Thanks for the reference to "stack smash" attacks. I run Gentoo on multiple workstations and servers, but the wife's laptop is Ubuntu. Any suggestions on determining how a binary distro, like Ubuntu, sets compiling defaults? (heh, Magic Eight Ball needs updated option "search google" hehe). Wow, I just realized I don't even know who actually makes the binaries. I've installed a couple other distros, but Gentoo's is the only one I've used day in and day out for the past 7 years.
To bring back on topic a bit, I'm really surprised that people would prefer to run an illegal copy of software than even try a free alternative. I only see Vista succeeding via continued product lock-in, like Office and Sharepoint.
Charter is a sucky monopoly. I had a good customer service experience recently and am very skeptical it will pan out. Gotta keep an eye on them. Best time I had getting them to "take care of me" was after telling them I will be keeping better records for the city when the City Charter comes up for review. Them seem to hate having their dirty laundry aired to the city council.
I get your point. Russian's don't have a monopoly on that trait. We're all human after all. From the tiny sample of Russian software developers I have worked with though, arrogance and ego have been major characteristics. In my observations, no matter how smart one is, arrogance at best makes it difficult to communicate; at worst a liability limiting problem solving.
Heh, that's my kind of funny. It's not even their 404 "We're sorry" page, but a 500-level internal server error. Seems something is trying to handle it. adding/default.asp does same thing... But
http://www.microsoft.com/unix/123
responds with an old looking "page not found" page. Funny old cruft.
I haven't experienced problems dual booting XP and gentoo with grub. I've since wiped the windows install, but basically did similar to what this page describes:
I wondered the same thing for too long -- why it was grayed, not the sucking part. Permissions. Like installing software, higher rights are needed to apply the update. I run firefox with sudo and option was ungreyed. That was my scenario.
I've enjoyed using VMware at home and the office. I haven't had a chance to try Xen or qemu. Briefly, here's my experience:
At the office, I work with 5 quad processor (dell) servers with Gentoo Linux as the host running VMware GSX and 1 running VMware Workstation -- all guests are Windows 2k or 2k3. At home, I run VMware Player on Kubuntu, and VMware Server on a W2k3 server and a Gentoo server -- some guests are Windows, some are Linux.
Usually everything works great. The Linux host systems seem more responsive than the Windows host systems. At home, the w2k3 server crashes every once in a while limiting me more than I'd like. Not sure why as it's just a file and dns server. One of Linux servers at the office had too small a partition for/tmp causing problems, but otherwise been relatively maintenance free.
Over the past few years one of my favorite things to do when I need to rebuild my workstation is to image it into a VMware session for later use as needed. Only done it about four times, but sure comes in handy. I'm about to do that to my w2k3 server.
Agreed on the satisfaction level. I use a local DNS server to block domains and all their wildcard subdomains of some of those bandwidth wasting "tracking" sites. Then the whole home network is "protected."
google.com is blocked by default by my NoScript in case they catch on, as you say. I never thought I'd like NoScript, but I've been pleasently surprised at it's ease of use and level of control. If there's a NoScript-type extension for your browser, you might find it useful too.
Ballmer to Oregon: Open-source lacks innovation and creates few jobs
In Portland today to help dedicate Portland State University's new engineering building, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Oregon needs to continue investing in higher education if the state wants to be competitive globally in attracting technology jobs -- and he downplayed open-source software as a minor economic contributor.
"All the great technology centers are characterized by great technology universities," Ballmer said in an interview this morning.
Microsoft donated $200,000 toward a $53 million upgrade to PSU's Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science, which includes the brand-new $35 million engineering building dedicated this morning and a new Microsoft lab. Ballmer said Oregon has the necessary ingredients for an increasingly robust high-tech economy -- given the large presence of Intel and other technology companies in the state -- but needs to continue investing in higher education to capitalize on that opportunity.
Oregon is a hub for open source software development, which is created collaboratively and generally given away free. An open source operating system called Linux is the chief rival to Microsoft's Windows. In this morning's interview, Ballmer said open source has a role in the technology world but that it hasn't contributed much to innovation or to economic achievement.
"There aren't that many jobs being created by anything out of open source," Ballmer said. In contrast, he cited a study commission by Microsoft that indicates the company and its partners contribute $3 billion to Oregon's economy.
"There's no innovation that we've seen come out of at least Linux," Ballmer said. "Linux is a clone of a 30-year-operating system."
Glad to hear. This is a bit off topic, but what kind of bandwidth usage do you experience? I've been wanting to join the NTP pool for a few months now. Their web site mentions something in the range 10-20Kbit/sec, but is that sustained, like an average over a month? I'll subscribe to the mailing list to start getting a feel.
While looking at the join page, they give the apache config fragment. That's great.
