Or maybe you will just realize that some people want pretty GUI's and thoughtless setup while other people actually LIKE doing the down-and-dirty.
One really nice thing about Slack - when I learn how to do something (say, setup sound), I can do it on any other linux box. Sure, the packaging system won't like it, but it'll work. That means more to me than "click here a presto! you have sound!" what about when it stops working in 10 days? Is there a "click here and presto! your sound is fixed!"
(taken from real expereince. shit does up and break in linux on pc's. cheap ass shit hardware, ya know.)
I think this was just a slipup, but... and lower
incidence of stress-related industry
Perhaps that was supposed to be "injury" and not "industry"?
I think industry makes an interesting bit of sense, too. =)
Overall, I agree with your view. That was just one interesting freudian slip...
well, ok, maybe it's not - maybe Modern Humorist ripped off this guy's work. I assumed he swiped it was at first.
At the very least, it's odd how similar the two are.
Realize that there are a wide range of experiences. Some a greatly positive, some a greatly negative, some are in the middle. So your's is in the middle, good for you.
Yes, I will agree that a person's place is chosen by them. But that choice may not be easy. In some communities, physically beating up nerds is held as a wholesome sport. All a victim can do is fight back, run, or take it. They may not be able to run. They may choose not to fight (I, for one, am so non-violent that I can't beat up my best friend when he deserves it). So their chosen option is to take it. Some people don't have the benefit of an imposing appearance (and, indeed, appearance is a huge deciding factor). The only reason my abuse stopped was because my class grew so large (800 people) that very few people bothered to remember who was popular and who wasn't. We were able to avoid each other. If your school only has a few hundred people in it, that's not an option. Those people that hate you will always be there.
Sometimes people just hate you, and you can't controll that. You may not have even done anything to make them hate you. They just choose to. And if their use of hate is to abuse people, then guess what? They're going to abuse you.
These stories are not saying "Everyone else sucks! Jocks suck! Media sucks! Stay away from them!" It's saying "This shit is real. Stop saying that it's jusy "Boys are boys". Stop saying that it's good for them. Wake the fuck up and fix it."
/In my experience/, most jocks are lacking in the mental abilities department. Doesn't mean I won't talk to them. I've also seen plenty of people in the computer science department who are complete nail heads. But, IN GENERAL, it's the jock that's going to beat you up, instead of the library nerd. Have some compassion for what other people are going through, instead of just saying "Your own damn choice. Fix it yourself." Most people won't have the strength for that for years.
My high school experience was also fairly ok. Most of my problems came from home and not school, but it's not always like that. There are many places where intellect of any kind is looked down upon. Just because the bullying you were subjected to was only an "annoyance" doesn't mean that's all it is/was for everyone else. Some people get hit harder, and some people just can't take as much. You imply that the kids need to just deal with it, because hey, it's no big deal.
I think you also hit a "chicken or the egg" problem when you state that it should be expected to be treated as an outcast if you participate solely in solitary activites. I used to be an extreme loner, but that was not because of the activities I chose. It actually started in 2nd grade when someone decided that I wasn't "cool" because I wasn't good at soccer (my elemetary school's sport of choice for recess), I was chubby, and I was smart. I didn't/want/ to be an outcast, nor did I choose to act like one (zinger: did you/choose/ to have no interest in the opposite sex? And by your logic, you must not have had interest in them because you didn't choose to interact with them. *cough*). Other kids stopped talking to me. They got up and left when I tried to sit at a lunch table with them. That was a start of a downward spiral. From there, where do you go? The nerds didn't want me, either. I didn't hold interest in school enough to participate in things like the Olympiad. I started to grow interest in solitary activites because that was about my only choice. Many years later, I "reinvented" myself (an overly simplified way of putting it) and was able to find a few people here and there to be friends with, but there never was a group, and still isn't.
