I use Mozilla and imap, mainly because it works on all the different platforms that I use and I can get my email where ever I am.
I like the idea of being able to see a calender looking map of all messages too and from a person or group of people over the last year.
I get a lot of email from different customers, vendors and people back at our main corp. office relating to different IT type projects. I try to file it in folders based on project and customer/vendor but and about once a month it seems that I am franticaly searching for for a re:re:re:re:re from someone that has some little fact that I need.
("I think I got that one in the middle of last month just after we got the new tape drive, let me see if I can find it, was that before or after Thanksgiving, did I file it by vendor?")
There was one thing that really bugged me though. The whole bit about the government deceiding that it was a hoax at the end. If it was coming from something in orbit then there are enough radio telescopes in the world to point that out within the first week. If it was not and someone tried to tell everyone that it was then the same applies. There are plenty of scientists in the world who would say.."Wait! they are wrong! We recalculated and we find that it is indeed coming from X light years away." For that matter if the government did manage to convice everyone that it was a hoax and the country had almost gone broke for nothing there would be mobs in the streets.
I wonder. Has anyone ever tried to do set up a network of back yard dishes? It seems to me that even though each one is small if you had a few hundred spread over several states you might be able to do something usefull with them. Anyone know enough about this to comment? Are they just too small or not sensitive enough? Would it be too tough to aim them? People like this stuff enough to sign up by the hundreds of thousands for seti@home. There are lots of people with thier own telescopes doing real science, looking for asteroids. Are there enough geeks out there with access to a back yard dish to do something like this?
My wife and I enjoy red wines. We have several friends that think they know a lot about wine. A while ago one of our friends had a party a where we had everyone bring 2 bottles of wine... one expensive , and one cheap but still drinkable. Each person put a paper bag over the bottle so it could not be read and then we taped another bag over the first so know one would be able to recognize thier own.
The result... a $5 bottle of wine from a winery in Washington state took first place. The best that one of the expensive wines did was third. ( and it was not the most expensive one there.)
A company called NeoRX in Seattle has been working on this for many years. What they are trying to do is to attach a grain of radioactive stuff to a custom tailored antibody. They then inject the antibodys. The AB'S find and attach themselves to cancer cells and the radioactive source is sitting right on the cell you want to kill. The advantage of course is that you can have a lower total dose of radiation since it is mostly going to just the spots that you want it to. They have done human trials for a low radio active payload that is not enough to kill the cancer but can show you were it is. They started trials for the higher dose but the trial was canceled when higher then expected levels of radiation were found in the subjects kidneys and bladder. After wasting a couple of years diddling around I believe the FDA has given them permission to try another trial and have the test subjects drink more water. ( I wish I was kidding about both the years and the water.)
It takes the hostname of the server that the email was received from, and checks to make sure that the hostname has a valid reverse DNS zone configured.
I had a similar rule set up on our email server for a couple of weeks. Unfortunatly many of our customers could not seem to get their reverse DNS records set up right. Sometimes they would reverse and sometimes they would not and I would bounce their mail.(COME ON FOLKS ITS NOT FRICKEN ROCKET SCIENCE!) After several user complaints and a couple of frustrating weeks dealing with these InDUHviduals I finally took the rule off. Yes, they are nitwits, but they are also customers and we need to exchage email with them.
Now, excuse me while I go order some generic vicoden on line......... where did I put my credit card?
I wish that bookstores would be like mini-publishers. I'd like to be able to take a file in to them and have them create a nice paper back book for me.
At work we have a nice networked Canon copier that has a bunch of finishing options including two sided, booklet, staple and graphics quality. Since most tech documents/IBM Redbooks/etc. are downloadable as a PDF I end up printing little booklets of docs that I am going to want to study for a while. This is not quite the same as a bound book but it is a step in that direction.
