Well, it doesn't take an MBA to realize that businesses kinda need to pursue things that generate profit. I personally thing RedHat made the right choice in ditching a line of business that was dragging it down.
You mean the free version? Red Hat took free software, packaged it into a distribution, and now wants to sell it to me for $800? They must be smoking crack over there. I'd buy Windows 2003 Server before I paid $800 for Red Hat Linux. Fsck it, I might as well go back to Solaris on UltraSPARC hardware. At least Sun wasn't changing the god damn OS and breaking things ever minor version. Red Hat 9 apparently introduced some weird new memory management into libc that broke a couple of my server apps including pam_radius_auth. Works fine under RH 8, Debian, Mandrake, Solaris, etc. Doesn't work on RH 9.
installing hardware shouldn't require a program named kudzu, it should require a program called "add or remove hardware". duh.
I suppose so. Linux isn't suitable for the average Joe's desktop, but for people willing to compile a kernel it's a no brainer. Most of the time I avoid even using modules at all. Sure, I'll compile in support for loadable modules, but anything I really need like my SCSI driver or network card might as well just be compiled into the kernel rather than loaded as a module. I'm not going to be loading and unloading them out of the running kernel. I guess that's my old-fashioned nature talking since I never started using any modules until about 5 years after they introduced that functionality... never had a reason until things like VMWare and NVidia's graphics drivers came along.
With it's new found direction, RedHat seems to have lost its honour.
Sorry, but Red Hat has sucked for awhile now. They continually been behind in package management for example. Why should I need to go download a third-party Red-Carpet management app to get what apt-get and urpmi give me on Debian and Mandrake respectively? up2date has very basic package installation support if you subscribe to RHN (which we did, now we're screwed in 6 months) or hack in your own repositories.
As someone who just installed about 6 Red Hat boxes into production after convincing the boss that we might as well go with the "commercially supported" distribution, I now face absolute product obsolescence in 6 months (Red Hat 9 will have no further updates, apparently including security fixes, after April 30th 2004). I tried to convince him that Debian was a decent choice, but it backfired when the "stable" distribution doesn't even install smoothly on our new hardware (APIC issues causing lockups DURING install on brand new Asus AMD boards). The only way to get around it was to compile a custom kernel completely without APIC support. Obviously this didn't bode well with proving Debian is a good distribution for the business environment. I fear it's going to be back to Mandrake for us on the servers.:-(
However some might ask why every distro but Debian (stable) uses KDE 3 instead of KDE 2.
Because it wasn't released at the time of Debian Woody? Red Hat 7.3 doesn't have KDE 3 either. What's your point? If you want KDE 3 then run unstable. It's as stable as Red Hat 9 would be for example.
I would've bought a Powermac, but it doesn't support my two favorite games: Half-Life and Battlefield 1942. I don't know why I become addicted to games that are not cross-platform, but for the past 4 or 5 years I've never been fond of a game that was available for both Windows and Macs. Likewise, I played my PS2 for a grand total of 2 weeks after Christmas until I became bored with cheating in Vice City and realized the rest of the games for these consoles suck. I ended up going back to playing Counter-Strike on the PC. How in the hell do people play games that only have 4 or 5 buttons for the controller? With the PC I can map dozens of keys to functions I need. Consoles are nowhere near as good for gaming as PCs are. Macs are useless since there are no good games.
I'd be only too happy to have www.rudemechanicals.com slashdotted. Give it a try. I'd love to be in a position to turn slashdotters away from a performance.
Sorry, but URLs posted in comments rarely get slashdotted. Besides, nobody is going to cut and paste that. Most readers are too lazy. Try this instead. Maybe you'll get more click-throughs.;-)
wonder if this was the big deal with the Mac guy being fired by M$ for reporting that they purchased the gang of G5's..... for their xbox r&d department..
