Put a small offcut of a pet flea collar somewhere in the bag of your laptop (camera especially) as well as a bag of Silica Gel. The Silica keeps the damp out, and the flea collar kills the creepy crawlies as soon as they come near (or deters them, I care not which).
Only a centimetre should be enough. Any more it would make the bag stink. Put it somewhere you won't accidentally touch it.
I can't understand how people can judge a distro by screenshots. A screenshot of a Newsreader, Media Player, fine, it can give you at least an idea of what it looks like.
But a distro doesn't look like anything. You'd like a screenshot of Redhat 8, but use it, and you'd soon change your mind.
I don't think it's a good idea to show dots or *'s as the password is typed. Someone could see how many there are. Once you know a password has seven letters, and not six or eight, you've narrowed it down one hell of a lot, thus saving you time for a brute force attack. Much harder to count the keyclicks you'd hear.
Hmm, having a/usr/share/dict/words file might be an insecurity in itself in this case. No doubt it'd be just as easy for a windows worm to access Office's dictionary for brute force entry, thus keeping the worm itself nice and lean.
I know people die in crashes. I know how and I know why. My point is, do they really _need_ to graphically display it on TV, where the money would be better spent on improving our roads instead?
Yes, a large percentage of bad / angry drivers will always cause accidents, and I accept that New Zealanders are not the best nation of drivers either. But you don't need to stun and shock a nation to get some action. And I reiterate, if they spent that money on the roads, the road toll might not be so bad after all.
People get raped / beaten / mugged and stabbed here as well, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before some group gets lottery funding for more perverse TV ads. It doesn't really bother me unless I see it at someone elses place, I don't have a TV for a number of reasons, including this.
But doesn't it have a satellite?
What would we qualifty that as, because a satellite must orbit a planet. Can anyone remind me what that sequence of numbers is called that vaguely predicts the distances of planets from the Sun?
Ceres fits into that, too. Why does a planet _have_ to be a shpere, what relevance is that. How perfect a sphere?
In New Zealand, it's perfectly OK for the POLICE and the LTSA (Land transport safety authority) to run graphic ads of people flying through windscreens, being run down by unattentive drivers, slammed into powerpoles and slipping over backwards on a childs toy, to land on a glass coffee table, with predictable results. Even if you couldn't predict it, it's there for you to see. And your kids. Right at dinner time.
Yet at the slightest mention of pr0n, people get up in arms thinking computers and the internet are for nothing else. And they're right of course, but so blind to think it's anywhere near as bad as the "real life" FUD that our own god-damned police force and transport authority screen.
There's a lot I like about living in NZ, but all of it either grows out of the ground or rolls in from the sea. The rest of wears suits and finds new novel ways to shit on its native citizens.
True. I haven't stayed in a SCSI vs IDE arguement for long enough. And I'm no speed freak anyway, sure people have a need for fsking fast hard drives, I only need the ability to easily add many drives, particularly outside the case on my desktop machine.
If you're using a *NIX,( and even then it depends what you do with it) then I'd say even a single user desktop is still going to have a lot of random i/o, and assert that SCSI will have to be the winner in all categories except price.
I don't think you paid attention to the parent post - he didn't say SCSI is better because it cost more, for that is not always the case. He said that only one IDE disk spins as fast as 10krpm, whereas some SCSIs do 15k, and most do 10k.
Thanks for reminding me, Gun Fodder, that this is the reason SCSI disks are of higher quality.
It's not that IDE drives couldn't achieve 15krpm, just that there doesn't seem to be the demand yet. Perhaps IDE controllers can't handle the throughput that a 15k disk affords.
And the only way anybody has demonstrated (or tried ) to me that ATA is faster assumes that all people do with their machines is:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=1024 count=1024000
People do much more complex things than continuously read large files, yet that's all the psuedo-techs understand.
Whoops! I wasn't actually trolling, I prefer the SCSI interface to IDE for many reasons. System Can't See It probably resulted from the early days when people thought terminaters were optional.
As long as SCSI still takes advantage of a more intelligent controller on the drive itself, rather than IDE's philosohpy of cheap drive controllers (load all the work on the host CPU) no it won't suffer like that.
This is the main reason SCSI drives are more expensive. Some say the disk itself is of higher quality too, I won't confirm nor deny that.
External SCSI cables aren't ribbons, and work fine. You can't use any old 50 core cable, I think all the pairs inside them are twisted together.
