It's true you can use sun freeware, and you're right about the DoD not being the only (big) customer, however:
Try keeping an RPM system up to date sometime. Now THAT is pain and anguish. It used to be this way, however, I'm running quite a few RHEL2 + RHEL3 servers and the RPM/Up2date setups are pretty friggen slick. Almost apt slick. I haven't had a dependency problem yet. I don't have version problems (Now like Debian, they don't increment versions, they backport fixes so you don't have to redo your conf files). They work great. Stop spreading this FUD.
Whoever ordered that server must have explicitly not wanted a drive. AFAIK, all Sun servers have CD or DVD drives by default. He's right, you're wrong. Some machines, like 220/240r, do not come with cd/dvd drive unless you order one (or at least this is the way it was last year). Now, you really only need to learn this lesson once, but it's still not very sane IMHO. However, I can it being an add-on item when you're buying these by the truckload. Sun assumes (mostly correctly) that you're not going to be installing these bad boys by hand. They expect you're going to use the default solaris install or a jumpstart configuration because it'd be insane to by-hand these when you buy 100 at a time.
Just wondering, what is it you like about Intel? I mean, you said you're a fan boy, right? So what is it that makes you like intel? Is it because they make superior processors? Do you like intel because amd is the competition and you dislike AMD?
There's probably something I'm not seeing, so I'm just wondering what it is.
Interesting point but the president can't order congress to do anything. He has hardly any power
Ha! If you've read America: A Citizens guide to democracy inaction, by Jon Stewart, you'd know that the president does indeed have a little power over congress. The president can make the congressmen a nice sandwhich, and this can get the congressmen to sway his way sometime.
Did you not even read the grandparent's comment? Did you not see that it was a reply to an AC asking " Can somone please explain why these things can't be repaired?"?
Umm, I think you're putting words in my (post) there. I never claimed to run them singlehandedly. Actually, I never claimed to run any at all! Debian, however, is about the only OS I would consider running single handedly after 100+. That + rdist, cfengine and maybe some other goodies. See you at LISA!
The long standing problem with Debian, however, has been a very slow release cycle for the stable branch...
Actually, it's not a problem, it's a feature. Try running thousands (even hundreds!) of debian servers and having to upgrade every 6 months. Bah! I think not. Every three years, with security updates in between is actually a godsend. Hope the different perspective gives you some insight...
Not to argue that the mythbusters are always right, but they've disproved this in one of thier episodes. They did some pretty good convincing after building a trireme and using a few hundred mirrors and only reaching a couple of hundred degrees (F).
Clearly, he's referring to Gentoo being "Intelligently Designed", and he wants to raise the company's Developers to that level so they can intelligently design too.
Really? Well, chalk it up to ignorance on my part, I'm usually so frustrated I just close the terminal. I use konsole and usually have about 10-20 tabs open. If I hit ctrl-s, I can close that tab and keep working in another. I wonder if it turns scroll lock on for the session, but not the entire computer I'm sshing from? For instance, caps locks is specific to my workstation, if I turn caps lock on, it doesn't turn off when I close that session I was in, but the "ctrl-s" just scroll locks the session I'm in. Maybe I'll experiment when I get bored.
I've been using linux since 98, and have been a sysadmin since 2000. I never knew how to get my ^s sessions back, for this, I owe you a beer. I see your homepage says slashdot.org, I will send it there.
It never fails when I go for ^a to get to the beginning of the line, I hit ^s.
We use the same irrationality and absense of logic that Christians do when choosing our religion, I don't see anything wrong with that. If anything, most of them are probably just jealous because we're more creative than the people who made up christianity 2000 years ago. Afterall, we have beer volcanoes and strippers.
That's the whole thing about Linux/Unix. SSH isn't meant to have those types of tools. Just like grep shouldn't have a field separator (awk) or a line counter (though it now does:)). My configs are handled by rdist, rsync or cfengine. Having all this crap built into one thing needlessly complicates things (Optional knee jerk for those who think the additional commands are the complications), and makes things a nightmare later on. Think Microsoft GUIs and the absolutely terrible configuration options when you think about how bad this can become.
The point of the sig is to illustrate the absurdity in calling OSX secure. It's not secure, it just happens to be more secure than windows, which merits some recognition, but it doesn't belong in the "secure" camp until they decide to put some *real* work into the security of it. That is to say - quit allowing the stupid shit - you know, not checking the sanity of files read/written to, daemons not dropping privleges, etc. At the rate they're going, they're going to catch up to Microsoft.
I have a comment above, detailing what I like about that game, but I have an idea of why it's so much harder for Takedown. Background: I rented Revenge and had lvl 11 in about 2 days. I'm only about 85% done with Takedown.
