I've got CD-R's dated from 1998 that are almost completely dead. Went back to restore some old saves for different games (I was possessed to play Diablo 1 again, shoot me) and it took multiple attempts with data recovery tools to pull them out. I went through the rest of my archives from that time period and found that about 50% of my old archives are dead. Thank god I don't really *need* them, but I'd have liked to keep them.
Something that package management has largely REMOVED from the Open Source community: Peer Review.
When was the last time most of us actually scanned through the code we were about to install? I know I'm guilty of being rather lax on that, I've just been looking when I get compile errors...
Is this a Bad Thing(tm)? I'm inclined to believe it is, but what say the rest of you?
For quite a while I used RedHat and did enjoy the ease that package management gave to a system. For a workstation equivilant, I still agree with this solution in general. However having run through Linux From Scratch (www.linuxfromscratch.org) I see that on a server-class machine, there is a TON of unnecessary bloat. Why should it take a GIG of space , or more, to host just a Web server with MySQL and FTP access? With LFS I can build a specific purpose system and get that footprint down to around 350 to 425mb and that's including the kernel sources being left for recompile and a full compile environment. I've been told that some people can get the same functions stripped down to less than 200mb (this is all of course NOT counting your SQL databases).
At this point there needs to be a big fork somewhere to divource the Linux Desktop from the Linux Server. Linux will do both, but one should not cause issues for the other. If a desktop user wants to run a FTP server, they should be able to. If the server admin wants to have a mail client (pine) or an IRC client (BitchX) installed for accessing information, he should be able to. But these features should be implemented with that specifically in mind. Not installing half a million libs because *maybe* the server admin wants to install addon XYZ for pine and it needs this lib while pine itself doesn't...
Just was tinkering with mod_frontpage and it's now basically Apache2 only. They still have support for 1.3x, but it's being phased out from what I can tell.
And installing it under 2.0.49 wasn't too bad after I realized that it REQUIRES the 'bin' user.:p It runs as well as anything MS related can under linux...;)
I've been fairly happy with pLog myself, it's PHP/MySQL based but it doesn't meet the requirements of what you're asking for just yet (unless you're using the CVS and a couple of items from the mailing list;) ). We're working on getting things added in as fast as we can though.
I can't really see any of the CMS/blog packages really handling what you're looking for unless you're going to get webspace somewhere and maintain it yourself with them just having access to occasionally add entries/pics...:( Of course you could cheat a bit and give them LiveJournal accounts and then setup their blogging utils to let them post things...;) (another feature that pLog is working on.. heh)
I'll have to see if mine does the same before I blow it away and do a LFS distro...;) Been meaning to for a while, looks like now is as good a time as any to start...
I'd report them as bugs, but in this case they're not bugs, just me waiting for certain software packages to 'adapt' to the updated linking setup. Nothing that Fedora or RedHat will do will fix this...
It's just like me reporting a bug with RHL 5.0 (I think it was 5.0, been a while) that the latest and greatest version of glibc that RH decided to use caused code that worked before to break... Of course it did, but I didn't expect RH to take a step backwards to 'fix' the bug.
It's something from RedHat. RedHat has had problems since the dark ages with x.0 releases, which is what Fedora basically is.
I'm having code compile issues because of the new linking setup myself. Code the compiled perfectly under RHL 9 blows up on FC1.... Can't say I didn't expect this to be a problem free migration. Reminds me of when RH first kicked out the glib updates... Code all over the place blew up left and right until everything else started updating.
Browser: Mozilla Firebird. EMail: Mozilla Thunderbird
Personally I don't like the way the Mozilla mail client is setup, but Thunderbird works quite well. If I'm not going to use the Email from Mozilla, no sense in installing it so go with Firebird.
AntiVirus: I've seen AVG being named, and personally I don't like it. I've had TOO many users bring in their computers and ask me to replace it with Norton or McAfee. If you're not opposed to On-Line (meaning no automatic protection) scanning you can hit Housecall (http://housecall.trendmicro.com). It's been fairly good thus far, but if you're on Dialup it's a pain in the ass.
Office Suite: Open Office or Star Office. Take your pick. Personally I never do enough in an office suite to bother with it. The limited word processing that I do can be handled with WordPad or KWrite in general.
FTP Client: FileZilla. Look for it on SourceForge.
SSH Client: For Windows (unless you install Cygwin) the only free SSH client I can think of is puTTY, and I'm not that impressed with it other than it's super tiny and really portable.
X Server: Again, unless you run Cygwin, I'm not sure there is a 'free' one out there.
CDBurner: Again, unless you run Cygwin and are able to compile one of the open source burners, I think you're hosed here. Nero is now $100... bah.
