I love FF on Mac, can't live without the Firebug and Web Developer extensions. But just yesterday I closed FF as it was using 460MB of RAM. Not quite a half a gig, but darn near close.
Really, what I'd love to see is a way to port FF extensions to Camino.
It was best put by some device driver contributor to the Linux kernel. He said in paraphrase. "I give a little bit of time and contribute code for the driver and in return I get an OS that I can use and tweak to my liking."
Sure, Google is not opening it's coffers to all open source developers, but you can't deny we have all benefited from Google's success in search, and even it's less known other products (Picasa, Analytics, Gmail, Calendar, etc).
Are you in IT for the money or because you enjoy it? If you are in it for the former, please do us and yourself a favor and leave.
Here we see government trying to be the solution to our problems. Phewy. The solution to SPAM is not laws, but technology.
Here are the best anti spam techniques (in order of effectiveness) 1. Graylisting (awesome!) 2. SPF (Stop forgery) 3. Spamassassin . . . 1001. CAN SPAM act.
Why do a lot of the postings to articles boil down to
"that is crap use this"
Don't these people realize that no solutions fits every situation? It blows the mind.
Anyway, I love Fedora Core. I use it on my desktop at work, Running FC 4 right now. Stable as can be, gives me the tools I need. See, I'm a system administrator. I have about 7 RHEL systems under my administration that I personally over see. Fedora Core allows me to see what will soon be included in RHEL and get familiar with it.
Why Redhat? If you have to ask, you don't know linux or open source. They contribute millions of dollars to opensource and to linux development. Sure they're making a buck off support and I'm glad to pay it, in return I get a rock solid OS that is guarenteed to be there in 7 years. Oh, and Redhat seems to be doing pretty good finacially too, as seen on Slashdot here recently. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/15/ 1732235&tid=110&tid=187&tid=106
I just don't understand why they are upbraided for that. They're just trying to make a living at linux, same as me. I mean, if you don't want to pay, RH has even allowed (by the GPL) others to make almost identical OS (CentOS), only thing missing is the shadowman.
I can't wait for FC5 to go live, I'll be upgrading.
Simple. Nationalism, Patriotic, etc. I have no allegence to Microsoft and so I don't want to see them succeed over another product. I do have allegence to my nation (despite it's flaws, it is the best place I'd like to live). I want my nation to succeed.
I too work for a small company that does not pull a lot of profits. The cash flow is very seasonal and the budget is kind of mystical.
What we do is just sit down and assess who needs new computers that year. How much you spent last year on incidentals (CD's, cables, RAM, etc).
A rough guess is to add 20% to what you have down on paper. Of course you can only make an accurate budget knowing your past spending habits and what things are on the horizon.
One thing of note. I worked for a big hospital a few years ago, they had a multimillion dollar budget that grew every year. The mentality was that you had to use it or lose it, so the budget always grew. Some guys (including myself) offered some F/OSS solutions that would have save many thousands of dollars. We were soundly rejected. When I worked at Discover Card, they gave incentives to those that could save money, not tell them to take a hike.
Anyway, for a small business like mine, just make a list, look back at your previous purchase orders and see what history tells you.
Ok, I give. LDAP is initially hard to understand (objectclasses, schemes, replica's, DNs), but once you do, it's a snap.
Here is my real world setup.
1. RedHat Enterprise server 2. OpenLDAP 3. Postfix (SMTP auth, Spamassassin, TLS, Postgrey) 4. Cyrus Imap Server 5. Samba File server 6. Apache WebDav
Right now I have a master copy of LDAP on the internal file server. Then two other servers (on the DMZ) are replicas. Samba pulls info from LDAP, Cyrus, Postfix, WebDAV as well. Not using Kerberos at this time, but all passwords for Logging onto the computer, email, outgoing email, are same username/password.
Dude, if you don't want to do it yourself from scatch then don't use Gentoo. I use Fedora Core 4 and have none of the problems you suggested.
Yes I:
-Have a DVD burner that works great automatically with K3B
-Use a wireless USB mouse.
-Use a USB drive occasionally.
-Play mp3's etc.
Takes me about 2 hours to install/setup Fedora.
