Install and Ubuntu using the following partition scheme: [ 512MB swap | 15GB / (root) | (the rest of your GB)/home ]
When a new version of Ubuntu comes out (or even another distro of your choice), erase your swap and root, keeping home. I've been using Linux for years, and trust me, this is the easiest and most universal way to keep your files.
As a side note, I never put important stuff outside my home dir and software raid my home dir to a separate hard drive, just in case a drive fails. You can configure your partitions and software raid in the debian/ubuntu installer.
Huh? I've ran M$ Outlook for years at my current job *on* Linux. I can also run Evolution (which has some pretty cool features) and connect to M$ Exchange if I want to. This guys doesn't know what he is talking about.
1. Someone edits/creates an article and submits it. 2. The Wikipedia system randomly selects a user to review and accept the change. 3. If the randomly selected user does not respond (ie: after 2 days) then go back to 2.
It seems simple to implement.
The only problem I can think of is multiple users submitting changes and merging those changes. Any better ideas?
I once wrote a VB macro for both Excel and Word that iterated through all of our documents on our share server. It opened and output each document to an.html format so our search could index them (don't ask). I had this run every day on updated files and it worked quite well. I had it write a log file to track it's progress and so the macro would know where it left off in case of a crash. Exporting to ODF with this plugin in a similar fashion should be trivial. (tip: if you attempt this, you can cheat by using the record macro functionality in office and then modifying the generated code to your liking)
The printing press was "Evil" from a Catholic perspective because it opposed the church and eventually help strip their authority on "educating" the masses:
"With the advent of the printing press Luther's manifesto spread far and wide and garnered widespread support. The challenge from Luther caught the Pope by surprise. The leaders of the Catholic Church were also frightened by how confidently the Princes of Germany resisted Vatican pressure. These leaders, supposedly subject to the authority of the Church, now declared themselves independent of Vatican rule. Ultimately the Princes' defiance ensured Luther's survival,and prompted the birth of a Catholic movement known as the Counter-Reformation."
I was wondering how much of the RAM
footprint difference was due to Office relying on Windows code.
Good question.
I use Open Office on Linux everyday at work and don't see it being as
slow. Can we see some benchmarks of Open Office running on
Linux/MacOS/FreeBSD/Solaris?
OpenBSD has a pretty good reputation for being secure and I didn't see
anything in the advisories above that made me worry. I don't think this
pay-to-play ssh is going to give me more security. I think I'll stick with
OpenSSH.
When i went to Sun Microsystem's JavaOne
conference in SF, all of the Linux JDS systems we're all running the 2.4
kernel, Gnome 2.2, Open Office 1.0,
Mozilla 1.4 (no Firefox).... very old. According to DistroWatch,
Sun hasn't done an update on JDS since
5-4-2004. How serious are they
about JDS?
Since Debian has been my Linux desktop choice for over 3 years, I don't really feel comfortable using a candy-cane Linux distro (Linspire, Mandrake, Suse, Mandrake, Lindows, Linspire, etc.).
I higlighted and middle pasted that list, not checking it for grammatical errors. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings. I'll pay more attention next time. Ubuntu ubove ull.
It appears that all the major Debian derived distros have joined this
group (Mepis, Xandros, Linspire, Knoppix, Linspire, etc.) but not Ubuntu. Why
not?
I played with this device at LinuxWorld. They were using a Windows XP demo machine.
The host PC sees it as a CD-ROM drive.
When I played with this thing, XP did not see it as a CD-ROM drive, but as some kind of usb networked device. It runs a samba server so you can "\\192.168.0.x" to get to your root file system. Also, it installs an X server in XP so you can run X apps right off of it, which I thought was pretty geeky cool.
It includes a fingerprint reader, a 400MHz PowerPC, 64MB of DRAM and 256MB or 512MB of flash and it runs Debian.
Actually, when i did a "cat/proc/cpuinfo" at LinuxWorld it was clocked at 384mhz.:)
I couldn't really find the benefits of this device over Linux on my iPaq, except for maybe the fingerprint reader.
