I find it is easy to believe. To insist is to try to force you to believe and I have not done that. Yes, some scientists will do anything for money and unfortunately despite the stupidity of career suicide some of them are brilliant. However, most scientists actually strive for peer recognition (which usually comes from publishing) unethical research will not get published in peer review journals, and yes that is a big deal.
the first human clone has probably already been walking around for a while. I have a hard time believing that the experts would sit by not doing it because people are afraid. As many people as are looking at cloning, surely someone had already done it before this.
As a biologist I find it easy to believe that there are no clones among us. It is not that the technique is morally controversial so much as current techniques still need more work. Scientists are ethically obligated to provide as much data as possible from a living creature for research (hmmm.... a clone for example) while having the minimum required amount of disturbance. These are the rules for normal mammals (dogs, cats etc...) the rules for Chimps are MUCH more strict as they are humanlike. (I would quote them but I am unfamiliar with them) the rules for a human would be IMMENSELY more strict. Scientists do not risk lives lightly, that is the job of the politician.
He is not an 'academic' by any stretch of the imagination. Frankly, I'm surprised he found the time to write for the New Yorker - I think he just doesn't sleep. But then, surgeons are weird. :-)
If you understood me to be calling him an academic, then I miscommunicated. I was agreeing with another poster who compared a surgeon writing about the med. profession to an academic writing about academia. I was stating that I did (and do) agree with the comparison.Sorry for the mix up.
A resident is the equivalent of a senior postdoc, not a grad student. One year of internship plus several years of residency for most fields -- even general surgery requires a four-year residency in most cases, IIRC. And I can almost guarantee he's not a first-year resident, because there's no way in hell he had time to write a book during internship. He's probably not a second-year either. If he's a third- or fourth-year, then he is eminently qualified to write such a book.
I think the original point still applies. Yes, a postdoc or a resident is more familiar with academia but it IS THEIR LIFE. So in my opinion when I read something negative from them about it, to me it smacks of using controversy to gain notoriety (we all know that fame or infamy are both self serving in todays society) the more known you are the better your odds in life.
Strom Thurmond to be fitted with prosthetic walking aids.
And soon he will take on one of his younger clone bodies. That evil takes a great toll on a body.
What happens when they get to the T1000 then!
Open Office is a great office environment that meets all my needs and I have yet to meet someone that genuinely *NEEDS* anything that Word has, that OO does not (I have met some that claim they do but it always turns out that they really mean that once in the past 2 years they once had a situation that would have been easier with Word).
I could not replace Excel in my environment. You can not write a USEFUL financial application on OO. Yes, you can actually create apps on excel. BTW, locking virii out also disables those cool apps as they are mostly macro on MS (though few new macro virus get written)
As far as I know there are equivalents to these under linux.. Or am I wrong?
You are wrong, sort of. For the home user there are equivalents. However, there are some major functions of both apps that businesses feel they can not give up. The funny thing is, I work in such a business and I have yet to see those features used. Sometimes I think if we would just modify the KDE menu's K to a "start button" then everybody would be able to use Linux.
Right....like if I replaced the yoke in an airplane with a steering wheel, we would all be pilots.
Bottom line: They didn't do anything special.
The fact that an office in a bureaucracy like Nasa is taking steps to streamline IT costs and create a more efficient PC environment is something special.
That's a meme that the bean counters have worked very hard to instill in American business, with quite a bit of success I must say. The problem is that history does not bear it out. Successful companies are built when risk-takers (i) come up with good ideas (ii) implement those ideas they way they think is right, regardless of what the spreadsheets say. See the history of General Electric, du Pont, DEC, Microsoft, etc.
No, that is nowadays the truth. The company has NO right to be a risk taker unless its' shareholders are. In modern corporate America if the company takes an unapproved gamble and loses, the shareholders can go after them in civil court (though they usually lack size and organization to do so) and the Govt. may file criminal charges. Enron was close to that scenario. Corporations like Boeing are large committee driven creatures risk taking behavior tends to minimize in that scenario.
Companies do a lot of study before "creating a market" If you think that Henry Ford had no idea wether or not the car would take off, you underestimate his brilliance. The reason he designed his manufacturing process (that is really what he is famous for) was that he knew that he would need to mass produce his product.
The fact that I believe that reality does not usually reflect your comments does not mean that I do nnot personally agree with them. I love innovative, bold companies and their products.
Sometimes you just need to bite the bullet and do it. Screw the bean counters.
What keeps our society going is that the bean counters own stock (as do lots of other people)Boeing answers to the bean counters and must show an EXPECTED return on any project. If the market doesn't warrant innovation you have to go in a different direction. Going to the moon is cool but we can not yet achieve practical gains and thus we are not going. It is sad, I would love to see such a plane.
Why not use straight telnet with no options?
I thought using FTP on the satellite sounded dumb, but this would be far worse.
you're the man! (note the protestantism)
I am fluent in over six million forms of communication, that's not an American code
Thier called macs.
:-P
And they are proudly called macs, of course they are only loosely called computers
Your gonna have to flame me in the reply, but why can't you access serial devices? This is [phpbuilder.net] something I created a few years ago when I realized "Why can't I just access /dev/stdin"
:-) but thanks none the less. As for why can't I, I focus on programming business logic if the language doesn't do something for me then I let someone else fix it or switch languages. My pay comes from solving problems regarding where an item goes, not how the computer accesses it.
I don't have to flame you. When you post something (that could be helpful) in a community of people in some of the highest paid professions around you might grease the wheels a bit better. You never know if you might be posting the solution to a problem which has been vexing the owner of a multi million dollar company, and that's a nice ice breaker trust me. Don't worry that didn't happen this time. I have yet to break a million