I think part of the problem is that it is http://www.pool.ntp.org. That's a pretty common "mistake" (not really right word) in my mind. I always setup my web sites and DNS to work with or without the www host name (ala ServerAlias or html redirect) -- I'm just simple that way.
BUT, since pool.ntp.org uses round-robin DNS, each server would need to setup the appropriate forwarding to be all friendly like. Or at least turn off httpd. Security Rule "#0" still stands.
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Nice description. At work my desk is setup the same way and my wrists do great. Coworkers wonder why they get RSI. Look at their setup and their monitors are in the middle of the desk with keyboards all the way to the edge... People are funny -- they'd rather try wrist straps once a problem develops instead of modifying their posture or keyboard location to prevent it.
For my home systems in the computer room, I'm replacing each to use the Seasonic S12 430's -- they're great. I agree, they can't be heard over the the cpu/case fans and hard drives.
I have the Silverstone in a HTPC in the livingroom. Booting from the network, it's silent. Seems almost unnatural. I wanted a "standard" PSU and this fit the bill great. It's load is moderate and is never more than just warm to the touch.
Both have high Power Factor Correciton so my UPS's seem to last longer (<note to="self">I'll have to measure that and see.</note>) I found SilentPCReview.com of the Seasonic S12 430 and Silverstone ST30NF interesting and more in depth. Specifcally, how the Silverstone's rating is when used at 200~240VAC.
I've ordered four or five from case-mod.com over the past six months.
Sorry for more off-topic... My first time seeing too. If first article is any indication, appears to have started on 1/27/2006. Heh, shows how often I check the left menu.
I had the same experience with TigerDirect. I was looking for a particular motherboard that newegg didn't have in stock, but Tiger Direct did. I ordered four and also four hard drives that were at a good price. After a day nothing had yet shipped. That's when the order showed the drives were backordered. Just as you experienced, the web page said nothing about that when I placed the order... Took about 5 emails and a couple phone calls to get them to cancel the hard drives and send the motherboards. I wouldn't have been so upset if they had just shipped the parts they did have. Sheesh.
A few weeks later, I received a form email apologizing for the shipping problems. I expect a lot of people won't be shopping there again.
Been getting majority of my parts from NewEgg and Case-Mod (get a small discount if you access some parts from froogle) where I know what to expect.
I had the exact same setup (using a Highpoint 1640). It's been great. But do make backups of anything you don't want to lose. It's not a matter of "if", it's "when." Last month I had one a drive fail, and it appeared to take a second drive with it. My four drive RAID 5 array was gone. Incidentially, I was using Maxtor drives.
I purchased replacement drives, and another four for a backup server.
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Thanks for the description. I haven't really used BSD, but the description -- one big unit -- interests me to try it out.
Thanks for the reference to "stack smash" attacks. I run Gentoo on multiple workstations and servers, but the wife's laptop is Ubuntu. Any suggestions on determining how a binary distro, like Ubuntu, sets compiling defaults? (heh, Magic Eight Ball needs updated option "search google" hehe). Wow, I just realized I don't even know who actually makes the binaries. I've installed a couple other distros, but Gentoo's is the only one I've used day in and day out for the past 7 years.
To bring back on topic a bit, I'm really surprised that people would prefer to run an illegal copy of software than even try a free alternative. I only see Vista succeeding via continued product lock-in, like Office and Sharepoint.
Thanks
Charter is a sucky monopoly. I had a good customer service experience recently and am very skeptical it will pan out. Gotta keep an eye on them. Best time I had getting them to "take care of me" was after telling them I will be keeping better records for the city when the City Charter comes up for review. Them seem to hate having their dirty laundry aired to the city council.
Thank you.
I get your point. Russian's don't have a monopoly on that trait. We're all human after all. From the tiny sample of Russian software developers I have worked with though, arrogance and ego have been major characteristics. In my observations, no matter how smart one is, arrogance at best makes it difficult to communicate; at worst a liability limiting problem solving.
I think his record broke.
Heh, that's my kind of funny. It's not even their 404 "We're sorry" page, but a 500-level internal server error. Seems something is trying to handle it. adding /default.asp does same thing... But
responds with an old looking "page not found" page. Funny old cruft.
That looks interesting. I'll give it a whirl at home. Thanks for the information.
I haven't experienced problems dual booting XP and gentoo with grub. I've since wiped the windows install, but basically did similar to what this page describes:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_boot
Cheers.Hahaha. Thanks, that made me laugh.
I like the concept of includes. To achieve that, I have been using some server-side code (in a limited fashion) to generate my style sheets.
Interseting. And with the lawyers wining too, I bet you have prognosticated correctly.
