They only show thumbnails and keep out context, it is such a small portion that it is "fair use". The companies complaint is that illegal foreign websites are illegaly showing their images and google is finding them. The company should be going after the illegel websites but international law is a bitch and Google obviously has deeper pockets. I have no doubt that Google will squish them though, this is nonsense. Welcome to the internet. Regards, Steve
Are we talking about the same Windows here? Last time I had to install windows for someone, it didn't evne have a generic ethernet driver to let me connect to the net to pull updates and the other necessary drivers. It was complete bullshit, and I took out knoppix which worked automagically. And window's does not work as advertised, I admin many windows computers and it definitly does not. Linux on the other hand *never* has to be rebooted for anything *ever* other then a new kernel (and there are technically ways to get around that too). It lacks viruses, spyware, etc... and has been designed from the ground up with securtiy and multiple users in mind. As far as the command line goes, any good power user always has the command line open, even on windows, despite its limited capabilites (well it was before I installed cygwin). There are just certain things that have to be done from the CLI. Nothing complicated about it, as a matter of fact if you do something wrong, it will stop and recommend an accurate and detailed way of doing it properly. Its all just pixels to me, there is absolutely nothing confusing about the CLI. Also in Linux everything just works, I've never had to muck around with drivers at all for anything ever. And your given an OS with every application you would just about ever need. Even better if you want something else, you can install it with one command and for free. The main drawback on windows to me is the lack of appliations for it, FOSS honestly has a much wider and better selection. Anyway, I could go on for hours about why I hate windows and why that makes me hate my job, but I'll stop here. Try Fedora Core 3 sometime, it'll change your attitude. Regards, Steve
You can tell your friends that if your running SELinux and have it properly set up, then nothing will ever root your box. I am running FC3 which comes with the SELinux patches, and I started mucking around with it, not knowing what I was doing and before I knew it, I was root and couldn't acces/etc/ yet alone add a new user to my box. I wasn't even allowed to run xscreensaver, so please do be careful if you try it, its very powerful and apparently easy to lock yourself out of your own box. I have since reinstalled FC3 with selinux disabled until I finish reading up on it more. Oh and to answer your question, no this exploit doesn't give root access. Regards, Steve
Wow almost word for word what I heard a higher up saying earlier. Seriously, anyone who's running a Red Hat shop knows how pleasing it is and how good Red Hat support is. I can only assume Novell is similar. Sun's support on the the other hand... is well less than desirable. Linux is superior in many ways to Solaris, no need for any one to switch now and there won't be a need in the future. Just like Mozilla is now a better brand name to be associated with then Netscape, Linux has better mind share then Solaris. It is whats in and the corporate folk want it. Regards, Steve
That may be all well and true(arguably of course), but when your handheld dies by the time it's booted and loaded a game you'll appreciate the NDS's 10 hour battery life. Personally I disagree with everything you said though, you can't appreciate the dual screens until you've used them. The hinge is nice in some cases because you can have you hands horizontal and the screen more vertical so you can avoid having to sometimes hold your hands at awkward angles to play the game. And Sony really screwed up by using discs. But hey... thats all just my oppinion. Regards, Steve
What crack are you on? For Gnome:Open a terminal window and run the command gconf-editor. When the GConf editor window appears, open the apps folder, then the metacity folder and finally click on the general folder. Find the variable called reduced_resources and click the check box next to it. For KDE:Open a terminal window and run the command kcontrol. When the KDE Control Center window appears, click the "+" symbol next to the Desktop menu item to expand it. Then click the Window behavior menu item. Under the Moving tab, uncheck the options Display content in moving windows, Display content in resizing windows, and Animate minimize and restore. That is fair and unbiased. and both use a gui. Regards, Steve
Keep using yum, or install apt. For security and general updates, stick with up2date, or just use "yum upgrade". There are many many repositories out there with thoushands of applications. Just have to add a line to your yum.conf or apt sources. Here are a few of my favorites: FreshRPMS Dag Livna Fedora.us
