If you really want to buy prebuilt linux servers go with any of the linux vendors. Some of them are quite good and you will get much quicker results than you would with dell.
I personally recommend www.dcginc.com for machines. I've gotten a few multiproc PCs and some of their Ultra boxes and have been very happy with them.
Yet again a qoute that clamors on about the cost effectiveness of open source and linux. Thats not why I fight to have open sourced solutions in my work place... its not a a cost issue.
Its an issue of simply being better. When will the mainstream get this?
The funny thing is seeing complete rejects from the irc days suddenly having "legitimate" jobs at companys like VA. Even funnier is that these are the same moronic slobs who had trouble even figuring out how to install Linux and now they have jobs supporting it. No wonder its gone to shiet.
I'm just slowly waiting for the remaining MoD/LGM members to sell out to ISS so the joke will be complete. Offical Linux Startup Application Question #15: "Where you ever an op on #hack? What about #warez? " --- Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/ultrix/OSF /...
I love Man Bites Dog... its the only film I own on video and thats only because its not on DVD yet. Quite gripping with very few down moments... but disturbing? nah...
Iron Man Tetsuo, now that is a disturbing film in almost every way possible.
IMAP seems to scale like complete crap until you learn one thing... convert everyone's mailbox to MBX. MBX is still basically a flat file but with references inside to how big the current message is. It makes it much easier on clients in large mailboxes and everything supports it. Where I work we were about to abandon IMAP because it was so slow with our typical mail box (~42megs) until switching over to MBX. Now it just flies.
Here a quick dirty perl script to quickly move users over (one @ a time) that will work with all IMAP clients that support mbx... mbxcvt is braindead in that it requires complete paths.
#!/usr/bin/perl
$user = @ARGV[0];
$mbx = "/usr/bin/mbxcvt";
$command = "mv/var/spool/mail/$user/var/spool/mail/$user.unix"; system $command; $command = "$mbx/var/spool/mail/$user.unix mbx/home/$user/INBOX"; system $command; $command = "chown $user.mail/home/$user/INBOX"; system $command;
It is a well stated and known fact that 24 FPS and even 30 FPS give away errors in things that are filmed (ie spinning objects like wheels). To fool the human eye into thinking it is seeing real motion it needs not only 60 FPS but motion blur as well. The newest generation of game consoles can do this... Some people can easily tell the difference between 70 and 60 FPS. If you can't then count yourself as lucky because you will be satisfied with less.
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As I understand it the first host that responds to the anycast is the host you communicate with. Besides the obvious router/DHCP/routing benefits... there is another use for anycast that I don't see discussed very much.
We can finally get rid of crappy ass round robin DNS.
Uh where the hell did you pay $1500 a month in rent for a one room place in SV. Yes rent is insane in SV but what you say is complete crap. I live in SF on Nob Hill and pay about that for a 2 bedroom... and studios in my building go for well under 1k.
Why I won't work at home exclusively again.
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The problem I ran into comes from the fact that I really enjoy what I do for a living. I constantly found myself putting in these insanely long days... often 14+ hours in front of a computer. It didn't seem so long or so bad because here I was at home... my music on, relaxed, snacking, etc... The problem is that suddenly this huge void of time has passed. Days quickly turned into weeks into... you get the idea. The longer you do it the more you find yourself looking for excuses to get out of the house 'cuz you *never* leave. This isn't just computer people either. Anyone who works at home exclusively suffers from this (writers/artists/etc...).
With that said however, I do prefer to work at home occasionally. I think a 3 or 4 day work week at the office is great. It lets you interact face to face with other real people and limit your time and exposure to the work enviroment. Forces you out of your safe comfortable home and keeps you in touch with how lame the real world can be sometimes.
The company I work for has mostly bought into the work equals home concept. Free snacks, very relaxed atmosphere... they buy your dinner if you stay past 7. But I am too wise and cynical now to fall for the sell my life to the company for a free meal deal. Lots of people who haven't worked at home before here think all this free stuph and this home/work atmosphere is the best thing ever. I just try and remind them its a company and not your family.
I take it you have never installed a version of solaris or recent versions of hpux if you think linux is the most user friendly.
Of the free unix clones, linux is by far the most easy for the unix novice to get into. OpenBSD on the other hand is a huge pile of sheit that has one of the worst install processes I have seen since the days of dynix. --- Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/ultrix/OSF /...
Xenix is not unix. Its a horrid bastard that makes old versions of unixware look like code handed down by the gods. --- Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/ultrix/OSF /...
All these anonymous cowards who apparently don't value their own time keep getting this wrong.
Just because they are "giving" you a service doesn't it make free. Why? Because you have agreed that for this service you will view their ads. in case you aren't aware this is how portals make money, on the ads. So by using their so called "free" service you are actually paying their bills... Yahoo and its ilk cost as much as you value the time you waste looking at advertisements. Seems some of you don't value your time at all.
