But what happens when you get a new desktop machine? Does it inherit the old name? What about while you'r copying your settings/files over? Do you have two "desktop" machines on your network??
When you get your next machine, does the desktop shuffle across to be a server? And what happens to its hostname then?
Not only files, but of course disk devices too! Great for making disk images over the network (pipe through gzip to save disk space).
You can clone a machine to another machine very easily this way with just a couple of knoppix CDs...
I currently have three Ubuntu-based systems. I have customized the GNU/Linux distribution for each system (...) using a script that I call "Thinbuntu". It has all the features I need.
The showstopper for me was the lack of parallel port support. I need this for JTAG support, so I can use linux as my fpga development environment, and still program the damn things (unfortunately Altera has windows-only programming support for free).
why is Linux able to support a variety of hardware configurations without having fundamental design issues the way Windows does?
Mainly because they don't care about breaking old code. It's a business decision on MS's behalf to support a whole lot of legacy code and APIs. Linux kernel developers have in the past made conscious decisions to not support old code, in the interests of cleanliness of implementation.
I'm not an expert by any means, but the limited reading I've done indicates that there is some degree of caching of passwd data on the local machine. Is this not true? I'd like to know because I'm about to implement LDAP on my home network.
I have only a couple of computers on my home network, and still am going to implement this. I just setup a computer for the kids yesterday and now lament having to setup accounts on that machine - the magic of LDAP means I won't have to (although I will have to migrate login/share data).
As far as I can see, the **AA needs to make the decision of what they are selling.
If they're selling me a licence to the song(s)/movie, then it should be reasonable for me to buy a replacement for my existing media at less than the cost of someone without an existing licence. For example, should my CD/DVD wear out (and, believe me, they do), I should be able to take the worn-out medium somewhere, and get a new one for approximately cost price. I can't do this at the moment; the business model simply doesn't allow it.
However, if the **AA is in the business of selling shiny discs, then I should be able to damn well do what I want with my shiny disc. Including, but not limited to, making copies of it (but probably not selling them, due to trademark reasons rather than copyright reasons).
The **AA wants to have its cake and eat it, too. They want to be able to sell shiny discs, and at the same time rent you the content encoded on the media.
My wife uses firefox's history almost exlusively to find sites she's visited before. Like yours, she doesn't bookmark anything, but then, I don't bookmark anything either. I just have an uncanny knack of remembering URLs.
It makes me alternately laugh and cringe when I see my colleague use VNC to attach to a linux machine from his windows desktop. I respond in this way because it baffles me how a guy can have 3 1280x1024 monitors on his desk, then attach to a linux machine's desktop at 1024x768 and think there's nothing wrong. I have a dual-monitor setup on my desk, and use cygwin-X to connect to the linux machines I have access to. It's much nicer to be able to have windows worry about the window management. In fact, he prefers the VNC method, since it lets him use the linux menu (Fedora and ubuntu).
I think you're wrong. The alternative is dynabolts, which are unsuitable in a number of applications. Ramset makes fasteners called chemsets, which are premixed glass capsules filled with epoxy mixture, and there's a german company who make similar devices. They are very good in some applications; their main drawback compared to "normal" dynabolts is their higher cost. Read the specs. They are especially good in wet holes IIRC, and they also work reasonably well when the base material is fractured.
A relatively famous science communicator here in Australia maintains that "our" generation (ie, those currently in our 20's and 30's) will either be the last to die of old age or the first to live forever. I was going to put a mwahahaha on the end of that sentence, but it seemed too glib.
About dates: try writing the date in the (ISO standard) format YYYYMMDD. So, today becomes 20060711. The files are then sorted automagically for you by the gui/shell into creation date., eg:
Well, except for dual-monitor support. That's one place Linux is still catching up on.
I disagree: dual monitor support in linux is far, far superior to that under Windows.
