Definately give elogd a spin. Customized inputs. security, self-contained web server, xml exports, simple configuration, very quick, searching, yada yada.
I used it for a few years for ticket tracking when I had a smaller number of customers. Worked like a charm. See it here: http://midas.psi.ch/elog/index.html.
Oh no! This is going to cost me money - serious money!
Black Tuesday is my bread and butter, especially when MS releases a boatload. Patch, reboot, check the logs, svcs, etc. Restart IIS, occaisonally Exchange. Manually start BUE. Wrap it up and go on to the next server.
If MS didn't exist I'd have to invent them as my own personal revenue stabilisation scheme. That's why I never, ever, EVER tell my clients about Linux, or BSD, or OSX... [grin]
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I think Open Source has a lot of potential, but until its advocates remove their blinkers, industry will continue to dismiss it as a group of eccentrics on a religious crusade. It is only when open source projects take a mature and pragmatic approach that the projects become relatively successful.
Hmm. Can't wait until Apache becomes mature and pragmatic. Or Debian, and Slackware too. And all those immature projects on Sourceforge. When that happens well, by golly, you'll probably see these eccentric oddities at Lawrence Livermore Labs or running on Cray hardware.
If they were really mature and pragmatic, they just might make it into government use, or even become more commonplace.
We can only patiently wait for that wonderful maturity and pragmatism to blossom. Until then we should be thankful that we are skillfully guided by the benign monopolists. They only have our best interests at heart.
I like to think our superior recreational drugs (with the sadly missed exception of peyote) and excellent beer are the drawing cards for aliens throughout the 'verse.
Sadly missed indeed. I used to love Peyote, and Thai Sticks, (real) Honey Oil, and that wet Jamaican ghanja that smelled like old socks.
Sigh...
Time to throw on some old Floyd, maybe Meddle. Or some old Hawkwind...
Not an insightful title, but it accurately describes ny current feelings as an original Rogers (Wave) Internet subscriber.
I'm an IT pro, and use the Slackware, Hylafax and a handful of other newgroups daily. For many niche topics this may be the only viable source of current information. This service cut is a pain for me, but I'll just have to pay a 3rd party for the service and pass the cost along to customers.
More importantly though, this action removes the default abilitiy of hundreds of thousands of subscribers to POST to the groups. It's those questions and comments that keep the groups alive. For example, if I've got a stupid Windows EventID I can't track down, I'll turn to the groups for clues. Or if I'm spec'ing out new hardware I'll check out relevant newsgroups for anecdotes. C'mon, everyone seems to be deriding the groups, but after your web search turns up squat don't you click on the Google Groups link to see what's there? Aren't you often helped tremendously? (I'll often post a follow-up answer to my own question just so I can find it in the future if need be.)
Google Groups, et al, are a great interface for mining pre-existing data in the groups, but if nobody is posting new content then they'll just become a window into a static history. And that would be a shame - even for the Rogers' help desk flunkie who wondered what my "Usernet" complaint was about - beacuse we all need _unfiltered_ access to information.
I've called the "Office of the President" of Rogers Communications to voice my complaint. I urge other subscribers to do so - frequently! If Sony can get their ass handed to them, then just maybe we can prompt Rogers to reconsider.
I'd tried Linux for the desktop so many times but it always was a very frustrating experience. OSX has some related problems. The fact is that SAMBA browsing of Windows networks isn't anywhere near as easy as using a Windows box.
Hmmm, typing "smb:/" in Konqueror is pretty tough, isn't it?:)
Ok, snide remark aside, I'm a diehard Linux and Mac lover. Slackware since '96, and Mac since System 6. Have been running Slack current on my primary workstation for years. But even I'm getting frustrated with the desktop bugs (I use KDE primarily), and the jumping-through-hoops required to get basic configs done, or installed software upgraded.
