I finally had to block them at the firewall level because their search bot didn't respect the robots.txt, even though it was posted on their site that it does.
And just what does their bot need to crawl images of my family reunion for?
Yes--If they have older hardware and a Win9x system that's no longer supported. I do 2 or 3 conversions like this a month. Usually it's a 300-450 Mhz box with 64 meg of ram or so. It ran 9x well enough, but it would be godawful running most of the 'Desktop Environment' based distros available today. I have a customized Debian package list with a set of light weight packages and WM. Total install space, with apps, is just under 300 megs. I've successfully installed it on everything from a Cyrix 133/32 meg to a P-II 450/64 meg. Every person I've done that for has been thrilled. They can do everything they were able to before (email, surf, word process, etc.) and not have to have the machine bogged down by anti-virus, anti-spyware, and application-based firewalls running all the time. And to top it off, the OS is updatable and supported.
No--If they're using AOL/some other proprietary connection software. It's a god damn shame that after all this time, that AOL still hasn't come up with a software package for Linux, considering that their entire backend is *nix based. The 'AOL dialers' available for Linux are just that - dialers, and those used to using AOL aren't getting the same experience that they want. Some ISP dialers (i.e. Earthlink) are nothing more than just a standard DUN connection with some unnecessary eyecandy and other overhead... those can usually be set up pretty easily. FYI - winmodems are the tools of the devil. ISA sound cards and and serial mice are nothing compared to those damned things.
Maybe--If they're on a highspeed line and have no idea about security measures with Microsoft Windows. This is a pretty typical case. I've wow'd enough clients with the likes of Knoppix and they've been interested enough to at least dual-boot. More often than not, they tend to stick with the Linux side of the machine because the machine runs so much faster. Unless they're heavy gamers, they pretty rarely boot back into Microsoft Windows.
The key is no-pressure. It's their machine, and they shouldn't be forced into using something they're not comfortable with. I'm not a salesman, and I don't intend to be. I run Linux on a couple of laptops (P-II 233 Mhz/128 meg and a P-III 700/384 meg), and I carry whichever one most closely matches the client's machine, and let them play with it while I'm working on theirs to showcase its usability. They're always aghast when I tell them that all the software is _free_, and then show them the 15,000+ listings available in the repositories. Dual-booting is a damn nice option and allows people to try it out to their hearts' content and not have to commit to anything.
I do 2 or 3 conversions like this a month. Usually it's a 300-450 Mhz box with 64 meg of ram or so. It ran 9x well enough, but it would be godawful running most of the 'Desktop Environment' based distros available today. That's why I have a customized Debian package list with a set of light weight packages and WM. Total install space, with apps, is just under 300 megs. I've successfully installed it on everything from a Cyrix 133/32 meg to a P-II 450/64 meg. Every person I've done that for has been thrilled. They can do everything they were able to before (email, surf, word process, etc.) and not have to have the machine bogged down by anti-virus, anti-spyware, and application-based firewalls running all the time.
The only headache to do this has been the fucking winmodems. ISA sound cards and and serial mice are nothing compared to those damned things.
To quote the late 20th century philosopher, John Prine:
She was a level-headed dancer on the road to alcohol
And I was just a soldier on my way to Montreal
Well she pressed her chest against me
About the time the juke box broke
Yeah, she gave me a peck on the back of the neck
And these are the words she spoke:
"Blow up your TV, throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try and find Jesus on your own"
Well, I sat there at the table and I acted real naive
For I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve
Well, she danced around the bar room and she did the hoochy-coo
Yeah she sang her song all night long, tellin' me what to do:
"Blow up your TV, throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try and find Jesus on your own"
Well, I was young and hungry and about to leave that place
When just as I was leavin', well she looked me in the face
I said "You must know the answer."
She said, "No but I'll give it a try."
And to this very day we've been livin' our way
And here is the reason why:
We blew up our TV threw away our paper
Went to the country, built us a home
Had a lot of children, fed 'em on peaches
They all found Jesus on their own
I don't disagree. [anecdotal evidence] My 9 year old nephew was visiting recently. He rearranged my DVDs "for me", so he could readily find whichever ones he wanted to watch that day. He can recite the cheat codes for LEGO Star Wars from memory. He knows Nick's TV schedule better than he knows his own back yard ("There's a maple tree out there?"). He had a fit when he realized that the TV I have, circa 1980, doesn't have a remote and he actually had to get up to change the channel (oh the humantity!). He's never had a baseball glove or a kickball. His bike has sat in his parents garage so long that it's covered with dust and spiderwebs. The only time he seems to have any friends is when school's in session. [/anecdotal evidence]
Actually I wasn't. Microsoft released at least 2 Beta versions previous to this Release Candidate, about half a dozen "builds" previous to those, and before renaming it from "Longhorn", about a dozen builds of that starting at least 4 years ago.
