I wonder if this guy works for a government contractor or has the military as a customer? Such companies are required to do tons of checks and ballances and security.
are you kidding? What this guy doesn't realize is that his problem on making a change isn't just limited to the IT department. It's in all the departments! Did you get that memo?
Face it, big business just sucks. I'll stick to the smaller startup jobs where my opinion actually means something.
How can the parent be modded anything other than overrated??
I was SCUDed in Dharan, Riyadh and King Khalid Military City; all in Saudi Arabia.
The most memorable was watching a single SCUD missle flying overhead about 11oclock in Riyadh. Everyone was dumbling with their gas masks and tumbling over each other to get into a large foxhole nearby, but I just stood there, mesmerized at the extreme reality taking place before my eyes. I was separated from my unit and had just got off a C-130 from Dharan and found my bags pilfered upon landing. No gas mask.
A patriot battery was behind me about 50 meters, but boy was those suckers loud. Two patriots were launched; one hit the SCUD motor, the other just barely missed the warhead. The warhead tumbled into a busy part of the city about a click from my position and exploded in a flash of light. I later learned it hit an apartment building and killed a person.
So, Mr. Anonymous Coward Parent, you are very wrong.
White man says white man in strange place = "adventurous explorer" White man says black man in strange place = "slave"
You're missing a major point.
The "adventurous" white man traveled from point A to point B on his own dime.
The "enslaved" black man traveled from point A to point B on the white man's dime and ended up living a much better life because of it.
Also, Africans being used as slaves was nothing new to the New World. It was being done for many generations in Europe long before. Somehow, Americans got stuck holding the bag, so to speak and they are now considered the sole guilty party for enslaving the black man.
People also don't realize that the living conditions of an endentured servant or even a slave in the New World were much, much better than back in their African communities. If you went back in time to America and tried to send all the slaves back to Africa, you would probably be killed, not by the white man, but by the black ones.
Last, I don't condone slave trading or condemning anyone because of their race or sex.
tragedy Audio pronunciation of "tragedy" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (trj-d) n. pl. tragedies A disastrous event, especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life: an expedition that ended in tragedy, with all hands lost at sea.
It wasn't only a tragedy to the astronauts and their families, but it was a tragedy for everyone involved in the space program or for those who are interested in the advancement of our exploration of space and other planets.
It was a tragedy in so many sense of the word, there isn't a single other word that fits the event so perfectly.
I'm really hoping English is your third or forth language...
Perhaps someone could point out something that I'm missing, but I've been trying to use CUPS for years now with very little success.
The main problem is that shared printers randomly appear and disappear from the configuration. CUPS does not allow one to statically configure anything (very bad). One option I've found is to hardwire the config files with the exact parameters that I want, then make the files unwritable.
I'm tired of clients calling me saying their shared printer has "disappeared". My solution? Install LPRng on all these customer configurations. Since installing LPRng, I've never had a single call about printer sharing.
Damn Small Linux runs on everything from modern hardware all the way back to a 486DX with 16MB of RAM. Damn Small Linux is also a modern Linux distro, so sorry for ruining your entire study, MS.
I don't know why you would want Vista, but for me there is a new networking & audio stacks, XPS & totally cool new printing system, transactional FS, and a lot more [msdn.com] interesting stuff. Sure, crawl back under your rock and keep beliving that all what Vista is is Aqua interface AKA MacOS circa 80s;-P
Let's see, a post that says the next MS thing (which no one has yet and no one knows when it's ready) is "totally cool", misguided information disguised to look good and a jab at OSX...
I'm really beginning to think that MS actually hires a room full of people to just browse the web and post mis-information on all the tech web forums they can find. I mean, if my company was worth billions, I'd hire a thousand of these guys...
Wanna watch a DVD? Dual boot into linux or use a linux live-cd.
Problem solved!
It will be interesting to see how as more commerically available OS's restrict their users, more users will move towards free and open alternatives.
I've tried the switch...
