I have heard that Xandros is the only linux distro that does NT authentication and that it is some non-free component... if any users can confirm or deny that (and how well it works), I'd be happy to hear about it.
Thanks to Samba, which has been around since long before Correl first released the linux distro which would become Xandros, any distro can authenticate to an NT domain, also to an Active Directory domain. It can also act as an NT domain controller, but not an Active Directory domain controller. Xandros probably just has some slick tool to configure it. Red Hat has a slick config tool for it in Fedora and in Enterprise. I'd have to assume that Suse and Mandrake has a slick config tool for it too. It's certainly possible that Xandros uses something else, but it's not a feature unique to that distro.
The conundrum is that it took a major corporation to back Linux to bring an Evil Corporation out to sue, necessitating the corporate backing to withstand it.
That's because it's an IMAP folder (I assume). You have the option, per account, to have delete mark for deletion and expunge in one step, or move to the trash folder (which marks it for deletion in the current folder, but doesn't expunge it). You can set it to hide messages marked for deletion or display them. From the File menu, you can "Compact Folders" to expunge deleted mail from all folders, or right click a specific folder and "Compact Folder" to expunge deleted messages from just that one.
you don't even need a src rpm, all it has is the source.tar.gz, any optional patches, and the spec file. If the source.tar.gz has the spec file in it, you can build the rpm without even extracting it, using `rpmbuild -tb source.tar.gz`.
The disabled smbfs in the kernel to promote testing the new CIFS module. I don't know if anyoune set up binary RPMs like they have for NTFS, but it would be as simple as
1. install kernel-source
2. edit EXTRAVERSION in Makefile
3. copy the right config from/usr/src/linux-2.4/configs to/usr/src/linux-2.4/.config
4. make oldconfig
5. make menuconfig and enable smbfs as a module
6. make dep
7. make modules
8. copy the compiled module to whatever folder the cifs module is at in/lib/modules
9. depmod -a
10. enjoy
That's what I used to do for ntfs until I found the prebuilt RPMs at linux-ntfs.sf.net.
Perfectly understandable. up2date on fedora uses yum as its backend... and it's all pointy/clicky. Even has an applet that turns red when there are new packages.
yeah, but that only does updates. I can't launch it to install new applications or remove installed ones. At least, I don't know of a way to. Personally I configure up2date with the same set of sources as apt (up2date supports apt repositories), and use the applet to know when an update is available. I usually just use up2date-gnome to apply the updates, since it works pretty well. But I use apt/synaptic to install new apps or remove installed apps due to the previously mentioned limitations of system-config-applications. If they would just make that application use/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources and build a dependency list on-the-fly, I wouldn't need apt/synaptic.
What makes yum less amazing than 'apt-get'? They appear to do the same thing.
As lame as it might sound to say, a graphical front-end like synaptic is what makes apt better, in my opinion. On a headless server it doesn't make a difference, but when I'm using my desktop, I don't want to fire up a shell and su to root (or setup sudo). I just want a nice pointy/clicky app to do package management. And no, system-config-packages doesn't cut it, it can't handle dependencies for anything not in the official Fedora Core package set.
The nVidia problem has to do with a 4G memory patch (either apply a patch to fix it, or remove a patch that RH added). There's a thread on nvnews.net that tells how to do it, this isn't a link to that thread, but the thread should be listed in the search results that the link goes to.
Well, the default disabled status of SELinux isn't truly disabled as you might think it is. I forget what the implementation is, but it is still there, I think along the lines of set to allow everything with no policy in place. SELinux is a huge part of FC2, but it's proven to be so freaking difficult to integrate with anything resembling a standard policy that they have to disable it by default or you will have an unusable system out of the box. And I say this as an apologetic RH fanboy. They will enable it by default when it doesn't break everything for 90% of the users.
