(note: by master/slave terminology I only mean that the master server is used more. Only AFS has a hierarchy where master/slave really matters)
AFS would be awesome... you see, sometimes these two offices need to work on the same files from both locations... not simultaneously, but sometimes consecutively. In those cases, it'd be great to have a setup that locally caches the file on the slave server, but will automatically serve the most recent version of the file, even if it had since been edited master server. With AFS, all of that is taken care of by the server, I believe.
Now, of course we could set up Samba networked drives, but then there would be no caching... a file would either be stored on the master or slave server, and if someone from another location wanted to work with the file, they'd have to redownload it every time. That would be an *alright* solution, but pretty inelegant, as far as I'm concerned. Linux is supposed to be good at this advanced server stuff, damnit.
So, finally, a question in response to your post: What happens to remote Samba connections when the net connection goes down? Is it a gracefull timeout, or does it start crashing things like NFS?
The attacks are coming from a minority of Saddam loyalists or foreign Islamic terrorists.
Wow... you're really carrying the party line there, huh?
In reality, we don't know who is organizing and executing these attacks. Given the hatred of the US in certain parts of Iraq, it could just be random farmers picking up weapons and capping servicemen while they sit in traffic. There's a quote from an Iraqi that I read a month ago or so in an ABCnews story about a battle that led to Americans firing randomly into a marketplace... ahh, yes, the quote:
All the people in town today are asking for revenge. They want to kill the Americans like they killed our civilians. Give me a gun, and I will also fight.
So I think that gives us a fairly good picture of the sentiment some Iraqis share as a result of our occupation. Note that these Iraqis are not neccessarily Saddam loyalists... hating us will do just nicely. If it was just one story, I wouldn't be so worried. But I've read statements like the one above too many times during the occupation. We're risking a grass-roots movement here if we don't get this nation on its feet quickly.
I think the word you are looking for is controversy, not scandal. Any close election is going to be controversial.
So you don't think that the Supreme Court's invention of a new job for itself - The Decider of Tough Elections - was scandalous. I tend to think the voters should decide the election, not a bunch of potentially partisan judges. We've got election protocol so that this sort of influence is supposedly impossible. Bah. I wont harp on something so long gone. Let me just say that for a body that is supposed to decide an action's constitutionality, they never justified the constitutionality of their own actions.
we are turning control over to an Iraqi government at midnight on June 30th next year
Actually, we're not turning over control on that date... what we're doing is changing the name of the occupation. From then on we'll be an "invited pressence" rather an an occupying power. I'm not making this up. That's the real plan. I mean, I'm sure that some of the government will be up and running, but the power will still ultimately reside with Americans since we'll still have over 100k troops there. No country is ever anything other than a colony when it has a foriegn army residing in it. Cut the troop numbers to the amount that used to be in Saudi Arabia, and Iraq will finally be a free country.
(Incidentally, convenient that we found another strategic base in the area now that we can't use Saudi Arabia, huh?)
What I'm wondering is why the poster of this story didn't do a tad more research before posting. As of yesterday, an exploit for these security holes has been available. Beware.
Exploit code, anyone? A simple google search or a Bugtraq archive browse over the last week should do it.
What I'm wondering is why the poster of this story didn't do a tad more research before posting. As of yesterday, an exploit for these security holes has been available.
Exploit code, anyone? A simple google search or a Bugtraq archive browse should do it.
Once again, I'll refer to the old "Only Criminals Would Oppose This" arguement. Obviously the smaller size makes it more convenient for the consumer, right? So, it's only a good thing to us *honest* consumers. Only thieves would be phased by restrictions of fair use. I mean, come on.
This is another thing that strikes me as being similiar to the battery "advances" we've had over the years that have never made it into consumer products. We've been hearing about MRAM and storage densities for years, and yet we still don't have instant-on computers. I wonder if we'll see an article about how these advances are idling just like the battery field.
So? How often are you going to be doing a restore of a file system while other processes are running to share out CPU time to? It doesn't matter if takes up a lot of CPU time, since it's the only process running that you care about.
Seriously, what about all those great Slashdot battery articles we've seen over the past few years? The amazing advances that were supposed to revolutionize our portable electronics? I've been wondering about them recently. Was manufacturing these theoretical advances just too difficult?