The yahoo service is no more free than any of the major broadcast networks. By using the yahoo services I am in essence making an agreement to view their ads. My time is being traded for their service... their service is only free if you don't value your own personal time.
"they'd be able to avoid those nets, wouldn't they?"
Oh you mean the same way humans avoid doing things like crack, shooting each other, eating to obesity, falling in love with evil... Sometimes maybe "you" are just sure you can get some of that good fish before the net begins to close in but instead you just make a pretty bad judgment call. It happens. --- Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/ultrix/OSF /...
We reinvent the process and this time make it open.
We can point our root name servers anywhere and if every distribution of linux/freebsd came with dns set up to reflect our new root level servers we have effectively taken control back of something that should be free in the first place.
We can also make an open database of contact information that anyone can query...
... but sadly this won't happen. This isn't a passionate enough issue for enough people to get the support it would need. Convincing someone to shoulder the machine/network cost would be practically impossible as well, unless say cdrom.com, redhat, debian, etc... decided it would really help out their products.
I know at one point there was a plan for the mac rev of BeOS to be able to run native MacOS apps. Is there a plan currently in the Be roadmap to add something similar for dos apps, well specifically games?
My current OS needs are actually pretty tame. SSH, SSL Web Browser, telnet, other net tools, vi, mp3 player/ripper, tv recorder and the ability to play Team Fortress Classic. Except for that last one it looks like I could use BeOS to replace the one 95 box in my house.
Things like this are *nothing* new for our goverment (the US) to do. The fact that we now notice them and can do something about it however is. The US has done some awful and stupid things throughout the years as has any other country in the world. Countries like people do make mistakes and need to learn from them... and most of you need to learn some serious history before arguing moot points again.
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If you really want to buy prebuilt linux servers go with any of the linux vendors. Some of them are quite good and you will get much quicker results than you would with dell.
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I personally recommend www.dcginc.com for machines. I've gotten a few multiproc PCs and some of their Ultra boxes and have been very happy with them.
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Yet again a qoute that clamors on about the cost effectiveness of open source and linux. Thats not why I fight to have open sourced solutions in my work place... its not a a cost issue.
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Its an issue of simply being better. When will the mainstream get this?
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The funny thing is seeing complete rejects from the irc days suddenly having "legitimate" jobs at companys like VA. Even funnier is that these are the same moronic slobs who had trouble even figuring out how to install Linux and now they have jobs supporting it. No wonder its gone to shiet.
F /...
I'm just slowly waiting for the remaining MoD/LGM members to sell out to ISS so the joke will be complete.
Offical Linux Startup Application Question #15:
"Where you ever an op on #hack? What about #warez? "
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I love Man Bites Dog... its the only film I own on video and thats only because its not on DVD yet. Quite gripping with very few down moments... but disturbing? nah...
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Iron Man Tetsuo, now that is a disturbing film in almost every way possible.
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IMAP seems to scale like complete crap until you learn one thing... convert everyone's mailbox to MBX. MBX is still basically a flat file but with references inside to how big the current message is. It makes it much easier on clients in large mailboxes and everything supports it. Where I work we were about to abandon IMAP because it was so slow with our typical mail box (~42megs) until switching over to MBX. Now it just flies.
/var/spool/mail/$user /var/spool/mail/$user.unix"; /var/spool/mail/$user.unix mbx /home/$user/INBOX"; /home/$user/INBOX";
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Here a quick dirty perl script to quickly move users over (one @ a time) that will work with all IMAP clients that support mbx... mbxcvt is braindead in that it requires complete paths.
#!/usr/bin/perl
$user = @ARGV[0];
$mbx = "/usr/bin/mbxcvt";
$command = "mv
system $command;
$command = "$mbx
system $command;
$command = "chown $user.mail
system $command;
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Learn to read it people. There is a reason someone spends time writing down that boring crap into awful as formats like nroff.
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Almost everything questioned by the original poster is covered in the FreeBSD natd man page. How do I know this? I learned to read. You should try it.
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You are a fucking hippie.
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Ahhh I must say Veggie must have had some fine corn whiskey this last weekend to have such a brilliant stroke of vision.
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My shower curtain is proud to be "Owned by the cDc".
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TV is 30 frames (60 fields per second).
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Movies run at 24 FPS.
It is a well stated and known fact that 24 FPS and even 30 FPS give away errors in things that are filmed (ie spinning objects like wheels). To fool the human eye into thinking it is seeing real motion it needs not only 60 FPS but motion blur as well. The newest generation of game consoles can do this... Some people can easily tell the difference between 70 and 60 FPS. If you can't then count yourself as lucky because you will be satisfied with less.
