Being a sysadmin shouldn't require coding meaningful things. Sure, its more fun that way if you're both a programmer and an admin (like myself), but in all honesty, you should be able to hire a programmer to do programming and administration shouldn't require any elegant programming skills.
Most people also haven't looked at what you can do with rsync and its backup option to preserve old versions of files. See http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html for examples.
Combined with connections to an off-site backup or then backing up the rsync destination, you get easy per-machine backups with versioning too.
Tell me how you connect to an application on your Windows computer without the whole desktop.
If you just want the desktop, VNC works fine just like Windows (and Gnome even has a "share this desktop" option that runs in the tray like VNC on Windows).
If you want individual applications, you're right, its annoying to arrange GUI migration (probably doable with Xnest) and it would be a lot of fun if it were easier.
So you don't know about/usr/share/doc, you haven't used a distro newer than FC3 and you haven't used USB on competing operating systems without reaching for a driver disk.
I plugged a new USB printer into my Fedora 9 machine and it detected and worked. I plugged a USB webcam into it and it didn't; so I installed the drivers, and then it did. Every time.
My firewire card? no drivers necessary. My motherboard chipset? No drivers necessary. How about my mouse, and keyboard extra buttons? supported. Wow, this sucks:)
As for video support, watch gstreamer, that's evolving nicely.
There aren't very many situations that require ACLs over single user/group -- especially if you create meta-users and combined groups.
For example, I have users for myself and my wife, both in group 'family'. I am also in group 'admin' (for sudo), and group 'coder' (access to src directory). I have a user 'media' that owns all my media directories and 'mediacodec' which I 'su' to for transcoding. The transcoding user is a member of media, but not family, and the programs then have access to the media folder and its files but not my personal files (in case of back door / privilege escalation / etc.).
Intelligent group and user creation makes things very secure, and there's rarely a reason to use root.
Personally, I'd love to see a DKMS-like system for packaging binary software with a run-time compiled interface for the system in use for certain types of software.
No need to recompile the whole shabang, just the interfaces as necessary for the local system with automatic re-binding if those interfaces change (like DKMS and kernel versions).
NetworkManager is hell for me on non-laptops... sure, on a laptop with wireless and roaming, its cute, but for most of my machines, I want to get into ifcfg-eth0 or network-config-gui and set the parameters I like. NetworkManager doesn't have a quarter the options that are available that way, and it always feels like I'm dealing with 'ifconfig's stupid little brother.
Although if someone wants to make 'xcp' or 'glcp' they're more than welcome to do so, it might be entertaining. Just leave the original software alone.
tbh, I really like the newish multi-file-transfer dialog box Gnome has on Fedora 9 when I start a second file copy/move while one is already underway. I like the little icon in the tray too. But I only like GUIs when they provide enhanced functionality -- which is why all my system administration is done from a command-line where I can pipe and sort and muck with data all I like.
Influence is irrelevant, the question is how much respect do they have. The Gnome and KDE people seem to be playing a lot nicer of late because of the desktop linux initiative, but none of that has anything to do with forcing standards on people who don't have to listen.
Assuming for a moment that BitTorrent sent individual chunks of files as single UDP packets, this wouldn't actually be true anymore.
That would be massively inefficient, but the current protocol is too.
For all my experience with QoS and firewalling, I still can't manage to keep my gaming sessions lag-free while downloading Fedora 10's DVD by BitTorrent (at any reasonable speed), but its fine using HTTP/FTP.
That hasn't been an issue in Linux before (see serial code refactoring, SCSI rewrite, etc.)
IMHO it would be worthwhile to have some of the filesystem and LVM maintainers discuss exposing each others parts (pun wafts overhead) and see what value could be obtained.
Personally, more of the filesystem logic that's in things like Reiser4 and Ext4 should've been developed within LVM2, but I'm not the expert by any means.
I second Deus Ex, excellent story, quite engrossing although I'd argue it wasn't an FPS but a 3D adventure game with shooting (just because you don't spend _most_ of your time aiming at things to shoot).
Bioshock tried too (I know, I know, some people loved it), and Half Life does fairly well too.
Personally, I liked the minimalistic story telling in the Resident Evil series as a perfect balance of "why you're doing this" and the shooter/horror mechanic.
