The CentOS project is serving the beta ISOs from their tracker, but Ill be damned if I can find the.torrent files served via CentOS. $random_blog_guy is serving some which link you up to the CentOS tracker.
According to our graphs, our targeted frontend is taking the drone's trashy SSL requests like a champ (reverse-proxies are humming as expected, no inordinate load, etc).
I clicked through the DIY offering ($229), and I was only offered Vista or Windows 7. Ubuntu was _not_ on the list. Not that I care (would wipe the Zino once unboxed), but its worth nothing that these do not appear to be shipping from Dell with Ubuntu as a pre-installed option. I didnt check the other systems, but Im sure all us GNU/Linux users would opt for the low-end, no-frills offering if we wanted to build an open-source HTPC, etc.
We do this for many many Drupal sites on many horizontal web nodes via bzr + ant. By 'sites' I mean no multi-site; each 'site' gets its own Drupal instance. By 'Drupal instance', I mean the 'Drupal instance' is an ant-powered deploy from a branch in bzr comprised of vendor branches (core + modules) merged in plus customizations by our shop. Each environment gets a branch, and we merge code upstream (dev -> tst -> prd).
The only thing 'shared' across the infrastructure is the web services and frameworks on the webapp nodes. Ant is great at auto-magic MySQL db provisioning, Drush calls to pound the schema, APC cache flushes, Memcached bops, etc. Also I would throw myself off a bridge if I had to manage all the complex merges across our branches and dealing with updating the vendor branches.
Others here also made the comment wrt code up, content down. Live it, love it; SERIOUSLY! Refresh often, and give your devs anonymized slices of the db for them to keep on a laptop they will undoubtedly leave in a cab. Were currently bending ant to perform the downstream refreshes + sanitizes. Looks very promising.
Also if youre not able to bastardize ant to do what you want it to do, look at ant-contrib to further extend the tool.
I know Mac users are about as likely as Linux users to watch basketball, but with the recent increased popularity of Macs, wouldn't that be a selling point for open formats? I can't imagine OSX has a good Silverlight implementation. I couldn't even find evidence of Moonlight being ported over.
Wrong. Im a Mac user and I watched about 5 hours of tournament coverage last night (Go Horns!) over the intartubes via http://mmod.ncaa.com/video. Silverlight 2 worked like a champ in Firefox 3.0.7 atop OS X 10.5.6. It was pretty slick, and the quality of the stream was fantastic. Blew through over a gigabyte of transfer per hour of streaming. And I watched over the air on my couch. It was great.
Once Silverlight showed up with OS X support several months back, both initial installation and subsequent upgrades 'just freakin worked'.
But I likely wouldnt have had such a good night if I still pimped Ubuntu on a portable...:/
If you dont have a pressing need, why bother powering them up? Theres a reason $job pulled them from the colo. Im sure they are hungry heat-factories. Keep that green in your wallet when its time to pay the monthly power utility bill and just dont power them up.
And if youre not going to spin them up, punt them to someone who needs/wants them while they still have some value before Moore renders them useless...
So they used the same excuse twice - log rotation - RIAAs new enemy.
Sadly, thats what things have come to in higher-ed IT regarding subpoenas and legal issues: log as little as possible... so that theres little to offer up to those who come asking. Srsly.
We in higher-ed IT have leveraged it often as a great Internet kiosk-like platform. Superb for dealing with semester rushes of students needing to open computer accounts in-person even though we moved registration onto the web so they wouldnt need to bother trekking to the labs to bootstrap themselves into the site. Really made the old hats happy wrt 'people will show up and need Intartubes to do biz as we had for years'.
Best kiosk-y Linux LiveCD to-date when we did the research into the subject to meet the above.
Too bad it requires Oracle. Im already jumping from RHEL to CentOS to cut operations costs given my broke higher-ed shop. Hopefully the project's codebase will mature to allow for a db backend which doesnt require me to pump a lot of cash I dont have to Papa Ellison in Redwood City.
Erm, dont you get;login: by being a USENIX member? I believe you can let SAGE dues lapse and still receive issues as long as you pay up your USENIX dues...
Isnt SAGE dead? I mean, sage-members@ is still somewhat active, but isnt the SIG half-spunoff, mostly-abandoned by USENIX?