SATA support was one nightmarish experience with Slack10 on both a standard ASUS m/b and an IBM xSeries. Sound support is an ongoing PITA. Installing new monitors or dual-heading on X is always extra needless fun. Kmail crashes or errors out each and every day. KPilot is another story altogether. Firefox is great but how just many times do I have to re-install Flash support?
So, while I love Slackware to death, the Mac Mini is ordered and arriving in a week or two. I have no doubt that it'll become my primary box very quicky. I just want some shit that works. Period. So I can get on with making a living supporting Windows (thank gawd for Windows!), and stealth installing Linux/BSD servers whenever and wherever I can.
I found that Real Software seems more concerned with license enforcement and revenue generation than bug fixes and 'non-paid' improvements.
I bought a basic version for some OS9 development I was doing a few years back. It really was a good tool on that platform. Unfortunately it suffered from the old Mac disease where almost nothing - not the tiniest little utility of note - is free. RB followed that route too, and for major bugfixes you had to buy the next major version (although in fairness they did support your version number for some time, just seemed nothing major got fixed in it...)
From my past experience with them, I would really be concerned about this line "list price is $499.95. All REALbasic 2005 for Linux licenses include six months of updates." So you shell out 500 USD and you get no updates after 6 lousy months?!? Boy, there's a deal...
Thanks, I'll pass.
Remember, it's never too late to have a happy childhood!
I think there are many civilian situations where this can be applied: Search and Rescue, firefighting , both urban (tall buildings) and wilderness (forest fires -- and no, not as a water carrier), remote inspection (dams, hydro towers), enviromental monitoring (forestry).
This technology is not 'violent' per se, any more than the Internet is 'violence-based' just because the military had a (big) hand in building it.
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This reads like a pure piece of Microsoft fluff. Raise the spectre of 1 billion in fraud committed against 25%(!) of the UK population. Well, not really a full 25%, but they might know someone, who knew someone else, who heard about a guy once who....
We can probably assume that Microsoft's previous "Safe ID" a.k.a. Passport can account for a portion of the high-tech (i.e. non-"other means") ripoffs. 200 million potential vulnerabilites and it's "popularity suffered". A masterful understatement.
If they have proven themselves completely inept at securing at storing 200 million passwords on one password server system, why would anyone think they could possibly secure one password on 200 million password server systems?
I suspect they're just drumming up new lock-ins for Longhorn. FTA: "would not confirm however whether the new info cards ID system will be built into the current Windows XP version or Longhorn". If i were a betting man...
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You've quoted me out of context. I never said you plundered. The OP said the US would take Canada's water resourcces if and when they needed it. I was simply asking him if that's really what what he thought.
As for my colourful adjectives, well, I think our entire population simultaneously said "What, they bombed our fucking soldiers?" when they heard the news.
C'est la vie.
That's what Canadians instinctively think when they hear comments such as yours. "Banana Republic, Guam, Puerto Rico". Oh, how we drool at the thought of being associated with these stellar examples of democratization, liberty and equality that the U.S. has produced.
You walk your walk and talk your talk now while you have a bit of bounce in your step. Do you really think Canada - or the world - exists purely to satisfy the needs of the U.S? Do you think you'll just invade countries and plunder what you what? Are you really that arrogant? Do you think a pendulum only swings one way? Or are you just assuming an American {New World Order | Manifest Desitiny | Reich} lasting a thousand years?
You belittle Canada's not insignificant contributions to operations in Afghanistan. (You even bombed our fucking soldiers!) You glibly predict the separation and 'assimilation' of one of the worlds leading democracies. You're just gonna 'take' our water whenever you decide you need it.
"Fucking Yanks".
No surprise at that sentiment. Man, I grew up adoring your country. Now I think that you're just pissing it away - and even worse - no one seems to give a shit. Keep it up with the hubris. I'm sure it will go a long way in appeasing the world that 'Aw, shucks. We're a peaceful, God-fearing country. We just needed a lttle [insert commodity here] is all'.
