Am I the only one seeing the lack of distinction here? There are open source apps you still have to pay to use, aren't there? And if you fail to pay, you lose your right to use the software, no?
Just a nit-pick, I suppose, but just because it's open source doesn't mean it's public domain. Come on, guys, why am I of all people (a Windows Systems Admin) the first one to point this out?
January 2nd, 2010 (01/02/2010) for Americans, February first for the rest of you.
Last one was October 2, 2001 (10/02/2001) here - I threw a party (any excuse, really).
Vista (the beta, anyway) does run under VMWare Server - but it's really slow. And, of course, forget about the shiney new front-end (aero, or whatever they're calling it now). No accelerated graphics in a VM.
Tried the Vista Beta a few weeks ago - and was disgusted. Every time I opened a control panel, applied a change, or (almost) clicked a mouse-button, it would ask me to confirm it - because it's changing the system. Ooooh... duh.
I have a stepbrother with schizophrenia. I've seen the effect it has on his father, my mother, and all of those around him. I've also thought that it may have been better that he never been born. Doesn't mean I wish he hadn't, but it certainly would have been easier.
For years, his father watched him deteriorate, and could get no help for him. No-one treated his problem as serious - until he put an axe in his girlfriend's back. Since then, he has spent his life in institutions (thankfully not prison, which would be no help at all). He cannot live alone, has almost no social skills, and is very easily shaken into paranoid episodes - which cause him to quit taking his meds, which make it all worse. Yet through it all, his father has remained supportive, trying his best to cope with his son's illness, and my mother as well - who volunteered into this relationship, knowing (but perhaps not really knowing) how bad it could get. They do not wish he were never born. But still, perhaps it would have been better... How would you feel, if this were your son?
Thoughts such as these do not make a person less noble. They make him human.
The ICQ groupware beta - which is abandonware, and has been for years - is buggy, limited to 200 clients, and has absolutely no support. Go for something Jabber-based - I use jabberd2 and GAIM in our environment, but we're a mixed shop - FreeBSD/Samba (with OpenLDAP for the userbase), with Win2K/2K3 Servers where necessary. Jabberd works nicely in this, since it can use the LDAP database for authentication.
Let's get this straight. You may not agree with something Stephen Hawking says, but applying a 'Stupid' tag to the article is pointless and, well, poorly informed.
For some time now, I've been watching the evolution of the Stupid tag itself. Why do people use it? Apparently, it's always one of a few reasons: because they disagree with the article, they think the contents of the article describe something stupid, or they're confusing it with 'evil', 'wft', or any number of more expressive, less inflamatory terms.
While I can agree with tagging an article 'stupid' if it expresses a patently absurd notion, none of the other excuses qualify as anything other than flamebait.
Knock it off, whoever you are - you're making yourself look really... well, stupid.
I just went through this process for my employer. While I like Google Analytics (and currently use it for my personal web pages), it's a bit more focused on e-commerce than I need - although that may be good for you.
What I decided on was http://awstats.sourceforge.net/. It's got a pretty impressive feature list, and I like the look, and the sheer volume of data it can collect.
One caveat - the current version (6.5) has a command-injection vulnerability when run in cgi mode (as opposed to statically-created pages), so watch where & how you install it.
Resort Data Processing? Gotta love the DOS-based interface, crappy Pervasive database, and insulting support. My friend (tech guy for the resort) got threatened with a cancellation of the contract by the president of the company - on a whim. I've been trying to convince him to look for other packages for years.
So, this is basically Google looking up the search phrases in a thesaurus and then returning hits on those words too?
Probably would help if I read the article first, I imagine, but I wouldn't want to seem atypical:>
My eyes hurt. My brain hurts. Why, oh why, does April 1 have to last so damned long?
Why didn't April 1st fall on a Sunday this year? That way, it would have been an hour shorter...
If not, do your own, more intesting work on the side. That's what I do.