Asked why it has taken Microsoft 25 years to get trustworthy computing into the forefront of its efforts, he said: "Because customers wouldn't pay for it until recently."
AOL's recent posting of user search information has sensitized the public to Internet privacy issues for the near term.
If only that were the case. I work with "the public" and their computers on a daily basis, including a lot of AOL users. Out of the clients I've had in the time since the 'leak' was leaked, exactly ONE has even heard about it, and she honestly didn't give a shit (even though she uses AOL). But every one of them had heard about the non-killer of the toddler beauty queen...
Resign... today. Seriously. I was in a similar situation a few years back at a company I was working for. For _months_ I'd been warning about about issues that would have cost less than $1000 to take care of. Memos did nothing. Emails did nothing. Phone calls did nothing. Actually showing them what could happen and the resulting chaos that would ensue did nothing. Setting up a budget and implementation schedule did nothing. When the shit finally hit the fan and the cost to them was in the 6-figures, I was called in and about to be blamed/bitched out, so I walked in, and just as I was being asked "Why couldn't this have been prevented...", I took off my tie, dropped the inch-thick file with copies of all the memos, emails, and budgeting I'd tried to get taken care of on the desk, said "I quit", and walked out.
Never looked back.
When you're given a responsibility, but denied the tools and/or budget to carry out that responsibility, yet still have to accept the blame, it's a godawful situation. If they won't accept that you have the skills and initiative to see that there's a problem, there's not much you can do.
...If you try to copy the entire C: drive to the external drive using Windows Explorer, the copying will stop when the system encounters a file it cannot copy (for example, a user.dmp file), plus for those who don't turn on the option to display hidden and system files, often things like Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail folders and files, as well as the Windows Address Book, do not get copied...
Recently, I've been using a program for Microsoft Windows called SyncBack (also a free version available), that works wonders. The only time you ever hear from it is if there was an error, and then your browser is waiting there for you telling you what's what. It's dead simple to set up, and I've been able to use it to backup to a samba server, as well as ftp, and other more traditional home backup methods. All you do is show it what you want backed up and where, it basically does the rest. For Microsoft Windows, it works great. For others, there's rsync...
A lot of the places that run SBS have no full time IT staff. With SBS they get an out-of-the box file server, domain controller, exchange server.
Sorry, but if your network needs that many services, you need a full-time IT staff or a damn fine, 24-7-365 (read EXPEN$IVE), service contract. This isn't a toaster or a typewriter or a copier we're talking about here.
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It isn't my distro, it's Debian + one 3rd party package. See my reply to bfree above.
I don't have the pipe to be hosting packages, but if you drop me a note, I'd be willing to oblige.
Yeah, when everyone knows it's not creation, it's evolution :oP
I finally had to block them at the firewall level because their search bot didn't respect the robots.txt, even though it was posted on their site that it does.
And just what does their bot need to crawl images of my family reunion for?
It's entirely situational.
Yes--If they have older hardware and a Win9x system that's no longer supported.
I do 2 or 3 conversions like this a month. Usually it's a 300-450 Mhz box with 64 meg of ram or so. It ran 9x well enough, but it would be godawful running most of the 'Desktop Environment' based distros available today. I have a customized Debian package list with a set of light weight packages and WM. Total install space, with apps, is just under 300 megs. I've successfully installed it on everything from a Cyrix 133/32 meg to a P-II 450/64 meg. Every person I've done that for has been thrilled. They can do everything they were able to before (email, surf, word process, etc.) and not have to have the machine bogged down by anti-virus, anti-spyware, and application-based firewalls running all the time. And to top it off, the OS is updatable and supported.
No--If they're using AOL/some other proprietary connection software.
It's a god damn shame that after all this time, that AOL still hasn't come up with a software package for Linux, considering that their entire backend is *nix based. The 'AOL dialers' available for Linux are just that - dialers, and those used to using AOL aren't getting the same experience that they want. Some ISP dialers (i.e. Earthlink) are nothing more than just a standard DUN connection with some unnecessary eyecandy and other overhead... those can usually be set up pretty easily.
FYI - winmodems are the tools of the devil. ISA sound cards and and serial mice are nothing compared to those damned things.
Maybe--If they're on a highspeed line and have no idea about security measures with Microsoft Windows.
This is a pretty typical case. I've wow'd enough clients with the likes of Knoppix and they've been interested enough to at least dual-boot. More often than not, they tend to stick with the Linux side of the machine because the machine runs so much faster. Unless they're heavy gamers, they pretty rarely boot back into Microsoft Windows.
