I take pride in my 3.8 GHz Pentium 4, with 2 GB DDR RAM. I may need alot of fans, but my speakers are loud enough to drown the noise. I also take pride in the software I write, which is why I use Xlib. I take pride in configuring my OpenBSD firewall, and my NetBSD server, and my Gentoo workstations, like my P4 and Mac Mini.
I have my Prescott P4 overclocked, and I have replaced the stock fan with a 1 hp vacuum cleaner. I don't mind the noise, as long as I have speakers capable of blasting Metallica louder than the vacuum cleaner.
I think I speak for the rest of the Slashdot community when I say I am tired of the "*BSD sucks" and "*BSD is dying" posts I see. I view at -1 threshold because I don't care for someone else deciding what I should read, but I get annoyed when I see Anonymous Cowards posting these obligatory trolls. Netcraft confirms that *BSD is not dead. Some of the sites with the highest uptimes are running *BSD. I run NetBSD and OpenBSD on servers/firewall, and Gentoo Linux on my desktops, so I am not a *BSD elitest either.
I will probably get modded down for this, but I think Rowell was not properly trained to be in her position. In this time, computers have become relevent in many areas (especially publishing and journal) and anyone in a relevent field should be reasonable educated technically. Perhaps a CS course? Computers are becoming as essential as automobiles in jobs. Would you hire a mail carrier that is not a licensed driver? He would likely crash the truck, just as many thousands of stupid users in important fields make stupid mistakes like installing spyware, or sending an e-mail to the wrong parties.
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I used to run FreeBSD on my server for Apache/PHP, but after I upgraded my server's hardware (was a 300 MHz PII) to a 1.1 GHz Celeron (which came from my Compaq after the 3.0 GHz P4 upgrade,) I decided go with NetBSD for my server. NetBSD seems to meet my needs for a server *BSD, and is nice because it will run on a Motorola 68030-based machine (with FPU,) along with of course many other architectures. My only gripe with FreeBSD was that it didn't support hardware like my PPC Mac Mini. I realize that supporting many platforms is difficult and alot of times it is better just to target something common and support it well, I guess I am strange.:)
I find my ethanol to be very powerful. As long as it isn't American beer. They must be testing American beer breweries. I'd like to see a study on the energy yield of some Canadian beer!
I have run FreeBSD on the desktop in the past. Now I run it only on servers. But besides my Mac Mini I have an x86 desktop (also running Debian,) albeit it has an nvidia (32 MB) card in it. The nvidia drivers were very easy to get running with Debian. GL-aware applications are provided with much better performance than the Mac Mini's Radeon 32 MB video. I suggest getting an nvidia card for your FreeBSD machine (does that run on FreeBSD with linux compat?)
I am running Debian (PPC) on my Mac Mini which has a 32 MB ATI Radeon video (with DVI output.) If I switch to X.org (which I am using with Slackware on my laptops,) is the support of my radeon going to be enhanced, or is this just about the license?
What he means is that there are alot of beginners that get interested in writing a little program, but they get too ambitious, and the little C tutorial isn't comprehensive enough to help them finish. The solution is to not put it on freshmeat until it is fairly usable. I am not putting mine in freshmeat yet because I am still working on menus with Xlib.
The CherryOS guys were nice enough to include an opensource component (PearPC.) So are they in this statistic even if they didn't want to admit that they took advantage of this opensource project? How many more smal start-up companies are going to try to repackage opensource projects and sell them?
My vehicle is very fuel efficient for its size. How fuel efficient would some toy sedan be if it had the same weight? When I drove the Ford Explorer, Burger King and dunkin' donuts trash would build up quickly and I would run out of space. With the excursion, I brobably have 100 kg of trash and I still have plenty of space. Also, it is not that bad on the environment, it has a catalytic converter. And I have relatively good fuel economy too. I don't have to fill up more than twice a week, ever. I like driving big cars, don't shove your liberal, noisey PETA-like idealisms about what car to drive. I run FreeBSD and NetBSD on my servers, but I don't go around forcing it on others. No offense.
Do you have your machine directly on your broadband connection, or do you have port 22 forwarded to the router? I don't have port 22 forwarded, and I have never seen this. Sorry if this is too obvious. Do you need to login remotely from work or something? Maybe you could only allow a certain IP?