I agree with one of the earlier posts that it is nice to get away from the computer screen once in a while. I find that I retain material much better if I am sitting down somewhere like next to the fireplace in my living room to read. When I am reading on a computer screen I tend to loose my concentration and flit around from screen to screen instead of really reading the material.
I'm sure everyone has at least seen one article where they tell you to NEVER install software from a company you've either never heard of, or don't trust. At this point, the internet has been around long enough that most people realize this
I don't know about this. Have you ever seen the windows desktop of the typical clueless user?
In the past month I have wiped and reinstalled windows for 3 different people and their desktops were full of all kinds of things like free search bars and comet cursor, and bonzo buddies, and wall paper changers, and music downloaders, and free pop-up add blockers, and browser skinners and desktop addons and God knows what else. All of these programs are busy popping up ads and sending reports back on browsing habits and installing backdoors.
All of these programs were installed by the user (or the users kid) who got an email or im from a friend saying.."cool program... click here."
The thing that gets me is the two of these computers were owned by mid level executives should know better. Home machines that were connecting into the networks of companies whose name you would recognize. (!)
I would submit to you that your typical windows user still hasn't figured out not to install any old program that sounds neat.
I don't know. That is another one of those "environment" things. If jr. grows up watching responsible hardworking parents he tends to end up that way. If he sees his parents always doing the minimum they can get away with he will tend to do the same.
I suppose one thing that might work would be a mentoring type of setup. That is one thing that my daughters school does do right. Each of the kindergarten and firstgrade kids has a big buddy. The big buddy teaches them the ropes as far as lunch, recess, etc. They also do something academic once a week with their big buddy. When she was in kindergarten my daughter thought the world of her big buddy. He was a fourth grader and helped her with her reading and did craft projects with her. Unfortunatly they stopped at first grade.
Maybe a program where local business people are payed a few bucks to spend a few hours a week with a highschooler while the highschooler is payed to spend a few hours with a jr. high schooler and the jr. high schooler is payed to spend time with an elementary schooler.
This is true of most businesses. People start businesses because they know how to produce whatever the business produces. The reason they fail is that many of them don't know how to run a business.
I, for one, never learned diddly squat about how to run a business when I was in school. (Typical American public school.) Why is that? I learned all the basics, math, language, etc. I learned how to fill out a resume. I learned how to get a job. These are all useful and important things but I should have been taught how to start a small business.
It was not until I met my wife's family that I even knew anyone who had their own successful small business. The funny thing is that more then half of the people in her extended family have their own small businesses and only three have a collage degree. That is not to say that they are dumb. They are not. I would say that most of them are slightly smarter then average. They learned by watching "Dad" or Uncle "X" or Aunt "Y" build their own business.
Now, the best thing would be if our public schools taught the kids to be small businessmen but I don't see that happening. My daughters grammar school seems to be most interested in making sure that she is passive and quiet, and oh yes, we need to improve our WASSL score.
Luckily my daughter seems to have inherited the small business gene. At seven she is the lemonade stand queen on our street.
How do we teach kids to go out and create their own wealth? The only way that I know of is for them to grow up in an environment where that is the expected way to make it.
One other thing that comes to mind is computer games. My kids love the "Reader Rabbit" games and seem to learn quite a bit from them. Games or learning programs at both a kid and at an adult level might be good.
Unfortunately the average open source computer geek probably doesn't have any experience starting a small business either so I don't know who is going to program these games.
The rocket part keeps going one way and the mass ejected out of the back keeps going the other way. So, if you consider both, the center of mass stays in the same place...(unless acted upon by an outside force such as the gravity of a planet).
Think of it as a seesaw. (those things kids love that are now too dangerous to put on playgrounds because their parents will sue someone).
If you send the same amount of mass out of the back as the mass of the rocket then for things to stay in balance they both will travel the same distance from the starting point in a given time. If you send a much smaller mass out of the back then the smaller mass has to travel much farther away from the starting point in a given time then the rocket part.
