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Okay, you take the basher part, I'll try to play the zealot...
If debian is too slow for you then don't fucking use it but quit the whining. Go and have your gentoo, ubuntu, fedora or whatever fulfills your desire for up-to-date software.
The rest of us will just keep on loving and hugging debian for testing the shit out of their shit in multiple stages before they even consider to stamp a big, red "stable" on it.
I consider it a great blessing that I am granted access to their *testing* and *unstable* branch for my desktop but my major reason for choosing debian is that I know once something hits stable it might be old but it is very likely that many people have not only looked at it but actually used it for a noteworthy amount of time (and whined and bitched about bugs and problems, all of which have then been worked out in the process).
Show me another distro where "stable" means stable and that achieves this goal in shorter time and I'll switch, gladly. There is none.
In the life of a sysadmin it's worth quite a bit to know that there's a place where you can say "apt-get install apache" and it *will* work. Certainly worth much more than alpha transparency in X or whatever hype feature of the moment.
Yup, they should put up some pretty graphs for kicks. I wonder whether that would be even doable - maybe some of the counters in/proc are just overflowing all the time?
Would definately look funny. The scale alone would be good for some jawdropping at second glance...
80GB. Per month? Don't get me wrong but that sounds pretty low (nowadays!). You can get a cheap dedicated server for $30/month with 100GB traffic incl.
A website that I babysit sends 1.5TB/month over the wire. We pay well under $1000 for 1/2 rack, power *and* traffic.
When I tried (admittedly it was a 1.3 JVM) most reflection calls would incur a delay of >100ms (some up to 500ms!) on a >1GHZ box.
If that situation has improved dramatically it could really be a useful tool for on-the-fly things. Back then it was pretty much limited to discovering stuff during init because you wouldn't like that kind of performance hit at runtime...
I think you have a point. Nevertheless linux is catching up (slowly but steadily) in some areas, so I want to drop some names...
Photo management? gPhoto has pretty good camera support - if you're using the right USB drivers. That gets the photos from the camera - now, what about organizing and editing photos? Slideshows with transitions, audio, etc? iPhoto kicks butt here.
Agree'd, somewhat. But when "slideshows with transitions" and "audio" don't matter (to me they don't) gphoto gets the job done pretty well.
Video editing? First find and configure the firewire card drivers for the chipset you have, then go get what? Cinelerra? Too hard for a linux geek to make work. VirtualDub, Kino? WAAAAY too limited in terms of features and ease of use.
You have a point, there appears to be no decent package around. Personally I think it's a matter of time until one pops up, though.
DVD mastering? Don't get me started...
Another point for you. I've seen some (GUI-)apps in that dept but most were still young. Again, time will fix that - definately.
Music software? XMMS is pretty handy for playing music, but organizing, sorting? Grip for capturing the data...
Well, there I must jump in. We have rhythmbox and madman. IHMO both beat itunes hands-down. I'm using madman to feed my ipod - itunes feels crippled in comparison. For ripping just use abcde. You'll never look back.
But what a sweet idea that is. Anyone ActiveX savvy know if that would be doable?
I'd be happy to host the site that displays a big banner "Oops, your browser was insecure, but don't worry, we've replaced it!"
The basic procedure shouldn't be hard: D/L firefox, install (invisible to the user), apply some kind of "IE-theme", import bookmarks and replace all IE icons (tray, startmenu etc.) with lookalike firefox ones.
So all we need is a way to remotely start the script on the client and maybe some minimal adjustments on the installer (do not pop up any windows, do the theme/bookmark stuff)... Anyone volunteer?
The faster we improve our level of technology the more rapidly the lower levels of technology will reach more people, allowing them to crawl up out of the mud, take a shower, and go to work, feed their family, et cetera. Personally I'm merely hoping that somewhere in the world, these people end up building a society that's not predicated upon taking advantage of the weaknesses of the citizenry.