Ok, I'm system administrator. I work everyday on the computer, and this is not the thing to be saying on Slashdot.
But get the computer out, or at least make it so they are not doing everything on the computer. I believe in taking an active roll in my children's education. I have two boys and we home school them. I have noticed in my own life how the computer makes you rely on the spell checker (rather than a dictionary) and rely on the grammar checker, rely on the calculator for simple math. Computers have their place but lets just simply realize that real intelligence is understanding how to do it with minimal outside help (self reliance the American way.)
I think a recent post on SD taughted that a school had no textbooks, just laptops (I expect those test scores to go down.)
Oh, an money is not the cure either, we are throwing more money at schools now then ever and getting less of a return, if the public school were a business we'd be bankrupt in a year. Back to the basics. Remember the three R's. Reading, Writing, and Arithmatic? Not sex education, or the other dumb classes that are offered.
Actually I beg to differ. I just set up SPF on my secondary mail server and it's rejecting email. But it's kind of a two way street. It only rejects email if the domain owner wants it to. So we don't decide to reject email, the domain owner does and SPF just checks those rules against who the spammer says he is.
I've been blocking a handful of spammers already. It really helps when you publish your own SPF rules, that way you don't get spam from yourself.
But if you really want to block hords of spam, use graylisting. I implemented that a few weeks again and man the spam count went down. Less for Spamassassin to chug on.
I remember a/. article a few years back stating that Novell was going to help Linux step into a mature contender in the Enterprise sphere. I laughed, because I viewed Novell as a has been, but now I have to eat my hat (it's red).
Works great! A few things don't work, like some of the function keys, the svideo, etc. But overall it works great for me.
My biggest complaint about linux (desktop/laptop) is bootup time. WinXP will have my laptop on a desktop in 30 seconds. Linux takes over 2 minutes.
If you're really worried, change your SSH port.
I too have noticed the increase attempts to guest, admin, test, and root accounts via ssh. I just changed the port. That has worked very well to keep them from even trying. Doesn't hurt to mix obscurity WITH security.
Hasn't this company heard of the Internet? Wouldn't it be easier, yea cheaper, to just use the internet to transfer the book content? Who knows, maybe this Internet thing is going to be "out of print" soon.
Yeah, student edition of the WS. Get the updates just no support (who needs that). http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industries /educati on/indiv/
The RHEL is awesome. I use a customized Postfix, Cyrus IMAP, and Openldap rpms. They all compile great.
Main problem I had with Gentoo was with OpenLDAP. T1he version that gentoo was labeling as stable was 2.0 when version 2.1 had been out for over a year. No problem running Openldap 2.1 on RHEL.
I hear everyone complaining about RH moving to a more community based model and actually trying to make some money on the enterprise side. Redhat has done a lot for linux. It would be nice if some of these blind nerds could see that.
I spent $25 and got the RHEL 3.0. It is the best distro I have tried yet. Yes I have tried Mandrake, Gentoo, and a few other ones.
The RHEL is solid, I download the srpms from their site that don't some with the WS edition and compile them. Simple.
I'm completely sold on the RHEL. I think the job that the guys at RH are doing is worth $25 of my hard earned money.
I have my CCNP and my MCP, but what really gets me noticed is experience. If you don't have much experience, try going to a local organization (i.e. church, etc) and voluteering your services. Some people might laugh at working for free, but it gets you contacts and experience at the same time.
Oh, I also have a side biz of doing small business consulting. The volunteering has contributed to this a lot.
Have fun.
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I love FF on Mac, can't live without the Firebug and Web Developer extensions. But just yesterday I closed FF as it was using 460MB of RAM. Not quite a half a gig, but darn near close.
Really, what I'd love to see is a way to port FF extensions to Camino.
FF doesn't integrate well with OSX, but just get the "SwitchProxy" Extension. It allows you to easily have numerous proxies and switch between them.
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12
It was best put by some device driver contributor to the Linux kernel. He said in paraphrase. "I give a little bit of time and contribute code for the driver and in return I get an OS that I can use and tweak to my liking."
Sure, Google is not opening it's coffers to all open source developers, but you can't deny we have all benefited from Google's success in search, and even it's less known other products (Picasa, Analytics, Gmail, Calendar, etc).
