What does this mean for features?
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United Linux is Here
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Each of these companies has done a lot of interesting stuff. I want to know which parts of each distro is going to go into United Linux. My biggest gripes with RedHat is lack of XFS support and painful upgrade routes. I think United Linux will have a chance in hell if...
1. They adopt apt-rpm as a layer in their installation and upgrade process.
2. They include advanced features like XFS and ACLs from the base installer.
3. They keep YAST.
4. They support up and coming platforms, like ia64.
5. They make it easy for third parties to add proprietary features to their distro.
Re:64-bit life?
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Unix Isn't Dead
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· Score: 5, Informative
We had a local PC vendor where I grew up that told some tall tales. One teacher in our school bought a PC from him. She was having a hard time getting her sound card to work. He told her that she needed to bring her computer in to him so he could download the drivers _off_ the card.
If you like to see how things work, the best way is usually to write some code that tries it out. With a little extra work, you can create a small test case. Then submit the test program to the Linux Test Project.
I'm fighting with Cox Road Runner (Fairfax, VA) about policy changes. Although not currently prohibited, it appears that they are trying to pressure residential users that run their own (passworded) FTP servers, Telnet servers, mail, and web servers into buying Cox Business Internet services. One problem: My 1.5mbps download pipe costs $250 on business vs. $40 on residential. Odd too, how they are only discussing these server limitations now that they have a high-priced "business service" to offer.
This is the same thing the phone companies where doing when they found out that someone was running a BBS on their residential line. I wish they would understand that hobbists that know what they are doing aren't sucking tons of bandwidth and would never pay business prices.
I would only buy an X-Box if
1. I can install Linux on it
2. Microsoft loses more money on the sale than I would be spending on the purchase.
3. The hardware doesn't start fires
Pause Technology is an intellectual property company focused on the Personal Video Recorder market and related industries. In addition to licensing our existing patents we are interested in acquiring new ones as well. Please direct any representations of new technologies to Charlie Call.
Pause Technology, founded in 2000, is an LLC that has been well funded by major corporate and individual shareholders.
It looks to me that this company was founded after TiVo and Replay were already products. They must have bought a patent from someone so they could try to exploit other companies that actually did something with the technology. IMNSHO, patents should be a bit more like trademarks, in that you have to use the technology or you lose it.
I love my TiVo, even if I did pay $400 for it a year ago. $10 a month is pretty cheap. $100 a year isn't too bad either. I loved mine so much I paid the lifetime fee.
I think you missed the partitioning link on the web page.
Also, how do you upgrade a StarCat? With an O3k, you just keep adding to the system. You never have to get rid of your old hardware. No more fork lift upgrades.
Follow the instructions and make sure the user running wolf has write access to the wolf installation. i.e. install it as yourself in your home directory.
When they first released the Windows version, I rebooted to Windows (first time in months) to try it out. It was awesome. I thought I wouldn't get anything done. Then Windows crashed. I tried again, and Windows crashed. After 10-15 crashes I decided not to bother anymore. Productivity was restored.
Now that it's available for Linux, productivity is guaranteed to decline. *sigh* Oh well.:)
I'm glad that people are worried about their privacy at a time where it's likely to get trampled in the name of national security. I just think some people are overreacting to it. It's not like the NSA is going through all your private email and publishing it on web pages for all the world to see. The guys that are running through the world's email are probably scanning millions of emails a day using sophisticated filters and probably skimming hundreds of those with their own eyes. Do they care about your weekend plans or how much you love your dog? NO! They are looking for threats to national security. As long as you're not doing anything that would make the Federal government curious, you probably have nothing to worry about. Go back to your hole. If you are, then let them read your email and try to crack your PGP keys.
yes, but can you find a link to that page? I wasn't able to find it. Also, you can find that page under any topic by appending "&category_id=n" to the URL. The policy looks depreciated to me. The tech support agents need to be retrained.
What can a good Netizen do?
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Code Redux
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I've collected a fair IP list of Code Red infected systems. I would like to do my part and notify these people or their ISP's about their problems. I've sent lists to mediaone.net and home.com, but is that going to do any good? Do the people working at ISP's find this information useful? If so, please post where to send information about Code Red infected PCs.