Exploit they used: "I found out that there's a "new" drupal exploit which allows posters to inject arbitrary code into the system for execution on the server -by way of comments. The Drupal.org site is presently down, and apparently has been last night. If you're running Drupal 4.5.1 or 4.6.2, turn off your comments. For visitors here, I'm sorry that you presently cannot comment and I'll turn them back on as soon as possible." http://www.knowprose.com/node/2866
* Vorbis files can compress to a smaller file size and still sound fine * Vorbis' better compression will cut down on bandwidth costs * For a given file size, Vorbis sounds better than MP3. * If you decide to sell your music in MP3 format, you are responsible for paying Fraunhofer a percentage of each sale because you are using their patents. * Vorbis is patent and license-free, so you will never need to pay anyone in order to sell, give away, or stream your own music. * Epic Games (the makers of Unreal Tournament, et. al.) have used Vorbis in their games ever since releasing Unreal Tournament 2003 to compress game music without having per-game license fees sap profits from every game sold. * Vorbis saves developers money by avoiding patent-license fees. * Ogg Vorbis has been designed to completely replace all proprietary, patented audio formats. That means that you can encode all your music or audio content in Vorbis and never look back.
"Supplying an RPM format package is encouraged because it makes systems easier to manage. A future version of the LSB may require RPM, or specify a way for an installer to update a package database."
"Applications are also encouraged to uninstall cleanly."
"The distribution itself may use a different packaging format for its own packages, and of course it may use any available mechanism for installing the LSB-conformant packages."
What the fuck does that mean?
Also, does this mean Debian (or even Ubuntu) can never be "LSB compliant" because it doesn't use Redhat's shitty package system?
I just upgraded my Suse 9.2 (with external install sources) to Suse 9.3 and now it DOES NOT BOOT INTO X. I'm hacking away at it right now trying to figure this mess out.
As usual, Debian (with external install sources) upgraded just fine to the latest.
With "commercial" distros, WHY do I have to format my computer every single time?
I know these community distros Gentoo, Debian, Slack, etc. are a bit more complex to install (except for maybe Ubuntu), but at least I don't have to go through these damn version upgrade nightmares.
Re: Gnome Still Needs More Minor Features
on
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· Score: 0, Flamebait
I use Gnome on my Debian machine and KDE on my Suse machine. Both are b-apt-ized with the sources.
But honestly, I am more productive with KDE than with Gnome. Gnome can be a pain in the arse. I've listed a few of my quirks below.
Nautilus: In the folder tree (left window), try moving or renaming a folder. You can't. You have click on it's parent folder and scroll down in the right window and find it to move/rename it. Konquerer in KDE works fine.
Gnome Clipboard Manager (I know, it's not part of the Gnome project...): Copy and pasting between GTK1/2 and Qt apps while GCM is enabled total screws up your "highlighted" and "copied" clipboards. Klipper in KDE has never screwed up my clipboard.
Gedit: In this Gnome 2.10 screenshot example (http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-10/images/ged it-hilite-full.png) gedit is syntax hightlighting an html file. Gedit can even do Java and Perl files. But, It can't syntax highlight simple sh/bash files? I don't understand that. Kate/Krite in KDE syntax highlights just fine and cleverly adds an expand/collapse icon to your for/while loops.
(I have lots more, but I'll stop there before I piss someone off;) I don't want to start a KDE/Gnome flame war... And, yes, I am aware of the whole GTK vs Qt licensing problem...)
I was asked once to recover a windows 2000 laptop for a colleague.
His wife had booted a partition magic cd and accidently moved the windows partition over, causing a new partition to be created at the beginning of the disk. For some reason, partition magic wouldn't move the damn thing back.
Apparently, a DOS/Windows MBR always tries to boot the 1st partition. So when booting the machine, all we were getting were "no bootable disk" errors...
But, I had an idea.
I booted a knoppix cd and created a c:\grub directory. I copied grub files to it and configured a menu.lst to boot the 2nd partition, (where Windows 2000 was stuck at). Lastly, I installed grub to the MBR. After I rebooted, the grub boot menu came up with the "Windows 2000" option I had created. I hit enter and it loaded Windows 2000!
My colleague had no idea what I had just done, but was happy otherwise and no longer mad at his wife.
Also, copying bits from one GPL program to another GPL program is not out of the ordinary. This is a constant in open source software.
To minimize confusion, every developer should probably read (and understand) the GPL.
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html "You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty;"
Slashdot Mirror
Install and Ubuntu using the following partition scheme: /home ]
[ 512MB swap | 15GB / (root) | (the rest of your GB)
When a new version of Ubuntu comes out (or even another distro of your choice), erase your swap and root, keeping home. I've been using Linux for years, and trust me, this is the easiest and most universal way to keep your files.
As a side note, I never put important stuff outside my home dir and software raid my home dir to a separate hard drive, just in case a drive fails. You can configure your partitions and software raid in the debian/ubuntu installer.