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I've been a Gnome user since 1998 and used it exclusively. It's ok, gets the job done. Many people complain about not having enough options; these people obviously aren't familiar with gconf-editor.
Anyway, a few weeks ago I read how Linus Torvalds recommends KDE over any other desktop environment. Ok, so I decided to give it a real workout.
I grabbed all the packages and logged in. Not bad, real pretty. Lots of little eye candy that really shows polish. I went into the configuration editor and for hours played with all the settings. Impressive, lots of things to change here. I launched several applications, setup Kmail, played with Kopete. Mature apps, very nice.
Ok, now here's the bad part: I decided that I do indeed like KDE and would like to continue using it, however it's too damn slow for my system! I even turned off a lot of features that are CPU intensive, but simply dragging a window around the desktop is spotty. My machine isn't too bad; it's 1130MHz and 512MB, Geforece2. Running Gnome on this machine is really snappy.
So, for those of you with top of line machines, KDE looks promising. For those of us with medium to low end machines, I recommend sticking with Gnome for now.
I come from the other side of the fence. I am a developer of multiplayer servers. For my part, I couldn't do my job without root access. I need to do things like set the date and time on the machines, install to/bin, upgrade compilers, etc. If I had to ask the helpdesk every time I needed root, they'd just set up right outside my cube.
I don't understand this. If you're a developer, and your development environment is Linux, then what the hell do you have a windows machine sitting on your desktop for? It sounds like your desktop machine should be linux, then you can have root access to it, install all your necessary programs and carry on.
Show me a single person on this planet with no ambitions?
The Sears/Circuit City thing was just my attempt at humor. However, he would have no where near the success he's had if he didn't have the right friend at the right time.
You may be right about his programming talent (I'm not saying you are) but clearly you don't know a single thing about human nature.
If you think that Steve Jobs has any programming talent, then you don't know a single thing about Steve Jobs.
Not to mention the fact that Steve Jobs doesn't know a single thing about programming. He started Apple as the acid-head front man, not because he had any technical skills.
A geek Steve Jobs is not. Had he not known Wozniak, more than likely he would be manager at Sears or Circuit City or something...
Basically, there's a server on my local network that's routed via two different machines and going over a VPN (our WAN has about 2500 customers on it..). With VNC, it's not too bad. If I grab a window and yank it around the screen, there are some redraw issues and it basically looks like a slideshow.
So, I decided to give FreeNX a try.
I'm using FC4 on both client and server. I simply grabbed some RPMS (easy to follow instructions) here, loaded them up and I was off and running.
First impressions: wow! holy crap! I can now grab a window and yank it around the desktop with near fluid speed. Everything is highly responsive. I'm a big fan of VNC and have used it for many years now, but I think it's time to switch.
Keep in mind that this test was made over a low latent connection and with decent throughput.
now anyone who owns an island or a small country and is willing to donate the domain name? What would MPAA or RIAA do? They can't invade a country.
Everytime we have this discussion, I always say the same thing, and here it is again:
I run a small/medium ISP in Russia. We host tons and tons of copyrighted material. When various bittorrent sites started going down in fear, I spoke with many of the owners on transferring their domain and business to our servers. I was willing to host their content for free! Most of the reason is because I'm not Russian and I don't want to miss the new western movies or latest western television shows (I depend on these sites!).
The problem is: most of these sites are run by teenagers that are unable to see logic through the thick veil of ego and attitude. They think they know everything. I can't deal with people like that. It totally reminds me of the cracking groups back in the heydey of the Amiga. I refused to deal with it then, I refuse to deal with it now.
I have since moved on, and found other membership sites where I can get the latest television shows, etc. I don't miss those old attitude sites one single bit. Good riddance.
Our business ships desktops units to liquor stores. Last year, every system we've put together uses Maxtor brand drives (one model number is 6E040L0). So far 95% of all those drives have failed. In several cases, we RMA'd the drive for a new one and that one has failed as well. This is all within one year.
Conclusion? Run away from Maxtor brand hard drives. Run as fast as you can.
