I just don't bother asking. I figure they came to me to have their computer worked on and SP2 is a major 'fix' so why bother them with the worry? When SP2 first came out, it did kill a few student laptops (BSOD on reboot) which was a pain, but all it took was a clean install which I've got automated thanks to Unattended.
I've been looking for some time for a OSS based transparent filter that would scan for viruses/malware on IM ports. It would alleviate a lot of these problems, anyone seen or heard of anything like that?
Legend holds that Shakespeare *never* rewrote any of his plays or poems. He didn't even bother to cross out anything as he wrote. But then, we're not all Shakespeare's are we? Still I think there's something to be said for leaving well enough alone. When we change what we believe is a flaw, it also changes much of the original genius and beauty of a work.
What's wrong with Tyan's Opteron offerings? I've built two systems now with Tyan S2882 boards and found them extremely powerful. The board includes dual gigabit ethernet ports and 1 10/100 port. It does not have PCI-E but it's got plenty of PCI-X slots. If you absolutely need PCI-E, look at the S2892 boards which still have AMD chipsets but also support a NVIDIA controller in order to provide PCI-E.
I've had no trouble with the boards under RHEL3 or RHEL4. So what's missing from these boards that the Intel boards have?
Jay
I know, and it had me all excited too:-(
I'm playing around with Debian's auto-install text file (sort of like unattend.txt on Windows or kickstart on RHEL) and see if I can skip the serial port...
2) Probably about the same, but of course, a external hard drive is going to suck a lot more power...
3) No. The Intel arm chipped is locked at 266mhz. Linksys used a trick to underclock it. The hack simply restores it to the chips normal speed.
1) Yes, see http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ for more info. User's have succeded in adding USB based webcams, bluetooth, ethernet, flashdisks, etc. It's true USB 2.0 so anything that has a Linux driver that will compile under ARM should work fine.
This is not an overclock. For reasons unknown, Linksys chose to clock the unit at 133mhz. The chip is spec'ed by intel to run at 266mhz w/o cooling. So your not overclocking your un-underclocking:-)
I figured someone would do something like this with the destructive nature of the project. What if we had nuked the moon?. The lawyer bill alone would have bankrupted the US government.
Is an unrealized danger of OSS that others may take your project in a direction you didn't intend?
This is not a danger, it's simply a attribute of OSS. Do you really think Linus sat down to write the kernel and ever considered it'd be used on millions of computers worldwide for mission critical systems? When you release your code Open Source, your basically saying to the world "do with it as you please". Some license clauses may prevent certain uses (i.e. many OSS SMTP Servers have a clause that says if you use this software for Spam, you're in violation of the license). But as a OSS Developer I can't say that only Americans can use my code, or prevent those of other religions from using it to benefit their religion. And I certainly can't prevent some company from "leeching" by profiting from my work without giving back equally to the OSS community. That's life and that's OSS. Most companies however realize that as a whole, you get back what you put into something.
RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 ships with MySQL 4.1 (and the server is fully supported unlike RHEL3).
Fedora Core 4test1 ships with MySQL 4.1.
wish granted.
So this weekend (yep, my holiday weekend) a close friend of my parents needed serious help. Her external drive (where she unfortunately saved all her data without backups) had stopped working. This was her entire business (stupid mistake, but common among end users). She had already spoken to one "IT Pro" who had taken a look, said the drive was completely dead and told her to send the drive to one of those low level recovery services which cost $3000. I took the drive, plugged it in to USB, and copied her files right off. Turns out the firewire connection on the drive had died. This "IT Pro" didn't even have the brains to try a different connection type! When someone tells me they've got a friend or brother or son in IT I assume only that that person is an idiot. Often I'm correct. If you don't know what your talking about, shut your mouth. Don't try to oversimplify or make something up. It makes all of us look bad.
He wrote the famous memo that claimed 63,000 bugs in Windows 2000 gold. Evidently his discontempt for Microsoft's software practices has been boiling for some time. Hope he does well at Google.
