I just want to be able to try to sell a different solution to a client.
I don't care if they decline on the merits.
I just want the ability to offer a solution that is low on software licensing and maintenance costs, but, slightly higher on up-front installation costs.
Of course, I'll make less money because I won't have to show up constantly for service packs, but.....
Perhaps, I'll spend the extra time "innovating" new and useful {fun?} applications.
Well done, NYC. I searched through CNN, the Offspring site, and napster (had never been before) to find out what's really going on here.
Frankly, I'm a little disturbed Napster didn't approach the Offspring initially before bringing in the sharks, but, perhaps their current legal awareness level is higher than normal. Just seems a little odd that a 30 employee firm under massive legal assault wouldn't deal with Offspring before a cease and desist was issued that ultimately went public.
'Course, perhaps there's something else going on in there. Even bad publicity is good. >:)
Actually, Linux beats anything, anyway, but, that's a given.
I'm running an Athlon 600 (for about 6 mos.) with a WDC 5400 rpm drive (which I sacrificed for NT/98 {never used}), and, an IBM 7200 rpm used as master primary for all Linux.
Slackware 7.0, out of the box, in 7 minutes, including X-Windows, KDE, etc.
Builds a kernel in 2 minutes. >:)
SB AWE 64, which cranks some nice 16-bit sound (don't bother w/ 8-bit). Nice looking Voodoo 3000, and a 10/100 Kingston.
Pumps out setiathome work units in 7 1/2 hours. I believe that's better than a decent SGI. Not quite a compaq tru-64 Alpha, but, at $500 for the CPU/mobo, tough to beat.
NT can't even install on this beast unless I compile the kernel with NTFS rw and nurse that moron through the process through interesting Linux expert fdisk options.
So, if anyone can't load a default Slack 7.0 on an Athlon........ no words.......
Researching the issue, one finds a model wherein Micro$oft wishes to take Kerberos, embed in it proprietary extensions, and, via the Web (BTW, another Open Source invention) offer for download the "secret" specifications they've used to extend the technology. "Help us make this open technology closed......"
To the arguments that this is a trade secret, and, covered by such laws, I would suggest a careful consideration of how a corporation can take open technology, extend it with a proprietary implementation, and, thus own it.
To those who argue that trade secrets disseminated on the Internet can remain trade secrets, I offer: give me an example.
I would expect any secrets you wish to keep to yourself won't be found out here. >:)
Having written songs since 1977, and spent countless years and dollars trying to get them demo-ed by the RIA and it's various auspices, I embrace the established, published "artists?" rebellion to this technology.
Clearly, it's not about the music. Any songwriter worth his/her creative angst would kill to be that 1 in 1000 who finally gets published, let alone produced.
I hope every established artist out there in fear for what might come up through the ranks unobstructed by the Record Industry Machine sues their fans. Perhaps then, we'll actually get uncensored creations untainted by the promoters who eventually reap the lion's share of the proceeds.
And, yes, there will emanate a tremendous amount of shitty music. But, won't it be nice to be able to decide for ourselves?
Personally, I love it when people tell me they burn copies of my CDs to give their friends. Perhaps, if I were a millionaire from producing music my thoughts on this would change. Nah; I'd just have more time to write more music, which is way more fun than bickering about $$$.
Actually, I have a dual 400 on ABIT that has never locked up. The only problems I've ever had with it were related to trying to use it as a router for a while using diald. Killed it big time.
It's at Scottsdale. Incidentally, the reason why is the hostname is that's the replacement for the routing stuff. It's a lil ole P200 forwarding stuff back to where it needs to get.
The uptime would have been better, but for a 4 hour power outtage thanks to the power company. No real reason to plop massive UPS's in here since it's a backup site for the Real McCoy. The little BackUPS 500's are sufficient to keep uptime in the 6 - 9 month range.
My point: The Dual Celery has never locked up under normal circumstances.
I've heard there are several out there working on it. Now, that this has in the media, I'll at least pose the first of several extensions to this, you can expect to see within a year: digital voice identification and, of course, the corrolary; speech to text.
All of the pieces have been in the public domain for ages. It's only natural that an easily customisable OS would allow creative sorts to assemble the pieces correctly.
