this copying of the node happens after the node goes down? so the software time travels? That totally disproves Stephen Hawkin's recent time travel can only go forward statement! DUDE - AWSOME!
Are the editors of Slashdot so ignorant to the existence of content management systems to let this article through?
One persons exuberance towards a particular content management system does not make a news worthy article.
The author speaks of Drupal like he's discovering sliced bread. Plone as a CMS has been around for years, as have others.
Why is this slashdot news?????
Why did it even make it past the 'moderators'?
Oh yeah...yahoo owns slashdot...I see.
This is crap!
PLEASE GIVE ME A NEGATIVE FOR INFLAMATORY>>>OR BETTER YET>>>IRRELAVENT!
CIO's are usually business major's with microsoft certifications.
They know nothing of the future of technology, only the best price they can bargain for out of the box solutions such as Windows XP (Gasp).
Seriously, who lets this crap get posted anyway?
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This is frightening like the thought of installing linux is to someone who only know windows.
In other words, more paranoid BS.
First, the U.S. government keeps a store of reserve grains of every variety. Along with the reserved wheat, other reservs will be used to suppliment. The following growing season, there will be a "roll back" to the unpatched wheat. This wheat is also kept in stores by the U.S. and Major Ag. Universities.
A real life example was the rice blight in China. Yes, a lot of Chinese died but the U.S. saved the day by having enough stock of "unpatched" rice to fill their fields the following season.
The difference is, no more people will starve in the U.S. if such a thing occurs. People in the countries that the U.S. donates the expired surplus grains too(like Russia, other former communist countries, and third world countries).
People who bought futures at the right time will make big money on a wheat blight.
A 300 level ag econ class will teach you all of this, if your interested.
Ok, here goes. Use ghost or a similar product? No, don't. A decent image is going to take the system 15 minutes to boot everytime. If it's sysprepped, it will take 30 minutes. If a person is doing work and the power blinks, there goes all of their work. Oh, of course you can tell them to use a floppy disk or USB key, but that's making to too complicated.
Also, if you are using XP and you restore from a syspreped ghost, you will have to reactivate the system within 60 days or suffer the consequences, and you can only do this 3 times per license.
Here is what I would do with a windows machine. Set up your system to run as a kiosk. Autologon to some user account. When they do log off or reboot, have i.e. erase it's history, empty the trash, and erase document history.
Set it up w/ a vnc server and a script that e-mails you it's ip everytime the ip changes. (Google search for HOWTO do this or check usenet groups or whatever other sources you are familier with) so that you can do remote administration, or use rdesktop, or if you are using XP, leave instructions on how the user can request remote assistance from you.
Once you have the system locked up tight, meaning: what I mentioned above, plus user has no power to change the desktop icons or the desktop, whatever else you can think of) Do make a ghost image and supply the property manager w/ instructions on how to use the bootable CD that will read the image from that other partion and restore your system)
So the main tools you need are tweakui and gpedit.msc.
If this is too much, use a knoppix CD(as mentioned by someone else) and leave instructions on what the web browser and aim clients are. And leave some extra copies w/ the property manager.
When it comes to NASA investing money in technology, it's usually a good thing.
You have to remember that most everything with NASA is an experiment. NASA tends to try to take technology to its threshold. That technology then finds other uses in terestrial industry or in later missions.
If NASA invests their money in a robot to fix the Hubble and it costs more than a new hubble. That robot will probably remain in service for other such missions as repairs on the ISS, and other satelites.
What about using bio-diesel for fuel oil? We heat our house w/ fuel oil which I understand is diesel but died a different color? What would it take to convert our furnace?
Home brew would be great because I would just syphon right into my tank.
It is clear that Brown is doing one of two things. Trying to dumb things down for the non-*nix savvy, or trying to propigate negative opinions for the pervayours of Open Source.
Both will cause problems for the Open Source community.
People who read dumbed down versions of any subject, will end up more confused than if they read a detailed version but can only digest a few sentences or paragraphs.
Having someone who is propigating misinformation about a subject, again underminds the proper understanding of that subject and can perpetuate myths that cause fear and confusion.
I also believe that a technical subject, by it's nature can never be simplified for easier understanding. The only goal should be better understanding, and the way to accomplish that is by taking smaller morsels of the information and re-enforcing it more often.
So, I agree. Brown needs to get his facts straight, whatever his motivation is.
I don't believe I said the principle of automatic updates is flawed. I, infact, think that it would bring a Eutopian sense of being for SysAdmins everywhere.
No sane or seasoned sysadmin anywhere will run automatic updates and expect to find working systems 100% of the time. The matter is fact, package maintainers make mistakes, and systems are never without flaws.
I mean this in a non-flaim way, but apt-get through a cron job is a great way for you to wake up and find your system broken.
You really should only run that manually and be aware of what packages are being installed.
This is just a tip, use it the way you wish.
Just thought that I would note that Flash 7 on Debian Linux Unstable installed easily(untar, drop 2 files in/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/ and start the browser.
This is the first time that a flash plugin has actually worked for me under Debian/Mozilla-anyflavor/Gnome Desktop(not that the desktop matters)
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this copying of the node happens after the node goes down? so the software time travels? That totally disproves Stephen Hawkin's recent time travel can only go forward statement! DUDE - AWSOME!
Doesn't Look like trolling to me. Maybe I'm naive, but I was using dial up when that meant dialing into a BBS.
Cause it was a House episode allready.
ATARI RULZ! ahhh, it feels so good!
Wow, it's been like 26 years since I've made a title like that, but it's still true!
That was the first thought that came to my mind - 301 to the next feed relevant feed.
