If Red Hat isn't marketing a UNIX clone, then what's it marketing now? Last time I checked, Linux is a UNIX clone. Sure, it's not SCO UNIX(R)(TM), but it's still UNIX. Sometimes I wonder whether these MBAs really know what the hell they're trying to sell or if they just have a form process to market anything.
I find it funny that I've never seen an article which correctly uses the terms 'hacker' and 'cracker'.
No kidding. Slashdot is a huge source of this misinformation. I mean, it's fairly common knowledge:
Hacker: Someone who breaks into computer systems.
Cracker: Someone who cracks copy protection on software.
Come on people, these aren't hard concepts to remember. What ESR and his ilk are trying to pass off as hackers are actually called "geeks" or "dorks". For example, modifying your TiVo to have a 250 gig hard drive in it isn't "hacking", it's nerdery.
No, since you want thing to work for Gramma, you write up a script for her and you call it something like Dear_Grammas_Script
And then you tell Granny that all she has to do is type that in if she ever reboots.
p.
And if you REALLY loved Grandma you'd just make that a startup script which takes approximately 5 seconds longer. Or just get her to run Red Hat or Mandrake which let you easilly configure your firewall. I'd say it's even easier than on a Mac since on the Mac you'd need to know where to go find the firewall settings. It's not very intuitive. Pretty ironic. Under Mandrake you just click on the security tool.
It's called changing the channel until the commercial is over!
Don't you know that you're essentially stealing that programming by not watching the commercials? Just like copyright infringement is theft, so is skipping commercials. See, in our new enlightened society dominated by our mass-media overlords, anything that fails to generate revenue for them is called theft.
Qwest (or whoever) could take your analog call and digitize it at the CO, route it over IP to the destination CO, then pump it back out analog. Its cheaper for them.
How do you think they do it right now? Lily Tomlin is sitting in your CO in front of a huge switchboard plugging in wires? The telephone network is already packet switched. Putting it over IP doesn't necessarily make it any cheaper. If anything it'll make it less reliable. You'd be going from a protocol that's specially designed from a QOS perspective to a best effort protocol.
The problem is not with the studio but with your purchasing habit. YOU are the one purchasing. You can simply pick one version and just ignore all future releases...
What I mean is, take LOTR for instance. You can get the movie on DVD when they release it, or wait 2 or 3 months for the special director's limited edition extended play, etc, etc. w/deleted scenes version. Why isn't the normal version just the extended one with deleted scenes? Why bother to release the inferior one just a few months earlier than the other? If I'm a die-hard fan I'll want it on DVD as soon as I can so I can watch it at home, but then I'll want the extended play version with the hour of deleted scenes. Being an American consumer I can't help but have to buy both, and that sucks.
Nope, that won't help. ALL bios makers are implementing Trusted computing. Why? Because all motherboard manufactures are installing Trusted Computing encryption chips on ALL new motherboards.
Why are you guys being so god damn paranoid? If you don't want to support Trusted Computing then just disable it before you boot your Linux CD. Trusted Computing is meant to help the user secure their system from unsigned code IF THEY WANT TO. Just disable it if you don't want to have that functionality. If you think there won't be any vendors that will let you disable it you're high. There's always alternative vendors.
Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope: The Super-Hyper Fighting Edition: Directors Cut: XTREME Really Wide Screen High Definition Rerelease ULTRA-EX2
Then you need to buy the entire remastered original Trilogy in the keepsake collectors box set. Several months later they'll release the entire remastered Star Wars episodes I-VI so you'll need to buy it again. Can't keep up with all these releases. How about just releasing a movie once with all the stuff you want to put in it including commentary without coming back 6 months later and re-releasing a completely new version with new commentary? Damn money whores.
I thought that we, as a Geek Collective, made mods to overcome limitations imposed on our tastes. Instead, this seems to just be a mod to sell for profit.