Even more worrisome, in giving PayPal - or anyone - the ability to conduct transfers on your account (pre-authorized payments for example) you are assigning them de-facto Power of Attorney on that account (in Canada anyway) with unrestrained ability to withdraw any amount at any time. The threat of fraud prevents prevents reputable companies from playing fast and loose with this power. However, nothing preventing a company in a cash crunch to dip in 'by accident' and repay it later.
I think this access one of the primary -- and un-declared -- reasons PayPal is so aggressive in asking/coercing members to become 'verified'. All it takes is that little 10 cent deposit and your acknowledgment of same to set it up.
Your bank doesn't give a crap - it's not their money, and you authorized it anyway.
Play it safe. Use a separate bank account for PayPal transactions only, and don't let funds accrue there.
Here's a disturbing example. Rogers Cable - Canada's largest cable ISP - recently outsourced all their customer-related provisioning to Yahoo; mail, web hosting, etc. By virtue of Yahoo being a US corporation, that means all Rogers Cable's customer's email automatically comes under the purview of the Patriot Act.
I have asked for clarification of this situation from Rogers but have not received a reply. As a Canadian I find it odious that my personal communications can be inspected by a foreign government without cause or warrant, and with no recourse to the law.
Both countries officially espouse 'due process of law'. For those of us looking in from the outside, it sometimes seems the US is working hard to change this to 'due process of erosion of privacy rights' (with a big side order of 'due process of corporate-profit enforcement' but that's another story).
If the tables were turned, and the Canadian government was trolling through American's e-mail accounts, the hue and cry from the south would be deafening. Right now, the only thing deafening is the silence as the American people allow their own government to trample the rights and freedoms that were bought and paid for in one Revolution, 2 World Wars, and countless other military and civil actions.
Don't get me wrong - I am not an Anti-American, as your media would have you believe all Canadians are. Hell, we all grew up watching the same TV shows and news programs, reading the same magazines, driving the same cars and eating at the same restaurants. We all swallowed the same propaganda.
That's why it's especially chilling to watch our neighbours sheepishly acquiesce to - or worse, actively endorse - these 'terror-busting' measures.
If American themselves can't identify and stop the erosion or elimination of their own rights, what hope does that leave for the rest of us?
Seriously - don't get too hung up on the package management. I mean you're a friggin' Linux sysadmin - learn how it works. It's tough - you have to type 'upgradepkg'.
I dropped Red-Hat after 5.2. Debian apt-get once completely pooched a 64 node computational chemistry cluster I was minding after an NFS upgrade -- the mirror cluster using Slack 8 with 22.18 (IIRC) upgraded and didn't miss a beat. I've had Suse 8 Pro overwrtie it's kernel and pooch a production hylafax server.
But I've never - I mean never - had Slack pooch a system on me. SCSI raids, sata's, MPI/PVM, streaming vid/aud, samba, nfs, veritas, hylafax, and asterisk all thrown at it without missing a beat.
Do yourself a big favour - get Slack 10 and give it a try. You won't want to go back to another cluttered distro that makes all sorts of incorrect assumptions about YOUR intent. You are the sysadmin - remember that, and fuck all those who forget it.
If nothing else, it prompted me to start humming the Crosby version of Silver Bells. Then I deleted the mp3's - sort of a quasi vampire twist on Christmas songs in those. But now I can't get the freakin' Silver Bells song out of my head. Arrghhh. I'm off to find the mp3 and drive my old lady - and probably the mutt too - nuts.
OK, so Novell bought Ximian and SuSE. Both of which I have avoided in the past due to what I felt was an overly aggressive attempt to reach into my pocket. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but after using Linux and other FOSS since "Linux Unleashed" was published in '95 I did find it slightly distasteful.