Well, if you haven't noticed: progress means more automatition. more automatition means less jobs. Accellerating this might help your muddy kids to get a shower but it will not solve the problem that our system (they call it capitalism) doesn't scale well in the face of technical progress.
Maybe we should put power into trying to solve some of these problems that we have *now* instead of escalating them as fast as we can?
Given you trust ABIT to not build some kind of master key into the thing or use a weak/broken implementation of the crypto-magic.
I, personally, would trust the linux loopback crypto more than a piece of hardware that I don't know what it really does (or doesn't).
There are software tools similar to linux loopback-crypto for windows (I've used one called "scramdisk" long ago) but again, unless you get the src and know it's audited by someone you trust (i.e. yourself) you'll never know whether it really does what it claims.
It ofcourse all depends on whether you just want to protect your data from the opportunity thief who lifts a box or two from your office or if you want/need to apply the maximum level of paranoia.
Again - I, personally, would always aim for the latter because I see no reason why to go for less. Loopback crypto is free and reasonably peer-reviewed after all.
A few days ago I caught an episode here on german TV and I must say: yes they have!
But it's amusing, I watched it to the end.
I love the zylon-overlord with the christmas lights in his glass-bulb head. I also love the knight-rider effect on the zylon heads, they look damn cool and evil.
And I like the ever-same starship-launch-scenes (y'know, thumb shot of the control stick, three buttons, thumb pushes "boost" and shewwwwwwwww) and the ever-same cylone fight scenes:
Chippendale #1: Doh, boomer, look, 54243661 zylons, we're in trouble now! Chippendale #2: Ah man, galactica is all the way far 'way, oh and we're out of fuel, too Chippendale #3: Ok, engage
(big honking zipzap fight scene with ever-the-same two "zap" and "boom" samples) (Chippendales decimate the 345987459735 zylon ships to only about two, one of which hits Guest-Chippendale-never-seen-before lethally) (fight is over)
Chippendale #x: Man shit, we lost Joe Doe. Lets return to galactica.
End scene: Ppl all happy on galactica, Ben Cartwright^W^WCmdr Adama holds a speech about unity, freedom and chicken wings in bbq-sauce.
Oh and in this one episode I watched there was a landing scene where they'd land on a planet. They came down and, I swear, the whole team was females! Like 8 ppl, one was Cmdr Adama, the rest was ABBA-style chicks.
I suggest anyone who's looking for "something better than CVS" to take a tour through the monotone documentation.
These docs are just excellent (reading is believing!) and provide a great intro to the monotone src control system. Monotone is decentral (a bit like bitkeeper), keeps the repository in a single file (yay!), does 3-way merges and, on top, the syntax appears to be bearable! Try darcs or arch for a day and you'll understand why I had to make that last part bold...
I'm giving it a testride right now and according to this rumor Linus has it on his radar, too...
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Okay, you take the basher part, I'll try to play the zealot...
If debian is too slow for you then don't fucking use it but quit the whining. Go and have your gentoo, ubuntu, fedora or whatever fulfills your desire for up-to-date software.
The rest of us will just keep on loving and hugging debian for testing the shit out of their shit in multiple stages before they even consider to stamp a big, red "stable" on it.
I consider it a great blessing that I am granted access to their *testing* and *unstable* branch for my desktop but my major reason for choosing debian is that I know once something hits stable it might be old but it is very likely that many people have not only looked at it but actually used it for a noteworthy amount of time (and whined and bitched about bugs and problems, all of which have then been worked out in the process).
Show me another distro where "stable" means stable and that achieves this goal in shorter time and I'll switch, gladly.
There is none.
In the life of a sysadmin it's worth quite a bit to know that there's a place where you can say "apt-get install apache" and it *will* work.
Certainly worth much more than alpha transparency in X or whatever hype feature of the moment.
Without having ever looked at the apache code I'd like to ask anyways:
Doesn't apache do some additional stuff per request that others don't?
Things like check whether authentication should be requested and the like?