Some repositories play nicer with each other then others, i.e. Livna is maintained to be compatible with the Fedora.us repo. Dag has a huge selection of applications, as does FreshRPMS. You should read each site and see which you think is best for you. Personally, your best and easiest bet is to just use the yum.conf provided by FedoraFAQ.org. You may want to uncomment some additional repositories, but if you leave it how it is, you should be fine. FedoraFAQ.org is also a good site for general Fedora information. If nothing else, go in #fedora on irc, everyone there is usuaully always friendly and willing to help. Regards, Steve
Alot has changed since then. Regardless, Fedora is a hell of alot more open then Suse is. Suse could very well still fit that irc description, except its worse, you pay money for it. There is nothing wrong with how Suse is developed and how RH used to be developed, but people keep complaining about it. Makes no sense, people are complainging for the sake of complaining. Regards, Steve
Wow its like not even worth reading slashdot anymore if Redhat is mentioned. All the little debian, gentoo, and suse freaks come out of the word work and freak out. Its like werewolves on a full moon. Listen guys, Red Hat are the good guys, they offer great products and the corporate folk like them. They don't abuse anything or anyone, they open source everything. Try getting Novell to do that, Novell is just testing the waters because Netware failed, they have no interest in OSS, they'll jump on the next big train outta here if they think it'll get them more money. Red Hat's business *is* linux, they were in a position to buy Suse and were close to it but decided the market would be too closed, thats what kind of good guys these are. Anyway, its hard to get through the thick skulls of some slashdotters, but in the real world Red Hat or Suse are the only choices, my experience has been that Red Hat is better, others may feel different. Thats fine, have fun, but regardless of my choice I will support both distributions and tell others of them simply to get the ball out of MS's court. Once we do that, then can we have the linux distro flame wars? It shouldn't be too long 4 years or so, you can wait. Regards, Steve Fedora Core 3 is better than any of your distro's anyway;)
Your views are so warped that I can't even begin to comment how wrong you are. But juspt for starters, you have to target an app to a specific distribution, not all apps that work on Suse will work everywhere else, and this is especially true for apps designed for Debian. The rest of your comment is a troll so I'm not even going to touch it, but let me say this, in many years of running and administrating networks, Red Hat has been the only reliable distro that I know will work when I need it to work and I know what direction their headed in so I can plan ahead. Suse on the other hand imho looks pretty, but acts horrible. Some linux kiddies use it because in some cases its a little more point and click, but in a real environment I couldn't see anyone using it. Regards, Steve
Thats not a bad thing. Its just motivation for the car manufacturers to get the process as perfect as possible. In places where companies can kill or injure without serious repercussion, they have a lot less to gain by little improvements here and there. i.e. The lawsuits that everyone hates are, in this case, forcing the company to not cut corners. I won't get into any autonomous vehicle until they arrive in the States simply because if they aren't there, it probably means they aren't quite ready yet. Steve
Considering that the subscription price was 2 to 3 times what it is now and that previous owners were still proftiable, I'd be willing to bet that yes there are people willing to use it. Regards, Steve
Stateless linux.... its everything any systems adminsitrator will ever need. Its still kind of being developed and worked out though, within 6 months to a year though it should be a very viable option. Check out http://fedora.redhat.com for more info. Regards, Steve
Yea could you imagine being given a large application and being told to maintain it if it written in natural language? It'd be akin to having to read an encyclopedia or something. Absoultely ridiculous. If nothing else, the current state of programming languages allows one to easily skim through a few pages of source and pretty much get the idea of whats going on by reading a few comments and by seeing familiar structures in the code. If nothing else, your guaranteed that one line won't exceed 80 characters (at least in theory:-] ), but in natural language, it might take 80 characters to declare a damn variable and initialize it. Regards, Steve
Oh... okay point taken:) If it helps any, a WAR just stands for web archive. It's pretty much a jar (java archive) renamed and contains everything needed to run the program. If your not the programmer for the project then the details of that aren't important, but the programmer should give you a WAR and maybe tell you some database sources that need to be set up. Its not bad, the J2EE platform is very extensive and covers quite a range of capabilities. I can't see any body understanding each area so don't even try:) There are books and books and books written on even what appear to be the simplest of aspects. Anyway, if you do get in a jam and need some help, drop me an email at "sgk284 (at) gmail.com". I'm not guaranteeing I'll know the answer, but I'll try:).