My current employer, for the last 7 years, has me doing network & systems management. It's somewhat repetative, although I have learned all sorts of new stuff - like how to migrate from Novell to Samba/FreeBSD - but I never let that stop me from doing side projects that give me more fun times.
The key to this, of course, is to make sure that you didn't sign away your IP to your company - ie, make sure you own what you produce off-hours. Some places will make you sign away your rights to anything, even stuff you worked on off-hours.
My employer isn't perfect. It's a non-profit - the pay is lower than what I should be making - but I don't have to wear a tie, I get to put my own server on the company 4.5mb Internet connection, and take any end-of-lease (or lifecycle) equipment I want home. It's also very job-secure, because I'm alpha geek and the only guy who knows how all of the systems work together:>
Even Joss' comments must be taken with a grain of salt. I sincerly doubt that this will be the end of Firefly - considering that currenty, Amazon.com ranks Serenity as the #1 selling DVD, with the complete Firefly series coming in at #6 (again). DVD sales on this franchise are through the roof, and have been the fulcrum upon which the future of the franchise balances.
Call me what you will, but I don't think we've heard the last of this yet.
Run the whole shebang through a Markov Chain analyzer, then have it generate some new code. Hell, ought to work as well as anything else put out these days...
No doubt. I'm over 24 hours now, with no reported data, despite visits from my home & work connections (and yes, I refreshed & checked source to make sure the javascript tag was showing up). Google's own 'is it working' link says it's good, and collecting data - but it shows no hits yet.
Did a tour of CDW a couple of years ago. One of the things that impressed the hell out of me was that every tech bench (for the customization staff) had a mirrored back panel. Perfect for hooking up cables without turning the machine around. I couldn't believe I never thought of it.
Regardless of the efficiency differences, you have to remember that Stirling engines are much less prone to failure than steam engines. That's the whole reason they were created - to find a safer steam engine. No high pressures, no valves, no seals in high-temperature areas.
I use an old Laptop as my router, using FreeBSD. It handles the NAT, DNS, a 20G Squid cache, MRTG, Snort intrusion detection, Apache (for MRTG and ACID/Snort), and an IPSec VPN to my office.
Because it's a laptop, it even has a built-in UPS (sortof). Power goes out, it goes onto the built-in battery. Haven't checked into the wattage on it, but I'm sure it's not much, since I run it with the lid closed (screen off), and configure it through SSH.
Total cost: $0 (laptop was a decommissioned office model)
In short - there ARE places where a real PC can be better than a real router. Especially when it comes to the 20G Squid cache:>
You know, you really should think of better ways to start your post. Granted, the information you provide is true, not to meantion informative and insightful - however:
Let's play Expand the Acronym.
"HyperTextTansferProtocol doens't really have much to do with hypertext."
I wonder if anyone actually read the remainder of your post.
Dude, don't bash the new Battlestar Gallactica series if you haven't even tuned in. It's as bad as all the fundimentalist Christians bashing "Dogma" as being anti-faith without bothering to watch it.
BG has been updated, but in a very low-tech way. It's not the BG of the 70's (thank god), it's actually a very decent show.
As another poster noted, there's also NetBSD. I'm a former/current NetBSD user, although I'm moving away from it to FreeBSD.
NetBSD is great it you have obscure systems - I ran it on my VAX collection, and it worked great. However, it doesn't seem to stand up as far as new hardware support goes next to FreeBSD.
One thing to note - when you hear of people breaking transfer records, it's almost always NetBSD - they have a great network stack. I currently use FreeBSD for my file servers (nss_ldap/pam_ldap support is lacking from NetBSD), and use NetBSD for my VPN/IPSec routers. I'm probably going to switch over to FreeBSD just to keep things consistant, though.
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Umm... MySQL? At least when used as part of an OEM/ISV/VAR solution.
