Yes! God forbid you run an $updatedb for 8 seconds once a day. You know you can actually just put it in cron.daily and never think of it again? Not to mention you have to update your find "database" anyway. Makes no sense whatsoever.
The linux admin in my loves the convenience but the network admin in me is cringing that you would forward a port from a public facing interface directly into your internal network. This is why we invented DMZs!!!
Because a lot of us having a running process we'd like to reattach to remotely.
I have a server that's always running 3 screen session: one for irssi, one for rtorrent and one for ventrilo. I can, at any time, from anywhere, ssh in and reattach to those running sessions. I still have scroll back buffers in irssi so I can catch up on the conversation, I can add more torrents to rtorrent or administer my ventrilo server.
I disagree. Too many people skip down and just hack something together from an example without actually learning the command. It makes for dangerous admins with only a fractional understanding of the tools who will eventually fuck something up.
"Also, Yum is good for reducing stress by conveniently giving you ten minutes to an hour of relaxation time while it completes each operation."
$yum -C [command] [parameter]
...to operate from cached metadata. If you need to search or look up dependencies or what package contains something, etc, works great. If you're installing something yum is no slower (or faster) than apt. And yum is a lot faster than it used to be back in the "core" days.
I still prefer yum over apt-get.. or was it apt-cache? or dpkg-reocnfigure? I can never remember...
I've been using and recommending songbird for a very long time, it's a wonderful piece of software written by a group of very creative and dedicated individuals. I haven't used iTunes in probably 3 years. THANKS SONGBIRD!
The browser is actually really cool. When you visit a site it parses the page for any audio files and puts links in a special window at the bottom. You can then start playing the music files (with only enough delay to buffer) while you browse the page. It's really neat if you visit sites for bands or mp3 blogs.
It's a two way street. Most competent rational linux users won't begrudge you for your choice of OS, but some jerks will. But at the same time, linux users catch plenty of flack from a small segment of the windows population who are just generally rude folks. It's not windows vs linux its a__holes vs people.
I'm posting this from fedora, I actually use two PC's with two monitors using synergy, so I run my windows apps on the windows machine and do everything else from the linux machine. I really think you overestimate how difficult virtualization is. In fedora, you just:
$sudo yum groupinstall Virtualization
Then Applications -> System Tools -> Virtualization Manger
Hit new host, give it a name, hit next a few times and pop in your windows xp cd (or point it at an ISO image). Or you can try VMWare server or workstation. Both are _incredibly_ easy even for someone with no experience working with virtualization whatsoever. But to answer your question, why use linux and virtualize those few windows apps: linux is a much more powerful operating system. Like most linux users I can work magic in an xterm. It's faster, more stable and more secure.
"What I would really like is if someone would make up an IDE interface to RAM modules and build a large amount of such RAM into the form factor of a hard disk drive."
And it's even more about reducing their bandwidth costs than grabbing headlines. alt.* probably accounts for 99% of nntp traffic which these providers will now reduce to zero.
Well you're missing out on a lot of what the Internet has to offer, unfortunately. Like the old saying goes, "you get what you pay for." Personally I download all of my television shows and the company I work for picks up my Internet bill (cable) along with my cellphone.
Come to think of it; I get high speed Internet, cable and a cellphone for less than you spend on dial-up Internet. I guess I was "raised frugally" too.
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Yes! God forbid you run an $updatedb for 8 seconds once a day. You know you can actually just put it in cron.daily and never think of it again? Not to mention you have to update your find "database" anyway. Makes no sense whatsoever.
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Talk about a solution in search of a problem
Actually terminal services comes in a distant second to the Citrix ICA Client.
The linux admin in my loves the convenience but the network admin in me is cringing that you would forward a port from a public facing interface directly into your internal network. This is why we invented DMZs!!!
Because a lot of us having a running process we'd like to reattach to remotely.
I have a server that's always running 3 screen session: one for irssi, one for rtorrent and one for ventrilo. I can, at any time, from anywhere, ssh in and reattach to those running sessions. I still have scroll back buffers in irssi so I can catch up on the conversation, I can add more torrents to rtorrent or administer my ventrilo server.