These two acquisitions indicated to me that Novell might become a progressive Linux vendor and supporter of open source software. Of course I realized that these buyouts aren't altruistic in nature - Novell certainly wants to use the two products to drive their Identity Management tools, and to use them as wedges to gain further entree into the enterprise Linux domain. That's all fine and dandy - I've heard this vendor lock-in siren song many times before and haven't got up to dance (nor have most of my clients).
However, I was optimistic when Novell said it would open source YAST, and then the Ximian Exchange Connector. Maybe they get (some of it) after all. Time will tell. A previous poster insightfully characterized Novell's historical business strategy as schizophrenic. In the long run this might be just an episodic dalliance.
In any case Novell can do us all one monumental service and pursue the contested copyrights issue to a definitive and successful outcome of an completely unencumbered kernel. That alone would probably drive more new business for them than they could imagine, and would garner the gratitude of millions of Linux users.
They might even convert some cynical old Slackware users.
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Definately give elogd a spin. Customized inputs. security, self-contained web server, xml exports, simple configuration, very quick, searching, yada yada. I used it for a few years for ticket tracking when I had a smaller number of customers. Worked like a charm. See it here: http://midas.psi.ch/elog/index.html.
Black Tuesday is my bread and butter, especially when MS releases a boatload. Patch, reboot, check the logs, svcs, etc. Restart IIS, occaisonally Exchange. Manually start BUE. Wrap it up and go on to the next server.
If MS didn't exist I'd have to invent them as my own personal revenue stabilisation scheme. That's why I never, ever, EVER tell my clients about Linux, or BSD, or OSX... [grin]
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Remember, it's never too late to have a happy childhood!
Hmm. Can't wait until Apache becomes mature and pragmatic. Or Debian, and Slackware too. And all those immature projects on Sourceforge. When that happens well, by golly, you'll probably see these eccentric oddities at Lawrence Livermore Labs or running on Cray hardware.
If they were really mature and pragmatic, they just might make it into government use, or even become more commonplace.
We can only patiently wait for that wonderful maturity and pragmatism to blossom. Until then we should be thankful that we are skillfully guided by the benign monopolists. They only have our best interests at heart.
Sadly missed indeed. I used to love Peyote, and Thai Sticks, (real) Honey Oil, and that wet Jamaican ghanja that smelled like old socks.
Sigh...
Time to throw on some old Floyd, maybe Meddle. Or some old Hawkwind...
Look at.. all the colours... far out....
I'm an IT pro, and use the Slackware, Hylafax and a handful of other newgroups daily. For many niche topics this may be the only viable source of current information. This service cut is a pain for me, but I'll just have to pay a 3rd party for the service and pass the cost along to customers.
More importantly though, this action removes the default abilitiy of hundreds of thousands of subscribers to POST to the groups. It's those questions and comments that keep the groups alive. For example, if I've got a stupid Windows EventID I can't track down, I'll turn to the groups for clues. Or if I'm spec'ing out new hardware I'll check out relevant newsgroups for anecdotes. C'mon, everyone seems to be deriding the groups, but after your web search turns up squat don't you click on the Google Groups link to see what's there? Aren't you often helped tremendously? (I'll often post a follow-up answer to my own question just so I can find it in the future if need be.)
Google Groups, et al, are a great interface for mining pre-existing data in the groups, but if nobody is posting new content then they'll just become a window into a static history. And that would be a shame - even for the Rogers' help desk flunkie who wondered what my "Usernet" complaint was about - beacuse we all need _unfiltered_ access to information.
I've called the "Office of the President" of Rogers Communications to voice my complaint. I urge other subscribers to do so - frequently! If Sony can get their ass handed to them, then just maybe we can prompt Rogers to reconsider.
Hmmm, typing "smb:/" in Konqueror is pretty tough, isn't it? :)
Ok, snide remark aside, I'm a diehard Linux and Mac lover. Slackware since '96, and Mac since System 6. Have been running Slack current on my primary workstation for years. But even I'm getting frustrated with the desktop bugs (I use KDE primarily), and the jumping-through-hoops required to get basic configs done, or installed software upgraded.