Working with computers also makes me feel like a god. It's a place to have power and be accepted. And, please pay attention - his activity is NOT solitary. He said he's creating a massive multiplayer roleplaying game. That involves a few players, which just might be something like poker buddies getting together every week, except that we're talking about tens of poker buddies, and not 4. Also, please remember that the computer is NOT an inanimate object. It does not act on it's own. No matter what, a human has told the computer what to do. In a very real way, you are talking to that person when you use a computer.
I doubt that these people do true "solitary" activites with their computers. Contributing to webboards, like/., is a social activity. Chatting on IRC is a social activity. Just because you're doing it with your fingers and not your mouth doesn't mean that it isn't social.
You had a circle of people in the Olympiad that accepted you and encouraged you to express yourself. Other people are finding that circle through the computer. Even if it's not a circle of people, it's a place where they are able to expand their minds. As Robby said, "in the little gray box there is a world of possibilities and adventures, and the only thing holding you back is your will, knowledge and imagination". In the societal circles that can be found, those freedoms are seldom granted. I say that if you can find it anywhere, be proud of it and take full advantage of it.
These are also people who are not "play acting". They're taking the full brunt of their peer's views on what they are.
Firing all managers would be a BAD thing.
Anywhere in the real world, a certain level of BS is/required/ to carry on buisness. Yeah, it's a nasty thought, but it's there. My boss, the CIO, has to dig through a new buisness plan. I sure as all hell don't want to swim though something like that. I want to code.
Generally, programers think along those lines. Very few people are able to talk to clients and pull something reasonable from them. That's where the managers belong - an interface layer, if you will.
iD didn't have customers, per say. They were making something that they thought was cool, and it just so happened that a lot of other people thought it was cool and bought it. In most of the rest of the buisness world, it's not like that. You do what the customer wants you to do, not just something that you like.
Now, if we're talking about something as small as iD, even in a more "professional" situation, what you propose will work. But this is also a world of giant corporations (IBM, for instance) that simply cannot operate without a large governing body of managment.
Some companies will have far too many managers and too many BS rules, sure. That can't really be stopped.
BTW, read the "Tao of Programming". It's, shall I say, enlightening. I beleive one section specifically addresses what you raised.
A Forum2000 reference on/.... Wow. I'm feeling happy. And with a MST3k reference just a few weeks back, this is just that much more special. Besides, I had some spare mod points laying around. =)
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I've never seen anyone that is a MS fanatic in the way that you'll find Linux fanatics. Most of the time, MS is just all that person knows. Sometimes, they'll know MS and Unix, just in case (play all the positions type people). But there's noone that really loves Windows. It's just what they have to get the job done. I don't know why Linux has all the finatics. I think it's a matter of attracting all the people that havn't had anything to be fanatic about, and giving them something to root for (atleast that's the case for me and several of my friends).
PR moves like this are attempts to get the common person to view MS as a big stuffed teddy bear that wants to love you and hug you and squeeze you until your eyes bug out. Er. Something like that. =) Contrary to popular beleif around here, most people out there in the Big Room don't know diddly about computers and the computer companies. So MS just spews out something to fill the void space. The common person doesn't have anything to check it against, so they take what MS says as true, since it's all they know. As far as these shows go, you usually end up with the higher-up buisness types, who know about as much as the common person (less, in my experience). They've heard of Microsoft, use windows daily, sure they don't love it, but it works (usually). MS comes over and says "Hey, you know who we are, and we know that we help you out. Well, we want to help you out some more..." Kinda like a drug dealer. =) And don't forget that the people are at the shows for the "booth fluff", and MS can afford the best. =)
Warning: I'm spouting this off w/o double checking. I'll leave that as an exercise to the interested readers.
AFAIK, there has to be more to an audio system than just the codec. There has to be some sort of DSP to create the stream that the codec (ie AC97) then pumps out to the sound outputs. In the case of integrated chipsets, they may forgo the DSP, expecting that to be written in software. Granted, this doesn't mean that it/can't/ be used in linux, it just makes it very difficult. Writing a DSP in software and writing a driver to handle a DSP are two completly different things (re: post #1). There probably is work being done on it. The ALSA Project tends to do some amazing work (www.alsa-project.org), and there may be an AC97-only driver in their distrobution. From a quick look at their docs, I see that the intel i8x0 and Via 82c686a are supported. And, of course, if you want to see it happen and it's not, pick up the source, grab GCC and code away.