-Joe
then complains about not having Outlook on Linux.
Huh? I've ran M$ Outlook for years at my current job *on* Linux. I can also run Evolution (which has some pretty cool features) and connect to M$ Exchange if I want to. This guys doesn't know what he is talking about.
What if Wikipedia did this:
1. Someone edits/creates an article and submits it.
2. The Wikipedia system randomly selects a user to review and accept the change.
3. If the randomly selected user does not respond (ie: after 2 days) then go back to 2.
It seems simple to implement.
The only problem I can think of is multiple users submitting changes and merging those changes. Any better ideas?
-Joe
I once wrote a VB macro for both Excel and Word that iterated through all of our documents on our share server. It opened and output each document to an .html format so our search could index them (don't ask). I had this run every day on updated files and it worked quite well. I had it write a log file to track it's progress and so the macro would know where it left off in case of a crash. Exporting to ODF with this plugin in a similar fashion should be trivial. (tip: if you attempt this, you can cheat by using the record macro functionality in office and then modifying the generated code to your liking)
-Joe
He's an atheist.
The printing press was "Evil" from a Catholic perspective because it opposed the church and eventually help strip their authority on "educating" the masses:
n ter.html (pbs documentary)
http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/renaissance/cou
"With the advent of the printing press Luther's manifesto spread far and wide and garnered widespread support. The challenge from Luther caught the Pope by surprise. The leaders of the Catholic Church were also frightened by how confidently the Princes of Germany resisted Vatican pressure. These leaders, supposedly subject to the authority of the Church, now declared themselves independent of Vatican rule. Ultimately the Princes' defiance ensured Luther's survival,and prompted the birth of a Catholic movement known as the Counter-Reformation."
-My specs-
/proc/cpuinfo
/opt/cxoffice/bin/wine --check --bottle
dotwine --cx-app "C:////Program Files////Microsoft
Office////Office10////EXCEL.EXE"
jcole@jcdebian-p4:~$ uname -a
Linux jcdebian-p4 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Tue Sep 27 12:52:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
jcole@jcdebian-p4:~$ grep name
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
-Time-
jcole@jcdebian-p4:~$ time ooimpress
real 0m6.170s
jcole@jcdebian-p4:~$ time oocalc
real 0m5.537s
jcole@jcdebian-p4:~$ time oomath
real 0m4.928s
jcole@jcdebian-p4:~$ time ooweb
real 0m6.321s
jcole@jcdebian-p4:~$ time oodraw
real 0m6.208s
jcole@jcdebian-p4:~$ time oohtml
real 0m3.792s
jcole@jcdebian-p4:~$ time oowriter
real 0m5.741s
jcole@jcdebian-p4:~$ time ooffice test.sxc
real 0m6.170s
jcole@jcdebian-p4:~$ ll test.sxc
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcole jcole 13196 2005-10-27 11:44 test.sxc
jcole@jcdebian-p4:~$ time abiword
real 0m2.745s
jcole@jcdebian-p4:~$ time gnumeric
real 0m2.343s
jcole@jcdebian-p4:~$ time
real 0m3.514s
-Memory-
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
25721 jcole 16 0 138m 49m 33m S 0.0 4.9 0:03.89 soffice.bin
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
25888 jcole 16 0 1075m 12m 7976 S 0.0 1.2 0:00.89 wine-preloader
I was wondering how much of the RAM footprint difference was due to Office relying on Windows code.
Good question.
I use Open Office on Linux everyday at work and don't see it being as slow. Can we see some benchmarks of Open Office running on Linux/MacOS/FreeBSD/Solaris?
-Joe
What extra features do you need out of SSH anyway? I ask not to be a smart arse, but as a genuine inquiry.
Security?
Secunia Advisories:
SSH Communications
- SSH Secure Shell for Servers 2.x
- SSH Secure Shell for Servers 3.x
- SSH Secure Shell for Windows Servers 3.x
- SSH Secure Shell for Workstations 2.x
- SSH Secure Shell for Workstations 3.x
- SSH Sentinel 1.x
- SSH Tectia Client 4.x
- SSH Tectia Server 4.x
OpenBSD
- OpenSSH 3.x
- OpenSSH 4.x
OpenBSD has a pretty good reputation for being secure and I didn't see anything in the advisories above that made me worry. I don't think this pay-to-play ssh is going to give me more security. I think I'll stick with OpenSSH.