I would look into joining LOPSA. The mailing lists are pretty active, the IRC channel is pretty helpful with technical issues or direction, and its non-abandonware trying to build an international community of professional sysadmins. $50/year if you want to support the group, and localized chapters are around if you want to engage locally. I spend quite a bit of time fostering the community here in Austin, Texas, USA since I think the local network is one of the most valuable resources available to all, be they green juniors to Unix-bearded seniors.
Hope this helps.
NB: Oh, and I still _highly_ recommend attending a LISA conference.
I find http://cleansoftware.org/ to be great to give to those running Windows who want malware-free third-party applications.
FTWS: "CleanSoftware.org is a resource to help Windows users find the best free daily-use software, free from nasties: adware, spyware, harmful/intrusive components, and threats to privacy. This is a small collection of software we have used personally. Most of these titles have been our favourite software for years, and highly endorsed."
I asked him during the Q&A if his view of the GPL and free|open source software had changed since the days of his (in)famous 'Open Letter To Hobbyists', especially given the explosion of Linux in the enterprise during the last decade.
His response? The GPL is a poison, more or less. Sigh.:/
TrueCrypt is cool, but its more for SOHO implementations. There needs to be a F/OSS offering which supports escrow. This is a very, _very_ important requirement when investigating encryption implementations for the enterprise.
Dont misread me..edu and.gov _should_ leverage F/OSS as best as they can. But infosec folks are looking for a well-rounded solution that scales. Unfortunately, vendorware is the only thing that meets that need so it appears...
To the best of my knowledge, the pipe for UT-Austin is a couple of 'commodity-Internet' OC3s leased from a lone carrier (Qwest). Using the 95th percentile on UTNet's 'busy days', inbound traffic hits around ~350 Mbps. Another thing to note is that the Internet2 uplink for UT-Austin is a Qwest OC12 (either it is or will be a GigE connection to I2 in the near future). Commodity-Internet is somewhat saturated, but decent. The big win is the I2 uplink being blazing (fast and fairly not saturated).
One of the things I experienced as a student in the dorms at UT-Austin (2000-2001) was the leveraging of a throughput quota on ResNet ports. I believe they alotted activated-for-pay ports six gigs of throughput in a given calendar week. Today, things have changed slightly:
$20 per month / 4 GB per week
$30 per month / 8 GB per week
$40 per month / 12 GB per week
So thats a big negative for all the 18-year old network gobblers out there who play GAMEZ and swap FILEZ.
I clicked your link for grins to see what this was about. First, it looks like the ServersCheck stuff has been remedied. There is also something interesting... Funny how I can get similar results returned with a ServersCheck query with some other interesting live search results via Google Suggest.
Examples?
-adobe photoshop cs (returns hits for crack, serial, keygen, etc.) -acrobat professional (returns hits for crack(s) and serial(s)) -labview (returns hit for torrent) -office 2003 (all but one are crack, keygen, and serial 'oriented') -dvd (just plain funny how just about every hit is a copy-protection circumvention oriented result)
Lets just hope these big timers (MS/Adobe/NI all have some hefty cash money) dont follow suit with a suit to follow...;)
Slashdot Mirror
fuzz:Packages silkey$ pwd /Volumes/RHEL_6.0 i386 Di/Packages
fuzz:Packages silkey$ ls -1 php*
php-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-cli-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-common-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-gd-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-ldap-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-mcrypt-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-mysql-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-odbc-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-pdo-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-pear-1.9.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm
php-pecl-apc-3.1.3p1-1.1.el6.i686.rpm
php-pecl-memcache-3.0.4-3.1.el6.i686.rpm
php-pgsql-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-soap-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-xml-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
php-xmlrpc-5.3.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
Erm, why not try a more legit-smelling tracker? ;)
The CentOS project is serving the beta ISOs from their tracker, but Ill be damned if I can find the .torrent files served via CentOS. $random_blog_guy is serving some which link you up to the CentOS tracker.
http://www.karan.org/stuff/rhel6-i386-beta-dvd.torrent
http://www.karan.org/stuff/rhel6-ppc64-beta-dvd.torrent
http://www.karan.org/stuff/rhel6-x86_64-beta-dvd.torrent
http://torrent.centos.org:6969/
Sums check out. Waaaay faster than the smoldering ftp.redhat heap that were all machine-gunning. ;)
According to our graphs, our targeted frontend is taking the drone's trashy SSL requests like a champ (reverse-proxies are humming as expected, no inordinate load, etc).