Well, when you run rc5des, the system has alot more to do, so it heats up. If you have decent cooling (ie, good heatsink), it'll stay within spec. Can't remember the numbers off the top of my head, but those don't look too bad. If you can run rc5des for a long time without crashes, they forget about it. If you're not overclocking, you'll be fine. I run dual celerons in an extremly hot case (two big scsi drives in there, too), but things are just fine, since I have somewhere around 10 total fans (yes, it's loud). You don't need to go to that extreme. If it doesn't break, don't fix it.
Working that hard on a setup like that just isn't right.
Trekking to it? I've administered a linux box and a router for 6 months without seeing them. That includes software updates, major configuration changes, and reboots. There's telnet, ya know. Sure, the stock windows client sucks, but there are hundreds of better ones availible for free out there. Cheap? I could setup a linux router for $300 or so. If editing a text file is painfull for you, then you shouldn't be using linux at all... If you really want things to run well, you have to do it yourself. It's that way everywhere. Atleast, it used to be that way/everywhere/ (including the non-electronic world here). In computers, atleast, a person can almost always do a better job than a utility (I'm talking about administration. I know a compiler can make better machine code than I can. =) Reboot windows clients? Dude. DHCP. run dhcpd on the linux box. If you need to change settings (should never happen, really. set it up how it needs to be and leave it), SIGHUP the dhcpd process, open up "winipcfg" on all the clients, and click "release" then "renew". viola. Everything fixed.
I'm sorry, but you're not using your tools to their full capability.
Basically, you're screwed. There's no access to the box other than the web interface. No CLI, no X, nothing. Whistle updates the boot images from time to time, but that's usually just bug fixes. I don't know if the thing even supports CGI's. If it does, it definately would not by Python. Perl, maybe. This thing is made for static pages. Last I remember (granted, I stayed away from the web hosting nonsense on the thing as much as possible), there wasn't even a way to set any sort of decent permissions on a directory, or any sort of real administration at all.
I have no experience with cobalt machines, so I don't know what all the features are that you need. But have you taken a look at LinuxConf? (Freshmeat it) I use it to maintain a mailserver (I'm not in the office, so I had to use a friendly interface for people to add new users/accounts and such), and it does the job quite nicely. It can administer an entire machine. So unless you're doing something very odd, it should work fine. My only problem is that I had to rehack their sendmail creation scripts, but it was a fairly odd network setup, anyway.
I was using an Interjet I for almost two years. It was nothing but headaches. If you only use ISDN or periodic dialup, it's fine. If you need nothing but the most rudimentary web serving and mail hosting (I never tested it for relaying. If it is a relay, there's no way to fix it), it' great. If you actually/use/ these services, it's a peice of junk! There is NO access to anything on the device besides it's web interface. If you're thinking "Well, LinuxConf makes it work..." just stop. This is nowhere near that nice. Instead, it's pretty, but gives you next to no functionality. We had issues about wanting to modify the firewall's activity (opening certain ports, special routing, etc). It was an absolute no-go. Only recently did they add the ability to modify the NAT (static translations and such). And the it's so-called fast serial interface. God, don't remind me. We used an external CSU/DSU (of course, only a fast-serial port on this thing) hooked up to a full-burst T1. Once we hit about 1.2 mb/s, it would just turn off the serial port, and completly forget about it. We had to power-cycle the CSU/DSU atleast once a day to fix it. It had worse uptime than any of the NT (or 95...) boxes in the building. No, there was no problem with the line. We finally got a Cisco in December, and it hasn't had any trouble at all. We even had to show Whistle how we set up our network. They didn't even know that what we did was possible (nothing special. an NT acting as a bridge on the InterJet's "internal interface" routing all the office traffic to it, since our network was 100baseTX only, and the interjet is only 10baseT).