Am I the only one seeing the lack of distinction here? There are open source apps you still have to pay to use, aren't there? And if you fail to pay, you lose your right to use the software, no? Just a nit-pick, I suppose, but just because it's open source doesn't mean it's public domain. Come on, guys, why am I of all people (a Windows Systems Admin) the first one to point this out?
January 2nd, 2010 (01/02/2010) for Americans, February first for the rest of you. Last one was October 2, 2001 (10/02/2001) here - I threw a party (any excuse, really).
Vista (the beta, anyway) does run under VMWare Server - but it's really slow. And, of course, forget about the shiney new front-end (aero, or whatever they're calling it now). No accelerated graphics in a VM. Tried the Vista Beta a few weeks ago - and was disgusted. Every time I opened a control panel, applied a change, or (almost) clicked a mouse-button, it would ask me to confirm it - because it's changing the system. Ooooh... duh.
I have a stepbrother with schizophrenia. I've seen the effect it has on his father, my mother, and all of those around him. I've also thought that it may have been better that he never been born. Doesn't mean I wish he hadn't, but it certainly would have been easier.
For years, his father watched him deteriorate, and could get no help for him. No-one treated his problem as serious - until he put an axe in his girlfriend's back. Since then, he has spent his life in institutions (thankfully not prison, which would be no help at all). He cannot live alone, has almost no social skills, and is very easily shaken into paranoid episodes - which cause him to quit taking his meds, which make it all worse. Yet through it all, his father has remained supportive, trying his best to cope with his son's illness, and my mother as well - who volunteered into this relationship, knowing (but perhaps not really knowing) how bad it could get. They do not wish he were never born. But still, perhaps it would have been better... How would you feel, if this were your son?
Thoughts such as these do not make a person less noble. They make him human.
The ICQ groupware beta - which is abandonware, and has been for years - is buggy, limited to 200 clients, and has absolutely no support. Go for something Jabber-based - I use jabberd2 and GAIM in our environment, but we're a mixed shop - FreeBSD/Samba (with OpenLDAP for the userbase), with Win2K/2K3 Servers where necessary. Jabberd works nicely in this, since it can use the LDAP database for authentication.
Let's get this straight. You may not agree with something Stephen Hawking says, but applying a 'Stupid' tag to the article is pointless and, well, poorly informed.
For some time now, I've been watching the evolution of the Stupid tag itself. Why do people use it? Apparently, it's always one of a few reasons: because they disagree with the article, they think the contents of the article describe something stupid, or they're confusing it with 'evil', 'wft', or any number of more expressive, less inflamatory terms.
While I can agree with tagging an article 'stupid' if it expresses a patently absurd notion, none of the other excuses qualify as anything other than flamebait.
Knock it off, whoever you are - you're making yourself look really ... well, stupid.
I just went through this process for my employer. While I like Google Analytics (and currently use it for my personal web pages), it's a bit more focused on e-commerce than I need - although that may be good for you.
What I decided on was http://awstats.sourceforge.net/. It's got a pretty impressive feature list, and I like the look, and the sheer volume of data it can collect.
One caveat - the current version (6.5) has a command-injection vulnerability when run in cgi mode (as opposed to statically-created pages), so watch where & how you install it.
Resort Data Processing? Gotta love the DOS-based interface, crappy Pervasive database, and insulting support. My friend (tech guy for the resort) got threatened with a cancellation of the contract by the president of the company - on a whim. I've been trying to convince him to look for other packages for years.
So, this is basically Google looking up the search phrases in a thesaurus and then returning hits on those words too? Probably would help if I read the article first, I imagine, but I wouldn't want to seem atypical :>
My eyes hurt. My brain hurts. Why, oh why, does April 1 have to last so damned long? Why didn't April 1st fall on a Sunday this year? That way, it would have been an hour shorter...
Make that three - you forgot the type that feel the computers are their property, and the users would be better trusted with legal pads and abacuses.
You can include me in the third type.
If not, do your own, more intesting work on the side. That's what I do.