Take care, Steve
Wait a second.... you had trouble setting it up? Should have taken a second. You download it, extract it, install it,or compile it. Then run the little startup.sh or startup.bat. Goto http://localhost:8080 and pretty much everything else is done through a web interface (assuming you added an administrator to the user xml file). From the web interface just add your War and whatever other little things you need to do. I semi-simplified the process, but it is anything but complicated. Involved perhaps, but its a great server with an almost flawless security history and performs really well. This may help. Regards, Steve
Not enough packages? You obviosuly haven't used it. In previous posts people were complaining that too many packages were installed with it. The thing with Fedora is it goes through extensive Q&A relatvie to the other distros so not every package you may find in gentoo will be in a defualt install of Fedora. This is why you can easily use outside reopsitories like DAG, Freshrpms, Fedora.us, Livna.org etc.. etc.. Fedorafaq.org is your friend. Fedora is really an amzing distro, especially Core 3. And more importantly, its community is gigantic and if you need help, the people at #fedora are almsot always willing to help and are very nice. If you try going to #debian, you'll get laughed at and ridiculed out of there. We've actually had people come to #fedora saying that they don't run fedora but the debian channel refused to help them so they came here for help, and sure enough they were helped. Fedora is also the only distro that works on my laptop, I can't stand Suse and that god forsaken YaST, but Mandrake is nice and I wouldn't mind dual booting with it, but it refuses to play nice with my laptop. So for the past year or so I've run Fedora and its the best decision I've made. I still do run debian on some older servers, but FC2 is stable enough that I'm phasing out the Debian with Fedora. If you haven't given it a shot recently, you should. Regards, Steve
Hostnames.... I thought those were an 80's fad? Just the other day I had to give a box a hostname and happened to be eating animal crackers, I pulled out an elephant shaped cracker so the hostname is elephant:) There really is no rhyme or reason to it, yea its funny, but I've only met two sys admins who actually sit down to think about what they'll name their next box. Regards, Steve
Hmm, I really like the new background, its flashy and edgy, and they included other backgrounds too for the first time! (well in gnome at least, kde has always had others) I saw some of the other candidates for the FC3 background and they were all too similar to FC2 and FC1, this new background imho just looks cooler. Regards, Steve
The boot up is slow, but linux wasn't meant to be rebotoed often anyway:) Once booted however it should be fast as hell. For me is feels even faster than Yoper linux, which I nevr thought I'd see. Regards, Steve
You only need one cd for a minimal install, the majority of the last cd and possibly even 3rd cd is language support. Or you can do an http/ftp install, or even better, d/l the isos to a second parition and do a harddrive install (the isos can't be on the same partition because the install would obviously overwrite them while its installing your new system). Regards, Steve
You can install it without *any* floppy disks:) Just d/l the iso's to a second partition (I keep mine at the minimum required to fit all the isos, so like 2.5 gigs), then d/l the boot kernel, set it up to boot in grub or lilo, restart, and select that kernel to boot to. You'll see Anaconda start up, choose to pick the installtion type (you can either select it or type "linux askmethod"), select harddrive install, and point it to where the isos are and your good to go. Regards, Steve
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They only show thumbnails and keep out context, it is such a small portion that it is "fair use". The companies complaint is that illegal foreign websites are illegaly showing their images and google is finding them. The company should be going after the illegel websites but international law is a bitch and Google obviously has deeper pockets. I have no doubt that Google will squish them though, this is nonsense. Welcome to the internet.