Want a taskbar that goes across both monitors? Windows doesn't do it; both gnome and (especially) KDE will give it to you. Gnome lets me have 4 taskbars: one at the top and bottom of each monitor. Under both gnome and kde the taskbar is a much more generalised container than the windows taskbar, which gives much greater flexibility.
Want to run 2 matrox PCI cards with an ATI AGP card for 3 monitors? Windows won't let you do it (It won't initialise the bios of the ATI card) - linux can do this, and has for more than 5 years.
Want to run multiple cards for multiple monitors, all different manufacturers? Linux lets you do this, easily. I don't know whether Windows can do this.
Want to run 4 monitors, in a 2x2 formation? Linux lets you do this easily. I don't know whether Windows can do this.
In short, multi-monitor support in linux is much more flexible, much more configurable and thus much better than under windows. Windows is certainly playing catchup in this area (thanks both to better multi-driver compatibility in linux and better window managers).
I haven't tried it, so don't know whether it's any good. I seem to remember a while ago I stumbled on something else which does exactly what you're referring to, but can't find it in my bookmarks or history.
I've just started to use trac, from edgewall software. It's open source, easy to administer, and has an interface direct to a subversion backend.
In summary, it has the following features:
Wiki for documentation/specifications/knowledge base. The wiki is extremely easy to use, but there is a bit of labour involved in importing a whole stack of word documents;
Subversion interface. You can directly access your subversion repository (This implies that you will be using subversion for your source control). Subversion is a very good alternative to CVS;
Bug tracking/ticketing feature. You can easily assign tickets to the developers to work on the various bugs/feature requests, including prioritising them. There is a mechanism for emailing the assigned developer, but I haven't set it up in my system yet (my system is only a week and a half old).
I run it all under an ubuntu server, which I have setup here as a skunkworks project since IT wouldn't setuyp anything like this for us (they would make us use VSS). I have it dumping the subversion repository and trac database to the windows server every night so it all gets backed up to tape in case of disaster - that's a simple one-line script for each in the cron.daily folder.
It all can be easily setup using the instructions at the ubuntu wiki.
Fair enough; I use ubuntu at home and I know that the first installed user can sudo, although the distinction you make is subtle, but very significant. What it boils down to is the first user created on an ubuntu system can sudo, while the first user created in Vista is root (with all the implications that carries for usage).
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Mine are server, desktop, laptop & xbox.
But what happens when you get a new desktop machine? Does it inherit the old name? What about while you'r copying your settings/files over? Do you have two "desktop" machines on your network??
When you get your next machine, does the desktop shuffle across to be a server? And what happens to its hostname then?
Not only files, but of course disk devices too! Great for making disk images over the network (pipe through gzip to save disk space). You can clone a machine to another machine very easily this way with just a couple of knoppix CDs...
I currently have three Ubuntu-based systems. I have customized the GNU/Linux distribution for each system (...) using a script that I call "Thinbuntu". It has all the features I need.
Can you share this script with the rest of us?
The showstopper for me was the lack of parallel port support. I need this for JTAG support, so I can use linux as my fpga development environment, and still program the damn things (unfortunately Altera has windows-only programming support for free).
In fact, there's a patent on it
Reminds me of the apocryphal story of the guy who stole wheelbarrows...
Annoying pop-over ads. Like in the article. Irony, anyone?
Mainly because they don't care about breaking old code. It's a business decision on MS's behalf to support a whole lot of legacy code and APIs. Linux kernel developers have in the past made conscious decisions to not support old code, in the interests of cleanliness of implementation.
In any case you can always boot knoppix or whatever to fix any LDAP issues.
I'm not an expert by any means, but the limited reading I've done indicates that there is some degree of caching of passwd data on the local machine. Is this not true? I'd like to know because I'm about to implement LDAP on my home network.
I have only a couple of computers on my home network, and still am going to implement this. I just setup a computer for the kids yesterday and now lament having to setup accounts on that machine - the magic of LDAP means I won't have to (although I will have to migrate login/share data).