So, if you're just starting, and you just need something that works (sorta..), NOW, it's fine. So if you're a windows-minded shop (it works, mostly, and don't need to over-customize), it's just right. Once you try to use it to it's claims, it fails miserably.
Sorry about the high rant value, but this thing gave me nightmares for months. Honestly, if you plan on really using the features that this thing claims to have, save yourself alot of time and just get a linux box (mail/web) and a good router. Might cost you an extra 2k, maybe, but will save you hours and hours of maintenance time.
The page has next to no content - indeed just links to some distros, and some utils that they are hosting. Kinda funny, really.
However, this does mean that Apple isn't ignoring Linux. Sure, they're not pushing behind it with all their heft (they have heft anymore?), but they're not turning their head, either. This may develop into a usefull page sometime in the future. I'd say just watch it for a bit, see where they go with it, before making any calls on what exactly it means.
Well, I can only assume that you are using the Windows client. Normally, it/does/ store your list in a data file, and updates it everytime you restart the app (of course, update could mean rewrite). I'm running the linux 'nap' console app, which is fairly smart. No auto-updates, but does track what changes from transfers inside the app, then you throw it a -b whenever you want it to rebuild it's listing. Obvious solution? Use linux for your mp3 server. =) Also keep in mind that the napster servers are just overloaded when it comes to logging in - it usually takes me atleast 45seconds (if not several minutes) to just log in. And yes, I am quite sure that it's not doing anything with my mp3 files (they're on a scsi drive which is LOUD. so I know/very well/ when random reads are being done. =)
I think that Jon has some good ideas, he's just not expressing them correctly. Yes, the examples aren't the best - they don't show outright censorship. What he's shooting for is where those examples lead, what results from that mindset. He is arguing the people who close their eyes and shout at the top of their lungs against anything they don't like. That's the root problem. They don't want to see it, so they out-shout it, and shut it down. First it is just that - making noise. Later it becomes worse, into laws, into a complete social mindset. Jon hasn't said it in the best manner, but I think that is what he was truly shooting for. We need to stop the blind-shouting reaction NOW, and get people to argue intelligently. That in itself will stop censorship. Sometimes reaching beyond an author's words can be dangerous - you can grab something completly different than what they intend. Of course, this also lets you draw what you need from the words. Anyway, my point is that in this article's case, it's better to look for the root idea behind it instead of it's technical merits. I do, however, agree with your arguments. I also think you should focus on what he's/trying/ to say.
I think the only rule that has always existed is the 'survival of the fittest' one. Well, atleast if you beleive in evolution. I doubt that one applied in Eden. the rating system did _not_ always exist, unless 'always' is your lifetime, which would be an amazingly narrow view. But my real question is 'who says what rules are _right_?' Going back to the infamous nazi references, were their rules right? Shoudl you follow them because they are rules, nothing else? I'm sorry, I'll follow reasons, justifications, and my own judgement years before I'll follow a rule mearly because it is. Some rules make sense, many many many (many) don't. Murder being a crime? There's a good rule. My local school disctrict outlawing ALL non-class realted clubs in order to prevent a kid from starting a gay and lesbian club? NOT a good rule, and hence, not worthy of following. Question before acting.
Or do you just attend church? Granted, I've been atheist for quite awhile, but I've made it a habit to study what christianity really is. One thing that impresses me about 'true' cristians (I can name 2 that I know, no more) is that they don't judge. Remember the whole humble thing? It is _NOT_ your place to judge that mother. By your own releigion, it is _GOD'S_ place. not yours. Remember that. Just as I am not saying you are a non-thinking spouter, relaying what they've been told to say. I'm just telling you to actually think about your groundings before you spout out against someone.
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Actually, Cutco (unsure of spelling/capitalization) is a real company. They make fine cutlery for the discerning chef.
Seriously.
My sister was a Cutco salesperson.
Good knives, too.
Or maybe you will just realize that some people want pretty GUI's and thoughtless setup while other people actually LIKE doing the down-and-dirty.