However, they did get an OK from their close family or friends before putting them on the show.
Further, when the hoax is up, each of them will receive a wad of cash, a trip to Russia for a taste of the real space program and a trip on the vomit comet so they can experience weightlessness.
Watching this program (I'm in Russia) is hilarious, and all my Russian friends are getting a big kick out of it. Funny how they are supposedly in a place called Crimpsk (or some crap), however when they pointed to where "Crimpsk" is, they pointed to a place in the Ukraine!
Also, Kvas (the drink in episode 2) is not a "Russian soft drink". It's a non-alcoholic grain (sometimes veggie) fermented drink (and it is downright nasty).
The show could have done better; for example, most of the instructors were, oddly enough, British instructors. Why didn't they recruit real Russian folks for the task? lame.
I've worked as a sysadmin for various defense contractors. There are strict guidelines for computers/networks containing top secret classified material.
First, the network must be 100% closed and completely contained in a single room, with ethernet cable going from the computer straight up the wall. The switch is also found high up on the wall as well as all adjoining cables. The idea here is: you can take one look in the room and immediately know about every single system on the network.
Top secret material *never* has a physical link to the outside. Ever.
If that is not possible then perhaps we should fork off a slashdot international and leave this for US biased news.;)
That's the best idea I've ever heard. I am an American (living outside America) and I'm sick to death of American centric viewpoints. Time for Slashdot to mature and go international.
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I wonder if this guy works for a government contractor or has the military as a customer? Such companies are required to do tons of checks and ballances and security.
are you kidding? What this guy doesn't realize is that his problem on making a change isn't just limited to the IT department. It's in all the departments! Did you get that memo?
Face it, big business just sucks. I'll stick to the smaller startup jobs where my opinion actually means something.
My comment was just one of the more interesting experiences I had.
I was SCUDed twice in KKMC, both 100% neutralized by Patriot missles.
The Dharan SCUD missle i witnessed was also downed early on by Patriot missles.
So, although the Patriot is not a screaming success, its capability was more or less as advertised.
How can the parent be modded anything other than overrated??
I was SCUDed in Dharan, Riyadh and King Khalid Military City; all in Saudi Arabia.
The most memorable was watching a single SCUD missle flying overhead about 11oclock in Riyadh. Everyone was dumbling with their gas masks and tumbling over each other to get into a large foxhole nearby, but I just stood there, mesmerized at the extreme reality taking place before my eyes. I was separated from my unit and had just got off a C-130 from Dharan and found my bags pilfered upon landing. No gas mask.
A patriot battery was behind me about 50 meters, but boy was those suckers loud. Two patriots were launched; one hit the SCUD motor, the other just barely missed the warhead. The warhead tumbled into a busy part of the city about a click from my position and exploded in a flash of light. I later learned it hit an apartment building and killed a person.
So, Mr. Anonymous Coward Parent, you are very wrong.
White man says white man in strange place = "adventurous explorer"
White man says black man in strange place = "slave"
You're missing a major point.
The "adventurous" white man traveled from point A to point B on his own dime.
The "enslaved" black man traveled from point A to point B on the white man's dime and ended up living a much better life because of it.
Also, Africans being used as slaves was nothing new to the New World. It was being done for many generations in Europe long before. Somehow, Americans got stuck holding the bag, so to speak and they are now considered the sole guilty party for enslaving the black man.
People also don't realize that the living conditions of an endentured servant or even a slave in the New World were much, much better than back in their African communities. If you went back in time to America and tried to send all the slaves back to Africa, you would probably be killed, not by the white man, but by the black ones.
Last, I don't condone slave trading or condemning anyone because of their race or sex.
tragedy Audio pronunciation of "tragedy" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (trj-d)
n. pl. tragedies
A disastrous event, especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life: an expedition that ended in tragedy, with all hands lost at sea.
It wasn't only a tragedy to the astronauts and their families, but it was a tragedy for everyone involved in the space program or for those who are interested in the advancement of our exploration of space and other planets.
