The Riv was so full of people that wanted to be l33t3 h4x0rs it was nearly impossible to get into any of the talks. I had hoped that since the venue was theoretically bigger than alexis park that it would be better but with a 6:1 wanna be factor it was worse than ever before!!!!
It was also fun that the first day they kept it shut down until 11-12 saying they needed a "safety inspection"... All in all if you paid for Defcon this year YOU GOT RIPPED OFF!!!
The reason movie ticket sales and DVD sales have been slumping lately is because Hollywood has been turning out a load of crap movies for years. This stuff has been so bad that for the most part it isn't even worth the energy of getting in the car to go someplace to watch or buy it.... please. The last movie I paid to watch was X Men 3. This is a movie I was was very excited to see. The movie was ok (read so-so) but they killed the ending so badly that I felt like asking for the money and the time from my life back when it was over!!!... Here's a message to Hollywood studios.... IF YOU WANT YOUR SALES FIGURES UP STOP TURNING OUT CRAP MOVIES AND KILLING THE GOOD ONES AND BUSINESS WILL GET BETTER!!!!!
I don't care whether people caused it or not but the fact is the climate IS changing and it isn't moving slowly. The last couple of years in the midwest it's been increasingly apparent. It's not that it's getting hotter per say but the seasons are starting to equalize here. For instance, we only had 3-4 days of snow all winter this year and only needed to use the air conditioner for roughly a week all summer last year. It's getting cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. This trend has continued getting worse for the last few years since about 2001 when I first really began paying closer attention.
In order to accurately compare the number of errata associated with a single typical linux distro and windows in terms of security vulnerabilities you would have to compare the linux distro with a windows OS fully installed with every piece of productivity and server software that exists for it... like having photoshop, office 2003 full install, microsoft sql server, IIS, exchange, ssh/telnet daemon, printing services, audio editing software, and on and on and on. A typical linux distro represents the full gamut of roughly all software you will ever need to use in your linux life and they generate errata for all of it. Windows on the other hand is just an os. To be fair you would have to combine the bugtrackers from Windows XP with that of Adobe, MAcromedia, Sony, Cakewalk, Maya, Nero, etc -- a windows equiv of every application included in the distro and then present a real total.
I've been using wireless in the form of packet radio for almost 15 years and using aironet gear (the guys cisco bought) in production since 1998. While it's true that there are a lot of networks in the air most of them continue to function despite the interference. Isn't that strange??? no it's not... all you need is a good enough piece of hardware to pick the sound from the noise. Perhaps more importantly I am writing this over a 5 meg full duplex wireless connection that gets fast internet to me from 13.2 miles away and hasn't dropped a packet in three years!!!
I found this on the internet!!! It's called cpu4all They take older computers and refurbish them then give them away to people that cannot afford one.
http://www.cpu4all.org/
It's not so hard... I prefer the command line BUT to answer your question cisco has/does supply MANY MANY graphical tools to configure their switches and routers
also.... the best gui that I have seen so far is the one on the system put out by switchvox.com... not free though
I am using asterisk in my home as well. I am running it on a soekris box (soekris.com) from a compact flash card. I have an nfs mount to my fileserver for my voicemail
now I can tivo the tiger release trial!
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Apple is talking to the ISP trying to get a copy of the emails sent. Most ISP user agreements specifically say that email is not confidential no matter how badly people want it to be. If these idiot reporters carried on non-encrypted conversations with their sources via email they deserve to be caught and found out. These poor fools will serve as an example or the poster children to make everyone use some kind of encryption in their communications.
how long is it going to take to get over the "well you can fsck in the back while the system is running" At that rate you're back up to 100% in no time at all... like 3 hours
ext3, reiser, jfs, xfs linux.... it's journaled, it boots, it recovers... it's just better
Actually nokia is replacing ipso with linux because it's significantly faster. I've been running checkpoint on linux since FW-1 4.1 on redhat. I remember laughing then the first time I saw a Nokia press release patting themselves on the back for being number 2 in throughput with checkpoint behind checkpoint/linux.