One really nice thing about Slack - when I learn how to do something (say, setup sound), I can do it on any other linux box. Sure, the packaging system won't like it, but it'll work. That means more to me than "click here a presto! you have sound!" what about when it stops working in 10 days? Is there a "click here and presto! your sound is fixed!"
(taken from real expereince. shit does up and break in linux on pc's. cheap ass shit hardware, ya know.)
I think this was just a slipup, but...
and lower incidence of stress-related industry
Perhaps that was supposed to be "injury" and not "industry"? I think industry makes an interesting bit of sense, too. =) Overall, I agree with your view. That was just one interesting freudian slip...
well, ok, maybe it's not - maybe Modern Humorist ripped off this guy's work. I assumed he swiped it was at first.
At the very least, it's odd how similar the two are.
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That is an incredibly blantant ripoff. SOME credit should be given to the origonators (AFAIK):
Modern Humorist
MP3 Poster
Yeesh.
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Realize that there are a wide range of experiences. Some a greatly positive, some a greatly negative, some are in the middle. So your's is in the middle, good for you.
Yes, I will agree that a person's place is chosen by them. But that choice may not be easy. In some communities, physically beating up nerds is held as a wholesome sport. All a victim can do is fight back, run, or take it. They may not be able to run. They may choose not to fight (I, for one, am so non-violent that I can't beat up my best friend when he deserves it). So their chosen option is to take it. Some people don't have the benefit of an imposing appearance (and, indeed, appearance is a huge deciding factor). The only reason my abuse stopped was because my class grew so large (800 people) that very few people bothered to remember who was popular and who wasn't. We were able to avoid each other. If your school only has a few hundred people in it, that's not an option. Those people that hate you will always be there.
Sometimes people just hate you, and you can't controll that. You may not have even done anything to make them hate you. They just choose to. And if their use of hate is to abuse people, then guess what? They're going to abuse you.
These stories are not saying "Everyone else sucks! Jocks suck! Media sucks! Stay away from them!" It's saying "This shit is real. Stop saying that it's jusy "Boys are boys". Stop saying that it's good for them. Wake the fuck up and fix it."
/In my experience/, most jocks are lacking in the mental abilities department. Doesn't mean I won't talk to them. I've also seen plenty of people in the computer science department who are complete nail heads. But, IN GENERAL, it's the jock that's going to beat you up, instead of the library nerd. Have some compassion for what other people are going through, instead of just saying "Your own damn choice. Fix it yourself." Most people won't have the strength for that for years.
My high school experience was also fairly ok. Most of my problems came from home and not school, but it's not always like that. There are many places where intellect of any kind is looked down upon. Just because the bullying you were subjected to was only an "annoyance" doesn't mean that's all it is/was for everyone else. Some people get hit harder, and some people just can't take as much. You imply that the kids need to just deal with it, because hey, it's no big deal.
/want/ to be an outcast, nor did I choose to act like one (zinger: did you /choose/ to have no interest in the opposite sex? And by your logic, you must not have had interest in them because you didn't choose to interact with them. *cough*). Other kids stopped talking to me. They got up and left when I tried to sit at a lunch table with them. That was a start of a downward spiral. From there, where do you go? The nerds didn't want me, either. I didn't hold interest in school enough to participate in things like the Olympiad. I started to grow interest in solitary activites because that was about my only choice. Many years later, I "reinvented" myself (an overly simplified way of putting it) and was able to find a few people here and there to be friends with, but there never was a group, and still isn't.
/., is a social activity. Chatting on IRC is a social activity. Just because you're doing it with your fingers and not your mouth doesn't mean that it isn't social.
I think you also hit a "chicken or the egg" problem when you state that it should be expected to be treated as an outcast if you participate solely in solitary activites. I used to be an extreme loner, but that was not because of the activities I chose. It actually started in 2nd grade when someone decided that I wasn't "cool" because I wasn't good at soccer (my elemetary school's sport of choice for recess), I was chubby, and I was smart. I didn't
Working with computers also makes me feel like a god. It's a place to have power and be accepted. And, please pay attention - his activity is NOT solitary. He said he's creating a massive multiplayer roleplaying game. That involves a few players, which just might be something like poker buddies getting together every week, except that we're talking about tens of poker buddies, and not 4. Also, please remember that the computer is NOT an inanimate object. It does not act on it's own. No matter what, a human has told the computer what to do. In a very real way, you are talking to that person when you use a computer.