Are you in IT for the money or because you enjoy it? If you are in it for the former, please do us and yourself a favor and leave.
Too late Bill, I "solved" our spam problem over 6 months ago without the help of your "technology."
1. Greylisting
2. SPF
3. Spamassassin
I now receive 90% less spam (including the Junk folder).
Now go get a day job and stop trying to predict the future.
"government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." --Ronald Reagan (First Inaugural Address)i rst.asp
http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/f
Here we see government trying to be the solution to our problems. Phewy. The solution to SPAM is not laws, but technology.
Here are the best anti spam techniques (in order of effectiveness)
1. Graylisting (awesome!)
2. SPF (Stop forgery)
3. Spamassassin
.
.
.
1001. CAN SPAM act.
Why do a lot of the postings to articles boil down to
/ 1732235&tid=110&tid=187&tid=106
"that is crap use this"
Don't these people realize that no solutions fits every situation? It blows the mind.
Anyway, I love Fedora Core. I use it on my desktop at work, Running FC 4 right now. Stable as can be, gives me the tools I need. See, I'm a system administrator. I have about 7 RHEL systems under my administration that I personally over see. Fedora Core allows me to see what will soon be included in RHEL and get familiar with it.
Why Redhat? If you have to ask, you don't know linux or open source. They contribute millions of dollars to opensource and to linux development. Sure they're making a buck off support and I'm glad to pay it, in return I get a rock solid OS that is guarenteed to be there in 7 years. Oh, and Redhat seems to be doing pretty good finacially too, as seen on Slashdot here recently.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/15
I just don't understand why they are upbraided for that. They're just trying to make a living at linux, same as me. I mean, if you don't want to pay, RH has even allowed (by the GPL) others to make almost identical OS (CentOS), only thing missing is the shadowman.
I can't wait for FC5 to go live, I'll be upgrading.
Simple. Nationalism, Patriotic, etc. I have no allegence to Microsoft and so I don't want to see them succeed over another product. I do have allegence to my nation (despite it's flaws, it is the best place I'd like to live). I want my nation to succeed.
Sorry,
My children will not have their own laptop until they get to about 10th grade.
Why? They need the basics, read, writing, and math. Having a computer just makes them more dependant on the spell checker, the calculator, etc.
Maybe it's just an unspoken myth, but computers don't make you smarter. Having access to loads of information doesn't make you smarter.
Good study habits, excellent reading skills, solid math and logic will get them to where ever they want to go.
Disclaimer. I use a computer all day as a system admininistrator/programmer. I enjoy using computers, but they don't make me smarter.
I too work for a small company that does not pull a lot of profits. The cash flow is very seasonal and the budget is kind of mystical.
What we do is just sit down and assess who needs new computers that year. How much you spent last year on incidentals (CD's, cables, RAM, etc).
A rough guess is to add 20% to what you have down on paper. Of course you can only make an accurate budget knowing your past spending habits and what things are on the horizon.
One thing of note. I worked for a big hospital a few years ago, they had a multimillion dollar budget that grew every year. The mentality was that you had to use it or lose it, so the budget always grew. Some guys (including myself) offered some F/OSS solutions that would have save many thousands of dollars. We were soundly rejected. When I worked at Discover Card, they gave incentives to those that could save money, not tell them to take a hike.
Anyway, for a small business like mine, just make a list, look back at your previous purchase orders and see what history tells you.
Ok, I give. LDAP is initially hard to understand (objectclasses, schemes, replica's, DNs), but once you do, it's a snap.
Here is my real world setup.
1. RedHat Enterprise server
2. OpenLDAP
3. Postfix (SMTP auth, Spamassassin, TLS, Postgrey)
4. Cyrus Imap Server
5. Samba File server
6. Apache WebDav
Right now I have a master copy of LDAP on the internal file server. Then two other servers (on the DMZ) are replicas. Samba pulls info from LDAP, Cyrus, Postfix, WebDAV as well. Not using Kerberos at this time, but all passwords for Logging onto the computer, email, outgoing email, are same username/password.