The key is no-pressure. It's their machine, and they shouldn't be forced into using something they're not comfortable with. I'm not a salesman, and I don't intend to be. I run Linux on a couple of laptops (P-II 233 Mhz/128 meg and a P-III 700/384 meg), and I carry whichever one most closely matches the client's machine, and let them play with it while I'm working on theirs to showcase its usability. They're always aghast when I tell them that all the software is _free_, and then show them the 15,000+ listings available in the repositories. Dual-booting is a damn nice option and allows people to try it out to their hearts' content and not have to commit to anything.
I do 2 or 3 conversions like this a month. Usually it's a 300-450 Mhz box with 64 meg of ram or so. It ran 9x well enough, but it would be godawful running most of the 'Desktop Environment' based distros available today.
That's why I have a customized Debian package list with a set of light weight packages and WM. Total install space, with apps, is just under 300 megs. I've successfully installed it on everything from a Cyrix 133/32 meg to a P-II 450/64 meg. Every person I've done that for has been thrilled. They can do everything they were able to before (email, surf, word process, etc.) and not have to have the machine bogged down by anti-virus, anti-spyware, and application-based firewalls running all the time.
The only headache to do this has been the fucking winmodems. ISA sound cards and and serial mice are nothing compared to those damned things.
To quote the late 20th century philosopher, John Prine:
That's ok, it'll get reposted in the next 72 hours.
I don't disagree.
[anecdotal evidence]
My 9 year old nephew was visiting recently. He rearranged my DVDs "for me", so he could readily find whichever ones he wanted to watch that day. He can recite the cheat codes for LEGO Star Wars from memory. He knows Nick's TV schedule better than he knows his own back yard ("There's a maple tree out there?"). He had a fit when he realized that the TV I have, circa 1980, doesn't have a remote and he actually had to get up to change the channel (oh the humantity!).
He's never had a baseball glove or a kickball.
His bike has sat in his parents garage so long that it's covered with dust and spiderwebs.
The only time he seems to have any friends is when school's in session.
[/anecdotal evidence]
But which makes more $$ for the manufacturers... LEGO or LEGO Star Wars?
It won't change - not as long as cronyism and greed make the rules*.
*ref: Cheney, Halliburton
Not that he has anything to do with this, since he's not a federal prosecutor, but you're saying that he shouldn't be representing his constituents?
Actually I wasn't. Microsoft released at least 2 Beta versions previous to this Release Candidate, about half a dozen "builds" previous to those, and before renaming it from "Longhorn", about a dozen builds of that starting at least 4 years ago.
Oh wait, there's hearts and spider too! Never mind.
But it's _not_ a beta... it's a Release Candidate.
The ISO is 2.5+ gigs... just for a bare-bones, alpha-beta-delta-gamma-RC-OMG-WTF-BBQ OS with basically no end-user apps but a text editor?
That's friggen insane.
You're forgetting...
Five years after 9/11 you'd think we would have more than just a hole in the ground where the WTC once stood.
If they can't even, LITERALLY, fill a fucking hole in the ground, why on earth would anyone expect this government to get anything else done?
-Craig Mundie, Microsoft CTO
Oh, but you can...
If only that were the case.
I work with "the public" and their computers on a daily basis, including a lot of AOL users. Out of the clients I've had in the time since the 'leak' was leaked, exactly ONE has even heard about it, and she honestly didn't give a shit (even though she uses AOL).
But every one of them had heard about the non-killer of the toddler beauty queen...
Not to mention 99.999999% of the myspace accounts.
Resign... today. Seriously.
I was in a similar situation a few years back at a company I was working for. For _months_ I'd been warning about about issues that would have cost less than $1000 to take care of. Memos did nothing. Emails did nothing. Phone calls did nothing. Actually showing them what could happen and the resulting chaos that would ensue did nothing. Setting up a budget and implementation schedule did nothing.
When the shit finally hit the fan and the cost to them was in the 6-figures, I was called in and about to be blamed/bitched out, so I walked in, and just as I was being asked "Why couldn't this have been prevented...", I took off my tie, dropped the inch-thick file with copies of all the memos, emails, and budgeting I'd tried to get taken care of on the desk, said "I quit", and walked out.
Never looked back.
When you're given a responsibility, but denied the tools and/or budget to carry out that responsibility, yet still have to accept the blame, it's a godawful situation. If they won't accept that you have the skills and initiative to see that there's a problem, there's not much you can do.
Recently, I've been using a program for Microsoft Windows called SyncBack (also a free version available), that works wonders. The only time you ever hear from it is if there was an error, and then your browser is waiting there for you telling you what's what. It's dead simple to set up, and I've been able to use it to backup to a samba server, as well as ftp, and other more traditional home backup methods. All you do is show it what you want backed up and where, it basically does the rest. For Microsoft Windows, it works great. For others, there's rsync...
Um... that's not an artist, that's a product.
Sorry, but if your network needs that many services, you need a full-time IT staff or a damn fine, 24-7-365 (read EXPEN$IVE), service contract. This isn't a toaster or a typewriter or a copier we're talking about here.