-Joe
When i went to Sun Microsystem's JavaOne conference in SF, all of the Linux JDS systems we're all running the 2.4 kernel, Gnome 2.2, Open Office 1.0, Mozilla 1.4 (no Firefox).... very old. According to DistroWatch, Sun hasn't done an update on JDS since 5-4-2004. How serious are they about JDS?
That make sense to me. DCC is based on sarge/testing, therefore Ubuntu cannot join, since it's based on sid/unstable. Thanks.
Since Debian has been my Linux desktop choice for over 3 years, I don't really feel comfortable using a candy-cane Linux distro (Linspire, Mandrake, Suse, Mandrake, Lindows, Linspire, etc.).
I higlighted and middle pasted that list, not checking it for grammatical errors. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings. I'll pay more attention next time. Ubuntu ubove ull.
It appears that all the major Debian derived distros have joined this group (Mepis, Xandros, Linspire, Knoppix, Linspire, etc.) but not Ubuntu. Why not?
I played with this device at LinuxWorld. They were using a Windows XP demo machine.
/proc/cpuinfo" at LinuxWorld it was clocked at 384mhz. :)
The host PC sees it as a CD-ROM drive.
When I played with this thing, XP did not see it as a CD-ROM drive, but as some kind of usb networked device. It runs a samba server so you can "\\192.168.0.x" to get to your root file system. Also, it installs an X server in XP so you can run X apps right off of it, which I thought was pretty geeky cool.
It includes a fingerprint reader, a 400MHz PowerPC, 64MB of DRAM and 256MB or 512MB of flash and it runs Debian.
Actually, when i did a "cat
I couldn't really find the benefits of this device over Linux on my iPaq, except for maybe the fingerprint reader.
-Joe
Why does the CSS test page itself contain bad CSS code? Is this test really valid?
i le=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A//www.webstandards.or g/act/acid2/test.html%23top
o p
.parser-container div
.parser
.parser
.parser
.parser
.parser
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?prof
Errors
URI : http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/test.html#t
* Line: 44
Parse Error - second two]
* Line: 89 Context :
Invalid number : color orange is not a color value : orange
* Line: 95 Context :
Property error doesn't exist : }
* Line: 98 Context :
Property m rgin doesn't exist : 2em
* Line: 98
Parse error - Unrecognized : };
* Line: 100 Context :
Invalid number : width only 0 can be a length. You must put an unit after your number : 200
* Line: 101 Context :
Parse Error - ! error;
* Line: 101 Context :
Parse error - Unrecognized : }
-Joe
Exploit they used:
1 2241&tid=169&tid=8
"I found out that there's a "new" drupal exploit which allows posters to inject arbitrary code into the system for execution on the server -by way of comments. The Drupal.org site is presently down, and apparently has been last night. If you're running Drupal 4.5.1 or 4.6.2, turn off your comments. For visitors here, I'm sorry that you presently cannot comment and I'll turn them back on as soon as possible."
http://www.knowprose.com/node/2866
Sample source code of the exploit:
http://www.milw0rm.com/id.php?id=1088
Red Hat Advanced Server 3.0 powers spreadfirefox.com:
Response Headers - http://www.spreadfirefox.com/
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 20:01:52 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
This vulnerability has been known for over 2 weeks. Was there no Redhat patch available or did the admins slack off?
Also, isn't it strange how Drupal gets 2 posts on Slashdot in the same day?
Community, OSL and Sun Jump to Drupal's Rescue - http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/15/12
-Joe
"As a typical end user, not one of those reasons matters to me at all."..."The fact that it's proprietary couldn't matter less to me."
MP3 being proprietary has nothing to do with it. I just simply want my laptop and my work computers legal.
"a typical end user" does not want to purchase a license or software package so they can legally rip their own cds on their own hard drive.
Also, I said before, OGG is just simply a better codec.
"the simple fact is that I've been using MP3 for 8 years and never once had to look back"
Dude. It's 2005. Catch up.
-Joe
http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp
* Vorbis files can compress to a smaller file size and still sound fine
* Vorbis' better compression will cut down on bandwidth costs
* For a given file size, Vorbis sounds better than MP3.
* If you decide to sell your music in MP3 format, you are responsible for paying Fraunhofer a percentage of each sale because you are using their patents.
* Vorbis is patent and license-free, so you will never need to pay anyone in order to sell, give away, or stream your own music.
* Epic Games (the makers of Unreal Tournament, et. al.) have used Vorbis in their games ever since releasing Unreal Tournament 2003 to compress game music without having per-game license fees sap profits from every game sold.
* Vorbis saves developers money by avoiding patent-license fees.