Why in the hell would Microsoft's xbox r&d department buy $3000 Powermacs just to get the processors? IBM would probably sell them a common reference board for a fifth of that amount in bulk. Face it, the G5 Powermacs were just going to some art group or the Macintosh application development group. It's not a huge conspiracy theory. Microsoft is the biggest software developer on the planet. Would you freak out if someone there ordered a couple copies of Red Hat Linux to see what the competition is producing?
It's days like this I'm glad I made the switch to Debian at home. I seriously doubt there is every anything to worry about with them "selling out". Since it's free it also won't be going away. Someone else will just take over in place of people that leave. Debian is truly the free distribution that supports the FSF's ideal of a free operating system. Thanks Debian contributers, you make an awesome distribution.
Hmm, we're almost finished migrating from Mandrake to Red Hat because Red Hat offered commercial support via Red Hat Network. I wonder if Fedora Linux will be supported via Red Hat Network or if we're fucked now into paying hundreds of dollars per CPU for RH Enterprise Linux. Lovely, just lovely.
I think Mandrake fills that hole to some extent, but they're largely a repackaged RH
No, it's not. Mandrake hasn't been a repackaged Red Hat system since around 6.0. That was several years ago. Now they do their own thing and it's quite different. Better in almost every way BTW.
Great, I'm very happy for you, have you established that there is any rational reason to do this, or are you just confirming that people who talk about Spam a lot have lost all sense of proportion and should be ignored by the mainstream IT industry?
Just another reason why such radical anti-spammers give the legitimate admins reason to dislike them too. It's a REALTIME blackhole list. If you're getting spammed then drop that IP into the list, don't drop the whole/16 in. The whole point of DNS black lists was that you didn't have to download a list of banned networks, you could track it IP by IP in realtime without impacting others. Dickwads who put in huge network bans are just acting anti-social.
For example, I HEAVILY firewall off large isps that have major spam problems, you should see my ruleset for blocking. Not counting the geographic bans, its at 944 entries, and each entry drops a/24 at a minimun, with most entries taking out a/16 to/20. And I know i am not the only one doing this.
Unless you're running the firewall for AOL, Earthlink, MSN, or Yahoo I really doubt Verio or C&W gives a shit if you just fell off the face of the earth completely, much less blocked a couple of their networks. If you did work for such a large company you wouldn't be blacklisting like that for long as you'd lose your job.
Why do the spammers bother working around the filters anyway? I mean, there's a reason why it's there. I implemented it on purpose.
Yes, you did, but they just want to let you know of exciting new advances in penis enlargement technology that you may not have heard about yet. Can you blame them for acting in YOUR best interest? By using those filters you may be missing out on an important opportunity to make money fast or to enhance your sexual pleasure. Who wants to miss out on that? Clearly your filters must be misconfigured to block my viagra information!
They really are much worse than telemarketers but there are parallels. Telemarketers almost always hide their caller ID information so you have no idea who it is or a way to get back in contact with them. You have to trust the authenticity of the caller based only on what the caller says. That's the epitomy of a social engineering exploit waiting to happen. I would NEVER buy anything from someone who called up out of the blue asking for my financial information. FSCK OFF. Would you like my ATM PIN while we're at it?
Spammers are the same way. They obfuscate their identities (hell, these days they just downright forge them) to make sure you can't trace the message back to them. The only reason to do that is because they know what they're doing is wrong.
Alternatively, you can simply drop all SMTP connections from the entire IPv4 address space! That would eliminatate all spam from user mailboxes!
P.S. I'm being sarcastic, but blanket bans suck.
Banning is the proper way to deal with unethical Internet activity. There's nothing wrong with it. If an ISP chooses to allow unethical behavior to occur on its network then it will need to learn to deal with the consequences of the rest of the Internet shunning it. Sure, it hurts innocent people, but people shouldn't give business to unethical businesses. "But Maaaaannnnnn, it's the only ISP in town that offers broadband!" Well, suck it up then. It sucks, but that's the price we pay for running all the small mom and pop ISPs out of business by moving to MegaTelco DSL provider.