I doubt that these people do true "solitary" activites with their computers. Contributing to webboards, like
You had a circle of people in the Olympiad that accepted you and encouraged you to express yourself. Other people are finding that circle through the computer. Even if it's not a circle of people, it's a place where they are able to expand their minds. As Robby said, "in the little gray box there is a world of possibilities and adventures, and the only thing holding you back is your will, knowledge and imagination". In the societal circles that can be found, those freedoms are seldom granted. I say that if you can find it anywhere, be proud of it and take full advantage of it.
These are also people who are not "play acting". They're taking the full brunt of their peer's views on what they are.
Firing all managers would be a BAD thing. /required/ to carry on buisness. Yeah, it's a nasty thought, but it's there. My boss, the CIO, has to dig through a new buisness plan. I sure as all hell don't want to swim though something like that. I want to code.
Anywhere in the real world, a certain level of BS is
Generally, programers think along those lines. Very few people are able to talk to clients and pull something reasonable from them. That's where the managers belong - an interface layer, if you will.
iD didn't have customers, per say. They were making something that they thought was cool, and it just so happened that a lot of other people thought it was cool and bought it. In most of the rest of the buisness world, it's not like that. You do what the customer wants you to do, not just something that you like.
Now, if we're talking about something as small as iD, even in a more "professional" situation, what you propose will work. But this is also a world of giant corporations (IBM, for instance) that simply cannot operate without a large governing body of managment.
Some companies will have far too many managers and too many BS rules, sure. That can't really be stopped.
BTW, read the "Tao of Programming". It's, shall I say, enlightening. I beleive one section specifically addresses what you raised.
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it's a true story, too. I have some wierd friends.
my god that is scarry. To think that the freaks that idly entertain me are somewhat important.
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And damnit, I really want them to make FudgeBunny.
A Forum2000 reference on /.... Wow. I'm feeling happy. And with a MST3k reference just a few weeks back, this is just that much more special. Besides, I had some spare mod points laying around. =)
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I've never seen anyone that is a MS fanatic in the way that you'll find Linux fanatics. Most of the time, MS is just all that person knows. Sometimes, they'll know MS and Unix, just in case (play all the positions type people). But there's noone that really loves Windows. It's just what they have to get the job done.
I don't know why Linux has all the finatics. I think it's a matter of attracting all the people that havn't had anything to be fanatic about, and giving them something to root for (atleast that's the case for me and several of my friends).
PR moves like this are attempts to get the common person to view MS as a big stuffed teddy bear that wants to love you and hug you and squeeze you until your eyes bug out. Er. Something like that. =)
Contrary to popular beleif around here, most people out there in the Big Room don't know diddly about computers and the computer companies. So MS just spews out something to fill the void space. The common person doesn't have anything to check it against, so they take what MS says as true, since it's all they know.
As far as these shows go, you usually end up with the higher-up buisness types, who know about as much as the common person (less, in my experience). They've heard of Microsoft, use windows daily, sure they don't love it, but it works (usually). MS comes over and says "Hey, you know who we are, and we know that we help you out. Well, we want to help you out some more..." Kinda like a drug dealer. =)
And don't forget that the people are at the shows for the "booth fluff", and MS can afford the best. =)
Warning: I'm spouting this off w/o double checking. I'll leave that as an exercise to the interested readers.
/can't/ be used in linux, it just makes it very difficult. Writing a DSP in software and writing a driver to handle a DSP are two completly different things (re: post #1).