Regards,
Steve
Are we talking about the same Windows here? Last time I had to install windows for someone, it didn't evne have a generic ethernet driver to let me connect to the net to pull updates and the other necessary drivers. It was complete bullshit, and I took out knoppix which worked automagically. And window's does not work as advertised, I admin many windows computers and it definitly does not. Linux on the other hand *never* has to be rebooted for anything *ever* other then a new kernel (and there are technically ways to get around that too). It lacks viruses, spyware, etc... and has been designed from the ground up with securtiy and multiple users in mind. As far as the command line goes, any good power user always has the command line open, even on windows, despite its limited capabilites (well it was before I installed cygwin). There are just certain things that have to be done from the CLI. Nothing complicated about it, as a matter of fact if you do something wrong, it will stop and recommend an accurate and detailed way of doing it properly. Its all just pixels to me, there is absolutely nothing confusing about the CLI. Also in Linux everything just works, I've never had to muck around with drivers at all for anything ever. And your given an OS with every application you would just about ever need. Even better if you want something else, you can install it with one command and for free. The main drawback on windows to me is the lack of appliations for it, FOSS honestly has a much wider and better selection. Anyway, I could go on for hours about why I hate windows and why that makes me hate my job, but I'll stop here. Try Fedora Core 3 sometime, it'll change your attitude.
Regards,
Steve
Yes it's been fixed and your machine has been secured from it for a few days. Good ol' up2date took care of me too :).
Regards,
Steve
You can tell your friends that if your running SELinux and have it properly set up, then nothing will ever root your box. I am running FC3 which comes with the SELinux patches, and I started mucking around with it, not knowing what I was doing and before I knew it, I was root and couldn't acces /etc/ yet alone add a new user to my box. I wasn't even allowed to run xscreensaver, so please do be careful if you try it, its very powerful and apparently easy to lock yourself out of your own box. I have since reinstalled FC3 with selinux disabled until I finish reading up on it more. Oh and to answer your question, no this exploit doesn't give root access.
Regards,
Steve
Wow almost word for word what I heard a higher up saying earlier. Seriously, anyone who's running a Red Hat shop knows how pleasing it is and how good Red Hat support is. I can only assume Novell is similar. Sun's support on the the other hand... is well less than desirable. Linux is superior in many ways to Solaris, no need for any one to switch now and there won't be a need in the future. Just like Mozilla is now a better brand name to be associated with then Netscape, Linux has better mind share then Solaris. It is whats in and the corporate folk want it.
Regards,
Steve
That may be all well and true(arguably of course), but when your handheld dies by the time it's booted and loaded a game you'll appreciate the NDS's 10 hour battery life. Personally I disagree with everything you said though, you can't appreciate the dual screens until you've used them. The hinge is nice in some cases because you can have you hands horizontal and the screen more vertical so you can avoid having to sometimes hold your hands at awkward angles to play the game. And Sony really screwed up by using discs. But hey... thats all just my oppinion.
Regards,
Steve
What crack are you on?
For Gnome:Open a terminal window and run the command gconf-editor. When the GConf editor window appears, open the apps folder, then the metacity folder and finally click on the general folder. Find the variable called reduced_resources and click the check box next to it.
For KDE:Open a terminal window and run the command kcontrol. When the KDE Control Center window appears, click the "+" symbol next to the Desktop menu item to expand it. Then click the Window behavior menu item. Under the Moving tab, uncheck the options Display content in moving windows, Display content in resizing windows, and Animate minimize and restore.
That is fair and unbiased. and both use a gui.