This is clearly the redneck of computer modders. People who think putting all the components in a square plexiglass box, adding some LEDs, and putting it all together make it cool. Honestly to me this case is about as embarassing as having three cars up on cinder-blocks in your front yard.
I never understood this. If you're going to penalize people, why not penalize the ones sharing the music? Just raise the price of music CDs to around $2000-$5000 a piece and your problem is solved. You get royalties for the pirated music and everyone else is happy. Sure, you wouldn't get million sellers anymore, but at those prices you'd just need to convince a thousand or so suckers, err.. I mean consumers, into buying your CDs. You'd EXPECT them to be pirated at that price, but it's OK. There are enough rich assholes in the world to support your new business model of outrageously overpriced CDs that it wouldn't matter.
That way you don't become root and accidentally do something you should not have been doing. It's one command at a time...
As opposed to my Windows 2000 box where the first thing I have to do is go in and put my user account in the admin group or certain stuff doesn't run and I can't install any software.:-) I wonder if they fixed the requirement for that in certain games and such with XP. Alas I'll never know since I don't plan on buying any shit that needs to be "activated" before it works. Serial numbers are bad enough, but tying the OS to my hardware with a unique activation key is pushing it way beyond my tolerance level. Too bad Apple has crappy game support (this means no Counter-Strike or Battlefield 1942 for you Mac fanatics who say 'Well sure it has The Sims and Warcraft 3 though') or I'd just get a new Mac instead.
I will probably fork out the dough for the enterprise version for my home machine simply because I think Red Hat is great at what they do, play nice as a community member and produce quite a great product as far as I can tell.
You work for Red Hat don't you? If you're going to fork over almost $200 for the basic unsupported workstation version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux then I have some land in the Florida everglades you may be interested in purchasing. Why don't you try another distribution for a month? Are you afraid that Red Hat isn't really doing anything spectacular enough to charge such outrageous prices? Debian or even Mandrake do exactly the same thing for $0. You can buy them if you want, but nobody forces you to in order to get updates.
Or have corporations just not yet had the chance to fully investigate the red hat alternatives since the desktop line went kaput.
We'll probably be stuck with it in the interests of preserving commercial support. Afterall, no vendors support a free distribution like Debian. If you want support for your commercial software products you're pretty much stuck with Red Hat, which will mean we'll be stuck buying Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Since we also have this idea that everything must run the same distribution, the one commercial server app will force us to use RHEL on everything. It's going to get pricey.
Are politicians so dependent on positive media spin that they dare not refuse such laws? So many questions.
Oh absolutely. William Hearst's often quoted telegram still applies: "You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war."
Give a politician a camera to look at and he'll promise you the world whether he can deliver it or not. Politicians are scumbags. The trouble with our system of government is the politicians are the media whores and the true statesmen don't pander to the press and bow to the media so they don't get reported on. Thus, they remain the silent heroes working the back channels to try and keep some semblence of liberty in this country. The rest of the government, run by media-whore politicians, Republican, Democrat, and Independent alike, can all go suck my balls.
I've been running -testX kernels for a while now and the claims made about all the improvements are true -- 2.6 is a far better kernel than 2.4, IMO.
What's taking so long anyway? I thought Linus's new grand master plan was quicker releases of major versions. 3 years seems like an eternity in the electronic world. In that time Windows has gone from 2000 to XP to 2003 for crying out loud! They're jumping all over the fscking version map and all we have to show for it is a lousy.2 subversion jump? 3 years and.2 versions?? Why not announce it as Linux XP or Linux 2004 or something more exciting?
This was just a setup to make commercial software look better or just a incompetent reviewer. Next.
Spamassassin didn't seem that hard to install. I just typed "apt-get install spamassassin" and just piped my mail through it with a procmail recipe:
:0fw
| spamassassin -P
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
spam
Seemed simple and straight forward. Granted, if you're doing it on an entire machine basis you'd just use spamd/spamc and setup a filter on the mail server itself. For one user though I'm not sure how it could be any simpler. If I want to whitelist people I just add them to my ~/.spamassassin/whitelist file. *shrug*
That must have been tragic. How did you survive?!?!