I might be mistaken but if not - don't these things amount to a significant overhead, esp. when talking.. uh.. "lots" of requests per second?
Yup, they should put up some pretty graphs for kicks. I wonder whether that would be even doable - maybe some of the counters in /proc are just overflowing all the time?
Would definately look funny. The scale alone would be good for some jawdropping at second glance...
80GB. Per month?
Don't get me wrong but that sounds pretty low (nowadays!).
You can get a cheap dedicated server for $30/month with 100GB traffic incl.
A website that I babysit sends 1.5TB/month over the wire.
We pay well under $1000 for 1/2 rack, power *and* traffic.
But how fast is fast?
When I tried (admittedly it was a 1.3 JVM) most reflection calls would incur a delay of >100ms (some up to 500ms!) on a >1GHZ box.
If that situation has improved dramatically it could really be a useful tool for on-the-fly things. Back then it was pretty much limited to discovering stuff during init because you wouldn't like that kind of performance hit at runtime...
Well, one reason why many people avoid reflection in java is because it's slow. At least it was that way when I checked last time...
I agree with parent.
I've had the misfortune to fiddle with XML config files (tomcat comes to mind). Give me a sane key=value scheme anyday.
http://3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971
Exactly. Please sign the petition against discrimination of WMD.
It was IIS instead of Apache, and IIS is a piece of shit, so no one wanted to bother learning it because it was a piece of shit.
Your IT dept. probably has more of a clue than you do.
Ummm. Well, there's DAR and there's kdar. I think there's even a win32 version for the clueless.
It doesn't get much easier than this. You can have a sane, incremental backup setup in a single line cronjob or even point and click one up.
If that's not simple enough for you then you have no business of storing or working with sensible data.
I think you have a point.
Nevertheless linux is catching up (slowly but steadily) in some areas, so I want to drop some names...
Photo management? gPhoto has pretty good camera support - if you're using the right USB drivers. That gets the photos from the camera - now, what about organizing and editing photos? Slideshows with transitions, audio, etc? iPhoto kicks butt here.
Agree'd, somewhat. But when "slideshows with transitions" and "audio" don't matter (to me they don't) gphoto gets the job done pretty well.
Video editing? First find and configure the firewire card drivers for the chipset you have, then go get what? Cinelerra? Too hard for a linux geek to make work. VirtualDub, Kino? WAAAAY too limited in terms of features and ease of use.
You have a point, there appears to be no decent package around.
Personally I think it's a matter of time until one pops up, though.
DVD mastering? Don't get me started...
Another point for you. I've seen some (GUI-)apps in that dept but most were still young. Again, time will fix that - definately.
Music software? XMMS is pretty handy for playing music, but organizing, sorting? Grip for capturing the data...
Well, there I must jump in. We have rhythmbox and madman. IHMO both beat itunes hands-down. I'm using madman to feed my ipod - itunes feels crippled in comparison. For ripping just use abcde. You'll never look back.
*lol*
So, where's your non-broken push distribution system (e-mail might work for transport?) with appropiate browser plugins?
Oh, didn't make one? Then cut the whining.
Yup.
99.9% - Within 30cm/17" of a screen
0.1% - Big blue room
A while back I read about something like that called RocketDrive.
I think it was limited to four DIMMS though but maybe they have worked that out...
What got them where they are today is not technical prowess. It was knowing how to get their products into the retail channel.
The "retail channel" is crumbling.
Few people actually go and buy software in boxes nowadays.
Even fewer will do that tomorrow.
You know, not so long ago, someone came up with something they call the intarweb or so. It works like so:
1. Go to shiny www.bigripoff.com
2. Click on shiny product icon
3. D/L and try
4. Come back, enter CC, get serial number
5. Unlock and be done...
But what a sweet idea that is.
Anyone ActiveX savvy know if that would be doable?
I'd be happy to host the site that displays a big banner "Oops, your browser was insecure, but don't worry, we've replaced it!"