I have a 10M SCSI ribbon, and each pair is twisted. I think the main reason for ribbons inside the box is so you can crimp on a connector wherever you want. Oh, and in a Sparc20, the internal SCSI cable isn't a ribbon, it's a cable from the motherboard right up to where it connects to the disks, cable again to the CDROM.
So, IMO, there's no reason it can't be a ribbon, except for the convenience of crimping connectors wherever you want.
You don't always have to specify which slot your video card is in, if there is only one. When using xinerama (or X on two displays, without xinerama) you have to specify which slot is connected to which display. This is a Good Thing as far as I'm concerned. Oh, and it's no problem either. If you run X --configure or X --probeonly (I can never remember whether to use one hyphen or two) that information is provided, so you don't have to open your box to remind yourself of the slot number.
You're right, I've never had to do it, except with a (n>1) head configuration.
Now this MIGHT work if there was a sure fire way to replace water with a substance that was the similar size, similar weight, and didnt expand when frozen......
And wasn't toxic!?
You can't replace H20 in the living organism with anything else. We need it because it is H2O. Anything else as a basis for bodily fluids would poison us.
Right now everyone uses Sun machines to design, but you can get a cheaper Linux x86 machine that is four times faster.
You can get a cheaper Linux machine, yes. It might be four times faster, than a Sparc10, but new x86's aren't anywhere near as realiable or powerful as a new Sun. As I said, people do buy Sun stuff for a reason, and pay a hefty premium. 4 x faster, pah! If you plonked a PC that is four times faster than the one I'm using in front of me, I wouldn't notice during the bulk of my work, because the machine is 90% idle on avg. Processor speeds go up and up, and some OS's just bloat and bloat to make up for it.
So it is my job to prove that Linux works.
This is already done for you. Convincing the management that you can use it to save them money I think is what you need to do, and at the end of the project you might find that this wasn't the case. Just because the OS installs for free, doesn't mean it doesn't cost anything.
Methinks you've just started at the job, been using Linux at home for a while and think you can plonk it anywhere and go. On a production machine, I can't see the argument for Linux over (presumably) Solaris, and definitely not x86 over SPARC. I admit, I was guilty of the same Linux zealotry three years ago. Now I only want to replace every NT server w/ Linux, and leave the Solaris machines well alone, for I've learned a lot about them now, and it just can't be beat.
BTW, what Linux distribution were you thinking of, because that makes all the difference too. It's hard to find one with a name that management will take seriously, and that doesn't suck at the same time.
You still have the vulnerabilities that haven't yet been announced, though. Obviously you've kept your ear to the ground and wisely shut off things like ActiveX etc. But don't be surprised if in the next six months you need to take some more action still because of a vuln you never knew existed, and needs absolutely no interaction from the user.
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Put a small offcut of a pet flea collar somewhere in the bag of your laptop (camera especially) as well as a bag of Silica Gel. The Silica keeps the damp out, and the flea collar kills the creepy crawlies as soon as they come near (or deters them, I care not which).
Only a centimetre should be enough. Any more it would make the bag stink. Put it somewhere you won't accidentally touch it.
I mean, really. Your nick is only different to "Anonymous Coward" by one character, and I still didn't misread that.
This deserves to be modded, but not +Funny. Did anyone else read that as -1, Dummy?
But a distro doesn't look like anything. You'd like a screenshot of Redhat 8, but use it, and you'd soon change your mind.
what's your definition of everything?
I don't think it's a good idea to show dots or *'s as the password is typed. Someone could see how many there are. Once you know a password has seven letters, and not six or eight, you've narrowed it down one hell of a lot, thus saving you time for a brute force attack. Much harder to count the keyclicks you'd hear.
Hmm, having a /usr/share/dict/words file might be an insecurity in itself in this case. No doubt it'd be just as easy for a windows worm to access Office's dictionary for brute force entry, thus keeping the worm itself nice and lean.
Yes, a large percentage of bad / angry drivers will always cause accidents, and I accept that New Zealanders are not the best nation of drivers either. But you don't need to stun and shock a nation to get some action. And I reiterate, if they spent that money on the roads, the road toll might not be so bad after all.
People get raped / beaten / mugged and stabbed here as well, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before some group gets lottery funding for more perverse TV ads. It doesn't really bother me unless I see it at someone elses place, I don't have a TV for a number of reasons, including this.
Sparc 20 - Die??
I'll use 2.2.20 on _my_ Sparc 20 until _I_ die you insensitive clod!
What would we qualifty that as, because a satellite must orbit a planet. Can anyone remind me what that sequence of numbers is called that vaguely predicts the distances of planets from the Sun?