Just curious.... why don't you get your stuff digitized at a local lab?
Even walmart will hand you a cd of your images. I'm not sure what the res is but it's very decent. It's because the new fuji instan lab digitizes everything... if you go for negative prints it converts it to digital then goes from digital to silver-halide.
linux is free as in lunch. It's not just that it's open sourced it is open source with a license that encourages free thought. Sun will never open source solaris under a license that will give that much freedom to the end user. I don't think they would tolerate a fork of solaris that could potentially be more popular than the original.
There are going to be a lot of places other than the U.S. blasting people off to the moon. I think it's funny that the stupid U.S. Administration think they are going to write legislation over space travel
A lot of people had trouble with this using doom3 on athlon cpus I think
the company said it had to do with the 3dnow instruction set. I recompiled my kernel to exclude 3dnow support and it stopped happening
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>> So, just how many billions of dollars is your..company going to bring in this year?
About 4.5 this year so far but the years not over yet. We're just a little company:-) We do business with companies like lockheed martin, grumman, kodak, etc..
>>Out of the box usability means NOTHING in a >>large environment, because everything has been >>custom configured, developed, tested, and rolled >>out in a formal process.
>>That statement is moderately true. Sun shines in >>server farms that need REAL 24x7 guaranteed >>uptime/availability. I maintain roughly 300 >>servers (average probably about 5 CPU each), and >>Linux isn't yet at the point where it could r>>eplace Sun in that environment.
I have several machines with 4 cpus that are running in clusters of 10 machines or more. Who needs 5+ cpus in one machine when you can cluster 10 4 cpu boxen over gigE or fiber? Oh and
just to make you smile... yes I enjoy REAL 24x7 uptime. If a node or 5 nodes drop off the whole system keeps on running. If one of my datacenters drop offline another one starts advertising it's ip block and takes up the slack. Do you really need a support contract for that? I built mine:-) Did you pay SUN for a clustering solution with a special license for your HA? Sucker!
What did I pay for? HARDWARE
What did you pay for?
Hardware, Software and someone to do most everything for you?... what is your employer paying you for? It sounds like they are getting screwed.
>My filesystem is journalled, and has been for >about a decade longer than Linux. My hardware >emails me when it's having problems, and usually >detects problems before things break! I don't >want quick ship-->deploy time, I want long >boot/upgrade cycles and protection from problems.
You may have enjoyed the benefits of journaling using disksuite or a 3rd party storage solution for the past decade. While I don't think it has really been a decade I still say what price did you pay? Could you deploy it on commodity hardware that could easily be replaced even if SUN went under?
Take your trolling back to the fish pond.
I am my 24x7 support source. I built and developed my high performance server clusters on slackware and would not have thought to use solaris because meeting my needs would have been considerably more cumbersome to accomplish with a boxed solaris product. It would have required dozens of third party (GPLed apps) addons before I could begin development for real world. Perhaps more importantly than this I was able to package my solutions for replication across hundreds of servers in a few hours and deployment takes 15 minutes per node. Every machine is running a high performance journalled filesystem and is smart enough to email me if it's having a hardware problem. Eat your heart out SUN. Linux and free BSDs are for people that love to hack this stuff out and have some idea or someone that knows what they are doing. Redhat's solutions much like SCO and SUN solutions are for people that don't want to know what's happening in their own environment.
Don't get me wrong I love solaris but unless it's running on a 32 way e series machine it has no place trying to compete with ANY Opensource OS for real world usability out of the box or in the closet.
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The Riv was so full of people that wanted to be l33t3 h4x0rs it was nearly impossible to get into any of the talks. I had hoped that since the venue was theoretically bigger than alexis park that it would be better but with a 6:1 wanna be factor it was worse than ever before!!!!
... All in all if you paid for Defcon this year YOU GOT RIPPED OFF!!!