SATA support was one nightmarish experience with Slack10 on both a standard ASUS m/b and an IBM xSeries. Sound support is an ongoing PITA. Installing new monitors or dual-heading on X is always extra needless fun. Kmail crashes or errors out each and every day. KPilot is another story altogether. Firefox is great but how just many times do I have to re-install Flash support?
So, while I love Slackware to death, the Mac Mini is ordered and arriving in a week or two. I have no doubt that it'll become my primary box very quicky. I just want some shit that works. Period. So I can get on with making a living supporting Windows (thank gawd for Windows!), and stealth installing Linux/BSD servers whenever and wherever I can.
I bought a basic version for some OS9 development I was doing a few years back. It really was a good tool on that platform. Unfortunately it suffered from the old Mac disease where almost nothing - not the tiniest little utility of note - is free. RB followed that route too, and for major bugfixes you had to buy the next major version (although in fairness they did support your version number for some time, just seemed nothing major got fixed in it...)
From my past experience with them, I would really be concerned about this line "list price is $499.95. All REALbasic 2005 for Linux licenses include six months of updates." So you shell out 500 USD and you get no updates after 6 lousy months?!? Boy, there's a deal...
Thanks, I'll pass.
Remember, it's never too late to have a happy childhood!
Arlo is smiling. So am I.
(Still beats the hell out of that rap-crap my neighbour insists on playing at 11, the fuckhead).
Post Gres. Gracias Oops, that was three. Sorry...
This technology is not 'violent' per se, any more than the Internet is 'violence-based' just because the military had a (big) hand in building it.
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Remember, it's never to late to have a happy childhood!
We can probably assume that Microsoft's previous "Safe ID" a.k.a. Passport can account for a portion of the high-tech (i.e. non-"other means") ripoffs. 200 million potential vulnerabilites and it's "popularity suffered". A masterful understatement.
If they have proven themselves completely inept at securing at storing 200 million passwords on one password server system, why would anyone think they could possibly secure one password on 200 million password server systems?
I suspect they're just drumming up new lock-ins for Longhorn. FTA: "would not confirm however whether the new info cards ID system will be built into the current Windows XP version or Longhorn". If i were a betting man...
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Remember, it's never too late to have a happy childhood!
You've quoted me out of context. I never said you plundered. The OP said the US would take Canada's water resourcces if and when they needed it. I was simply asking him if that's really what what he thought. As for my colourful adjectives, well, I think our entire population simultaneously said "What, they bombed our fucking soldiers?" when they heard the news. C'est la vie.
"Fucking Yanks".
That's what Canadians instinctively think when they hear comments such as yours. "Banana Republic, Guam, Puerto Rico". Oh, how we drool at the thought of being associated with these stellar examples of democratization, liberty and equality that the U.S. has produced.
You walk your walk and talk your talk now while you have a bit of bounce in your step. Do you really think Canada - or the world - exists purely to satisfy the needs of the U.S? Do you think you'll just invade countries and plunder what you what? Are you really that arrogant? Do you think a pendulum only swings one way? Or are you just assuming an American {New World Order | Manifest Desitiny | Reich} lasting a thousand years?
You belittle Canada's not insignificant contributions to operations in Afghanistan. (You even bombed our fucking soldiers!) You glibly predict the separation and 'assimilation' of one of the worlds leading democracies. You're just gonna 'take' our water whenever you decide you need it.
"Fucking Yanks".
No surprise at that sentiment. Man, I grew up adoring your country. Now I think that you're just pissing it away - and even worse - no one seems to give a shit. Keep it up with the hubris. I'm sure it will go a long way in appeasing the world that 'Aw, shucks. We're a peaceful, God-fearing country. We just needed a lttle [insert commodity here] is all'.