Much, much more to come. Not evn vaporware. Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
Actually, I've noted two different breeds of coders:
Jolt Coders
Beer Coders
And, while I've dabbled some in beer coding, it has, at times, produced some interesting results. But, sometimes these can be refreshing and re-educating, such as boning up on Linux installation techniques. Since I already have 15 machines running Linux in various parts of the world, it's becoming a little pointless to build any more. Unless of course, it's to make a little more progress on my Alien Searching. Actually, I may need to do this soon, since I'm almost losing ground at this point. Almost......
So, returning from my tangent, a good beer-hacking session sometimes gives you an opportunity to go through the process of re-installing Linux. Plus, you never know when someone's going to have a system get DDoS-ed while you're out singing karaoke, and, maybe a little toasted, and, you'll have to do some drunk typing in a production environment. I would encourage people to do their beer-coding in a test environment, however.
Also, remember that brain cells are darwinist in their operation, and, the weak brain cells are the first to die. Since we only exploit 15% of our brain cells at any given time, I would think killing off the weaklings with a Coors Light, or a Sam Adams would be a fairly intelligent thing to do. So, cheers, everybody! Drink up and./configure && make && make install and see what comes out of it.
As for Jolt Coders, they can be pretty manic, at times, but, they do have their place. I mean, who's gonna do the debugging for the Beer Coders?
This could be a proxy issue, but, it is a cumbersome system, I will admit. I recently moved my main domain server, reconfigured my DNS on several, installed new backup, and, had to post at least 15 DNS Agreement changes to Internic before it finally fell into place.
3 weeks later, things are finally falling into place, but, it is clearly an untransparent process, and, DNS errors can be tragic.
For more details on this process, I'll be glad to lend my experiences.
Regards, Van ================================================ ========================= Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com ================================================ =========================
First and foremost, I wouldn't be a linux-er to begin with if the CD-Writing format I originally chose to deploy my personal creations had proven to be seemless on a MicroSoft platform.
The process was:
Use Cakewalk to put the musical pieces together {reboot a bunch of times due to timing anomalies}
Once finished {8 to 16+ hours later}
Fire up the 4-track yamaha recorder {8 to 16+ hours later}
Song is done, you've laid the guitar, piano, vocals, bounced tracks, onto tape; now plug the tape out to the sound recorder in of your soundcard, and, fire up Corel CDWriter on NT to burn the song
BSOD
I wrote so many more songs more difficultly, but, more successfully using Dr T.'s Sequencing software for Commodore 128 and Cakewalk 2.0 on Win 3.1.
End of story. That fatal event 3 years ago marked the end of an era. Every time I'd sit down on Win95 to do the MIDI my MPU-401 would change it's mind and become a joystick for 2 hours, and, by the time I got it all sorted out, the musique had died. Maybe tomorrow night.
Now, I burn MP3's of my own copyrighted content. Music I write that is critically important to my soul to write. This is the me I've always wanted to produce. This is where I sing! literally.
Now, I'm not allowed to distribute MP3's?
Wake up RIAA, if I couldn't distribute my musical ideas via this medium, I'd have no outlet. Just some mad songwriter without a place to distribute; like we had before the Internet, unless someone randomly selected us from a sea of others.
Some people like my stuff; some people don't. But, for now, I can, at least offer it. I hope this doesn't disappear as an option.
Van ================================================ ========================= Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com ================================================ =========================
Alan, I noticed there are no drivers for the ATA/66 or UDMA66 drivers yet. I'd love to see my Dual 400 MHz Celerons be able to exploit this. I tried to patch the 2.2.11 kernel with a 3rd party driver for a Western Digital, but, to no avail. Now, at 2.2.12, still no UDMA66.
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I just want to be able to try to sell a different solution to a client.
I don't care if they decline on the merits.
I just want the ability to offer a solution that is low on software licensing and maintenance costs, but, slightly higher on up-front installation costs.
Of course, I'll make less money because I won't have to show up constantly for service packs, but.....
Perhaps, I'll spend the extra time "innovating" new and useful {fun?} applications.
This might be good.........
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
Well done, NYC. I searched through CNN, the Offspring site, and napster (had never been before) to find out what's really going on here.
