What article? I see only the text "You can actually hear the earth cry when this thing starts up." and 2 pictures. Actually the same picture in 2 sizes. One links to this/. page, the other to the picture itself.
He didn't. He is saying that unlike last year, "... this time looks very different: this time, the signature of large-scale speculation is clearly visible."
He is saying that he doesn't believe speculation was the cause last year, but that this year looks different.
Would someone please mod up this simple post of someone who seems to actually understand what he's talking about. (I didn't realize it was so difficult to understand, but apparently, most slashdotters don't have a clue about psychology)
Yes, OzWin was great. My first "email program" and "news reader" of sorts.
I must still have the OzWin files somewhere on some backup, but they don't seem to be on my notebook. Had always intended to convert them to mbox-like format, but have never done it.
The great thing about Compuserve was that they had a dial-in number in just about any country in the world. It was expensive, but I could email in 1990 or so from Africa and Asia by dialing a local number.
You can have a FAT toasted beyond recognition and still get it back by putting it into a Win 9X box.
Well, if you are able to find a Win95 box, and if you still remember how that works...:-) (Oh, and it better be a Win95 box with support for FAT32, unless all your partitions are under 2GB)
With RAID mirroring, if you overwrite or delete an important file, it's copy on the mirror is immediately overwritten/deleted too, and the file is lost. Wouldn't you rather need a good regular backup?
And as someone pointed out already, FAT is really not a reliable file system. If you are on Windows, use NTFS. It is still portable, having read/write drivers for both Linux and Mac (see this guide).
Since the files you want to keep safe appear to be regular files, not system files, any simple file copy mechanism could do. For an easy and simple system, you can use the Windows robocopy.exe tool in a batch file. For a more sophisticated system which can keep older file versions, and can easily be adapted for use over the network, you could try a Windows version of rsync like cwrsync. There are also a few rsync GUI frontends for Windows.
If you decide you really want RAID mirroring and go with the hardware solution, my understanding is that you need a replacement controller in case yours breaks. Since your controller seems to be embedded in the motherboard, you would need a replacement motherboard.
With the Windows software RAID, you are dependent on that software, and have portability only between machines with this Windows 7 software RAID (possibly even only this particular version).
Because workgroup mode sucks for any kind of centralized support.
Of course it does, but Samba works very well as a PDC
centralized usernames/passwords
Works fine with Samba on Linux
- Have easy central printer queues
Can also be done with Samba, but what's the point? All printers are TCP/IP network printers. I never quite understood why people would use print servers for network printers. (Except maybe in huge environments and/or with special printers having a high cost per page)
- Have easy central file shares with easy to apply security
Samba again...
- Install WSUS on the server. It's a free addon. Poof! Microsoft patch management!
As far as I know, that is not very different from automatic updates. But I may be wrong.
- Group Policy (install/update software, apply software settings, lock down security on all systems, etc.)
This definitely seems to be the main reason for Win. server. Application installs and configuration is a pain on 20 machines when you cannot just batch copy directories to the remote machines. I have been wondering for a while if the benefit would be worth the cost of an additional server + the time to learn using it correctly. I don't consider replacing Linux with a Win server, because Linux is just too good and easy to manage for firewall/email/rsync backups/cron jobs/bash and perl script/etc.
- Login scripts (and have install or apply updates to any updates to programs that don't do updates via WSUS and Group Policy, e.g. Firefox, Java, etc.)
Works with Samba
Sorry but I felt there were some misconceptions about Samba which were worth correcting.
Basically, the on-board computers gave the correct advice, but one of the pilots "disregarded the TCAS instruction to climb and instead began to descend, as instructed by the [air traffic] controller, thus both planes were now descending."
The controller was later assassinated by someone who had lost wife and children in the accident.
This story seems to imply that the "man in a white van" was some pedophile or serial killer or whatever.
But there is a 99% or more chance that in fact he was the kid's father, or uncle or something, and that this incident was related to some family drama about child custody or the like.
That may be cool, but the point of Google Docs (for me at least), is to be able to share documents across the web, and edit them online, which you cannot do (reliably) at the moment.
... we were forced by cantonal politics to replace our (perfectly working) Postfix + Courier installation with a (very buggy) Microsoft Exchange solution...