Close:
Would probably work.
As far as I can see, the **AA needs to make the decision of what they are selling.
If they're selling me a licence to the song(s)/movie, then it should be reasonable for me to buy a replacement for my existing media at less than the cost of someone without an existing licence. For example, should my CD/DVD wear out (and, believe me, they do), I should be able to take the worn-out medium somewhere, and get a new one for approximately cost price. I can't do this at the moment; the business model simply doesn't allow it.
However, if the **AA is in the business of selling shiny discs, then I should be able to damn well do what I want with my shiny disc. Including, but not limited to, making copies of it (but probably not selling them, due to trademark reasons rather than copyright reasons).
The **AA wants to have its cake and eat it, too. They want to be able to sell shiny discs, and at the same time rent you the content encoded on the media.
My wife uses firefox's history almost exlusively to find sites she's visited before. Like yours, she doesn't bookmark anything, but then, I don't bookmark anything either. I just have an uncanny knack of remembering URLs.
It makes me alternately laugh and cringe when I see my colleague use VNC to attach to a linux machine from his windows desktop. I respond in this way because it baffles me how a guy can have 3 1280x1024 monitors on his desk, then attach to a linux machine's desktop at 1024x768 and think there's nothing wrong. I have a dual-monitor setup on my desk, and use cygwin-X to connect to the linux machines I have access to. It's much nicer to be able to have windows worry about the window management. In fact, he prefers the VNC method, since it lets him use the linux menu (Fedora and ubuntu).
I think you're wrong. The alternative is dynabolts, which are unsuitable in a number of applications. Ramset makes fasteners called chemsets, which are premixed glass capsules filled with epoxy mixture, and there's a german company who make similar devices. They are very good in some applications; their main drawback compared to "normal" dynabolts is their higher cost. Read the specs. They are especially good in wet holes IIRC, and they also work reasonably well when the base material is fractured.
A relatively famous science communicator here in Australia maintains that "our" generation (ie, those currently in our 20's and 30's) will either be the last to die of old age or the first to live forever. I was going to put a mwahahaha on the end of that sentence, but it seemed too glib.
I disagree: dual monitor support in linux is far, far superior to that under Windows.
Want a taskbar that goes across both monitors? Windows doesn't do it; both gnome and (especially) KDE will give it to you. Gnome lets me have 4 taskbars: one at the top and bottom of each monitor. Under both gnome and kde the taskbar is a much more generalised container than the windows taskbar, which gives much greater flexibility.
Want to run 2 matrox PCI cards with an ATI AGP card for 3 monitors? Windows won't let you do it (It won't initialise the bios of the ATI card) - linux can do this, and has for more than 5 years.
Want to run multiple cards for multiple monitors, all different manufacturers? Linux lets you do this, easily. I don't know whether Windows can do this.
Want to run 4 monitors, in a 2x2 formation? Linux lets you do this easily. I don't know whether Windows can do this.
In short, multi-monitor support in linux is much more flexible, much more configurable and thus much better than under windows. Windows is certainly playing catchup in this area (thanks both to better multi-driver compatibility in linux and better window managers).
Save themselves roughly $3700 and buy a Tonkinese. These cats don't shed, and as a bonus they have a great personality.
I haven't tried it, so don't know whether it's any good. I seem to remember a while ago I stumbled on something else which does exactly what you're referring to, but can't find it in my bookmarks or history.
If by "available on most platforms", you mean, "available on windows only", then I would agree with you.
I demand more than one-space tabstops. I can't tell which comments are replying to which.
In summary, it has the following features:
I run it all under an ubuntu server, which I have setup here as a skunkworks project since IT wouldn't setuyp anything like this for us (they would make us use VSS). I have it dumping the subversion repository and trac database to the windows server every night so it all gets backed up to tape in case of disaster - that's a simple one-line script for each in the cron.daily folder.
It all can be easily setup using the instructions at the ubuntu wiki.
Thanks for the clarification.