A NIC is seriously one of the cheapest pieces of hardware for a computer these days. I got a Realtek card for free from Microcenter after a $10 mail in rebate. It works great with Linux. Why is this such a huge issue to you? Don't buy crappy unknown network cards and you're fine.
The poster meant that you don't appreciate your right to protest because you take it for granted.
Thank you. Yes, perhaps I didn't make that clear enough. I love my country, not because I always agree with it, but because I have the right to disagree with it.
It is news worth repeating because we can't afford to start thinking that China is "all right" just because they are allowing a bit of economic freedom.
But this is essentially the system of government their people have chosen to live under. It only shows our arrogance to continually trumpet the horn of our freedom. The Chinese could at any time revolt and overthrow their government, but they choose not to. No matter how large their army is, you can't put down 1 or 2 billion people revolting using guerilla warfare.
Let's take that ball and run with it, shall we? If there is an anti-MS post that gets/.ed, and it is hosted on MS's servers, howlong do you think it would take for MSN to cite the user on violation of terms of service?
How is that any different than the moderation mob on Slashdot? Try saying anything (anything!) against Linux, Open Source, Slashdot, etc. and you will get moderated as a troll/flamebait, etc. I don't see why Microsoft's moderators can't do the same thing to anti-Microsoft material if they feel like it. We clearly do it here for pro-Microsoft stuff.
In case anyone hasn't noticed, China is a hardline socialist dictatorship. They kill people for defying the state and send the bill for the bullets to their families. This is why American protestors really have no idea how good they have it. The "state" doesn't come and kill you if you voice your opinion on something. China's government is bad, we know this. Unless we plan to invade and liberate them then there's nothing we can do about it.
Some locations (including a former employer of mine) do exactly that. Have, for example, a Cisco firewall connected to the 'net feed. Plug that into an OpenBSD firewall, connect that to the house 'net. Possibly include more firewalls around the DMZ.
They do it because that's how you should do it. The location should be commended for their defense in depth attitude. It'd be silly to put the same defenses at two different levels.. if an intruder can break the first level he can obviously break the second using the same method many times. At least two different types of firewalls should be used between the Internet and any protected network if possible.
I dont even see why this is news. No code is perfect, especially at the OS level.
Of course that's only true for varying degrees of "no". There is perfect software that has no bugs, but it's extremely expensive and difficult to produce. You need integrity checks at every single layer of development to ensure that nothing added compromises the code already in place. IMHO Windows should be scrapped and a completely new code base developed from the ground up with security in mind. Security is not something you can tack on as an afterthought, it MUST be implemented at the earliest stages of planning an application or you've already lost the battle.
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You mean the free version? Red Hat took free software, packaged it into a distribution, and now wants to sell it to me for $800? They must be smoking crack over there. I'd buy Windows 2003 Server before I paid $800 for Red Hat Linux. Fsck it, I might as well go back to Solaris on UltraSPARC hardware. At least Sun wasn't changing the god damn OS and breaking things ever minor version. Red Hat 9 apparently introduced some weird new memory management into libc that broke a couple of my server apps including pam_radius_auth. Works fine under RH 8, Debian, Mandrake, Solaris, etc. Doesn't work on RH 9.
I suppose so. Linux isn't suitable for the average Joe's desktop, but for people willing to compile a kernel it's a no brainer. Most of the time I avoid even using modules at all. Sure, I'll compile in support for loadable modules, but anything I really need like my SCSI driver or network card might as well just be compiled into the kernel rather than loaded as a module. I'm not going to be loading and unloading them out of the running kernel. I guess that's my old-fashioned nature talking since I never started using any modules until about 5 years after they introduced that functionality... never had a reason until things like VMWare and NVidia's graphics drivers came along.