I've seen these quotes before, and I find the whole thing incredibly funny. Bush Sr. was a mediocre president in his own right, but his son doesn't even have the sense to listen to his agencies. His father spelled out the problems, and Bush II blithely ignores them. I couldn't be happier.
There are fansub fanatics out there who will have a dubbed version out within a week of its release, I am sure. So don't go rushing off to learn Japanese on account of this. There are plenty of other good reasons though.
On a related subject, these same Fansub groups have been bringing us Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex, a 26-part TV series. Currently, 22 have been released with English subtitles. It's a wonderful series... it deals heavily with the ethics of artificial life forms, while still having a serious helping of ass-kicking from the Major and her cohorts.
This action may be creating their future. As I said above, I agree that they've been sliding towards irrelevance, but with this purchase, they could gain a whole new lease on corporate life. Let's pull for them - not shoot them down before they begin.
I'm glad to see Novell making a move here. They've been sliding into remission too long. I've still got a warm place in my heart from them for the 4.11 line that I used so extensively back in the school system.
I'm glad to see AT&T being held accountable in particular. I've got a personal vendetta, you see... they called us all the time before the DNC, trying to get us to switch to them as long distance providers. Despite never agreeing to switch to them, we suddenly began recieving bills for long their long distance program. The funny thing is, we never use long distance... that's what cell phones are for. Suckers.
Why does everything have to be PREMIERE? I swear, it's been 5 years since anything mediocre was released. There must be amazing advancements made in every field on a daily basis.
We all need to send copies of the internal Diebold memos to all of the mainstream news sources and our congressmen. If we just push for this, and educate our officials and the populace, this blight will be removed. All we need to do is, as a community, get off our asses and fight.
I'm not one for playing the mindless patriotism card, but I really do feel that (for the Americans out there) it is our duty to do something about this.
This is just the Slashdot editors way of taking our attention off the real news out there - the Diebold memos. They're all part of the same conspiracy to keep us "shuffling slack-jawed in the same direction."
Slashdot Mirror
(note: by master/slave terminology I only mean that the master server is used more. Only AFS has a hierarchy where master/slave really matters)
AFS would be awesome... you see, sometimes these two offices need to work on the same files from both locations... not simultaneously, but sometimes consecutively. In those cases, it'd be great to have a setup that locally caches the file on the slave server, but will automatically serve the most recent version of the file, even if it had since been edited master server. With AFS, all of that is taken care of by the server, I believe.
Now, of course we could set up Samba networked drives, but then there would be no caching... a file would either be stored on the master or slave server, and if someone from another location wanted to work with the file, they'd have to redownload it every time. That would be an *alright* solution, but pretty inelegant, as far as I'm concerned. Linux is supposed to be good at this advanced server stuff, damnit.
So, finally, a question in response to your post: What happens to remote Samba connections when the net connection goes down? Is it a gracefull timeout, or does it start crashing things like NFS?
Wow... you're really carrying the party line there, huh?
In reality, we don't know who is organizing and executing these attacks. Given the hatred of the US in certain parts of Iraq, it could just be random farmers picking up weapons and capping servicemen while they sit in traffic. There's a quote from an Iraqi that I read a month ago or so in an ABCnews story about a battle that led to Americans firing randomly into a marketplace... ahh, yes, the quote: So I think that gives us a fairly good picture of the sentiment some Iraqis share as a result of our occupation. Note that these Iraqis are not neccessarily Saddam loyalists... hating us will do just nicely. If it was just one story, I wouldn't be so worried. But I've read statements like the one above too many times during the occupation. We're risking a grass-roots movement here if we don't get this nation on its feet quickly.
I think the word you are looking for is controversy, not scandal. Any close election is going to be controversial.
So you don't think that the Supreme Court's invention of a new job for itself - The Decider of Tough Elections - was scandalous. I tend to think the voters should decide the election, not a bunch of potentially partisan judges. We've got election protocol so that this sort of influence is supposedly impossible. Bah. I wont harp on something so long gone. Let me just say that for a body that is supposed to decide an action's constitutionality, they never justified the constitutionality of their own actions.
we are turning control over to an Iraqi government at midnight on June 30th next year
Actually, we're not turning over control on that date... what we're doing is changing the name of the occupation. From then on we'll be an "invited pressence" rather an an occupying power. I'm not making this up. That's the real plan. I mean, I'm sure that some of the government will be up and running, but the power will still ultimately reside with Americans since we'll still have over 100k troops there. No country is ever anything other than a colony when it has a foriegn army residing in it. Cut the troop numbers to the amount that used to be in Saudi Arabia, and Iraq will finally be a free country.