If setup a delay between the time of the password is accepted from the ssh client, and the time when you indicate a successful login with a shell prompt (or a failure message,) you would slow down a brute force attack. You should delay even delay for a successful login, because if the brute force program doesn't see a shell within a second, it could simply assume it failed and try another. Also, you should be behind a router (OpenBSD and an old PC is what I use.) If you don't need sshd available from outside your LAN, simply don't forward the port. You may consider keeping your LAN on RJ45 (not wifi) to reduce the risk of malicous login attempts. Make sure your wireless access point is locked down as much as possible if you must have it. Blacklisting an IP after say, 7 unsuccessful logins and logging the incident is a good idea (and perhaps have the sysadmin notified of the event.) Some ways to alleviate the risk.
I disagree. My Ford Excursion's size is proportionate to the 6.8 litre v10 310 HP engine. It doesn't lag too bad on hills, and I don't have too much trouble going through the Dunkin' Donuts drive through or Burger King. I try to get enough food so that I only have to go to Burger King and twice, and I make the twelve donuts last the whole day. That way I don't have to worry about trying to manuever through the drive through too much.
I think people will buy dual core for the same reason they bought 64-bit CPUs and ran Windows (32-bit) on them. The G5 Macs are still running mostly 32-bit software (except in some places), yet use a 64-bit CPU. Dual core may not be too useful if you aren't running many applications simeltaneously, and your applications do not take advantage of multithreading (as a programmer, I make sure to use pthread whenever it is at least somewhat beneficial to my application, which usually is anything that is not very simple.) Anyway, about the CRTs and LCDs. I am too using a CRT monitor. In fact, out of my eight machines I am running right now, three have CRTs and only two have LCDs (laptops, and everything else is router and servers, which are headless *BSD machines.) I think you got a little off whhat I mean about LCDs vs. CRTs. Regardless to which is truely superior (which depends on who you are, I like CRTs because I don't have to worry about the dead pixels and LCD inverter problems that have forced me to take my laptops apart many times for this problem. I like LCDs in laptops because I wouldn't want to drag around a Compaq portable with a CRT in it around. I can't tell the difference between the image of an LCD or a CRT to be honest, but I have "slow" eyes and some colour blindness.) Alot of people will buy LCD displays just because of the inherent "cool" feeling about having one, just like many will buy 64-bit dual core machines and run non-multithreaded 32-bit games. Disclaimer: I am not a gamer. Slashdot is enough of a time spender for me.;)
I know we have heard about this quite awhile ago on Slashdot, when Oracle wanted to consider a dual core CPU two processors I think companies like Oracle will be forced to think of dual core CPUs as simply one CPU that handles multiple threads well, especially with dual core CPUs not only coming from the Intel side, but also from IBM
If I remember correctly Oracle found it difficult to determine the difference between dualcore and two CPUs. In the end, everyone will buy dual core, for the same reason everyone buys LCD monitors (it is seen as better, even if maybe it isn't.) Software companies will be forced to bend, hardware companies won't have to, because consumers are not going to put up with paying twice as much for what appears (on the outside) as one CPU. Should I be charged twice the parking fee because my 2001 Excursion has twice as many cylinders as the car beside it? I don't think so.
How did Royal Appliance Mfg. Co. manage to build a remote control vacuum cleaner within a vacuum? I am confused! Hopefully this isn't just a trade secret, I hope ot find my answer on uspto.com!;-)
This would help me. I explained to people after I install Firefox that it will help their machine keep running smoothly (I had to say that it was like a better brand of engine oil). But now it is hard to explain to these guys that they have to _use_ Firefox as a web browser instead of Internet Explorer. They think Internet Explorer is their Internet. I deleted the Internet Explorer icons and labeled it "The World Wide Web," but this only helps some. I could obtain hosting for this package. If you are interested, drop me an e-mail zweideutig@gmail.com.
With several gmail accounts, I never have trouble managing spam. I don't reply to suspicious e-mails, and if I do, I am sure not to use the return e-mail address of my primary account. I keep an account for things like ebay, rentacoder, guru.com, etc., and a seperate account for personal e-mail. I have been doing this for over a year and I have only received six spam messages, and those were in the secondary account. I don't see why AOL couldn't encourage their users to do this. Isn't this why we have multiple e-mail accounts available from ISPs?
