I just looked at this article as my employer uses Debian and Ubuntu heavily and I've been pushing for ZFS on our file servers. There is no mention of ZFS version, the feature set available, or even a link to the source material.
ZoL is based on ZFS version 28 from the last open Solaris release, and currently integrating Illumos as its upstream.
There isn't much mention of how to use ZFS. I happen to know most commands, but I think this article would be difficult for a beginner even though it seems to be targeted at that demographic.
It looks like the Slashdot editors are doing this blogger a favor by linking to a mostly empty article.
Things like broken package dependencies, inconsistent Package files vs. what's actually on the site, etc
On the off chance... are you a Sympatico (DSL) subscriber? Their transparent HTTP proxy is very badly broken -- the guys that run Sympatico HSE are morons -- so APT gets confused with list/package inconsistencies.
If you specify chsmc.bellglobal.com:80 as your proxy in your apt.conf file and set your cache time to zero, then potato updates will come down smoothly. It took me a while to figure this out.
It follows that they will eventually be able to project realistic advertisements onto small objects, like my shirt. Perhaps a company like Nike would be interested in paying to have a few hundred people in the stands wearing their 'swoosh'.
If they did that to me (and I somehow found about it) I would be awfully upset. Nike is a repugnant corporation, and I wouldn't want them putting 'words' on my back. I wonder if I would have any legal recourse? -- Is that false representation?
This is what I do to keep my slink boxes current without upgrading to potato:
Manually download the potato debhelper package and install it with the 'dpkg --install...' command. You must have the new debhelper (which is just a collection of scripts) to get the potato packages working.
Edit '/etc/apt/sources.list' and add the line 'deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free'
Run 'apt-get update'.
Run 'apt-get source PotatoPackage' from/root for anything that you need updated.
Move into the new directory that apt-get will create. Run 'debian/rules binary'. (Note that you could use dpkg-buildpackage instead.)
You will now have current debs that are linked against the slink libraries. This is very handy indeed, especially if you want or need only a few new packages.
Oh no! I must correct myself. The link goes to https only on the post. My firewall prevents the submission of anything to a script if the referring page was not also encrypted!
Everybody likes to bitch about this problem. Personally, I've made myself a promise to shutup and accept the situation because my whining was annoying some of my buddies. Yes, it sucks to be us, so let our earning potential balance everything out. Life is not perfect.
However, we forget that the this chick thing is dichotomous. If you're female, and you're in the computer industry or you want to get in, then you're all set. It follows that I have to make this observation apparent because there are so few chicks reading Slashdot.
My particular university is tech-centric. I'm pretty sure it has female admissions quotas and also offers better scholarships to them. They also indicate your sex with a "M" or "F" on the marking sheets. Coincidence? No way -- the TAs aren't stupid. Well, not all of them. I used to write stories for a faculty newspaper about this subject, but they were all banned.
The HR guys at my first academic job placement said that any non-hideous female that applies for a job in Information Services will get it. He considers hiring underqualified women a "cost of doing business in the tech industry". Three companies later, I can see that this is definitely true. Geeks really like having women around, even if they have no chance (or no ability) to score. I have personally coddled underqualified chicks -- but they were hotties. You probably have too, but maybe you didn't notice.
So, all and all, if you're female then things are good. Perhaps the homosexuals are having a good time too.
"I work for a small ISP and can say that this just wouldn't be financialy feasable."
Technology like this will eventually crush small ISPs. There is a huge economy of scale in the high-bandwidth ISP business that small ISPs will never achieve. Small ISPs are pretty small much fish in the evaporating modem pool.
Actually, methinks something like this could mutate and eventually kill ISPs altogether because the transport medium is free and unregulated.
If you get enough computer geeks with [quasi-directional] roof-top stations with/and/or localized radio LANs then you could eventually bridge the entire continent on a sub-Internet.
In a perfect fantastic world every building would just be a relaying node one big spanking public network. (Maybe free networking will become the next electric car -- suppressed but it will happen eventually.)
There would be all sorts of neat-o architecture problems too. Fun stuff for the network-design masochist and the script kiddie alike.
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I just looked at this article as my employer uses Debian and Ubuntu heavily and I've been pushing for ZFS on our file servers. There is no mention of ZFS version, the feature set available, or even a link to the source material.
