My father in law tried this. My response? I backed up his spyware/virus ridden box & put Fedora Core on it. After a brief period of pain, he's fine - Mozilla, Evolution, camera all working.
Maybe they've made it work this time. We abandoned a project in flash 6/MX/SOAP because it was too hard to get it to work reliably. The visual tools were very nice, but it became deeply confused very quickly - especially if you changed an interface. Maybe they've sorted that out.
The really great thing is how well it wears. I've a RH8, RH9 installation that have lots of other bits & bobs installed, mainly from tgz's I've pulled down & built. Its an arseabout, and both boxes are cluttered with stuff - and as soon as you go off piste with an installed package, you're on your own.
OTOH I also have a couple of gentoo installations, and for nearly everything I want, I can just 'emerge xyz' and presto, its there. It was a pain getting it installed, but now its there it is really, really good. Also upgrading it was piss easy too.
Except for those of us using Gentoo, anyone building their own kernel, and come to think of it, all the distro's have processor architecture specific kernels anyhoo.
depends where the server is. A co-lo service I have used was full of rooted boxen which were in promisc - they would have been able to sniff this approach.
Alan Ayckborne apparantly did this, and one night, he had the best idea for a play ever - this time this was it, the greatest work he would write. He scribbled down a note, and went to sleep content that in the morning he would start on his new project. When he woke up, he read the note, and it dissapointingly said "Boy meets Girl".
when I looked into DAT vs CDR vs DVDR vs IDE-HD just backing up onto IDE-HDDs came out cheapest until you were backing up 1TB. Not as convenient though, but even backing up 100GB with DVD-Rs is fiddly. rsync & a backup server is your friend (a good use for that old PC)
By the time these 30GB DVDs are out, IDE disks will be 1TB.
Today is the day! They have until 5.00pm Utah time to tell the judge what IBM did wrong, or why they can't say what IBM did wrong.
Engage! Mr Data! Maximum Short!
Now I can stream Ratchet and Clank from my PS2 through my Happauage BTTV card, grab it with Mplayer, out of my PC 'cross the network to my wireless access point and on to my TV!! Its the missing link I've been waiting for!
What I'm dreading is someone putting together a natty tool that will make newsgroup request/access/upload/download seamless - then the RIAA will go jump all over the news servers.
Darl: Right. Now we jump out of the rabbit, thus taking them by suprise!! David: Nrrgghh... Darl: OK, well, in that case lets build some ancient header files, and leave them outside...
Everything will be.NET including explorer.exe itself, as Win32 will be finally abandoned.
Except, microsoft being microsoft, won't they have abandoned.NET for something even 'better' in 2 years time? I mean, its nearly as old as COM was when they ditched that now isn't it?
The point I switched over to RH for work was when it set up the display & wireless card on my notebook straight out of the box. Goodbye Win2K. The only app I'm really missing is AutoRoute - for most things OpenOffice is just fine. Its a bit sad that there isn't more educational software for Linux - all the stuff in PC World is for PCs. Having said that my kids are happy enough with mame, doom, pingus etc...
Slashdot Mirror
Should be on 'free', not 'express'.
My father in law tried this. My response? I backed up his spyware/virus ridden box & put Fedora Core on it. After a brief period of pain, he's fine - Mozilla, Evolution, camera all working.
Now I just have to teach him to use cdrecord!
It doesn't crash user mode linux VM's either, just tried it on 2.6.6!
Maybe they've made it work this time. We abandoned a project in flash 6/MX/SOAP because it was too hard to get it to work reliably. The visual tools were very nice, but it became deeply confused very quickly - especially if you changed an interface. Maybe they've sorted that out.
I may as well repost too!
Don't we need a tracking system for Slashdot posts too?!
Its called Groklaw!
Mine frigging dosen't. All mine offers is "Scqwirting Teenz Chickz" and "V1AGRA".
WSAD (WebSphere App Dev) doesn't run under Fedora, so I'm with RH9 until it does. Something to do with libc. Heigh ho.
BUT
The really great thing is how well it wears. I've a RH8, RH9 installation that have lots of other bits & bobs installed, mainly from tgz's I've pulled down & built. Its an arseabout, and both boxes are cluttered with stuff - and as soon as you go off piste with an installed package, you're on your own.
OTOH I also have a couple of gentoo installations, and for nearly everything I want, I can just 'emerge xyz' and presto, its there. It was a pain getting it installed, but now its there it is really, really good. Also upgrading it was piss easy too.
If only I could get portage/emerge for redhat...
Come on Taco, cut the FUD out, have a look at groklaw
Phew!
My company AardvarkAutos are probably OK then!
Except for those of us using Gentoo, anyone building their own kernel, and come to think of it, all the distro's have processor architecture specific kernels anyhoo.
7. You always have to install the GNU tools on it anyway because the built in ones are so shit.
depends where the server is. A co-lo service I have used was full of rooted boxen which were in promisc - they would have been able to sniff this approach.
Alan Ayckborne apparantly did this, and one night, he had the best idea for a play ever - this time this was it, the greatest work he would write. He scribbled down a note, and went to sleep content that in the morning he would start on his new project. When he woke up, he read the note, and it dissapointingly said "Boy meets Girl".
when I looked into DAT vs CDR vs DVDR vs IDE-HD just backing up onto IDE-HDDs came out cheapest until you were backing up 1TB. Not as convenient though, but even backing up 100GB with DVD-Rs is fiddly. rsync & a backup server is your friend (a good use for that old PC)
By the time these 30GB DVDs are out, IDE disks will be 1TB.
Today is the day! They have until 5.00pm Utah time to tell the judge what IBM did wrong, or why they can't say what IBM did wrong. Engage! Mr Data! Maximum Short!
modprobe senseofhumor
:-). Choked on my tea. Wish I had mod points this morning.
Snurk
Now I can stream Ratchet and Clank from my PS2 through my Happauage BTTV card, grab it with Mplayer, out of my PC 'cross the network to my wireless access point and on to my TV!! Its the missing link I've been waiting for!
Shhhhhhhhh!
What I'm dreading is someone putting together a natty tool that will make newsgroup request/access/upload/download seamless - then the RIAA will go jump all over the news servers.
Absolutley. He's a grade A asshat, and his only purpose in life is to drive people to Forbes.com with stupid deranged inflamatory drivel.
Darl: Right. Now we jump out of the rabbit, thus taking them by suprise!!
David: Nrrgghh...
Darl: OK, well, in that case lets build some ancient header files, and leave them outside...
Except, microsoft being microsoft, won't they have abandoned .NET for something even 'better' in 2 years time? I mean, its nearly as old as COM was when they ditched that now isn't it?
1. Get on high horse about nasty FSF bullieses 2. Get Slashdotted! 3. Clock the page impressions! 4. Profit!!!
The point I switched over to RH for work was when it set up the display & wireless card on my notebook straight out of the box. Goodbye Win2K. The only app I'm really missing is AutoRoute - for most things OpenOffice is just fine. Its a bit sad that there isn't more educational software for Linux - all the stuff in PC World is for PCs. Having said that my kids are happy enough with mame, doom, pingus etc...