Finally since the center of mass of the entire system stays still, the smaller the mass going out of the back the farther away it has to be at any instant to balance how far away the rocket part is.
The problem with somebody controlling the files is, the spammers will just DDOS that person off the net.
What if Slashdot and/or Google hosts the list? I doubt that anyone has the bandwidth to DOS them.
If the lists are PGP or GPG signed and the import routine refuses to import a mis-signed list the list maintainers could upload the list from any IP.
For that matter if Slashdot posted a real time listing of IP's that were trying to DOS them I get the feeling that interested third parties would make sure that the computers at those IP's were "fixed" in short order.
Another choice for keeping your redhat system up to date is
RH-ERATTA. It can be found on sourceforge.
It is basicly a script that compares the errata dir on an ftp site with a local copy and downloads anything you don't have. You can use switches to have it email you the results, compare what is installed vs. what is available, download errata for just the version you are using, download for other versions or multiple versions, download errata only if the package is installed, etc. You then install the RPM's by hand but that is not hard. I have it set up to run in the middle of the night a couple of times a week and email me if anything new was downloaded. If something big comes out like the latest openssh problems I just run it by hand.
One more thing. Be sure that you edit the script to change the redhat mirror it is pointed to. Otherwise your updates can be problematic as the default mirror is sometimes swamped. (I tried several and found one that is almost always fast, and no I am not going to tell you which mirror I use.)
I use gnome on both my desktop and my laptop. Most of the time I like it. It looks really good to my eye and is fairly fast.
My laptop is older and has an LED screen that does a max of 800x600. With older versions of Gnome I used to be able to set my virtual screens up vertically and then make my windows taller then the screen. I could then see the top part of the window or the bottom by just moving the mouse off the top or bottom of the screen instead of having to scroll. I would really like to be able to do that it the newest gnome.
Anyone know how to do that?
Don't just tell me to buy a newer laptop. Even through Windows98 runs really slow on it RedHat9 runs just fine. Besides I have a whole lot of other things to spend my money on, like kids and a mortgage, before I can even think about new toys.
Also editing the menus in gnome really sucks (at least in the RedHat version). I am not a programer and shouldn't have to learn xml and edit several files in order to just add a game to the flippin games menu! I don't mind editing a simple text file like icewm has but the menus in gnome look like they were designed by some pointy head who was trying to show off how clever he was instead of trying to make something usable. Either simplfy them or provide editing tools in the disto.
The "insert your cd " business _REALLY_ irks me. I inserted the cd and the reg number when I installed the stupid program. I should not have to do it again to install yet another fricken service patch!
I just tried to install an office service patch on my wifes home pc from work. (thankyou vnc and ssh)
So, I download the service pack and click install... first thing it wants is the reg number off of the cd. Now I will have to wait until tonight when I get home to put this patch in. Why does it need the reg number? This is a legal, legitimate copy of office that I purchased for several hundred dollars before I vowed to never ever give microsoft another penny of my money. I have already put the reg code in several times when I installed word, excel, etc.
I deal with the same thing at work. I have a bunch of user PC's that have officexp installed on them. Guess what, I have to run around the building with the damned office cd whenever I want to install a service patch.
I am tired of being treated like dirt, up yours microsoft!</VENT>
So far I have had two friends come over to my house with thier PC's and tell me "It keeps rebooting."
Both had cable internet. One had no firewall and one had a software firewall. The software firewall had been helpfully turned off by some spyware program. Ad-aware http://www.lavasoft.de found over 200 spyware programs on the pc.)
I wish someone would release an anti code red worm or two. I still see pages and pages of code red attempts in my logs. After, how many months? , any machine that is not code red patched is probably not going to be.
While I am ranting how about an anti Kazza worm and an anti Comet Cursor worm.
I hope no one is working on a worm that changes the passwords in a windows box? That would create a mess.
Question:
I am seeing a lot of imcp type 8 traffic and domain-udp traffic aimed at my firewall today from all over the place. Much more then normal. Is the antiworm doing this or something else.