Locate is great for quickly finding a file by name. I'd much rather:
$locate [random-file]
than
$find / -name [random-file] -print
It's all about the right tool for the right job.
I disagree. Too many people skip down and just hack something together from an example without actually learning the command. It makes for dangerous admins with only a fractional understanding of the tools who will eventually fuck something up.
"Also, Yum is good for reducing stress by conveniently giving you ten minutes to an hour of relaxation time while it completes each operation."
...to operate from cached metadata. If you need to search or look up dependencies or what package contains something, etc, works great. If you're installing something yum is no slower (or faster) than apt. And yum is a lot faster than it used to be back in the "core" days.
.. or was it apt-cache? or dpkg-reocnfigure? I can never remember ...
$yum -C [command] [parameter]
I still prefer yum over apt-get
One little thing I use quite a bit is:
$pgrep [process] | xargs kill
what you described is why I have a specially crafted shell script called "s" that handles that setup for me.
$s yum update
is actually much more convenient than using su - and then having to drop back out (and let's admit the truth - forgetting to drop back out sometimes)
interesting, what does that do exactly? ctrl+o didn't fix it by the way, but a $reset did.
hahaha so you're the guy that bought the zune huh? no seriously though, it does still support every other apple ipod.
I've been using and recommending songbird for a very long time, it's a wonderful piece of software written by a group of very creative and dedicated individuals. I haven't used iTunes in probably 3 years. THANKS SONGBIRD!
The browser is actually really cool. When you visit a site it parses the page for any audio files and puts links in a special window at the bottom. You can then start playing the music files (with only enough delay to buffer) while you browse the page. It's really neat if you visit sites for bands or mp3 blogs.
It's a two way street. Most competent rational linux users won't begrudge you for your choice of OS, but some jerks will. But at the same time, linux users catch plenty of flack from a small segment of the windows population who are just generally rude folks. It's not windows vs linux its a__holes vs people.
I'm posting this from fedora, I actually use two PC's with two monitors using synergy, so I run my windows apps on the windows machine and do everything else from the linux machine. I really think you overestimate how difficult virtualization is. In fedora, you just:
$sudo yum groupinstall Virtualization
Then Applications -> System Tools -> Virtualization Manger
Hit new host, give it a name, hit next a few times and pop in your windows xp cd (or point it at an ISO image). Or you can try VMWare server or workstation. Both are _incredibly_ easy even for someone with no experience working with virtualization whatsoever. But to answer your question, why use linux and virtualize those few windows apps: linux is a much more powerful operating system. Like most linux users I can work magic in an xterm. It's faster, more stable and more secure.
Free as in beer not speech. Just to clarify
"What I would really like is if someone would make up an IDE interface to RAM modules and build a large amount of such RAM into the form factor of a hard disk drive."
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Storage/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2180
I'm not sure if you're being pedantic or you're just ignorant so I'll clarify.
Obviously they need to make money, my point simply being it doesn't have to be derived from their open source projects.
"how many FOSS developers have a reasonable prospect of extracting $5 a month from their mass-market user base"
Uh, who cares? Why does any FOSS developer need to extract any money at all?
Wow, this is literally the textbook definition of a Straw Man Argument.
You literally just made up numbers out of thin air and then proclaimed it costs too much.
Well, presumably, you'd also get a lot more functionality and support from Microsoft. The same advantages that Microsoft has today.
disclaimer: I use open office, I don't need 90% of the shit in microsoft office, I'm just playing devil's advocate
And it's even more about reducing their bandwidth costs than grabbing headlines. alt.* probably accounts for 99% of nntp traffic which these providers will now reduce to zero.
Apparently 1/5th of the people surveyed thought it was a sales pitch.
Well you're missing out on a lot of what the Internet has to offer, unfortunately. Like the old saying goes, "you get what you pay for." Personally I download all of my television shows and the company I work for picks up my Internet bill (cable) along with my cellphone.
Come to think of it; I get high speed Internet, cable and a cellphone for less than you spend on dial-up Internet. I guess I was "raised frugally" too.
All of those hacks, they should have just written a filesystem.