I think this access one of the primary -- and un-declared -- reasons PayPal is so aggressive in asking/coercing members to become 'verified'. All it takes is that little 10 cent deposit and your acknowledgment of same to set it up.
Your bank doesn't give a crap - it's not their money, and you authorized it anyway.
Play it safe. Use a separate bank account for PayPal transactions only, and don't let funds accrue there.
I have asked for clarification of this situation from Rogers but have not received a reply. As a Canadian I find it odious that my personal communications can be inspected by a foreign government without cause or warrant, and with no recourse to the law.
Both countries officially espouse 'due process of law'. For those of us looking in from the outside, it sometimes seems the US is working hard to change this to 'due process of erosion of privacy rights' (with a big side order of 'due process of corporate-profit enforcement' but that's another story).
If the tables were turned, and the Canadian government was trolling through American's e-mail accounts, the hue and cry from the south would be deafening. Right now, the only thing deafening is the silence as the American people allow their own government to trample the rights and freedoms that were bought and paid for in one Revolution, 2 World Wars, and countless other military and civil actions.
Don't get me wrong - I am not an Anti-American, as your media would have you believe all Canadians are. Hell, we all grew up watching the same TV shows and news programs, reading the same magazines, driving the same cars and eating at the same restaurants. We all swallowed the same propaganda.
That's why it's especially chilling to watch our neighbours sheepishly acquiesce to - or worse, actively endorse - these 'terror-busting' measures.
If American themselves can't identify and stop the erosion or elimination of their own rights, what hope does that leave for the rest of us?
Chilling, very chilling.
Seriously - don't get too hung up on the package management. I mean you're a friggin' Linux sysadmin - learn how it works. It's tough - you have to type 'upgradepkg'. I dropped Red-Hat after 5.2. Debian apt-get once completely pooched a 64 node computational chemistry cluster I was minding after an NFS upgrade -- the mirror cluster using Slack 8 with 22.18 (IIRC) upgraded and didn't miss a beat. I've had Suse 8 Pro overwrtie it's kernel and pooch a production hylafax server. But I've never - I mean never - had Slack pooch a system on me. SCSI raids, sata's, MPI/PVM, streaming vid/aud, samba, nfs, veritas, hylafax, and asterisk all thrown at it without missing a beat. Do yourself a big favour - get Slack 10 and give it a try. You won't want to go back to another cluttered distro that makes all sorts of incorrect assumptions about YOUR intent. You are the sysadmin - remember that, and fuck all those who forget it.
If nothing else, it prompted me to start humming the Crosby version of Silver Bells. Then I deleted the mp3's - sort of a quasi vampire twist on Christmas songs in those. But now I can't get the freakin' Silver Bells song out of my head. Arrghhh. I'm off to find the mp3 and drive my old lady - and probably the mutt too - nuts.
OK, so Novell bought Ximian and SuSE. Both of which I have avoided in the past due to what I felt was an overly aggressive attempt to reach into my pocket. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but after using Linux and other FOSS since "Linux Unleashed" was published in '95 I did find it slightly distasteful. These two acquisitions indicated to me that Novell might become a progressive Linux vendor and supporter of open source software. Of course I realized that these buyouts aren't altruistic in nature - Novell certainly wants to use the two products to drive their Identity Management tools, and to use them as wedges to gain further entree into the enterprise Linux domain. That's all fine and dandy - I've heard this vendor lock-in siren song many times before and haven't got up to dance (nor have most of my clients). However, I was optimistic when Novell said it would open source YAST, and then the Ximian Exchange Connector. Maybe they get (some of it) after all. Time will tell. A previous poster insightfully characterized Novell's historical business strategy as schizophrenic. In the long run this might be just an episodic dalliance. In any case Novell can do us all one monumental service and pursue the contested copyrights issue to a definitive and successful outcome of an completely unencumbered kernel. That alone would probably drive more new business for them than they could imagine, and would garner the gratitude of millions of Linux users. They might even convert some cynical old Slackware users.