You too can see if you are on the hitlist: http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Calendar/20100129
I clicked through the DIY offering ($229), and I was only offered Vista or Windows 7. Ubuntu was _not_ on the list. Not that I care (would wipe the Zino once unboxed), but its worth nothing that these do not appear to be shipping from Dell with Ubuntu as a pre-installed option. I didnt check the other systems, but Im sure all us GNU/Linux users would opt for the low-end, no-frills offering if we wanted to build an open-source HTPC, etc.
FWIW ...
We do this for many many Drupal sites on many horizontal web nodes via bzr + ant. By 'sites' I mean no multi-site; each 'site' gets its own Drupal instance. By 'Drupal instance', I mean the 'Drupal instance' is an ant-powered deploy from a branch in bzr comprised of vendor branches (core + modules) merged in plus customizations by our shop. Each environment gets a branch, and we merge code upstream (dev -> tst -> prd).
The only thing 'shared' across the infrastructure is the web services and frameworks on the webapp nodes. Ant is great at auto-magic MySQL db provisioning, Drush calls to pound the schema, APC cache flushes, Memcached bops, etc. Also I would throw myself off a bridge if I had to manage all the complex merges across our branches and dealing with updating the vendor branches.
Others here also made the comment wrt code up, content down. Live it, love it; SERIOUSLY! Refresh often, and give your devs anonymized slices of the db for them to keep on a laptop they will undoubtedly leave in a cab. Were currently bending ant to perform the downstream refreshes + sanitizes. Looks very promising.
Also if youre not able to bastardize ant to do what you want it to do, look at ant-contrib to further extend the tool.
http://bazaar-vcs.org/en/
http://ant.apache.org/
http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/
Slightly OT: The J2EE guys at $employer prefer a maven+ant+svn approach. YMMV.
Have fun. These are very interesting toys to play with, tbh.
K9Mail has fixed the Content-Type bug you speak of:
http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/detail?id=94
Dont think its fixed in Mail-proper:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1763
I know Mac users are about as likely as Linux users to watch basketball, but with the recent increased popularity of Macs, wouldn't that be a selling point for open formats? I can't imagine OSX has a good Silverlight implementation. I couldn't even find evidence of Moonlight being ported over.
Wrong. Im a Mac user and I watched about 5 hours of tournament coverage last night (Go Horns!) over the intartubes via http://mmod.ncaa.com/video. Silverlight 2 worked like a champ in Firefox 3.0.7 atop OS X 10.5.6. It was pretty slick, and the quality of the stream was fantastic. Blew through over a gigabyte of transfer per hour of streaming. And I watched over the air on my couch. It was great.
Once Silverlight showed up with OS X support several months back, both initial installation and subsequent upgrades 'just freakin worked'.
But I likely wouldnt have had such a good night if I still pimped Ubuntu on a portable ... :/
If you dont have a pressing need, why bother powering them up? Theres a reason $job pulled them from the colo. Im sure they are hungry heat-factories. Keep that green in your wallet when its time to pay the monthly power utility bill and just dont power them up.
And if youre not going to spin them up, punt them to someone who needs/wants them while they still have some value before Moore renders them useless ...
So they used the same excuse twice - log rotation - RIAAs new enemy.
Sadly, thats what things have come to in higher-ed IT regarding subpoenas and legal issues: log as little as possible ... so that theres little to offer up to those who come asking. Srsly.
Unpatched _still_? Latent, too? Who are these jokers?
Whadda ya know, you guys are pushing Cornell's Spider ...
SENF is cool, but I leveraged Cornell's Spider to get my SSN|CC scan on. Even thought I work at utexas.edu (home of SENF), perl > java kthx. :)
webconverger++;
We in higher-ed IT have leveraged it often as a great Internet kiosk-like platform. Superb for dealing with semester rushes of students needing to open computer accounts in-person even though we moved registration onto the web so they wouldnt need to bother trekking to the labs to bootstrap themselves into the site. Really made the old hats happy wrt 'people will show up and need Intartubes to do biz as we had for years'.