So this would be movie -1? It's the odd ones that's supposed to be good, right?
evens (wrath of khan, voyage home, undiscovered country). Although I don't agree with that rule for the TNG movies. Malcolm McDowell rocked Generations, and who didn't think it a high-point of the frnachise to hear Data proclaim "Oh shit!" as the Enterprise was crashing into the planet surface? First Contact I think did have the best story, but Insurrection was pretty entertaining too I thought. Nemesis was just another sci-fi movie.
This is the misconception that the RIAA and MPAA like to uphold. You don't get in trouble for downloading music. You get in trouble for making it available for other people to download from you. The way they find people to prosecute is to connect to a P2P network and look for files which are probably copyrighted material, and record the IP address of the machine it is being served from. Then they try to contact the ISP who owns that IP address and get the ISP to provide the name and contact information to whoever was using that IP address at the time the file was seen on the P2P network.
So if you are using Kazaa Lite, for example, you can simply check the option to disable the sharing of files, and the RIAA/MPAA won't ever come after you, because you are not distributing.
But they want you to think they'll come after you for downloading, so that you'll be so afraid of getting sued you just wont bother.
You appear to be confused as to what LNP really means. It's not like a DNS CNAME, it's like telling the internet that an IP address on one of IBM's class A nets should be routed to MCI instead. Each mobile carrier gets a block of phone numbers in specific exchanges. The exchanges tell the phone network which carrier to route the call to. LNP means changing the infrastructure of the mobile network to route exchanges to a different carrier.
The carriers can't just program in the ID of your phone for a different network, because that phone doesn't connect to their network.
I wasn't advocating the precedent or the law. I was just pointing out the parent's misconception that by providing source instead of binaries there would be not legal problems.
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Thanks to Samba, which has been around since long before Correl first released the linux distro which would become Xandros, any distro can authenticate to an NT domain, also to an Active Directory domain. It can also act as an NT domain controller, but not an Active Directory domain controller. Xandros probably just has some slick tool to configure it. Red Hat has a slick config tool for it in Fedora and in Enterprise. I'd have to assume that Suse and Mandrake has a slick config tool for it too. It's certainly possible that Xandros uses something else, but it's not a feature unique to that distro.
First rule of Usenet: You do NOT talk about Usenet!!
The conundrum is that it took a major corporation to back Linux to bring an Evil Corporation out to sue, necessitating the corporate backing to withstand it.
I just buy cheap clear plastic ones, bleach them once a week and replace them ever few months. They're great for impromptu oil-wrestling matts too!
browse a photoshop thread on fark.com some time. ;)
That's because it's an IMAP folder (I assume). You have the option, per account, to have delete mark for deletion and expunge in one step, or move to the trash folder (which marks it for deletion in the current folder, but doesn't expunge it). You can set it to hide messages marked for deletion or display them. From the File menu, you can "Compact Folders" to expunge deleted mail from all folders, or right click a specific folder and "Compact Folder" to expunge deleted messages from just that one.
There's not a big market for it. There are so many free unlicensed players that work it's doubtful you could break even on that business.
you don't even need a src rpm, all it has is the source .tar.gz, any optional patches, and the spec file. If the source .tar.gz has the spec file in it, you can build the rpm without even extracting it, using `rpmbuild -tb source.tar.gz`.
The disabled smbfs in the kernel to promote testing the new CIFS module. I don't know if anyoune set up binary RPMs like they have for NTFS, but it would be as simple as 1. install kernel-source 2. edit EXTRAVERSION in Makefile 3. copy the right config from /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs to /usr/src/linux-2.4/.config
4. make oldconfig
5. make menuconfig and enable smbfs as a module
6. make dep
7. make modules
8. copy the compiled module to whatever folder the cifs module is at in /lib/modules
9. depmod -a
10. enjoy
That's what I used to do for ntfs until I found the prebuilt RPMs at linux-ntfs.sf.net.
yeah, but that only does updates. I can't launch it to install new applications or remove installed ones. At least, I don't know of a way to. Personally I configure up2date with the same set of sources as apt (up2date supports apt repositories), and use the applet to know when an update is available. I usually just use up2date-gnome to apply the updates, since it works pretty well. But I use apt/synaptic to install new apps or remove installed apps due to the previously mentioned limitations of system-config-applications. If they would just make that application use /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources and build a dependency list on-the-fly, I wouldn't need apt/synaptic.