Sorry, but Red Hat has sucked for awhile now. They continually been behind in package management for example. Why should I need to go download a third-party Red-Carpet management app to get what apt-get and urpmi give me on Debian and Mandrake respectively? up2date has very basic package installation support if you subscribe to RHN (which we did, now we're screwed in 6 months) or hack in your own repositories.
As someone who just installed about 6 Red Hat boxes into production after convincing the boss that we might as well go with the "commercially supported" distribution, I now face absolute product obsolescence in 6 months (Red Hat 9 will have no further updates, apparently including security fixes, after April 30th 2004). I tried to convince him that Debian was a decent choice, but it backfired when the "stable" distribution doesn't even install smoothly on our new hardware (APIC issues causing lockups DURING install on brand new Asus AMD boards). The only way to get around it was to compile a custom kernel completely without APIC support. Obviously this didn't bode well with proving Debian is a good distribution for the business environment. I fear it's going to be back to Mandrake for us on the servers. :-(
Because it wasn't released at the time of Debian Woody? Red Hat 7.3 doesn't have KDE 3 either. What's your point? If you want KDE 3 then run unstable. It's as stable as Red Hat 9 would be for example.
I would've bought a Powermac, but it doesn't support my two favorite games: Half-Life and Battlefield 1942. I don't know why I become addicted to games that are not cross-platform, but for the past 4 or 5 years I've never been fond of a game that was available for both Windows and Macs. Likewise, I played my PS2 for a grand total of 2 weeks after Christmas until I became bored with cheating in Vice City and realized the rest of the games for these consoles suck. I ended up going back to playing Counter-Strike on the PC. How in the hell do people play games that only have 4 or 5 buttons for the controller? With the PC I can map dozens of keys to functions I need. Consoles are nowhere near as good for gaming as PCs are. Macs are useless since there are no good games.
Sorry, but URLs posted in comments rarely get slashdotted. Besides, nobody is going to cut and paste that. Most readers are too lazy. Try this instead. Maybe you'll get more click-throughs. ;-)
Why in the hell would Microsoft's xbox r&d department buy $3000 Powermacs just to get the processors? IBM would probably sell them a common reference board for a fifth of that amount in bulk. Face it, the G5 Powermacs were just going to some art group or the Macintosh application development group. It's not a huge conspiracy theory. Microsoft is the biggest software developer on the planet. Would you freak out if someone there ordered a couple copies of Red Hat Linux to see what the competition is producing?
No, they just came out with new G4 Powerbooks. I wouldn't hold my breath about seeing G5 Powerbooks until at least next summer.
It's days like this I'm glad I made the switch to Debian at home. I seriously doubt there is every anything to worry about with them "selling out". Since it's free it also won't be going away. Someone else will just take over in place of people that leave. Debian is truly the free distribution that supports the FSF's ideal of a free operating system. Thanks Debian contributers, you make an awesome distribution.
Hmm, we're almost finished migrating from Mandrake to Red Hat because Red Hat offered commercial support via Red Hat Network. I wonder if Fedora Linux will be supported via Red Hat Network or if we're fucked now into paying hundreds of dollars per CPU for RH Enterprise Linux. Lovely, just lovely.
No, it's not. Mandrake hasn't been a repackaged Red Hat system since around 6.0. That was several years ago. Now they do their own thing and it's quite different. Better in almost every way BTW.
Just another reason why such radical anti-spammers give the legitimate admins reason to dislike them too. It's a REALTIME blackhole list. If you're getting spammed then drop that IP into the list, don't drop the whole /16 in. The whole point of DNS black lists was that you didn't have to download a list of banned networks, you could track it IP by IP in realtime without impacting others. Dickwads who put in huge network bans are just acting anti-social.
Unless you're running the firewall for AOL, Earthlink, MSN, or Yahoo I really doubt Verio or C&W gives a shit if you just fell off the face of the earth completely, much less blocked a couple of their networks. If you did work for such a large company you wouldn't be blacklisting like that for long as you'd lose your job.