Isn't that what Microsoft's Windows update does ? Or better said, isn't that what Microsoft's Windows update tries to do?
I think the key here is that McAffee's patent includes the use of a secure password. Although I've never used Windows Update, I don't think it uses a secure password, thus it isn't an issue.
So as long as the software that does the security, management, or optimization functions is available without a password, you have nothing to worry about.
The worm should get 400 "Bad Request" on any HTTP server. That's not 404 "File not found." The worm has two spaces between the URL and the HTTP version. The spec says one and only one. So Apache, Zope, and any other sane HTTP server will throw out the request. Sure, it's a quick fix for both MS and the worm writer on this point, but still. RTFRFC!
I'd be happy if someone would proofread the articles before they are posted. I've seen so many spelling errors and outright typos recently, I think some junior high kids would be a good change. At least they are still getting taught basic English skills and might review their writing before hitting the submit button.
I would prefer that my provider use the blacklists, but in case they don't, I fashioned this procmail entry to help out. It strips out all of the IPs from the Received: headers and checks them all against whatever blacklists you want to use. rblcheck is used.
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Each of these companies has done a lot of interesting stuff. I want to know which parts of each distro is going to go into United Linux. My biggest gripes with RedHat is lack of XFS support and painful upgrade routes. I think United Linux will have a chance in hell if...
1. They adopt apt-rpm as a layer in their installation and upgrade process.
2. They include advanced features like XFS and ACLs from the base installer.
3. They keep YAST.
4. They support up and coming platforms, like ia64.
5. They make it easy for third parties to add proprietary features to their distro.
IRIX 6.5
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s /ds/ds-sol8oe/
"SGI Fifth Generation 64-Bit UNIX Operating System"
http://www.sgi.com/software/irix6.5/
AIX 5.1
"AIX is fully integrated to support existing 32- and 64-bit hardware..."
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/os
Solaris 8
"Designed for multiprocessing and 64-bit computing..."
http://www.sun.com/software/solari
Tru64 UNIX
With a name like that, do you have to ask?
http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/index.html
Any questions?
We had a local PC vendor where I grew up that told some tall tales. One teacher in our school bought a PC from him. She was having a hard time getting her sound card to work. He told her that she needed to bring her computer in to him so he could download the drivers _off_ the card.
If you like to see how things work, the best way is usually to write some code that tries it out. With a little extra work, you can create a small test case. Then submit the test program to the Linux Test Project.
Linux desperately needs more serious testers.
LTP - http://ltp.sf.net/
I'm fighting with Cox Road Runner (Fairfax, VA) about policy changes. Although not currently prohibited, it appears that they are trying to pressure residential users that run their own (passworded) FTP servers, Telnet servers, mail, and web servers into buying Cox Business Internet services. One problem: My 1.5mbps download pipe costs $250 on business vs. $40 on residential. Odd too, how they are only discussing these server limitations now that they have a high-priced "business service" to offer.
This is the same thing the phone companies where doing when they found out that someone was running a BBS on their residential line. I wish they would understand that hobbists that know what they are doing aren't sucking tons of bandwidth and would never pay business prices.
I would only buy an X-Box if
1. I can install Linux on it
2. Microsoft loses more money on the sale than I would be spending on the purchase.
3. The hardware doesn't start fires
Now with compiler optimizations!
Odd. I couldn't find anything to support that claim on the Emmys web site[1]. Perhaps you can provide a better reference.
[1] http://www.emmys.tv/
Pause Technology is an intellectual property company focused on the Personal Video Recorder market and related industries. In addition to licensing our existing patents we are interested in acquiring new ones as well. Please direct any representations of new technologies to Charlie Call .
Pause Technology, founded in 2000, is an LLC that has been well funded by major corporate and individual shareholders.
It looks to me that this company was founded after TiVo and Replay were already products. They must have bought a patent from someone so they could try to exploit other companies that actually did something with the technology. IMNSHO, patents should be a bit more like trademarks, in that you have to use the technology or you lose it.
If you think there is a problem with your TiVo, why don't you take it in to get it serviced? I spent some extra cash to get an extended warranty.
Take a look at the pre-order form:
RTV4320 ( Approx. 320 hours of recording time) $ 1,999 *
RTV4160 ( Approx. 160 hours of recording time) $ 1,499 *
RTV4080 ( Approx. 80 hours of recording time) $ 999 *
RTV4040 ( Approx. 40 hours of recording time) $ 699 *
* Plus applicable tax & shipping charges.
