I agree that the parent was making some snide half-assed remarks towards Novell / SuSE Linux, but in those remarks were some half-assed truths.
We're migrating off of the last of our Netware boxes, some of them have over four years of uptime so we're not exactly rushing to swap them out. Many of these boxes are being replaced with their new SUSE Linux-based counterparts that offer the same Netware file and directory services that we had before. So far the experience has been terrible. Large file servers that never crashed on Netware now go down weekly. Directory services simply stop answering LDAP queries with no explanation. Sometimes we can restart the service without rebooting, but usually a poorly implemented kernel module blows out and takes the whole system down with it.
We aren't suffering from problems with Linux, instead we suffer from Novell rushing ported Netware services out the door to make their SUSE offerings look like a complete and competent replacement for Netware. They're not there yet, so I find some truth to the parent's troll that "it's all half-assedly based on Suse Linux now," because in many ways it is.
Although I haven't personally tested SMTP (who uses that anymore?) I have done a lot of weird things on a lot of weird ports with Earthlink and have never noticed a single one of them being blocked or interfered with in any way.
As a paying broadband subscriber who intentionally leaves my AP unsecured, I say you're welcome. I'm too worried about getting a good wireless signal to borrow my neighbors connection, but as long as they aren't greedy with bandwidth I don't mind sharing my own. Sure there are risks involved and I do have to boot a MAC address every now and then for abuse, but I genuinely don't mind sharing my connection with as many neighbors as I can reach.
The more people I can help without noticing a big hit in performance, the better. So internet service is free, in my neighborhood anyways.
I live in a Time Warner area where they charge an extra $20/mo for *not* subscribing to cable TV. Enter Earthlink. I called them to get the same rate but it doesn't include the $20 monthly surcharge. Here's the kicker, Time Warner came out to connect my service that they provide, install the modem and hand me my first bill. It's 100% Time Warner, they mail me a bill every month for about $45, but because I signed up through Earthlink I don't pay any additional "no cable TV" fees. When I need support, I call Time Warner and get the same crappy (but first party) support that everyone else does. To be honest, I'm not sure what Earthlink does besides provide EMail accounts and hijack my invalid DNS requests.
I believe Earthlink has similar agreements with other coax and DSL providers, you should at least give them a call.
BMV Communications Director Dennis Rosebrough said if a criminal went to get a driver's license under his name, the criminal's photograph would be compared to an old photograph of Rosebrough and the BMV could be alerted the next day that the two don't match.
This system isn't even realtime. What good does it do if a criminal gets away with a state-issued ID a full 36 hours before anyone knows that he shouldn't?
I like Steam, too. I have a sneaking suspicion that the authentication servers for Steam will be around for much longer than I could have ever held onto my installation media. The model works better for me than dealing with scratched disks and empty CD cases.
I can download / install all games on any computer, it works (mostly) in Wine. I also don't have to mess around with disks.
I found out I can move my Steam folder to any PC and "it just works" with valid credentials. I was delighted to see that I can run all of my HL-2 games under Wine, executing them straight off my Windows partition. The only thing I have to change are my display preferences, the resolution always gets reset when I swap OSes on it.
I have never, ever seen a hard crash on my IBM Thinkpad T40. So I ran that command as root, looked at the output and thought "Huh that's neat." Thirty seconds later, my screens go black and I'm looking at a disoriented IBM POST screen, mostly black with a broken progress bar.
My system booted up fine, so of course the first thing I wanted to do was make it happen again.
`blockdev --report/dev/* | more `
Thirty seconds after the output finished and I'm looking at the garbled POST screen again. My laptop finished booting, I ran the command a third time before coming to tell Slashdot and
I notice on that page that the aggregate security rating is listed as 'Critical' for all versions of Windows up to Vista. All of the Vista and Server 2008 security ratings are listed as 'Important' even though they still allow for remote code execution..
Has Microsoft watered down the wording of 'Critical' to 'Important' simply to make newer versions of their OS sound like they are more secure?
As usual, our modern government continues to bungle their day to day operations with complete ineptitude.
The only reason this is getting any attention is because the city of San Francisco chose to make the initial debacle a very public affair, and now people are watching.
Did they lie on the survey or really don't snoop? No, really, some of us really don't snoop because we really don't care.
First off, it's none of my business what photos or personal documents our employees store on their work PC -- as long as it's legal, of course. I also just don't feel like I care that much to know, let alone go out of my way to snoop for it. Must be some lonely sysadmins that have nothing better to do for themselves than to butt into the privacy of others.
Getting off topic for a moment, is anyone else getting tired of the closing, troll-like comments that end up on the end of almost every article? No klubar, it actually doesn't make me wonder what the other 2 out of 3 sysadmins are doing because they are probably off doing their real job. Article summaries should set the frame up for an even discussion, rather than attempting to beat first posters with some lame opinion that can't be moderated.
It's actually two pieces of crap for the price of two. The Vista OEM license is bundled in with the price of the hardware, and you pay extra for the backwards-compatible XP license.
He reveals that Windows 7 will be a further evolution of Vista How disappointing.
I don't think this is the kind of stuff that anyone, especially Microsoft shareholders, wanted to hear about their plans for the next version of Windows.
If you're curious, the new system features 18 2x quad-core 2.3 GHz webservers each with 8 gigs of RAM, and 4 quad-core 2.3 GHz databases with 16 gigs of RAM. I read this as "two quad-cores per webserver, and a single quad-core per database." Is this correct?
I was always under the impression that database servers needed more CPU horsepower than webservers.
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I agree that the parent was making some snide half-assed remarks towards Novell / SuSE Linux, but in those remarks were some half-assed truths.