The Oregon coast has some really pretty cliffs and beaches. These are not warm, sunny, "lay in the sand and watch the girls" type beaches, but are "hike and climb around and take pictures of the rocks" type beaches.
The other day I installed FreeBSD on a P233MMX with 32MB of ram that I pulled out of the junk room. Last time I installed FreeBSD was two or three years ago and I wanted to see how well a recent version runs.
I let the install program auto configure my disks. Other then the fact that it seems to have autoconfigured too little swap space (when I tried to install Gnome I got processes killed with an "out of swap" message) it seems to run pretty well. I just got done compiling NESSUS and Hylafax at the same time and it was still responsive at the console.
Question: Is there a JFS avalable for FreeBSD?
I would really prefer to use a JFS on servers. When people are standing around waiting for you to get the a server back up that fsck can take _forever_.
Is there anyone out there that uses EnGarde in their production environment?
I have been using the community version of Engarde's last release as a 10 user email server for about a year. It has run flawlessly. The only downtime I have had the whole time was for a reboot after a kernel up grade.
Engarde has a very nice HTML front end that will get you started. I found however, that after I had been using the system for a little while I had modified things to the point that I didn't trust the HTML front end not to overwrite something. If you keep the system stock however that is not a problem.
2) On the other hand, using DirectFB does not mean we lose network transparency. The X11 protocol won't disappear.
Lets be honest with ourselves here, Network transparency is nice and all but how often do most people use it? I administer to a bunch of machines all over the place but I use ssh or ssh and tightvnc. It is pretty rare that I open an Xterm across the network.
For my home and laptop machines I would gladly recompile "no_network_trans" if such an option were available and it would speed up my display.
I am not saying that it is not useful but it is not as great as it once was. TightVNC is much faster across both fast and slow networks. (especially if you put a light weight window manager on the far end.)
Slashdot Mirror
Greetings.
Since it is now free I was thinking of installing it in a vmware machine and playing with it some. It never hurts to be familiar with different unixs.
Any tips, pointers, or howtos worth reading?
Thanks
The message map feature looks very interesting to me.
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http://www.research.ibm.com/remail/messagemap.htm
I use Mozilla and imap, mainly because it works on all the different platforms that I use and I can get my email where ever I am.
I like the idea of being able to see a calender looking map of all messages too and from a person or group of people over the last year.
I get a lot of email from different customers, vendors and people back at our main corp. office relating to different IT type projects. I try to file it in folders based on project and customer/vendor but and about once a month it seems that I am franticaly searching for for a re:re:re:re:re from someone that has some little fact that I need.
("I think I got that one in the middle of last month just after we got the new tape drive, let me see if I can find it, was that before or after Thanksgiving, did I file it by vendor?")
I enjoyed the movie for the most part.
There was one thing that really bugged me though. The whole bit about the government deceiding that it was a hoax at the end. If it was coming from something in orbit then there are enough radio telescopes in the world to point that out within the first week. If it was not and someone tried to tell everyone that it was then the same applies. There are plenty of scientists in the world who would say.."Wait! they are wrong! We recalculated and we find that it is indeed coming from X light years away." For that matter if the government did manage to convice everyone that it was a hoax and the country had almost gone broke for nothing there would be mobs in the streets.
I wonder. Has anyone ever tried to do set up a network of back yard dishes? It seems to me that even though each one is small if you had a few hundred spread over several states you might be able to do something usefull with them. Anyone know enough about this to comment? Are they just too small or not sensitive enough? Would it be too tough to aim them? People like this stuff enough to sign up by the hundreds of thousands for seti@home. There are lots of people with thier own telescopes doing real science, looking for asteroids. Are there enough geeks out there with access to a back yard dish to do something like this?
Marginaly on topic...