I wonder what the reasons were. If you asked, please let us know what answers you got.
This intrigues me because I happen to have done just the opposite afew years ago, also in Zh. However, it was in a small business (15-20 people), not in an administration. I replaced an Exchange server and NT4 PDC with a Debian/Samba/Postfix/Courier IMAP server, and it has worked nicely since. The trouble calls I occasionally get are from Outlook 2003 users. A third of the users use Thunderbird, and they never call me.
The only advantage I can see with Exchange/Outlook is the shared address book. But I figure that in many situations, this is not worth the additional cost and trouble. Still, a good shared address book standard would be really nice to have.
"It's bad enough when I screw up a config and it takes down my mail, but what about when it happens to the entire globe at once?"
That's much better for you. Instead of having to explain to everybody that the dog ate your homework or whatever, you can sit back and let them explain it to you...
In New York (some 20 years ago) I was surprised by how nice and helpful the people are in the street. If I just pulled out a map to have a look at it, people would stop and ask if they could help me.
I doubt these robots would survive and reach their destinations in Paris, for example. But it would be interesting to try. I may be wrong.
(I live neither in Paris nor in NY, and am neither French nor American)
Well, at a first glance, it looks just as rigid and boring as Java.
I guess that can be considered Falmebait?
Anyone remember this quote?
[..] but it's certainly the case that over the last twenty years or so, many Computer Scientists have come out in opposition to the Art of Programming. In trying to make programming predictable, they've mostly succeeded in making it boring. And in so doing, they've lost sight of the idea that programming is a human pursuit. They've designed languages intended more to keep the computer happy than the programmer. Was any SQL programmer ever happy about having to declare a value to be varchar(255)? Oops, now it's a key, and can't be longer than 60. Who comes up with these numbers?
But apparently, you didn't click the link. You should have. Apart from being funny, it's also a perfect example of the nonsense of these lists. Here it is: http://www.goat.cx (and no, it's not exactly why you think it is)
TrueCrypt has several options. The way I have it configured, the TC volume is automatically unmounted when I suspend, and I need to re-mount it when the notebook wakes back.
I understand the password is not in RAM anymore after a suspend. These are the options I use:
While MC is by far the best file manager on Linux (and a very handy text editor too), you don't really need it in Windows.
Total Commander is much better in that environment. And while it is not Free, you can still use it for free if you accept an additional click when starting it. I have bought 3 licenses for my home machines, but use it constantly on all my client's machines in it's non-paid incarnation. The little nag screen really doesn't bother me.
The OS which is most lacking in this regard is actually Mac. A good Total Commander clone is the only thing I'm really missing when working on Macs. (yes, I know about (and use) muCommander).
This is an almost 2 year old story: Apple's DRM Whack-a-Mole (Posted by CmdrTaco on 10.06.2007 17:08)
If it bothers you to have an identifying tag in your music files, well remove it or overwrite it. As far as I understand, it's stored in a standard MP4 atom.
You provided a windows batch file as an example... on that terminal, you have to open the console menu and first select mark, then draw a block around the text, and copy the text to the clipboard.
People who actually use the Windows shell probably all have "QuickEdit Mode" enabled in the Command prompt window properties. Then you just select with the mouse and press Enter to copy, and right-click to paste.
I have this console-settings.reg file among my config files for new installs:
Slashdot Mirror
as described in the above article.
What article? I see only the text "You can actually hear the earth cry when this thing starts up." and 2 pictures. Actually the same picture in 2 sizes. One links to this /. page, the other to the picture itself.
He finally reversed himself
He didn't. He is saying that unlike last year, "... this time looks very different: this time, the signature of large-scale speculation is clearly visible."
He is saying that he doesn't believe speculation was the cause last year, but that this year looks different.
Would someone please mod up this simple post of someone who seems to actually understand what he's talking about. (I didn't realize it was so difficult to understand, but apparently, most slashdotters don't have a clue about psychology)
Except that NX is neither a full re-implemetation of X11, nor is it done badly. Instead, it actually works over very slow links.
I feel like I'm one of a couple dozen NX users
I don't know if many people use NX, but I sure do install it on all my servers now. And while I had trouble with FreeNX, the NoMachine version was really easy to setup.
(I use it with meld and sshfs to compare /etc trees between similar servers.)