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I take pride in my 3.8 GHz Pentium 4, with 2 GB DDR RAM. I may need alot of fans, but my speakers are loud enough to drown the noise. I also take pride in the software I write, which is why I use Xlib. I take pride in configuring my OpenBSD firewall, and my NetBSD server, and my Gentoo workstations, like my P4 and Mac Mini.
I have my Prescott P4 overclocked, and I have replaced the stock fan with a 1 hp vacuum cleaner. I don't mind the noise, as long as I have speakers capable of blasting Metallica louder than the vacuum cleaner.
I think I speak for the rest of the Slashdot community when I say I am tired of the "*BSD sucks" and "*BSD is dying" posts I see. I view at -1 threshold because I don't care for someone else deciding what I should read, but I get annoyed when I see Anonymous Cowards posting these obligatory trolls. Netcraft confirms that *BSD is not dead. Some of the sites with the highest uptimes are running *BSD. I run NetBSD and OpenBSD on servers/firewall, and Gentoo Linux on my desktops, so I am not a *BSD elitest either.
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I will probably get modded down for this, but I think Rowell was not properly trained to be in her position. In this time, computers have become relevent in many areas (especially publishing and journal) and anyone in a relevent field should be reasonable educated technically. Perhaps a CS course? Computers are becoming as essential as automobiles in jobs. Would you hire a mail carrier that is not a licensed driver? He would likely crash the truck, just as many thousands of stupid users in important fields make stupid mistakes like installing spyware, or sending an e-mail to the wrong parties.
I used to run FreeBSD on my server for Apache/PHP, but after I upgraded my server's hardware (was a 300 MHz PII) to a 1.1 GHz Celeron (which came from my Compaq after the 3.0 GHz P4 upgrade,) I decided go with NetBSD for my server. NetBSD seems to meet my needs for a server *BSD, and is nice because it will run on a Motorola 68030-based machine (with FPU,) along with of course many other architectures. My only gripe with FreeBSD was that it didn't support hardware like my PPC Mac Mini. I realize that supporting many platforms is difficult and alot of times it is better just to target something common and support it well, I guess I am strange. :)
I find my ethanol to be very powerful. As long as it isn't American beer. They must be testing American beer breweries. I'd like to see a study on the energy yield of some Canadian beer!
I have run FreeBSD on the desktop in the past. Now I run it only on servers. But besides my Mac Mini I have an x86 desktop (also running Debian,) albeit it has an nvidia (32 MB) card in it. The nvidia drivers were very easy to get running with Debian. GL-aware applications are provided with much better performance than the Mac Mini's Radeon 32 MB video. I suggest getting an nvidia card for your FreeBSD machine (does that run on FreeBSD with linux compat?)
I am running Debian (PPC) on my Mac Mini which has a 32 MB ATI Radeon video (with DVI output.) If I switch to X.org (which I am using with Slackware on my laptops,) is the support of my radeon going to be enhanced, or is this just about the license?
What he means is that there are alot of beginners that get interested in writing a little program, but they get too ambitious, and the little C tutorial isn't comprehensive enough to help them finish. The solution is to not put it on freshmeat until it is fairly usable. I am not putting mine in freshmeat yet because I am still working on menus with Xlib.
The CherryOS guys were nice enough to include an opensource component (PearPC.) So are they in this statistic even if they didn't want to admit that they took advantage of this opensource project? How many more smal start-up companies are going to try to repackage opensource projects and sell them?
My vehicle is very fuel efficient for its size. How fuel efficient would some toy sedan be if it had the same weight? When I drove the Ford Explorer, Burger King and dunkin' donuts trash would build up quickly and I would run out of space. With the excursion, I brobably have 100 kg of trash and I still have plenty of space. Also, it is not that bad on the environment, it has a catalytic converter. And I have relatively good fuel economy too. I don't have to fill up more than twice a week, ever. I like driving big cars, don't shove your liberal, noisey PETA-like idealisms about what car to drive. I run FreeBSD and NetBSD on my servers, but I don't go around forcing it on others. No offense.
Do you have your machine directly on your broadband connection, or do you have port 22 forwarded to the router? I don't have port 22 forwarded, and I have never seen this. Sorry if this is too obvious. Do you need to login remotely from work or something? Maybe you could only allow a certain IP?