MP3 Player: WinAmp 2.9. The 3.0 line is just too damned bloated and annoying IMO. Just make sure you check your system for spyware after installing.;)
These are all the major things that come to mind for me other than games (check your local emulation website... NES/SNES/Genesis, etc) or work-specific things that I use. Hope that helps.
The paperwork stuff is up to the boss.;) I'm just the geek getting everything wired.
I know that there's a ton of paperwork that's gone out to the PUC, and I think that part is done. The ICA is being worked on now. We have our initial number block and the SS7 hosting is being worked on. As far as 911 goes, I have no idea.
We will be voice and data. Are there any nightmares that I should be aware of looking at setting this up?
Because the ONS is at a physically different site.
Plus, as I've said in other posts, I can do this via ethernet off the Telco switch, but I'm looking at eliminating as many SAR jumps as I can. Up front it won't mean that much, but later on (assuming things go well once we have the gear in place) it could make for some very noticible performance differences.
when you're feeding directly off of a telco link, doesn't it make sense to talk what the telco is talking?;)
I can do everything over 100Mbit ether if I wanted to, but I'm looking at what can be done to reduce the number of SAR (Segmentation And Reassembly) jumps that have to be made on my network. If I can avoid some of them by bringing the feed in as ATM, and it's as reliable as doing 100Mbit ether, why not do so?
Last I checked the PCI bus (when in 64Bit mode) was capable of multi-gigabit speeds. Given that I'd be looking for a single OC3, possibly a dual, there should be NO problems with it.
Heck, from what you're saying I can do 66% the number of 100Mbit feeds if I stick with OC3 just fine....;) it's only 155Mbit at that point. If I were talking about OC12 or 48... *shudder* That's just damn scary.
The ATM pipe we're looking at tapping is a feed between a Cisco ONS and our Telco Switch.
Basically I was looking at what the benefits might be of offloading the SAR process from the Telco Switch to a Linux box (most ATM cards that I've seen are hardware based SAR, they just return an IP frame) since we're going to set one up for the router anyway. IF I can keep the traffic ATM based, given that a chunk of it comes in as ATM to begin with and most of it will leave as ATM, it should be an overall benefit to network performanc not to have to undergo 2 SAR dumps, shouldn't it?
This is all very subjective. I currently have Cable where I'm at and the DSL I move away from was MUCH faster. I had a 768k up 768k down line from Verizon (with a 3rd party ISP providing the service) and now I'm on a crappy 512k down (that averages about 400) and 128k up (that averages about 96).
If you want to compare things, try comparing what each can offer. I know that Verizon can offer 7.1m down with 1.5m up and SWBell was able to offer 10m down (burst from 1.5m) with 1.5m up (burst from 384k) at one point (don't know that they still do).... From what I've seen most cable companies only have 2 plans, Residential and Business. And Business of course is better bandwidth, but MUCH more expensive. If you go with a Telco offering under DSL, you have similar limitations in options, but going with a 3rd party ISP you can get MUCH better speeds than I've seen with some cable providers, with a bit more cost in most cases unfortunately.... Again it's all subjective. What are the cable companies in your area doing vs what are the DSL providers doing?
It seems that the Winbloze builds have reached the infamous/. effect... they're comming up 403 now...
Poor provider attempting to save their bandwidth from the ravenous NetHack hordes that are suck in corp America with no way to play it on a proper system till they get home and compile it...;)
Developers. Dedicated sales to the product line. Front line support. Back line support. Enterprise account support reps. Sales Engineers.
It's very easy to hit 250 to 300 people, however not all of them are going to be axed most likely. They'll keep a few developers and move them to other products and maybe some of the Enterprise support people.... Most likely all the sales droids.....
It's not just Contra... the code is refered to as the 'Kanomi Code'... Kanomi made Contra and used the same cheat code in quite a few of it's games...
And god I remember the frustration of putting that code in sometimes.... Fired up my cousin's old NES a few weeks back and it rolled off my fingers every time... flawless... Guess that shows what kind of addict I am.;)
Hey! What's this fruit-striped apple thingy in the corner?
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I've got CD-R's dated from 1998 that are almost completely dead. Went back to restore some old saves for different games (I was possessed to play Diablo 1 again, shoot me) and it took multiple attempts with data recovery tools to pull them out. I went through the rest of my archives from that time period and found that about 50% of my old archives are dead. Thank god I don't really *need* them, but I'd have liked to keep them.
Something that package management has largely REMOVED from the Open Source community: Peer Review.
When was the last time most of us actually scanned through the code we were about to install? I know I'm guilty of being rather lax on that, I've just been looking when I get compile errors...
Is this a Bad Thing(tm)? I'm inclined to believe it is, but what say the rest of you?