Yes, OzWin was great. My first "email program" and "news reader" of sorts.
I must still have the OzWin files somewhere on some backup, but they don't seem to be on my notebook. Had always intended to convert them to mbox-like format, but have never done it.
The great thing about Compuserve was that they had a dial-in number in just about any country in the world. It was expensive, but I could email in 1990 or so from Africa and Asia by dialing a local number.
100111,3271
You can have a FAT toasted beyond recognition and still get it back by putting it into a Win 9X box.
Well, if you are able to find a Win95 box, and if you still remember how that works... :-)
(Oh, and it better be a Win95 box with support for FAT32, unless all your partitions are under 2GB)
But I do agree with the rest of your remarks.
With RAID mirroring, if you overwrite or delete an important file, it's copy on the mirror is immediately overwritten/deleted too, and the file is lost. Wouldn't you rather need a good regular backup?
And as someone pointed out already, FAT is really not a reliable file system. If you are on Windows, use NTFS. It is still portable, having read/write drivers for both Linux and Mac (see this guide).
Since the files you want to keep safe appear to be regular files, not system files, any simple file copy mechanism could do. For an easy and simple system, you can use the Windows robocopy.exe tool in a batch file. For a more sophisticated system which can keep older file versions, and can easily be adapted for use over the network, you could try a Windows version of rsync like cwrsync. There are also a few rsync GUI frontends for Windows.
If you decide you really want RAID mirroring and go with the hardware solution, my understanding is that you need a replacement controller in case yours breaks. Since your controller seems to be embedded in the motherboard, you would need a replacement motherboard.
With the Windows software RAID, you are dependent on that software, and have portability only between machines with this Windows 7 software RAID (possibly even only this particular version).
Because workgroup mode sucks for any kind of centralized support.
Of course it does, but Samba works very well as a PDC
centralized usernames/passwords
Works fine with Samba on Linux
- Have easy central printer queues
Can also be done with Samba, but what's the point? All printers are TCP/IP network printers. I never quite understood why people would use print servers for network printers. (Except maybe in huge environments and/or with special printers having a high cost per page)
- Have easy central file shares with easy to apply security
Samba again...
- Install WSUS on the server. It's a free addon. Poof! Microsoft patch management!
As far as I know, that is not very different from automatic updates. But I may be wrong.
- Group Policy (install/update software, apply software settings, lock down security on all systems, etc.)
This definitely seems to be the main reason for Win. server. Application installs and configuration is a pain on 20 machines when you cannot just batch copy directories to the remote machines. I have been wondering for a while if the benefit would be worth the cost of an additional server + the time to learn using it correctly. I don't consider replacing Linux with a Win server, because Linux is just too good and easy to manage for firewall/email/rsync backups/cron jobs/bash and perl script/etc.
- Login scripts (and have install or apply updates to any updates to programs that don't do updates via WSUS and Group Policy, e.g. Firefox, Java, etc.)
Works with Samba
Sorry but I felt there were some misconceptions about Samba which were worth correcting.
provide us with 2 examples where the pilot decided to manually override the flight computer and crashed.
Here is 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkirian_Airlines_Flight_2937.
Basically, the on-board computers gave the correct advice, but one of the pilots "disregarded the TCAS instruction to climb and instead began to descend, as instructed by the [air traffic] controller, thus both planes were now descending."
The controller was later assassinated by someone who had lost wife and children in the accident.
This story seems to imply that the "man in a white van" was some pedophile or serial killer or whatever.
But there is a 99% or more chance that in fact he was the kid's father, or uncle or something, and that this incident was related to some family drama about child custody or the like.
That may be cool, but the point of Google Docs (for me at least), is to be able to share documents across the web, and edit them online, which you cannot do (reliably) at the moment.
Currently, if I make a document on the web, and send a link to it to some people, they cannot see it unless they happen to have a Google account, or they are willing to create one or go through some ridiculous voodoo. So for me, it's useless as it is, and new features seem irrelevant. Yes, I know it's Beta etc.
... we were forced by cantonal politics to replace our (perfectly working) Postfix + Courier installation with a (very buggy) Microsoft Exchange solution ...
I wonder what the reasons were. If you asked, please let us know what answers you got.