It was also fun that the first day they kept it shut down until 11-12 saying they needed a "safety inspection"
Someone forgot to tell these guys that Tesla was a proponent of AC current and it's kind of wrong to brand a DC powered car with his name!!!
The reason movie ticket sales and DVD sales have been slumping lately is because Hollywood has been turning out a load of crap movies for years. This stuff has been so bad that for the most part it isn't even worth the energy of getting in the car to go someplace to watch or buy it .... please. The last movie I paid to watch was X Men 3. This is a movie I was was very excited to see. The movie was ok (read so-so) but they killed the ending so badly that I felt like asking for the money and the time from my life back when it was over!!! ... Here's a message to Hollywood studios .... IF YOU WANT YOUR SALES FIGURES UP STOP TURNING OUT CRAP MOVIES AND KILLING THE GOOD ONES AND BUSINESS WILL GET BETTER!!!!!
What if it doesn't work and you're left digging the thing out of your skin? You could try jewelry or a badge first before you commit to the "chipping"
I don't care whether people caused it or not but the fact is the climate IS changing and it isn't moving slowly. The last couple of years in the midwest it's been increasingly apparent. It's not that it's getting hotter per say but the seasons are starting to equalize here. For instance, we only had 3-4 days of snow all winter this year and only needed to use the air conditioner for roughly a week all summer last year. It's getting cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. This trend has continued getting worse for the last few years since about 2001 when I first really began paying closer attention.
It's not April first yet ... this must just be a typo
In order to accurately compare the number of errata associated with a single typical linux distro and windows in terms of security vulnerabilities you would have to compare the linux distro with a windows OS fully installed with every piece of productivity and server software that exists for it ... like having photoshop, office 2003 full install, microsoft sql server, IIS, exchange, ssh/telnet daemon, printing services, audio editing software, and on and on and on. A typical linux distro represents the full gamut of roughly all software you will ever need to use in your linux life and they generate errata for all of it. Windows on the other hand is just an os. To be fair you would have to combine the bugtrackers from Windows XP with that of Adobe, MAcromedia, Sony, Cakewalk, Maya, Nero, etc -- a windows equiv of every application included in the distro and then present a real total.
I've been using wireless in the form of packet radio for almost 15 years and using aironet gear (the guys cisco bought) in production since 1998. While it's true that there are a lot of networks in the air most of them continue to function despite the interference. Isn't that strange??? no it's not ... all you need is a good enough piece of hardware to pick the sound from the noise. Perhaps more importantly I am writing this over a 5 meg full duplex wireless connection that gets fast internet to me from 13.2 miles away and hasn't dropped a packet in three years!!!
why not just mine alaska ... it's just as big a wasteland and it's closer to home
Those accountants can never get to many figures.
I found this on the internet!!! It's called cpu4all They take older computers and refurbish them then give them away to people that cannot afford one. http://www.cpu4all.org/
it's true that it's .5% but if it's your bottom line and that extra .5% grows you out of an OC3 it's a 6 figure issue
It's not so hard ... I prefer the command line BUT
.... the best gui that I have seen so far is the one on the system put out by switchvox.com ... not free though
to answer your question cisco has/does supply MANY MANY graphical tools to configure their switches and routers
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I am using asterisk in my home as well. I am running it on a soekris box (soekris.com) from a compact flash card. I have an nfs mount to my fileserver for my voicemail
Wahoo
Apple is talking to the ISP trying to get a copy of the emails sent. Most ISP user agreements specifically say that email is not confidential no matter how badly people want it to be. If these idiot reporters carried on non-encrypted conversations with their sources via email they deserve to be caught and found out. These poor fools will serve as an example or the poster children to make everyone use some kind of encryption in their communications.
how long is it going to take to get over the "well you can fsck in the back while the system is running" At that rate you're back up to 100% in no time at all ... like 3 hours
.... it's journaled, it boots, it recovers ... it's just better
ext3, reiser, jfs, xfs linux
isn't starband a sat router? I mean they are routing IP packets via satellite are they not? It is 2-way sat broadband
Actually nokia is replacing ipso with linux because it's significantly faster. I've been running checkpoint on linux since FW-1 4.1 on redhat. I remember laughing then the first time I saw a Nokia press release patting themselves on the back for being number 2 in throughput with checkpoint behind checkpoint/linux.