Very nice. Some of the configuration and stuff I have documented no my wiki
http://www.spydorweb.com/wiki/
Dude, if you don't want to do it yourself from scatch then don't use Gentoo. I use Fedora Core 4 and have none of the problems you suggested. Yes I: -Have a DVD burner that works great automatically with K3B -Use a wireless USB mouse. -Use a USB drive occasionally. -Play mp3's etc. Takes me about 2 hours to install/setup Fedora.
Ok, I'm system administrator. I work everyday on the computer, and this is not the thing to be saying on Slashdot.
But get the computer out, or at least make it so they are not doing everything on the computer. I believe in taking an active roll in my children's education. I have two boys and we home school them. I have noticed in my own life how the computer makes you rely on the spell checker (rather than a dictionary) and rely on the grammar checker, rely on the calculator for simple math. Computers have their place but lets just simply realize that real intelligence is understanding how to do it with minimal outside help (self reliance the American way.)
I think a recent post on SD taughted that a school had no textbooks, just laptops (I expect those test scores to go down.)
Oh, an money is not the cure either, we are throwing more money at schools now then ever and getting less of a return, if the public school were a business we'd be bankrupt in a year. Back to the basics. Remember the three R's. Reading, Writing, and Arithmatic? Not sex education, or the other dumb classes that are offered.
Obviously this guy has not heard of Postfix, a truely awesome mailserver
Actually I beg to differ. I just set up SPF on my secondary mail server and it's rejecting email. But it's kind of a two way street. It only rejects email if the domain owner wants it to. So we don't decide to reject email, the domain owner does and SPF just checks those rules against who the spammer says he is.
I've been blocking a handful of spammers already. It really helps when you publish your own SPF rules, that way you don't get spam from yourself.
But if you really want to block hords of spam, use graylisting. I implemented that a few weeks again and man the spam count went down. Less for Spamassassin to chug on.
I remember a /. article a few years back stating that Novell was going to help Linux step into a mature contender in the Enterprise sphere. I laughed, because I viewed Novell as a has been, but now I have to eat my hat (it's red).
Works great! A few things don't work, like some of the function keys, the svideo, etc. But overall it works great for me. My biggest complaint about linux (desktop/laptop) is bootup time. WinXP will have my laptop on a desktop in 30 seconds. Linux takes over 2 minutes.
Exactly,
I just bought a new laptop from dell. Don't have the option to escape the MS tax on those, but I wiped that thing clean and threw linux on it.
Thanks to Redmond we have a culture that accepts spyware, pop-ups, and crashes as standard operating procedure.
I'm waiting for TV via Wifi. Oh wait, I guess TV already is wireless.
If you're really worried, change your SSH port. I too have noticed the increase attempts to guest, admin, test, and root accounts via ssh. I just changed the port. That has worked very well to keep them from even trying. Doesn't hurt to mix obscurity WITH security.
Hasn't this company heard of the Internet? Wouldn't it be easier, yea cheaper, to just use the internet to transfer the book content? Who knows, maybe this Internet thing is going to be "out of print" soon.
Yeah, student edition of the WS. Get the updates just no support (who needs that).s /educati on/indiv/
http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industrie
The RHEL is awesome. I use a customized Postfix, Cyrus IMAP, and Openldap rpms. They all compile great.
Main problem I had with Gentoo was with OpenLDAP. T1he version that gentoo was labeling as stable was 2.0 when version 2.1 had been out for over a year. No problem running Openldap 2.1 on RHEL.
I hear everyone complaining about RH moving to a more community based model and actually trying to make some money on the enterprise side. Redhat has done a lot for linux. It would be nice if some of these blind nerds could see that.
I spent $25 and got the RHEL 3.0. It is the best distro I have tried yet. Yes I have tried Mandrake, Gentoo, and a few other ones. The RHEL is solid, I download the srpms from their site that don't some with the WS edition and compile them. Simple. I'm completely sold on the RHEL. I think the job that the guys at RH are doing is worth $25 of my hard earned money.
I have my CCNP and my MCP, but what really gets me noticed is experience. If you don't have much experience, try going to a local organization (i.e. church, etc) and voluteering your services. Some people might laugh at working for free, but it gets you contacts and experience at the same time. Oh, I also have a side biz of doing small business consulting. The volunteering has contributed to this a lot. Have fun.