Cheers.I wondered the same thing for too long -- why it was grayed, not the sucking part. Permissions. Like installing software, higher rights are needed to apply the update. I run firefox with sudo and option was ungreyed. That was my scenario.
Cheers
I've enjoyed using VMware at home and the office. I haven't had a chance to try Xen or qemu. Briefly, here's my experience:
At the office, I work with 5 quad processor (dell) servers with Gentoo Linux as the host running VMware GSX and 1 running VMware Workstation -- all guests are Windows 2k or 2k3. At home, I run VMware Player on Kubuntu, and VMware Server on a W2k3 server and a Gentoo server -- some guests are Windows, some are Linux.
Usually everything works great. The Linux host systems seem more responsive than the Windows host systems. At home, the w2k3 server crashes every once in a while limiting me more than I'd like. Not sure why as it's just a file and dns server. One of Linux servers at the office had too small a partition for /tmp causing problems, but otherwise been relatively maintenance free.
Over the past few years one of my favorite things to do when I need to rebuild my workstation is to image it into a VMware session for later use as needed. Only done it about four times, but sure comes in handy. I'm about to do that to my w2k3 server.
Cheers.
Agreed on the satisfaction level. I use a local DNS server to block domains and all their wildcard subdomains of some of those bandwidth wasting "tracking" sites. Then the whole home network is "protected."
google.com is blocked by default by my NoScript in case they catch on, as you say. I never thought I'd like NoScript, but I've been pleasently surprised at it's ease of use and level of control. If there's a NoScript-type extension for your browser, you might find it useful too.
Happy surfing.
http://www.oregonlive.com/newslogs/oregonian/inde
Glad to hear. This is a bit off topic, but what kind of bandwidth usage do you experience? I've been wanting to join the NTP pool for a few months now. Their web site mentions something in the range 10-20Kbit/sec, but is that sustained, like an average over a month? I'll subscribe to the mailing list to start getting a feel.
While looking at the join page, they give the apache config fragment. That's great.
Thanks for the feedback.
I think part of the problem is that it is http://www.pool.ntp.org. That's a pretty common "mistake" (not really right word) in my mind. I always setup my web sites and DNS to work with or without the www host name (ala ServerAlias or html redirect) -- I'm just simple that way.
BUT, since pool.ntp.org uses round-robin DNS, each server would need to setup the appropriate forwarding to be all friendly like. Or at least turn off httpd. Security Rule "#0" still stands.
Nice description. At work my desk is setup the same way and my wrists do great. Coworkers wonder why they get RSI. Look at their setup and their monitors are in the middle of the desk with keyboards all the way to the edge... People are funny -- they'd rather try wrist straps once a problem develops instead of modifying their posture or keyboard location to prevent it.
For my home systems in the computer room, I'm replacing each to use the Seasonic S12 430's -- they're great. I agree, they can't be heard over the the cpu/case fans and hard drives.
I have the Silverstone in a HTPC in the livingroom. Booting from the network, it's silent. Seems almost unnatural. I wanted a "standard" PSU and this fit the bill great. It's load is moderate and is never more than just warm to the touch.
Both have high Power Factor Correciton so my UPS's seem to last longer (<note to="self">I'll have to measure that and see.</note>) I found SilentPCReview.com of the Seasonic S12 430 and Silverstone ST30NF interesting and more in depth. Specifcally, how the Silverstone's rating is when used at 200~240VAC.
I've ordered four or five from case-mod.com over the past six months.
CheersSorry for more off-topic... My first time seeing too. If first article is any indication, appears to have started on 1/27/2006. Heh, shows how often I check the left menu.
My first google search found the same business, but my subsequent searches turned up nothing. Any ideas why google returned nothing?
I had the same experience with TigerDirect. I was looking for a particular motherboard that newegg didn't have in stock, but Tiger Direct did. I ordered four and also four hard drives that were at a good price. After a day nothing had yet shipped. That's when the order showed the drives were backordered. Just as you experienced, the web page said nothing about that when I placed the order... Took about 5 emails and a couple phone calls to get them to cancel the hard drives and send the motherboards. I wouldn't have been so upset if they had just shipped the parts they did have. Sheesh.
A few weeks later, I received a form email apologizing for the shipping problems. I expect a lot of people won't be shopping there again.
Been getting majority of my parts from NewEgg and Case-Mod (get a small discount if you access some parts from froogle) where I know what to expect.
I had the exact same setup (using a Highpoint 1640). It's been great. But do make backups of anything you don't want to lose. It's not a matter of "if", it's "when." Last month I had one a drive fail, and it appeared to take a second drive with it. My four drive RAID 5 array was gone. Incidentially, I was using Maxtor drives.
I purchased replacement drives, and another four for a backup server.
Cheers
I'm not worthy. I had to look that one up. I miss TNG.