Estimated shipping costs within Continental US are:
$25 3-5 business days, $35 economy 2 day, $45 next day
TiVo prices:
Philips HDR 212 20 $199
Philips HDR 312 30 $299
Philips HDR 612 60 $599
I love my TiVo, even if I did pay $400 for it a year ago. $10 a month is pretty cheap. $100 a year isn't too bad either. I loved mine so much I paid the lifetime fee.
I think you missed the partitioning link on the web page. Also, how do you upgrade a StarCat? With an O3k, you just keep adding to the system. You never have to get rid of your old hardware. No more fork lift upgrades.
If you want a real system that scales and doesn't lose IO capability, check out an SGI O3k. up to 512 CPUs, as much IO you want.
http://www.sgi.com/origin/3000/
Wow, 10 hours later and there still aren't any posts +3 or higher. I guess the moderators are too busy playing the game. Way to go id!
Follow the instructions and make sure the user running wolf has write access to the wolf installation. i.e. install it as yourself in your home directory.
When they first released the Windows version, I rebooted to Windows (first time in months) to try it out. It was awesome. I thought I wouldn't get anything done. Then Windows crashed. I tried again, and Windows crashed. After 10-15 crashes I decided not to bother anymore. Productivity was restored.
:)
Now that it's available for Linux, productivity is guaranteed to decline. *sigh* Oh well.
I'm glad that people are worried about their privacy at a time where it's likely to get trampled in the name of national security. I just think some people are overreacting to it. It's not like the NSA is going through all your private email and publishing it on web pages for all the world to see. The guys that are running through the world's email are probably scanning millions of emails a day using sophisticated filters and probably skimming hundreds of those with their own eyes. Do they care about your weekend plans or how much you love your dog? NO! They are looking for threats to national security. As long as you're not doing anything that would make the Federal government curious, you probably have nothing to worry about. Go back to your hole. If you are, then let them read your email and try to crack your PGP keys.
yes, but can you find a link to that page? I wasn't able to find it. Also, you can find that page under any topic by appending "&category_id=n" to the URL. The policy looks depreciated to me. The tech support agents need to be retrained.
I've collected a fair IP list of Code Red infected systems. I would like to do my part and notify these people or their ISP's about their problems. I've sent lists to mediaone.net and home.com, but is that going to do any good? Do the people working at ISP's find this information useful? If so, please post where to send information about Code Red infected PCs.
Isn't that what Microsoft's Windows update does ? Or better said, isn't that what Microsoft's Windows update tries to do?
I think the key here is that McAffee's patent includes the use of a secure password. Although I've never used Windows Update, I don't think it uses a secure password, thus it isn't an issue.
So as long as the software that does the security, management, or optimization functions is available without a password, you have nothing to worry about.
.. how MS software sucks.
The worm should get 400 "Bad Request" on any HTTP server. That's not 404 "File not found." The worm has two spaces between the URL and the HTTP version. The spec says one and only one. So Apache, Zope, and any other sane HTTP server will throw out the request. Sure, it's a quick fix for both MS and the worm writer on this point, but still. RTFRFC!
I'd be happy if someone would proofread the articles before they are posted. I've seen so many spelling errors and outright typos recently, I think some junior high kids would be a good change. At least they are still getting taught basic English skills and might review their writing before hitting the submit button.
I would prefer that my provider use the blacklists, but in case they don't, I fashioned this procmail entry to help out. It strips out all of the IPs from the Received: headers and checks them all against whatever blacklists you want to use. rblcheck is used.
/usr/local/bin/formail -xReceived: | egrep \[[0-9.]+\] | sed -e 's/.*\[//'
-e 's/\].*//' | xargs -n 1 /usr/local/bin/rblcheck -c -q -s blackholes.mail-abuse.org -s dialups.mail-abuse.org -s relays.mail-abuse.org -s inputs.orbs.org -s spamsources.orbs.org
* !?
If I wanted that much resolution, I would want it on an SGI Reality Center. 15 foot screens and larger, now you're talking. :)
-1? This post (er, the parent of this one), should be at least 2, informative.