Just curious .... why don't you get your stuff digitized at a local lab?
... if you go for negative prints it converts it to digital then goes from digital to silver-halide.
Even walmart will hand you a cd of your images. I'm not sure what the res is but it's very decent. It's because the new fuji instan lab digitizes everything
linux is free as in lunch. It's not just that it's open sourced it is open source with a license that encourages free thought. Sun will never open source solaris under a license that will give that much freedom to the end user. I don't think they would tolerate a fork of solaris that could potentially be more popular than the original.
There are going to be a lot of places other than the U.S. blasting people off to the moon. I think it's funny that the stupid U.S. Administration think they are going to write legislation over space travel
It's not off topic ... it could be a similar problem is all that I was suggesting
A lot of people had trouble with this using doom3 on athlon cpus I think the company said it had to do with the 3dnow instruction set. I recompiled my kernel to exclude 3dnow support and it stopped happening
>> So, just how many billions of dollars is your ..company going to bring in this year?
About 4.5 this year so far but the years not over yet. We're just a little company :-) We do business with companies like lockheed martin, grumman, kodak, etc..
>>Out of the box usability means NOTHING in a >>large environment, because everything has been >>custom configured, developed, tested, and rolled >>out in a formal process.
>>That statement is moderately true. Sun shines in >>server farms that need REAL 24x7 guaranteed >>uptime/availability. I maintain roughly 300 >>servers (average probably about 5 CPU each), and >>Linux isn't yet at the point where it could r>>eplace Sun in that environment.
I have several machines with 4 cpus that are running in clusters of 10 machines or more. Who needs 5+ cpus in one machine when you can cluster 10 4 cpu boxen over gigE or fiber? Oh and
just to make you smile ... yes I enjoy REAL 24x7 uptime. If a node or 5 nodes drop off the whole system keeps on running. If one of my datacenters drop offline another one starts advertising it's ip block and takes up the slack. Do you really need a support contract for that? I built mine :-) Did you pay SUN for a clustering solution with a special license for your HA? Sucker!
What did I pay for? HARDWARE
What did you pay for?
Hardware, Software and someone to do most everything for you? ... what is your employer paying you for? It sounds like they are getting screwed.
>My filesystem is journalled, and has been for >about a decade longer than Linux. My hardware >emails me when it's having problems, and usually >detects problems before things break! I don't >want quick ship-->deploy time, I want long >boot/upgrade cycles and protection from problems.
You may have enjoyed the benefits of journaling using disksuite or a 3rd party storage solution for the past decade. While I don't think it has really been a decade I still say what price did you pay? Could you deploy it on commodity hardware that could easily be replaced even if SUN went under?
Take your trolling back to the fish pond.
I am my 24x7 support source. I built and developed my high performance server clusters on slackware and would not have thought to use solaris because meeting my needs would have been considerably more cumbersome to accomplish with a boxed solaris product. It would have required dozens of third party (GPLed apps) addons before I could begin development for real world. Perhaps more importantly than this I was able to package my solutions for replication across hundreds of servers in a few hours and deployment takes 15 minutes per node. Every machine is running a high performance journalled filesystem and is smart enough to email me if it's having a hardware problem. Eat your heart out SUN. Linux and free BSDs are for people that love to hack this stuff out and have some idea or someone that knows what they are doing. Redhat's solutions much like SCO and SUN solutions are for people that don't want to know what's happening in their own environment.
Don't get me wrong I love solaris but unless it's running on a 32 way e series machine it has no place trying to compete with ANY Opensource OS for real world usability out of the box or in the closet.