Takedown had much "harder" crashes, and not harder from a "oh, land on this 4x and then explode next to this semi", but harder from a "Why do I have to wait another 30 seconds for this same crash to load again?" and "Why are there 30 races, 5gps, 15 Eliminations and 15 roadrages and 100 crashes?". The game was 80% boring, timesucking crashes. Revenge, despite eliminating the obvious "puzzle" aspect of crashing, is much more fun.
I think crashing is still puzzle-like, just not as much as Takedown. I'd choose Revenge anyday. Even the AI is significantly better.
Nope, I have the xbox, the graphics on the PS2 version are horrible for this game. Although load times on the xbox are much better vs. the ps2, I still think they're too long, seeing as it takes that long to load the same crash you just did! I may have exagerrated on the "-45" seconds part, but it's nothing shorter than 20 seconds when it's a small map. I own two xboxes, so I know it's not hardware specific (I.e. The POS thomson drive).
p.s. I guess I can't complain, after seeing the load times from Morrowind, these times are _FAST_!
I thought about putting something like this, just to let others know I was aware of the slow motion - but to be honest, I find it helpful. The slow motion back lets me look at where other traffic was, so I can get a good idea of how the traffic is moving. Assuming you mess up in the first few seconds - which is me, usually:) - then it's just a short 1-2 second jog back to beginning.
I give this game a 9.5 out of 10, with BO3 getting a 9.2 or thereabouts. BO3 sucked in crash mode, mainly because there were SO many of them, they got incredibly boring after a while. I didn't finish the game because of the boring crashes. Another thing that sucked was how incredibly long it took to go back and do the crash again! I didn't feel like wasting another 30-45 seconds between crashes. Revenge seems to fix this, it's crash mode is both more entertaining and faster loading. Revenge is a great game, I especially enjoy the "career mode" stuff. Instead of like BO3 where you either hadn't won the game or you had, Revenge gives you 10 different levels, and AI gets smarter and races get harder as you progress. This game is a keeper. It's also a good "casual" game to have around so when your non-gamer friends come over, it's easy to pick up the basics (gas, brake, boost).
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Were they discussing the flaws in using AS numbers? You got me curios now;)
While I like sun, you're spreading lies.
It's true you can use sun freeware, and you're right about the DoD not being the only (big) customer, however:
Try keeping an RPM system up to date sometime. Now THAT is pain and anguish.
It used to be this way, however, I'm running quite a few RHEL2 + RHEL3 servers and the RPM/Up2date setups are pretty friggen slick. Almost apt slick. I haven't had a dependency problem yet. I don't have version problems (Now like Debian, they don't increment versions, they backport fixes so you don't have to redo your conf files). They work great. Stop spreading this FUD.
Whoever ordered that server must have explicitly not wanted a drive. AFAIK, all Sun servers have CD or DVD drives by default.
He's right, you're wrong. Some machines, like 220/240r, do not come with cd/dvd drive unless you order one (or at least this is the way it was last year). Now, you really only need to learn this lesson once, but it's still not very sane IMHO. However, I can it being an add-on item when you're buying these by the truckload. Sun assumes (mostly correctly) that you're not going to be installing these bad boys by hand. They expect you're going to use the default solaris install or a jumpstart configuration because it'd be insane to by-hand these when you buy 100 at a time.
Just wondering, what is it you like about Intel? I mean, you said you're a fan boy, right? So what is it that makes you like intel? Is it because they make superior processors? Do you like intel because amd is the competition and you dislike AMD?
There's probably something I'm not seeing, so I'm just wondering what it is.
Interesting point but the president can't order congress to do anything. He has hardly any power
Ha! If you've read America: A Citizens guide to democracy inaction, by Jon Stewart, you'd know that the president does indeed have a little power over congress. The president can make the congressmen a nice sandwhich, and this can get the congressmen to sway his way sometime.
It's morning?
Did you not even read the grandparent's comment? Did you not see that it was a reply to an AC asking " Can somone please explain why these things can't be repaired?"?
Thanks. Flamebait or not, it had to be done.
Umm, I think you're putting words in my (post) there. I never claimed to run them singlehandedly. Actually, I never claimed to run any at all! Debian, however, is about the only OS I would consider running single handedly after 100+. That + rdist, cfengine and maybe some other goodies. See you at LISA!
The long standing problem with Debian, however, has been a very slow release cycle for the stable branch...
Actually, it's not a problem, it's a feature. Try running thousands (even hundreds!) of debian servers and having to upgrade every 6 months. Bah! I think not. Every three years, with security updates in between is actually a godsend. Hope the different perspective gives you some insight...
Not to argue that the mythbusters are always right, but they've disproved this in one of thier episodes. They did some pretty good convincing after building a trireme and using a few hundred mirrors and only reaching a couple of hundred degrees (F).
h busters.html
Mythbusters: http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/myt
Clearly, he's referring to Gentoo being "Intelligently Designed", and he wants to raise the company's Developers to that level so they can intelligently design too.