The basic procedure shouldn't be hard: D/L firefox, install (invisible to the user), apply some kind of "IE-theme", import bookmarks and replace all IE icons (tray, startmenu etc.) with lookalike firefox ones.
So all we need is a way to remotely start the script on the client and maybe some minimal adjustments on the installer (do not pop up any windows, do the theme/bookmark stuff)... Anyone volunteer?
The faster we improve our level of technology the more rapidly the lower levels of technology will reach more people, allowing them to crawl up out of the mud, take a shower, and go to work, feed their family, et cetera. Personally I'm merely hoping that somewhere in the world, these people end up building a society that's not predicated upon taking advantage of the weaknesses of the citizenry.
Well, if you haven't noticed: progress means more automatition. more automatition means less jobs. Accellerating this might help your muddy kids to get a shower but it will not solve the problem that our system (they call it capitalism) doesn't scale well in the face of technical progress.
Maybe we should put power into trying to solve some of these problems that we have *now* instead of escalating them as fast as we can?
Man, that's exactly the type of task that I love.
Get yourself a GBA!
Given you trust ABIT to not build some kind of master key into the thing or use a weak/broken implementation of the crypto-magic.
I, personally, would trust the linux loopback crypto more than a piece of hardware that I don't know what it really does (or doesn't).
There are software tools similar to linux loopback-crypto for windows (I've used one called "scramdisk" long ago) but again, unless you get the src and know it's audited by someone you trust (i.e. yourself) you'll never know whether it really does what it claims.
It ofcourse all depends on whether you just want to protect your data from the opportunity thief who lifts a box or two from your office or if you want/need to apply the maximum level of paranoia.
Again - I, personally, would always aim for the latter because I see no reason why to go for less. Loopback crypto is free and reasonably peer-reviewed after all.
A few days ago I caught an episode here on german TV and I must say: yes they have!
But it's amusing, I watched it to the end.
I love the zylon-overlord with the christmas lights in his glass-bulb head.
I also love the knight-rider effect on the zylon heads, they look damn cool and evil.
And I like the ever-same starship-launch-scenes (y'know, thumb shot of the control stick, three buttons, thumb pushes "boost" and shewwwwwwwww) and the ever-same cylone fight scenes:
Chippendale #1: Doh, boomer, look, 54243661 zylons, we're in trouble now!
Chippendale #2: Ah man, galactica is all the way far 'way, oh and we're out of fuel, too
Chippendale #3: Ok, engage
(big honking zipzap fight scene with ever-the-same two "zap" and "boom" samples)
(Chippendales decimate the 345987459735 zylon ships to only about two, one of which hits Guest-Chippendale-never-seen-before lethally)
(fight is over)
Chippendale #x: Man shit, we lost Joe Doe. Lets return to galactica.
End scene:
Ppl all happy on galactica, Ben Cartwright^W^WCmdr Adama holds a speech about unity, freedom and chicken wings in bbq-sauce.
Oh and in this one episode I watched there was a landing scene where they'd land on a planet. They came down and, I swear, the whole team was females!
Like 8 ppl, one was Cmdr Adama, the rest was ABBA-style chicks.
God I love the old BG...
I suggest anyone who's looking for "something better than CVS" to take a tour through the monotone documentation.
These docs are just excellent (reading is believing!) and provide a great intro to the monotone src control system. Monotone is decentral (a bit like bitkeeper), keeps the repository in a single file (yay!), does 3-way merges and, on top, the syntax appears to be bearable!
Try darcs or arch for a day and you'll understand why I had to make that last part bold...
I'm giving it a testride right now and according to this rumor Linus has it on his radar, too...
You can still just block the destination server.
/etc/hosts might already do the trick...
It probably even does a DNS lookup so just adding
127.0.0.1 evil.pdfspy.com
to your
Funny, nowhere in your links is explained what Google is supposedly using it for?
Must be not exciting enough to mention it then, huh?