Regards,
Steve
Keep using yum, or install apt. For security and general updates, stick with up2date, or just use "yum upgrade". There are many many repositories out there with thoushands of applications. Just have to add a line to your yum.conf or apt sources. Here are a few of my favorites:
FreshRPMS
Dag
Livna
Fedora.us
Some repositories play nicer with each other then others, i.e. Livna is maintained to be compatible with the Fedora.us repo. Dag has a huge selection of applications, as does FreshRPMS. You should read each site and see which you think is best for you. Personally, your best and easiest bet is to just use the yum.conf provided by FedoraFAQ.org. You may want to uncomment some additional repositories, but if you leave it how it is, you should be fine. FedoraFAQ.org is also a good site for general Fedora information. If nothing else, go in #fedora on irc, everyone there is usuaully always friendly and willing to help.
Regards,
Steve
Alot has changed since then. Regardless, Fedora is a hell of alot more open then Suse is. Suse could very well still fit that irc description, except its worse, you pay money for it. There is nothing wrong with how Suse is developed and how RH used to be developed, but people keep complaining about it. Makes no sense, people are complainging for the sake of complaining.
Regards,
Steve
Wow its like not even worth reading slashdot anymore if Redhat is mentioned. All the little debian, gentoo, and suse freaks come out of the word work and freak out. Its like werewolves on a full moon. Listen guys, Red Hat are the good guys, they offer great products and the corporate folk like them. They don't abuse anything or anyone, they open source everything. Try getting Novell to do that, Novell is just testing the waters because Netware failed, they have no interest in OSS, they'll jump on the next big train outta here if they think it'll get them more money. Red Hat's business *is* linux, they were in a position to buy Suse and were close to it but decided the market would be too closed, thats what kind of good guys these are. Anyway, its hard to get through the thick skulls of some slashdotters, but in the real world Red Hat or Suse are the only choices, my experience has been that Red Hat is better, others may feel different. Thats fine, have fun, but regardless of my choice I will support both distributions and tell others of them simply to get the ball out of MS's court. Once we do that, then can we have the linux distro flame wars? It shouldn't be too long 4 years or so, you can wait. ;)
Regards,
Steve
Fedora Core 3 is better than any of your distro's anyway
Read the last paragraph of the review.
Regards,
Steve
Your views are so warped that I can't even begin to comment how wrong you are. But juspt for starters, you have to target an app to a specific distribution, not all apps that work on Suse will work everywhere else, and this is especially true for apps designed for Debian. The rest of your comment is a troll so I'm not even going to touch it, but let me say this, in many years of running and administrating networks, Red Hat has been the only reliable distro that I know will work when I need it to work and I know what direction their headed in so I can plan ahead. Suse on the other hand imho looks pretty, but acts horrible. Some linux kiddies use it because in some cases its a little more point and click, but in a real environment I couldn't see anyone using it.
Regards,
Steve
Thats not a bad thing. Its just motivation for the car manufacturers to get the process as perfect as possible. In places where companies can kill or injure without serious repercussion, they have a lot less to gain by little improvements here and there. i.e. The lawsuits that everyone hates are, in this case, forcing the company to not cut corners. I won't get into any autonomous vehicle until they arrive in the States simply because if they aren't there, it probably means they aren't quite ready yet.
Steve
Considering that the subscription price was 2 to 3 times what it is now and that previous owners were still proftiable, I'd be willing to bet that yes there are people willing to use it.
Regards,
Steve
Stateless linux.... its everything any systems adminsitrator will ever need. Its still kind of being developed and worked out though, within 6 months to a year though it should be a very viable option. Check out http://fedora.redhat.com for more info.
Regards,
Steve
Yea could you imagine being given a large application and being told to maintain it if it written in natural language? It'd be akin to having to read an encyclopedia or something. Absoultely ridiculous. If nothing else, the current state of programming languages allows one to easily skim through a few pages of source and pretty much get the idea of whats going on by reading a few comments and by seeing familiar structures in the code. If nothing else, your guaranteed that one line won't exceed 80 characters (at least in theory :-] ), but in natural language, it might take 80 characters to declare a damn variable and initialize it.