Frankly, I'm a little disturbed Napster didn't approach the Offspring initially before bringing in the sharks, but, perhaps their current legal awareness level is higher than normal. Just seems a little odd that a 30 employee firm under massive legal assault wouldn't deal with Offspring before a cease and desist was issued that ultimately went public.
'Course, perhaps there's something else going on in there. Even bad publicity is good. >:)
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
Actually, Linux beats anything, anyway, but, that's a given.
I'm running an Athlon 600 (for about 6 mos.) with a WDC 5400 rpm drive (which I sacrificed for NT/98 {never used}), and, an IBM 7200 rpm used as master primary for all Linux.
Slackware 7.0, out of the box, in 7 minutes, including X-Windows, KDE, etc.
Builds a kernel in 2 minutes. >:)
SB AWE 64, which cranks some nice 16-bit sound (don't bother w/ 8-bit). Nice looking Voodoo 3000, and a 10/100 Kingston.
Pumps out setiathome work units in 7 1/2 hours. I believe that's better than a decent SGI. Not quite a compaq tru-64 Alpha, but, at $500 for the CPU/mobo, tough to beat.
NT can't even install on this beast unless I compile the kernel with NTFS rw and nurse that moron through the process through interesting Linux expert fdisk options.
So, if anyone can't load a default Slack 7.0 on an Athlon........ no words.......
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
Yes, I agree with AC. Will Volkerding put S-390 support in the Slackware Dist?
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
Here you go from zdnet. Not entirely at odds with the free speech argument that seems to be prevailing in the /. responses.
Anyone else notice the prevalence of dissenters in the "free speech" argument that post AC?
At, least SlashDot allows them to. *sigh*
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
As in Kerberos....
M$ extensions for Kerberos: embrace, extend, etc. Please note the Halloween Documents.....
Researching the issue, one finds a model wherein Micro$oft wishes to take Kerberos, embed in it proprietary extensions, and, via the Web (BTW, another Open Source invention) offer for download the "secret" specifications they've used to extend the technology. "Help us make this open technology closed......"
To the arguments that this is a trade secret, and, covered by such laws, I would suggest a careful consideration of how a corporation can take open technology, extend it with a proprietary implementation, and, thus own it.
To those who argue that trade secrets disseminated on the Internet can remain trade secrets, I offer: give me an example.
I would expect any secrets you wish to keep to yourself won't be found out here. >:)
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
So, what you're saying is we wouldn't have received any packages?
>:)
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
Having written songs since 1977, and spent countless years and dollars trying to get them demo-ed by the RIA and it's various auspices, I embrace the established, published "artists?" rebellion to this technology.
Clearly, it's not about the music. Any songwriter worth his/her creative angst would kill to be that 1 in 1000 who finally gets published, let alone produced.
I hope every established artist out there in fear for what might come up through the ranks unobstructed by the Record Industry Machine sues their fans. Perhaps then, we'll actually get uncensored creations untainted by the promoters who eventually reap the lion's share of the proceeds.
And, yes, there will emanate a tremendous amount of shitty music. But, won't it be nice to be able to decide for ourselves?
Personally, I love it when people tell me they burn copies of my CDs to give their friends. Perhaps, if I were a millionaire from producing music my thoughts on this would change. Nah; I'd just have more time to write more music, which is way more fun than bickering about $$$.
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
Actually, I just made /etc/issue, "Welcome to Windows3.1 on PC-DOS..."
/etc/motd, it says "type Win to start your Windows session"
And, in
>:)
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
Too bad this was posted by an AC, but, rotflmdo!!!
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
Actually, I have a dual 400 on ABIT that has never locked up. The only problems I've ever had with it were related to trying to use it as a router for a while using diald. Killed it big time.
It's at Scottsdale. Incidentally, the reason why is the hostname is that's the replacement for the routing stuff. It's a lil ole P200 forwarding stuff back to where it needs to get.
The uptime would have been better, but for a 4 hour power outtage thanks to the power company. No real reason to plop massive UPS's in here since it's a backup site for the Real McCoy. The little BackUPS 500's are sufficient to keep uptime in the 6 - 9 month range.
My point: The Dual Celery has never locked up under normal circumstances.
Just shedding some light............
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
I've been running this stuff for about a year, and, have yet been unable to compromise these servers, or find someone else who has been able to.
Anyone else have a different story?
Would be nice to have some definitive assurance.