Yes, you did, but they just want to let you know of exciting new advances in penis enlargement technology that you may not have heard about yet. Can you blame them for acting in YOUR best interest? By using those filters you may be missing out on an important opportunity to make money fast or to enhance your sexual pleasure. Who wants to miss out on that? Clearly your filters must be misconfigured to block my viagra information!
They really are much worse than telemarketers but there are parallels. Telemarketers almost always hide their caller ID information so you have no idea who it is or a way to get back in contact with them. You have to trust the authenticity of the caller based only on what the caller says. That's the epitomy of a social engineering exploit waiting to happen. I would NEVER buy anything from someone who called up out of the blue asking for my financial information. FSCK OFF. Would you like my ATM PIN while we're at it?
Spammers are the same way. They obfuscate their identities (hell, these days they just downright forge them) to make sure you can't trace the message back to them. The only reason to do that is because they know what they're doing is wrong.
Hmm, this may see a bit naive, but can't you just unblock the "weapons" category if it bothers you that much?
P.S. I'm being sarcastic, but blanket bans suck.
Banning is the proper way to deal with unethical Internet activity. There's nothing wrong with it. If an ISP chooses to allow unethical behavior to occur on its network then it will need to learn to deal with the consequences of the rest of the Internet shunning it. Sure, it hurts innocent people, but people shouldn't give business to unethical businesses. "But Maaaaannnnnn, it's the only ISP in town that offers broadband!" Well, suck it up then. It sucks, but that's the price we pay for running all the small mom and pop ISPs out of business by moving to MegaTelco DSL provider.
3com 3c905c, check.
Intel EtherExpress Pro, check
El Cheapo Realtek cards, check
A NIC is seriously one of the cheapest pieces of hardware for a computer these days. I got a Realtek card for free from Microcenter after a $10 mail in rebate. It works great with Linux. Why is this such a huge issue to you? Don't buy crappy unknown network cards and you're fine.
Thank you. Yes, perhaps I didn't make that clear enough. I love my country, not because I always agree with it, but because I have the right to disagree with it.
But this is essentially the system of government their people have chosen to live under. It only shows our arrogance to continually trumpet the horn of our freedom. The Chinese could at any time revolt and overthrow their government, but they choose not to. No matter how large their army is, you can't put down 1 or 2 billion people revolting using guerilla warfare.
How is that any different than the moderation mob on Slashdot? Try saying anything (anything!) against Linux, Open Source, Slashdot, etc. and you will get moderated as a troll/flamebait, etc. I don't see why Microsoft's moderators can't do the same thing to anti-Microsoft material if they feel like it. We clearly do it here for pro-Microsoft stuff.
In case anyone hasn't noticed, China is a hardline socialist dictatorship. They kill people for defying the state and send the bill for the bullets to their families. This is why American protestors really have no idea how good they have it. The "state" doesn't come and kill you if you voice your opinion on something. China's government is bad, we know this. Unless we plan to invade and liberate them then there's nothing we can do about it.
They do it because that's how you should do it. The location should be commended for their defense in depth attitude. It'd be silly to put the same defenses at two different levels.. if an intruder can break the first level he can obviously break the second using the same method many times. At least two different types of firewalls should be used between the Internet and any protected network if possible.
Which is just about the only way any Windows product will ever gain EAL4 certification.
Of course that's only true for varying degrees of "no". There is perfect software that has no bugs, but it's extremely expensive and difficult to produce. You need integrity checks at every single layer of development to ensure that nothing added compromises the code already in place. IMHO Windows should be scrapped and a completely new code base developed from the ground up with security in mind. Security is not something you can tack on as an afterthought, it MUST be implemented at the earliest stages of planning an application or you've already lost the battle.
Try that on Solaris sometime. If possible, one of your most heavily used production servers.