Regards,
Steve
Oh... okay point taken:) If it helps any, a WAR just stands for web archive. It's pretty much a jar (java archive) renamed and contains everything needed to run the program. If your not the programmer for the project then the details of that aren't important, but the programmer should give you a WAR and maybe tell you some database sources that need to be set up. Its not bad, the J2EE platform is very extensive and covers quite a range of capabilities. I can't see any body understanding each area so don't even try:) There are books and books and books written on even what appear to be the simplest of aspects. Anyway, if you do get in a jam and need some help, drop me an email at "sgk284 (at) gmail.com". I'm not guaranteeing I'll know the answer, but I'll try:). Take care,
Steve
Wait a second.... you had trouble setting it up? Should have taken a second. You download it, extract it, install it,or compile it. Then run the little startup.sh or startup.bat. Goto http://localhost:8080 and pretty much everything else is done through a web interface (assuming you added an administrator to the user xml file). From the web interface just add your War and whatever other little things you need to do. I semi-simplified the process, but it is anything but complicated. Involved perhaps, but its a great server with an almost flawless security history and performs really well. This may help.
Regards,
Steve
Not enough packages? You obviosuly haven't used it. In previous posts people were complaining that too many packages were installed with it. The thing with Fedora is it goes through extensive Q&A relatvie to the other distros so not every package you may find in gentoo will be in a defualt install of Fedora. This is why you can easily use outside reopsitories like DAG, Freshrpms, Fedora.us, Livna.org etc.. etc.. Fedorafaq.org is your friend. Fedora is really an amzing distro, especially Core 3. And more importantly, its community is gigantic and if you need help, the people at #fedora are almsot always willing to help and are very nice. If you try going to #debian, you'll get laughed at and ridiculed out of there. We've actually had people come to #fedora saying that they don't run fedora but the debian channel refused to help them so they came here for help, and sure enough they were helped. Fedora is also the only distro that works on my laptop, I can't stand Suse and that god forsaken YaST, but Mandrake is nice and I wouldn't mind dual booting with it, but it refuses to play nice with my laptop. So for the past year or so I've run Fedora and its the best decision I've made. I still do run debian on some older servers, but FC2 is stable enough that I'm phasing out the Debian with Fedora. If you haven't given it a shot recently, you should.
Regards,
Steve
Wait a second... you want free support? Are you nuts? No sane company can afford that, especially on a free product.
Regards,
Steve
Hostnames.... I thought those were an 80's fad? Just the other day I had to give a box a hostname and happened to be eating animal crackers, I pulled out an elephant shaped cracker so the hostname is elephant:) There really is no rhyme or reason to it, yea its funny, but I've only met two sys admins who actually sit down to think about what they'll name their next box.
Regards,
Steve
Hmm, I really like the new background, its flashy and edgy, and they included other backgrounds too for the first time! (well in gnome at least, kde has always had others) I saw some of the other candidates for the FC3 background and they were all too similar to FC2 and FC1, this new background imho just looks cooler.
Regards,
Steve
The boot up is slow, but linux wasn't meant to be rebotoed often anyway :) Once booted however it should be fast as hell. For me is feels even faster than Yoper linux, which I nevr thought I'd see.
Regards,
Steve
You only need one cd for a minimal install, the majority of the last cd and possibly even 3rd cd is language support. Or you can do an http/ftp install, or even better, d/l the isos to a second parition and do a harddrive install (the isos can't be on the same partition because the install would obviously overwrite them while its installing your new system).
Regards,
Steve
You can install it without *any* floppy disks:) Just d/l the iso's to a second partition (I keep mine at the minimum required to fit all the isos, so like 2.5 gigs), then d/l the boot kernel, set it up to boot in grub or lilo, restart, and select that kernel to boot to. You'll see Anaconda start up, choose to pick the installtion type (you can either select it or type "linux askmethod"), select harddrive install, and point it to where the isos are and your good to go.
Regards,
Steve