Are the editors of Slashdot so ignorant to the existence of content management systems to let this article through? One persons exuberance towards a particular content management system does not make a news worthy article. The author speaks of Drupal like he's discovering sliced bread. Plone as a CMS has been around for years, as have others.
Why is this slashdot news????? Why did it even make it past the 'moderators'? Oh yeah...yahoo owns slashdot...I see. This is crap! PLEASE GIVE ME A NEGATIVE FOR INFLAMATORY>>>OR BETTER YET>>>IRRELAVENT!
Resistence is futile, you will be assimilated!
CIO's are usually business major's with microsoft certifications.
They know nothing of the future of technology, only the best price they can bargain for out of the box solutions such as Windows XP (Gasp).
Seriously, who lets this crap get posted anyway?
This is frightening like the thought of installing linux is to someone who only know windows.
In other words, more paranoid BS.
First, the U.S. government keeps a store of reserve grains of every variety. Along with the reserved wheat, other reservs will be used to suppliment. The following growing season, there will be a "roll back" to the unpatched wheat. This wheat is also kept in stores by the U.S. and Major Ag. Universities.
A real life example was the rice blight in China. Yes, a lot of Chinese died but the U.S. saved the day by having enough stock of "unpatched" rice to fill their fields the following season.
The difference is, no more people will starve in the U.S. if such a thing occurs. People in the countries that the U.S. donates the expired surplus grains too(like Russia, other former communist countries, and third world countries).
People who bought futures at the right time will make big money on a wheat blight.
A 300 level ag econ class will teach you all of this, if your interested.
Ok, here goes.
Use ghost or a similar product? No, don't.
A decent image is going to take the system 15 minutes to boot everytime. If it's sysprepped, it will take 30 minutes.
If a person is doing work and the power blinks, there goes all of their work. Oh, of course you can tell them to use a floppy disk or USB key, but that's making to too complicated.
Also, if you are using XP and you restore from a syspreped ghost, you will have to reactivate the system within 60 days or suffer the consequences, and you can only do this 3 times per license.
Here is what I would do with a windows machine.
Set up your system to run as a kiosk. Autologon to some user account. When they do log off or reboot, have i.e. erase it's history, empty the trash, and erase document history.
Set it up w/ a vnc server and a script that e-mails you it's ip everytime the ip changes. (Google search for HOWTO do this or check usenet groups or whatever other sources you are familier with) so that you can do remote administration, or use rdesktop, or if you are using XP, leave instructions on how the user can request remote assistance from you.
Once you have the system locked up tight, meaning: what I mentioned above, plus user has no power to change the desktop icons or the desktop, whatever else you can think of) Do make a ghost image and supply the property manager w/ instructions on how to use the bootable CD that will read the image from that other partion and restore your system)
So the main tools you need are tweakui and gpedit.msc.
If this is too much, use a knoppix CD(as mentioned by someone else) and leave instructions on what the web browser and aim clients are. And leave some extra copies w/ the property manager.
When it comes to NASA investing money in technology, it's usually a good thing.
You have to remember that most everything with NASA is an experiment. NASA tends to try to take technology to its threshold. That technology then finds other uses in terestrial industry or in later missions.
If NASA invests their money in a robot to fix the Hubble and it costs more than a new hubble. That robot will probably remain in service for other such missions as repairs on the ISS, and other satelites.
How about a link to the article? And why not have methane collectors in Frat houses?
What about using bio-diesel for fuel oil?
We heat our house w/ fuel oil which I understand is diesel but died a different color?
What would it take to convert our furnace?
Home brew would be great because I would just syphon right into my tank.
It is clear that Brown is doing one of two things. Trying to dumb things down for the non-*nix savvy, or trying to propigate negative opinions for the pervayours of Open Source. Both will cause problems for the Open Source community. People who read dumbed down versions of any subject, will end up more confused than if they read a detailed version but can only digest a few sentences or paragraphs. Having someone who is propigating misinformation about a subject, again underminds the proper understanding of that subject and can perpetuate myths that cause fear and confusion. I also believe that a technical subject, by it's nature can never be simplified for easier understanding. The only goal should be better understanding, and the way to accomplish that is by taking smaller morsels of the information and re-enforcing it more often. So, I agree. Brown needs to get his facts straight, whatever his motivation is.
I don't believe I said the principle of automatic updates is flawed. I, infact, think that it would bring a Eutopian sense of being for SysAdmins everywhere.
No sane or seasoned sysadmin anywhere will run automatic updates and expect to find working systems 100% of the time. The matter is fact, package maintainers make mistakes, and systems are never without flaws.
Mozilla firefox with the ad-block plugin is a great way to stop adds too.
I mean this in a non-flaim way, but apt-get through a cron job is a great way for you to wake up and find your system broken. You really should only run that manually and be aware of what packages are being installed. This is just a tip, use it the way you wish.
Just thought that I would note that Flash 7 on Debian Linux Unstable installed easily(untar, drop 2 files in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/ and start the browser.
This is the first time that a flash plugin has actually worked for me under Debian/Mozilla-anyflavor/Gnome Desktop(not that the desktop matters)
I think this article should be called "How to pick up chicks..."
What do you mean the Amiga could kick an computer's ass at the time? I have two words for you...Atari ST !!! ;)
Sendmail or Exchange?
One noun...Postfix for an MTA!
I am aware of the relationship between caldera and sco. Sco used to be Caldera.
The oddities I found where
1) The Link to UnitedLinux.com came from the IBM site.
2) SuSe is listed in partnership with Sco.
You surely will have noticed that SuSe and IBM have both been involved in Legal Disputes with SCO.
Does this sound normal?
sorry...here is the link to the page I was talking about.
http://www.unitedlinux.com/