Oracle supports Suse too. In fact, they build their Linux products on Suse, not Red Hat.
As lame as it might sound to say, a graphical front-end like synaptic is what makes apt better, in my opinion. On a headless server it doesn't make a difference, but when I'm using my desktop, I don't want to fire up a shell and su to root (or setup sudo). I just want a nice pointy/clicky app to do package management. And no, system-config-packages doesn't cut it, it can't handle dependencies for anything not in the official Fedora Core package set.
The nVidia problem has to do with a 4G memory patch (either apply a patch to fix it, or remove a patch that RH added). There's a thread on nvnews.net that tells how to do it, this isn't a link to that thread, but the thread should be listed in the search results that the link goes to.
Well, the default disabled status of SELinux isn't truly disabled as you might think it is. I forget what the implementation is, but it is still there, I think along the lines of set to allow everything with no policy in place. SELinux is a huge part of FC2, but it's proven to be so freaking difficult to integrate with anything resembling a standard policy that they have to disable it by default or you will have an unusable system out of the box. And I say this as an apologetic RH fanboy. They will enable it by default when it doesn't break everything for 90% of the users.
If Japanese nuclear testing turned a lizard into Godzilla, then I wouldn't mind a nuclear laptop to give me a Cockzilla.
evens (wrath of khan, voyage home, undiscovered country). Although I don't agree with that rule for the TNG movies. Malcolm McDowell rocked Generations, and who didn't think it a high-point of the frnachise to hear Data proclaim "Oh shit!" as the Enterprise was crashing into the planet surface? First Contact I think did have the best story, but Insurrection was pretty entertaining too I thought. Nemesis was just another sci-fi movie.
actually it's easier to just pay a little extra and get a PPO so you can be seen by whomever you want.
ah ... i've noticed an growing number of funny posts which start off with an informative mod.
informative?!?! methinks the mods should check the slashdot logs from last april 1st (2003) for the 5 front page posts of the new Evil Bit. Sheesh!!
I guess they were smart enough to implement the new Evil Bit added to TCP last April. Those OpenBSD folks sure are forward thinking.
This is the misconception that the RIAA and MPAA like to uphold. You don't get in trouble for downloading music. You get in trouble for making it available for other people to download from you. The way they find people to prosecute is to connect to a P2P network and look for files which are probably copyrighted material, and record the IP address of the machine it is being served from. Then they try to contact the ISP who owns that IP address and get the ISP to provide the name and contact information to whoever was using that IP address at the time the file was seen on the P2P network.
So if you are using Kazaa Lite, for example, you can simply check the option to disable the sharing of files, and the RIAA/MPAA won't ever come after you, because you are not distributing.
But they want you to think they'll come after you for downloading, so that you'll be so afraid of getting sued you just wont bother.
Here's a linkified working location.
They have to do it the old way because wireless calls are only wireless to the tower, then they are routed over the PSTN just like all the land lines.
You appear to be confused as to what LNP really means. It's not like a DNS CNAME, it's like telling the internet that an IP address on one of IBM's class A nets should be routed to MCI instead. Each mobile carrier gets a block of phone numbers in specific exchanges. The exchanges tell the phone network which carrier to route the call to. LNP means changing the infrastructure of the mobile network to route exchanges to a different carrier.
The carriers can't just program in the ID of your phone for a different network, because that phone doesn't connect to their network.
I wasn't advocating the precedent or the law. I was just pointing out the parent's misconception that by providing source instead of binaries there would be not legal problems.