I made it home as quickly as I could... traffic was a nightmare and I only had less than a quarter of a tank of gas. I had decided I would wait until that night to fill up instead of getting it at lunch as I drove past a gas station. Little did I know gas stations don't even have generators to run the pumps (which seems kind of odd... they have plenty of gas to run the generators, but no electricity for the pumps. Lack of planning on their part IMHO).
Anyway, back to my exciting story! I drove home, got in the house and there was no electricity there either. The horror, oh the horror of having no appliances, no computers running in the background, no TV!!! NO TV!? How on earth do I get news? How do I entertain myself? I scurried about looking for some candles. I knew the impending darkness would be upon us soon, and I was damn well sure I would be prepared... err... wait a minute, this is kind of boring. Forget it.
I think you're missing the point. The problem isn't communists, socialists, trade unionists, or Jews. They're only after the terrorists! Duh. No need to worry guys, the FBI are the good guys. It's those evil arab muslims who we need to keep an eye out for.;-)
To me the most disturbing thing is that "violators" (note the quotes, folks!) are forced to watch **AA FUD/disinfo/propoganda. Since when is it acceptable for a publically owned university to spew off corporate propoganda? And yet, few ppl even blink at it. Sad, folks. Just fucking sad.
Well, I guess the alternative is to collect names and notify the RIAA/MPAA of your copyright violations so they can sue you. I'd personally rather sit through propoganda, but whatever floats your boat. The easy way to avoid either penalty is to STOP STEALING. Until you and your friends lobby Congress to pass a law that makes copyright infringement legal, quit using an excuse about "failing business models" as reason for your rampant piracy.
These mobile offices killed the sense of community, and now you often site around people you barely know, and can not ask favors of, and do not have the time to do favors for in return.
See, I would think putting everyone in one workgroup in a common area might be acceptable, but just putting random people wherever they can plop down and find a spot for the day seems incredibly unproductive.
To me the big downside is that others may not always know how to find you. I know sometimes I would rather walk over someone's desk/cubicle and have a conversation then do it through email or chat. With people logging in at different machines day to day it could become a hassle to find people.
Hmmm, OK I take it back. This sounds like a great idea. I'm not a big fan of the "drop-in".:-) Call me and setup a meeting time and I'll tell you where I'll be, but I hate when people just pop in unannounced and expect you to drop everything and pay attention to them.
Anyway, this is probably being blown out of proportion since I thought I heard just a few months ago this type of thing was aimed at sales engineers and other "mobile" people who don't necessarily come into the offices 5 days a week anyway. They could be at hotels or offsite on the road where they're supposed to be working with customers.
A 50-disc(50*4.5G = 225G) spindle of DVDrs retails for around $65(Cdn). Buying that same capacity from harddrives will easily set you back at least $200, nevermind having to factor in the cost of a USB 2.0 enclosure for the drive.
But then we're back to the old floppy disk method of backup. Swap in disc 34 of 50 please... I have 400 gigs of data I need to back up and I have to consider whether to back it up on 100 DVDs that may fail within 2 years at normal cool storage temperatures due to crappy media or to just buy two 200GB hard drives and store it on that. Which is worth more to me? My time swapping out 100 DVDs and waiting for them to burn or $400? I'd say my time personally. How long does a DVD-R take to burn at 4x? 10 minutes? 20 minutes? Multiply that by 100 and you can see you're wasting a huge amount of time. Why aren't there DVD-R libraries more commonly available at low prices?
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The idea of removable media is archival, not short term as you would use a hard drive for. There will always be a need for long term storage media, and the faster you can get it to disk the more valuable the platform is.