My wife and I enjoy red wines. We have several friends that think they know a lot about wine. A while ago one of our friends had a party a where we had everyone bring 2 bottles of wine... one expensive , and one cheap but still drinkable. Each person put a paper bag over the bottle so it could not be read and then we taped another bag over the first so know one would be able to recognize thier own.
The result... a $5 bottle of wine from a winery in Washington state took first place. The best that one of the expensive wines did was third. ( and it was not the most expensive one there.)
It made for a fun night.
A company called NeoRX in Seattle has been working on this for many years. What they are trying to do is to attach a grain of radioactive stuff to a custom tailored antibody. They then inject the antibodys. The AB'S find and attach themselves to cancer cells and the radioactive source is sitting right on the cell you want to kill. The advantage of course is that you can have a lower total dose of radiation since it is mostly going to just the spots that you want it to. They have done human trials for a low radio active payload that is not enough to kill the cancer but can show you were it is. They started trials for the higher dose but the trial was canceled when higher then expected levels of radiation were found in the subjects kidneys and bladder. After wasting a couple of years diddling around I believe the FDA has given them permission to try another trial and have the test subjects drink more water. ( I wish I was kidding about both the years and the water.)
I had a similar rule set up on our email server for a couple of weeks. Unfortunatly many of our customers could not seem to get their reverse DNS records set up right. Sometimes they would reverse and sometimes they would not and I would bounce their mail.(COME ON FOLKS ITS NOT FRICKEN ROCKET SCIENCE!) After several user complaints and a couple of frustrating weeks dealing with these InDUHviduals I finally took the rule off. Yes, they are nitwits, but they are also customers and we need to exchage email with them.
Now, excuse me while I go order some generic vicoden on line......... where did I put my credit card?
At work we have a nice networked Canon copier that has a bunch of finishing options including two sided, booklet, staple and graphics quality. Since most tech documents/IBM Redbooks/etc. are downloadable as a PDF I end up printing little booklets of docs that I am going to want to study for a while. This is not quite the same as a bound book but it is a step in that direction.
I agree with one of the earlier posts that it is nice to get away from the computer screen once in a while. I find that I retain material much better if I am sitting down somewhere like next to the fireplace in my living room to read. When I am reading on a computer screen I tend to loose my concentration and flit around from screen to screen instead of really reading the material.
I don't know about this. Have you ever seen the windows desktop of the typical clueless user?
In the past month I have wiped and reinstalled windows for 3 different people and their desktops were full of all kinds of things like free search bars and comet cursor, and bonzo buddies, and wall paper changers, and music downloaders, and free pop-up add blockers, and browser skinners and desktop addons and God knows what else. All of these programs are busy popping up ads and sending reports back on browsing habits and installing backdoors.
All of these programs were installed by the user (or the users kid) who got an email or im from a friend saying.."cool program
The thing that gets me is the two of these computers were owned by mid level executives should know better. Home machines that were connecting into the networks of companies whose name you would recognize. (!)
I would submit to you that your typical windows user still hasn't figured out not to install any old program that sounds neat.
I don't know. That is another one of those "environment" things. If jr. grows up watching responsible hardworking parents he tends to end up that way. If he sees his parents always doing the minimum they can get away with he will tend to do the same.
I suppose one thing that might work would be a mentoring type of setup. That is one thing that my daughters school does do right. Each of the kindergarten and firstgrade kids has a big buddy. The big buddy teaches them the ropes as far as lunch, recess, etc. They also do something academic once a week with their big buddy. When she was in kindergarten my daughter thought the world of her big buddy. He was a fourth grader and helped her with her reading and did craft projects with her. Unfortunatly they stopped at first grade.
Maybe a program where local business people are payed a few bucks to spend a few hours a week with a highschooler while the highschooler is payed to spend a few hours with a jr. high schooler and the jr. high schooler is payed to spend time with an elementary schooler.
I don't know.