That said, Dead Space has an excellent lead-up story (the comic series) and back-story written for the game which helps a lot for understanding what's going on.
I'm sure that the supervisor appreciated some random asshole telling him how to do his job and manage his staff.
If he didn't, he shouldn't be in management. Here's a clue: "the customer's always right." Now to be fair, with outsourced customer service, Dell is their customer, not you, but to have employees annoying the people making them money (indirectly) is bad for business and the manager SHOULD want to know and SHOULD fix it.
If you knew the number of people I've had removed from cases on the front lines at various customer service sites by talking to managers who obviously cared more than their workers did, you'd change your tone.
PS I fill out a lot of satisfaction surveys from Dell because I spend quite a bite of time on the phone with their tech support, and they have good and bad apples like everyone else. For everyone wanting a tip: hang up on the person and call back, you'll get a new random person and they might be better.
Well-said, and thanks. MOST people 'believe' by 'faith' most everything they deal with mentally in their day-to-day lives. They do not test, nor check the testing of the beliefs they have, and therefore its faith, whether its in Religion or Science, its faith.
The hardest part to explain to Windows users is that they don't need to Google for the software they want, just grab it off the package manager's menu.
Sure you can do all those complicated command-line things if you want, and I know people who know very little about computers who just type the instructions (./configure, make, make install) and make the software they want work without much effort anyway.
The best part is that it works. The packages are designed to work together on the system because they're packaged together by a distro, and for the most part its well done.
By the time you're done with those cuts, you may as well eliminate the defence budget too as there will be almost no ideals left worth defending in the country.
Not to mention that anyone left with the ability to support themselves already lives off-shore part-time if not full-time and doesn't need the help of the military.
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Got an axe to grind, or just felt like tossing some FUD about?
IPSec comes to mind.
Being a sysadmin shouldn't require coding meaningful things. Sure, its more fun that way if you're both a programmer and an admin (like myself), but in all honesty, you should be able to hire a programmer to do programming and administration shouldn't require any elegant programming skills.
You mean he didn't force you to use a non-authenticated active mode FTP session with comma-delimited files instead?
You got off easy :-)
Most people also haven't looked at what you can do with rsync and its backup option to preserve old versions of files. See http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html for examples.
Combined with connections to an off-site backup or then backing up the rsync destination, you get easy per-machine backups with versioning too.
Tell me how you connect to an application on your Windows computer without the whole desktop.
If you just want the desktop, VNC works fine just like Windows (and Gnome even has a "share this desktop" option that runs in the tray like VNC on Windows).
If you want individual applications, you're right, its annoying to arrange GUI migration (probably doable with Xnest) and it would be a lot of fun if it were easier.
So you don't know about /usr/share/doc, you haven't used a distro newer than FC3 and you haven't used USB on competing operating systems without reaching for a driver disk.
I plugged a new USB printer into my Fedora 9 machine and it detected and worked. I plugged a USB webcam into it and it didn't; so I installed the drivers, and then it did. Every time.
My firewire card? no drivers necessary. My motherboard chipset? No drivers necessary. How about my mouse, and keyboard extra buttons? supported. Wow, this sucks :)
As for video support, watch gstreamer, that's evolving nicely.
No they both use code wholesale from BSD :-)
There aren't very many situations that require ACLs over single user/group -- especially if you create meta-users and combined groups.
For example, I have users for myself and my wife, both in group 'family'. I am also in group 'admin' (for sudo), and group 'coder' (access to src directory). I have a user 'media' that owns all my media directories and 'mediacodec' which I 'su' to for transcoding. The transcoding user is a member of media, but not family, and the programs then have access to the media folder and its files but not my personal files (in case of back door / privilege escalation / etc.).
Intelligent group and user creation makes things very secure, and there's rarely a reason to use root.
Personally, I'd love to see a DKMS-like system for packaging binary software with a run-time compiled interface for the system in use for certain types of software.
No need to recompile the whole shabang, just the interfaces as necessary for the local system with automatic re-binding if those interfaces change (like DKMS and kernel versions).