This intrigues me because I happen to have done just the opposite afew years ago, also in Zh. However, it was in a small business (15-20 people), not in an administration. I replaced an Exchange server and NT4 PDC with a Debian/Samba/Postfix/Courier IMAP server, and it has worked nicely since. The trouble calls I occasionally get are from Outlook 2003 users. A third of the users use Thunderbird, and they never call me.
The only advantage I can see with Exchange/Outlook is the shared address book. But I figure that in many situations, this is not worth the additional cost and trouble. Still, a good shared address book standard would be really nice to have.
"It's bad enough when I screw up a config and it takes down my mail, but what about when it happens to the entire globe at once?"
That's much better for you. Instead of having to explain to everybody that the dog ate your homework or whatever, you can sit back and let them explain it to you...
Your link is wonderful. And indeed, as their page claims, even very ugly URLs become cute. This is really a web-transforming technology...
Well, life in general isn't entirely safe.
In New York (some 20 years ago) I was surprised by how nice and helpful the people are in the street. If I just pulled out a map to have a look at it, people would stop and ask if they could help me.
I doubt these robots would survive and reach their destinations in Paris, for example. But it would be interesting to try. I may be wrong.
(I live neither in Paris nor in NY, and am neither French nor American)
Well, at a first glance, it looks just as rigid and boring as Java.
I guess that can be considered Falmebait?
Anyone remember this quote?
[..] but it's certainly the case that over the last twenty years or so, many Computer Scientists have come out in opposition to the Art of Programming. In trying to make programming predictable, they've mostly succeeded in making it boring. And in so doing, they've lost sight of the idea that programming is a human pursuit. They've designed languages intended more to keep the computer happy than the programmer. Was any SQL programmer ever happy about having to declare a value to be varchar(255)? Oops, now it's a key, and can't be longer than 60. Who comes up with these numbers?
But apparently, you didn't click the link. You should have. Apart from being funny, it's also a perfect example of the nonsense of these lists. Here it is: http://www.goat.cx (and no, it's not exactly why you think it is)
TrueCrypt has several options. The way I have it configured, the TC volume is automatically unmounted when I suspend, and I need to re-mount it when the notebook wakes back.
I understand the password is not in RAM anymore after a suspend. These are the options I use:
"SaveVolumeHistory" = 0
"CachePasswords" = 0
"WipePasswordCacheOnExit" = 1
"WipeCacheOnAutoDismount" = 1
"StartOnLogon" = 0
"MountDevicesOnLogon" = 0
"MountFavoritesOnLogon" = 0
"DismountOnLogOff" = 1
"DismountOnPowerSaving" = 1
"DismountOnScreenSaver" = 0
"ForceAutoDismount" = 1
character set problems? If you use PuTTY, try settings in the Window->Appearance and Window->Translation pages.
While MC is by far the best file manager on Linux (and a very handy text editor too), you don't really need it in Windows.
Total Commander is much better in that environment. And while it is not Free, you can still use it for free if you accept an additional click when starting it. I have bought 3 licenses for my home machines, but use it constantly on all my client's machines in it's non-paid incarnation. The little nag screen really doesn't bother me.
The OS which is most lacking in this regard is actually Mac. A good Total Commander clone is the only thing I'm really missing when working on Macs. (yes, I know about (and use) muCommander).
Not only is this old, as many have pointed out, but there is even a Perl module (Audio::M4P::QuickTime) which has a dedicated function for that: CleanAppleM4aPersonalData.
This is an almost 2 year old story: Apple's DRM Whack-a-Mole (Posted by CmdrTaco on 10.06.2007 17:08)
If it bothers you to have an identifying tag in your music files, well remove it or overwrite it.
As far as I understand, it's stored in a standard MP4 atom.
And if you don't know how to do it, ask Google, or try this suggestion which explains how to use AtomicParsley for windows or mac.
You provided a windows batch file as an example... on that terminal, you have to open the console menu and first select mark, then draw a block around the text, and copy the text to the clipboard.
People who actually use the Windows shell probably all have "QuickEdit Mode" enabled in the Command prompt window properties. Then you just select with the mouse and press Enter to copy, and right-click to paste.
I have this console-settings.reg file among my config files for new installs:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Console]
"QuickEdit"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console]
"QuickEdit"=dword:00000001