The problem is, how reliable ARE these DVD-R discs? Initial reports seem to say they're getting less than 3-5 years of storage life when stored in a cool place. To me that's not archival, but short term backup. Hard drives last longer than that! I want guarenteed DVD-R archival life of at least 15 years and then I'd consider trusting my data to it. Until then I'll stick with CDs and/or keeping my data on multiple systems for redundancy on spinning magnetic disks.
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I have a small 1 to 2 DVD duplicator that I never use at anything above 1x. Why? Because even at 1x, every dozen times or so it makes a couple of $1.79 drink costers.
That's one of the reasons I've been leery of even buying a DVD-R burner at all. CDs have proved decently reliable, but the technology is over 20 years old. DVDs seem too new to trust my data to. When faced with backing up my PVR's video collection I am torn between trying to back up 4-5 hours per DVD in DivX format or going the more expensive route and buying a decent LTO tape drive. Somebody in the backup business needs to get their heads out of their asses and get a backup medium that can backup our largest hard drives on a single tape or disc while having the media cost less than 10% of the cost of the disk itself. 100GB tapes are easily $80 a piece. I could just buy a spare hard drive for that much!
Treating employees increasingly like cattle doesn't serve to help workplace productivity at all. The culture went from people having their nice productive office, to sharing an office with 2-4 other people (in the same 15'x15' room), to cubicles, and now to not even having a workspace? How can that be productive when you don't even know where you're going to be working for the day?
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If Red Hat isn't marketing a UNIX clone, then what's it marketing now? Last time I checked, Linux is a UNIX clone. Sure, it's not SCO UNIX(R)(TM), but it's still UNIX. Sometimes I wonder whether these MBAs really know what the hell they're trying to sell or if they just have a form process to market anything.
No kidding. Slashdot is a huge source of this misinformation. I mean, it's fairly common knowledge:
Hacker: Someone who breaks into computer systems.
Cracker: Someone who cracks copy protection on software.
Come on people, these aren't hard concepts to remember. What ESR and his ilk are trying to pass off as hackers are actually called "geeks" or "dorks". For example, modifying your TiVo to have a 250 gig hard drive in it isn't "hacking", it's nerdery.
No, since you want thing to work for Gramma, you write up a script for her and you call it something like Dear_Grammas_Script And then you tell Granny that all she has to do is type that in if she ever reboots. p. And if you REALLY loved Grandma you'd just make that a startup script which takes approximately 5 seconds longer. Or just get her to run Red Hat or Mandrake which let you easilly configure your firewall. I'd say it's even easier than on a Mac since on the Mac you'd need to know where to go find the firewall settings. It's not very intuitive. Pretty ironic. Under Mandrake you just click on the security tool.
Don't you know that you're essentially stealing that programming by not watching the commercials? Just like copyright infringement is theft, so is skipping commercials. See, in our new enlightened society dominated by our mass-media overlords, anything that fails to generate revenue for them is called theft.
How do you think they do it right now? Lily Tomlin is sitting in your CO in front of a huge switchboard plugging in wires? The telephone network is already packet switched. Putting it over IP doesn't necessarily make it any cheaper. If anything it'll make it less reliable. You'd be going from a protocol that's specially designed from a QOS perspective to a best effort protocol.
What I mean is, take LOTR for instance. You can get the movie on DVD when they release it, or wait 2 or 3 months for the special director's limited edition extended play, etc, etc. w/deleted scenes version. Why isn't the normal version just the extended one with deleted scenes? Why bother to release the inferior one just a few months earlier than the other? If I'm a die-hard fan I'll want it on DVD as soon as I can so I can watch it at home, but then I'll want the extended play version with the hour of deleted scenes. Being an American consumer I can't help but have to buy both, and that sucks.
Why are you guys being so god damn paranoid? If you don't want to support Trusted Computing then just disable it before you boot your Linux CD. Trusted Computing is meant to help the user secure their system from unsigned code IF THEY WANT TO. Just disable it if you don't want to have that functionality. If you think there won't be any vendors that will let you disable it you're high. There's always alternative vendors.