For quite a while I used RedHat and did enjoy the ease that package management gave to a system. For a workstation equivilant, I still agree with this solution in general. However having run through Linux From Scratch (www.linuxfromscratch.org) I see that on a server-class machine, there is a TON of unnecessary bloat. Why should it take a GIG of space , or more, to host just a Web server with MySQL and FTP access? With LFS I can build a specific purpose system and get that footprint down to around 350 to 425mb and that's including the kernel sources being left for recompile and a full compile environment. I've been told that some people can get the same functions stripped down to less than 200mb (this is all of course NOT counting your SQL databases).
At this point there needs to be a big fork somewhere to divource the Linux Desktop from the Linux Server. Linux will do both, but one should not cause issues for the other. If a desktop user wants to run a FTP server, they should be able to. If the server admin wants to have a mail client (pine) or an IRC client (BitchX) installed for accessing information, he should be able to. But these features should be implemented with that specifically in mind. Not installing half a million libs because *maybe* the server admin wants to install addon XYZ for pine and it needs this lib while pine itself doesn't...
Just was tinkering with mod_frontpage and it's now basically Apache2 only. They still have support for 1.3x, but it's being phased out from what I can tell.
:p It runs as well as anything MS related can under linux... ;)
And installing it under 2.0.49 wasn't too bad after I realized that it REQUIRES the 'bin' user.
I've been fairly happy with pLog myself, it's PHP/MySQL based but it doesn't meet the requirements of what you're asking for just yet (unless you're using the CVS and a couple of items from the mailing list ;) ). We're working on getting things added in as fast as we can though.
:( Of course you could cheat a bit and give them LiveJournal accounts and then setup their blogging utils to let them post things... ;) (another feature that pLog is working on.. heh)
I can't really see any of the CMS/blog packages really handling what you're looking for unless you're going to get webspace somewhere and maintain it yourself with them just having access to occasionally add entries/pics...
that's just.... wow.
;) Been meaning to for a while, looks like now is as good a time as any to start...
I'll have to see if mine does the same before I blow it away and do a LFS distro...
I'd report them as bugs, but in this case they're not bugs, just me waiting for certain software packages to 'adapt' to the updated linking setup. Nothing that Fedora or RedHat will do will fix this...
It's just like me reporting a bug with RHL 5.0 (I think it was 5.0, been a while) that the latest and greatest version of glibc that RH decided to use caused code that worked before to break... Of course it did, but I didn't expect RH to take a step backwards to 'fix' the bug.
It's something from RedHat. RedHat has had problems since the dark ages with x.0 releases, which is what Fedora basically is.
I'm having code compile issues because of the new linking setup myself. Code the compiled perfectly under RHL 9 blows up on FC1.... Can't say I didn't expect this to be a problem free migration. Reminds me of when RH first kicked out the glib updates... Code all over the place blew up left and right until everything else started updating.
Suggestions for Windows:
;)
Browser: Mozilla Firebird.
EMail: Mozilla Thunderbird
Personally I don't like the way the Mozilla mail client is setup, but Thunderbird works quite well. If I'm not going to use the Email from Mozilla, no sense in installing it so go with Firebird.
AntiVirus: I've seen AVG being named, and personally I don't like it. I've had TOO many users bring in their computers and ask me to replace it with Norton or McAfee. If you're not opposed to On-Line (meaning no automatic protection) scanning you can hit Housecall (http://housecall.trendmicro.com). It's been fairly good thus far, but if you're on Dialup it's a pain in the ass.
Office Suite: Open Office or Star Office. Take your pick. Personally I never do enough in an office suite to bother with it. The limited word processing that I do can be handled with WordPad or KWrite in general.
FTP Client: FileZilla. Look for it on SourceForge.
SSH Client: For Windows (unless you install Cygwin) the only free SSH client I can think of is puTTY, and I'm not that impressed with it other than it's super tiny and really portable.
X Server: Again, unless you run Cygwin, I'm not sure there is a 'free' one out there.
CDBurner: Again, unless you run Cygwin and are able to compile one of the open source burners, I think you're hosed here. Nero is now $100... bah.
MP3 Player: WinAmp 2.9. The 3.0 line is just too damned bloated and annoying IMO. Just make sure you check your system for spyware after installing.
These are all the major things that come to mind for me other than games (check your local emulation website... NES/SNES/Genesis, etc) or work-specific things that I use. Hope that helps.
The paperwork stuff is up to the boss. ;) I'm just the geek getting everything wired.
I know that there's a ton of paperwork that's gone out to the PUC, and I think that part is done. The ICA is being worked on now. We have our initial number block and the SS7 hosting is being worked on. As far as 911 goes, I have no idea.