I, for one, never learned diddly squat about how to run a business when I was in school. (Typical American public school.) Why is that? I learned all the basics, math, language, etc. I learned how to fill out a resume. I learned how to get a job. These are all useful and important things but I should have been taught how to start a small business.
It was not until I met my wife's family that I even knew anyone who had their own successful small business. The funny thing is that more then half of the people in her extended family have their own small businesses and only three have a collage degree. That is not to say that they are dumb. They are not. I would say that most of them are slightly smarter then average. They learned by watching "Dad" or Uncle "X" or Aunt "Y" build their own business.
Now, the best thing would be if our public schools taught the kids to be small businessmen but I don't see that happening. My daughters grammar school seems to be most interested in making sure that she is passive and quiet, and oh yes, we need to improve our WASSL score.
Luckily my daughter seems to have inherited the small business gene. At seven she is the lemonade stand queen on our street.
How do we teach kids to go out and create their own wealth? The only way that I know of is for them to grow up in an environment where that is the expected way to make it.
One other thing that comes to mind is computer games. My kids love the "Reader Rabbit" games and seem to learn quite a bit from them. Games or learning programs at both a kid and at an adult level might be good.
Unfortunately the average open source computer geek probably doesn't have any experience starting a small business either so I don't know who is going to program these games.
The rocket part keeps going one way and the mass ejected out of the back keeps going the other way. So, if you consider both, the center of mass stays in the same place...(unless acted upon by an outside force such as the gravity of a planet).
Think of it as a seesaw. (those things kids love that are now too dangerous to put on playgrounds because their parents will sue someone).
If you send the same amount of mass out of the back as the mass of the rocket then for things to stay in balance they both will travel the same distance from the starting point in a given time. If you send a much smaller mass out of the back then the smaller mass has to travel much farther away from the starting point in a given time then the rocket part.
Finally since the center of mass of the entire system stays still, the smaller the mass going out of the back the farther away it has to be at any instant to balance how far away the rocket part is.
What if Slashdot and/or Google hosts the list? I doubt that anyone has the bandwidth to DOS them.
If the lists are PGP or GPG signed and the import routine refuses to import a mis-signed list the list maintainers could upload the list from any IP.
For that matter if Slashdot posted a real time listing of IP's that were trying to DOS them I get the feeling that interested third parties would make sure that the computers at those IP's were "fixed" in short order.
Another choice for keeping your redhat system up to date is RH-ERATTA. It can be found on sourceforge. It is basicly a script that compares the errata dir on an ftp site with a local copy and downloads anything you don't have. You can use switches to have it email you the results, compare what is installed vs. what is available, download errata for just the version you are using, download for other versions or multiple versions, download errata only if the package is installed, etc. You then install the RPM's by hand but that is not hard. I have it set up to run in the middle of the night a couple of times a week and email me if anything new was downloaded. If something big comes out like the latest openssh problems I just run it by hand. One more thing. Be sure that you edit the script to change the redhat mirror it is pointed to. Otherwise your updates can be problematic as the default mirror is sometimes swamped. (I tried several and found one that is almost always fast, and no I am not going to tell you which mirror I use.)
I use gnome on both my desktop and my laptop. Most of the time I like it. It looks really good to my eye and is fairly fast.
My laptop is older and has an LED screen that does a max of 800x600. With older versions of Gnome I used to be able to set my virtual screens up vertically and then make my windows taller then the screen. I could then see the top part of the window or the bottom by just moving the mouse off the top or bottom of the screen instead of having to scroll. I would really like to be able to do that it the newest gnome.
Anyone know how to do that?
Don't just tell me to buy a newer laptop. Even through Windows98 runs really slow on it RedHat9 runs just fine. Besides I have a whole lot of other things to spend my money on, like kids and a mortgage, before I can even think about new toys.
Also editing the menus in gnome really sucks (at least in the RedHat version). I am not a programer and shouldn't have to learn xml and edit several files in order to just add a game to the flippin games menu! I don't mind editing a simple text file like icewm has but the menus in gnome look like they were designed by some pointy head who was trying to show off how clever he was instead of trying to make something usable. Either simplfy them or provide editing tools in the disto.