Then you need to buy the entire remastered original Trilogy in the keepsake collectors box set. Several months later they'll release the entire remastered Star Wars episodes I-VI so you'll need to buy it again. Can't keep up with all these releases. How about just releasing a movie once with all the stuff you want to put in it including commentary without coming back 6 months later and re-releasing a completely new version with new commentary? Damn money whores.
This is clearly the redneck of computer modders. People who think putting all the components in a square plexiglass box, adding some LEDs, and putting it all together make it cool. Honestly to me this case is about as embarassing as having three cars up on cinder-blocks in your front yard.
I never understood this. If you're going to penalize people, why not penalize the ones sharing the music? Just raise the price of music CDs to around $2000-$5000 a piece and your problem is solved. You get royalties for the pirated music and everyone else is happy. Sure, you wouldn't get million sellers anymore, but at those prices you'd just need to convince a thousand or so suckers, err.. I mean consumers, into buying your CDs. You'd EXPECT them to be pirated at that price, but it's OK. There are enough rich assholes in the world to support your new business model of outrageously overpriced CDs that it wouldn't matter.
As opposed to my Windows 2000 box where the first thing I have to do is go in and put my user account in the admin group or certain stuff doesn't run and I can't install any software. :-) I wonder if they fixed the requirement for that in certain games and such with XP. Alas I'll never know since I don't plan on buying any shit that needs to be "activated" before it works. Serial numbers are bad enough, but tying the OS to my hardware with a unique activation key is pushing it way beyond my tolerance level. Too bad Apple has crappy game support (this means no Counter-Strike or Battlefield 1942 for you Mac fanatics who say 'Well sure it has The Sims and Warcraft 3 though') or I'd just get a new Mac instead.
You work for Red Hat don't you? If you're going to fork over almost $200 for the basic unsupported workstation version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux then I have some land in the Florida everglades you may be interested in purchasing. Why don't you try another distribution for a month? Are you afraid that Red Hat isn't really doing anything spectacular enough to charge such outrageous prices? Debian or even Mandrake do exactly the same thing for $0. You can buy them if you want, but nobody forces you to in order to get updates.
We'll probably be stuck with it in the interests of preserving commercial support. Afterall, no vendors support a free distribution like Debian. If you want support for your commercial software products you're pretty much stuck with Red Hat, which will mean we'll be stuck buying Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Since we also have this idea that everything must run the same distribution, the one commercial server app will force us to use RHEL on everything. It's going to get pricey.
Oh absolutely. William Hearst's often quoted telegram still applies: "You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war."
Give a politician a camera to look at and he'll promise you the world whether he can deliver it or not. Politicians are scumbags. The trouble with our system of government is the politicians are the media whores and the true statesmen don't pander to the press and bow to the media so they don't get reported on. Thus, they remain the silent heroes working the back channels to try and keep some semblence of liberty in this country. The rest of the government, run by media-whore politicians, Republican, Democrat, and Independent alike, can all go suck my balls.
What's taking so long anyway? I thought Linus's new grand master plan was quicker releases of major versions. 3 years seems like an eternity in the electronic world. In that time Windows has gone from 2000 to XP to 2003 for crying out loud! They're jumping all over the fscking version map and all we have to show for it is a lousy .2 subversion jump? 3 years and .2 versions?? Why not announce it as Linux XP or Linux 2004 or something more exciting?
Spamassassin didn't seem that hard to install. I just typed "apt-get install spamassassin" and just piped my mail through it with a procmail recipe:
:0fw
| spamassassin -P
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
spam
Seemed simple and straight forward. Granted, if you're doing it on an entire machine basis you'd just use spamd/spamc and setup a filter on the mail server itself. For one user though I'm not sure how it could be any simpler. If I want to whitelist people I just add them to my ~/.spamassassin/whitelist file. *shrug*
I made it home as quickly as I could... traffic was a nightmare and I only had less than a quarter of a tank of gas. I had decided I would wait until that night to fill up instead of getting it at lunch as I drove past a gas station. Little did I know gas stations don't even have generators to run the pumps (which seems kind of odd... they have plenty of gas to run the generators, but no electricity for the pumps. Lack of planning on their part IMHO).