If setup a delay between the time of the password is accepted from the ssh client, and the time when you indicate a successful login with a shell prompt (or a failure message,) you would slow down a brute force attack. You should delay even delay for a successful login, because if the brute force program doesn't see a shell within a second, it could simply assume it failed and try another. Also, you should be behind a router (OpenBSD and an old PC is what I use.) If you don't need sshd available from outside your LAN, simply don't forward the port. You may consider keeping your LAN on RJ45 (not wifi) to reduce the risk of malicous login attempts. Make sure your wireless access point is locked down as much as possible if you must have it. Blacklisting an IP after say, 7 unsuccessful logins and logging the incident is a good idea (and perhaps have the sysadmin notified of the event.) Some ways to alleviate the risk.
I disagree. My Ford Excursion's size is proportionate to the 6.8 litre v10 310 HP engine. It doesn't lag too bad on hills, and I don't have too much trouble going through the Dunkin' Donuts drive through or Burger King. I try to get enough food so that I only have to go to Burger King and twice, and I make the twelve donuts last the whole day. That way I don't have to worry about trying to manuever through the drive through too much.
I think people will buy dual core for the same reason they bought 64-bit CPUs and ran Windows (32-bit) on them. The G5 Macs are still running mostly 32-bit software (except in some places), yet use a 64-bit CPU. Dual core may not be too useful if you aren't running many applications simeltaneously, and your applications do not take advantage of multithreading (as a programmer, I make sure to use pthread whenever it is at least somewhat beneficial to my application, which usually is anything that is not very simple.) Anyway, about the CRTs and LCDs. I am too using a CRT monitor. In fact, out of my eight machines I am running right now, three have CRTs and only two have LCDs (laptops, and everything else is router and servers, which are headless *BSD machines.) I think you got a little off whhat I mean about LCDs vs. CRTs. Regardless to which is truely superior (which depends on who you are, I like CRTs because I don't have to worry about the dead pixels and LCD inverter problems that have forced me to take my laptops apart many times for this problem. I like LCDs in laptops because I wouldn't want to drag around a Compaq portable with a CRT in it around. I can't tell the difference between the image of an LCD or a CRT to be honest, but I have "slow" eyes and some colour blindness.) Alot of people will buy LCD displays just because of the inherent "cool" feeling about having one, just like many will buy 64-bit dual core machines and run non-multithreaded 32-bit games. Disclaimer: I am not a gamer. Slashdot is enough of a time spender for me. ;)
I know we have heard about this quite awhile ago on Slashdot, when Oracle wanted to consider a dual core CPU two processors I think companies like Oracle will be forced to think of dual core CPUs as simply one CPU that handles multiple threads well, especially with dual core CPUs not only coming from the Intel side, but also from IBM If I remember correctly Oracle found it difficult to determine the difference between dualcore and two CPUs. In the end, everyone will buy dual core, for the same reason everyone buys LCD monitors (it is seen as better, even if maybe it isn't.) Software companies will be forced to bend, hardware companies won't have to, because consumers are not going to put up with paying twice as much for what appears (on the outside) as one CPU. Should I be charged twice the parking fee because my 2001 Excursion has twice as many cylinders as the car beside it? I don't think so.
How did Royal Appliance Mfg. Co. manage to build a remote control vacuum cleaner within a vacuum? I am confused! Hopefully this isn't just a trade secret, I hope ot find my answer on uspto.com! ;-)
This would help me. I explained to people after I install Firefox that it will help their machine keep running smoothly (I had to say that it was like a better brand of engine oil). But now it is hard to explain to these guys that they have to _use_ Firefox as a web browser instead of Internet Explorer. They think Internet Explorer is their Internet. I deleted the Internet Explorer icons and labeled it "The World Wide Web," but this only helps some. I could obtain hosting for this package. If you are interested, drop me an e-mail zweideutig@gmail.com.
With several gmail accounts, I never have trouble managing spam. I don't reply to suspicious e-mails, and if I do, I am sure not to use the return e-mail address of my primary account. I keep an account for things like ebay, rentacoder, guru.com, etc., and a seperate account for personal e-mail. I have been doing this for over a year and I have only received six spam messages, and those were in the secondary account. I don't see why AOL couldn't encourage their users to do this. Isn't this why we have multiple e-mail accounts available from ISPs?
A good description of Drupal is in wikipedia
Drupal is a content management system, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal if you want a description.
Is Drupal going to be running Solaris, or are they going to install Linux (SPARC) instead?