We will be voice and data. Are there any nightmares that I should be aware of looking at setting this up?
Because the ONS is at a physically different site.
Plus, as I've said in other posts, I can do this via ethernet off the Telco switch, but I'm looking at eliminating as many SAR jumps as I can. Up front it won't mean that much, but later on (assuming things go well once we have the gear in place) it could make for some very noticible performance differences.
If you don't mind me asking, how much did you blow on the cards?
;)
I've looked at their website and can't find any pricing info, and no one is around to ask till Tuesday.
when you're feeding directly off of a telco link, doesn't it make sense to talk what the telco is talking? ;)
I can do everything over 100Mbit ether if I wanted to, but I'm looking at what can be done to reduce the number of SAR (Segmentation And Reassembly) jumps that have to be made on my network. If I can avoid some of them by bringing the feed in as ATM, and it's as reliable as doing 100Mbit ether, why not do so?
I'll have to check them out...
Has anyone used these cards that can give direct feedback on their quality/durability/usablilty?
The good thing about that is, I haven't seen an ATM BSOD. :)
I actually saw a guy working on one a year or so back. Kinda supprizing that it's OS2 behind the scenes there.
Last I checked the PCI bus (when in 64Bit mode) was capable of multi-gigabit speeds. Given that I'd be looking for a single OC3, possibly a dual, there should be NO problems with it.
;) it's only 155Mbit at that point. If I were talking about OC12 or 48... *shudder* That's just damn scary.
Heck, from what you're saying I can do 66% the number of 100Mbit feeds if I stick with OC3 just fine....
The ATM pipe we're looking at tapping is a feed between a Cisco ONS and our Telco Switch.
Basically I was looking at what the benefits might be of offloading the SAR process from the Telco Switch to a Linux box (most ATM cards that I've seen are hardware based SAR, they just return an IP frame) since we're going to set one up for the router anyway. IF I can keep the traffic ATM based, given that a chunk of it comes in as ATM to begin with and most of it will leave as ATM, it should be an overall benefit to network performanc not to have to undergo 2 SAR dumps, shouldn't it?
I knew that Diamond was bought by S3, but I don't remember S3 selling that aspect of the business to ATi.... Hrm. Learn something new every day.
I'm sorry, you don't seem to recongise sarcasm when you see it nor do you remember the card I'm talking about. :p
The Diamond FireGL 1000 and the 1000Pro were the cards I was refering to.
Thank you, drive through.
I thought FireGL was from Diamond, not ATI. :p
In fact, I'm holding a FireGL right now... I'll sell it for $200! Less than what ATI charges.
god I wish peole would think before naming things sometimes.... USB2.0 vs USB2.0 "Hi-Speed"....
This is all very subjective. I currently have Cable where I'm at and the DSL I move away from was MUCH faster. I had a 768k up 768k down line from Verizon (with a 3rd party ISP providing the service) and now I'm on a crappy 512k down (that averages about 400) and 128k up (that averages about 96).
If you want to compare things, try comparing what each can offer. I know that Verizon can offer 7.1m down with 1.5m up and SWBell was able to offer 10m down (burst from 1.5m) with 1.5m up (burst from 384k) at one point (don't know that they still do).... From what I've seen most cable companies only have 2 plans, Residential and Business. And Business of course is better bandwidth, but MUCH more expensive. If you go with a Telco offering under DSL, you have similar limitations in options, but going with a 3rd party ISP you can get MUCH better speeds than I've seen with some cable providers, with a bit more cost in most cases unfortunately.... Again it's all subjective. What are the cable companies in your area doing vs what are the DSL providers doing?
It seems that the Winbloze builds have reached the infamous /. effect... they're comming up 403 now...
;)
Poor provider attempting to save their bandwidth from the ravenous NetHack hordes that are suck in corp America with no way to play it on a proper system till they get home and compile it...
Easy.
Developers. Dedicated sales to the product line. Front line support. Back line support. Enterprise account support reps. Sales Engineers.
It's very easy to hit 250 to 300 people, however not all of them are going to be axed most likely. They'll keep a few developers and move them to other products and maybe some of the Enterprise support people.... Most likely all the sales droids.....
It's not just Contra... the code is refered to as the 'Kanomi Code'... Kanomi made Contra and used the same cheat code in quite a few of it's games... And god I remember the frustration of putting that code in sometimes.... Fired up my cousin's old NES a few weeks back and it rolled off my fingers every time... flawless... Guess that shows what kind of addict I am. ;)
Hey! What's this fruit-striped apple thingy in the corner?
I'm thinking someone has had a bit too much of Dr Seuss in his reading diet lately... :)
:)
I'm impressed though.
Hey! What's this fruit-striped apple thingy in the corner?