Anyway, back to my exciting story! I drove home, got in the house and there was no electricity there either. The horror, oh the horror of having no appliances, no computers running in the background, no TV!!! NO TV!? How on earth do I get news? How do I entertain myself? I scurried about looking for some candles. I knew the impending darkness would be upon us soon, and I was damn well sure I would be prepared... err... wait a minute, this is kind of boring. Forget it.
I think you're missing the point. The problem isn't communists, socialists, trade unionists, or Jews. They're only after the terrorists! Duh. No need to worry guys, the FBI are the good guys. It's those evil arab muslims who we need to keep an eye out for. ;-)
Well, I guess the alternative is to collect names and notify the RIAA/MPAA of your copyright violations so they can sue you. I'd personally rather sit through propoganda, but whatever floats your boat. The easy way to avoid either penalty is to STOP STEALING. Until you and your friends lobby Congress to pass a law that makes copyright infringement legal, quit using an excuse about "failing business models" as reason for your rampant piracy.
See, I would think putting everyone in one workgroup in a common area might be acceptable, but just putting random people wherever they can plop down and find a spot for the day seems incredibly unproductive.
Hmmm, OK I take it back. This sounds like a great idea. I'm not a big fan of the "drop-in". :-) Call me and setup a meeting time and I'll tell you where I'll be, but I hate when people just pop in unannounced and expect you to drop everything and pay attention to them.
Anyway, this is probably being blown out of proportion since I thought I heard just a few months ago this type of thing was aimed at sales engineers and other "mobile" people who don't necessarily come into the offices 5 days a week anyway. They could be at hotels or offsite on the road where they're supposed to be working with customers.
But then we're back to the old floppy disk method of backup. Swap in disc 34 of 50 please... I have 400 gigs of data I need to back up and I have to consider whether to back it up on 100 DVDs that may fail within 2 years at normal cool storage temperatures due to crappy media or to just buy two 200GB hard drives and store it on that. Which is worth more to me? My time swapping out 100 DVDs and waiting for them to burn or $400? I'd say my time personally. How long does a DVD-R take to burn at 4x? 10 minutes? 20 minutes? Multiply that by 100 and you can see you're wasting a huge amount of time. Why aren't there DVD-R libraries more commonly available at low prices?
The problem is, how reliable ARE these DVD-R discs? Initial reports seem to say they're getting less than 3-5 years of storage life when stored in a cool place. To me that's not archival, but short term backup. Hard drives last longer than that! I want guarenteed DVD-R archival life of at least 15 years and then I'd consider trusting my data to it. Until then I'll stick with CDs and/or keeping my data on multiple systems for redundancy on spinning magnetic disks.
That's one of the reasons I've been leery of even buying a DVD-R burner at all. CDs have proved decently reliable, but the technology is over 20 years old. DVDs seem too new to trust my data to. When faced with backing up my PVR's video collection I am torn between trying to back up 4-5 hours per DVD in DivX format or going the more expensive route and buying a decent LTO tape drive. Somebody in the backup business needs to get their heads out of their asses and get a backup medium that can backup our largest hard drives on a single tape or disc while having the media cost less than 10% of the cost of the disk itself. 100GB tapes are easily $80 a piece. I could just buy a spare hard drive for that much!
Treating employees increasingly like cattle doesn't serve to help workplace productivity at all. The culture went from people having their nice productive office, to sharing an office with 2-4 other people (in the same 15'x15' room), to cubicles, and now to not even having a workspace? How can that be productive when you don't even know where you're going to be working for the day?