It was a tragedy in so many sense of the word, there isn't a single other word that fits the event so perfectly.
I'm really hoping English is your third or forth language...
Perhaps someone could point out something that I'm missing, but I've been trying to use CUPS for years now with very little success.
The main problem is that shared printers randomly appear and disappear from the configuration. CUPS does not allow one to statically configure anything (very bad). One option I've found is to hardwire the config files with the exact parameters that I want, then make the files unwritable.
I'm tired of clients calling me saying their shared printer has "disappeared". My solution? Install LPRng on all these customer configurations. Since installing LPRng, I've never had a single call about printer sharing.
Damn Small Linux runs on everything from modern hardware all the way back to a 486DX with 16MB of RAM. Damn Small Linux is also a modern Linux distro, so sorry for ruining your entire study, MS.
no, he's just black.
Oh sorry, I meant to say:
no, he just black.
I promise to learn my ebonics use better next time.
I'm white, can you ever forgive me?
no, he's just black.
I don't know why you would want Vista, but for me there is a new networking & audio stacks, XPS & totally cool new printing system, transactional FS, and a lot more [msdn.com] interesting stuff. Sure, crawl back under your rock and keep beliving that all what Vista is is Aqua interface AKA MacOS circa 80s ;-P
Let's see, a post that says the next MS thing (which no one has yet and no one knows when it's ready) is "totally cool", misguided information disguised to look good and a jab at OSX...
I'm really beginning to think that MS actually hires a room full of people to just browse the web and post mis-information on all the tech web forums they can find. I mean, if my company was worth billions, I'd hire a thousand of these guys...
so what's the problem?
Wanna watch a DVD? Dual boot into linux or use a linux live-cd.
Problem solved!
It will be interesting to see how as more commerically available OS's restrict their users, more users will move towards free and open alternatives.
I've been a Gnome user since 1998 and used it exclusively. It's ok, gets the job done. Many people complain about not having enough options; these people obviously aren't familiar with gconf-editor.
Anyway, a few weeks ago I read how Linus Torvalds recommends KDE over any other desktop environment. Ok, so I decided to give it a real workout.
I grabbed all the packages and logged in. Not bad, real pretty. Lots of little eye candy that really shows polish. I went into the configuration editor and for hours played with all the settings. Impressive, lots of things to change here. I launched several applications, setup Kmail, played with Kopete. Mature apps, very nice.
Ok, now here's the bad part: I decided that I do indeed like KDE and would like to continue using it, however it's too damn slow for my system! I even turned off a lot of features that are CPU intensive, but simply dragging a window around the desktop is spotty. My machine isn't too bad; it's 1130MHz and 512MB, Geforece2. Running Gnome on this machine is really snappy.
So, for those of you with top of line machines, KDE looks promising. For those of us with medium to low end machines, I recommend sticking with Gnome for now.
I come from the other side of the fence. I am a developer of multiplayer servers. For my part, I couldn't do my job without root access. I need to do things like set the date and time on the machines, install to /bin, upgrade compilers, etc. If I had to ask the helpdesk every time I needed root, they'd just set up right outside my cube.
I don't understand this. If you're a developer, and your development environment is Linux, then what the hell do you have a windows machine sitting on your desktop for?
It sounds like your desktop machine should be linux, then you can have root access to it, install all your necessary programs and carry on.
C'mon man, use the right tool for the right job.
Show me a single person on this planet with no ambitions?
The Sears/Circuit City thing was just my attempt at humor. However, he would have no where near the success he's had if he didn't have the right friend at the right time.
You may be right about his programming talent (I'm not saying you are) but clearly you don't know a single thing about human nature.
If you think that Steve Jobs has any programming talent, then you don't know a single thing about Steve Jobs.
Not to mention the fact that Steve Jobs doesn't know a single thing about programming. He started Apple as the acid-head front man, not because he had any technical skills.
A geek Steve Jobs is not. Had he not known Wozniak, more than likely he would be manager at Sears or Circuit City or something...
I don't normally respond to my own posts, but I provided an incorrect link for the installation instructions for Fedora.
