NIS is junk. It's buggy, unstable and insecure. NIS blows up if you sneeze in the general direction of the NIS master or any of the slaves, even.
Bleh.
The closest thing to ActiveDirectory on *nix is a LDAP-based enterprise directory coupled with TLS, Kerberos 5, GSSAPI, and PAM-KRB5 and PAM-LDAP for authentication and authorization, Samba for file-sharing (using LDAPSAM for accounts). Add Linux AutoFS with LDAP support and you can have something like MS-DFS, but tons more secure.
Even better, if you don't care about DirectX or gaming: Get a box with lots of RAM. Run Windows under virtualization. Make sure the VM can't connect to the Internet.
Done. No dual boot required (which is a royal PITA to setup) and you can access Windows and Linux simultaneously.
If you do care about gaming, you really need a separate box for gaming anyhow, as any avid gamer can tell you, it makes things a lot easier.
Doesn't it cost more to keep paying these rare programmers than to just update/convert/replace the systems?
No. The applications, in most cases, were originally developed decades ago. By people who are probably either retired, dead, or are now developing Tcl code for NASA. The codebase is HUGE and full of embedded business logic. It's been tweaked and updated over the years, mostly by contract COBOL coders, who are getting more and more sparse as they age and die off (literally).
The problem is -- nobody left knows enough about these applications to re-implement them. And, more importantly, they still work, day-in, day-out, 24x7, with no significant problems.
When you've got me! I can always come up with a car analogy. Lessee....
This is like [insert your favorite automaker here]'s engineers giving their competitors engineers an opportunity to ask questions and collaborate on their new engine designs.
In fact, the more I say that, the more it does sound like Admiral Ackbar may be right here....
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Hi. Sounds you're doing exactly what I want to do. I live in Florida, so I'm all set ocean-wise, but I'm having a hard time finding a sailboat that costs less than about $5K. Can you point out some resources of where I and other readers could get started?
Thanks!
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Yeah, they'll just dig up some locally-sourced microcontrollers.
Well, they should have no problem getting designs or technical support for one anyway.;)
The only way I have been able to preserve my life and retain all my original body parts is by assuming they're all actively trying to kill me, and protect myself accordingly.
Hence, the AK-47, body armor, and the grenade launcher mounted to the bike.
Pictures of a big warehouse-like building! Amazing! Why, I've never seen one! Looks like a giant... uhhhhhh.... box! w00t! Those pics are just sooo 1337!
True, that, but we're talking massive amounts of energy here that would disrupt a lot more than the weather. I'm talking about something a bit more reasonable.;) Using mirrors isn't likely to do a lot of good. Down here in Florida, we all have a LOT of mirrored surfaces installed in the windshields of our vehicles. This doesn't seem to be having any measurable effect on the weather.;)
Yeah, RAID1 isn't much of a performance boost. In fact, in most cases it causes a performance HIT. RAID5, OTOH is really a good balance between performance and redundancy for most things.
I dunno. Effecting change on a global scale takes a very, very long time and a ton of resources. It's not like global warming started 5 minutes or even 5 decades ago
Right on the money. Although I'm aware of Git a Eclipse plugin, last time I looked at it, it sucked maturity-wise. Subversion and CVS have been supported on Eclipse and for other tools, including Microsoft IDEs, for quite sometime, so...those are the source control systems I use, too.
True. But my point is this: think about image or audio processing. Or video processing. How many temporary files are written during common processing operations? And it doesn't matter how much memory you have, they all do it.
I was with you until you said the drudgereport. Then you lost me entirely.;)
What you just said is the whole point of Google News -- you get the same stories from a variety of different stories. Different viewpoints == closer to the truth.
We know most benchmarks are useless and a lie. What matters is not how well your product performs on a benchmark, but how well it performs for real-word usage. If you're selling a desktop hard drive, well, damnit, benchmark it for typical usage scenarios and then look at your results. If you they suck, your product sucks. Go back to the drawing board. Pulling the wool over everyone's eyes with synthetic benchmarks tailor-made to make your product look good is just downright dishonest. And I hate doing business with dishonest people more than most things.
all media is suspect, anywhere. you go through life with a good bullshit meter, or you don't go through life at all. there is no such thing, nor will there ever be, a perfectly verifiable and 100% trustworthy media, anywhere on this planet.
Bingo. What media can you trust as 100% verifiable and trustworthy? CNN? Fox News? Encyclopedia Britannica? BBC? National Geographic? (Any Christians who say "Bible" will be shot on sight.)
The answer is none of the above. And you said it just right -- media is a human endeavor. Humans are riddled with errors, therefore so too will be their creations.
The different bits of specific code are just like the Linux kernel, upon which Android is at least partially based, which is why I used it as an example. And yeah, the SDK is pretty big, and it's Java, and there are probably lots of examples included, and the a few base apps that come with the OS, etc.
Any way you look at it, it's not unusual for the source to be bigger. Look at the source for OpenOffice.org -- hundreds of megs, the resultant application is like, 20-30 MB, tops.
Okay, okay. I decided that perhaps I was being a tad-bit disingenuous and was feeling guilty so -- to be fair, you have to count the kernel and all the modules. 1.7 MB for the compressed kernel and about 100 MB for the all the modules, uncompressed (compressed would be ~45-50MB)
Still, the source is much larger than the resulting executables... so my point stands:)
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NIS is junk. It's buggy, unstable and insecure. NIS blows up if you sneeze in the general direction of the NIS master or any of the slaves, even.
Bleh.
The closest thing to ActiveDirectory on *nix is a LDAP-based enterprise directory coupled with TLS, Kerberos 5, GSSAPI, and PAM-KRB5 and PAM-LDAP for authentication and authorization, Samba for file-sharing (using LDAPSAM for accounts). Add Linux AutoFS with LDAP support and you can have something like MS-DFS, but tons more secure.