We're migrating off of the last of our Netware boxes, some of them have over four years of uptime so we're not exactly rushing to swap them out. Many of these boxes are being replaced with their new SUSE Linux-based counterparts that offer the same Netware file and directory services that we had before. So far the experience has been terrible. Large file servers that never crashed on Netware now go down weekly. Directory services simply stop answering LDAP queries with no explanation. Sometimes we can restart the service without rebooting, but usually a poorly implemented kernel module blows out and takes the whole system down with it.
We aren't suffering from problems with Linux, instead we suffer from Novell rushing ported Netware services out the door to make their SUSE offerings look like a complete and competent replacement for Netware. They're not there yet, so I find some truth to the parent's troll that "it's all half-assedly based on Suse Linux now," because in many ways it is.
Will wreck their cars while messing around with their cell phone trying to get a good signal?
Although I haven't personally tested SMTP (who uses that anymore?) I have done a lot of weird things on a lot of weird ports with Earthlink and have never noticed a single one of them being blocked or interfered with in any way.
As a paying broadband subscriber who intentionally leaves my AP unsecured, I say you're welcome. I'm too worried about getting a good wireless signal to borrow my neighbors connection, but as long as they aren't greedy with bandwidth I don't mind sharing my own. Sure there are risks involved and I do have to boot a MAC address every now and then for abuse, but I genuinely don't mind sharing my connection with as many neighbors as I can reach.
The more people I can help without noticing a big hit in performance, the better. So internet service is free, in my neighborhood anyways.
Yes, you can borrow a cup of sugar, too.
I live in a Time Warner area where they charge an extra $20/mo for *not* subscribing to cable TV. Enter Earthlink. I called them to get the same rate but it doesn't include the $20 monthly surcharge. Here's the kicker, Time Warner came out to connect my service that they provide, install the modem and hand me my first bill. It's 100% Time Warner, they mail me a bill every month for about $45, but because I signed up through Earthlink I don't pay any additional "no cable TV" fees. When I need support, I call Time Warner and get the same crappy (but first party) support that everyone else does. To be honest, I'm not sure what Earthlink does besides provide EMail accounts and hijack my invalid DNS requests.
I believe Earthlink has similar agreements with other coax and DSL providers, you should at least give them a call.
You work for the government, don't you?
BMV Communications Director Dennis Rosebrough said if a criminal went to get a driver's license under his name, the criminal's photograph would be compared to an old photograph of Rosebrough and the BMV could be alerted the next day that the two don't match.
This system isn't even realtime. What good does it do if a criminal gets away with a state-issued ID a full 36 hours before anyone knows that he shouldn't?
Tivo's current model lineup does not really offer a solution for satellite subscribers.
What a surprise, Tivo was too busy in suing Dish Network in court to actually provide a solution for those subscribers. TiVo Wins Appeal On Patents For Pause, Ffwd, Rwd
Patents, making sure you can't build it even when they won't.
I found out I can move my Steam folder to any PC and "it just works" with valid credentials. I was delighted to see that I can run all of my HL-2 games under Wine, executing them straight off my Windows partition. The only thing I have to change are my display preferences, the resolution always gets reset when I swap OSes on it.
It's the last line in my syslog as well before each reboot.
Thinkpad T40 / OpenSUSE 10.3
Maybe I should quit running random commands posted to Slashdot as root. Eh, probably not.
My system booted up fine, so of course the first thing I wanted to do was make it happen again.
Thirty seconds after the output finished and I'm looking at the garbled POST screen again. My laptop finished booting, I ran the command a third time before coming to tell Slashdot and
Does Google actually look at smbmeta.xml files?
How about we just mod you down instead?
I notice on that page that the aggregate security rating is listed as 'Critical' for all versions of Windows up to Vista. All of the Vista and Server 2008 security ratings are listed as 'Important' even though they still allow for remote code execution..
Has Microsoft watered down the wording of 'Critical' to 'Important' simply to make newer versions of their OS sound like they are more secure?
It's an error message that I get every time I boot up my copy of Windows Vista that was given to me directly by Microsoft reps.
"Not Genuine" - really?
Mom and kid in the Aptera; dad and kid in the other. The combined 150 mpg is still a LOT better than the average 20mpg SUV.
Right, since they're going to burn the fuel to drive the 20mpg SUV they might as well take a second vehicle as well.
They'll burn more gas that way, but hey, at least they can brag that their combined average is over 100MPG!
As usual, our modern government continues to bungle their day to day operations with complete ineptitude.
The only reason this is getting any attention is because the city of San Francisco chose to make the initial debacle a very public affair, and now people are watching.
I can't wait to see how many posts will bash Microsoft for the 'obvious' vulnerabilities they left in their SQL Server product..
..is already in the email address.
First off, it's none of my business what photos or personal documents our employees store on their work PC -- as long as it's legal, of course. I also just don't feel like I care that much to know, let alone go out of my way to snoop for it. Must be some lonely sysadmins that have nothing better to do for themselves than to butt into the privacy of others.
Getting off topic for a moment, is anyone else getting tired of the closing, troll-like comments that end up on the end of almost every article? No klubar, it actually doesn't make me wonder what the other 2 out of 3 sysadmins are doing because they are probably off doing their real job. Article summaries should set the frame up for an even discussion, rather than attempting to beat first posters with some lame opinion that can't be moderated.
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It's actually two pieces of crap for the price of two. The Vista OEM license is bundled in with the price of the hardware, and you pay extra for the backwards-compatible XP license.
I don't think this is the kind of stuff that anyone, especially Microsoft shareholders, wanted to hear about their plans for the next version of Windows.
I was always under the impression that database servers needed more CPU horsepower than webservers.
It was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.