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
Thanx tsunake. I forgot the <...target=new> gets mucked up on posts.
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
I've heard there are several out there working on it. Now, that this has in the media, I'll at least pose the first of several extensions to this, you can expect to see within a year: digital voice identification and, of course, the corrolary; speech to text.
All of the pieces have been in the public domain for ages. It's only natural that an easily customisable OS would allow creative sorts to assemble the pieces correctly.
Much, much more to come. Not evn vaporware.
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
And, while I've dabbled some in beer coding, it has, at times, produced some interesting results. But, sometimes these can be refreshing and re-educating, such as boning up on Linux installation techniques. Since I already have 15 machines running Linux in various parts of the world, it's becoming a little pointless to build any more. Unless of course, it's to make a little more progress on my Alien Searching. Actually, I may need to do this soon, since I'm almost losing ground at this point. Almost......
So, returning from my tangent, a good beer-hacking session sometimes gives you an opportunity to go through the process of re-installing Linux. Plus, you never know when someone's going to have a system get DDoS-ed while you're out singing karaoke, and, maybe a little toasted, and, you'll have to do some drunk typing in a production environment. I would encourage people to do their beer-coding in a test environment, however.
Also, remember that brain cells are darwinist in their operation, and, the weak brain cells are the first to die. Since we only exploit 15% of our brain cells at any given time, I would think killing off the weaklings with a Coors Light, or a Sam Adams would be a fairly intelligent thing to do. So, cheers, everybody! Drink up and
As for Jolt Coders, they can be pretty manic, at times, but, they do have their place. I mean, who's gonna do the debugging for the Beer Coders?
>:)
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
I've found the Apache/PHP3/FrontPage Extensions for UNIX to be effective on the server.
The client can use FrontPage, or Visual InterDev.
Van
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
Hunnr,
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Have you been to The Internet Software Consortium?
This could be a proxy issue, but, it is a cumbersome system, I will admit. I recently moved my main domain server, reconfigured my DNS on several, installed new backup, and, had to post at least 15 DNS Agreement changes to Internic before it finally fell into place.
3 weeks later, things are finally falling into place, but, it is clearly an untransparent process, and, DNS errors can be tragic.
For more details on this process, I'll be glad to lend my experiences.
Regards,
Van
===============================================
Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
===============================================
The process was:
I wrote so many more songs more difficultly, but, more successfully using Dr T.'s Sequencing software for Commodore 128 and Cakewalk 2.0 on Win 3.1.
End of story. That fatal event 3 years ago marked the end of an era. Every time I'd sit down on Win95 to do the MIDI my MPU-401 would change it's mind and become a joystick for 2 hours, and, by the time I got it all sorted out, the musique had died. Maybe tomorrow night.
Now, I burn MP3's of my own copyrighted content. Music I write that is critically important to my soul to write. This is the me I've always wanted to produce. This is where I sing! literally.
Now, I'm not allowed to distribute MP3's?
Wake up RIAA, if I couldn't distribute my musical ideas via this medium, I'd have no outlet. Just some mad songwriter without a place to distribute; like we had before the Internet, unless someone randomly selected us from a sea of others.
Some people like my stuff; some people don't. But, for now, I can, at least offer it. I hope this doesn't disappear as an option.
Van
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Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com
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Here's my link to www.noamazon.com.
Keeping all 10 Linux Servers up, connected, and serving today, and always.
On a funny little side-note, our NT administrator is re-installing a hard-drive in the NT 4 server sitting next to the Red Hat box. >:)
Ford Festiva, here. Unfortunately, no more made, so you'll all just have to wait until I die and mine goes back on the market. >:)
As a visible figure in Open Source, I find it mildly disturbing to see such a value-less pot-shot at M$ just for it's sake by Nicholas Petreley.
Let's stick to business folks. The IT directors are paying attention, and, this type of banter doesn't sell departments.
Van
Alan,
I noticed there are no drivers for the ATA/66 or UDMA66 drivers yet. I'd love to see my Dual 400 MHz Celerons be able to exploit this. I tried to patch the 2.2.11 kernel with a 3rd party driver for a Western Digital, but, to no avail. Now, at 2.2.12, still no UDMA66.
Rumour has it, October? Thoughts?
Regards,
Van