AFAIK, there has to be more to an audio system than just the codec. There has to be some sort of DSP to create the stream that the codec (ie AC97) then pumps out to the sound outputs. In the case of integrated chipsets, they may forgo the DSP, expecting that to be written in software. Granted, this doesn't mean that it
There probably is work being done on it. The ALSA Project tends to do some amazing work (www.alsa-project.org), and there may be an AC97-only driver in their distrobution. From a quick look at their docs, I see that the intel i8x0 and Via 82c686a are supported.
And, of course, if you want to see it happen and it's not, pick up the source, grab GCC and code away.
Well, when you run rc5des, the system has alot more to do, so it heats up.
If you have decent cooling (ie, good heatsink), it'll stay within spec. Can't remember the numbers off the top of my head, but those don't look too bad. If you can run rc5des for a long time without crashes, they forget about it. If you're not overclocking, you'll be fine. I run dual celerons in an extremly hot case (two big scsi drives in there, too), but things are just fine, since I have somewhere around 10 total fans (yes, it's loud). You don't need to go to that extreme.
If it doesn't break, don't fix it.
Working that hard on a setup like that just isn't right.
/everywhere/ (including the non-electronic world here). In computers, atleast, a person can almost always do a better job than a utility (I'm talking about administration. I know a compiler can make better machine code than I can. =)
Trekking to it? I've administered a linux box and a router for 6 months without seeing them. That includes software updates, major configuration changes, and reboots. There's telnet, ya know. Sure, the stock windows client sucks, but there are hundreds of better ones availible for free out there.
Cheap? I could setup a linux router for $300 or so.
If editing a text file is painfull for you, then you shouldn't be using linux at all... If you really want things to run well, you have to do it yourself. It's that way everywhere. Atleast, it used to be that way
Reboot windows clients? Dude. DHCP. run dhcpd on the linux box. If you need to change settings (should never happen, really. set it up how it needs to be and leave it), SIGHUP the dhcpd process, open up "winipcfg" on all the clients, and click "release" then "renew". viola. Everything fixed.
I'm sorry, but you're not using your tools to their full capability.
Basically, you're screwed. There's no access to the box other than the web interface. No CLI, no X, nothing. Whistle updates the boot images from time to time, but that's usually just bug fixes. I don't know if the thing even supports CGI's. If it does, it definately would not by Python. Perl, maybe.
This thing is made for static pages. Last I remember (granted, I stayed away from the web hosting nonsense on the thing as much as possible), there wasn't even a way to set any sort of decent permissions on a directory, or any sort of real administration at all.
I have no experience with cobalt machines, so I don't know what all the features are that you need. But have you taken a look at LinuxConf? (Freshmeat it) I use it to maintain a mailserver (I'm not in the office, so I had to use a friendly interface for people to add new users/accounts and such), and it does the job quite nicely. It can administer an entire machine. So unless you're doing something very odd, it should work fine. My only problem is that I had to rehack their sendmail creation scripts, but it was a fairly odd network setup, anyway.
I was using an Interjet I for almost two years. It was nothing but headaches. /use/ these services, it's a peice of junk!
If you only use ISDN or periodic dialup, it's fine. If you need nothing but the most rudimentary web serving and mail hosting (I never tested it for relaying. If it is a relay, there's no way to fix it), it' great. If you actually
There is NO access to anything on the device besides it's web interface. If you're thinking "Well, LinuxConf makes it work..." just stop. This is nowhere near that nice. Instead, it's pretty, but gives you next to no functionality. We had issues about wanting to modify the firewall's activity (opening certain ports, special routing, etc). It was an absolute no-go. Only recently did they add the ability to modify the NAT (static translations and such).
And the it's so-called fast serial interface. God, don't remind me. We used an external CSU/DSU (of course, only a fast-serial port on this thing) hooked up to a full-burst T1. Once we hit about 1.2 mb/s, it would just turn off the serial port, and completly forget about it. We had to power-cycle the CSU/DSU atleast once a day to fix it. It had worse uptime than any of the NT (or 95...) boxes in the building. No, there was no problem with the line. We finally got a Cisco in December, and it hasn't had any trouble at all. We even had to show Whistle how we set up our network. They didn't even know that what we did was possible (nothing special. an NT acting as a bridge on the InterJet's "internal interface" routing all the office traffic to it, since our network was 100baseTX only, and the interjet is only 10baseT).