NetworkManager is hell for me on non-laptops ... sure, on a laptop with wireless and roaming, its cute, but for most of my machines, I want to get into ifcfg-eth0 or network-config-gui and set the parameters I like. NetworkManager doesn't have a quarter the options that are available that way, and it always feels like I'm dealing with 'ifconfig's stupid little brother.
Although if someone wants to make 'xcp' or 'glcp' they're more than welcome to do so, it might be entertaining. Just leave the original software alone.
tbh, I really like the newish multi-file-transfer dialog box Gnome has on Fedora 9 when I start a second file copy/move while one is already underway. I like the little icon in the tray too. But I only like GUIs when they provide enhanced functionality -- which is why all my system administration is done from a command-line where I can pipe and sort and muck with data all I like.
You mean like my desk? If you want order above functionality, grab OS X.
Influence is irrelevant, the question is how much respect do they have. The Gnome and KDE people seem to be playing a lot nicer of late because of the desktop linux initiative, but none of that has anything to do with forcing standards on people who don't have to listen.
Assuming for a moment that BitTorrent sent individual chunks of files as single UDP packets, this wouldn't actually be true anymore.
That would be massively inefficient, but the current protocol is too.
For all my experience with QoS and firewalling, I still can't manage to keep my gaming sessions lag-free while downloading Fedora 10's DVD by BitTorrent (at any reasonable speed), but its fine using HTTP/FTP.
That hasn't been an issue in Linux before (see serial code refactoring, SCSI rewrite, etc.)
IMHO it would be worthwhile to have some of the filesystem and LVM maintainers discuss exposing each others parts (pun wafts overhead) and see what value could be obtained.
Personally, more of the filesystem logic that's in things like Reiser4 and Ext4 should've been developed within LVM2, but I'm not the expert by any means.
You should post them on Slashdot instead so you can feel low and stupid :-) I hear its great for your self-esteem.
Horror reading:
In C: DJB's source of anything (one-letter variables, three letter functions, etc.) -- clean, well-organized and horrific all at once :)
In C++: Hylafax.
In Python: BitTorrent
Your suggestions? :)
No no, observe:
data = {'name': 'hdon', 'uid': 1104251}
print "by %(name)s (%(uid)d)" % data
Now ^ that's sexy. Dictionary handling in strings (that works for any string literal, anywhere in your code).
I second Deus Ex, excellent story, quite engrossing although I'd argue it wasn't an FPS but a 3D adventure game with shooting (just because you don't spend _most_ of your time aiming at things to shoot).
Bioshock tried too (I know, I know, some people loved it), and Half Life does fairly well too.
Personally, I liked the minimalistic story telling in the Resident Evil series as a perfect balance of "why you're doing this" and the shooter/horror mechanic.
That said, Dead Space has an excellent lead-up story (the comic series) and back-story written for the game which helps a lot for understanding what's going on.
If he didn't, he shouldn't be in management. Here's a clue: "the customer's always right." Now to be fair, with outsourced customer service, Dell is their customer, not you, but to have employees annoying the people making them money (indirectly) is bad for business and the manager SHOULD want to know and SHOULD fix it.
If you knew the number of people I've had removed from cases on the front lines at various customer service sites by talking to managers who obviously cared more than their workers did, you'd change your tone.
PS I fill out a lot of satisfaction surveys from Dell because I spend quite a bite of time on the phone with their tech support, and they have good and bad apples like everyone else. For everyone wanting a tip: hang up on the person and call back, you'll get a new random person and they might be better.
Well-said, and thanks. MOST people 'believe' by 'faith' most everything they deal with mentally in their day-to-day lives. They do not test, nor check the testing of the beliefs they have, and therefore its faith, whether its in Religion or Science, its faith.
The hardest part to explain to Windows users is that they don't need to Google for the software they want, just grab it off the package manager's menu.
Sure you can do all those complicated command-line things if you want, and I know people who know very little about computers who just type the instructions (./configure, make, make install) and make the software they want work without much effort anyway.
The best part is that it works. The packages are designed to work together on the system because they're packaged together by a distro, and for the most part its well done.
Up yours, try my software ;-)
By the time you're done with those cuts, you may as well eliminate the defence budget too as there will be almost no ideals left worth defending in the country.
Not to mention that anyone left with the ability to support themselves already lives off-shore part-time if not full-time and doesn't need the help of the military.