* Ogg Vorbis has been designed to completely replace all proprietary, patented audio formats. That means that you can encode all your music or audio content in Vorbis and never look back.
Need I say more?
-Joe
http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-Co re-generic/LSB-Core-generic/swinstall.html
"Supplying an RPM format package is encouraged because it makes systems easier to manage. A future version of the LSB may require RPM, or specify a way for an installer to update a package database."
"Applications are also encouraged to uninstall cleanly."
"The distribution itself may use a different packaging format for its own packages, and of course it may use any available mechanism for installing the LSB-conformant packages."
What the fuck does that mean?
Also, does this mean Debian (or even Ubuntu) can never be "LSB compliant" because it doesn't use Redhat's shitty package system?
Thanks, but no thanks.
-Joe
I just upgraded my Suse 9.2 (with external install sources) to Suse 9.3 and now it DOES NOT BOOT INTO X. I'm hacking away at it right now trying to figure this mess out.
As usual, Debian (with external install sources) upgraded just fine to the latest.
With "commercial" distros, WHY do I have to format my computer every single time?
I know these community distros Gentoo, Debian, Slack, etc. are a bit more complex to install (except for maybe Ubuntu), but at least I don't have to go through these damn version upgrade nightmares.
-Joe
Yep.
Response Headers - http://202.88.234.250/
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Connection: Keep-Alive
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:03:19 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Debian GNU/Linux)
Last-Modified: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:48:28 GMT
Etag: "4d0b-148a-4224649c"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 5258
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Response Headers - http://www.linuxense.com/challenge/
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Connection: Keep-Alive
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 01:34:34 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-8
Last-Modified: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:30:03 GMT
Etag: "2381b5-d38-422e0b4b"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 3384
Content-Type: text/html
I use Gnome on my Debian machine and KDE on my Suse machine. Both are b-apt-ized with the sources.
d it-hilite-full.png) gedit is syntax hightlighting an html file. Gedit can even do Java and Perl files. But, It can't syntax highlight simple sh/bash files? I don't understand that.
;) I don't want to start a KDE/Gnome flame war... And, yes, I am aware of the whole GTK vs Qt licensing problem...)
o ts&lang=en
w arning.jpg
But honestly, I am more productive with KDE than with Gnome. Gnome can be a pain in the arse. I've listed a few of my quirks below.
Nautilus:
In the folder tree (left window), try moving or renaming a folder. You can't. You have click on it's parent folder and scroll down in the right window and find it to move/rename it.
Konquerer in KDE works fine.
Gnome Clipboard Manager (I know, it's not part of the Gnome project...):
Copy and pasting between GTK1/2 and Qt apps while GCM is enabled total screws up your "highlighted" and "copied" clipboards.
Klipper in KDE has never screwed up my clipboard.
Gedit:
In this Gnome 2.10 screenshot example (http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-10/images/ge
Kate/Krite in KDE syntax highlights just fine and cleverly adds an expand/collapse icon to your for/while loops.
(I have lots more, but I'll stop there before I piss someone off
One excuse I've been told is that Gnome is designed to be a more minimal Desktop. Then why not just use XFCE? It the best (and fastest) minimal GTK based Desktop I've ever used:
http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=users_screensh
Sometimes I think that the Gnome development team is trying so hard not to be like KDE (or even like Windows) it's development is being hindered.
Am I being rude or too honest?
-Joe
7*8*9*19*5783
http://www.thehumorarchives.com/attachment_files/
I was asked once to recover a windows 2000 laptop for a colleague.
His wife had booted a partition magic cd and accidently moved the windows partition over, causing a new partition to be created at the beginning of the disk. For some reason, partition magic wouldn't move the damn thing back.
Apparently, a DOS/Windows MBR always tries to boot the 1st partition. So when booting the machine, all we were getting were "no bootable disk" errors...
But, I had an idea.
I booted a knoppix cd and created a c:\grub directory. I copied grub files to it and configured a menu.lst to boot the 2nd partition, (where Windows 2000 was stuck at). Lastly, I installed grub to the MBR. After I rebooted, the grub boot menu came up with the "Windows 2000" option I had created. I hit enter and it loaded Windows 2000!
My colleague had no idea what I had just done, but was happy otherwise and no longer mad at his wife.
-Joe
It's *OURS*, not mine.
That's the whole idea.
Also, copying bits from one GPL program to another GPL program is not out of the ordinary. This is a constant in open source software.
To minimize confusion, every developer should probably read (and understand) the GPL.
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
"You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty;"
-Joe