Ceres fits into that, too. Why does a planet _have_ to be a shpere, what relevance is that. How perfect a sphere?
In New Zealand, it's perfectly OK for the POLICE and the LTSA (Land transport safety authority) to run graphic ads of people flying through windscreens, being run down by unattentive drivers, slammed into powerpoles and slipping over backwards on a childs toy, to land on a glass coffee table, with predictable results. Even if you couldn't predict it, it's there for you to see. And your kids. Right at dinner time.
Yet at the slightest mention of pr0n, people get up in arms thinking computers and the internet are for nothing else. And they're right of course, but so blind to think it's anywhere near as bad as the "real life" FUD that our own god-damned police force and transport authority screen.
There's a lot I like about living in NZ, but all of it either grows out of the ground or rolls in from the sea. The rest of wears suits and finds new novel ways to shit on its native citizens.
I love it when our government gets serious about something like this. It's just sooo cute!
True. I haven't stayed in a SCSI vs IDE arguement for long enough. And I'm no speed freak anyway, sure people have a need for fsking fast hard drives, I only need the ability to easily add many drives, particularly outside the case on my desktop machine.
If you're using a *NIX,( and even then it depends what you do with it) then I'd say even a single user desktop is still going to have a lot of random i/o, and assert that SCSI will have to be the winner in all categories except price.
Thanks for reminding me, Gun Fodder, that this is the reason SCSI disks are of higher quality.
It's not that IDE drives couldn't achieve 15krpm, just that there doesn't seem to be the demand yet. Perhaps IDE controllers can't handle the throughput that a 15k disk affords.
And the only way anybody has demonstrated (or tried ) to me that ATA is faster assumes that all people do with their machines is:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=1024 count=1024000
People do much more complex things than continuously read large files, yet that's all the psuedo-techs understand.
Whoops! I wasn't actually trolling, I prefer the SCSI interface to IDE for many reasons. System Can't See It probably resulted from the early days when people thought terminaters were optional.
And why have all those drives powered up, when you're only using one at a time. Me, I cram 8 OS's over a 30G ATA and a 9GIG SCSI.
This is the main reason SCSI drives are more expensive. Some say the disk itself is of higher quality too, I won't confirm nor deny that.
I have a 10M SCSI ribbon, and each pair is twisted. I think the main reason for ribbons inside the box is so you can crimp on a connector wherever you want. Oh, and in a Sparc20, the internal SCSI cable isn't a ribbon, it's a cable from the motherboard right up to where it connects to the disks, cable again to the CDROM.
So, IMO, there's no reason it can't be a ribbon, except for the convenience of crimping connectors wherever you want.
You're right, I've never had to do it, except with a (n>1) head configuration.
Well, I chose "Quit" about thirty minutes ago, but it's still tidying up, so I suppose I'm still using it, yes.
And wasn't toxic!?
You can't replace H20 in the living organism with anything else. We need it because it is H2O. Anything else as a basis for bodily fluids would poison us.
You can get a cheaper Linux machine, yes. It might be four times faster, than a Sparc10, but new x86's aren't anywhere near as realiable or powerful as a new Sun. As I said, people do buy Sun stuff for a reason, and pay a hefty premium.
4 x faster, pah! If you plonked a PC that is four times faster than the one I'm using in front of me, I wouldn't notice during the bulk of my work, because the machine is 90% idle on avg. Processor speeds go up and up, and some OS's just bloat and bloat to make up for it.
So it is my job to prove that Linux works.
This is already done for you. Convincing the management that you can use it to save them money I think is what you need to do, and at the end of the project you might find that this wasn't the case. Just because the OS installs for free, doesn't mean it doesn't cost anything.
Methinks you've just started at the job, been using Linux at home for a while and think you can plonk it anywhere and go. On a production machine, I can't see the argument for Linux over (presumably) Solaris, and definitely not x86 over SPARC. I admit, I was guilty of the same Linux zealotry three years ago. Now I only want to replace every NT server w/ Linux, and leave the Solaris machines well alone, for I've learned a lot about them now, and it just can't be beat.
BTW, what Linux distribution were you thinking of, because that makes all the difference too. It's hard to find one with a name that management will take seriously, and that doesn't suck at the same time.
You still have the vulnerabilities that haven't yet been announced, though. Obviously you've kept your ear to the ground and wisely shut off things like ActiveX etc. But don't be surprised if in the next six months you need to take some more action still because of a vuln you never knew existed, and needs absolutely no interaction from the user.