Best kiosk-y Linux LiveCD to-date when we did the research into the subject to meet the above.
Too bad it requires Oracle. Im already jumping from RHEL to CentOS to cut operations costs given my broke higher-ed shop. Hopefully the project's codebase will mature to allow for a db backend which doesnt require me to pump a lot of cash I dont have to Papa Ellison in Redwood City.
Erm, dont you get ;login: by being a USENIX member? I believe you can let SAGE dues lapse and still receive issues as long as you pay up your USENIX dues ...
Isnt SAGE dead? I mean, sage-members@ is still somewhat active, but isnt the SIG half-spunoff, mostly-abandoned by USENIX?
I would look into joining LOPSA. The mailing lists are pretty active, the IRC channel is pretty helpful with technical issues or direction, and its non-abandonware trying to build an international community of professional sysadmins. $50/year if you want to support the group, and localized chapters are around if you want to engage locally. I spend quite a bit of time fostering the community here in Austin, Texas, USA since I think the local network is one of the most valuable resources available to all, be they green juniors to Unix-bearded seniors.
Hope this helps.
NB: Oh, and I still _highly_ recommend attending a LISA conference.
I find http://cleansoftware.org/ to be great to give to those running Windows who want malware-free third-party applications.
FTWS: "CleanSoftware.org is a resource to help Windows users find the best free daily-use software, free from nasties: adware, spyware, harmful/intrusive components, and threats to privacy. This is a small collection of software we have used personally. Most of these titles have been our favourite software for years, and highly endorsed."
billg recently visited utexas.edu and lectured computer science and computer engineering students. I was able to luckily attend even though Im a lowly Unix sysadmin for ece.utexas.edu. :)
:/
I asked him during the Q&A if his view of the GPL and free|open source software had changed since the days of his (in)famous 'Open Letter To Hobbyists', especially given the explosion of Linux in the enterprise during the last decade.
His response? The GPL is a poison, more or less. Sigh.
TrueCrypt is cool, but its more for SOHO implementations. There needs to be a F/OSS offering which supports escrow. This is a very, _very_ important requirement when investigating encryption implementations for the enterprise.
got escrow?
Three words: enterprise key escrow.
.edu and .gov _should_ leverage F/OSS as best as they can. But infosec folks are looking for a well-rounded solution that scales. Unfortunately, vendorware is the only thing that meets that need so it appears ...
Dont misread me.
iu.edu doesnt appear to grok I2 (at least from what hops are returned in traceroutes from utexas.edu to iu.edu).
Solaris 10 6/06 media-based installs think you should. It is enabled by default.
To the best of my knowledge, the pipe for UT-Austin is a couple of 'commodity-Internet' OC3s leased from a lone carrier (Qwest). Using the 95th percentile on UTNet's 'busy days', inbound traffic hits around ~350 Mbps. Another thing to note is that the Internet2 uplink for UT-Austin is a Qwest OC12 (either it is or will be a GigE connection to I2 in the near future). Commodity-Internet is somewhat saturated, but decent. The big win is the I2 uplink being blazing (fast and fairly not saturated).
One of the things I experienced as a student in the dorms at UT-Austin (2000-2001) was the leveraging of a throughput quota on ResNet ports. I believe they alotted activated-for-pay ports six gigs of throughput in a given calendar week. Today, things have changed slightly:
So thats a big negative for all the 18-year old network gobblers out there who play GAMEZ and swap FILEZ.
So we are National Champions _and_ Gaming Gods? Sweet. ;)
I clicked your link for grins to see what this was about. First, it looks like the ServersCheck stuff has been remedied. There is also something interesting... Funny how I can get similar results returned with a ServersCheck query with some other interesting live search results via Google Suggest.
... ;)
Examples?
-adobe photoshop cs
(returns hits for crack, serial, keygen, etc.)
-acrobat professional
(returns hits for crack(s) and serial(s))
-labview
(returns hit for torrent)
-office 2003
(all but one are crack, keygen, and serial 'oriented')
-dvd
(just plain funny how just about every hit is a copy-protection circumvention oriented result)
Lets just hope these big timers (MS/Adobe/NI all have some hefty cash money) dont follow suit with a suit to follow