I've always believed within my lifetime, chess would be solved. In other words, a computer would come up with the perfect solution to chess so that no matter what moves you possible make, out of the, i dunno, billions, trillions, or higher number of possible moves, the computer knows how to beat you. The simplest comparison I can think of is tic-tac-toe. If you've played tic-tac-toe enough, you've learned that no matter who goes first, someone can always force a cat (tie game). I wonder, is it possible to always force a draw in chess or might it be that whoever goes first can always win? Sure the computing power to figure this out is beyond anything we have now, but with quantum computing and other advancements, I expect to see chess solved in my lifetime.
Hmm... You're right, I checked the Spamhaus.org ratings after I posted and Verizon is listed at #8 while MCI is #1. Still, my thought is that the majority of Verizon spam servers are DSL users who are ignorant zombies. MCI has been known to continue allowing allowing spammers to setup legit (at least in their eyes) servers and send out Spam, while in Verizon's case, it seems to be more hacked boxes. Verizon should do more to defend against this, but they've certainly done better than MCI. One reason their #8 is probably because their also one of the largest ISPs. Comcast is #4.
MCI is currently the largest ISP allowing (and some consider supporting) spammers to use their bandwidth.
Verizon is currently one of the most aggressive anti-spam ISPs. Some have argued they've gone to far blocking legit messages often but most of their users are happy about the spam control.
How these two will mesh may be a very interesting chapter in the war on Spam.
good point. I ran the MS beta on my desktop. It detected a win32 port of gnu cat (cat.exe) as "Norwegian Porn Dialer". Don't recall seeing that option added...
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Take a look at How to become a hacker by ESR
It's the basis of Oreilly's hack series. The books goals are to stimulate "hackers" and get them started. Often the hacks will offer ideas to "hack the hack" but leave it up to the reader to figure out how. I've got Linux Server Hacks and I've found it to be an invaluable resource, a reference book, but much more as it gives me all types of new ideas for my servers.... Nice job Oreilly.
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I just don't bother asking. I figure they came to me to have their computer worked on and SP2 is a major 'fix' so why bother them with the worry? When SP2 first came out, it did kill a few student laptops (BSOD on reboot) which was a pain, but all it took was a clean install which I've got automated thanks to Unattended.
I've been looking for some time for a OSS based transparent filter that would scan for viruses/malware on IM ports. It would alleviate a lot of these problems, anyone seen or heard of anything like that?
Legend holds that Shakespeare *never* rewrote any of his plays or poems. He didn't even bother to cross out anything as he wrote. But then, we're not all Shakespeare's are we? Still I think there's something to be said for leaving well enough alone. When we change what we believe is a flaw, it also changes much of the original genius and beauty of a work.
What's wrong with Tyan's Opteron offerings? I've built two systems now with Tyan S2882 boards and found them extremely powerful. The board includes dual gigabit ethernet ports and 1 10/100 port. It does not have PCI-E but it's got plenty of PCI-X slots. If you absolutely need PCI-E, look at the S2892 boards which still have AMD chipsets but also support a NVIDIA controller in order to provide PCI-E. I've had no trouble with the boards under RHEL3 or RHEL4. So what's missing from these boards that the Intel boards have? Jay
I know, and it had me all excited too :-(
I'm playing around with Debian's auto-install text file (sort of like unattend.txt on Windows or kickstart on RHEL) and see if I can skip the serial port...
2) Probably about the same, but of course, a external hard drive is going to suck a lot more power... 3) No. The Intel arm chipped is locked at 266mhz. Linksys used a trick to underclock it. The hack simply restores it to the chips normal speed.
1) Yes, see http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ for more info. User's have succeded in adding USB based webcams, bluetooth, ethernet, flashdisks, etc. It's true USB 2.0 so anything that has a Linux driver that will compile under ARM should work fine.
This is not an overclock. For reasons unknown, Linksys chose to clock the unit at 133mhz. The chip is spec'ed by intel to run at 266mhz w/o cooling. So your not overclocking your un-underclocking :-)
That's what the USB ethernet adapter is for.
Yes but having it run Debian opens up a huge number of precompiled applicatons to the NSLU2.