(Incidentally, convenient that we found another strategic base in the area now that we can't use Saudi Arabia, huh?)
As if anyone actually *trusts* their DNS server. HA!
What I'm wondering is why the poster of this story didn't do a tad more research before posting. As of yesterday, an exploit for these security holes has been available. Beware.
Exploit code, anyone? A simple google search or a Bugtraq archive browse over the last week should do it.
What I'm wondering is why the poster of this story didn't do a tad more research before posting. As of yesterday, an exploit for these security holes has been available.
Exploit code, anyone? A simple google search or a Bugtraq archive browse should do it.
... that which is AT&T's.
Which, if you're keeping track, is almost everything.
Come on... The Family Guy is freakin' sweet!
Incidentally... I know that it doesn't translate well into print, but I was being sarcastic in the original post.
Have you ever seen someone accidentally spray on a DEET based insecticide upwind from their tent? It was like a mini chemistry lesson!
Once again, I'll refer to the old "Only Criminals Would Oppose This" arguement. Obviously the smaller size makes it more convenient for the consumer, right? So, it's only a good thing to us *honest* consumers. Only thieves would be phased by restrictions of fair use. I mean, come on.
This is another thing that strikes me as being similiar to the battery "advances" we've had over the years that have never made it into consumer products. We've been hearing about MRAM and storage densities for years, and yet we still don't have instant-on computers. I wonder if we'll see an article about how these advances are idling just like the battery field.
So? How often are you going to be doing a restore of a file system while other processes are running to share out CPU time to? It doesn't matter if takes up a lot of CPU time, since it's the only process running that you care about.
Seriously, what about all those great Slashdot battery articles we've seen over the past few years? The amazing advances that were supposed to revolutionize our portable electronics? I've been wondering about them recently. Was manufacturing these theoretical advances just too difficult?
There's nothing like being locked out of your own old family videos when your current VCR dies, eh?
No problem. Every law-abiding citizen will simply pay the licensing costs to obtain a broadcast flag of their own. Obviously.
I've seen these quotes before, and I find the whole thing incredibly funny. Bush Sr. was a mediocre president in his own right, but his son doesn't even have the sense to listen to his agencies. His father spelled out the problems, and Bush II blithely ignores them. I couldn't be happier.
There are fansub fanatics out there who will have a dubbed version out within a week of its release, I am sure. So don't go rushing off to learn Japanese on account of this. There are plenty of other good reasons though.
On a related subject, these same Fansub groups have been bringing us Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex, a 26-part TV series. Currently, 22 have been released with English subtitles. It's a wonderful series... it deals heavily with the ethics of artificial life forms, while still having a serious helping of ass-kicking from the Major and her cohorts.
Verily!
I wish I had my Revelations better memorized.
This action may be creating their future. As I said above, I agree that they've been sliding towards irrelevance, but with this purchase, they could gain a whole new lease on corporate life. Let's pull for them - not shoot them down before they begin.
I'm glad to see Novell making a move here. They've been sliding into remission too long. I've still got a warm place in my heart from them for the 4.11 line that I used so extensively back in the school system.
I'm glad to see AT&T being held accountable in particular. I've got a personal vendetta, you see... they called us all the time before the DNC, trying to get us to switch to them as long distance providers. Despite never agreeing to switch to them, we suddenly began recieving bills for long their long distance program. The funny thing is, we never use long distance... that's what cell phones are for. Suckers.
Maybe they're foreign.
Why does everything have to be PREMIERE? I swear, it's been 5 years since anything mediocre was released. There must be amazing advancements made in every field on a daily basis.
We all need to send copies of the internal Diebold memos to all of the mainstream news sources and our congressmen. If we just push for this, and educate our officials and the populace, this blight will be removed. All we need to do is, as a community, get off our asses and fight.
I'm not one for playing the mindless patriotism card, but I really do feel that (for the Americans out there) it is our duty to do something about this.
This is just the Slashdot editors way of taking our attention off the real news out there - the Diebold memos. They're all part of the same conspiracy to keep us "shuffling slack-jawed in the same direction."