My current employer, for the last 7 years, has me doing network & systems management. It's somewhat repetative, although I have learned all sorts of new stuff - like how to migrate from Novell to Samba/FreeBSD - but I never let that stop me from doing side projects that give me more fun times.
The key to this, of course, is to make sure that you didn't sign away your IP to your company - ie, make sure you own what you produce off-hours. Some places will make you sign away your rights to anything, even stuff you worked on off-hours.
My employer isn't perfect. It's a non-profit - the pay is lower than what I should be making - but I don't have to wear a tie, I get to put my own server on the company 4.5mb Internet connection, and take any end-of-lease (or lifecycle) equipment I want home. It's also very job-secure, because I'm alpha geek and the only guy who knows how all of the systems work together :>
Talk about your Smart Bullets...
What a great phrase! Makes me nostalgic for Doctor Who...
Even Joss' comments must be taken with a grain of salt. I sincerly doubt that this will be the end of Firefly - considering that currenty, Amazon.com ranks Serenity as the #1 selling DVD, with the complete Firefly series coming in at #6 (again). DVD sales on this franchise are through the roof, and have been the fulcrum upon which the future of the franchise balances.
Call me what you will, but I don't think we've heard the last of this yet.
But of course, I could be wrong...
Run the whole shebang through a Markov Chain analyzer, then have it generate some new code. Hell, ought to work as well as anything else put out these days...
No doubt. I'm over 24 hours now, with no reported data, despite visits from my home & work connections (and yes, I refreshed & checked source to make sure the javascript tag was showing up). Google's own 'is it working' link says it's good, and collecting data - but it shows no hits yet.
Sigh. It sounded so good, too.
Did a tour of CDW a couple of years ago. One of the things that impressed the hell out of me was that every tech bench (for the customization staff) had a mirrored back panel. Perfect for hooking up cables without turning the machine around. I couldn't believe I never thought of it.
Brilliant.
Regardless of the efficiency differences, you have to remember that Stirling engines are much less prone to failure than steam engines. That's the whole reason they were created - to find a safer steam engine. No high pressures, no valves, no seals in high-temperature areas.
I use an old Laptop as my router, using FreeBSD. It handles the NAT, DNS, a 20G Squid cache, MRTG, Snort intrusion detection, Apache (for MRTG and ACID/Snort), and an IPSec VPN to my office.
Because it's a laptop, it even has a built-in UPS (sortof). Power goes out, it goes onto the built-in battery. Haven't checked into the wattage on it, but I'm sure it's not much, since I run it with the lid closed (screen off), and configure it through SSH.
Total cost: $0 (laptop was a decommissioned office model)
In short - there ARE places where a real PC can be better than a real router. Especially when it comes to the 20G Squid cache :>
You know, you really should think of better ways to start your post. Granted, the information you provide is true, not to meantion informative and insightful - however:
Let's play Expand the Acronym.
" HyperTextTansferProtocol doens't really have much to do with hypertext."
I wonder if anyone actually read the remainder of your post.
Dude, don't bash the new Battlestar Gallactica series if you haven't even tuned in. It's as bad as all the fundimentalist Christians bashing "Dogma" as being anti-faith without bothering to watch it. BG has been updated, but in a very low-tech way. It's not the BG of the 70's (thank god), it's actually a very decent show.
As another poster noted, there's also NetBSD. I'm a former/current NetBSD user, although I'm moving away from it to FreeBSD.
NetBSD is great it you have obscure systems - I ran it on my VAX collection, and it worked great. However, it doesn't seem to stand up as far as new hardware support goes next to FreeBSD.
One thing to note - when you hear of people breaking transfer records, it's almost always NetBSD - they have a great network stack. I currently use FreeBSD for my file servers (nss_ldap/pam_ldap support is lacking from NetBSD), and use NetBSD for my VPN/IPSec routers. I'm probably going to switch over to FreeBSD just to keep things consistant, though.
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