So, if you're just starting, and you just need something that works (sorta..), NOW, it's fine. So if you're a windows-minded shop (it works, mostly, and don't need to over-customize), it's just right. Once you try to use it to it's claims, it fails miserably.
Sorry about the high rant value, but this thing gave me nightmares for months. Honestly, if you plan on really using the features that this thing claims to have, save yourself alot of time and just get a linux box (mail/web) and a good router. Might cost you an extra 2k, maybe, but will save you hours and hours of maintenance time.
The page has next to no content - indeed just links to some distros, and some utils that they are hosting. Kinda funny, really.
However, this does mean that Apple isn't ignoring Linux. Sure, they're not pushing behind it with all their heft (they have heft anymore?), but they're not turning their head, either. This may develop into a usefull page sometime in the future. I'd say just watch it for a bit, see where they go with it, before making any calls on what exactly it means.
Well, I can only assume that you are using the Windows client. Normally, it /does/ store your list in a data file, and updates it everytime you restart the app (of course, update could mean rewrite). I'm running the linux 'nap' console app, which is fairly smart. No auto-updates, but does track what changes from transfers inside the app, then you throw it a -b whenever you want it to rebuild it's listing. Obvious solution? Use linux for your mp3 server. =) /very well/ when random reads are being done. =)
Also keep in mind that the napster servers are just overloaded when it comes to logging in - it usually takes me atleast 45seconds (if not several minutes) to just log in. And yes, I am quite sure that it's not doing anything with my mp3 files (they're on a scsi drive which is LOUD. so I know
I think that Jon has some good ideas, he's just not expressing them correctly. Yes, the examples aren't the best - they don't show outright censorship. What he's shooting for is where those examples lead, what results from that mindset. He is arguing the people who close their eyes and shout at the top of their lungs against anything they don't like. That's the root problem. They don't want to see it, so they out-shout it, and shut it down. First it is just that - making noise. Later it becomes worse, into laws, into a complete social mindset. Jon hasn't said it in the best manner, but I think that is what he was truly shooting for. We need to stop the blind-shouting reaction NOW, and get people to argue intelligently. That in itself will stop censorship. /trying/ to say.
Sometimes reaching beyond an author's words can be dangerous - you can grab something completly different than what they intend. Of course, this also lets you draw what you need from the words. Anyway, my point is that in this article's case, it's better to look for the root idea behind it instead of it's technical merits. I do, however, agree with your arguments. I also think you should focus on what he's
I'm sorry, but is that a special feature? Seems I've seen that everywhere else I've looked.....
I think the only rule that has always existed is the 'survival of the fittest' one. Well, atleast if you beleive in evolution. I doubt that one applied in Eden. the rating system did _not_ always exist, unless 'always' is your lifetime, which would be an amazingly narrow view.
But my real question is 'who says what rules are _right_?' Going back to the infamous nazi references, were their rules right? Shoudl you follow them because they are rules, nothing else? I'm sorry, I'll follow reasons, justifications, and my own judgement years before I'll follow a rule mearly because it is. Some rules make sense, many many many (many) don't. Murder being a crime? There's a good rule. My local school disctrict outlawing ALL non-class realted clubs in order to prevent a kid from starting a gay and lesbian club? NOT a good rule, and hence, not worthy of following.
Question before acting.
Or do you just attend church?
Granted, I've been atheist for quite awhile, but I've made it a habit to study what christianity really is. One thing that impresses me about 'true' cristians (I can name 2 that I know, no more) is that they don't judge. Remember the whole humble thing? It is _NOT_ your place to judge that mother. By your own releigion, it is _GOD'S_ place. not yours. Remember that. Just as I am not saying you are a non-thinking spouter, relaying what they've been told to say. I'm just telling you to actually think about your groundings before you spout out against someone.