ZoL is based on ZFS version 28 from the last open Solaris release, and currently integrating Illumos as its upstream.
There isn't much mention of how to use ZFS. I happen to know most commands, but I think this article would be difficult for a beginner even though it seems to be targeted at that demographic.
It looks like the Slashdot editors are doing this blogger a favor by linking to a mostly empty article.
At a minimum, this article should link to the ZoL home page, the ZoL Launchpad page for packages, and maybe the ZFS introduction or another tutorial.
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
You will need the first version of Windows 95 to run this: Internet Explorer 1.0
(The earliest version of IE that I could find on Evolt was 1.5.)
On the off chance... are you a Sympatico (DSL) subscriber? Their transparent HTTP proxy is very badly broken -- the guys that run Sympatico HSE are morons -- so APT gets confused with list/package inconsistencies.
If you specify chsmc.bellglobal.com:80 as your proxy in your apt.conf file and set your cache time to zero, then potato updates will come down smoothly. It took me a while to figure this out.
It follows that they will eventually be able to project realistic advertisements onto small objects, like my shirt. Perhaps a company like Nike would be interested in paying to have a few hundred people in the stands wearing their 'swoosh'.
If they did that to me (and I somehow found about it) I would be awfully upset. Nike is a repugnant corporation, and I wouldn't want them putting 'words' on my back. I wonder if I would have any legal recourse? -- Is that false representation?
This is what I do to keep my slink boxes current without upgrading to potato:
Manually download the potato debhelper package and install it with the 'dpkg --install ...' command. You must have the new debhelper (which is just a collection of scripts) to get the potato packages working.
Edit '/etc/apt/sources.list' and add the line 'deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free'
Run 'apt-get update'.
Run 'apt-get source PotatoPackage' from /root for anything that you need updated.
Move into the new directory that apt-get will create. Run 'debian/rules binary'. (Note that you could use dpkg-buildpackage instead.)
You will now have current debs that are linked against the slink libraries. This is very handy indeed, especially if you want or need only a few new packages.
Oh no! I must correct myself. The link goes to https only on the post. My firewall prevents the submission of anything to a script if the referring page was not also encrypted!
Venture not further for here ye be dragons!
If you "Apply Online" personal information like your bank account numbers, annual income, and SSN are submitted unencrypted across the Internet.
A financial institution that does not use crypto by force of habit can not be trusted with my money.
Everybody likes to bitch about this problem. Personally, I've made myself a promise to shutup and accept the situation because my whining was annoying some of my buddies. Yes, it sucks to be us, so let our earning potential balance everything out. Life is not perfect.
However, we forget that the this chick thing is dichotomous. If you're female, and you're in the computer industry or you want to get in, then you're all set. It follows that I have to make this observation apparent because there are so few chicks reading Slashdot.
My particular university is tech-centric. I'm pretty sure it has female admissions quotas and also offers better scholarships to them. They also indicate your sex with a "M" or "F" on the marking sheets. Coincidence? No way -- the TAs aren't stupid. Well, not all of them. I used to write stories for a faculty newspaper about this subject, but they were all banned.
The HR guys at my first academic job placement said that any non-hideous female that applies for a job in Information Services will get it. He considers hiring underqualified women a "cost of doing business in the tech industry". Three companies later, I can see that this is definitely true. Geeks really like having women around, even if they have no chance (or no ability) to score. I have personally coddled underqualified chicks -- but they were hotties. You probably have too, but maybe you didn't notice.
So, all and all, if you're female then things are good. Perhaps the homosexuals are having a good time too.
"I work for a small ISP and can say that this just wouldn't be financialy feasable."
Technology like this will eventually crush small ISPs. There is a huge economy of scale in the high-bandwidth ISP business that small ISPs will never achieve. Small ISPs are pretty small much fish in the evaporating modem pool.
Actually, methinks something like this could mutate and eventually kill ISPs altogether because the transport medium is free and unregulated.
If you get enough computer geeks with [quasi-directional] roof-top stations with/and/or localized radio LANs then you could eventually bridge the entire continent on a sub-Internet.
In a perfect fantastic world every building would just be a relaying node one big spanking public network. (Maybe free networking will become the next electric car -- suppressed but it will happen eventually.)
There would be all sorts of neat-o architecture problems too. Fun stuff for the network-design masochist and the script kiddie alike.