The "insert your cd " business _REALLY_ irks me. I inserted the cd and the reg number when I installed the stupid program. I should not have to do it again to install yet another fricken service patch!
I just tried to install an office service patch on my wifes home pc from work. (thankyou vnc and ssh)
So, I download the service pack and click install... first thing it wants is the reg number off of the cd. Now I will have to wait until tonight when I get home to put this patch in. Why does it need the reg number? This is a legal, legitimate copy of office that I purchased for several hundred dollars before I vowed to never ever give microsoft another penny of my money. I have already put the reg code in several times when I installed word, excel, etc.
I deal with the same thing at work. I have a bunch of user PC's that have officexp installed on them. Guess what, I have to run around the building with the damned office cd whenever I want to install a service patch.
I am tired of being treated like dirt, up yours microsoft!</VENT>
So far I have had two friends come over to my house with thier PC's and tell me "It keeps rebooting."
Both had cable internet. One had no firewall and one had a software firewall. The software firewall had been helpfully turned off by some spyware program. Ad-aware http://www.lavasoft.de found over 200 spyware programs on the pc.)
I wish someone would release an anti code red worm or two. I still see pages and pages of code red attempts in my logs. After, how many months? , any machine that is not code red patched is probably not going to be.
While I am ranting how about an anti Kazza worm and an anti Comet Cursor worm.
I hope no one is working on a worm that changes the passwords in a windows box? That would create a mess.
Question:
I am seeing a lot of imcp type 8 traffic and domain-udp traffic aimed at my firewall today from all over the place. Much more then normal. Is the antiworm doing this or something else.
My son (4 years old) has a small remote controlled car that he just loves driving around the house on our hardwood floors..... Hum... I wonder ....
I was already patched but just for the fun of it I opened up ie and went to the windows update site to see if there was anything new.
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
It took about a minute for the page to appear.
The Oregon coast has some really pretty cliffs and beaches. These are not warm, sunny, "lay in the sand and watch the girls" type beaches, but are "hike and climb around and take pictures of the rocks" type beaches.
Ack!!!!!!!!!! Stop it!!! You got me with the goat picture again!
(excuse me while I go loose my breakfast)
I get this one at least once every two months. I haven't figured out if he is a nut or he is looking for exploitable nuts.
The other day I installed FreeBSD on a P233MMX with 32MB of ram that I pulled out of the junk room. Last time I installed FreeBSD was two or three years ago and I wanted to see how well a recent version runs.
I let the install program auto configure my disks. Other then the fact that it seems to have autoconfigured too little swap space (when I tried to install Gnome I got processes killed with an "out of swap" message) it seems to run pretty well. I just got done compiling NESSUS and Hylafax at the same time and it was still responsive at the console.
Question: Is there a JFS avalable for FreeBSD?
I would really prefer to use a JFS on servers. When people are standing around waiting for you to get the a server back up that fsck can take _forever_.
I have been using the community version of Engarde's last release as a 10 user email server for about a year. It has run flawlessly. The only downtime I have had the whole time was for a reboot after a kernel up grade.
Engarde has a very nice HTML front end that will get you started. I found however, that after I had been using the system for a little while I had modified things to the point that I didn't trust the HTML front end not to overwrite something. If you keep the system stock however that is not a problem.
Lets be honest with ourselves here, Network transparency is nice and all but how often do most people use it? I administer to a bunch of machines all over the place but I use ssh or ssh and tightvnc. It is pretty rare that I open an Xterm across the network.
For my home and laptop machines I would gladly recompile "no_network_trans" if such an option were available and it would speed up my display.
I am not saying that it is not useful but it is not as great as it once was. TightVNC is much faster across both fast and slow networks. (especially if you put a light weight window manager on the far end.)