Really? Well, chalk it up to ignorance on my part, I'm usually so frustrated I just close the terminal. I use konsole and usually have about 10-20 tabs open. If I hit ctrl-s, I can close that tab and keep working in another. I wonder if it turns scroll lock on for the session, but not the entire computer I'm sshing from? For instance, caps locks is specific to my workstation, if I turn caps lock on, it doesn't turn off when I close that session I was in, but the "ctrl-s" just scroll locks the session I'm in. Maybe I'll experiment when I get bored.
p.s. Don't use killall in solaris. I learned the hard way:)
/usr/sbin/killall [signal]
System Administration Commands killall(1M)
NAME
killall - kill all active processes
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
killall is used by shutdown(1M) to kill all active processes
not directly related to the shutdown procedure.
killall terminates all processes with open files so that the
mounted file systems will be unbusied and can be unmounted.
killall sends signal (see kill(1)) to the active processes.
If no signal is specified, a default of 15 is used.
The killall command can be run only by the super-user.
I've been using linux since 98, and have been a sysadmin since 2000. I never knew how to get my ^s sessions back, for this, I owe you a beer. I see your homepage says slashdot.org, I will send it there.
It never fails when I go for ^a to get to the beginning of the line, I hit ^s.
Don't know how you got a troll...I laughed.
We use the same irrationality and absense of logic that Christians do when choosing our religion, I don't see anything wrong with that.
If anything, most of them are probably just jealous because we're more creative than the people who made up christianity 2000 years ago. Afterall, we have beer volcanoes and strippers.
Hilarious! Good thing I wasn't sipping on the coffee - learned my lesson with my last laptop.
ramen brother, ramen.
Let me know when you have something worthwhile to add to the discussion; until then, enjoy wanking it to the latest black turtleneck.
That's the whole thing about Linux/Unix. SSH isn't meant to have those types of tools. Just like grep shouldn't have a field separator (awk) or a line counter (though it now does:)). My configs are handled by rdist, rsync or cfengine.
Having all this crap built into one thing needlessly complicates things (Optional knee jerk for those who think the additional commands are the complications), and makes things a nightmare later on. Think Microsoft GUIs and the absolutely terrible configuration options when you think about how bad this can become.
The point of the sig is to illustrate the absurdity in calling OSX secure. It's not secure, it just happens to be more secure than windows, which merits some recognition, but it doesn't belong in the "secure" camp until they decide to put some *real* work into the security of it. That is to say - quit allowing the stupid shit - you know, not checking the sanity of files read/written to, daemons not dropping privleges, etc. At the rate they're going, they're going to catch up to Microsoft.
I have a comment above, detailing what I like about that game, but I have an idea of why it's so much harder for Takedown. Background: I rented Revenge and had lvl 11 in about 2 days. I'm only about 85% done with Takedown.
Takedown had much "harder" crashes, and not harder from a "oh, land on this 4x and then explode next to this semi", but harder from a "Why do I have to wait another 30 seconds for this same crash to load again?" and "Why are there 30 races, 5gps, 15 Eliminations and 15 roadrages and 100 crashes?". The game was 80% boring, timesucking crashes. Revenge, despite eliminating the obvious "puzzle" aspect of crashing, is much more fun.
I think crashing is still puzzle-like, just not as much as Takedown. I'd choose Revenge anyday. Even the AI is significantly better.
Nope, I have the xbox, the graphics on the PS2 version are horrible for this game. Although load times on the xbox are much better vs. the ps2, I still think they're too long, seeing as it takes that long to load the same crash you just did! I may have exagerrated on the "-45" seconds part, but it's nothing shorter than 20 seconds when it's a small map. I own two xboxes, so I know it's not hardware specific (I.e. The POS thomson drive).
p.s. I guess I can't complain, after seeing the load times from Morrowind, these times are _FAST_!
I thought about putting something like this, just to let others know I was aware of the slow motion - but to be honest, I find it helpful. The slow motion back lets me look at where other traffic was, so I can get a good idea of how the traffic is moving. Assuming you mess up in the first few seconds - which is me, usually:) - then it's just a short 1-2 second jog back to beginning.
I give this game a 9.5 out of 10, with BO3 getting a 9.2 or thereabouts. BO3 sucked in crash mode, mainly because there were SO many of them, they got incredibly boring after a while. I didn't finish the game because of the boring crashes. Another thing that sucked was how incredibly long it took to go back and do the crash again! I didn't feel like wasting another 30-45 seconds between crashes.
Revenge seems to fix this, it's crash mode is both more entertaining and faster loading.
Revenge is a great game, I especially enjoy the "career mode" stuff. Instead of like BO3 where you either hadn't won the game or you had, Revenge gives you 10 different levels, and AI gets smarter and races get harder as you progress.
This game is a keeper. It's also a good "casual" game to have around so when your non-gamer friends come over, it's easy to pick up the basics (gas, brake, boost).