I have personally implemented such systems.
Even better, if you don't care about DirectX or gaming: Get a box with lots of RAM. Run Windows under virtualization. Make sure the VM can't connect to the Internet.
Done. No dual boot required (which is a royal PITA to setup) and you can access Windows and Linux simultaneously.
If you do care about gaming, you really need a separate box for gaming anyhow, as any avid gamer can tell you, it makes things a lot easier.
Doesn't it cost more to keep paying these rare programmers than to just update/convert/replace the systems?
No. The applications, in most cases, were originally developed decades ago. By people who are probably either retired, dead, or are now developing Tcl code for NASA. The codebase is HUGE and full of embedded business logic. It's been tweaked and updated over the years, mostly by contract COBOL coders, who are getting more and more sparse as they age and die off (literally).
The problem is -- nobody left knows enough about these applications to re-implement them. And, more importantly, they still work, day-in, day-out, 24x7, with no significant problems.
Pffft. In Soviet (and Non-Soviet) Russia, Microsoft waits in a very long line to bribe the officials.
A university degree from Russia now and has always equated with a Masters in the US.
So, ummm.....
In Soviet Russia, University degree Master YOU!!!
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When you've got me! I can always come up with a car analogy. Lessee....
This is like [insert your favorite automaker here]'s engineers giving their competitors engineers an opportunity to ask questions and collaborate on their new engine designs.
In fact, the more I say that, the more it does sound like Admiral Ackbar may be right here....
Hi. Sounds you're doing exactly what I want to do. I live in Florida, so I'm all set ocean-wise, but I'm having a hard time finding a sailboat that costs less than about $5K. Can you point out some resources of where I and other readers could get started?
Thanks!
Yeah, they'll just dig up some locally-sourced microcontrollers.
Well, they should have no problem getting designs or technical support for one anyway. ;)
You can try this site, which has pictures of a Russian armored bike, but I think all they have is an E-Book. :(
The only way I have been able to preserve my life and retain all my original body parts is by assuming they're all actively trying to kill me, and protect myself accordingly.
Hence, the AK-47, body armor, and the grenade launcher mounted to the bike.
Mod parent up, +5 Informative!
Pictures of a big warehouse-like building! Amazing! Why, I've never seen one! Looks like a giant ... uhhhhhh.... box! w00t! Those pics are just sooo 1337!
True, that, but we're talking massive amounts of energy here that would disrupt a lot more than the weather. I'm talking about something a bit more reasonable. ;) Using mirrors isn't likely to do a lot of good. Down here in Florida, we all have a LOT of mirrored surfaces installed in the windshields of our vehicles. This doesn't seem to be having any measurable effect on the weather. ;)
Yeah, RAID1 isn't much of a performance boost. In fact, in most cases it causes a performance HIT. RAID5, OTOH is really a good balance between performance and redundancy for most things.
Right on, my brother! We just need to keep things as they are! It's not going matter. Armageddon is coming soon enough. Praise Jesus!
I dunno. Effecting change on a global scale takes a very, very long time and a ton of resources. It's not like global warming started 5 minutes or even 5 decades ago
The lesson to be learned is that you do not rely on the popular media for scientific reporting.
Agreed. That's why I always get my scientific reporting from more reliable non-mainstream sources like this one.
Right on the money. Although I'm aware of Git a Eclipse plugin, last time I looked at it, it sucked maturity-wise. Subversion and CVS have been supported on Eclipse and for other tools, including Microsoft IDEs, for quite sometime, so...those are the source control systems I use, too.
True. But my point is this: think about image or audio processing. Or video processing. How many temporary files are written during common processing operations? And it doesn't matter how much memory you have, they all do it.
swapfiles have the same consideration.
I was with you until you said the drudgereport. Then you lost me entirely. ;)
What you just said is the whole point of Google News -- you get the same stories from a variety of different stories. Different viewpoints == closer to the truth.
How important is throughput?
Ask your swapfile or swap partition (as the case may be).
We know most benchmarks are useless and a lie. What matters is not how well your product performs on a benchmark, but how well it performs for real-word usage. If you're selling a desktop hard drive, well, damnit, benchmark it for typical usage scenarios and then look at your results. If you they suck, your product sucks. Go back to the drawing board. Pulling the wool over everyone's eyes with synthetic benchmarks tailor-made to make your product look good is just downright dishonest. And I hate doing business with dishonest people more than most things.
all media is suspect, anywhere. you go through life with a good bullshit meter, or you don't go through life at all. there is no such thing, nor will there ever be, a perfectly verifiable and 100% trustworthy media, anywhere on this planet.
Bingo. What media can you trust as 100% verifiable and trustworthy? CNN? Fox News? Encyclopedia Britannica? BBC? National Geographic? (Any Christians who say "Bible" will be shot on sight.)
The answer is none of the above. And you said it just right -- media is a human endeavor. Humans are riddled with errors, therefore so too will be their creations.
The different bits of specific code are just like the Linux kernel, upon which Android is at least partially based, which is why I used it as an example. And yeah, the SDK is pretty big, and it's Java, and there are probably lots of examples included, and the a few base apps that come with the OS, etc.
Any way you look at it, it's not unusual for the source to be bigger. Look at the source for OpenOffice.org -- hundreds of megs, the resultant application is like, 20-30 MB, tops.
I have a ton of examples.
Okay, okay. I decided that perhaps I was being a tad-bit disingenuous and was feeling guilty so -- to be fair, you have to count the kernel and all the modules. 1.7 MB for the compressed kernel and about 100 MB for the all the modules, uncompressed (compressed would be ~45-50MB)
Still, the source is much larger than the resulting executables ... so my point stands :)