I figured someone would do something like this with the destructive nature of the project. What if we had nuked the moon?. The lawyer bill alone would have bankrupted the US government.
Is an unrealized danger of OSS that others may take your project in a direction you didn't intend?
This is not a danger, it's simply a attribute of OSS. Do you really think Linus sat down to write the kernel and ever considered it'd be used on millions of computers worldwide for mission critical systems? When you release your code Open Source, your basically saying to the world "do with it as you please". Some license clauses may prevent certain uses (i.e. many OSS SMTP Servers have a clause that says if you use this software for Spam, you're in violation of the license). But as a OSS Developer I can't say that only Americans can use my code, or prevent those of other religions from using it to benefit their religion. And I certainly can't prevent some company from "leeching" by profiting from my work without giving back equally to the OSS community. That's life and that's OSS. Most companies however realize that as a whole, you get back what you put into something.
RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 ships with MySQL 4.1 (and the server is fully supported unlike RHEL3). Fedora Core 4test1 ships with MySQL 4.1. wish granted.
So this weekend (yep, my holiday weekend) a close friend of my parents needed serious help. Her external drive (where she unfortunately saved all her data without backups) had stopped working. This was her entire business (stupid mistake, but common among end users). She had already spoken to one "IT Pro" who had taken a look, said the drive was completely dead and told her to send the drive to one of those low level recovery services which cost $3000. I took the drive, plugged it in to USB, and copied her files right off. Turns out the firewire connection on the drive had died. This "IT Pro" didn't even have the brains to try a different connection type! When someone tells me they've got a friend or brother or son in IT I assume only that that person is an idiot. Often I'm correct. If you don't know what your talking about, shut your mouth. Don't try to oversimplify or make something up. It makes all of us look bad.
errr... discontent. It sounded right in my head, I promise, but then a lot of things sound right in my head until my mouth speaks them...
He wrote the famous memo that claimed 63,000 bugs in Windows 2000 gold. Evidently his discontempt for Microsoft's software practices has been boiling for some time. Hope he does well at Google.
I've always believed within my lifetime, chess would be solved. In other words, a computer would come up with the perfect solution to chess so that no matter what moves you possible make, out of the, i dunno, billions, trillions, or higher number of possible moves, the computer knows how to beat you. The simplest comparison I can think of is tic-tac-toe. If you've played tic-tac-toe enough, you've learned that no matter who goes first, someone can always force a cat (tie game). I wonder, is it possible to always force a draw in chess or might it be that whoever goes first can always win? Sure the computing power to figure this out is beyond anything we have now, but with quantum computing and other advancements, I expect to see chess solved in my lifetime.
Hmm... You're right, I checked the Spamhaus.org ratings after I posted and Verizon is listed at #8 while MCI is #1. Still, my thought is that the majority of Verizon spam servers are DSL users who are ignorant zombies. MCI has been known to continue allowing allowing spammers to setup legit (at least in their eyes) servers and send out Spam, while in Verizon's case, it seems to be more hacked boxes. Verizon should do more to defend against this, but they've certainly done better than MCI. One reason their #8 is probably because their also one of the largest ISPs. Comcast is #4.
MCI is currently the largest ISP allowing (and some consider supporting) spammers to use their bandwidth. Verizon is currently one of the most aggressive anti-spam ISPs. Some have argued they've gone to far blocking legit messages often but most of their users are happy about the spam control. How these two will mesh may be a very interesting chapter in the war on Spam.
This one's already won the competetion...
What a way to go. Tied to an old DEC VAX and dropped at sea...
good point. I ran the MS beta on my desktop. It detected a win32 port of gnu cat (cat.exe) as "Norwegian Porn Dialer". Don't recall seeing that option added...
That's nobody's business but the Turks...
Take a look at How to become a hacker by ESR It's the basis of Oreilly's hack series. The books goals are to stimulate "hackers" and get them started. Often the hacks will offer ideas to "hack the hack" but leave it up to the reader to figure out how. I've got Linux Server Hacks and I've found it to be an invaluable resource, a reference book, but much more as it gives me all types of new ideas for my servers.... Nice job Oreilly.
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