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As I understand it the first host that responds to the anycast is the host you communicate with. Besides the obvious router/DHCP/routing benefits... there is another use for anycast that I don't see discussed very much.
F /...
We can finally get rid of crappy ass round robin DNS.
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Uh where the hell did you pay $1500 a month in rent for a one room place in SV. Yes rent is insane in SV but what you say is complete crap. I live in SF on Nob Hill and pay about that for a 2 bedroom... and studios in my building go for well under 1k.
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Because vi is superior and we all see what happened to the c++ bandwagon...
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INSERT SMILEYS WHERE APPROPRIATE
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Hippie .F /...
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What time warped hippie bus did you just get off of?
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Better yet, forgo college if you plan on working in the computer industry. All you have proved is that you can fall four years behind the technology.
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It is however a real shame to see people with Masters breaking their backbones to get jobs as Admin Assistants that barely pay 40k.
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The problem I ran into comes from the fact that I really enjoy what I do for a living. I constantly found myself putting in these insanely long days... often 14+ hours in front of a computer. It didn't seem so long or so bad because here I was at home... my music on, relaxed, snacking, etc... The problem is that suddenly this huge void of time has passed. Days quickly turned into weeks into... you get the idea. The longer you do it the more you find yourself looking for excuses to get out of the house 'cuz you *never* leave. This isn't just computer people either. Anyone who works at home exclusively suffers from this (writers/artists/etc...).
F /...
With that said however, I do prefer to work at home occasionally. I think a 3 or 4 day work week at the office is great. It lets you interact face to face with other real people and limit your time and exposure to the work enviroment. Forces you out of your safe comfortable home and keeps you in touch with how lame the real world can be sometimes.
The company I work for has mostly bought into the work equals home concept. Free snacks, very relaxed atmosphere... they buy your dinner if you stay past 7. But I am too wise and cynical now to fall for the sell my life to the company for a free meal deal. Lots of people who haven't worked at home before here think all this free stuph and this home/work atmosphere is the best thing ever. I just try and remind them its a company and not your family.
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I take it you have never installed a version of
F /...
solaris or recent versions of hpux if you think linux is the most user friendly.
Of the free unix clones, linux is by far the most easy for the unix novice to get into. OpenBSD on the other hand is a huge pile of sheit that has one of the worst install processes I have seen since the days of dynix.
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Xenix is not unix. Its a horrid bastard that makes old versions of unixware look like code handed down by the gods.F /...
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All these anonymous cowards who apparently don't value their own time keep getting this wrong.
F /...
Just because they are "giving" you a service doesn't it make free. Why? Because you have agreed that for this service you will view their ads. in case you aren't aware this is how portals make money, on the ads. So by using their so called "free" service you are actually paying their bills... Yahoo and its ilk cost as much as you value the time you waste looking at advertisements. Seems some of you don't value your time at all.
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Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/ultrix/OS
The yahoo service is no more free than any of the major broadcast networks. By using the yahoo services I am in essence making an agreement to view their ads. My time is being traded for their service... their service is only free if you don't value your own personal time.
F /...
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The mistaken assumption here is that most slashdot readers have even been using computers for 20 years.
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"they'd be able to avoid those nets, wouldn't they?"
F /...
Oh you mean the same way humans avoid doing things like crack, shooting each other, eating to obesity, falling in love with evil... Sometimes maybe "you" are just sure you can get some of that good fish before the net begins to close in but instead you just make a pretty bad judgment call. It happens.
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We reinvent the process and this time make it open.
F /...
We can point our root name servers anywhere and if every distribution of linux/freebsd came with dns set up to reflect our new root level servers we have effectively taken control back of something that should be free in the first place.
We can also make an open database of contact information that anyone can query...
... but sadly this won't happen. This isn't a passionate enough issue for enough people to get the support it would need. Convincing someone to shoulder the machine/network cost would be practically impossible as well, unless say cdrom.com, redhat, debian, etc... decided it would really help out their products.
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Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/ultrix/OS
I know at one point there was a plan for the mac rev of BeOS to be able to run native MacOS apps. Is there a plan currently in the Be roadmap to add something similar for dos apps, well specifically games?
F /...
My current OS needs are actually pretty tame. SSH, SSL Web Browser, telnet, other net tools, vi, mp3 player/ripper, tv recorder and the ability to play Team Fortress Classic. Except for that last one it looks like I could use BeOS to replace the one 95 box in my house.
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Openstep/NeXTSTEP/Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/ultrix/OS
Things like this are *nothing* new for our goverment (the US) to do. The fact that we now notice them and can do something about it however is. The US has done some awful and stupid things throughout the years as has any other country in the world. Countries like people do make mistakes and need to learn from them... and most of you need to learn some serious history before arguing moot points again.
F /...
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