Here are the Fedora instructions
Ok, just ran a few quick tests:
Basically, there's a server on my local network that's routed via two different machines and going over a VPN (our WAN has about 2500 customers on it..). With VNC, it's not too bad. If I grab a window and yank it around the screen, there are some redraw issues and it basically looks like a slideshow.
So, I decided to give FreeNX a try.
I'm using FC4 on both client and server. I simply grabbed some RPMS (easy to follow instructions) here, loaded them up and I was off and running.
First impressions: wow! holy crap! I can now grab a window and yank it around the desktop with near fluid speed. Everything is highly responsive. I'm a big fan of VNC and have used it for many years now, but I think it's time to switch.
Keep in mind that this test was made over a low latent connection and with decent throughput.
Watchguard Fireboxes are good
Has anybody hacked into one of these things and found out exactly what packages/kernel they are using?
Their specifications page list only fluffy information, no real specs.
I'd like to know what kind of processor is in what model, what VPN package they use, etc.
now anyone who owns an island or a small country and is willing to donate the domain name? What would MPAA or RIAA do? They can't invade a country.
Everytime we have this discussion, I always say the same thing, and here it is again:
I run a small/medium ISP in Russia. We host tons and tons of copyrighted material. When various bittorrent sites started going down in fear, I spoke with many of the owners on transferring their domain and business to our servers. I was willing to host their content for free! Most of the reason is because I'm not Russian and I don't want to miss the new western movies or latest western television shows (I depend on these sites!).
The problem is: most of these sites are run by teenagers that are unable to see logic through the thick veil of ego and attitude. They think they know everything. I can't deal with people like that. It totally reminds me of the cracking groups back in the heydey of the Amiga. I refused to deal with it then, I refuse to deal with it now.
I have since moved on, and found other membership sites where I can get the latest television shows, etc. I don't miss those old attitude sites one single bit. Good riddance.
Oh my god, you're so not kidding.
Our business ships desktops units to liquor stores. Last year, every system we've put together uses Maxtor brand drives (one model number is 6E040L0). So far 95% of all those drives have failed. In several cases, we RMA'd the drive for a new one and that one has failed as well. This is all within one year.
Conclusion? Run away from Maxtor brand hard drives. Run as fast as you can.
You are right, is is not very nice.
However, they did get an OK from their close family or friends before putting them on the show.
Further, when the hoax is up, each of them will receive a wad of cash, a trip to Russia for a taste of the real space program and a trip on the vomit comet so they can experience weightlessness.
Watching this program (I'm in Russia) is hilarious, and all my Russian friends are getting a big kick out of it. Funny how they are supposedly in a place called Crimpsk (or some crap), however when they pointed to where "Crimpsk" is, they pointed to a place in the Ukraine!
Also, Kvas (the drink in episode 2) is not a "Russian soft drink". It's a non-alcoholic grain (sometimes veggie) fermented drink (and it is downright nasty).
The show could have done better; for example, most of the instructors were, oddly enough, British instructors. Why didn't they recruit real Russian folks for the task? lame.
Are they working on a Linux verison (with openGL)?
why do talented people waste their abilities on viruses?
The ability to control several hundred thousand zombie computers.. are you kidding?
money, man, money.
You can do lots of things with that, but the most lucritive might be to blackmail gambling sites. If they don't pay, you DOS their IP block.
I've worked as a sysadmin for various defense contractors. There are strict guidelines for computers/networks containing top secret classified material.
First, the network must be 100% closed and completely contained in a single room, with ethernet cable going from the computer straight up the wall. The switch is also found high up on the wall as well as all adjoining cables. The idea here is: you can take one look in the room and immediately know about every single system on the network.
Top secret material *never* has a physical link to the outside. Ever.
If that is not possible then perhaps we should fork off a slashdot international and leave this for US biased news. ;)
That's the best idea I've ever heard. I am an American (living outside America) and I'm sick to death of American centric viewpoints. Time for Slashdot to mature and go international.